Aaron Ewer

Some of the players take advantage of lobby chat to goof around and use keyboard characters to create little pictures, such as Kilroy faces and secret messages.

The easy one I used to make was about coffee. If at a table with good friends, late at night of first thing in the morning, I would “offer” to bring everyone a cup of coffee and deliver/illustrate it by typing this into the chat line:

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It’s been a while since I went into a Harley Davidson dealership and looked at a bike. They are still an elusive dream for a lot of middle aged boomer guys, and Harley Davidson is really playing up to their fat wallets. There is all kinds of gear and accessories heavily logo’d for the new rider to spend money on.

The home base for H-D has always been Milwauke and now they have opened a new museum. Anyone with an interest in the story of America’s bike tradition will probably enjoy this. There’s a great video on the new museum from the Chiago Tribune web site:
H-D Video

My Dad’s family has been challenged by his brother’s family to a paintball tournament. My Uncle went into the Navy when he got out of school and my Dad went into the Air Force, so there has always been a hard core competition between them. But in a good way.

Of course they have both been retired for several years, so I’m not sure where the idea of paintball came from, but I’m down. I’ve played a half dozen paintball games back in Virginia when some of the guys from work wanted to go to the local field for a day. The company paid for the games as a team building exercise, and we had a blast chasing each other through the woods and fields, shooting anything that moved.

So we have to accept the challenge and make plans to play over the Fourth of July weekend. we’re going to have to get the family together before that for at least one practice. I still have my paintball gun from back in the day, but I hear there’s a lot of new technology used in the new guns. Checked out the www.pntball.com website for Ultimate Paintball and decided to go ahead and get a new gun and some gear.

Found a new sniper gun by spyder on the Ultimate Paintball site and some spyder paintball markers to order for me. I’ve always been best in a sharpshooter or sniper role. Tomorrow I’ll call my dad and see if he wants to get in on the order and get some gear for himself and start planning our tactics.

If we’re going in on this challenge, we’re going to be playing to win.

Everyone in my house is looking forward for the new movie, Speed Racer, to be released this summer. We’ve seen the commercials for a couple of weeks and we are waiting with baited breath. Some of the commercials include an exciting new technology called fade out technology. A company called Jokeroo pioneered the video fade-out technique.

Check out this Video Fade-Out Example.

I heard about this cool technology from a press release about high impact advertising:

Press Release:

TORONTO, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)—-Jokeroo.com, http://www.jokeroo.com, one of the pioneers in internet video and entertainment, has premiered the video fade-out advertisement with the upcoming movie, Speed Racer. The new format was designed to attract marketers across the globe with an advertisement that’s high impact and engaging, while avoiding any negative impact on the user.

Although the campaign is still in its infancy, it has produced spectacular results posting a click-through north of 4 percent, which is much higher than eMarketer’s quoted preroll standard of 0.5 to 0.9 percent. “When coming up with the idea we were looking for something that offered great performance for the advertiser while keeping the user happy,” says Aleks Dugonjic, the President of Jokeroo.com.

The creative takes up the full screen outside of the video player environment, which avoids interrupting the user experience but allows the advertiser’s brand to go unnoticed. The fade-out can last up to thirty seconds until it slowly starts fading out and the Jokeroo.com webpage appears. A live example can be found here: http://www.jokeroo.com/funnyvideos/transformers_stop_motion.html

About Jokeroo.com

Jokeroo.com is one of the leading video entertainment websites on the market today, ranked in the top 50 by comScore in multimedia and 2nd in humor. The company currently hosts over 6 million unique visitors, 150,000+ community members, and has over 1 million active email subscriptions.