Happy Turkey Day!

• Author: smojo
• Filed under: smojo, video
• Date: Nov 22,2007

Popularity: 18%

Who knew that HULU would be so Coolu?

• Author: smojo
• Filed under: video
• Date: Nov 20,2007

Yesterday I was shocked when I received a beta invite to join Hulu.com. I didn’t even remember signing up to get into the beta. But I received an invite and decided to check it out and I’m glad that I did. For those unaware of what Hulu is let me give you a brief description.

Hulu is NBC Universal and News Corporation’s online video joint venture. Hulu videos will be played in their own embeddable branded player. Content from at least a dozen TV networks and two major film studios is promised. Initial distribution partners include AOL, Comcast, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo. - CrunchBase

So what makes Hulu so good? Well first and most importantly it is completely free. Hulu lets you watch complete episodes of some of your favorite shows and also has a few movies so far. It already has a pretty decent library of videos to watch and it is very early in the beta. Hulu’s library includes such popular shows as The Office, Family Guy, The Simpsons and one of my favorite shows of the past Doogie Howser. Yes it even has Doogie. You are also able to embed any of the videos. So someone could legally create a website with all the episodes of a show or a movie. Currently Hulu is using video ads during the episodes that run for 5 to 20 seconds. So basically if you are watching a 20 minute episode you will have a total of about 50 seconds of ads. Which is not bad at all. So enjoy the following episode of Family Guy which is embedded from Hulu.

**EDIT** December 28th, 2007
It looks like the first video I embedded was taken off the hulu site so here is a new video.

Popularity: 35%

Road to Arizona, Dinos in Holbrook, AZ

• Author: smojo
• Filed under: arizona, roadtrip, smojo
• Date: Nov 16,2007

It was day 5 of my trip to Arizona and and I was driving on I-40 going west. I had been driving in AZ for about an hour when all of a sudden a giant dinosaur popped up out of nowhere. Then a few minutes later another one showed up very close to the road. Had I been driving to long? Was I starting to hallucinate after looking at the road for hours and hours? After composing myself I continued to drive until I saw a sign for Stewart’s Petrified Wood Shop and it said that this place also had dinosaurs. My curious self decided to stop at this wood shop and take a look around.

Really not knowing what to expect I pulled off at exit 303. To get to the place you have to go on a dirt road and up a very small cliff. Once I parked my car it was time to look around. It was a very odd place with nothing around it for miles except the highway. As I started to walk around a bit I noticed a man starring at me from a window inside the shop. This creeped me out out for a second but then I started to walk towards this man and look inside the shop. This man I guess was Stewart and he informed me that the rock shop was opened in 1994 and the dinos were added as an attention grabber. Here are 2 videos I shot at this strange but pretty interesting place.

Visiting Stewart’s Shop

MeToday October 19, 2007

Popularity: 38%