Author Archives: Jeff Porten

“@mattyglesias: Job applicants keep using words I need to look up. Ratiocinative?” Ain’t seen nothing until you get to physiolognomisticularitated.

Uli Kusterer @uliwitness:
Gateway chocolate: The first chocolate you eat from a box that opens the floodgate to eating all others in the box.

@uliwitness My parents used to run a gateway chocolate *store*.

Jacqui Cheng @ejacqui:
That moment of panic when you think you put your iPhone in the clothes washer.

@ejacqui That moment of joy at Otterbox when they realize you’ve goosed their Xmas sales.

Jason Snell @jsnell:
Karateka is now out for iOS. Finally back on Apple hardware where it belongs! I played it on my iPhone — lots of fun. itunes.apple.com/app/id560927460

@jsnell Just spent $3 to see if the princess will still kick me in the head.

Dear anyone at CES: it’s not *that* important to me that I cover *you*, so it’s a bad time to make it difficult to get press credentials.

“@PennCurrent: Penn Libraries adds early American Judaica collection http://t.co/KJiLkjic @AskVanPelt” because 220-yo Jews are ADORABLE

“@lifehacker: Refrigerate cookie dough for tastier cookies with better texture: http://t.co/RJaBlhXh” // or just refrigerate and fuck baking

“@OEDonline: OED Word of the Day: Marchen, n.: oxford.ly/XMPV5H” // rare form of lycanthropy, full moon turns victims into drum majors

Can someone remind me if any IP-fu is needed to change the IP address of an OSXS 10.8 server? @bynkii?

John C. Welch @bynkii:
@jeffporten I think that’s a pretty well-documented process at this point. The gui should be fine

@bynkii thanks. Wanted you to confirm that docs were complete. Appreciate it, owe you a Macworld beer.

Geoff Duncan @geoffduncan:
Always puzzled why editing cookies in #Safari spikes all CPU cores to 100 percent.

@geoffduncan Xcode not optimized for chocolate chip and raisin handling. 10.9 will have NSOatmeal class.

Geoff Duncan @geoffduncan:
@jeffporten They’ll still be soggy: even with the 100%-on-all-cores feature, fans kick in and the oven still never makes it to 375°F.

@geoffduncan Try using a PowerBook 5300ce for extra crispy texture.

The Freedom of an Armed Society

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Excellent article on how an armed society is not a free society, from the New York Times.

The very power and possibility of free speech and assembly rests on their non-violence. The power of the Occupy Wall Street movement, as well as the Arab Spring protests, stemmed precisely from their non-violent nature. This power was made evident by the ferocity of government response to the Occupy movement. Occupy protestors across the country were increasingly confronted by police in military style garb and affect.

Imagine what this would have looked like had the protestors been armed: in the face of the New York Police Department assault on Zuccotti Park, there might have been armed insurrection in the streets. The non-violent nature of protest in this country ensures that it can occur.

As this came up in a discussion here with Brian Greenberg, here’s Daring Fireball’s backgrounder on Apple-Google negotiations over maps on iOS.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/12/14/blame-game Daring Fireball Linked List: The Blame Game

And the now-incredibly-trivial status update I came here to post: can anyone suggest a chain pizza restaurant with halfway decent food, and frequent discounts for we cheap bastards, that isn’t owned by a raging asshole? Papa John’s and Domino’s fail on the last clause (at least).