This is pretty awesome. This couple lives in a 175 s.f. studio that they bought for $150,000. They pick up their work clothes at the dry cleaner on the way to the office, they keep underwear in the kitchen cabinets, and they even let guests stay with them.
www.nypost.com/
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Wedding Singer
I was just sitting here thinking to myself, "wouldn't it be hilarious to find that band that swears in classic songs from the movies Starsky & Hutch, Old School and The Hangover and hire them for one's wedding?"
I don't know if you can do that, but they have a website and they go on tour and stuff. That's pretty awesome.
http://www.thedanband.com/
I don't know if you can do that, but they have a website and they go on tour and stuff. That's pretty awesome.
http://www.thedanband.com/
Monday, December 7, 2009
iPhone Squared
What an age in which we live. My parents remember the days before they owned a television. My mother literally came to the U.S. on a boat in the 1940s.
There is a new app, called Square, created by the co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, that turns one's iPhone (and other smartphones, in the future) into a credit card reader and payment system. Reading the following article is pretty hilarious for someone with a seriously Irish name like me (Colin Patrick O'Higgins). The major players are the aforementioned Mr. Dorsey, Jim McKelvey, and Tristan O'Tierney. Sounds more like a drinking team than a group of enginerds! So, an Irishman, an Indian, and an Asian walk into a bar...I'm getting off track.
Here's a blurb from the article. So simple. I can't believe I didn't think of it. From GigaOm -
What Is Square?
It’s essentially a small magnetic reader that plugs into the headphone jack of an iPhone. When a credit card (or a debit card) is swiped through the reader, it reads the data and converts it into an audio signal. The microphone picks up the audio, sends it through the processors and then is routed to Square’s software application on the iPhone. From there the encrypted data is transmitted using either Wi-Fi (for iPod touch) or a 3G Internet connection to back-end severs, which in turn communicate with the payment networks to complete the transactions.
There is a new app, called Square, created by the co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, that turns one's iPhone (and other smartphones, in the future) into a credit card reader and payment system. Reading the following article is pretty hilarious for someone with a seriously Irish name like me (Colin Patrick O'Higgins). The major players are the aforementioned Mr. Dorsey, Jim McKelvey, and Tristan O'Tierney. Sounds more like a drinking team than a group of enginerds! So, an Irishman, an Indian, and an Asian walk into a bar...I'm getting off track.
Here's a blurb from the article. So simple. I can't believe I didn't think of it. From GigaOm -
What Is Square?
It’s essentially a small magnetic reader that plugs into the headphone jack of an iPhone. When a credit card (or a debit card) is swiped through the reader, it reads the data and converts it into an audio signal. The microphone picks up the audio, sends it through the processors and then is routed to Square’s software application on the iPhone. From there the encrypted data is transmitted using either Wi-Fi (for iPod touch) or a 3G Internet connection to back-end severs, which in turn communicate with the payment networks to complete the transactions.
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