A catch-all
The blog (err… this), Sane’s main issue are now all iPhone-optimized… welcome to the social.
Next up… mobile horoscopes! Yahoo!
Update: For what it’s worth, the blog here is optimized with the iWPhone plugin from Content Robot, which was easy peasy. And Sane is optimized with a stylesheet tweaked with my absolute fave CSSEdit from MacRabbit and using the media=”” tricks on Apple’s website (check out the Optimize for Page Readability section for the tips I used).
Not much going on at San Fran’s Apple Store – Engadget
For whatever reason, we were expecting more (way more) people and generally fewer clowns.
This is possibly the most disheartening news I’ve heard today. I was hoping for more clowns, too. Maybe the Boston area stores will represent those of us with a desire to see clowns in line better.
I’ve read Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series, and had long been meaning to get into the Big Over Easy. As we’re now reading most of these nursery rhymes over again (and again, and again) to our 1+ year old, it seemed even more appropriate. I ran across the audio book in the Winchester library, picked it up, and listened to it over a few weeks on the short drive into work.
What an excellent, excellent book. The audio book is cast perfectly, Jasper Fforde is back with sparkling writing again, for the most part. I’m guessing the little break from the same characters and scenarios he’d done so well over and over again in the Thursday Next series was a major relief for himself, who, by the latest in the series, seemed to have hit a little bit of a rut.
Now this is what I imagined the godawful Gregory Macguire novels could have been. As it was, I struggled through Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and don’t think I’ll ever touch another thing written by Greg.
The book is funny, fun, and a great read. Or listen.
Of course, we never made any music videos. And most of us (well, I was, thereabouts) weren’t as young as these guys. But the vibe reminds me of those days down on Hudson Street in NYC. The good days, before we went bust. The office looks very similar to our office, which you can see parts of in what is, I suppose, our own depressing version of Vimeo’s video, only not in video format. and without music.
The first: Borderequalsjustaboutzero
The second (post-aquisition and post-closure of the old office): Borderequalszeroagain
There’s a great chance, for the first, that alcohol was involved in the post-production and image compression (so don’t expect any miracles). The second, just poor Flash skillz.
Ah well.
Oh no. It looks like Gruber supports the Yankees (Link Warning: Language of an upset Yankees fan). Oh well, I guess I won’t be getting that DaringFireball subscription after all… 🙂
“I’d pick up a Matthew Reilly before I picked up this one…”
referring to a Thomas Greanias book (Raising Atlantis).
Well. I may have to amend that statement. Because, so far, this book is okay… it just… well, it feels like a picture book. There are a lot of diagrams and pictures drawn out in this book so far. And not in the crude, sort of amusing Vonnegut-style.
Stats from dinner with Dylan:
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French Farmhouse Garlic Chicken: 100% spit into Dad’s hand
French Farmhouse Garlic Chicken w/ Ketchup: 3% spit into Dad’s hand
Can’t argue with those results. Ketchup is scientifically proven to reduce stuff spit into your hand by 97%.[1]
[1] Warning, actual math and results may vary.
HockeyDirt.com: Zamboni Wakeboarding:
Up until the last 30 seconds or so I was about to say this would engender a whole new generation of kids who wanted to become Zamboni drivers (hell, I was up for switching careers)… though the prospect of pulling naked guys on water skis (not to ruin the ending) around the rink somehow kills the appeal.