“@TheOnion: Study Finds 85% Of Americans Don’t Know Dance Moves To National Anthem http://onion.com/TdMHIq ”// YMCA rejected as “too gay” by GOP
Author Archives: Jeff Porten
This has always bugged me
Why Do Paper Cuts Hurt So Much?
Short answer: fingers have lots of nerves and you use them a lot. The fingers, that is.
Just discovered the Unicode character PILE OF POO: 💩. If that’s not a happyface dogshit for you, try here: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/02/unicode-character-pile-of-poo-u1f4a9/ …
Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
A Seattle Times reader says incoming iPhone 5 calls over Bluetooth not recognized in car integration. True? I don’t have this setup.
TJ Luoma @TJLuoma:
@GlennF I keep waiting for them to fix it in a point release, but really this is stuff that they shouldn’t be breaking anymore.
@TJLuoma @glennf Data point: I just attempted to play music through a BT mono headset. iPhone refused to send it there.
Kevin van Haaren @kvanh:
@jeffporten @TJLuoma @glennf bt headsets can register as a stereo device or just a mono headset. One plays music, one doesn’t.
@kvanh @tjluoma @glennf <Latella>Oh. Never mind.</Latella>
Already trying to use Instapaper gestures in The Magazine. @glennf, maybe you should hire that guy. Or am I missing a setting?
A tweet from @glennf just reminded me to subscribe to @TheMagazineApp, so his Twitter time now paying off at $1.6411152987e-5 per tweet.
Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@ginatrapani That is interesting insight. What did you think about Serenity’s “superheroes” piece, though? Did that have that “you should”?
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani:
@GlennF answer to your question: No, that piece did not have the “should” tone to it.
Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@ginatrapani to contribute if they didn’t pitch (had this problem in tech conf biz). Now, I just do it. It’s what’s needed
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani:
@GlennF yup, exactly
Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@ginatrapani I agonize less about inclusiveness as I age. I just include.
@GlennF @ginatrapani This male self-identified feminist is having trouble with the idea that “should” voice is necessarily masculine.
Sam Harris: It is always now
Cosi
Ballston Common Mall
Whatever the fuck an “intelligence engine for driving content monetization” is, someone wants to show me one at CES.
Starbucks
I’m the guy in Seinfeld, aren’t I?
Gift from a very thoughtful client, but I think my wallet could probably stop a rifle round.
Apple Space Cadets
Mike Elgan over at Cult of Mac suggests that Apple should build a satellite iPhone.
Just to give you a sense of scale and proportion, Apple could probably buy any one of the existing satellite phone providers for less than $3 billion. (Apple has more than $125 billion in cash.) Better yet, Apple should develop it’s own high-speed, high-capacity global satellite network, which it could do for less than $5 billion, I would imagine. Note that running its own satellite system would be expensive. But it would make Apple a wireless carrier, and a global one — for decades.
Personally, I think it’s a nifty idea for Apple to get into the carrier business, especially as a market-disrupting force that covers international boundaries. But satellite is an insane way to go about it.
First and foremost, the speed of light isn’t fast enough. Getting data to and from low-earth orbit adds latency to all data requests and incoming replies. It gives an overall impression of slow connections, even if the actual transmission is speedy. And forget about gaming.
Second, a $3 billion investment in satellites is something you generally have to repeat every few years when you upgrade the damn things.
Third: think you have trouble getting signal indoors now?
That said, fantastic idea if Apple decides to go with a new technology to do it. I’ve been enamored of mesh networks for a long while, where every device is a router for every signal. Stick a couple fat pipes into a city, put a mesh router on every iPad and iPhone (hell, every MacBook too), and boom, you’ll have the best coverage you’ve ever seen on any network, with minimal installation costs. Contract out a failover to an MVNO, and you’re done.
Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
I don’t block people typically because I don’t like what they say. I block because they fill my @ mention stream. #unmentionables
Scott McNulty @blankbaby:
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Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@blankbaby UNFOLLOW SATURDAYS IS MY NEW TRADITION #US
@GlennF @blankbaby Oddly, the Talmud DOES have an opinion about unfollowing on Saturdays.
Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
I’m feeling based on MSM coverage alone that shift on NRA has happened. Has someone published an expose on their finances?
@GlennF same “shift” happened after Columbine. Without major legislation, it drifted back to status quo.
Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@jeffporten Not like this. I remember NRA getting a pass b/c everyone freaked out by political will.
Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
We have friends whose family is so photogenic their Christmas card could be the photo that comes with a picture frame.
@GlennF I guess picking out gifts for them is pretty simple then.
Kevin van Haaren @kvanh:
I have 15 apps on my phone for timing, alerting or reminding me. I still fail at time management. I even regularly use about 5 of those.
@kvanh ever read The Now Habit?
Kevin van Haaren @kvanh:
@jeffporten I’m still reading Driven to Distraction, don’t try and change what little focus I have!
@kvanh make that the next one. Neal Fiore.
“@stephenfhayes: Paul Ryan ally tells me talk of Ryan challenging John Boehner for Speaker is “crazy.”” // like that stops GOP?
Kelly Guimont @verso:
Last weeks TV is still available! 37″ Samsung tv, $200. First reply gets it. pic.twitter.com/pUKWKzDW
@verso FIRST reply? But I wasn’t bidding, I was just scratching my ear!