The LunchTime Show!

Glidr flyn

One of the things that I used to do a lot of was flying Radio Controlled gliders. Such a fun relaxing way to enjoy an afternoon. I am mostly a spectator these days. Last weekend I was out in Los Banos at the reservoir there for the annual Scale glider event that SBSS puts on there. I shot a ton of video and a good deal of stills. I am still working on organizing it all but thought I would start posting some of the stuff I already have.

Inertia Creeps from Brian McCartney on Vimeo.

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What can you learn on YouTube?

Apparently a lot! A group of employees thought it would be cool to get all the educational content on YouTube and pile it up in one spot so it would be easier to find. Nice idea. But is it searchable down to the spoken word? I think not.

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My Commute

I shot this video on my way to work one morning. I am actually very lucky, not that I have a long commute but that my commute is often times quite beautiful. A good part of the drive is through redwood covered mountain roads.

Roll over the arrow in the bottom right hand corner of the player and choose HD. The video looks much better like that.

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Some more video

I just can’t get enough of my new camera. I got the Canon 5D Mark II about a month ago and it continues to amaze me. I’m not much of a still photographer but I am trying to get better. The thing that really pushed me to purchase this camera was the 1080p (full HD) video recording. The codec records @ 40 Mb/s so its better than HDV and even XDCAM HD compression.

Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees from Brian McCartney on Vimeo.

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Home

Another non-lunch related item. There will probably be more like this to come.

Thomas - Home from Brian McCartney on Vimeo.

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The LunchTime Show - Sato Sushi

I think I actually did a show from here once but I can’t seem to find it on the site anywhere. I don’t have video for this one, just a still pic. I have been lugging around my new DSLR and bugging the crap out of everyone I hang out with. I am annoying anyways but put a camera in my hands and I am just an international incident waiting to happen.

Oh, the food? Yeah, its good. But stay away from the baked rolls. Man, I don’t know what it is but lay off the mayo would ya? I can deal with the house sauce for the most part, and I love mayo on my BLT, or Tuna fish sandwich but if you are going to melt cheese over a baked roll don’t slather it with the stuff.

Generally the we get bento boxes and share a few rolls. The tempura is good, the spicy pork is a bit spicy, what else can I say? What, you were looking for a real restaurant review? Yeah, right. You are in the wrong place.

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AWOL

Unforgivable, I know. But the truth is that I haven’t been shooting many lunchtime shows lately. Actually, haven’t shot ANY. I have run across some interesting things and if I can remember them I will definitely try to give my valued readership (all 3 of you) some content. Until then…

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No show, just a lot of Yammer

I know, I know. Where has the time gone? No new shows yet but I will try to get a “classic” show up later this week.

But for now, a link to some buzz about Yammer. For those who don’t know Yammer is a Twitter-like service for the enterprise. The revenue model is pretty interesting. It is free to sign up, and it is only accessible to those with vaild corporate email addresses. For instance, I signed up with my Cisco email address and I am now one of about 110 people with Cisco.com email addresses, but no one outside that group can see the posts. It’s free to sign up but here is the catch, if the powers that be as Cisco wanted to actually take some editorial control they would have to pay for the right. Nice! Anyhow, here are a couple links that describe it better than I could

http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/yammer-gets-bronx-cheers-from-the-blogosphere-why/

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Someone was gonna do it…

SAP is looking to capitalize on twitter’s kurt way of blogging in their new ESME platform. Just in case you have been in a cave lately, here is a quick paragraph from the article to explain.

Twitter is a free for all once you start building up a body of people you ‘follow’. Company usage is growing rapidly: Cisco Systems, Whole Foods Market, Dell, Zappos.com, Comcast and many other large companies use Twitter to both provide updates to customers and to monitor and contribute to conversations about themselves on this platform. There are also various news and other update services available.

So check out the LINK.

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LunchTime Show Classic!

Since I have been lagging in getting a new show uploaded let’s just pretend that this “classic” show is new.

It’s no secret that I love Flames. Dineresque in a way but good good served up quick. Nothing terribly fancy, but they do have a fantastic Monte Cristo.

This time out I had the Club Sandwich as did my compadre Jason.

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