I am finally up-to-date on New Yorkers. One in the gym bag for boring knee-induced elliptical sessions, and one on top of the toilet. And that’s it. This is the first time since two weeks after the first issue arrived. That’s it. No back stash for plane trips, no pile for taking on climbing trips. […]
I have an alarm clock (which I love) which wakes me up by turning on a daylight spectrum light, dim at first, then brighter, and then by playing the sounds of birdsong, quiet at first, then louder. But in a completely foreseeable turn of events, now I wake up whenever it begins to get light, […]
For me, 2014 was the year of the Mountain Goats. It’s what I’ve been listening to, and was the best concert of the year for me. I did one Mexico trip (also one the fall before) and two Maple trips, spring and fall. Also the Cathedral near St. George. Locally, I spent most of the […]
Tagged OTYDoes it mean anything that TUAW and MacOSXHints both went away in the past year?
The amazing thing is: none of his colleagues were suspicious of anything until the cop drove to the station house in a Ferrari. Seriously. He made enough money being a corrupt cop in the pay of organized crime to be able to afford to drive a quarter-million dollar red supercar, but none of his colleagues […]
Wow. I wonder who Petraeus pissed off, and how? It can’t just be his lack of OpSec. Is it really just puritanical? Lots of generals, and politicians, have affairs. I suppose the crime is to be stupid and get caught, but the punishment is usually just what he already got – sent to a high-paying […]
There’s phantom ring – you imagine that your phone is vibrating. There must be some name for the phenomenon of phantom read. You glance at the subject line of a complex technical email on your phone, and you think that you’ve read it. But you haven’t really.
And it looks not unlike a snowy mountain on earth. Millions, perhaps billions, of these impacted earth in the early solar system and donated that snow to our planet. No humans necessary at the destination (cough, asteroid return). It seems to be enough for humans to build the robots and analyse the data sent back […]
I give it six months [1] before Amazon launches Amazon Purse [2]. Then Microsoft with Windows OLPv3.1 [3]. [1] one Friedman unit in warfare, but an eternity in internet time [2] Pay and Wallet have been taken [3] On Line Pay
I was literally just thinking I hadn’t had a flat in a long time. As I pulled away from the intersection, my tire was completely flat. One second full, the next empty. There’s one in every car, you’ll see.
He told them what he was going to do, and how he was going to do it. Oh, wait, that’s the Babe calling his shot. Here’s SJ in 2007, calling his shot: SJ took Alan Kay’s dictum seriously, unlike Microsoft, and Dell. People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. And […]
For years, airlines have been shrinking seats, and the space between seats, to the point where even reasonable people can't stand it anymore. Flights are being diverted because people are arguing over leaning the seats back. Three times in a week. This is just the free market at work. Airlines try to maximize profit by […]
It used to be if, for whatever reason, I was short of poop bags for the dogs (brought N, needed N+1 for whatever number, including 0, meaning I forgot), I could walk one house in either direction and “borrow” one from a neighbor. Meaning, I’d take their newspaper out of the bag, put the newspaper […]
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Will the Apple Watch not scratch the bezel of my MacBook Pro? Because my Tag-Heuer does. That's the reason I stopped wearing it. Because I kept taking it off to work, and that, my friends, is a recipe for me losing an expensive bit of kit that I love, but no longer wear on a […]