#Leo Laporte

[nuac]

creator of flash and dark castle interviewed by leo laporte rip techtv

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Weekly output: Google Voice vs. RCS, net neutrality and higher education, Russian disinformation, Boom Supersonic, Rivian, This Week In Tech

This weekend featured an event that was last on my calendar when my schedule existed primarily in analog form: the HFStival, revived Saturday at Nats Park. I knew upfront that the venue would represent an immense upgrade over RFK, but I didn’t realize how much I would appreciate seeing the Postal Service play “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” for what they say is the last time–in the city that…

[ramenjunkie]

Blaugust 2023 - Creator Appreciation Week

The “theme” for this week in Blaugust is “Creators Appreciation Week” or something along those lines. I’m not really great at this sort of thing, I can’t really say I particularly have any sort of “idols” or anything and I follow a zillion people on various platforms, I could never really properly pick even a handful to ever spotlight. Plus it always just feels weird to me to put anyone on a…

[joebustillos]

Leo Laporte Predicts Another Apple Flop

I loved listening to Leo Laporte on the [This Week in Tech podcast](https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/930) go on about tomorrow’s rumored Apple AR/VR headset announcement:  “On the one hand we know that this is a stupid category that nobody wants… (54:01) “But I don’t even know if Apple has the horsepower to make something, that makes about 10% of its users nauseated, that seems a…

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2023 Leo Award Nominations

Best Hairstyling in a Dramatic Series - Linda Nelson, Chesapeake Shores, Season 6 Episode 10 'All or Nothing at All'

Best Make-up in a Dramatic Series - Charles Porlier, Chesapeake Shores, Season 6 Episode 10 'All or Nothing at All'

Best Television Movie - Lights, Camera, Christmas! (Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel) Mid-Love Crisis (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) Three Wise Men and a Baby (Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel) Time for Him To Come Home for Christmas (Miracles of Christmas, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries)

Best Direction - Heather Hawthorn Doyle - A Splash of Love (Hallmark Channel) Peter Benson - Color My World With Love (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) Jessica Harmon - Game, Set, Love (Fall Into Love, Hallmark Channel) Terry Ingram - Three Wise Men and a Baby (Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel)

Best Male Lead Performance in a Television Movie - Benjamin Hollingsworth - A Splash of Love (Hallmark Channel) Richard Harmon - Game, Set, Love (Fall Into Love, Hallmark Channel) Niall Matter - Rip In Time (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries)

Best Female Supporting Performance in a Television Movie - June Laporte - Mid-Love Crisis (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries)

Best Male Supporting Performance in a Television Movie - Riley Davis - Dying for Chocolate: A Curious Caterer Mystery (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) Riley Davis - Grilling Season: A Curious Caterer Mystery (Hallmark Movies & Mystery)

Best Screenwriting for a Television Movie - Paul Campbell and Kimberly Sustad - Three Wise Men and a Baby (Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel)

Best Casting for a Television Movie - Jackie Lind and Tara Bell-Irving - Color My World With Love (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) Erin Lally and Annalease Tilling - Dating the Delaneys (Fall Into Love, Hallmark Channel) Jackie Lind and Tara Bell-Irving - Lights, Camera, Christmas! (Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel) Judy Lee - Time for Him To Come Home for Christmas (Miracles of Christmas, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries)

Best Cinematography for a Television Movie - Mike Kam - The Holiday Sitter (Countdown to C Christmas, Hallmark Channel)

Best Picture Editing for a Television Movie - Jason Dale - Color My World With Love (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) Saeed Vahidi - Rip in Time (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) Jason Pielak - Welcome to Mama's (Loveuary, Hallmark C channel)

Best Musical Scor for a Television Movie - Brian Chan and Caleb Chan - A Big Fat Family Christmas (Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel) Brian Chan abd Caleb Chan - A Fabled Holiday (Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel) Graeme Coleman - Wedding of a Lifetime (Fall Into Love, Hallmark Channel)

Best Hairstyling for a Television Movie - Melissa Lawson - Dying for Chocolate: A Curious Caterer Mystery (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) Melissa Neilson - Inventing the Christmas Prince (Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel)

Best Production Design for a Television Movie - Michael Nemirsky - A Second Chance at Love (Spring Into Love, Hallmark Channel) Ali Tavasoli - Christmas at the Golden Palace (Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel)

