December 15th, 2009

The Best Flag in the world 

http://kottke.org/09/10/the-best-flag-in-the-world#

Forget all that “truth, courage, beauty” stuff. We want a flag that explains exactly what our country’s all about.

Whackin’ off heads.

You got a problem with that, Mr. Liberal? Looks like it’s time for some old fashioned patriotism! Say bye-bye to your head!

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Gaaaaah! My eyes! My poor, poor eyes! What is that…that THING? And who in their right mind would put it in their entertainment center? When does the hurting stop?

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As near as we can tell, it started having problems more than a month after the staple was put through it.

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“there needs to be a good reference online for the etymologies of idioms.”

No, seriously, I really want one. I don’t care if it means I’m a total geek.

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Oh, don’t I wish.

Wait, no, actually I don’t. That thing is hideous. Expensive, but still hideous.

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November 28th, 2009

NaNoWriMo 2009: I won! 

With two days to spare, This picture gave me the good news. NaNoWriMo: It’s a rush.

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Oh man, everyone on earth needs this keyboard. IT’S MADE OF TINY SCREENS, YOU GUYS!

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This has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Instead of selling digital media DIGITALLY, we’re going to pack it into a strange plastic thing, which will be a pain to keep in your house and sell it to you that way. Come on, Beatles people! Just sell your stuff on iTunes and Amazon like the rest of the world and stop being so, so OLD.

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November 3rd, 2009

The First Server I Actually Like 

Oh man I want one of these! If I only had an extra $1000…I would spend it on something else, like food or mortgage, obviously. But if I needed a server and had $1000 to buy it this would be it.

OSX Server is an excellent platform, once you get used to its eccentricities. I would almost start a small business just to get to use this as my office server. :)

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A few days ago my colleague and I were having problems getting warranty service on a machine we support. The problem was that we would see the problem, document the problem, send the machine in, they would sit on it for a few days, declare it fine and send it back.  This was getting stupid our client was starting to think that we didn’t know what we were doing. Finally, we struck upon a great way to visibly demonstrate the problem without going down to the repair center and hitting them until they gave us access to their workbench: we faced one of the iMacs in our office towards the problem child PC, opened Quicktime, and told it to record from the iSight camera.  Then we demonstrated the problem, with commentary, and emailed the movie to the support team. And their bosses. 

Yes, there are more convenient ways to do it. Yes, there are more elegant iSight recording programs out there than Quicktime. If you have any of those, feel free to use them. The point is that it’s no longer all that hard to demonstrate exactly what’s wrong with a system instead of trying to explain those “funny box things on the screen” that the techs can’t ever seem to see.

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