Season 1 of MacGuyver free on CBS.com! Very awesome
“Don’t tell me you can make a bomb out of chewing gum!”
“Why, you got some?”
22
Feb
Tonight… on MacGuyver!
04
Feb
Yes We Can
I hate to quote, link, and run but I’m going to do just that:
“We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check,” Obama said. “We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
14
Jan
Crazy pantsless people!
Whoa, I don’t know what to think of this whole no pants on the subway thing, but you’ve got to watch it all the way through.
14
Jan
Skeletooool!
My website notes that I’m turned on by style and functionality. Keeping that in mind, I hope you can understand why Leatherman’s upcoming Skeletool gives me a raging hard on. It’s simple, sleek, sexy and, oh yeah, carbon fiber.
Plus, I can introduce it people by saying “This is my SKELETOOOOL!” in my Skeletor voice.
Anybody who’s seen Radiohead, either live or in a video, is probably familiar with the particular way that Thom Yorke shakes his head. Rather than shaking or bobbing, it seems to rotate around a point, in the same plane as his body. Generally this also leads to his shoulders rocking back and forth to meet his head.
When listening to their newest album, I’ve been finding myself doing this exact same motion. I think Thom has found something akin to a resonance frequency in his music which has transmitted his waves to me. I wonder if this has anything to do with why the album kicks so much ass.
A Wired article asking “Who in Their Right Mind Would Run Safari on Windows?” got a lot of tech press recently. He complains that Safari sucks and that Mac users don’t even use it, so why would Windows users? I just want to address a few issue I have with it.
First off, I agree with a few of the complaints he has about Safari. I’ve found that it crashes too much. I’ve hit the close button on a window with numerous tabs and it closes without comment. It doesn’t offer a way to reopen the last page that you’ve closed (it has the history, but if the page was open a while ago it can be difficult to find). The problem with this is that they’ve fixed all of these problems in the new version of Safari. It could even be argued that the problems with Safari crashing are being fixed by the release of Safari on Windows (more users means more feedback means better product).
Plus, Apple has added some other really nice new features. One being a elegant way of moving tabs. Another being their beautiful inline page search. Private browsing isn’t new in Safari 3, but it’s always a good excuse for using Safari.
Finally, he says that the Windows browser space is too crowded for another major browser. It’s funny how that sounds like the sort of thing that Internet Explorer users would have said before Firefox became prominent. The group of Firefox users (of which he seems to belong) would say that more competition keeps the browsers involved both innovative and secure. I think that still applies.
12
Jun
Reading between the DIVs
I didn’t stop posting because I said I would take it easy on the Mac stuff and that Mac stuff is all I have to talk about. Things have been a bit busy lately and will likely be busy once more in the near future. For now though, I came up with something vaguely interesting to write about.
There are a number of things I noticed during Job’s keynote at WWDC, but one stuck out to me. When the iPhone was first demonstrated I noticed that zooming in on the NYTimes seemed to work perfectly. You double-tap on a box with a news story and it zooms it to make that box fill the screen. Similarly when Jobs was demonstrating the web clips feature in Safari at WWDC it highlighted boxes on the page when he moved the mouse around (something that didn’t happen in his previous demo of the feature). It seems Safari’s natural awareness of DIVs and (God forbid) TDs is being harnessed for the good of mankind. Neat.
03
May
Passported!
Look out rest of the world, here comes America! Fuck yeah!
03
Apr
Random churchiness
Perhaps you’ve heard about Apple and EMI striking the first blow to crumble the wall of Digital Rights Management on music. I really can’t comment on the blessed event itself without tripping over somebody else’s analysis. There is one tangental point to all of this that I think is very interesting: this move will be a big step in breaking the walls of Apple prejudice in the minds of geeks.
A name like Craftsman to a carpenter is like the names Microsoft or Apple to a geek and there’s generally a sense of product loyalty (or repulsion) with either. In the case of Apple, a lot of geeks are still biased against the company for their previous history of proprietary technology and the decline in the quality of their products during the late 80s and early 90s. Recently Apple has been doing a lot of things that have been gaining back the trust and the iPod and the Mac have demonstrated that not only can Apple create some really slick products but that they can also do it in a way that is thoroughly standards-based. The proprietary nature of the iPod and iTunes ecosystem tied together with DRM was one of the last major arguments left.
Oh, and in addition to my post of March 23rd, add AAC to the list.
Lastly, I promise no more Apple-based articles for a while. I need to branch out into things I know a little bit less of.
02
Apr
Self #6
So much to say! Let’s traverse the past week backwards:
- Visited the emergency room to check out an issue with my eye. I think it was from the impact of a bit of debris from a mulcher
- Visited a friend in Louisville and
- Played with (in a very serious, professional, and safe way) his compound bow
- Did some rock climbing at his gym
- Hung out with his adorable and very well behaved son
- Ate McDonalds (haven’t done that in about 10 years and I don’t plan on doing it again any time soon)
- Helped make noodles (from scratch) in chicken broth (from scratch, except that cheated with the chicken and bought it rather than growing it)
- Various other things I can’t quite remember
- Prepared to visit my friend is Louisville
- Started walking to work and bought an iPod shuffle to keep my company (should arrive tomorrow)
