How Kindle Fire Will Beat iPad
We decided to download a movie for the boys to watch on our 6-hour drive tomorrow. Reva said she thought the boys would both enjoy “Cars 2.” She checked iTunes while I checked Amazon.
- iTunes: $4.99 for a 24-hour rental.
- Amazon Instant Video: $1.99 for a 48-hour rental.
If you were to rent, say, a movie a week, you’d save over $150/year on Amazon.
For all the bad-mouthing the Kindle Fire has gotten from some reviewers, movie rental was incredibly easy — easier even than iTunes, IMO. Two taps, and it’s downloading the movie right now.
The screen is a little smaller than the iPad, but I’m guessing the boys won’t care. If I’m wrong, I’m sure I’ll get an earful about it on the ride to Connecticut tomorrow.
Reality at 9 and a half
Isaac listens to the radio in his room. Plain old FM on a boom-box we bought when he was still in a crib. I love that likes it for its own sake.
Last night he heard Ronnie Dunn’s Cost of Living. He called me in (“come quick, Dad”) because he guessed it was John Mellencamp and he wanted to know if he was right. (Good guess: similar vocal style, instrumentation, and content. If John were a new artist today, he’d surely be on country radio, not pop/rock.)
Then he asked why the man doesn’t have a job even though he says he’s good at everything. That was a little tougher. I kept it simple: Sometimes there aren’t enough jobs to go around, even or people who are good at lots of things. He thought about that for a couple seconds, filed it away in his head, and moved on.
I’m glad he asked; it shows he’s listening, and it shows he cares. I’m glad he seemed to understand the answer without being shaken by it. And of course as a dad, I hope he never has to get any closer to it than a moving song on the radio, except when he’s trying to help make things better for people in that position.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Luck for president?
GOP voters start the 3rd-stringers, angle for #1 draft pick next year. Gingrich in 1st. @TPM ^@erickleefeld #gopfail
“Why base reviews around specs when specs don’t matter?”
MG Siegler (@parislemon) has a great article on TC today called “The Death of the Spec,” but the two @dcurtis tweets he quoted pretty much say it all:
nginx + uwsgi + bottle.py
The bottle documentation doesn’t say so, but the advice they give for running bottle with Apache and WSGI applies — and is just as important — with nginx and uWSGI:
import bottle # ... build or import your bottle application here ... # Do NOT use bottle.run() with mod_wsgi application = bottle.default_app()
… except that’s not quite right either. I finally found the correct code in this Google Groups post:
> But I am not sure if i got it: i just need to substitute the run()
> statement with
> application = bottle.app()Yes. Thats all :)
That only took me about 8 hours to figure out.
my music life: audio, reviews, cheesy bio, etc.
I’ve got three studio tracks posted at Broadjam: “Open Wide” with full Nashville studio band, and the acoustic takes of “This Heart” and “Old Room Key” from This Year’s Demo (the latter featuring the beautiful Colleen McFarland on vocals and guitar/engineer zen master Tim Craven on lead guitar).
The Moon, solo and low-res at the Songwriter’s Original Showcase. Big thanks to Rick Denizen and SOS for recording this and letting me post it here.
Anybody want a 2004 Outback in great condition? 44k+ miles, no accidents. $14,500 OBO. Cute toddler not included.
Update: sold! (the car, not the kid)
my once-and-future homepage
This link should lead you right back here.
