October 2008
96 posts
the downside of brash fact-checking via Google on the iPhone: proving yourself absolutely, unarguably wrong
September 2008
74 posts
Woke up this morning with the Run DMC version of “Walk this way” firmly stuck on ‘repeat’ in my skull
OMG product love: put a new black uni-ball onyx micro pen thru the wash with like $900 worth of clothes … cap stayed on, pen didn’t leak
if I spent this much time staring at any other 15” (diagonally measured) rectangle, they’d have me committed to the asylum
alive, not kicking
WHEN TWITTER IS DOWN →
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late sat nite mtg: 3 macbook pro c2ds, 1 macbook pro, 1 macbook air, 2 iphones, 1 touch … it’s a #*@(#ing apple store in here.
max, upon resoundingly beating me at Uno, “that’s what I call pwnage!”
OH: “no weapons of mass destruction on the [breakfast] table? awww”
Parallels: to run on 10.5, pay $49 to upgrade. VMware: upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0 is free. $79 for VMware - $30 rebate = $49 = winner.
cmd-a and cmd-q are but a keystroke away from each other
my IM usage is already starting to taper off due to twitter, tumblr, facebook, and all that … and the daily YIM spam isn’t helping
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Got up early to strategize/plan while (our slice of) the world is still quiet; watching the sun come up as I scribble in my GSD book
And today? Another 3:15 in the car. I should just become a cab driver and pick up a few bucks while I’m out and about anyway.
Somehow managed to spend four hours driving around today. Me and dinosaurs, real tight.
At meet-up at AOL office. They have no WiFi that I can see. Go figure.
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WatchInteresting, but not entirely convinced. UI looks like a mash-up between a T-Mobile Sidekick and the iPhone. I’ll have to get my hands on one to check it out.
15,000 starbucks x 1 itunes plasma each x 350 watts x 18 hours/day = a bunchload of electricity that could be better used … cooling beer
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REVERIE →
An independently-produced video by Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet using the Canon EOS 5D Mark II pre-production. Impressive camera.
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My college: “$25 or more to the 2008-09 Annual Fund, get this great 256 mb USB Flash Drive”. Next they’ll offer me a monogrammed floppy.
abandoned shopping cart behind office. has 800 nbr to return, but no answer sunday. big client mtg tomorrow. push to store, or relocate it?
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beautiful mottled light filtered between leaves of trees slips into office, macbook auto-adjusting screen brightness and making me INSANE
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listening to (cough) Marillion Fugazi in a facebook-reminded, nostalgia-induced, amazon z-stores-fueled, itunes-ripped bit of insanity
ATT call center: “you may be asked for your wireless number again for security purposes” - nice punt on “our systems aren’t coordinated”
co-working at home with @eriktoth and @ilanawesterman - looks like an Apple store in here, but with pizza and wine
things kids ask and google answers: world pop of horses versus world pop of VW bugs. Answer? 60M horses alive in 2000; 25M bugs built.
when i was a kid, man, cracker jack had like a million peanuts in each bag, and people hugged in the streets, and birds didn’t poop
enjoying the new @twitter layout - love it when people put time into the details of the aesthetics
writing succinct case studies/project summaries for createwithcontext.com by imagining they’ll need to fit in this here Twitter text
My dinner companions should buy carbon offsets for their fresh-daily Alaskan salmon… Uh oh, californificated again.
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and for dessert, some tasty dextrose, diglycerides, polydextrose, and inulin (“dietary fiber”) … chocolate and vanilla flavor, of course
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