May 2009
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April 2009
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“But surely you aren’t on the internet with System 6? Come to think of it,...”
– In reference to someone asking for help with software on a forum that is still using Macintosh System 6 http://ettoresoftware.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=843caa1dac5c3911f3b4aeee3328e68b&topic=237.0
“This is merely lack of understanding what Facebook really is, and, more...”
– Mashable
December 2008
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Secure Email is a sham… Mostly
So I saw this post today, which talks about a Web base email encryption service called Send..
Now I’ve always hated people who think they’re getting secure email by using https for webmail or SSL over SMTP, because really this only encrypts the data to your email provider, not through the rest of it’s travels across the Internet to the reciever.
Most people probably should...
November 2008
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“Martin Fowler: “I have noticed that that ruby community is much nicer than...”
– why the lucky stiff on hackety.org
September 2008
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August 2008
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“Sitting for my 12th straight hour in a hospital waiting for the wife to download...”
– Leigh McMullen on Cult of Mac
“If we owned a goat we wouldn’t need to compost!”
– Stevi
July 2008
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“is it just me, or does mobileme suck donkey balls? :(”
– CrimsonScythe in TextMate IRC channel
June 2008
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Woot-Off
Mark: Granted that anyone would buy anything off woot.com... who would buy the current "Woot-Off" item, a five pound bag of pistachios?
Mark: I mean, I know "Woot-Off" == empty the warehouse of unwanted crap, but seriously.
Justin: who needs 15lbs of pistachios!
Ben: a squirrel with a credit card
May 2008
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What we've got here is a failure to communicate!
Me: What's the temp like outside?
Stevi: It's cool but warm.
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“The first time someone calls you a horse you punch them on the nose, the second...”
– the Rabbi in Lucky Number Slevin
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A webby award winner with an odd name →
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Lost Time: Brief look at the Time-Loop Theory
So I was pointed at an ambitious little Lost theory site the other day: http://www.timelooptheory.com/. While certainly a very thorough well thought out theory, I’m just not sure I can completely embrace it yet.
Ultimately I think that the creators actually have something more elegant and simple planed (no don’t ask me what, because I have no idea and I’m not going to...
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Only one job you can cost your boss and the public... →
April 2008
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Nothing like children writing to their Serial... →
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That's her secret weapon.
Me: What was that sound?
Stevi: That was Lillia pooping.
Me: It sounded like she made a ray gun sound.
Stevi: Yeah a ray gun of shit out of her ass!
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“Mutant ‘testosterone-fuelled’ Russian black squirrels in...”
– The Daily Mail
Introducing Steve the Caterpillar
Stevi: i made friends with this caterpiller
Stevi: i will call him steve
Me: Hey Steve!
Stevi: steve doesn't like you
Me: why?
Stevi: b/c you sound like a duck
Stevi: and he doesnt like ducks
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Back to the Grindstone
Waking up after a long travel day is always hard… I don’t think my alarm even tried to wake me up this morning.
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David Lynch Weekend →
Got an ad for this on Facebook.
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How to Get Fired
James: You're a blithering moron!
Boss: excuse me?!?!
James: What? You didn't hear me the first time Helen Keller? I said Blithering moron!
“…the current situation is the least sucky of several sucky options.”
– Todd Ditchendorf on Fluid.app Google Group
Master Plan: About the Power of Google →
Speculates that Google wants to control all information… and then end all privacy… and then world domination. While I agree with the first part (controlling information) they don’t really offer any evidence for the later conclusions.
“Eternal services is meant literally: Anyone who is a member of this unit signs a...”
– Brainwashing in Scientology’s Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) by Stephen A. Kent, PhD