July 2010
16 posts
“… penalize anyone who “hinders or impedes” fair use rights or...”
– US could learn from Brazilian penalty for hindering fair use
How-To: Combining Hazel and Dropbox to Automate... →
minimalmac:
Simply put, Hazel takes the idea of mail rules and applies them to the entire system. At its core, Hazel is a watchdog. You tell it to keep an eye on a folder, and if certain criteria are met, perform an action. We’ve covered Hazel before, but I wanted to focus specifically on combining it with Dropbox.
Hazel is one of those apps I need to eat my own dog food on and spend a few...
Best. Question. Yet.
Sacha: when's the due date?
Marc: Jan 9th
Sacha: do you know yet if it's a Mac or a PC?
Marc: bwahahahahahhaha
June 2010
12 posts
“Strangely, the orientation lock only seems to be able to lock the screen into...”
– Source: Ars reviews iOS 4: what’s new, notable, and what needs work
I suspect this is because not all apps, including the home screen, support landscape mode.
AT&T exceeded my expectations!
Mainly due to an expectation of total fail… instead, my phone was activated in less than 60 seconds. GOOOOOOAL!
Happy Father's Day!
goldshan:
Happy Father’s Day to my awesome dad and to one very special father-to-be!
And happy Father’s Day to my dad; hopefully I can be awesome for my child-on-the-way as he has always been for me!
Also, this.
Klingon, the NEW French.
AIM: ~ tom: Qu'est-ce? Merde! Pourquoi est-ce qu'il pleut?!
AIM: ~ graham: ?? :-(
AIM: ~ graham: That didn't work in the Klingon translator...
AIM: ~ tom: WHAT?!?!
May 2010
10 posts
Delicious dumplings
4 strips of beef bacon, chopped
3 shallots
2 celery stalks
2 chicken, spinach, garlic sausages, diced
About 18 wonton wrappers, store bought
Put the chopped bacon and finely chopped shallots and celery into a frying pan on med-low heat to let the celery and onions sauté in the bacon fat… Takes about 10 mins, then add the sausage (mine was precooked) and crank the heat up to give a nice...
“But what is z-index and jquery? wtf is that? who uses this nowdays? All you...”
– Cover letter in response to a job posting. I’m intrigued by his perspective, but not so much that I’ll pursue further.
“Hi Marc, This is Sam Perez. I’m wondering if you would see evil the blood...”
– Google Voice is better than Vogon Poetry.
April 2010
26 posts
Congress should recuse itself from... everything?
California Rep. Darrell Issa, top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said it was “nothing short of disturbing” that SEC employees viewed porn during the worst financial crisis since the Depression: “This stunning report should make everyone question the wisdom of moving forward with plans to give regulators like the SEC even more widespread...
“It’s been more than 2 weeks since I’ve had Captain Crunchberry; I...”
– Sarah to Keary
Tracking down an elusive bug
Sacha: wait wait, that's a new error message!
Marc: that's good, we've moved the needle.
Sacha: yeah, now it's in my left eyeball.
3 tags
Can't make this up:
AT&T called me to… well.. I don’t know exactly why. The call dropped.
Stolen or Abandoned iPhone?
I don’t see how Gizmodo can plausibly argue that they didn’t know, all along, that this unit belonged to Apple. Are they counting on Apple forgiving and forgetting once the unit has been returned?
— John Gruber http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/20/arthur
The story I read indicates that the guy that found it attempted the required “good faith effort” to return the phone. ...
Now THERE's a reason to learn chess.
I had no idea there was such a circuit, or that they played chess.
Made for each other
Marc: where's your iPad?
Shannon: under my pillow.
Marc: I'm posting that right now.
Shannon: why?
Marc: damn, but I love being married to you.