2010-02-28
| 07:21 |
RT @counternotions: Stephen Wolfram: "If I can't understand something, then it's probably nonsense." (Now you know why WolframAlpha sucks.) |
| 10:28 |
RT @BonesMcCoy: I just ousted Khan Noonien Singh as mayor of Ceti Alpha Five on @foursquare. |
| 14:09 |
NSFW, but why does this Disney keychain have so many parents upset? http://bit.ly/bvqFkX |
| 20:29 |
If tramp stamps are tails, I guess vajazzling is heads, if you'll pardon the expression. I prefer unaugmented, thanks. http://bit.ly/9vAmsq |
| 20:57 |
@mikefulton It's like a Bedazzler for one's vagina. Seriously. |
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2010-02-27
2010-02-26
| 06:07 |
Yelp: "We can fix your reviews. For a fee..." Or so it is alleged. http://bit.ly/aPTi2Y |
| 08:13 |
Never thought of that: Gigi is Lolita played as romantic comedy. http://bit.ly/arXTs0 (NSFW image on page.) |
| 11:03 |
AT&T emailed me about expanded availability of its 3G microcell. Sadly, I'm not in that expanded area. Raise my hopes, will ya? |
| 11:12 |
Ick. This ad may be appropriate for CNN's health care summit coverage, but still I say ick. http://bit.ly/bBkJCo |
| 16:41 |
I've met Walter Koenig at conventions and at a Mensa function. My heart goes out to him and his wife for their loss. |
| 17:37 |
@ScaperSuse Well, sure. We had no chance. Canadian women have blades implanted into their feet at birth. |
| 20:40 |
RT @BreakingNews: Inmate serving three life sentences pretends to be cellmate due for release, walks out of Baltimore prison -- AP [Wow.] |
| 20:57 |
@barryeisler There's sex tomorrow in Florida and you're stuck in New York? For shame! |
| 21:00 |
@barryeisler I'm imagining. And it's hard. Very hard. |
| 21:26 |
Presented without comment: RT @VictoriaDahl: Good Christ this night is going down faster than one of my heroes. |
| 21:31 |
@VictoriaDahl I'd say beware the ides of March, but they're still a couple of weeks away. Besides, who can resist such good material? |
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2010-02-25
2010-02-24
| 07:07 |
Took all night, but my MacBook is back to life. Thanks to Apple Support, Migration Assistant & Time Machine for the easy (but slow) restore. |
| 09:16 |
RT @paulandstorm: Download our song "Lose the Gonads" for FREES to celebrate the Humane Society's Spay Day! http://is.gd/90WOv [Ewwww!] |
| 15:32 |
Finally started work on my taxes, only to be stopped by my brokerage, which won't have my 1099 ready until 3/15, maybe even later. |
| 19:27 |
At the @svtweetup. Life is strange when you're a shy extrovert. |
| 20:34 |
RT @ebertchicago: The decline of talking like you're intelligent and sincerely care. http://j.mp/bZfKpa [Inspiring, ya know?] |
| 21:36 |
Thanks to @VictoriaDahl and @HeatherOsborn the appeal of curling becomes clear. Also its religious overtones. http://i.imgur.com/7tVxW.jpg |
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2010-02-23
| 08:22 |
Journalistic objectivity means reporters can't say Tea Party Movement is based on nonsense. http://bit.ly/cRiG9H |
| 09:58 |
Used to get InfoWorld for free and thought it was a waste of (no) money. Tech journalism's an oxymoron. http://bit.ly/dkNH7P |
| 14:30 |
That was quick. Apple just called; my MacBook is ready to be picked up. Not even 24 hours after I dropped it off! |
| 16:54 |
Migration Assistant estimating disk restore time at 11 hours and change. Gonna be a long wait... |
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2010-02-22
| 13:02 |
Not a good day. My Macbook decided to give up the ghost. Appointment at Apple Store this afternoon, but I am not optimistic. |
| 13:49 |
On the bright side, everything's backed up on my Mac Mini. So whether restored old Macbook or brand new one, I should be whole again soon. |
| 14:36 |
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Yoo & Bybee, meet Dr. Fadl. http://bit.ly/adffmj |
| 15:46 |
At the Apple Store, early of course. And they took me right away. |
| 16:20 |
I love Apple service. My 2.5 yr old Macbook gets a new hard drive, twice the space, and new plastic for the keyboard area. Cost to me: nada. |
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2010-02-21
| 06:26 |
