By now everyone as seen the pictures of the missiles that Iran news media altered. I will be the first to defend them since it seems that most people failed to see that there is a forth missile still on the truck, it just didn’t fire.  Everyone has had some sort of malfunction and that is just plain embarrassing.  The look on the girls governments faces. So here is my take on the situation.  Four missiles were setup on there little missile trucks in the middle of Mars ( did you notice even the fence is red).  Then three of them launched leaving the fourth one on the ground still in the back of the truck.  That doesn’t give a good sense that they mean business.  That is saying 3 out of 4 will kill you. This just won’t do, so someone with a digital brush and one of those funny hats copied the red martian ground, covered the fourth missile truck with the real missile and moved that grounded failed missile to the sky with his friends where he was suppose to be.  Now do you really blame them, I mean that missile was probably missing his friends that he spent the last couple of years in the same warehouse next too. You tell me, how would you feel if you were that lonely missile while your friends were out exploding?  For further information the New York Times explains it in there own words.

The latest video from Chinese engineers is a great concept with many issues.  This video explains the Non-Stop train concept.  Of course having a train that doesn’t stop would be more efficient except if you actually wanted to get off the train.  This concept uses pods on the tops of the train that passengers get in and out of, I’m not sure if you can escape your pod if lets say you really don’t want to get off the next stop.  The ending part shows the miniature match-box car version with the investors looking like they’ve just seen a ghost.  Of course adding and releasing a car on top of a train going a hundred miles an hour is a little different then a computer and miniature model.  A youtube video might be the only place for this Technically Foreign concept!

Steve Jobs, a Technically Foreign guy that we salute here, gave this Commencement speech at Stanford in 2005. It might be a couple of years in the grave, however, the words keep to the faith of a man who has had some rotten times but still knows a good apple. In a way Jobs, maybe without knowing it, used what people refer to as ‘The Law of Attraction’ to overcome the rough times and eventually become successful. It feels good to know that great leaders in technology overcame many issues and hard times with positivity, focus and belief. Here is to Steve Jobs, our Nikola Tesla of the 21st century.

Here is the transcript of the speech.

I recently posted a Youtube video “Technically a Translation” which shows how languages are similar. However what happens when an American song is translated by a Bulgarian singer who tries to sing it in English?  The following clip is what the Mariah Carey song ‘Without You’ apparently sounds like to this Bulgarian Idol wanna be.  The subtitles are translating the Bulgarian into English… or something else entirely.

So while cruising through the information super highway’s underbelly I came across this funny but interesting video.  Is this an Ad?  One of those Technically Foreign Video’s that most of us can sit back with a  ‘dam that seems familiar’ smile.

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As the Van Halen song says.. “Big Bad Billy is Sweet William now!” Most Internet and monkey wrenched technically non-foreign people have heard that this is the last day on the job for Bill Gates.  Yeah you know him as the richest man in the world, the super-man of Microsoft, the geek-with-the-mostest or just the founder of Microsoft.  In tribute to the last day there are three questions that I will never get to ask Billy, three questions that have been ripping me apart for the past 25 years (Yes I’ve been following the guy since i was 6!).

Question 1:  Why do you still wear those dorky glasses when you can obviously aford laser surgery? (Who do you think you are, Clark Kent?)

Question 2: Do you really use Windows Vista? (yeah we know secretly your still playing World of Warcraft on Windows XP.)

Question 3: Why don’t you make a game show to give your money away?  (’Who wants Bill Gates Money?’ might not crash as quick as Vista!)

So good-bye Bill Gates and hello Microsoft 2.0, a day without Bill, a day many of us thought would never happened.  We will miss you even though we barely saw you, heard from you or even wonder what you really were doing behind that large oak door in your office. Oh and I wonder if Steve Jobs is having a party today too!

This is a great video of a ball girl out performing the outfielder in a minor league game.  You can do anything if you put your mind to it…

I wish I could make this up, but this shows us how crazy the art world can be.  The green guy is about 3 feet tall and has really pissed off an Italian town where its on exhibit. What’s art without critics.  However I’m shocked that the animal rights organizations aren’t upset and I haven’t heard from Kermit the Frog either.  What I find very amazing is that this piece was done in the early 90’s and the artist, Martin Kippenberg, has been deceased since 1997. For more info read the Australian ABC news article I found this via - NY ARTS Magazine.

A friend showed me this ‘translation’ of an Indian music video. I’m still laughing deep, deep, deeeeep inside. The translation (or interpretation or guess or this should be on the daily show) is exactly how I feel when I’m listening into foreign conversations. You pick-up on words, those English-like words and assume that’s what they are saying. Usually you’re batting way below average, but occasionally some English words like ‘Internet’, ‘Computer’ and ‘American Idol’ are easy to spot. For this video, I do believe this is not a ‘translation’ but the Technically Foreign way Indian’s speak:

I love coffee and Computers (well that hole bundle of joy called the Internet-gadget-billion-of-transistors). That’s a lot like having a pet mouse, cat and dog living in the same room. Only a matter of time before the expected arrives.  Information Technologies or for the lack of a better term ‘Computer Geek’ needs coffee (Or anything with caffeine) to function. Its written inside our DNA next to the ‘online-gaming addiction’ area. So this is a salute to all Coffee drinking Techy’s, Drink and Surf safely.

 Cup Holder Optional:

Is that an Expresso machine inside you or are you just too hyper to see me?

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