- Joshua Ellis:
Yes, it’s wonderful you’re using this medium to read nebulous unverified eyewitness reports of something. McLuhan says have a cookie.
Author Archives: Jeff Porten
Tell me again about the compassion thing
Sorry about your Mom. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
Ohio Catholic High School Fires Gay Teacher For Naming Partner In Mother’s Obituary
When her mother died in March, she included her partner’s name in her obituary, and apparently an anonymous parent thought that was sufficient reason to complain to the Diocese of Columbus. Hale told the Colmbus Dispatch that the school then fired her a week later.
Note to self: no baseball caps until Boston suspects are caught, because I’m pretty sure I have the same skin tone as the very fuzzy photos.
- Glenn Fleishman:
“My name is Favor single girl. I seek for a trustworthy and honest partner.”
@GlennF send her to me. I’m 43 and lowering my standards.
App Helps Icelanders Avoid Dating Family
This is briefly amusing before it becomes rather disturbing.
Dating can be tough in a small country like Iceland. There are only 320,000 people and many are distant relatives. So the government created a genealogy website.
@chartier Am I right in thinking that a brute force attack on 1Password requires access to the hardware?
- David Chartier:
@jeffporten Or a copy of the data file.
- David Chartier:
@jeffporten Feel free to email if you have more questions. DC @ the company I work for.
@chartier That’s what I thought. Many thanks. Switching over a client, needed to answer their tech ?s. Will follow up as needed.
@chartier I follow you, feel free to d me your address so I have it on hand.
- Melody Kramer:
What’s an average bedroom in Washington go for, rent-wise, these days? Meaning a share of an apartment. Anything under $1000?
@mkramer Depends on proximity to Metro. Group housing usually avail in $800 range.
- rik panganiban:
Really sunny on my balcony right now. I need a deck chair! #fb
@rikomatic But it’s San Francisco, so I’m thinking deck chair with umbrella quick-release.
- rik panganiban:
@jeffporten more like a comforter when temperature drops 20 degrees.
“@GeorgeHrab: Anyone who claims to have intestinal fortitude is probably full of shit.” // The riddle of the sphincter
- Chris Breen:
It saddens me to lose followers over NRA tweets. But looking on the bright side, it means more hillbillies have learned to read. #yesmean
@BodyofBreen This may be generous. We all have text-to-speech these days.
- Chris Breen:
@jeffporten True, but it’s hard to power that technology with cow pies.
- Glenn Fleishman:
Interesting email from outfit that is helping to crowdfund movie theater upgrades to digital. But they don’t provide enough background info.
@GlennF I’d be surprised if any theaters have enough community support. Most of ones I know switched to profit/poor service long ago.
A Google News headline I don’t need to click on
- Jon Seff:
iMovie, why can’t I hide you when you’re exporting a movie? And why do you beep at me when I try to move your window out of the way instead?
@jonseff Guessing: hammers CPU so much that most folks will hate multitasking? Does Spaces work?
- Jon Seff:
@jeffporten Haven’t tried it in Spaces, but that’s a good idea. Still so much stupid about iMovie.
CERT warning re Boston Marathon scams
http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2013/04/17/Scams-Exploiting-Boston-Marathon-Explosion
Malicious actors are exploiting the April 15 explosions at the Boston Marathon in attempts to collect money intended for charities and to spread malicious code. Fake websites and social networking accounts have been set up to take advantage of those interested in learning more details about the explosions or looking to contribute to fundraising efforts.
3rd law of hotels: no matter how many towels, and how few of you, there’s always you dripping in the shower, all the towels in the bedroom.
- Jesse Spector:
There’s actually a George Carlin joke about that. RT @seansamberg: how do they throw out garbage cans?
@jessespector @seansamberg My favorite: how do you wash out the bucket used to make a homeopathic remedy?
- Melody Kramer:
A summary: http://sfy.co/jI6C
@mkramer What’s amusing me is that your police scanner report came through just as everyone was redacting the prior report.
- Glenn Fleishman:
My mother in law’s mouse stopped working. We put in a new mouse, plugged it into USB. It can scroll but not click. I’m baffled.
@GlennF My guess, something is being interpreted as a permanent mousedown. Check internal USB in system report?
- Glenn Fleishman:
@jeffporten Not permanent mousedown: I can remote access and it works fine with mouse plugged in.
@GlennF You can click through remote access, but not from the hardware? Check behind closet door for Rod Serling.
- Glenn Fleishman:
@jeffporten I know, I know. Something died. I may actually need to reinstall the OS.
@GlennF How about disconnecting the mouse, and using universal access to click with the keyboard?
- Glenn Fleishman:
@jeffporten Havne’t gotten to that point yet (I’m not on site)
@GlennF Reinstalling the OS is for losers. It will be much more satisfying to take the next three days of your time to solve this problem.
- Glenn Fleishman:
It’s like Mac OS X lost the notion of clicking. Mouse pref pane has nothing weird. I even installed MSFT Mouse software for new mouse.
@GlennF If it were me, I’d be firing up AppleScript and using system events to fire clicks.
- Kevin van Haaren:
@jeffporten @GlennF keyboard maestro one of your function keys to a mouse click
@kvanh @glennf I never use time-saving software when I can write an AppleScript in only six hours.