Good wrap up on Kevin Smith v. Southwest. In brief, SWA screwed up & then lied about it. Not much LUV here. http://bit.ly/d6UMtN |
| 16:34 |
Why putting Flash on the iPhone and iPad would just make things suck. No, not that reason; this one: http://bit.ly/9DTLR3 |
| 21:53 |
@renatojr_rj While you've been trapped in PHX, I've been enjoying etouffee and blackened tilapia and a good chardonnay. I think I win. |
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2010-02-20
| 07:39 |
Just registered for Romantic Times in April. Now I need to work on my road trip plans. |
| 08:06 |
Swiss brothels train hookers to work defibrillators, just in case older patrons get overstimulated. http://bit.ly/bdzCkF |
| 08:38 |
"Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus." -Bob Rubin |
| 08:53 |
RT @CraigyFerg: Today is the birthday of Copernicus. The first man to prove the world does not revolve round Tiger Woods. |
| 09:30 |
@reduced Stanfurd? |
| 11:57 |
First it was Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. Now Quirk Classics to bring us Android Karenina. http://bit.ly/9CbMMm |
| 21:27 |
RT @ebertchicago: http://twitpic.com/1497b9 - Mother and daughter not welcome back anytime soon at Disneyland. |
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2010-02-19
| 13:06 |
Forum member dared me to ban him. Do I need to tell you what happened next? |
| 21:22 |
RT @ebertchicago: And if the Austin suicide pilot had been an American Muslim fed up with the IRS, how would Fox News have covered that? |
| 21:30 |
RT @ebertchicago: Mr @ZALESKI4CONGRES tweets: "@ebertchicago another morron." Spelled "another" right, short on "Congress," fail on "moron." |
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2010-02-18
| 12:31 |
Duke study confirms what I learned a long time ago: most women want nothing to do with short men. http://bit.ly/9mkRUJ |
| 14:11 |
Forum spammers are scum, and contemptible scum at that, but how stupid would I have to be to authorize a user named Lesbian Porn? |
| 14:14 |
NPR's Wait Wait... on how to improve the Winter Olympics. Pretty much everything's better with flaming death. http://bit.ly/d2f7Dk |
| 19:45 |
A brilliant piece, both for its advocacy of compromise in the Middle East and its hostility to Titanic. http://bit.ly/9KNQay |
| 20:15 |
Isn't it strange how my train pictures don't get the kind of reaction my glamour pictures do? Is a puzzlement! http://bit.ly/dnuss2 |
| 20:44 |
Wikipedia on vampire traits. Count Chocula's weakness is that he becomes soggy in milk. http://bit.ly/aEJxZ6 |
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2010-02-17
| 05:53 |
15 unfortunately placed ads. Wonder how many of these were intentional... http://bit.ly/6Tfsw |
| 08:05 |
Via @barryeisler, a soldier's view of why repealing DADT is no big deal. Honest, funny and smart: http://bit.ly/aehs5O |
| 09:07 |
@ScaperSuse I wondered why I hadn't seen you online, Suse. Glad it's just your computer that's out of action and not you. |
| 09:23 |
Why you should never turn your back on your refrigerator, a cautionary tale for children: http://bit.ly/ck5w5l |
| 14:08 |
@JustaSunGod I set up my Citibank card with autopay years ago to deal with just such situations. I hate paying fees I could have avoided! |
| 14:16 |
Why the iPad may totally kick butt: http://bit.ly/cHhAnX (Most software designed by people who think Emacs is a reasonable user interface.) |
| 14:22 |
A comparison between the iPhone & Windows Phone 7. Am I biased in thinking WP7 got it all wrong? http://bit.ly/cd689Y |
| 14:37 |
From Ouray, Colorado, an object lesson in the importance of punctuation: http://yfrog.com/1esuvkj |
| 14:39 |
It's times like this that we wish web designers were an endangered species (as in, I'd like to endanger a few myself). http://bit.ly/dg2KrD |
| 15:43 |
RT @maddow: Admiral Mullen @thejointstaff on "what's really going on at the deck plates" http://is.gd/8xu5W |
| 19:33 |
What is it about trains that fires the imagination? Is it just boys and our toys or is there more to it? http://bit.ly/dnuss2 |
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2010-02-16
| 04:08 |
At Durango Airport. Too early; even TSA still asleep. |
| 07:01 |
