Kids Camp 2006 (pt 2)
Yeah this will be a really long post, and I don't have time to write it right now. I'll crush this tomorrow
To all you Flash haters
According to Google Analytics for one of my sites that I track, ihearvoice.com, only 1.67% of all the people that have gone to the site have a flash player lower than 7. So that leaves me with... Eh... 98.33% of the rest of the market to sell to. Not too bad of a number.
Oh, and the percentage of people with Flash Player 8 or higher is 90.83%. Apparently it takes "up to two years" for everyone to get the next gen player... Right...
So to all you Flash haters out there, your arguments are starting to look really, really weak.
Kids Camp 2006 (pt 1)
So I guess this will be my recap of one of the craziest weeks of my life... Kids Camp 2006: Operation Soul Saver
Monday Night
James and I go to WinCo at like 11:00 with Jeremy, Christy and Cailey and stock up on food. I get a ton of candy so I can get all my kids wired at night. We also get toilet paper and all that good stuff so we can go out in the wee hours of the morning muahahahaha...
Tuesday
I wake up around 8:30 (super early for me... come on now, it's the summer). Get all my stuff packed, and then throw all the candy on top of my clothes. My bag feels like it weighs a thousand pounds! My mom takes my little brother and I to the church where we get signed in and start waiting for all the kids to show up.
Around 12:00, the parking lot became packed. Annoying little kids running around and already spilling their sodas on my bag. Fantastic. I met all the kids in my cabin, and to be honest, I thought it was going to suck. They all seemed like a bunch of intraverts/nerds. Not the type of kids I want to be with all week...
At 2:00, the buses finally rolled in and we left. The bus ride up was so much fun... It was just crazy. We arrived around 5 at Alliance Redwoods and everyone made their way to their cabins. As soon as all my kids got in the cabin, I realized that this week was going to be much funner than I had thought. The kids were already fighting! It was so much fun to watch hahaha...
We ate dinner and went to the night service, then we all went back and into bed. The night times were the best... I got to listen to a bunch of 10 year olds talk trash about everyone else's moms. I remember trying to eat that night, and everytime I'd go to swallow, I'd start choking because I was laughing so hard. What a night!
Why isn’t Keak Da Sneak famous?
I have no idea why Keak Da Sneak hasn't become huge yet... He has a completely unique sound, and he has some freaking awesome songs. I just heard this one song by him, "Know What I'm Talkin' About"... Amazing. If you don't like it, you don't like music.
Yadadamean? Hahaha
Another question I'd pose: Why isn't The Team famous? I just don't understand the music industry sometimes.
Lil' [insert name] is better than The Team? I don't think so. Grab their world premiere album, it's my favorite bay CD ever.
Kids Camp
I'm going to be a counselor at Kids Camp from July 4-7 this week; it sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun. I will still be plugged into the internet, downloading emails and working on some Flash projects though. Don is bringing his wireless card he got from Verizon. It sounds like it'll be a ton of fun...
I'll blog about all the pranks we do, I can't wait!!!
Second Life
After reading a lot of posts from Robert Scoble about Second Life, I decided to open up my own account and see what the hype is all about.
Sadly, I'm 17, so I had to sign up for the Teen version of the game. There are a few things I would like to say about Second Life.
1) The world isn't ready for this game yet. The graphics suck (mostly bandwidth limitations I suppose). The game streams excruciatingly slow. We need to wait until AT&T and Verizon lay down the lines for 25MBPS connections.
2) No teens play it! I saw two people the entire time I was on; I tried talking to them, but they were too busy... doing nothing.
3) The graphics suck. (#1). It's the year 2006, not 1998. We notice when graphics have no depth; we notice when you can walk through brick walls; we notice big blocks of green and gray that is supposed to look like grass and concrete. Not cool. The game sucks, I'm going to cancel my account.
Hopefully Linden Labs will find a way to make the graphics nicer and speed up the streaming. It will be tough. But I will give Linden Labs a round of applause for being the first successful company to build a virtual life application that involves real money.
Good stuff.