December 2007
I rule! Router password remembered, one-click applescript to ping me with folks’ current IP and start VNC server on dad’s computer working.
Trying to remember the admin passwd I set on my parents’ router, so I can connect to dad’s computer via VNC. Fuckity fuck fuck. What was it?
3yo daughter up since 5am. 3yo nephew up since 5:50am. God, there’s not enough coffee in the *world*…
Park slope toy store on dec 23 == thunderdome.
Going to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Thanks, Isohunt.
Friend just came by to visit. He and his daughter were bearing frankincense and myrrh. No gold, though. Cheap bastard.
Neither regular babysitter can cover Saturday PM, because both have appts at the tattoo parlor. Issues in contemporary parenting.
Regarding Giuliani's Condition
I have it on the authority of a friend who has done a fair amount of PR in the political realm that the phrase “flu-like symptoms” translates to “there was much puking.”
Las Vegas Dealer (Gomez) has been stuck in my head...
3 day old sleeping. 3 year old buzzing around like a hummingbird on crack after eating entire candy cane. Thanks, grandma and grandpa.
International Herald Tribune: Does more data yield... →
In a surprise to no one, the answer is “no, at a certain point just make the fucking decision.” I find it interesting, though, that the final recommendation is that investors (i.e. people) focus on building information-filtering tools.
okay, we have a happy, healthy new baby,and all are well. That’s about the only part that went according to plan, though…
Sigh…still waiting…
M’s contractions started, but not at all regular yet. Now we play the waiting game. Or possibly hungry, hungry hippos.
“I guess I, when I was in my twenties, like deep down underneath all the bullshit...”
– David Foster Wallace (via Daring Fireball and Kottke)
Oh, yeah: no, still no baby yet.
No, wait: that’s sleet, not rain. Excellent.
It’s raining, and my butt itches.
washingtonpost.com: Sellout Songs (The Moby... →
“The Moby Quotient, generated by the formula below, determines the degree to which artists besmirch their reputations when they lend their music to hawk products or companies.” Excellent!
Among the anagrams of “lightweight social blogging”: “a belching gigolo’s light twig”. In case you were wondering.
Engadget: Microsoft rebrands PlaysForSure to... →
Huh. The marketing campaign for the Zune 2 doesn’t suck, but this clever “just keep ‘em guessing” rebranding happens. I guess we know where the original Zune marketing team got reassigned to, anyway.
“My butt itches. And my favorite butt-scratching finger is on the disabled list...”
– popevilgirl How can you not love twitter?
“Oh, look, the TV value chain’s imploding. It’s a nice example of...”
– Umair on NBC’s refunds to advertisers. Oh, and I’m getting less optimistic about Heros remaining a good show, too. Good luck, NBC.
The best music of 2007 | The A.V. Club →
I like this list a lot. One of the closer I’ve seen to my own list (tk). — didyouevernotice It is that time of the year…no From the Corner to the Block (Galactic), no The Ivori Palms (Peter and the Wolf), no Pax Futura (Oliver Future), but a good enough match for me that I’m going to dig up the albums I haven’t heard.
Table next to us at dinner: editor talking her line of superhero-themed romance novels. Priceless.
Ugh. Was just reminded that the blog is on the shittiest web host ever, but there’s no way I’m going to move it off before I have to renew.
Oliver Future: Happiness Machine
“The irony is that the people who most want privacy are almost certainly the...”
– Seth’s Godin going with the dehumanizing dismissive generalization.
“Said another way, the consumerization of technology — created by consumer...”
– Carl Howe
Just deleted Fake Steve Jobs feed. The end of an era. The era actually ended a while ago, and I just got around to doing something about it.
Threadless T-Shirts - Beelzebub →
Love it. Also love that threadless has made it so easy to adhere to my policy of avoiding brandwear t-shirts unless I actually want to endorse the brand.
The future is here. My reminder about an upcoming dentist’s appointment just came in via SMS.
“I think vending machines are a race of parasitic, interstellar, robotic...”
– Matthew “Defective Yeti” Baldwin
Another day, still no baby.
Ever heard the sound of a 50 lb sack of lentils splitting open as it hits the floor? I have, now. Interesting coop shift tonight.
Willie Nelson singing “A Whiter Shade of Pale” as we lit the chanukkah candles. Even by my standards, a little bit of an odd combination…
Gwen napping, Mona at acupuncture appt…sure, it’s only 3:30 in the afternoon, but I think it’s time for a Dale’s Pale Ale.
Ask me what I think of the G train. Go ahead, ask.
The Fred Effect
Fred Wilson linked to my site in a post about Tumblr this morning and the number of people following me through Tumblr more than doubled. — joelaz Yeah — I’m one of the new followers, and I wondered what the effect on those linked folks would be. Kind of like what happened when @wilw twittered about @jonathancoulton, I guess…
buzztter →
New technology == new opportunities for voyeurism. Search twitter’s tweets for specific words or phrases…curiously hypnotic.
“a spec is a spec is a spec. its a web app and its an off web app. devices talk...”
– Miles Rose, seeking input from the NY Tech Meetup on the question “how long should a software spec take to write?” Gee, wouldn’t it be fun to write code for that project…
NYT: The Dr. Seuss Jumble: Naming Web Sites →
David Pogue appears to have been hard up for column ideas: he laments that the “wit and cleverness [has] already dried up in the naming of Web sites,” yet acknowledges that “google” wouldn’t seem so witty if the company were less successful.