Now that Google Voice supports SMS, you can send and receive text messages from your GV number as well, which is the last piece I needed to finally tell all my friends and family, “Here’s my new phone number.”
She’s been using GrandCentral since it came out, and only decided to switch completely with the addition of SMS. I’m pretty sure that when I get my iPhone (cross your fingers – any day now) I’ll just tell all my friends to send their text messages to my email address. Of course, then I’ll have to make sure to keep it less than 140 characters when I write them back, but at least I won’t have to give AT&T my wife’s arm and leg to pay for a text messaging plan.
According to TechCrunch, Hulu gained 10 million viewers in Feburary, which is an impressive number, but if you look at their chart, what I think is more impressive is the 64.5 minutes per viewer which is second in the top 10 behind only Google Sites (aka YouTube) which had 134 minutes, and 3.6 times more than the next highest average minutes per viewer in the top 10.
Maybe it’s because Hulu rocks the house. I wish CBS and ABC would take note. I would give them more advertising revenue that they are otherwise losing because I’d be all over the past 4 seasons of How I Met Your Mother and the last few episodes of LOST that I haven’t been able to watch yet (and I might even watch Wipeout if I could add it to my Hulu queue).
Harper’s Island is a murder mystery starting in April on CBS that will pair with webisodes and a social networking website to (hopefully) enhance the experience of viewing the program. You can click on the Harper’s Globe header above for a larger view that will reveal a little bit more of the social aspects of the site.
TechCrunch has a brief overview and intro clip for the new Harper’s Island combo web-TV show (as well as the teaser preview). The official CBS website has a different (and much less scary) intro clip. The main site associated with the web show and social network is Harper’s Globe. This seems like one of those things that I always want to get into but never have enough time to actually participate in (see also: Heroes Evolutions). I would probably enjoy the show anyway, even without the “new teevee” concept additions. The premise (if you haven’t already clicked on one of those other links) is that a bunch of people go to a destination wedding on an island near Seattle and get killed off one by one (one per episode).
The online part of the show will debut on March 18, weeks before the show debuts on TV on April 9, and the old and newteevee shows will coexist throughout the show’s weekly run, which will conclude on July 2.
Now, if only CBS would get their shows on Hulu (sorry guys, Sling isn’t cutting it for me) so they’d get queued up for me automatically (I probably won’t be watching the show live since it’ll be too scary for my wife, and because we get really crappy reception for CBS). Supposedly, I’ll receive email alerts when new episodes are up, but I think that’s probably just for the webisode part. Hopefully they’ll keep more than just 2 most recent episodes on CBS (see also: How I Met Your Mother – which I would totally watch online now that CBS has a decent video player, but I’m 3 seasons behind and they don’t have 97% of what I need to watch).
Before this preview, I was like “Okay, cool, the story of Wolverine” … but now it looks like they added at least 4 or 5 more characters… So, this movie is going to be like 4 hours long now? Because I was pretty sure that Wolverine’s backstory (including childhood) would take up 1.5 to 2 hours by itself.
Nels kind of likes that Taylor Swift Romeo & Juliet song. He knows it’s really not that good, but combines so many “Nels Likes This” elements, he can’t help it.
which drew this response from one of my so-called friends:
what are you, a 13 year old girl? this is hilarious! are you a Jo-Bros fan too? (That’s Access Hollywood code for Jonas Brothers)
So here it is: Why I Like Love Story Even Though I Know It’s Not a Great Song (in no particular order)
Hint of country: I don’t like straight up country, but if you can hint at being country with some twangy guitar or something, I’m bout it, bout it
Clearly written by the artist: I like musicians who write their own songs, and this one was clearly (at least partially) written by a 19 year old female. Sometimes I do like it when songs are meticulously crafted, but I think I prefer when they have authenticity. Of course, it’s best when they have both
4 different versions of the chorus: Essentially, the chorus structure is repeated 5 times with 4 different versions used. One of these is included as a breakdown (see below). I once wrote two entire songs that were basically the same with slightly different lyrics that played 2 sides of a love story. That’s how much I love use of the same structure with different lyrics hung from the scaffolding. If you’re into that sort of thing, you might like this movie
Breakdown: Pretty much every song should have a breakdown. Of course, not every breakdown can end in a marriage proposal, but that would be kind of awesome
Last line repeats the first line: Drawing it all back together. This is emphasized (some might say you’re hit over the head with it) in the video
Extended Metaphor: The Romeo and Juliet metaphor is pretty much maintained throughout the song with decent continuity
Extended Story: While the story is told in (somewhat boring) chronological order, it progresses well throughout the course of the song, and makes you happy that you get to find out they end up together
Mixed Metaphors: “I was a scarlet letter” is an obvious reach, but it’s still fairly brilliant because the target audience probably doesn’t know how loosely it actually works, but they have the proper knowledge to make the inferred association. Also, it makes me laugh because it’s just kind of silly, and because you know Taylor was like “OMG, I can rhyme Scarlett Letter with Juliet! Awesome!”
Name: Love Story: For some reason, I like that she was brave enough to call it something besides “Romeo and Juliet”
We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes
And the flashback starts
I’m standing there
On a balcony in summer air
See the lights
See the party, the ball gowns
I see you make your way through the crowd
And say hello, little did I know
That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you please don’t go, and I said
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I’ll be waiting all there’s left to do is run
You’ll be the prince and I’ll be the princess
It’s a love story baby just say yes
So I sneak out to the garden to see you
We keep quiet ’cause we’re dead if they knew
So close your eyes
Escape this town for a little while
‘Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don’t go and I said
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I’ll be waiting all there’s left to do is run
You’ll be the prince and I’ll be the princess
It’s a love story baby just say yes
Romeo save me, they try to tell me how to feel
This love is difficult, but it’s real
Don’t be afraid, we’ll make it out of this mess
It’s a love story baby just say yes
Oh oh
I got tired of waiting
Wondering if you were ever coming around
My faith in you is fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town, and I said
Romeo save me I’ve been feeling so alone
I keep waiting for you but you never come
Is this in my head? I don’t know what to think
He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring
And said, marry me Juliet
You’ll never have to be alone
I love you and that’s all I really know
I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress
It’s a love story baby just say yes
Oh, oh, oh, oh
‘Cause we were both young when I first saw you
FWIW: Here was my (short) response to my Facebook commenter:
No, I’m a 13 year old boy. That’s why I likez da womenz and hate the Jo-Bros because stupid Nick got to go (aka make) out with Miley Cyrus.
March 30th, 2009 
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