@luomat doesn’t generally get stars, because he’s a completely unfunny nerd, but today Favstar reported @luomat’s first 50-★ tweet.
Of course it was something based on @luomat being completely stupid and making a fool of himself.
Well he’s got plenty of that material…
Oh, so 'qat' is a variant of 'kat'…
…and 'kat' is a variant of 'kete'…
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS, DR. SEUSS?!?
Meh, whatever, we've lost interest…TL;DR
“What does ‘qat’ mean?” asked The Boy.
It wasn’t in the standard Mac OS X Dictionary, so I launched the OED for Mac and… well, see above.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/business/media/10adco.html
Mad Men dolls!
damn.
Are these going to be life-sized and inflatable and how much is the Joan one?
I’m asking for my bunk.
My brother is giving away his ebooks until tomorrow (March 13).
These are DRM-free through Smashwords. (You’ll see the code “RFREE” when you look at individual pages. The code can be re-used.)
I hope you’ll check them out. The Vatican Assassin trilogy especially.
If you’d prefer dead-tree versions you can buy them via Lulu.
Thanks for indulging this shameless sibling promotion.
(Please feel free to pass this along, he’s trying to get the word out. His writing is very good but I’m sure many of you here know that it’s still hard to get recognized.)
…Windows 7 Starter lacks some features standard in any version of Windows XP, such as support for multiple monitors, DVD playback — even the ability to change the desktop image from the Microsoft logo…
Microsoft may be counting on upselling users an $80 upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium
Gee, ya think?
Well folks, it’s like this:
We’ve had several different people express interest in the dog shown above, but none of them have worked out, so we finally decided that there was nothing else to do but keep her.
We put it to a family vote and the decision came up 4-0. WifeOfTj tried to pretend like she was a hold-out, but unfortunately for her the rest of us saw it for the completely full of shit act that it was.
(The Beagle also put her vote in, they’ve been playing together for some time now and seem to get along fine, which was the ultimate deciding factor to even consider keeping her.)
Now all that remains is her name.
We are split 2-2 between “Fluffy” and “Maggie” so we are putting it to an Internet vote.
Some possibly-helpful or possibly irrelvant information:
She currently ignores both names equally when we call her, possibly because we keep using both.
The Beagle’s name is Sophie.
Voting will be open until midnight tonight (March 12th, Eastern Time).
The only way to vote is by answering this Tumblr post.
Put the name that you don’t think that we should use in the answer box.
What name do you vote against?
It’s “A Great Day For Freedom”—at least for the members of Pink Floyd. As BBC News reports, the band has emerged victorious in a legal battle with record label EMI, accompanied by a ruling that could soon lead to the band’s entire discography getting pulled from iTunes.
Pink Floyd’s original contract with EMI—inked before the rise of iTunes and Amazon and their ilk as modern purveyors of digital music—included a clause that Chancellor Sir Andrew Morritt says requires that EMI “preserve the artistic integrity of the albums.” The court’s interpretation was thus that EMI may not distribute Floyd tunes “by any other means other than the original album, without the consent of Pink Floyd.” That means no more integrity-busting individual tracks.
(I’ll spare you the rest of Macworld’s “clever” article which spared no Pink Floyd song-name pun.)
Pink Floyd, who haven’t written a notable song since —when? the late ’70s? Maybe the 80s? — would like to travel back in time to a land before the iTunes and Amazon’s MP3 store, and The Internet.
They sound every bit as delusional as JK Rowling who refuses to release her books on Audible.com but will make CDs of them, ensuring that no piracy will ever take place.
All they have done, in fact, is make sure that no one will pay for an individual track, which will be uploaded moments after it goes on sale, and which will have high demand given that they are not otherwise available, thus ensuring that it will be pretty easy to find a copy.
In short, Pink Floyd has made great strides towards “artistic integrity” today, at the cost of actually getting paid for their work. Well done, gents.
Anyway, you might want to cherry pick your favorite songs on iTunes or Amazon while you’ve got the opportunity.
jaydensmommie asked:
Are you trying to tell me that you didn't laugh while listening to me "rap"?
Actually I was drinking Diet Coke and something happened where it felt like the carbonation went directly into my chest. It was incredibly painful and I felt like I was going to die.
Was it a “coincidence” that it happened while I was listening to you rap?
Maybe, but is that really the kind of thing you want to take a chance with? I think from not.
p.s. you do realize you are the worst “Let’s pretend this never happened” participant ever, right? Ok then.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Advice-Strays-Justine-Kilkerr/dp/0224087665/
I just went to Amazon.co.uk and typed in “Advice” and Sniffy’s book was the very first motherfucking suggestion.
Awesome.
If I did this right … you should now be able to access the list of tumblr birthdays that TJ collated (on the spreadsheet here) as a calendar view here.
This is a semi-painful-semi-manual process at the moment, so will not be automagically updated. If you want write rights to manage the calendar, let me know.
Yeah, so it turns out that @xntrek did this Twitter/Tumblr birthdays-as-google-calendar thing several weeks ago, and even emailed me to tell me about it, and I somehow completely missed it.
So I deleted my version (which had all of two birthdays on it) and suggest that you use his instead.
In the immortal words of H.J Simpson: D’oh.
Awhile ago I made a Twitter/Tumblr birthday list by asking people to fill in a form to have their birthdays added.
It occurs to me that, as much as everyone loves a good spreadsheet, this might work better as, you know, an actual calendar.
As I have time I’ll added people from the Twitter/Tumblr birthday list to the calendar, and will also add folks to the calendar as I see on Twitter/Tumblr that someone is celebrating a birthday (subject to my memory and attention both functioning at the same time).
If anyone would like to help add people to the calendar let me know your @gmail.com email address via my askhole and I’ll add you to the editors list. (I think you need a GMail account to edit a gCalendar.)
If you’d like to have your birthday added, go here.
Or, I suppose answer here: When is your birthday (be sure to include your @twitter name)?
UPDATE: Because I am a giant dork, I somehow missed that xntrek already did this..
I have deleted my version.
You view his version as a web page here.
When you declare iTunes Bankruptcy, give up, and start all over again, it’s important to start repopulating your collection with The Essentials.
I used the podcast suggestions post to make sure that I hadn’t missed any beyond the obvious You Look Nice Today, Dinobrain, and Live from a Shoebox.
Look how I made it through the entire post without ever once passively aggressively mentioning that all of these podcasts (and a few others I won’t mention) should post new episodes because it would make me happy. Dammit. footstomp
First I was all…
…and then I was all…
tj:
Lunch (Sunday)
Someone asked what this is and I realized that picture doesn’t make it clear.
That’s “about a pound” of homemade potato chips (kettle style) covered in pulled pork, barbecue sauce, and sprinkled with cheese.
It usually comes with onions too, but that would be disgusting.
I was not hungry for the rest of the day.
It was awesome.
This is my Dad’s report card from WPI in 1957.
You’ll notice that it’s hand-written, and about the size of an index card.
I wonder when that changed…
I’m guessing he wasn’t on scholarship.
He’d later meet my mom at BU (Boston University). I may have to ask Mom for more details about this. I think I may have known the story of his days at WPI once, but I’ve forgotten it.
Fun Size Bytes (from @Tj)
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