Best Costume Design for a Television Movie - Jessica Kalan - Dating the Delaneys (Fall Into Love, Hallmark Channel) Tina Fiorda - Lights, Camera, Christmas! (Countdown to Christmas, Hallmark Channel) Tanya Lipke - Welcome to Mama's (Loveuary, Hallmark Channel)

[officialbugsposts]

Have you ever checked out Leo Laporte (computer / tech personality)? If not, I think you'd like him

Hahaha!! I wanted to like Leo LePort, even back when he had that cable show on the TechTV channel, but, there's just something about him that I just don't like... I can't quite put my finger on it... lol.

If you Google his name and add clock without the "L," a certain website will come up with a photo of it. lol

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It's hard to be nostalgic about Tumblr without remembering my friend Tru.

Truett McGowan.

What a fantastic name.

We met each other because we were both tech geeks following Leo Laporte. He was the very first live streamer. Originally he hosted a TechTV cable show called The Screen Savers. But once G4 took over and focused more on video games, Leo's show was cancelled and he was looking for a new way to broadcast content.

So he built a studio near his home and created his own infrastructure in order to live stream video on the internet. He called his new show "This Week in Tech" or TWiT for short.

Along with his new streaming venture he created a TWiT community using an open source microblogging platform called Laconica. It was a form of Twitter that you could create specifically for a single community. Basically a custom niche Twitter feed. I was trying to be a web designer back then, so I created custom themes for Lacnonica.

This was my own personal theme for a website that I ended up never launching.

Leo called his custom Twitter, "The TWiT Army." And I was his graphic designer and webmaster. I made all of the cute little graphics for the website.

I also did fun holiday themes...

For the Thanksgiving theme, if you hovered over the Turkey it would change to being cooked.

I also took it upon myself to photoshop a little army helmet on the avatar of every single user of the site.

This was the zombie avatar I made for myself during Halloween.

The TWiT Army was also where I started posting my first attempts at Photoshop comedy. Many of them related to The TWiT Army.

And The TWiT Army is where I met Tru. He used a space invader avatar. I made him a couple of different versions.

You may have seen his avatar on the sidebar of my main Tumblr.

We became fast friends. We finished each other's jokes. We talked pretty much all day, every day. He loved Apple back then. I was strictly PC at the time. So we debated about that quite a bit. He would probably be astonished I have a MacBook and that I really love it too.

Our friendship lived in a little text box. We never talked outside of instant messages. But it was one of the most profound friendships of my life. I loved Tru just as much as any friend I've ever known in real life.

Tru started blogging on this brand new site called Tumblr. He reviewed apps for the iPod Touch. Not the iPhone, as that wasn't yet a thing.

I made the banner for his Tumblr.

He kept trying to get me to join Tumblr, but I was busy trying to create my own custom comedy website. But my site kept getting more and more complicated and I could never quite finish it. I was trying to arrange guest authors and create 3 months of content and I was always futzing with the theme and never happy with it.

I was getting frustrated that I could never launch my perfect comedy website and Tru suggested just making a Tumblr and posting funny stuff so I could be creative and have an outlet until my big site was ready to launch.

Little did I know Tumblr would end up being my big comedy website. Eventually I abandoned months of work and just stayed on Tumblr. All of my success here is pretty much because that little space invader pestered me to join when I was being stubborn.

Unfortunately, as some may have figured out already, the story gets sad from there. Tru mentioned briefly that he had a heart defect, but he never said it was serious. He acted like it was no big deal so I never thought too much about it.

We always talked through instant message and email, so we never exchanged phone numbers or addresses or anything like that. Tru was a very private person so he never even published an image of his face online. I only knew him as a space invader.

One day I woke up and sent him a message and got no reply. He usually woke up before me and answered as soon as I said hello. This had been our routine for nearly a year.

An hour went by. Two hours. Three hours.

It was odd for him not to respond for that long. I was really worried but all of my TWiT friends told me I was being paranoid. But there was a huge knot in my stomach telling me otherwise.

But then those hours turned into days. Days into weeks. Weeks into months. My worry grew exponentially as more time passed. I didn't know what to do. I tried finding his family. I even looked into hiring a private investigator. I don't know if I have ever felt a combination of depression & anxiety that intense.

