the body of a very slow loop
I bought AAPL before earnings and, wow was that a colossally dumb move. Ouch, I just lost a MacBook Air.
On the plus side, today I reached my goal of 30 consecutive pull-ups by my 30th birthday. My twenties don’t end until April, so this was a pleasant surprise.
Just witnessed the following hilarious exchange at work:
Anton: Why don’t you like dogs?
Wendy: Well, I just don’t. Do you like brussels sprouts?
Anton: Yes.
Wendy: OK, well, do you like turnips?
Anton: Yes, if they are cooked right.
Wendy. Well I might like dogs, if they were cooked right.
Microsoft Research’s brand new building has a smart parking garage. It knows how many spaces are available on each level and displays this information at the garage entrance.
It bugs me when people say “in lieu of” where they really mean “in light of”. The former means “instead of”. This makes for some really bizarre phrases. Here’s an example:
…particularly in lieu of your recent citizenship…
Next time you accidentally close a Firefox tab, whip yourself out a ctrl-shift-T.
Undo close tab. Awesome.
There’s been some talk lately about GUI focus-stealing:
I have definitely been bitten by the focus-stealing pop up. Once I unintentionally rebooted my PC (during the early days of Windows Automatic Updates). I was mad as hell. Another time I accidentally typed part of my password into an instant-message window and sent it. GRR.
I think the Firefox team has done great work in this area, and I’m surprised nobody has mentioned it so far. Here’s a screen shot:
See the install button? There is a “3…2…1″ countdown before it gets focus. Brilliant.
Please people, I implore you: steal this idea.
These have been bugging me for a while now:
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This program is available for podcasting at npr.org
My local NPR affiliate says this all the time, and it drives me nuts. I want to scream, “No! No! If it’s available you’ve already podcasted it!”
Wikipedia is a great source of beautiful desktop backgrounds. There are hundreds of high-res pictures, all IP-unencumbered in one way or another.
Check ‘em out: normal, widescreen.
I recently whipped up some scripts to grab the entire set of widescreen images and told OSX to randomly choose one every 30 minutes.
Update 9/08:
Apparently moved here: normal, widescreen.
I’m a smug little prick. Here’s proof:
Kassidy:
My cooking class is tonight. Can you be home by 1800?
Mark:
18-12=6
OK. Yea, 6pm. I can do that.
Kassidy:
Learn the 24-hr clock. It’s superior.
Mark:
I disagree. I think the 24 hour clock falls short. We need a 168 hour clock. Why waste all this time saying “Wednesday at 1600″ when we could just say 8800?But really, why stop there? Lets just adopt the Unix standard of time since the Epoch. FYI, it’s currently 1193939547.
See you around 1193964747.
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