Oct
01
“She’s been a member of the PTA.”
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Sep
26
“Mr. McCain says: “It’s an existential threat to Israel.” They’ve used this phrase before, meaning that it is a threat to Israel’s existence. But they ought to explain it, otherwise it sounds to voters like we’re trying to protect Jean Paul Sartre.”
Sep
19
Nerd Alert: I’ve been playing around with Callback URLs a lot lately. Essentially this means that I can write programs that accept SMS messages.
For example, I now text things like “$7 sandwich” to 74433 which is the short code for Shifd. Shifd receives that message and promptly hits a URL that I gave it. That URL adds the $7 sandwich to a google spreadsheet. It’s a super painless way to track my expenses.
Next I’m going to hook it up to some home automation stuff at my apartment. “Turn on the air conditioner” would be great… if I had AC.
Sep
17
Monkey Food
This was in our fridge the other day. A ziplock bag of raw corn with a drawing a bird and the words "monkey food" written on it.
It was delicious.
It was delicious.
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Is the bird the monkey food or the corn-stuff?
The last time a Cubs pitcher threw a no hitter was in the early 70s. The market promptly took a dive.
It happened again this past Sunday.
Sep
05
The lady and I are going to Portland tonight. It’s our first time back there since leaving for NYC in a rented truck super early in the morning all those years ago.
After some sightseeing and various other activities, we’ll be heading out for drinks tomorrow night. Do you live in Portland? Do we know you? We’d love to see you! We’re heading to Bailey’s Taproom at 8pm on Saturday. More info on the shifdlet.
Sep
03
ShifD - Emacs (and vi) Key Commands
I was able to distract the guys working on shifd long enough to slide a couple of commits past them.
So for today, I'll just talk about one of the features I added when the rest of the staff wasn't looking. You can now edit and save shifd content using familiar key commands. 1
First, because it was easy, I added vi shortcuts. So i will put you in insert mode. It opens up the text box, focuses it and waits patiently. When you've added your text, you can hit [escape] :wq and it'll save and close it.
Adding vi shortcuts made me feel dirty, so I quickly added emacs commands too. The emacs version is pretty much only useful on a Mac, because control-s means something very different on windows/linux. To start a new shifd note, you can press [control]-x [control]-f2. To save the note, press [control]-x [control]-s. Not bad, eh?
There are a couple other shortcuts as well. For example, t will show/hide the input box, but those aren't quite on the same level of nerdiness, so I won't mention them all here. Go try it out for yourself.
1. This stuff, like most of the internet, is disabled in Internet Explorer.
2. I know that this would generally prompt you in emacs, but you get the gist of it.
Sep
02
I've got something to say
Let it be known. I will no longer purchase DRMed music. I haven’t been buying it for some time, but I wanted to make it official.Also, regarding the DRM secured music files that I have already purchased, I will be illegally downloading copies of those. Whatever the legality of that, that seems like a reasonable action.
As always, in the future, I will continue to try to buy music instead of downloading it illegally. This assumes that the responsible parties don’t make it too difficult for me to do this. I’ll happily buy music from the website of a band or record label, but I don’t want to have to register, confirm my email address before purchasing or use Paypal. I am happy to buy a compact disc or other physical format, but I’d appreciate a copy in mp3 form while I wait for it to arrive.
Thank you for your time.
Aug
26
“Filmed at La Sagrada Familia, Gaudi’s masterpiece. Was thinking I have much in common with the great Spanish architect. We both defy convention, he with his breathtaking designs and me by wearing a lobster bib in the shower.”
Aug
21
McCain vs. Dungeons & Dragons II
John McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb seems to have a weird problem with Dungeons & Dragons.
Regular JeffRubinJeffRubin readers already know that Goldfarb compared the New York Times editors to a blogger, “sitting at home in his mother’s basement and ranting into the ether between games of Dungeons & Dragons.” It was an unusual quote for sure, but if you want to paint bloggers as antisocial it at least sorta makes sense to invoke one of the nerdiest things of all-time.
Actually, it’s true, there is a lot of D&D played here. But they’re totally out of touch and still playing with the v.3.5 ruleset.
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