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the life and times
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 today
“Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in agreement,” says Mr. Logsdon. “If he keeps it up, he is running the risk of sounding like an elitist.”
@ShawnKing How funny, before I saw your prosciutto tweet, I decided to crack open a vaccuum-sealed batch for lunch. Love.it.
Prosciutto: God's gift to meat lovers? Or God's *greatest* gift to meat lovers ever?
Now that he has given this a good review, I have officially run out of jokes.
Valve seems dedicated to the cause of multiplayer gaming on the PC. Sure, you can get Left 4 Dead on the 360, and I'm sure many people will enjoy it, but the best way to play this game is with a mouse and a keyboard, headphones on, screaming at your team mates that you're surrounded and need back up.
Sure wish M.Fishman had told us that our apt windows are made of cellophane, not glass. Our office is a refrigerator. - http://bkite.co...
Twitterrific consistently crashing on startup for anyone else this morning? Or is my Mac Pro just special?
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 yesterday
Everyone please give my wife Jessi, aka @msgoonie, some good vibes. She has renewed her teaching job search, now in Oak Park.
There's nothing quite like two dogs excited as hell that you just got home after being gone barely 4 hours. - http://bkite.com/02sM7
Sweet, the "Now playing in this Starbucks" iTunes feature has come to my local Starbucks. Fun.
I walk along these hillsides / in the summer neath the sunshine /I am feathered by the moonlight /falling down on me / I said I will walk..
http://twitemperature.com showed me a guy who wanted to shove tabasco sauce down my throat. What does it all mean??
@johnfoster Sure, but you could catalog your stuff in DL2, then use its Address Book/iCal integration to create a reminder with a name.
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Remember when you were a kid and you’d throw down in a staring contest? Remember how a little crowd would form and you knew that if you lost you’d be the laughing stock of the class?
Well, Typepad just blinked.
"E-mail is no longer just e-mail, and it arguably hasn't been for some time. Webmail clients like Yahoo's have offered IM and calendar integration for a while, and now Gmail allows video chatting and embedded gadgets. Zenbe, a new startup, is bringing social features, collaboration, and a new perspective on our e-mail routine.
Monday, November 17, 2008 2 days ago
@johnfoster That's what Delicious Library 2 is for.
HDCP has finally arrived in Apple's hardware, thanks to the latest aluminum MacBook update. The technology is being used to protect (what else?) iTunes Store files from playing on any HDCP non-compliant devices.
I Spilled 9:02 PM
i spilled my coffee on a map
sitting on my table
the coffee meshed with the roads
and the railroads
and the highways
the lakes and the rivers
and the signs that designated
everything from everything else
enormous corporations, too small to fit on the map
small households with families filled with love
alleyways filled with and made of
garbage we put there
the pandora’s boxes
the empty closets
and the ones that are still full
everything
the coffee spread over all of this
and it all meshed into one big
brown
desert of caffeine
- written by me over a decade ago on Sunday, February 15, 1998
It was published in something fairly interesting a year or two later, but I can’t remember what. I thought it would be fun to publish it myself again now.
Note that this poem has a Creative Commons license applied to it. Please respect the license, but never hesitate to ask me any questions if you want to reproduce or use the poem in some other way.
I Spilled by David Chartier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
What the hell is wrong with Google? They're posting about voice coming to iPhone app but it *still* isn't available in the store. PR fail.
@michael_salamon Girlie drinkers gotta stick together. I'm not saying I'm one of 'em, but it's just a good idea. Y'know.
Holy crap, Jerry Yang is finally stepping down from Yahoo: http://snipr.com/5qe6q
First I was getting lots of wrong number calls when I switched to a Chicago number, now I'm getting wrong calls from Denver area codes. :-/
Looks like a slick iPhone app for easily finding local coffee shops and directions. Cool UI: http://snipr.com/5q972
I have 5 licenses for Mint, a stellar web stats tracking app (http://haveamint.com), for sale. Contact me: http://snipr.com/5flwz
Strange, the 480p link under Trailer 1 of Star Trek movie points to a Cloverfield trailer: http://snipr.com/5q3n0
Great tongue-in-cheek humor from Scott Simpson of the You Look Nice Today podcast about how they prepare for one of their brilliantly eclectic shows. If you don’t listen to this podcast, I facetiously question whether your life is complete.
On lunch, watching Obama's first interview, with 60 Minutes, since being elected: http://snipr.com/5pysm
The location is unusual and the capture marks a fundamental shift in tactics, the navy added. Attacks on shipping off the Horn of Africa and Kenya by pirates, who are mostly Somali, prompted foreign navies to send warships to the area this year.
