Noted

Amazonia

Apple Cinema Displays

Mac Pro

At all Cost

“these companies are like cancers, driven to grow at all cost”

Wow, Joel just made a nice comparison something that succinctly frames something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately.

111 days ago · Comment

Somedays, I'm just driving along

And I think, “Jesus, does Vint Cerf just walk around with a smile on his face all the time? How many feats of engineering scale as long and as far as TCP does?”

299 days ago · Comment [1]

Spider

Quite possibly the best thing I saw in Telluride: Spider

(not for the faint of heart)

315 days ago · Comment

Desired iPhone Feature: Audio Source

Life with iPhone is splendid, no real complaints.

There was a near miss as mine broke the other day and had to take it in to the Apple Store — things went pretty smoothly because I’d bought ProCare a while back, but I would imagine that had I just dropped $600 on a phone which broke within 2 months of owning it and walked into to be told “There were no more appointments, try again tomorrow,” things would have been suboptimal for everyone involved.

One nice improvement would be for Apple to allow you, when connecting the phone to the Mac, is to be able to use the speakers and the onboard mic as outputs and inputs on your Mac. It’d be so much nicer than constantly switching between two sets of headphones throughout the day.

359 days ago · Comment

acts_as_marching_band

until management.pissed? do |band|
  band.perform_bawdy_song!
end

Photo by James Duncan Davidson

458 days ago · Comment [1]

How I Scroll

Friends, this is what you do.

First, get yourself a nice Logitech MX Revolution (I recommend Amazon). The MX Revolution is great because of it’s satisfying weight and ultra-nice scrollwheel that allows shifting between disciplined clicky-scroll mode, and ultra-fast gyroscope holy-crap mode.

Then, buy1 a copy of Steermouse

Configure Steermouse2 so:

You’ll also want to drop down to the command-line and re-enable the manual click-to-freescroll action in the MX:

defaults write jp.plentycom.SteerMouse LOGITECH_MX_REVOLUTION_WHEEL -int -3

1 The built-in Logitech drivers for the Mac are crap: marketing won and they don’t allow you to remap the useless i-search button on top; nor can you make a change to the default application settings that is ‘inherited’

2 You better not be crying about the $20 you just spent. We’re Mac users, we are willing to pay for nice things.

467 days ago · Comment

Honk if you love Jesus (and tofu)

From Mark, photographer of the 404 image that graces our pages.


Also, WTF? Really: WTF? Bohemian cafes closed on Easter? Whose side are these people on? The conversation ten minutes ago went something like this:

Them: Thanks.
Me: Yeah, thanks. See you tomorrow.
Them: We’re closed tomorrow.
Me: Huh?
Them: Yeah. It’s Easter.
Me: It is?
Them: Yeah. Easter Sunday.
Me: Tomorrow?
Them: Yeah. Tomorrow.
Me: And you’re closed… all day?
Them: Yeah.
Me: ...
Them: Really.
Me: For Easter?
Them: Yeah. Tomorrow. It’s Easter and we’re closed.
Me: C’mon.
Them: No, really. We’re closed.
Me: Really?
Them: Really.

So much for waving the Black and Red. I guess now that they’re observing blue holidays they won’t be selling alcohol or serving gay people anymore. Oh, wait. Never mind.

Charlatans. Cowards.

500 days ago · Comment

Denver's East Siii-eeed

I feel so young and urban when I say ‘dis.’

have fun with that.

what, it’s not working? I don’t look like I’m from the mean streets of chicago, hustling my way up through the seedy drug underworld?

man, I don’t even know where to start with a response on that

532 days ago · Comment

The Wisdom of Gladys

“I need to stop being such a dick.”

”...”

“Well, you know what they say, ‘I love Jesus, but I hate a little’.”

533 days ago · Comment

On Overhearing "Diggnation"

“What is this, Gilbert Gottfried teaches children about the Internet?”—laloque

534 days ago · Comment

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