Author Archives: Jeff Porten

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
Brewster Rockit: Curiosity meets Opportunity. Awk-ward. gocomics.com/brewsterrockit…

@GlennF Now you’re reminding me of the xkcd that made me cry.

@JoshBaltzer @jdalrymple Technically, you’d throw Canada under a sleigh.

Josh Baltzer @JoshBaltzer:
@jeffporten @jdalrymple just the poor ones. Anyone with frozen nickels has upgraded to a skidoo. You didn’t catch that on CNN? Big exposé.

Jim Dalrymple @jdalrymple:
@JoshBaltzer @jeffporten See, now that’s not bad. He’s coming along.

Chico can @chicocan1:
@jdalrymple any guy doing a “duck face” in his picture isn’t worth it cc: @JoshBaltzer @jeffporten

Josh Baltzer @JoshBaltzer:
@chicocan1 @jdalrymple @jeffporten one of my parents is half Canada Goose asshole.

@JoshBaltzer @chicocan1 @jdalrymple I had already guessed you were half loony.

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
Temple of Doom has similar plot to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

@GlennF I love the scene where the pastor rips out Dick Van Dyke’s beating heart.

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
My homework today has been watching Indiana Jones (while a little sick) to be ready for @theincomparable Live taping in Montreal this week

@GlennF Montreal? What con?

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@jeffporten Çingleton. Neat developer event. Sold out when advertised to alumni of first year!

@GlennF Hmmm. Montreal is easy to get to (for long bus trip values of easy). Wonder if I can wangle a pass?

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@jeffporten alpha.app.net/gte/post/770301 next year!

@GlennF in Jerusalem?

Peter Cohen @flargh:
@jeffporten @GlennF Longer bus ride.

@flargh @glennf It’s not the length, it’s the humidity.

Peter Cohen @flargh:
@jeffporten @glennf That’s what she said.

@flargh @glennf And I said, “Long bus ride, we’ve got to occupy ourselves *somehow*.”

Peter Cohen @flargh:
@jeffporten @glennf “Hey lady, need a snorkel?”

@flargh @glennf That’s when you *get* to Israel. “A shekel for a snorkel” is a common euphemism.

Jim Dalrymple @jdalrymple:
It’s so cute that Canada insists on Thanksgiving before the U.S.

It’s like a Google event before Apple. It happens, but nobody cares.

Jason Snell @jsnell:
@jdalrymple Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, Jim! And merry Canadian New Year.

@jsnell @jdalrymple It was very kind of the Canadians to split the difference between the Gregorian and Hebrew new year.

Adam C. Engst @adamengst:
Wait. So if I use this 2D code thing, I can perform a 1-step process in 3 steps? Big win! ;-) @GlennF pic.twitter.com/QvEd78G2

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@adamengst So…you could otherwise just go to nytimes.com?

Adam C. Engst @adamengst:
@GlennF Right – or if you must have the NY Times app, just get it, rather than getting another app and scanning a code to get it.

@adamengst @glennf You can save a step if you have a CueCat, and the Lightning to 30 pin to CueCat adapter.

Adam C. Engst @adamengst:
@jeffporten @glennf Damn, where did I put my collection of CueCats? Oh right. I left them somewhere in the mid-90s.

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@adamengst @jeffporten I have a CueCat and a Nazbagtag. Agen has a Kerblango. I figure we make $1m in a few years from Smithsonian.

Lisa Spangenberg @LisaSpangenberg:
@GlennF @adamengst @jeffporten Dare I confess that I still use a USB CueCat to catalog books in LibraryThing?

@LisaSpangenberg @glennf @adamengst Well, now you know that you can contact Fleishman & Things next time you need spare parts.

Shawn King @ShawnKing:
Jesus CNET. Please hire a copy editor for Matyszczyk: “I was walking up Market Street when I discovered a trend I had yet to witness.” WTF!?

@ShawnKing That’s a major problem in San Francisco: wild snuffalupatrends running around everywhere.

