Shawn Hogan Fan Club

Genius Tasers Himself

Shawn — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:49:44 +0000

This kid might not be the brightest human to ever walk the face of the planet, but his unintentional comic relief if priceless.

Scubacraft

Shawn — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:03:45 +0000

So I think I decided what I want for Christmas... A Scubacraft (I saw it in Wired magazine).

It's basically a boat that you can hit a button, and it will go underwater (up to 100 feet). It would be pretty awesome to go scuba diving and instead of leaving your boat at the surface, just take it under water with you when you get to the dive site. It's not pressurized, so it's not a submarine (you would still need scuba gear of course).

It also has an onboard computer that controls your ascent and descent so you don't go to quickly and give yourself the bends.

I love you, Santa!

Google Ups AJAX Search API To 8 Pages

Shawn — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:43:25 +0000

It seems Google has quietly raised it's limitations on how deep you can look into search results for the AJAX Search API. It's always been 4 pages (8 results per page), so you could only see the first 32 results.

All of a sudden it was changes to 8 pages (still 8 results per page), so now you can look at the first 64 results. This is quite handy.

Thanks Google, you're swell!

iPhoto ‘09 Faces Spinning Forever

Shawn — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:46:36 +0000

Someone I know uses iPhoto, but the Faces part of it wasn't working. New pictures wouldn't get scanned for faces and the spinning icon next to the Faces label on the navigation bar would just spin forever (and apparently it's always been stuck like that).

I Googled the issue, and came up with hundreds of people having the same problem, but no one seemed to figure out a solution.

After a lot of digging and poking around, I think I found the solution. She imported large folders into iPhoto from her old photo management application, and she had some movies in her photo folders. So this is how I fixed it...

Quit iPhoto first.
Then get into the guts of your iPhoto Library (right-click the iPhoto Library file in your Pictures folder and do "Show Package Contents").
Go to the Originals folder in there and get your movies out of there.
Delete the face.db and face_blob.db files.
Load iPhoto up and it will start scanning all your faces and with any luck actually get through them all and be kosher going forward.

Warning... this will delete all your face tags you had previously (so don't do it if you tagged a bunch of people manually and don't want to lose that).

Random Email #37

Shawn — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:29:02 +0000

I haven't posted a random email in awhile, so here's a new one...

Hello,

I am Mr Mark Jo----, I will like to make reservation for 6 people that will be coming for vacation in your area on the 20th November to 30th November 2009.

If you have vacancy for the specified period, give me the total cost for the whole period of 10 nights, with either 6 single rooms or 3 double rooms for 6 guests.

Number of Persons: 6
Mr & Mrs Alb----{37 and 33yrs}
Mr & Mrs Ben----{40 and 36yrs}
Mr & Mrs Ari----{44 and 38yrs}
Arrival date: 20th November 2009
Departure date : 30th November 2009.
Number of days: 10 days
Number of Guest: 6,

Confirm availability and get back to me with your rates and total cost and if you will accept major credit card for your payment and convert the total price to British Pounds or Euro.

Thank you and looking forward to hear from you soon.

Regards,
Mark

I'm open to suggestions on how much I should charge these guys to stay at my home... let me know.

The Best News Show Ever

Shawn — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:26:32 +0000

So I'd like to put together a newscast... I want this guy to be my weatherman, and the guy from the previous blog entry needs to be my field reporter.

Reporter Turns Ghetto

Shawn — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:17:33 +0000

The more you watch this, the funnier it gets... watch it ten times. hahaha

Random Quotes

Shawn — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:23:30 +0000

So I found a draft post for this blog from about 3 years ago that I forgot to post (oops). Better late than never, right?

Kerry
arguing with another girl about how I found a plane ticket for cheaper:

"He's a programmer, how can you expect me to compete with that??"

{name withheld (because he's a bitch)}

"My wiener is so small you would need an electron scanning microscope to see it."

Bobby (talking about his Blackberry Pearl)

"i slept w./ my phone last night

made amelia sleep on floor

she was pissed

but who cares - can I use her as a Bluetooth modem??? turns out, i can - but slow as hell"

San Diego Chargers vs. Oakland Raiders

Shawn — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:17:40 +0000

The first Monday Night Football of the season, and it's the Chargers vs. the Raiders. lol

The Chargers play the Raiders twice a year (being in the same division and all), and the Raiders haven't won since 2002. So uh... yeah... If you are a Raiders fan, good luck on Monday.

Edit...OMG, the Chargers almost lost... that was too close.

Philip Garrido’s Blog

Shawn — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:02:30 +0000

So the fruitloop that kidnapped an 11 year old girl, held her captive in his backyard shed for 18 years while she bore 2 of his children has a blog.

http://voicesrevealed.blogspot.com/

So here's the deal... Google is really good at determining relevancy of a webpage and what a webpage is about. Maybe they should modify their algorithms a bit to detect crazy people automatically.

Quotes from his blog..."...the Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world."

"THE U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT THE SOURCE OF MIND CONTROL

These areas are off limits and a danger to anyone believing they can experience this type of freedom. It belongs to God for the direct application of His Word."

"THIS ALL BEGAN BY GOD REMOVING A PROBLEM FROM MY SHOULDERS THAT BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST BELIEVE IS NOT POSSIBLE TO REMOVE. SINCE THEN MY LIFE HAS SEEN MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS ALLOWING ME TO STAND HERE TODAY A FREE MAN."

Facebook Is Hard To Use

Shawn — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:01:05 +0000

Proof that you should have to take some sort of IQ test before having a Facebook account.

MySpace Traffic

Shawn — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:18:11 +0000

I know Alexa data isn't terribly accurate, but for sites under an Alexa rating of 500 *and* within the same market, it's pretty accurate as far as relative traffic to sites you are comparing. That being said, how long do you think before they sell it or shut it down?

Their traffic is almost cut in half from a year ago (and still dropping)...

Red Bull Cola

Shawn — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:13:09 +0000

Here's some wise words for you based on an experience I had last night. If it's 2am and you are getting ready to go to bed, maybe don't drink two Red Bull cola drinks.

Someone was telling me about them the other day and I was like, "gee, okay... I guess I'll try it to see what it's like."

Also, for the record, it's not very good. Tastes like they just mixed Red Bull and Coke 50/50.

How To Get Twitter Followers

Shawn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:18:26 +0000

Well actually, I'm not exactly sure how because I have Twitter followers since I don't have a Twitter account, but apparently I have have a couple Twitter accounts...

http://twitter.com/digitalpoint/ - 1,127 followers
http://twitter.com/shawnhogan/ - 63 followers

Stupid, but funny. lol

I’m An Uncle

Shawn — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:45:09 +0000

Hey look, my sister had a baby... I'm an uncle.