February 2012
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Dear corrupted filesystem: you thought I didn’t have a backup? You thought wrong! Muahaha!
August 2011
2 posts
June 2011
1 post
Pink Noise...: Still troubled by my run-in with... →
prrosado:
It’s been several hours since I had some straight-out-of-central-casting wannabe gay-bashing knuckleheads (draggers?) threaten to kick my ass for being “a f**got”. My guess is it was a reaction to the coverage of the NYS senate’s passage of the same sex marriage bill and the many Pride weekend…
April 2011
1 post
All The Rest Have Peanut Butter
Growing up with Phoof and Sparkle; A chronicle.
February 2011
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January 2011
1 post
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Apple iPhone/iPad/iPod Remote Tips
The free Remote app and the inexpensive Keynote Remote app are both stable and fast, assuming you’ve got them working on your network. Many folks have had difficulty getting past the authorization screens of both iTunes and Keynote (and any other iPhone-to-app sync programs like Delicious Library), even when meeting the requirement that the host computer and the iPhone are on the same...
November 2010
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October 2010
6 posts
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Remembering Benoît →
Dr. Mandelbrot was my neighbor during my childhood and I recall meeting him a few times in front of his house, puffy hair doing its own thing, while he mowed his lawn the old-fashioned way: a push reel lawn mower. The guru of fractals (and many other things) was quite human—just a neighbor—but, like so many folks in my overachieving town, had the aura of a kind of genius even someone unfamiliar...
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Family Members on the Witness Stand
As a former (and probably future) juror, I have some brief advice for lawyers: don’t put family members on the witness stand. Their testimony is worth less than zero and the jurors know that; further, they might even hurt your side of the case by exaggeration, obvious bias in favor of the relative, and effusive praise on their side and disdain and contempt on the other.
I’ve been on...
June 2010
7 posts
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iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G
I jailbroke it. Of course. I need my iBlacklist, Apple. Aside from the new directory structure that I’ll be scouring over the next few days, there were a few things I like about the new software:
The UI is snappier. Apps and screens respond faster with rare jitter.
The ‘folder’ concept makes short work of getting to apps. Fewer touches = good.
Geolocation appears to be...
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Carly Fiorina at HP
A senior sales & marketing exec at HP told us, a very large HP customer, during Carly’s tenure that she drove marketing into the ground to the point that if HP had to sell caviar, they’d market it as “cold, dead fish eggs.”
Oops: 'FML' meme now plastered on NY subway →
There’s a DEP notice attached to my door that water will be shut off from 11 PM to 7 AM Friday night for work related to Atlantic Yards. I wonder if there’s more to come…
Remember: the desiccant in the bottle is not for eating.
Headline Fail: "American-Made Cigarettes May Be...
That’s right: American-made cigarettes have more cancer. Thank goodness they’re not more carcinogenic.
Cleaner Sidewalks
I think they’re replacing all the parking meters with muni-meters in my neighborhood. In their place: bike racks. Unfortunately, the bike racks are installed in such a way as to place the bikes parallel to the road, blocking the car doors from opening or people from easily getting into or out of their cars. So… fail.
May 2010
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April 2010
3 posts
The pellicle “fabric” on Aeron chairs shreds my jeans.
Gorilla Reborn?
Gorilla Coffee is still closed, but with the furniture and seating moved off the main floor it looks like they may be, to paraphrase 30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy, “reinnoventing.”
March 2010
2 posts
“On the eve of the big vote, Republican members of Congress warned that “freedom...”
– Paul Krugman
An old joke
What’s the difference between Heaven and Hell?
In Heaven the chefs are French, the engineers are German, the bankers are Swiss, the police are English, and the lovers are Italian.
In Hell the chefs are English, the engineers are French, the bankers are Italian, the police are German, and the lovers are Swiss.
February 2010
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A Postscript from In Our Hands Rescue to Animal...
In Our Hands Rescue wanted to send out a follow up for those of you who may have watched the show on Animal Planet last night.
We were disappointed that our message did not get out in the way we had hoped. After many many hours of filming the rescue efforts to save the 20+ dogs from Missouri and the countless interviews….
They did not air the full story. Benji was found under a bridge...
“What the Scientologists know and no one else knows is that the Haitians are sitting atop the largest source of unobtanium on Earth. The Scientologists will sell this material to Apple which is what their iPads will be made of. Duh.”
December 2009
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AA Flight 3: an older woman who spoke only Arabic (but spoke English at the gate) wouldn’t let the guy in the seat next to her be seated. Then she started chanting prayers and being wacky. So the cops came on board and removed her. Good times.
I overheard this outside while some kids were playing: “I’m gonna git you, Messiah!” That’s right: some kid is named Messiah.
November 2009
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“Most people who are watching TV are semi-catatonic,” U.S. Dist. Judge...”
– from New AT&T TV Ad More Misleading Than Verizon’s Claims
October 2009
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“Hatred does not make murder or assault worse; it only provides a motive. Hatred...”
– From New Light, Literal and Figurative, on Nazi Crimes
ITAR-TASS has complete coverage of the Nobel prizes except one. Guess which one.
September 2009
3 posts
I was listening to Ella Fitzgerald and briefly thought it was Wayne Newton. Oops.
“[T]rue individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. […] People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
eBay Sells Most of Skype, and Another CEO Runs for... →
The moral of my story is that another CEO who made a giant business mistake is running for office. Carly Fiorina, meet Meg Whitman! How many financially-disatrous CEOs are running for office? Both were economic advisers to the McCain campaign. And so was John Thain, who for the time being has crawled into a cave of shame.
August 2009
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RECAP, a Firefox plugin that frees PACER documents →
PACER is the US Federal Court system that allows electronic filing of documents. It’s open to the public and all the documents and filings are in the public domain but it’s not free to use. To the rescue comes Recap, a Firefox extension that gradually pulls the content from PACER into the intercloud so that once a document is fetched, anyone who looks for it can find it and access it...
July 2009
4 posts
The odd Haitian man sitting next to me with horrid breath tries to see what I’m typing.
Privacy screen, dude. All u gonna see is black.
“(But John Mayer is ignoring the fact that John Mayer is silly and dumb, a...”
– Paul Constant
Dear Sarah Palin,
If there are things Americans love, they’re quitters and losers. Congratulations on quitting the Governorship and losing the election. You’re the greatest!
Favorite apps for today: vlingo and VoiceBoxDial
June 2009
7 posts
Picking out a deck tile was surprisingly simple: wood on a metal substructure. Next up: installation!
Michael Jackson: under the veneer
Michael Jackson’s autopsy is going to be amazing.
Ross Perot said it best: “If your wife can’t trust you, why should I?”
It's official: New York State is a third-world... →
From the story:
The session turned chaotic as both parties refused to work with each other and essentially held their own separate sessions on opposite sides of the chamber. There were two presiding officers, two podiums, and two sets of bills being voted on. Republicans created their own podium in the middle of the floor and passed a number of bills, although it’s unclear if any of the...
Fred Phelps paid NYC a visit yesterday, or at least some of his brood did. Don’t they know they’re a week early? The NYC gay pride parade is next week. Oh, those hiliarious hatemongers!
“If necessity is the mother of invention, then the father is probably venture...”