I was reading Presentation Zen, when I happened upon this James Blount/Apple homage:
I’m not too sure what to think.
Author: tychay
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An HR corollary
A while back, Stuart quoted:
“You will always be known for the people you’ve hired.”
—Rikk Carey, 2006
It’s a great quote. It’s amazingly insightful. It’s also a very dangerous one because it has horrible consequences that are fundamental if ignored:
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Get a First Life
Mildly amusing play on this.
I don’t play Second Life, but I definitely need to get a first life.
Building your family tree with Geni
Last week, Trevor sent me a link to Geni, which is a ajaxified family tree website.
Trevor noted that the API they’re using is html which is rendered through document.getElementById().innerHTML calls. They are missing an opportunity to release a real API which would allow mashups with Flickr and Plaxo.
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Data entry on Address Book
When I’m typing a lot into Mac OS X address book, sometimes the focus flips from the field I’m in directly into the Note field. It’s very annoying.
Anyone else have that happen?
Random thought while unloading my car at 2AM
My parking slot in my apartment costs about a third of my old car payment.
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The origin on PHP trading cards
“…and Terry started taking pictures as Terry does with everything.”
—Cal Evans, Editor of Zend Dev Zone, in a Pro::PHP Webcast
Look on my cards, ye Mighty, and despair
Open Source Conference 2006, Portland, Oregon
Open Source Conference 2006, Portland, Oregon
Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
DxO (exp, blur, distorion, ca, vignette. noise, lighting)
1/15sec @ f/4, iso 250, 26mm (39mm)
BTW, Marcus Whitney is in the final deck which debuted at ZendCon and my guess is that the template from HP was probably inspired by Apple’s strange attempt.
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Beauty and the mofo Geek
Ed thinks I should be on Beauty and the Geek.
Akk! My contacts didn’t survive the trip and I had to wear glasses. Luckily they’re not taped together.
To be honest, I’ve never seen the show—you mean cable isn’t just for broadband? I’m not sure I would clean up on “that shit” though, unless the competitions were based on tourettes.
I appreciate the thought though… fucker. 😉
More thoughts while waiting for my fast food
I’ve talked about this before, but since I’m on the move again, grocery shopping is out and fast food is back in. Here are three thoughts that have occurred to me while waiting for my order at the nearest three fast food joints:
When I was in college, a “Thirsty two ouncer” from AM/PM was a huge drink. Just now, at Carl’s Jr. I used a coupon for a free 32 oz. drink. I had to put a medium cap on it. I shudder to think what a large looks like.
When ordering the Sidekickers from Arby’s (Mozzarela Sticks with Marinara Sauce, Loaded Potato Bites with Cool Ranch Sour Cream, Onion Petals with Tangy Southwest Sauce, or Jalepeno Bites with Bronco Berry Sauce) you save a penny if you get two orders of the small instead of a single order of large. FYI, in all three cases, you get five in the small and ten in the large. I guess the penny is a “I’m-not-a-glutton” tax.
At McDonald’s you can save nine cents if you order a double cheeseburger without a patty instead of a cheeseburger directly. (Yes, that’s right: the double cheeseburger costs less than the cheeseburger.)Continue reading