On the plane in Denver. And suddenlyit looks like we'll be here a while. |
| 07:19 |
Delay due to fog in San Francisco, just like our flight here on Friday. |
| 11:01 |
Just landed at SFO. Need food! That Oh Henry just wasn't enough! |
| 18:31 |
Just started editing pictures from the weekend. First few up on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/disorderly/ |
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2010-02-15
| 07:24 |
Beautiful day in Durango. Train pulling out now. |
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2010-02-14
| 08:56 |
Just arrived in Telluride. Let the photography commence. |
| 11:42 |
Bye, Telluride. That was fun. Next stop, Ouray. |
| 13:08 |
Jim: "They have a slighly less gay hat in the sports store here. But it's 25 bucks! Not sure my ears are worth it." |
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2010-02-13
| 08:31 |
Waitiing at BART for an SFO-bound train. First flight delayed. Hope they hold the Durango flight for us. |
| 08:32 |
Chilean mint director fired after coins that misspelled country's name are issued - BBC http://bit.ly/b2Nsc6 /via @BreakingNews [Hee!] |
| 11:21 |
On the plane. Next stop Denver, I hope. |
| 14:09 |
@JustaSunGod On my way to Durango to ride the train. |
| 14:32 |
Mad dash to our connecting flight, but we made it! |
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2010-02-12
| 05:51 |
A name I never thought I'd see again. Worked for these guys during the dotcom bubble. Oh, the stories I have... http://bit.ly/aNaqkI |
| 06:03 |
Trying to record podcast lines. First the heat comes on. Then it cuts off, but the fridge starts up. Waiting... |
| 06:28 |
Lines recorded. Okay, now you can make as much noise as you like. |
| 06:49 |
A post on my writer friend's forum made me think about ghost towns. Here's more than 140 characters on the subject: http://bit.ly/bPvhTw |
| 08:32 |
@KateRothwell It certainly does! I *love* Avenue Q! |
| 10:23 |
Headed to SF for Macworld. The first one without Apple, and maybe the last. |
| 11:22 |
AT&T sucks as much as ever, but Macworld finally has it's act together. Got through registration in about a minute. |
| 11:22 |
As if a million tiny iPhones cried out, and were suddenly silenced. |
| 11:23 |
Now I know I'm at Macworld. My 4 bars of 3G just turned magically into 1 bar of Edge. |
| 13:33 |
Strange that the bigger the Mac platform becomes, the smaller Macworld gets. Done with the exhibit floor in less than an hour. |
| 14:47 |
My friend @barryeisler (yep, name dropping again) gets his first Huff Post post, about torture in fiction and non-. http://bit.ly/d9qxQF |
| 15:26 |
Ex-Microsoftie asks, "How can Apple make a better Windows machine than any Windows PC maker?" Good question. http://bit.ly/cESULe |
| 15:32 |
To a man with only a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Bill Gates on the iPad: http://bit.ly/anCc5C |
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2010-02-11
There's something fascinating about ghost towns. California and the
Southwest are riddled with them: places that thrived once but now are
either empty or a shadow of their former selves. Bodie's an extreme
example; it was once the second or third most populous city in the
state, but went into a swift decline after the silver mines turned
unprofitable and shut down completely after a couple of fires took out
most of the place. Now it's a state park, and well worth a visit.
There are also the towns that avoided what seemed inevitable, former
mining towns like Bisbee, Arizona and Eureka, Nevada that prosper at
tourist attractions to a greater and lesser degree respectively.
I was on tour on the South Island of New Zealand when I encountered
Avoca, a town that was down to one long abandoned house. It was on
the route of the Tranzalpine Railroad, and was built to serve the
railroad workers. As each section of the track was completed, the
town and all its buildings were moved on to the next location.
Finally it was done, and the remains of the town were dismantled. All
but this one last house, which I guess nobody thought was worth
moving. So it serves (or served) as a flop for the occasional
squatter, and a reminder of a place that used to be.
