Was just reminded of a dream last night in which I played 3-6 limit poker using bologna sandwiches as chips.
Author Archives: Jeff Porten
?@romanmars: Waking up with “88 Lines About 44 Women” in your head: good omen or bad omen?? // Probably better than waking up with 44 women
Was just reminded of a dream last night in which I played 3-6 limit poker using bologna sandwiches as chips.
- Glenn Fleishman:
The Fitbit has been wonderful at motivating me for two things: remembering to keep moving during the day; destroy @lexfri.
- Kirk McElhearn:
@GlennF @lexfri But don’t forget, a treadmill step is only a half a real step because the treadmill moves. I do 10K real steps a day.
@mcelhearn @GlennF @lexfri Don’t worry, Kirk, English weather and cuisine will cut that by two-thirds in no time.
- Peter Cohen:
Putting a white Apple logo sticker on your car is basically telling thieves “break in, there’s an iPhone or iPod in here somewhere.”
@flargh Putting a rainbow Apple logo sticker on your car is basically telling thieves, “Dude, need an 8-track?”
- Peter Cohen:
@jeffporten “I’ve got Foghat and Seals & Croft!”
RIP Jim Henson
Ricky Gervais reminds me on Twitter that today is the 23rd anniversary of Jim Henson’s death, so passing along the photo he tweeted in memoriam:
Lots of tweets from WH press room. No problem with journos bitching, so long as they *also* tweet when they’re treated very well.
I’m pretty much a dilettante journalist, but even I get my ass kissed pretty often.
Modern Zeno’s Paradox: 1.5 mi to Starbucks. Need Starbucks for the walk to Starbucks. Will it take infinite time to arrive?
- Melody Joy Kramer:
Random door at geographic. http://instagram.com/p/ZYTPQxAbWh/
@mkramer always assumed they’d all be marked NE or SSW.
- David Chartier:
I?ve worked with PCs for nearly two decades, built em for a long time. Still get a little worried when a hard drive spins up or down.
@chartier It’s not the spinning, it’s the whirring noise. That’s the problem with SSDs, I need a new reason to panic.
- Brett Kelly:
Coffee shop wifi is broken and my iPhone refuses to pair with my laptop (for tethering) and I?ve decided I want to become a farmer.
@inkedmn Bluetooth pairing usually fixed by rebooting both devices. Easier than mucking around in Terminal.
- Glenn Fleishman:
I tell @TheMagazineApp writers to build a non-fiction narrative, but that requires non-fiction. That is not asking a source to invent things
- Jeff Carlson:
@GlennF @TheMagazineApp A journalist should never ask a source to invent things. That’s the journalist’s job! #doingitwrong
@jeffcarlson @glennf @themagazineapp Thanks to the Internet, fabricating evidence is usually much easier than actual research.
Modern Zeno’s Paradox: 1.5 mi to Starbucks. Need Starbucks for the walk to Starbucks. Will it take infinite time to arrive?
Software with taste
Tipped off by Daring Fireball: I’m amused by the feature list of Party Monster, a DJ app for iOS:
Maybe a problem with the wahrter?
- Ryan Kelly:
Going to sound cray cray, but Hack lost this match taking Cruz out.
@ryankelly This tweet just made @thorntonmh and me think, “the Senator?”
?@nytimes: All NYC police are reminded that women may go topless http://nyti.ms/19u6RUb ? // I think NYT has tweeted this 8 times today
Look up Childrens Hospital (the TV show) on your Mac… get a Google Now card on phone saying 10 min drive to Children’s Hosp. of Philly.
Look up Childrens Hospital (the TV show) on your Mac… see a Google Now card on phone saying 10 min drive to Children’s Hosp. of Philly.
- Dan Moren:
Kind words from @jcenters about recent @Macworld pieces, including two I shepherded. http://cl.ly/OzG8
- Dan Moren:
@jcenters @Macworld You could say that I?ve infected the staff.Like a staff infection. Or not.
@dmoren @jcenters @macworld If you are drug-resistant, you are endangering us all.


