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Re: Projects

davidmichaels — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:17:46 -0000

Thanks Eric! That was really sweet of you to say! :)

Re: Terminator Salvation, Twilight Flu

davidmichaels — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:17:18 -0000

:). I like Twilight too! Thanks for commenting.

Re: Formidable iFoe or iPhoney?: Motorola Droid

davidmichaels — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:36:51 -0000

Sounds like a worthwhile investment to me, but also make sure that it suits your needs in addition to good pricing. Curious, what are you using now?

Re: Vlog: 140 Characters Conference

davidmichaels — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:38:20 -0000

Thanks so much Andrea!

Re: On Transparency with “Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook”

davidmichaels — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:12:50 -0000

Thanks so much Justine for commenting and answering my question. I've learned a lot from what you do and always look forward to the great things that you create.

P.S. I was meaning to wait on asking you this question, but I really would like to feature you on a new but long-term project of mine called How iMac. I imagine you glanced at it while you were on my blog. It would be really awesome if you could. I'd feature you in January 2010--I only do a feature per month for practical reasons. And also, the current lineup of featured people is a bit male-heavy. So... Let me know, either way!

Thanks again! :)

One more thing.... Your "I want a cheeseburger" video kills me. It's just too funny! Loves it!!!

Re: Atypical Spending

davidmichaels — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:34:21 -0000

Um seriously!!! Don't come to my blog again with your spam. Person,
not consumer!!!

Re: bbautista.com

davidmichaels — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:15:52 -0000

One more thing...

I emailed Jon Rajewski (http://www.myspace.com/jrajewski) of the, now defunct, band The Poor Souls whose some plays during the ending credits of this film. I haven't gotten a reply yet and I was wondering if you might know another means by which I can get in contact with him. I'd desperately love to use the song "Strange Life" in my next How iMac video.

If you can help in this regard at all please let me know. :)

Thanks in advance B!

Re: bbautista.com

davidmichaels — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:04:29 -0000

I've been intending to tell you that I watched this, and your role was awesome. Ice cold jerk...that's so far from who you really are, and that what makes acting so cool!

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

davidmichaels — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:00:45 -0000

Wowza! This story is slowly but surely gaining traction among a
number of people. Thanks for commenting and sharing!

-David

P.S. I'm glad you got a positive result from this experience. :)

Re: Apple Working on Tablet Since At Least 2003

davidmichaels — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:00:10 -0000

Agreed! I'm not into the Kindle. However, I am also hoping that it isn't a glorified iPhone. The idea sounds stupid. So I hope that what we will get is very worthwhile, timely and practical.

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

davidmichaels — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:07:25 -0000

About the Time Machine. Yes! It's a worthwhile investment. Not only does it regularly back up your Mac, it allows you to literally go back in time and select files from previous backups that you may have since deleted or modified. When ever you may have the moolah to spend on it, I would highly recommend it.

Thanks so much for your feedback on this. I was wondering if there were more people out there with the same issue, and now I know. So I'm glad I could help!

-David

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

davidmichaels — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:04:43 -0000

Same exact thing to the "t" indeed! In fact, It took approximately two weeks as of yesterday for ship off, repair, delay for parts, and ship back. I certainly hope it won't take that long for you because I was beginning to feel the hurt in my projects by the end of the first week of waiting. So I'm hoping for a speedy return of your Mac! :)

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

davidmichaels — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:02:30 -0000

You're very welcome Stu! Btw, I don't know if you had a chance to pop back by my blog, but I got my MBP back yesterday morning. They went above and beyond the call of duty. My Mac actually had a lot of other issues that I couldn't afford to fix, and they just decided to go ahead and fix everything free of charge. I was so elated when. Anyway, take care and if you're on twitter I'll follow you. :)

-David

Re: Golden Burn

davidmichaels — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:13:27 -0000

I'd love to say that I was ripped on by an Oscar winner, so I guess that makes your encounter a very awesome one.

Re: Contact

davidmichaels — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:52:07 -0000

Sorry for the late reply. Yes! :) The ethernet cable for Screen Sharing to gain access to files, transfer urgent data.

Again I'm sorry for replying two days later. It's been quite a hectic. Let me know if this helps or if I can assist in more detail in ANY way. :)

David

Re: Great Cause + Bad Twitter Etiquette

davidmichaels — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:56:09 -0000

This article shows the genius behind the openness of Twitter. The use of twitter is like life in how we exercise autonomy or choice for say, personal values for living. Analogously, twitterquette is user-defined on a user-to-user basis. This is both good and bad, but mostly good. Good because who the heck is twitter to dictate to the user how to speak and use the product, otherwise what's the point. Bad because from one user to the next, folks following each other will bump heads over how one should be using twitter (which kinda proves that relativism in twitterquette is untenable, but I digress). However, the compromise on this latter point is to simply filter out the person by unfollowing them--but this too is an additional "con" due to the obvious initial interest in following the offender from the start.