Thanks for the good vibes everyone. Just rough being in new city during tough times, working at home, and many our best friends back in CO.
"I wasn’t working during this, but one partner was asked to cut out the bottom of a traveler. After she did that, they asked her to wear it on her head while standing outside screaming about the promotion. Holy god, I couldn’t get over that. We’re really expected to deal with so many customers who treat us with zero respect, and now someone’s being asked to wear a cardboard coffee box on our head?"
Sunday, November 16, 2008 3 days ago
Yahoo redesigned oneSearch for iPhone's search results page. Now it rocks Google's POS non-iPhone page even more.
Remember tonight kids: Robot Chicken's Star Wars Special II is on tonight at 10:30 CT. Bgawk.
Peril #41 of Living in a Synchronied World: No more "default behavior" 7:55 PM
Someone asked me if an app I regularily use does a certain thing by default tonight, and I honestly couldn’t answer him. I realized that, ever since Leopard and a MobileMe update brought syncing of preferences between multiple Macs, all of my apps have behaved exactly the way I want them to between the Mac Pro and the MacBook. I haven’t had to re-set up an app in nearly a year now, so I’m forgetting how some specific features work out-of-the-box.
Technology: it is our gift, it is our curse.
Taking a walk to Walgreens with my best girl (@msgoonie) in our first light Chicago snow.
Left-aligned Linkinus style with in-line images and videos.
The Epic Battle of puppy vs much larger puppy on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
A video I spliced together of our ~3.5 year-old dog, Oscar, playing with Maddy when she was just a puppy.
6:18 PM
"OK, peeps, my pants just came off! It’s a party now! Oh, wait. It’s laundry time. Never mind."
@Amaechi Trending topics, copy/paste tweets, re-tweeting, a page down button for easy reading, bookmarking users I catch up on frequently.
But in this case Apple really screwed up in our opinion.
So Google was “under the impression” that the app would be available on Friday, despite having “little direct contact with Apple during the review,” and Apple is somehow at fault that the big G prematurely fired off its press rush?
Don’t get me wrong, Apple continues to royally screw up the App Store on a many levels, but this assessment is ridiculous. There may be a conversation around giving major third parties like Google some kind of preferential treatment, but if Google is using the same uninformative tools as every other iPhone app developer, they had no clue when the app was coming. They simply couldn’t wait to get the news out.
Of course, most of this musing is pretty pointless considering the fact that the New York Times piece that broke this news to begin with said the app could be available “as soon as Friday.” Not “definitely, beyond a doubt, stick-a-needle-in-my-eye Friday.” Christ.
@Amaechi Hey I didn't call you a snob. I'm a big fan of good UI—I'm a Mac user! Tweetsville is just missing too many features.
@Amaechi Tweetsville has a good UI, but Twittelator Pro has the killer mix of features that I want.
Google said iPhone voice app "could arrive by Friday." *Could.* Now that it didn't, gReader is filled with empty editorials about why.
"Mr. Obama, however, seems intent on pulling the office at least partly into the 21st century on that score; aides said he hopes to have a laptop computer on his desk in the Oval Office, making him the first American president to do so."
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Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has to, Yes He Can - NYTimes.com
It blows my mind that Obama could be the first president to have a notebook on his desk. The fact that Bush reportedly sent all of two e-mails during his 8-year reign of destruction is absolutely astounding.
Despite computers and the Internet arguably being two of the most important inventions of all time, the "highest office in the land" apparently has yet to leverage them even in their most basic forms.
Saturday, November 15, 2008 4 days ago
@inkedmn I think you could also accomplish your Evernote forward with Mail Act-On plug-in.
Blankbaby: The Flip Mino HD vs. the Kodak Zi6
Scott McNulty devices a clever way to perform a same-time, side-by-side comparison of video from a Flip MinoHD and a Kodak Zi6. He captures some interesting differences, especially in terms of color capture, with shots both indoor and out.
11:30 PM
Jeremy | Pearl Jam | Music Video | MTV
Embedding one of the greatest videos from my youth for no other reason than I finally can. I never thought I’d say this, but: thanks MTV.
10:30 PM
Oops, I did it again. Took the case off my iPhone, now I don't want to put it back on.
@shadowbottle FF doesn't use the OSX-wide dictionary, or any Services for that matter. No keychain, can't drag pics into other apps...