Evolution Entertainment HD presents:

Travis Ross and the girls sample the amazing dishes at Mias

Executive Chef Andrew Cheveres has outdone himself. I encourage you to check out the menu.

"It's the best pizza I ever had" - Travis

As always, enjoy the show

Episode 1 is about Google's efforts. Enjoy the show.

Next is a show from my buddy Carlos Rodriguez. He is the creator and producer. 100Miles is about life in the central valley of California. Hosted by Travis Ross. It basically a road trip with muscled Travis and some hot girls.

Episode 2 is available here.

End of the day, packing up to leave the office, I discovered that Vista lost one of my monitors in my dual monitor configuration.

I asked the office mates if anyone has seen that. Sure enough, they had it happen to them last week.

A quick reboot solved the problem, but I never had that problem with XP.

All the applications I use seemed to work fine, here the list of things I use in my daily office computing:

1. MS Office Apps
2. MediaCoder
3. Putty
4. Pidgin
5. FireFox
6. VideoLan
7. Quicktime
8. Trillian

Also, the bonus is that my old desktop gets promoted to my primary Linux desktop running Ubuntu.

My only question, where is the "WOW" in the Microsoft commercials? I was unimpressed with UI improvements and I turned off the annoying asking me security thingy as I am admin on it.

Spent a bunch of dollar coins today in various businesses explaining the cost of the paper dollar vs. dollar coin programs.

People are pretty blown away at how many were minted this year. $700+ million worth and the cost to produce dollar bills $500 million.

The kids like them too, one commented to me today that they were like gold dubloons. He wanted to use those instead of paper money.

So there is a little bit of a pirate in all of us.

Watch the animation if you are not squeamish.

Basically, they cooked the nerves in my back!

This should help my chronic back pain.

I had one of these done on my left side 2 years ago.

This time was on the right side at L3,4,5.

Spent $3 at the Northwest Film Forum during a break at my screen writing class.

The concessions staff loved the coins and the idea behind the social experiment to educate people about the coin dollar.

Success!

Went to get some more dollar coins from a Washington Mutal bank in Seatle today. They had several $25 rolls of the Thomas Jefferson coins, so I bought $25 worth.

One of the things I have been wondering about is how many of these coins are in actual circulation being used as currency vs. just being collected.

Here are the 2007 numbers:

Washington $340,360,000
Adams $224,560,000
Jefferson $203,610,000

Almost $800 million. Not bad all this considered.

I'll let you know where I spent some of these Jefferson's in upcoming posts

This was a quote from one of my co-workers last week, while talking about using solid state drives(SSD) in our project.

It got me thinking about other things that are 20th century.

Dollar Bills - Dollar bills are a real anachronism. They represent a wasteful use of resources. If the US stopped making $1 bills, it would save $500 million a year according to the US GOA.

I am doing a 6 month experiment to use the $1 coin.

Today, I went to Washington Mutual in the market in Stanwood, Wa to see if I could find any. To my surprise, they had $25 worth on site, I took $10 and spent $1 at Starbuck's.

Nobody got upset getting me them, Starbuck's took it without a blink of an eye. The only person who gave me grief was my wife. She hates them.

I'll keep blogging on my adventure with the $1 coin.

The questions were good, funny and to the point. The answers were predictable.

It was representative of many generations and demographics.

My big takeaway was how small the response was.

Despite all the CNN and YouTube hype, only 2984 people uploaded a video question for consideration from the millions of YouTube members. Pretty weak response rate. I would have expected 10's of thousands of questions.

Is this what democracy in America has come to?

Here is hoping the Republican CNN/YouTube response will be better.

Or some enterprising political groups mobilize to assist to get more questions submitted.

I was part of the millions that didn't bother to upload a question, so I'm guilty as well.

Stay tuned for my many uploads.

As it is in HD Flash format, give it a few seconds to buffer.

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Soft launched the downloadable TV programming site this month in Alpha.

Alpha features include:

BitTorrents of High and Standard Definition programs we produce and acquire.

HD Flash for playback and soon download.

A slick and extensible user interface

And many more planned features.

On the content side, we have a number of deals to announce this month.

Stay tuned!

Check out the gallery, you might find something you like!

[13:24] tripplemocha: thats some good music peter
[13:24] tripplemocha: turn it up
[13:24] tripplemocha: money!
[13:26] tripplemocha: sounds like pink floyd
[13:31] tripplemocha: next time put on key lock so you dont send me 10 minute voicemails ;)
[13:32] Peter Yorke (Seattle, Wa): damn, that was you

And from another buddy

[13:34] PeterYorke123: I pocket dialed Casey
[13:34] Petakilla9: yea he was telling me
[13:34] Petakilla9: he was streaming it
[13:34] Petakilla9: we heard you pee

If I am blogging it. I am not too embarassed.

There were three short presentations:

City Permits and Regulations, by the Seattle Film Office

Musical Composition and Film Scoring, by Hummie Mann

Casting and Working With Agencies, by Tanya Tiffany

The permits and insurance information was very timely for my upcoming project "The Lake"

Hummie Mann is one the NorthWests film composing masters with way to many film credits to mention. His presentation was very helpful and I want to have one of his classes score some music for the TV show.

Tanya Tiffany and her crew of actors did a bit of a set up to demonstate the difference professional SAG actors and non-union. I talked to her a bit about my project and requirements. Will try to meet up with her this week.

Also did a little networking with Raffaele Riconosciuto the director of the evenings film.

Make Believe

http://www.makebelievethemovie.com/

There were a lot of things in this film I liked. Some I didn't.

Kaelon Christopher Horst put in a great performance. This guy is going places with his career.

Composing was done by some of Hummie's students(Barb Blevins, Dean Jensen, Brian Olendorf). I liked the scores, but there was way too much of it in the film. Could have been that the volume was too loud in the editing, but I found the music too distracting, hence my perception that there was too much of it.

Overall, as a film, it was a little too artsy for my taste, but there was some great cinemtography and the theme of a young man's struggle to come out his make believe world back to reality was effective.

Raffaele Riconosciuto and Scott Tuton did good job as a short feature and the film should be considered their debut work into the film festivals. Expect more good things from these guys.