• rik panganiban:
    True story: tonight’s date ended when she told me she had to go home to “wash the dog.”That said, I had a fun time and I think she did too.

I just spent minutes wondering how your date ended three hours ago when it’s only 11 PM PST, before I realized I’m also in PST.

MIT and DOJ are both down, apparently in retaliation for Aaron Swartz. Which, um, takes balls of steel, to DDOS the frickin’ DOJ.

  • UberFacts:
    The Finnish work “pilkunnussija” means “comma fucker” and refers to someone who believes it’s their job to point out all spelling mistakes.

  • Glenn Fleishman:
    Here’s how maddening Winer is. I pledged years ago to never comment on him publicly. But this was so dickish, I had. What a small man.
  • Kontra:
    Did Aaron invent outlining? Indeed the notion of hierarchy and temporal aggregation? How then can he have any claims to RSS?
  • Glenn Fleishman:
    No, not at all. It’s a long story. 0.x versions preceded 1.0 and evolved into 2.0

There were years of competing standards. IIRC, Winer’s strongest claim is that term RSS won out.

  • Josh Centers:
    Tonight, I’ve discovered what Catholic guilt truly is. Thank God for every day you have on Earth.

No offense, but I’d rather thank the researchers who saved my life in 1969.

  • Josh Centers:
    I thank them as well. :-) Sounds like you have an interesting story.

  • Michael Shane:
    Anyone who was there will tell you: Las Vegas is a seltzer wasteland. A nightmarish post-apocalyptic hell world devoid of fizzy water.

Next time, try Chipotle on the Strip next to Harrah’s. There’s a soda button on the dispenser.

  • Glenn Fleishman:
    Officially: K.I.T.T. or KITT? I mean, MASH was M*A*S*H. My house style is “no periods in abbreviations.”
  • Dan Moren:
    KITT! No periods needed if it’s not going to be confused with a word!
  • Glenn Fleishman:
    Says _you_. I was trying to find out how they spelled it in the series; if they ever showed KITT’s name.

The way I remember it, it was printed with periods on the dashboard in-show.

  • Roberto Baldwin:
    “Puppy!” “Don’t look At the puppy…” “Ok” Not looking at the puppy has been the hardest thing I’ve done all week.
  • Heather Kelly:
    Idea! What If CES companies replaced booth babes with puppies? They’d get so more attention. From me anyway.

clearly, SOMEONE needs to sit down and watch the entire Underdog series.

  • Rob Griffiths:
    This should be required equipment in every hotel room. Three power outlets and two USB ports on the desk.

or you can buy that adapter at Walgreens for $17.95.

  • Rob Griffiths:
    But then I’d have to remember to bring it…and I already have enough trouble remembering to bring the other stuff :)

I have a small number of things that go with me 24/7. That’s one of them.

  • Glenn Fleishman:
    If someone took my words, shorn of my byline and my permission, from a random place on the Web, they would be attacked for piracy. (1/2)

not that “attacked for piracy” has any teeth unless you have a battalion of lawyers.

  • Dan Moren:
    This astronaut ice cream tastes too much like astronaut.

Haven’t figured out if you’re on the CES team, and if you are, where the hell are you getting astronaut ice cream?

  • Dan Moren:
    I am not. I happened to have a pack in my house.
  • Glenn Fleishman:
    It always tastes to me like a bad joke played on children by parents and NASA.

  • Jason Snell:
    This episode cold-opens with a cool away mission with Worf and Riker fighting alien creatures. Cool! “Holodeck off.” BOOOOO.
  • Glenn Fleishman:
    Post-CES hallucinations?

I swear, I saw *FIVE* convention halls.

  • Rob Pegoraro:
    That moment at CES when the boarding pass for tomorrow’s flight home shows up on your phone. Yay!

tomorrow? Only way I survive the week is with a poker vacation after.