Category Archives: Personal

Not Working For Dabble Anymore

The details don’t matter.
It’s all good, and I wish Dabble nothing but success 🙂
The important thing is to use lisa@lisarein.com from now on, for everything for me. Forever.
(And do drop me a line – this will be the first chance I’ve had to catch up with people in years!)
thanks!
lisa

It’s My Birthday!

And, of course, I already got the best present (s) ever on Wednesday 🙂
Hey I just got another present — we just took control of the Senate!
Rummy and Mehlman are history too. wow.

Looking Forward To My Panel At Digimart 2006

I’ll be on a panel October 17th at the Digimart Conference going on in Montreal October 16-18.
The panel I’m on is called
Your Space On My Tube – How to Engage with the Online World and Make Money, hosted by Scott Kirsner of the Cinematech Blog.
Scott’s really bringing together a neat group of people, including the Eepybird guys, who did the Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments.
I’m really looking forward to it.
It will be great to be in Montreal again. I used to go to Montreal every year for the small, uber-geeky XML conference that used to go on there every year. I haven’t gone to that conference since 2000 or so, and I had really missed Montreal.
Getting ready for the conference also forced me to write up an updated bio.
A couple of you have bugged me about this over the years, and I just didn’t have time to think about it until recently. Sorry!
I’m finally going to go back and bring it all up to date. There’s a lot going on, and I want you to know about it, so you can help me do better at everything. (Like always 🙂

Checking in on a more personal note…and meeting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

So a lot is going on lately. There’s so much going on, that I don’t know where to begin in explaining it. So I’ll just start putting stuff up…
It’s all good, in different ways. On the creative musical and video front, I’ve been preparing a lot over this last month that I’m ready to start rolling out over these next few weeks. On the Dabble front, we’re ready to roll out some new features and are adding a ton of new content collections from all sorts of cool websites. On the Wide Hive Records front, we have a number of new releases, and I sing background vocals on three different tracks on one of them: Salsa Blanco.
On the political front, I finally made time for a political fundraiser last Friday night, to meet a number of Congressional Candidates in this upcoming election, and I was instantly rewarded when none other than Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stopped by to say hi.

I’m quite a fan of Bobby’s lately, as he has been one of the few people to speak out about the 2004 Election irregularities in two different Rolling Stone articles (Was the 2004 Election Stolen? and Will the 2006 Election Be Hacked?), and on numerous television programs.
It was great to be able to hand him a copy of Stealing America. (There are a several clips of him included in the film.)
It was also a big reminder of the unprecedented attack on the environment by the Bush Administration – another critical reason why we have remove this administration and all the professional crooks that are running it at our earliest opportunity.

Finally Got A Flickr Stream Going

My new focus on social networking applications quickly seduced me into creating a Flickr stream.
I’m mainly going to be uploading a backlog of pictures from the last few years — lots of wide hive stuff, two trips to europe, SFSU peeps, etc. (And I’ll try to keep things current too.)
Enjoy!

Have A Happy July 4th – Catch The Shuttle Launch at 11:38 am PST

There’s a Discovery shuttle launch today at 11:38 am PST. (for you west coast types)
Here’s a link to the NASA TV site.
Here’s another NASA TV link.
It should be broadcast live from there. Launching at 2:37pm EST.
Here’s a
NY Times article on it.
There may be better ones. I just wanted to make sure you knew about it, cause I just found out.
Have a great day guys!

Heading to Vloggercon tomorrow

Hey I’m actually venturing out into the world again
(now that I’ve overcome my post post-education burnout 🙂
I’m hoping to show everyone the new application I’ve been working on with Mary Hodder:
Dabble.
Dabble is a video search and remix community. You can use it to bookmark all the videos you like on all the different hosting sites and keep them organized all in one place.
We’re still in a closed beta, but I’m allowed to invite my readers — and anyone going to
Vloggercon. So send me an email and I’ll hook you up.
(And then you can invite your friends.)
Email me your RSS feed too, so I can add it to our search engine.
Hope to see you this weekend. I’ll be the tall girl with the long hair wearing a “dabbler” t-shirt.
see you there!

Paul McCartney At HP Pavillion



Okay so it had been a long time since I’d been to a large concert. Like, I dunno, 5 years at least.
So I’m at the Paul McCartney concert at HP Pavillion last November 8, 2005. I always carry my Canon Exlim S3 in my pocket, and I had forgotten about it being in my pocket till we were 5 blocks away from the car and in line to get in.
“Well I just won’t use it.” I say to myself.
So then, right when Paul kicks in to “Drive My Car,” I start feeling guilty that I didn’t get a ticket for one of my favorite cousins, who recently played and sang the Beatles “I Will” in one of her recitals. I should take a little movie for her, I say to myself. Then the scientist in me kicked in. “I wonder what the sound would even be like on this thing? Would it just be distortion, or would its condensor microphone kick in and do its job?”
Then I started looking around. Wow. It seemed like everybody was using their phone or camera to take a little movie or picture. Oh. I get it. Things have sure changed, I thought to myself. I can’t believe I was worried about having this thing in my pocket.
So I start taking a movie, and then my dad noticed what I was doing and bumped into me and kinda wrecked my shot. (You can see at the end of the clip.)
“Oh dad.” I tell him. “It’s not a hassle anymore.”
“No, I don’t think you’re right.” He said.
About 15 minutes later, a guy a few rows in front of us starts recording with his little photo/video camera. Sure enough, after a few minutes, an usher called him on it, and escorted the guy from his seat — and confiscated his camera I think, because we saw him return to his seat later sans camera.
Ok. So things aren’t so progressive.
Well, at least I got my little experiment file. (I’m a grad student experimenting with digital media and this movie constitutes research for my grad exam.)
I am continually amazed at the sound quality I am able to achieve with this fairly-reasonably priced tiny little camera. (casio exlim s3)
So anyway, here it is:
30 seconds of Drive My Car