Peter Cohen @flargh:
Have successfully made the transition from lifetime coffee drinker to tea drinker. Soon I’ll start cramming for UK citizenship exams. ;)

@flargh I assume that you now sound like every adult in Peanuts cartoons, and you’re retitling to “Somewhat Miffed Mac Bastards.”

Shawn King @ShawnKing:
“B&O Asks: What If Captain America’s Shield was a Speaker?” Proof that B&O asks some really stupid questions… yml.me/OdFeZY

@ShawnKing “Now with vibranium for truly deep bass.”

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
Biden rocks. barackobama.com/news/entry/kee…

@GlennF That’s one hell of a picture.

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@jeffporten Made me cry!

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@jeffporten It’s also not propaganda as such. Being used, but Biden is just that way. So decent.

@GlennF That’s my take as well. Beau was a classmate at Penn, but I don’t think I’ve met him.

Jason Snell @jsnell:
My kids and I just got some dragon help from a fellow in a white robe. I am going to just assume it was @siracusa.

John Siracusa @siracusa:
@jsnell I’m every white robe. It’s all in me.

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@siracusa @jsnell “Those old stories with wizards — they all turn out to be HIM.”

@GlennF @siracusa @jsnell But to be fair, most of the KKK visits were First Doctor.

John Siracusa @siracusa:
Remember, @jsnell, you’re only as old as the number of years you’ve been outside the womb. Happy birthday—forget about those other 9 months.

@siracusa @jsnell Apparently, the rules for human aging are the same as when you take the comic book out of the Mylar.

Melody Kramer @mkramer:
The only type of verbal passage I’m having trouble with is philosophy. I’d like to read some more of it. Any recommendations? I want dense.

@mkramer Start with Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy. Excellent and approachably written.

@flargh @jdalrymple This is why I’m on Twitter: so a discussion between Mac journalists can trick me into looking at giant dog balls.

John C. Welch @bynkii:
I finally found a video format Adobe Media Encoder can’t handle.

Peter Cohen @flargh:
@bynkii YOU BROKE IT. THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS.

John C. Welch @bynkii:
@flargh I DID NOT. SCREENFLOW KEEPS FAILING TO EXPORT! I’M TRYING TO FIX THINGS! YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND ME, YOU NEVER UNDERSTAND ME AAAUUUUGH!

@bynkii @flargh Funny, but the last 584 times I’ve heard this, someone was trying to get pirated porn on their iPad.

John C. Welch @bynkii:
@jeffporten @flargh LMAO. Not in this case.

September search report

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Been a while since I did one of these… search queries that dropped people off here.

  • peep with no head: By far the top search, bringing in more hits by itself than the rest of the top ten combined. I have no idea why it lands people here.

  • certificate: yes, 5 people showed up here on this one word alone.

  • 2012 space war conspiracy: I am #2 out of “about 14,100,000 results”. Nifty.

  • george bush body double: #3. Yeesh. Here’s what page #2 has to say on the subject:

George Bush’s double was promiscuous, while George Bush is a pedophile.

  • bush administration due process: Once again coming in at #3.

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
Republicans should have had a lock on this election, to be honest, even if you don’t blame (as I don’t) Obama for economy.

@GlennF I can’t think of an actual Republican who could pull those numbers.

Glenn Fleishman @GlennF:
@jeffporten Romney, 2004 edition.

@GlennF If that were true, Huntsman would be debating Obama.

“Switzerland is protective of the 3 things they are famous for: clocks, chocolate, and Nazi collaboration.” cheapapplewhores.com/?p=75

Nadyne Richmond @nadyne:
The problem with giving a talk is afterwards, people come up and tell you how great it was, and inside you’re convinced that they’re crazy.

Darby Lines @Angry_Drunk:
@nadyne Imagine what it’s like meeting AMB fans in person. @bynkii @flargh

Peter Cohen @flargh:
@Angry_Drunk @nadyne @bynkii We don’t need much convincin’. They all ARE crazy.

@flargh @angry_drunk @nadyne @bynkii I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that when you invite us, it’s a bar, and you’re there 1st.

Nadyne Richmond @nadyne:
@jeffporten – Not just there first, but have already been drinking for 2 hours.