Thoughts of the Eternal Bachelor

"When my daughter was born, I got a nice card from my uncle saying that my child’s laughter would be..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:09:41 -0400

“When my daughter was born, I got a nice card from my uncle saying that my child’s laughter would be the sweetest sound I would ever hear. But that’s a lie. Children have two kinds of laughter. The first is the genuine kind, the kind my uncle was talking about. The other is the I’M-ABOUT-TO-DO-EVIL-SHIT laugh. The criminal mastermind laugh. Mwahahahahaha. I dread that laugh because it means someone is about to cry or something is about to fucking break. By the time a child is four or five, this is pretty much the only kind of laugh you hear out of them.”

- Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood - exclusive excerpt - Boing Boing

"Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:03:03 -0400

“Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless a mind-opening teams with a peculiar membership goes to work on them. Otherwise, life will go on exactly as before, no matter how painful, unrealistic, unjust, ludicrous, or downright dumb that life may be.”

- The three types of specialist

Words that last - Graphic - The Washington Post

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:08:58 -0400

Words that last - Graphic - The Washington Post

Windex, for spotless Google GlassGoogle Glass has so far been...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:02:05 -0400

Windex, for spotless Google Glass

Google Glass has so far been very divisive, especially for a product that is barely a developer…

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Responding Responsively

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:05:12 -0400

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This is a speech I recently presented at my local Toastmaster’s club. It is part of a larger discussion I’ve done a few times about Responsive Web Design. I wanted to do…

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"Organic Mechanics are frightening. They have extreme depth of knowledge, but there is no obvious..."

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:02:34 -0400

“Organic Mechanics are frightening. They have extreme depth of knowledge, but there is no obvious organic thread which ties it all together. Here’s the scary part. There is a thread. There is a purpose. They just aren’t letting you see it. Organic Mechanics will keep you on your heels and just when you think you’ve figured them out, they’ll change everything. I hate that.”

- Organics and Mechanics: Rands In Repose

I read that and think, wow, it sounds so like what I hear rattling around in my own head all day.

Decoding Apple AnnouncementsOne thing that I really wish I could...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:00:21 -0400

Decoding Apple Announcements

One thing that I really wish I could ask the Apple executive team is why and when they decide to…

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"Phil’s title should be Humble Math-Addled Keeper of the Peace whereas Felix would be The Dark Lord..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:08:51 -0400

“Phil’s title should be Humble Math-Addled Keeper of the Peace whereas Felix would be The Dark Lord of Performance and Snark. Their jobs are clearly as engineers, but defining a single title is a slippery exercise in comparing two things that are incomparable.”

- Titles are Toxic: Rands In Repose

Why Firefox OS MattersThe tech news has spent a lot of timeover...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:45:40 -0400

Why Firefox OS Matters

The tech news has spent a lot of timeover the last few months, explaining in detail why it feels…

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Converted 19th Century Church Now a Spacious Rental | Designs & Ideas on Dornob

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:43:04 -0500

Converted 19th Century Church Now a Spacious Rental | Designs & Ideas on Dornob:

Makes me wish I had purchased the for-sale church around the corner from where I live now.

Unpretentiousil (by laughlol62)

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:54:57 -0500

Unpretentiousil (by laughlol62)

Want To “Bang With Nobody”? Use Google+

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:29:30 -0500

Want To “Bang With Nobody”? Use Google+:

parislemon:

Steve O’hear for TechCrunch:

When your product idea turns into a meme, you’re probably doing something right. I’m referring, of course, to Bang With Friends. It’s the controversial Facebook app that lets you privately nominate those in your Friends network you want to hook up with and alerts you if they feel the same way. This in turn gave rise to Bang With Professionals, a site that takes the same concept and applies it to LinkedIn.

And, not to be er, left out in the cold, today sees Google+ get the Bang With Friends treatment with the appropriately named Bang With Nobody.

Well played.

The horrible truth about Spiderman’s Anatomy « Bug Girl’s Blog

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:27:45 -0500

The horrible truth about Spiderman’s Anatomy « Bug Girl’s Blog:

Uh… wow.

"Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear says. “I think it’s fun. I think these guys are very..."

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:42:20 -0500

“Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear says. “I think it’s fun. I think these guys are very innovative and they’re attracting a lot of attention, good attention, for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. So I urge them on in all of their innovative thinking.””

- Unbridled Kentuckians Decide It’s Time For A Kick-Ass New Slogan : NPR

Steve, ‘kicks ass’ isn’t innovative. Its ‘thinks different’ but is by no means innovative.

Adam Green: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket : The New Yorker

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:27:26 -0500

Adam Green: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket : The New Yorker

"Did Intel announce the follow-up to the 486 DX this year? Will it fit in an Ultraphablet? Is it..."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13:42 -0500

“Did Intel announce the follow-up to the 486 DX this year? Will it fit in an Ultraphablet? Is it bigger than the fist I want to punch you in the face with? Can we start drinking yet? What’s the maximum number of tweets you can send in three seconds? What do you mean my followers don’t give a shit about the abomination that NEC just gave birth to on stage? You think they don’t care about a battery indicator?”

- CESpool | TechCrunch

Classic.

Black & Silver Suitjamas | The Legendary Suitjamas Store

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:39:56 -0500

Black & Silver Suitjamas | The Legendary Suitjamas Store:

Suit UP!!!

Skydiving cats. Awesome. Folksam reklamfilm: Evas katt (by...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:49:17 -0500

Skydiving cats. Awesome.

Folksam reklamfilm: Evas katt (by folksam)

Rands In Repose: The Elegant Email

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:34:59 -0400

Rands In Repose: The Elegant Email:

As a person who spends a good portion of his life figuring out what he thinks by writing it down, I have learned to recognize when an email is therapy is for me and only me. I still write that 17-paragraph opus about the horrifying mess that is our interview process, but halfway through the rant I realize this mail is just for me.

"The Macalope is confused because he thought Lyons wrote for Newsweek. It seems he still does,..."

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:02:44 -0400

“The Macalope is confused because he thought Lyons wrote for Newsweek. It seems he still does, according to his bio on the piece, but Newsweek apparently won’t let him publish his personal vendetta notes, so he must turn to Gizmodo—and possibly the Weekly World News—to lash out at his critics, of whom MG Siegler and John Gruber are just two.”

- The Macalope Weekly: From bad to worse | Macworld