Degutis Insights

Archive for June, 2008

27 Jun, 2008

Welcome David James Degutis

Posted by: Al In: Family

Born 2:32 pm weighing 8lbs 9oz and 20″ long. First photos:

27 Jun, 2008

Samsung’s “Customer Service”?

Posted by: Judy In: Business

My son bought a Samsung TV a couple years ago and did not buy the service plan. This year his TV stopped working and he took it in for repair. Two months later the repair shop calls to say that they will not be receiving the part from Samsung but Samsung agreed to replace the [...]

25 Jun, 2008

Photoshop for the iPhone

Posted by: Al In: Business| Funny| Technology

Adobe sent a representative, a software engineer, to the Midwest Astro-Imaging Conference which I organized and hosted last week. I was able to get him to share some details on a future version of Photoshop. I’m pretty excited after seeing this product demo of Photoshop for the iPhone, as I plan to get the 3G [...]

24 Jun, 2008

Predicting how your baby will look

Posted by: Al In: Family| Funny

Web service MakeMeBabies.com attempts to predict what your baby may look like. So I put it to the test with some family members that are expecting. I used two different pictures combinations and ended up with two different results (no surprise).

Set 1:

Set 2:

Here’s the control part of the experiment:
a prediction of Steve and [...]

13 Jun, 2008

Judy’s PSA on Drinking and Driving

Posted by: Al In: Family| Misc


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12 Jun, 2008

My 3G iPhone Thoughts

Posted by: Al In: Business| Technology

When the iPhone was announced last year I wanted one, but didn’t get one. Why? The price. Even the price cut two months later couldn’t sway me to get one. At that point the allure had worn off. Reports from the street were in and the iPhone was great, but not perfect. At that point [...]

09 Jun, 2008

Steve Jobs vs Twitter

Posted by: Al In: Business| Technology

Which one will be the last one standing? Since there’s no Vegas Odds on this, at least that I could find, here’s your chance to vote:
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Results updated in the sidebar (there seems to be a delay).
Created using Google Spreadsheets.

08 Jun, 2008

How we spend our nights lately…

Posted by: Al In: Family| Funny| Leisure

When the storms don’t knock out our power…

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We have been to the carnival during Harvard Milk Days, but this year was our first exposure to the Big Wheel Race and 15th Annual Bed Race. Next year we’ll enter Topher into the big wheel race.

-Al

I get the impression that The VMware Team really wants me on their team:

-Al

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Degutis Insights consists of the ramblings of Al and Judy, where we share our thoughts and images from our lives, including family and friends, technology and other miscellaneous topics.