- Josh Centers:
Boggles my mind how quickly some people are to attack Snowden and defend the NSA.
@jcenters Always the case. Can’t think of a single era in US history when the whistleblower wasn’t pilloried first.
- rik panganiban:
Apparently Kiev and Ukraine in general are not top tourist destinations. No maps or guides at B&N. hmmm. #fb
@rikomatic pretty sure there’s a Rough guide for there.
- Kevin van Haaren:
I got 99 problems and they?re all goddamn dns
@kvanh Try a problemmask of 0111111.
- Lex Friedman:
Damn you autocorrect? http://moby.to/3ou37w
@lexfri iOS Sieben?
“@BoobsRadley: STAN RIZZO TOPLESS OH MY GOD OH MY GOD” // Don’t know who this is, but probably better than Frank Rizzo.
- Comic Book Resources:
“Iron Man 3” Director Shane Black to Realize Dream with “Doc Savage” Film http://on.cbr.cc/10r52rJ
?@CBR: “Iron Man 3” Director Shane Black to Realize Dream with “Doc Savage” Film http://on.cbr.cc/10r52rJ ? // Try not to name it John Carter.
I traditionally buy a bucket of popcorn, but $8 flipped the Jewish bit to zero.
- Jesse Spector:
FINAL: Blackhawks 4 (Hossa, Handzus, Bickell, Frolik), Red Wings 3 (Eaves, Andersson, Bickell). On to Game 7. Penalty shot the difference.
@jessespector Coincidentally, Blackhawks vs. Red Wings was also the last major battle of the Permian extinction.
- erika owens:
Up next week: Uncle Tom’s Cabin with the races of the actors reversed. And then maybe never going to a theater ever again.
@erika_owens Facebook tells me that a college classmate is performing in Lend Me a Tenor. Might help if you need a palate cleansing sorbet.
- erika owens:
@jeffporten hmm, i think i need a break, but hope the run goes great.
@erika_owens I just found a review raving about the show. Might have to go see it.
Twentysomething Jeff on JATO rockets
- Mike Monteiro:
Just saw World War Z. Nice to see Philadelphia getting the respect of being blown up in a summer movie.
@Mike_FTW I’m still impressed by the Twelve Monkeys memory of elephants stampeding outside Franklin Field at Penn.
- Philip Michaels:
The Secaucus Seven & Seven: Sprite mixed with Old Spice aftershave. #JerseyCocktails
@PhilipMichaels Add a few Irish Spring shavings and it’s called a Pine Barren.
- Daniel Jalkut:
The Hyperloop would be a low-reward target for passenger-borne terrorism. Can?t redirect. Blow one up? The other pods automatically brake.
- Peter N Lewis:
@danielpunkass automatically brake – and then what? You’ve now got hundreds of people stuck in capsules in a 100km tube?
- Daniel Jalkut:
@peternlewis Good point. I guess that?s what beta testing is for ;)
- Peter N Lewis:
@danielpunkass I’m trying to work out the throughput of the system. Seems to be around 450 people per hour, which doesn’t seem like a lot?
- Kevin van Haaren:
@peternlewis @danielpunkass ars technica put it at 890 people an hour.
@kvanh @peternlewis @danielpunkass Seems to me that throughput is easily increased in v1.1 of the pods.
- Peter N Lewis:
@jeffporten @kvanh @danielpunkass 840/hour is certainly more reasonable. LAX does 13K/day domestic. Not sure what the I5 does LA<->San Fran
@peternlewis @kvanh @danielpunkass Based on Megabus in Northeast, demand will expand if they price for capacity. Nearly all buses run full.
- Ryan Kelly:
If you want a vision of the future, imagine Barry Manilow’s microphone jammed in a human face forever.
@ryankelly That’s… creative.
- Ryan Kelly:
@jeffporten “Capitol 4th.” Walked through crowd jamming mic into terrified faces for singalong & waved them off when they didn’t know lyrics
- Quinn Norton:
It’s bad to sleep on the subway with two large bags, right?
@quinnnorton Actually, that’s near the top of the list of large things on the subway to sleep with.
- erika owens:
“the more things change, the more they stay the same.” There. Now you don’t have to see “Reasons to Be Happy.”
@erika_owens Remove the quotes from this tweet, and it reads like Fortune Cookies of the Damned.
- erika owens:
@jeffporten ha, that’s great. I’m just bummed. I was expecting some gut punching and just left muttering “wtf was that?”
@erika_owens I’m unfamiliar with either play and had to Google to figure out what you were talking about. Were you in NYC?
- erika owens:
@jeffporten yeah, passing through. Highly recommend the first. Highly. A whole lot. Enjoyed 2 more hours of it tonight, but had higher hopes
- Brett Kelly:
I need a Mac app to create a podcast (create XML, upload media, etc.). Podcast Maker is out of date. What?s your favorite?
- Josh Centers:
@inkedmn At @TidBITS, we use a Doug Adams AppleScript called PodBOT to handle all of that. :-)
@jcenters @inkedmn Best thing about Doug Adams’ AppleScripts is how they wrap the whole thing in a Somebody Else’s Problem field.
- Rich Siegel:
Unreproducible bug has been reproduced and squashed flat. /flex KNEEL BEFORE ZOD
@siegel You forced it to mate before dying? What kind of bug was it, a mantis?
- Rich Siegel:
@jeffporten I said “reproduced”, not “duplicated”. I’m not *completely* heartless. :-)
- Greg Knauss:
@jsnell @glennf _I_ heard that Glenn is Marco fifteen years from now, travelled back to correct the devastation the Magazine will wreak.
@gknauss @jsnell Listen, @GlennF can’t be bargained with, can’t be reasoned with, doesn’t feel pity, and will not stop until you are read.
- Glenn Fleishman:
@jeffporten @gknauss @jsnell I will not be numbered, filed, collated…