Jon Pralls 85 operations rules to live by make so much sense they should be mandatory questions when interviewing potential new operations managers, hopefully replacing the by now very cliché “What happens when you type www.google.com into your browser address bar?”, that technical HR people, seem to think constitutes the ultimate in IT Operations knowledge.

I was always rather tempted to reply “You break the Internet?“

Another guy who really has his musical chops together, but doesn’t let that get in the way of grooving his a** off, is Shane Theriot, a New Orleans native, who has the nailed both crazy outside bop playing ala Henderson and sleazy Meters funk with a zydeco backbeat, and all the while manages to sound like he’s not even trying – amazing cat!

Amazing clip of Mike Landau group from Germany 2007. Mike kicks off a mindmelting groove solo after the head of “I’m buzzed”.

We should all listen and learn, this is how it’s done, no one above, taste and tone wise, rythmically and melodically just perfect.

Swarms of starlings over Rome – nature is just beyond comprehension sometimes – both chaotic and unbelievably organized at the same time!

OK – so I’m a pretty serious guy at 38 who doesn’t fool around with “toys”!

I fly R/C helicopters which are big enough to take your head of if you get too close.

Then someone goes ahead and makes a “toy” which is so cool you kinda have to surrender, and just go “whoa, I want one of those”.

AR.Drone from the french company Parrot is exactly such a toy.

A quadcopter with a Linux based OS, wifi, onboard camera, gyros and stabilizers to level things out, and to top it of the whole thing is controlled by …. your phone! At the offiical launch date so far only available on the iPhone, Touch and iPad but I’m betting they’ll make a version for the Androiders as well.

Oh and did I mention it has an open API platform, so everyone can write features and software for this cool little thing and last but certainly not least, the onboard camera is used for “augmented reality games”, which lets you battle it out with your buddies in imaginary dogfights on your phones, while the Drone buzzes around your backyard.

Launch date in US in september, I really can’t wait to get my hands on one, might even have to get me an iPad along with it so I can grab a quick Drone game, whilst casually browsing my mail!

Now that would be cool!