For the next 24 hours, you can get SoundHound Infinity for free from the Amazon Android Appstore.

We’ve worked really hard on this app.  Hope you like it.

The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District by Richard Whitmire

“Go to any public-school-board meeting in the country and you’ll rarely hear the words “children,” “students,” or “kids” uttered. Instead, the focus remains on what jobs, contracts, and departments are getting which cuts, additions, or changes. The rationale for the decisions mostly rests on which grown-ups will be affected, instead of what will benefit or harm children.”

The family, Christmas 2010.

I never grew up with a “Chinese mother” as described, but I probably saw a few.  I haven’t come to any conclusions yet about this article/essay other than that it’s worth a read.  A lot of it I resent, some of it rings true.

“Canadians defend their bubbles, especially here in Vancouver,” says Pospisil. “People get angry when you tell them it’s a bubble. They say it’s different here, that this is such a beautiful place and everything is different. Everywhere there is a bubble, they say it’s different.”

It’s nice to finally get something out there for those of you who don’t want to commit to buying SoundHound right away.  This free version gives you 5 free searches a month and allows for convenient upgrading to the full version while keeping your search history and bookmarks.  

It’s available now.  Just search for “SoundHound” on the Market.

I’ve gone through several lenses since I bought my DSLR a year and a half ago.  One of the nice things about buying used lenses is that you can pretty easily break-even or even make some money as you swap out your lenses.  With the 5 lenses that I went through, I lost a grand total of $20.  Well worth the time I was able to spend experimenting with them.

Anyway, I now have absolutely no lenses left.  Just an empty body left.  Time to hunt around the used markets again…

I hope they don’t screw up their brand like Krispy Kreme did.