In my heart, I knew what had happened. I knew that heart defect took his life. He was only 26 and it just didn't seem fair. But the not knowing for certain ravaged my mental health. Before all of this I had lost nearly 90 pounds and I gained it all back.

I think maybe a year or so later I found a friend of his who knew him in real life. They were finally able to confirm my suspicions. He passed away from his heart condition. That was my first real experience with grief. But I was so thankful for that bit of closure. I was finally able to let go of my anxiety and mourn him properly.

But Tru gave me such a wonderful gift. He pushed me to just start making things. To stop stalling and just create things to make people smile.

And you all probably know the rest from there.

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Players & their families of Spain Nt for EURO 2024

GOALKEPERS

Alex Remiro - girlfriend, Ainhoa Andonegui

David Raya - girlfriend, Tatiana Trouboul

Unai Simón - girlfriend, Carmen Orcajo

DEFENDERS

Alejandro Grimaldo - girlfriend, Ana Fuster > Lucía

Aymeric Laporte - wife, Sara Botello > Lucay & Ayla

Dani Carvajal - wife, Daphne Cañizares > Martín & Mauro

Dani Vivian - girlfriend, María Labeaga

Jesús Navas - wife, Alejandra Moral > Jesús & Romeo

Marc Cucurella - girlfriend, Claudia Rodríguez > Mateo, Río & Bella

Nacho Fernández - wife, María Cortés > Alejandra, Nacho, Guile & Lola

Robin Le Normand - single

MIDFIELDERS

Alex Baena - single

Dani Olmo - girlfriend, Laura Abla

Fabián Ruiz - girlfriend, Rosa Pereira

Fermín López - girlfriend, Berta Gallardo

Lamine Yamal - single

Martín Zubimendi - single

Mikel Merino - wife, Lola Liberal

Nico Williams - single

Pedri - single

Rodrigo Hernández - girlfriend, Laura Iglesias

FOWARDS

Álvaro Morata - wife, Alice Campello > Alessandro, Leonardo, Edoardo & Bella

Ayoze Pérez - single

Ferrán Torres - single

Joselu - wife, Melanie Cañizares > Leo & Lucas

Mikel Oyarzábal - girlfriend, Ainhoa Larra > Luken

[tmbgareok]

Hi there, are you guys still in contact with Leo Laporte. I always enjoyed your interactions with him on The Screen Savers.

JF: haven't crossed paths with him since back then.

[nuac]

The Omni building (lets call it that) Used to host and film episodes of the screensavers in Toronto. and some off-color shows on technology affecting our lives, that would air during watershed (12-3am) I took these for nostalgia, ChumCity was purchased by bell canada in the mid to late 00s, and MuchMusic , Razer, and a slew of music channels were never the same. Oh well.

[robpegoraro]

Weekly output: Windows apps on ARM chips, Zoom terms of service, Google upgrades RCS encryption, DARPA AI Cyber Challenge, Defender-Pretender hack, Tesla seat-warmer hack, CISA security advice, This Week in Tech

In an alternate universe, I could have had another two or three posts with Las Vegas datelines on this list. But I opted not to stick around the city for DEF CON after wrapping up my Black Hat coverage Thursday night–in part because the cost for the badge hit $440 this year, but also because I didn’t want to delay downtime with my family in the Bay Area. Speaking of that information-security…

[jeffgerstmann]

sometimes leo laporte's name kinda sounds like leo leopard and frankly, i just think that's suspicious

I mean I can't disagree here.

[julianalvarez9]

Bro I'm so disappointed on some of City players who's supporting Benj🤮min M🤮ndy. I'm afraid of Ruben, Enzo, Messi and Julian because these four footballers are my favourites. Foden, Grealish, Ake, Laporte, Lewis broke my heart literally.

I think we support our beloved River Plate and ignore that shit. I don't think so people will forget that shit.

yeah that happened to me too. jack above all, i was developing kinda a soft spot for him and now it's gone lol. didn't know foden liked too :/. don't think that enzo, julián and leo would engage in that butttt you never know with these men unfortunately. also yeah!!!!! hope we win tonight so we can secure the title 💗

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