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| 08:31 |
The Daily Show: "Unlike many of today's hostage-taking religious extremists, (Senator) Shelby has no problem with pork." |
| 13:41 |
After two wrong numbers, I hope the caller's finally realized she has the wrong frelling number! |
| 13:48 |
Wow. Bare essentials indeed. http://bit.ly/aQhcuI |
| 13:51 |
Dear Jenny McCarthy: It's not censorship when you retract bad research. It's called the scientific method. http://bit.ly/cqzsmV |
| 14:08 |
What fresh horseshit is this? iSuppli estimates parts cost of the iPad without ever seeing the insides of one! http://bit.ly/dmunbO |
| 14:30 |
Huh. Sarah Palin wears a memorial bracelet for her undead son. Talk about unclear on the concept. http://j.mp/aoJ5Az |
| 17:24 |
Can we find money in the budget to buy park rangers a clue? Expensive camera != commercial shoot. http://bit.ly/bam8N3 via @richcirminello |
| 18:34 |
Started working my way through Scott Kelby's 7-Point System, a Photoshop book. Hoping it'll help me improve my postprocessing. |
| 19:27 |
@JackieKessler RT? I can't wait! |
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2010-02-10
| 07:42 |
Poor Beaker gets no respect. http://bit.ly/cKgFmj |
| 10:08 |
Packed and ready to go on my Durango train adventure. What? Whadayamean I don't leave until Friday? |
| 10:13 |
Okay, that's weird: Harper Valley PTA covered by a Norwegian band, with video from the (TV?) movie. http://bit.ly/aCaIbM |
| 11:44 |
Via @ggreenwald, TNR full of crap re: Andrew Sullivan. Disagreeing with Israel not automatically anti-semitic. http://is.gd/81Vm4 |
| 14:44 |
Watching Sarah Palin recap on The Daily Show. Is it my imagination, or is she looking older and rounder and uglier? |
| 15:13 |
Wow! Just got an email that my podcast is featured on Zune.net! I'm sure that'll bring us tens of new listeners, if not fewer! |
| 15:49 |
As someone who endured torture as an enemy combatant, why does John McCain have such a hard on for the torture of enemy combatants? |
| 19:43 |
Fun to see how @ebertchicago is pissing off the Tea Baggers. http://j.mp/bUeBBa |
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2010-02-09
| 06:26 |
That's new. Flash player just crashed in a Facebook game. Good news is that Safari just keeps on truckin'. |
| 09:01 |
I guess when your only interviews are with the assholes at Fox (Foxholes?), you can get away with just about anything. http://bit.ly/90EhBL |
| 10:59 |
Think of it as evolution in action: http://tinyurl.com/y8hzn6x (from @allieslavin via @marthaflynn). |
| 11:09 |
Isn't it ironic? Snack food review site http://www.taquitos.net is covered in those asinine "how to get a flat belly" ads. |
| 12:07 |
RT @FakeAPStylebook: Jurassic period: 199.6 - 145.5 million years ago, or October 24, 4004 BC, 12:17 PM - 3:44 PM for Creationists. |
| 12:18 |
The best Super Bowl photo EVER! http://bit.ly/dvigHp |
| 16:21 |
For anybody who wonders if anti-Semitism persists, a review of An Education provides context: http://bit.ly/axMB15 (via @ebertchicago) |
| 20:50 |
RT @StephenAtHome: Note to self: buy milk, pick up dry cleaning, write core beliefs on hand. [Is this a new thing with Repugs?] |
| 23:02 |
Perhaps it's good that I'm watching my spending, or I'd go crazy buying stuff like this Gakken Premium Gramophone. http://bit.ly/bBgIyM |
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2010-02-08
| 08:29 |
Really, Sarah? $100K to speak and you couldn't afford better than notes written on your hand? http://bit.ly/a4cimo |
| 15:12 |
@MsCaliLogan So? Jimmy crack corn and *I* don't care. Well, I might, if I had any idea what that means... |
| 15:22 |
RT @paulandstorm: Mordor favored by 3 due to recent finger loss by The Shire's QB F. Baggins [Really? In that case, may have to watch.] |
| 20:16 |
I'm such a traitor. Voted for @Decoder_Ring at http://www.chronicrift.com/node/821 even though I'm part of another nominated podcast. |
