My Dinner With Flickr

Previously: Y ahoo! bought Flickr!, Polenta Twinkie, Scan, then blog each week's pick from the farmer's market

Dinner and a Movie

The bl0gger who came to dinner

Dinner with Joe Grand

Joe also told me about his cross country trip to relocate from Boston to San Diego, and he pointed me to his journal about the trip. It's a fun read, and I love this picture he took of a cool UFO house in Chattanooga, TN. Link

San Diego Dinner Anyone

Tempura Dinner

Geek Dinner Thanks

cook your dinner on your PC

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Paris dinner

Loic has set up reservations at a place called WINE BAR L'EVASION.

Here's the details:

Dîner avec Marc Canter le Vendredi 27 Aout à Paris.

place/lieu WINE BAR L'EVASION
(I thought Marc would like a typical French Wine Bar, good food, excellent Wine - Marc I am gettin you booked in a nearby hotel so that you don't walk too much after !)
7, Place Saint Augustin 75008 Paris
tel 0145226620

Menu:
Mousse de Canard / Salade
Bourbonnais (un genre de Poulet de Bresse mais en plus 'leading' parait il)
Fondant au Chocolat
le tout avec un Cahors

Tout compris plats + vin: 47 euros

My (non) Dinner with the Republicans...

Geeks for Dinner

My dinner with Sontag

Dinner with Bill

Jeff Maurone, an intern at Microsoft, shares his experience having dinner at Bill Gates' home.

Further and further you descend, past what seems to be an annex library, as it was certainly not the primary librarian that houses the Leicester Codex (Bill's original DaVinci notebook, for which he paid approx $30.8 million). Elegantly non-intrusive but screaming geekhood were sparsely placed digital canvases that, ever so often, changed the artwork on the wall. We passed the movie theatre, rumored to be the most advanced movie theatre in the world. Finally, we reached the bottom level of the entertaining portion of the home. To the left was a room with a design so powerful that it could only exist in the home of the richest man in the world.

After hearing about the security surrounding the house and the amount of work Bill does, it makes me appreciate the ability to sit on my back porch, eat a popsicle, and watch the sun set.

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Inbl0gger Dinner

Dinner with Android

Here is a conversation from the near future:

Bob: I am reading Don Park's Visual Thinking now.  It's really good.

Joe: Is that Park with an 's'?

Bob: No, just Park.  Here. [Bob beams Joe Amazon URL]

Joe: Hmm.  Reviews look good.  OK, I ordered it.

Bob: ...

Joe: ...

On the surface, there seems to be nothing wrong.  But notice the type of question being asked.  With information at your fingertip, the need to ask for information from another person diminishes.  So instead of asking about the book, Joe is asking about query terms.  He could have also said “Could You?“ and Bob would have interpreted it as request to beam URL or search words.

I don't know about you, but it seems like technology is eating away at the meat of everyday social life, leaving just the bare bones.

In respect to blogging, I wonder how blogging affects a person's life.  More opinionated?  Less inquisitive about other people's opinions because they are already exposed to a wide range of opinions online?  Nice chewy topic I think.

Dinner with Adam

On my last night in Amsterdam for this trip, I had dinner with Adam Curry at a meat house that reminded me of a bar in Mazomanie, WI, many many years ago. We had meat and beer. So did everyone else.

It's really interesting walking around Amsterdam with Adam, who is a very famous person here. People stare at him. Ask for his autograph. I get some of the reflected glory, who is that guy with the rock star? It's a pretty unusual thing for me.

Anyway, we talked about next things to do. It was good to get some one-on-one time with Adam this trip. Now it's off the Schipol, the Amsterdam airport, to go back to Boston, and whatever adventures await me there.

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BlogOn Dinner

Geek Dinner, etc.

Copenhagen Bloggers' Dinner

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San Diego Blogger Dinner

Blogger/Geek Dinner

More photos from Paris dinner

Here's some output from my Nokia 7610.

It's me and some French blogger guy (name with-held because of ignorance.) The place was abuzz with Opera singing technologists insisting that open standards (mimicing the RSS-aggregator combo) was the path to enlightenment.

Most agreed. Some even let the wine inspire to yell louder than me

National" Men Make Dinner Day"?

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Dinner, where is thy sting? (Reuters)

My dinner companions [Flickr]

McDonald's: Dinner and a Movie

Pioneer announces iPod car stereo
adapter

A workaround for audio input problems in
10.3

GM Vehicles To Include Audio Input
Minijack

GM has announced that some of their 2006 line will include a standard minijack, allowing you to plug in your MP3 player using its headphone jack. I've seen a few stereo units with this functionality, but GM is the first to announce it as a built-in, universal (read: not iPod-exclusive) feature across the product line. I really think we should have seen these years ago, when portable CD players first became popular, but I obviously don't work for a major auto manufacturer. The new jack will be available on radios in their new Chevy HHR, Impala and Monte Carlo as well as the Cadillac DTS and a few others. The downside to opting for a standard mini-jack instead of using iPod's Dock Connector, of course, is that your car can't charge your iPod nor control it through your steering wheel's buttons.