Personally, and I've said this on here before, I avoid such strict Twitterquette as yours Brandice, but that's not make you seem like the bad guy. To your credit, my twitter stream is a bit noisy at the moment, but the benefit to me is I'm getting a lot of the live information that I want and/or need for certain things that interest me from folks I follow. So my solution is to follow certain people for a period of time or at least until I feel I've benefited enough from their stream. Does this make for meaningful connection, yes and no. I use twitter close to the way I live out my real life. I'll talk to new people in the moment and if something grows from that interaction, then "let it be written, so let it be done". Otherwise, nice to meet you and adios--nothing personal. Twitter is my business card, and my weblink is my phone number. Ya dig. I don't come to twitter with the expectation for it to be a dedicated instrument for close relationships, but rather, twitter to me is a medium to other tools that are for more personal connection: Facebook, Myspace, email or my blog. So one's understanding of what twitter can ably achieve is what should be taken into consideration.

If a close-knit circle on twitter is what you're after than do yo thang. But with all due respect, I kinda feel that that is what Facebook is for. Facebook is very twitter-like these days and has A LOT of filter control than Twitter by necessity. Twitter on the other hand somewhat lends itself to be practically an open forum of connectivity and a lot less cliq-ish. More to the point, twitter has always seemed to me to be a platform that wants to push it's users to do the opposite of what Facebook does by encouraging you to connect with many more people and host conversation as if in a room without walls--Facebook is the inverse (and to digress that's why I'd argue that it will never eclipse Twitter). You can entertain a great deal of people on Facebook too, but with privacy controls, friend filters, newfeed filters, and probably more that I haven't learned about. But this all occurs behind the closed doors of your account with only your "friends".

But another credit to you is this aspect of connecting with many people on twitter. This is twitter's greatest strength and simultaneously it's biggest downfall. I'll use @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher) as a guinea pig. It is entirely impractical to have 100 mutual followers, so imagine the sheer volume of noise that 1 million+ followers will bring versus meaning buzz from 20 mutual followers. And this leads me to a most unfair and cynical conclusion that the numbers on twitter are only for show for a lot of folks, much less meaningful consumption of live content from real people.

In conclusion, I agree and sort of disagree with you, but because of this, I agree with your overall brand of twitterquette on the grounds that it's your choice. Otherwise, I disagree. Make sense? lol

-David aka MacDavid ;)

Re: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M and 2007-08 MacBook Pro Saga

davidmichaels — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:49:59 -0000

First, I want to apologize for my late response.

"How long will the repair take?"
As far as the length of the repair time, I'll simply tell you that I mailed off my Mac last Tuesday and I haven't heard anything back, other than Apple is waiting for a part on back order--which takes me to your next question...

"Do they actually replace the chip?"
I would definitely assume so. My educated guess is that Apple is replacing the chip in my Mac by having NVIDIA make one from scratch judging by the length of time I'm waiting for my Mac to be mailed back to me.

Furthermore, the repair is very costly, but the great thing is that it's not your fault, nor Apple's fault that the chip is defective. So if you do decided to send your computer to an Apple technician, be sure to mention this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377. When I quoted this article to Apple over the phone, they snapped into action and took care of the rest. But be prepared to possibly go without your computer for a while.

Re: Ohdoctah Half Man Half Amazin

davidmichaels — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:58:28 -0000

Thanks for responding Owen.

Re: Pedal (Blog): Post Production - Week 88

davidmichaels — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:24:29 -0000

Yes, the Facebook submitted comment is mine. I don't know why my fb login didn't work either.

Re: Need For Speed Laguna Seca video

davidmichaels — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:21:55 -0000

Sorry for just getting back to you Richer.

The only way that I see for you to download the video is to go to viddler.com (which is where I got the embed code for this video), become a member, if you aren't already, and then go to this link: http://www.viddler.com/explore/BigDownload/vide...

Once you've done, I think a hard drive-shaped button will be right below the video player that allows you to download the video file.

Hope this helps. :)

Re: Pedal (Blog): Post Production - Week 88

davidmichaels — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:23:23 -0000

Well this seems a bit tough to me because it has been a while since the last 64 Days, but at the same time I see that you need to write more for the film. My question is does it have to be an either/or kinda deal? Can you achieve both instead of one or the other?

If not, I recommend working on 64 Days. My reasoning is simply for the sake of you nurturing the buzz about Project Pedal and the fact that 64 Days is also what brought my awareness of the film. I hope this is helpful! :)

All the best Mike!

Re: Pedal (Blog): Post Production - Week 88

davidmichaels — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:08:56 -0000

LOL!! At least you're honest. :)

Re: Global Artistry in Collaboration

davidmichaels — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:14:27 -0000

For Archan Nair: http://www.behance.net/archanN

And for Parris Whittingham: http://www.behance.net/Parris

Sorry for the delay, I hope that helps.

Re: Family Vacation: Toledo Zoo

davidmichaels — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:11:19 -0000

You're very welcome!! :)

Re: Family Vacation: Toledo Zoo

davidmichaels — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:03:03 -0000

I haven't been around here in a while, but I want say hi and I'm glad see you're having a great time with your family. :)