Stuff I found that was funny.
“I am so tired of stupid people, Terry. So tired of the people that say stupid things like, ‘Combining fruits and nut butters is dangerous for your health because… [food combining](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_combining)!’”
Me: “Just tell them that ‘combining your brain and your mouth is dangerous for **my** health because… the stupid: **it burns**!”
So, the weather got decent in San Francisco (which has been rare).
On this beautiful Friday, as a way of getting myself unstuckavoiding work, I am trying out [Unstuck][]…
It asks me if I’m using Wikipedia as a way of avoiding work. (I am using Unstuck app a way of avoiding work I should be doing at [Wikimedia Foundation][wmf].)
The irony is thick with that one.
…
Update: It appears that the app is useful if you are only stuck creatively, not if you’re just procrastinating. Helping me be more creative? That’s the exact opposite of what I need.
[Unstuck]: http://www.unstuck.com “Unstuck iPad app: How to live better every day”
[wmf]: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home “Wikimedia Foundation”
> while the most cryptic update came from the WMF’s Analytics team, who reported that they had worked on “puppetizing … Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig [and] Kafka”
Marie sent me this article today with the comment: “Surprisingly, not an Onion headline.”
The article says:
> The Texas congressman said that if Mr. Obama persists in executing the office of the Presidency *as defined by the Constitution,* he could face “impeachment and/or deportation.” … “Mr. President, there’s still time for you to get in line. But if you continue to fulfill the duties of President of the United States that are *expressly permitted* in the Constitution, you are playing with fire.”
If true, Reality has jumped the shark.
I’m not a fashionable guy. It wasn’t until around 2007 that I found out that pleated pants went out with the 1990’s. But this has come up often enough in discussion. So I’ll tell the only Chayism that exists for daily fashion:
Don’t fucking wear technology!
> This resume I’m reviewing claims the dude developed a “pear-to-pear private tracker”
Since [I had ComicLife open anyways][techcrunch], this was too good to pass up:
[techcrunch]: http://terrychay.com/article/the-only-people-who-read-techcrunch-are-your-competitors.shtml “The only people who read tech crunch are your competitors”
> So the other day — right over there — I saw a bum playing some buckets and another guy right next to him accompanying on an iPad. And, I was like… “This is the future.”
>
> — K3, Senior Jedi Program Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
In followup to this post
And yes, I had kimchi at Thanksgiving. 🙂
### Update ###
Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G
1/320sec @ ƒ2.8, ISO400, 28mm
I’m surprised I never got around to mentioned this, when [I promised I would][nans second story]. Since it’s been years, go back and read it, and come back. I’ll wait.
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In high school, I owned a [Thunderscan][Thunderscan]. For those of you too lazy to click on the link, this was a device that would digitize photos by replacing the ink cartridge of your ImageWriter, [a dot-matrix printer][dot-matrix printer], popular with Macintosh computers of the era.
(For those of you too young to remember what a dot-matrix printer is: in the old days, our printers were slow enough that you could watch an episode of *[Cheers][Cheers]* waiting for it to print out an article or “graphics” —the latter of which was whatever came out of [Print Shop][theprintshop]. And they were so loud, that a popular accessory was huge muffled box to place the printer in, in order to contain what can only be described as the primal periodical scream of the then nascent personal computer, “Why the f*&k do I have to be tasked for the next half our printing up a sinfully ugly banner for [your terrible P.T.A Yard Sale][review the print shop]?”)
Now imagine something that did the reverse (put print into the computer) by scanning it line by line. And realize that a typical “line” of text back then was actually 24 “lines” to this scanner.
This was a Thunderscan.
Marie showed me two videos the other day from Conan’s new show on TBS.
The first is Triumph at Occupy Wall Street:
And the other is Louis C.K., who was there to promote [his new web-streaming comedy concert][louisck web] commenting on social media
Both were from the same episode.
[louisck web]: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/louis-c-k-plans-online-broadcast-of-comedy-concert/ “Louis C. K. Plans Online Broadcast of Comedy Concert—Art Beats @ New York Times”