Press Release [GM via MacCentral]

Freedom to Connect conference
backchannel and audio

The Fight for Local Freedom to Connect
Jim Baller, Munis vs. Incumbents
Terry Huval, The Battle of Lafayette

F2C and our other Freedoms
Jeff Jarvis interviews
First Amendment Attorney Robert Corn-Revere

Dan Gillmor, Freedom of the Press
Scott Heiferman, Freedom of Assembly
Rev. AKM Adam, Freedom of Religion
Jerry Michalski, Moderator

Jabra headsets combine iPod, mobile
phone audio

New GM vehicles to feature input jack
for iPod

CES: Pioneer offers iPod car adapter

SBC to connect TV, computer and stereo
in new service

Griffin intros soft auto cradle for
iPod, iPod mini

Measurement Computing Debuts 8-channel,
USB Thermocouple Input Device

iPod Bluetooth Audio Transmitter

Bluetooth audio transmitter for iPod
coming

News: SiK ram din routes iPod to audio,
FireWire

Notes and Tips: iPod Photo Audio

Rio Audio Introduces 4-Gigabyte IPod
Mini (AP)

Rio Audio Introduces 4-Gigabyte IPod
Mini

Apple investigates iPod mini audio
problems

iPod mini audio distortion problems
reported

Apple & BMW Seamlessly Integrate the
iPod and Car Audio System

Clarion To Market iPod-Compatible Car
Audio System

Clarion will begin selling a car audio and video system in Japan next year that's compatible with Apple's iPod portable music player. By Bloomberg

iFreedom Communications expands their
Global Connect Service Plans to include
additional countries.

Apple investigates iPod mini audio
problems (MacCentral)

Alpine debuts car audio head units with
iPod integration

PodGear offers speakers for iPod, iPod
shuffle

A wearable input device called Scurry
developed by Samsung Electro-Mechanics.
Users can operate computers

Announcing MediaMonkey 2.2-- Adds
iTunes-like Synchronization for non-iPod
Portable Audio Devices

Readers respond to Xeni's "iPod Beemer"
post with in-car digital audio tips

Michael Morgan says, "One of the better approaches I have seen relies on using the CD changer inputs that many car stereos have. The simpler products, such as the one I have, provide RCA audio jacks. Better ones allow iPod control through the CD changer controls. The sound quality is better than FM or cassette tape adapters although the integration of iPod display and control is either poor or absent." Link

Nik Clayton says, "You should try out Dension's IceLink 1.1. This provides a cradle/dock that you can mount on the dash (damage free). Just drop the iPod in the dock, and the audio's taken from iPod's dock connector (far better quality than the headphone socket) and routed to the stereo, in place of the CD-multichanger. So the steering wheel controls work for changing tracks, and so on. And, of course, your iPod's there on the dash, so you can see all the information it displays. It also works in cars other than BMWs." Link BoingBoing reader Chris says, "There are two other common solutions; some car radios now have a front panel auxiliary input. Just get a 'stereo plug to stereo plug' cable, and away you go. The other option is one of the FM modulators that plugs into the antenna lead. See the Farenheit EFM-01 or the JVC KS-IF200 - likely found many places but they re listed at Crutchfield. They are a little trickier to install, but as long as your car FM radio has an antenna (!) they should work. Link."

Neil replies to a comment submitted to BoingBoing by reader Becky ( Link). He says, "To follow-up on Becky's problem with iPod installations in cars without cassette adapters there is actually another solution. Blitzsafe makes adapters that plug into the CD changer port that lives in most cars, and converts it to an AUX input for your car stereo. Then you can run a regular stereo cable to the front of the car to plug in any device you like (such as an iPod). I used one to install XM Satellite radio in my BMW. Sadly, it doesn't look like they have any for Saturn cars yet :( -- Link to Blitzsafe."

Tom Karches says, "A company called Soundgate (Link) makes a number of devices that allow iPods to be attached to factory or aftermarket stereos. Their auxillary input adapters attach to the cd changer plug on cd changer ready stereos and pass the audio through the changer input. If you have a changer already, they have a model that plugs in between the stereo and the changer and provides a switch to select the changer or the ipod. This does not provide ipod control, unfortunately. Perhaps something like this would help: Link. I'll probably put the Soundgate adapter in my minivan. If I decide to equip the honda similarly, I'll probably go with an inline RF modulator like this or this."

Anthony Hall says, "Although BMW claims they are the first car manufacturer with integrated iPod support I actually saw ads for Smart cars shipping with iPod cradles several months ago... I dunno, perhaps it's considered third party but Smart was plugging it in the own ads in the UK. Looks liker a much simpler proposition to me. I agree with you that having the iPod just rolling around loose in the glove compartment is nuts." Link

(Thanks to other readers who sent in great tips, including Wes, Adrian, Josiah, and Brian King!)

iPod Mini Sparks Major Battle In
Portable Audio Player Market

External Audio Roundup

Brian Baldwin, Baxa Corporation Founder,
Recognized as Medical Device Industry
Pioneer

Spam for dinner