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2010-02-07
| 07:23 |
RT @ebertchicago: Enlarge this and read why tea-baggers should flee from Tom Tancredo's call for voter literacy tests. http://j.mp/dvoJgF |
| 07:46 |
Amazon's tough tactics with publisher Macmillan nothing new, says Author's Guild. Read about it at http://whomovedmybuybutton.com/. |
| 11:27 |
Shooting with Shelby. She's wearing a bikini that's illegal in 12 states. |
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2010-02-06
| 07:52 |
Miss generic product wrapping? Here's a plain wrap airplane for you, with instructions! http://bit.ly/9AVDDe |
| 09:26 |
Colbert: "If you are an hermaphrodite, it is physically impossible to be gay, because they have a full set of both toolkits down there." |
| 10:31 |
Hey, news guys: *this* is breaking news. Literally. http://bit.ly/9FYVy1 |
| 18:40 |
Shot with a pretty French Canadian model & played sound engineer for friend's documentary. Now waiting for dinner with tomorrow's model. |
| 19:41 |
Hmmm... Getting together for dinner on a Friday night sure is a popular idea... |
| 19:47 |
Oh, Jon. How could you believe for a moment that Fox wouldn't cut the life out of your O'Reilly appearance? http://j.mp/aXsD5j |
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2010-02-05
| 07:59 |
Dropped my car off for service. Like the game, I'm afoot. |
| 09:57 |
Okay, I can handle it. Which of the 9 annoying Facebook user types am I? http://ow.ly/13E2z (Thanks to @angelajames via @VictoriaDahl.) |
| 10:27 |
Watching last night's Daily Show. "Flaming decrepitude"? I'll have you know that I resemble that remark! |
| 10:36 |
Please, California Repugs, I'm beggin' ya: nominate Carly Fiorina for Senate. We need more campaign ads like this. http://bit.ly/9L3GSL |
| 11:51 |
Will someone please put a mirror in front of McCain's mouth? I think he's dead, or maybe just brain dead. http://bit.ly/dlUADO |
| 17:49 |
Via @ebertchicago, life under Socialism from someone who experienced it. "You keep using that word..." http://j.mp/aCCPoU |
| 18:55 |
The drive to Villa Montalvo is spooky dark in the rain. @reduced better be worth it, goldarnit! |
| 19:07 |
Small theater. The view from row N isn't half bad. BTW, tonight's @reduced troupe is Reed, Matt & Michael Faulkner. No Austin, alas. |
| 22:06 |
Back from Shakespeare @reduced. Great fun, and mostly worth having to drive in heavy rain. Can't wait for the Sports show! |
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2010-02-04
2010-02-03
| 09:33 |
I got 37 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:58 |
RT @ggreenwald: The Supreme Court's habeas corpus decision, in pictures: http://is.gd/7yNIl |
| 12:06 |
For those who wonder what a Flash-less world could look like, a small example: an Imperial Walker animated in CSS. http://bit.ly/9DL20s |
| 13:50 |
Chair of Joint Chiefs has a Twitter account, and he isn't afraid to use it. (DADT must go.) http://bit.ly/akgqA8 |
| 15:53 |
How much does it bug McCain that the world has passed him by? On gay soldiers and so much more... |
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2010-02-02
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| 07:47 |
I love Amazon, but their unilateral block of all products from one publisher makes me glad I don't/won't own a Kindle. It's abuse of power. |
| 08:20 |
Valleywag tries to explain why, when the Right tries to be funny, it mostly just comes out mean. http://bit.ly/9ScclN |
| 08:30 |
John Gruber on why the lack of Flash on iPhone/iPad has Adobe running scared: http://bit.ly/ahwB6H It's not as bad for users are they say. |
| 17:32 |
Editing the pictures from today's shoot. There's something about a redhead... |
| 17:50 |
Two days of whining gets Stephen Colbert an iPad. Now that's power! http://bit.ly/9fkRsm |
| 22:14 |
@VictoriaDahl You leave the theater before the credits are over? Philistine! Besides, you might miss something important. |
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