Where to go when it gets hot (art displays for your HDTV)

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When it gets hot smart people go to the library.

Huh?

Well, you might say “movie theaters or malls or swimming pools” but those are always crowded.

Today is a scorcher in Seattle. Welcome to global warming. Or local warming. Either way it’s freaking hot!

After our breakfast we needed to meet up with the people buying our house and Chandu recommended the Redmond Library cause it just was too hot to have a conversation anywhere else. What a wonderful place! Yes, they even have a great place where you can talk. It was pretty much empty. And VERY cool. Even had a drink machine and an eating area where we talked about house sale stuff while Patrick played on his Portable Sony Playstation. Free wifi too.

One thing we had fun watching there was a new plasma screen that was displaying artwork from museums around the world. I wrote down the service that was feeding the screen: GalleryPlayer. Georgeous images. You hook a computer up to your HDTV screen (mine can display 1280×1024 images, newer screens will be able to display higher res than that) and you buy images you want to play on it. Great eye candy for impressing people who come for parties and such.

Anyway, hope you’re keeping cool. I’m sure not.

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19 thoughts on “Where to go when it gets hot (art displays for your HDTV)”

  5. Hot???? Scorcher… – in Seattle. Uh, Scoble, we saw a cooling trend today – only 112 – down from 117. Yeah, yeah, it’s a dry heat – I get it, real funny.

    Which is why, after reading Money Magazine’s list of best places to live – showing Fort Collins at #1, I’ve added Fort Collins to my google weather list on my home page. Along with Woodland Park, Co.

    But you are right. We also go to the library. Last year I wrote about that exact topic. Let someone else pay for a/c – and lots of books.

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  6. Hot???? Scorcher… – in Seattle. Uh, Scoble, we saw a cooling trend today – only 112 – down from 117. Yeah, yeah, it’s a dry heat – I get it, real funny.

    Which is why, after reading Money Magazine’s list of best places to live – showing Fort Collins at #1, I’ve added Fort Collins to my google weather list on my home page. Along with Woodland Park, Co.

    But you are right. We also go to the library. Last year I wrote about that exact topic. Let someone else pay for a/c – and lots of books.

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  7. Matthew: that’s freaking hot.

    But, us Seattleites are used to somewhere around 70.

    Anyway, you gotta come and visit us in Half Moon Bay. 65 almost year round.

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  8. Matthew: that’s freaking hot.

    But, us Seattleites are used to somewhere around 70.

    Anyway, you gotta come and visit us in Half Moon Bay. 65 almost year round.

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  9. You mean Play Station Portable – geek shame points for not knowing an acronym 🙂

    Could Apple launch a competitive handheld gaming unit?

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  10. You mean Play Station Portable – geek shame points for not knowing an acronym 🙂

    Could Apple launch a competitive handheld gaming unit?

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  11. 65 year round. My dogs would dig it. My wife would freeze – but it is beach, so she would love it.

    Cambria – that is my ideal spot…

    Beach, forest, deer, otter – wine…

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  12. 65 year round. My dogs would dig it. My wife would freeze – but it is beach, so she would love it.

    Cambria – that is my ideal spot…

    Beach, forest, deer, otter – wine…

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  13. I’ve seen Gallery Player. They’ve licensed some very good collections, and their pricing seems reasonable. But… I hate the fact that they have to shoe-horn everything into a 16:9 ratio so it fills your TV screen. In a mash-up world I guess that’s OK. But I file it in the same “never-watch”) bin as pan-and-scan cropping to fit widescreen movies onto narrow screens.

    (I have an example of what Gallery Player does to Mona Lisa on my blog.)

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  14. I’ve seen Gallery Player. They’ve licensed some very good collections, and their pricing seems reasonable. But… I hate the fact that they have to shoe-horn everything into a 16:9 ratio so it fills your TV screen. In a mash-up world I guess that’s OK. But I file it in the same “never-watch”) bin as pan-and-scan cropping to fit widescreen movies onto narrow screens.

    (I have an example of what Gallery Player does to Mona Lisa on my blog.)

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  16. Part II

    With GalleryPlayer you can make any display into a digital canvas and any room into an HD art gallery.

    Thanks again for the mention – Kristina

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  17. Part II

    With GalleryPlayer you can make any display into a digital canvas and any room into an HD art gallery.

    Thanks again for the mention – Kristina

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  18. Thanks for the mention of GalleryPlayer.

    I’m the company’s media director and I was pleased to see you like our imagery. You should know we just launched another delivery platform – widescreen DVDs. You can now bring home 30 of the finest works of Claude Monet and Leonardo da Vinci on DVD, available on our Website or in select retailers.

    GalleryPlayer transforms any display into a digital canvas and any room into an HD art gallery.

    Thanks again for the mention – Kristina

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  19. Thanks for the mention of GalleryPlayer.

    I’m the company’s media director and I was pleased to see you like our imagery. You should know we just launched another delivery platform – widescreen DVDs. You can now bring home 30 of the finest works of Claude Monet and Leonardo da Vinci on DVD, available on our Website or in select retailers.

    GalleryPlayer transforms any display into a digital canvas and any room into an HD art gallery.

    Thanks again for the mention – Kristina

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