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Long story short, Apple introduced a Software Development Kit (SDK) for the iPhone today. This allows 3rd-party software developers to write their own fully-featured applications for you to add to your iphone. Andy Ihnatko’s idea of using the acceleratormeter as a pedometer got me thinking.

I want a bike riding distance/speed app.

Use the built in psuedo GPS to gestimate how far I’m riding my bike, then use a start/stop feature that is hooked up to when I start/stop the music on the iphone to figure out speed over distance. Oh and give me a Google Map to link to showing how (not) fast I am.

I wish I wrote programs…any developers out there listening…Jim? ;)

Here’s quick camera phone snap from our shopping at Paper Source on saturday. Teressa was enamored with all of the pretty paper in the store, while I was immediately drawn to the robots. This is a reoccurring theme in our relationship. It also kicked in the way-back-machine.

In college Matt, Dan, Grady and I would get together and spend many an afternoon rocking out in our basement. One standard was a song by Matt and Dan entitled “When Robots Fall in Love.” We were so ahead of our time. By the way the song had a great hook…trust me. I wonder if we have a recording of that somewhere? Hmmm.

So I meant to post this picture yesterday but I got caught up playing around with my new favorite visual fx application, Silhouette FX, a high end rotoscoping tool that most of you couldn’t care less about…but trust me it’s fun.

Anyway, back to the photo. This weekend Ryan threw Joah a surprise b-day party down on the Plaza. He pulled off getting together a cadre of friends to eat some food, drink some beer, cheer on KU and celebrate his lady friend. Not a bad night at all sir.

I meant to take more photos during the evening, but I got caught up watching the KU/K-State game…which we won by the way. However I did snap this quick, albeit out of focus shot, of the lovely couple who couldn’t look more happy.