Think.
full archivesI think a lot—some say too much. Behold the results… a collection of my random, scattered thoughts. Pardon the dust, I'm tinkering with the layout in my spare time.
I’m bored. We have a cat. These videos are bound to happen…
We have an awesome cat. I have a sadistic (awesome) wife.
I pass this building (the old Athletic Supply) daily, and as an old fan of the now-defunct Sonics, it pains me to see the “For Sale” sign, and the possible future that the future owners will simply swap this treasure out for a 5-year pile of rubble, followed by a block of condos (that will go unsold, then turn to rentals) with eternally empty retail space on the ground level.
Just like the rest of SLU.
Two of my favorite things: Star Wars and cats.
I felt like my writing had a responsibility to me, which is a weird way of putting it—that it needed to step up at this time. I wasn’t just Mick Jagger writing a song about death where death is some sort of skeleton clown who he’s taking heroin with along with Anita Pallenberg. I was writing about the death of my dad. It was a singular moment for me as a writer—”Okay, this is real. You’re not speculating now.—John Roderick in Paste
Of course we’re human, of course we’ll make mistakes. But sometimes I feel that in search of eyeballs for these web sites, people don’t care about what they leave in their wake.—Steve Jobs
Q: Your investors seem to want you to make an apology of some sort — would you be willing to do that?—From the Q&A session at Apple’s iPhone press conference. Anyone asking for more than this is just looking for something to have a field day with on their blog. A full recall would be pointless, if their numbers are correct.
A Steve Jobs: [Long pause] To our customers who are affected by the issue, we are deeply sorry, and we are going to give you a free case or a full refund. We want investors who invest in Apple for the long haul, because they believe in us. To those investors who bought the stock and are down by $5, I have no apology. If we hit a bump in the road, it’s like having kids.
Ubernerd and fellow TeachStreeter, Scott, had an epiphany today, and let me in on it. When you develop a large web app with multiple states (especially logged in and out states), it can be a pain to switch between those states. Logging in and out, or running two browsers (“Slo-fox” to quote Scott) gets old and wastes time.
So what did Scott realize? If you open a new window in (to use Chrome’s term) Incognito mode—or, in the parlance of our times, “Don’t keep my history because I’m surfing pr0n” mode—you can have one window open in the logged in state, and by default the Incognito window will run separately as a logged out state. Genius!
Dear Chrome,
Please stop “Aw Snappin” while the inspector is open. It makes my head hurt and want to throw my monitor across the room. Please don’t make me go back to Firefox. She’s broken my heart far too many times, and eats memory like a hog.
One of my biggest sore points with Chrome right now. I nearly went back to Safari, but it’s being a crashy lil bitch now, too—largely due to extensions, no doubt.
Still, nothing is pushing me back to Firefox. I’ll start using Opera (with it’s complete lack of 1Password support) before I’d do that. In all honesty, I’d probably use Opera full time (their inspector is FANTASTIC) if they’d allow a 3rd party plugin such as 1Password to work. Pretty much my only block (but a huge one).
We just picked up Pixel today at PAWS and she’s having no problem at all making herself at home…
“Hi, I’m Pixel, and I’m a Mac.”
Nothing like an expensive, portable kitty heating pad.
Meet the new addition to our family: Pixel
