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Just because Lucky isn’t coming doesn’t mean we...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:36:24 -0500

Just because Lucky isn’t coming doesn’t mean we won’t think of him…

Ringtone Remix

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:16:00 -0500

Dance Version Remix

~~I have not tried to see if this will work on the iPhone.~~ I’ve tried it, and it works.

Fission tells me it needs to be 40 seconds or less, but AT&T voicemail seems to pickup after about 30 seconds. FWIW.

By request from Wife #2, I have made a ringtone version. Drag...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:04:51 -0500

By request from Wife #2, I have made a ringtone version.

Drag it into iTunes and it should be recognized as a ringtone. Sync your iPhone. Be sure that your iPhone is set to sync ringtones.

Non-iPhone users: I can’t help your sorry excuse for a phone.

Made with Fission. Because Macs rule and PCs drool.

I’ll probably make a dance version ringtone later.

Suddenly I’m in the mood for a...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:35:20 -0500

Suddenly I’m in the mood for a cuban…

syntheticpubes:

by Natasa Adzic

(+adzicnatasa.tumblr.com)

Oh for God's sake

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:32:52 -0500

monkeyfrog:

Life is hard enough without being bitchy about a bunch of adults being goofy together.

If you want to correct the grammar of strangers, call people names for being happy, or bitch every time you think something isn’t funny, maybe you should STFU.

How’s that for original?

I think what Monkeyfrog is trying to say, is: eat a bag of dicks, you shitburgling cockbuckets.

ladawn: Shitburgling Cockbuckets for Sniffy. Jazz...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:54:19 -0500

ladawn:

Shitburgling Cockbuckets for Sniffy. Jazz remix.

Jiminy, LaDawn… you need to do audio posts more often…

She cooks AND sings?

Giggity…

(with apologies to B ;-)

For Sniffy. Don’t let me be alone here, people. You know...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:10:50 -0500

For Sniffy.

Don’t let me be alone here, people. You know you want to do it too.

(Tag it ‘sbcbaudio’ as in ‘shit burgling cock buckets audio’ to make it easier to find :-)

sniffyjenkins: Look, I’m bored, OK? This has a beauty, grace,...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:58:27 -0500

sniffyjenkins:

Look, I’m bored, OK?

This has a beauty, grace, and charm which is what sets it apart from the vulgar Americanism “Hobo Vagina.”

I can only hope one day we have a mastery of the language like our cousins across the pond.

Big bag of hurt

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:56:00 -0500

Dan Wineman (below), on all of the things that Tumblr got wrong with the iPhone app (Hint: just about everything). More from me after the break:

dwineman:

Yes, reblogging is still as broken as it used to be, if not more so: there now seems to be no way to cancel a reblog without quitting the app. The Cancel button is inexplicably missing, there’s no Back button anywhere in the interface, and clicking on the Tumblr logo opens the desktop Dashboard in a pop-up.

As far as I can tell, all the things that were awful about the 1.0 Tumblr app are still awful in the 1.1 Tumblr app, except that now it doesn’t reload your dashboard at page one every time you breathe on it. So that’s nice, at least.

But by far the worst misfeature is the way it displays photo posts. The iPhone OS provides a perfect solution: the two-finger pinch/stretch gesture, which dynamically zooms in and out of images; plus, you can double-tap to make any image instantly resize to fit the screen. It’s precisely this feature that makes web browsing on an iPhone more comfortable than on any other mobile device.

Yet the iPhone Dashboard intentionally disables this great feature, instead providing just two choices of image size: thumbnail (way way too small) and 100% (way way too big, so you have to pan around to see the whole image). In other words, the OS has a fit-to-screen feature built in, and Tumblr’s developers actually wrote extra code to disable it. What a tragic, boneheaded mistake. The workaround used to be turning off the iPhone Dashboard, but that option’s gone now.

(Tumblr actually isn’t alone in making this mistake. The iPhone version of Flickr Mobile does the same stupid thing, but at least Flickr provides an app that’s actually usable.)

I say this with love: it’s time for Tumblr to grow up. Fix the bugs. Hire usability experts. Build a rich API and test, test, test. Get your stuff working so well—make your user experience so utterly painless—that you can do silly things like Sharks vs. Cats and Dashboard marriage proposals from time to time without looking like college kids drunk on venture capital.

(tj:)

But hey! Video uploads! Because everyone watches those, and few people ever want to look at pictures which are posted on Tumblr.

Yeah, TypePad Micro looks like a knock-off of Tumblr, but you know what? I’m betting that in 6 months, TypePad is doing this stuff better than Tumblr.

Remember, Twitter wasn’t first either.

Picture from a Microsoft hosted event As John Gruber mentioned:...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:50:09 -0500

Picture from a Microsoft hosted event

As John Gruber mentioned: “Notice anything about most of the laptops?”

With the likelihood of Christmas being tight for everyone...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:09:53 -0500

With the likelihood of Christmas being tight for everyone this year, I thought I would pass this on.

(Look at the house on the right.)

via email, from my mom

(Obviously the homeowner isn’t on Tumblr or it would have said “THIS” with an arrow pointing to it :-)

Tumblr 1.1 for the iPhone is out. App Store Link Reblogging is...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:03:36 -0500

Tumblr 1.1 for the iPhone is out. App Store Link

Reblogging is still a big bag of hurt. In case you thought that might have been important enough to get working on the iPhone.

It does other things. apparently.

Something something playing with herself… syntheticpubes: by...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:13:49 -0500

Something something playing with herself…

syntheticpubes:

by Shayna Batya

thedailywhat: This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day:...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:07:52 -0500

thedailywhat:

This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: Hoth is for pussies. It’s Dagobah or bust.

(This post is sponsored by the Dagobah Tourism Bureau.)

[via.]

Dear Ladyfolk: I have learned a lot about what women go through...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:06:06 -0500

Dear Ladyfolk:

I have learned a lot about what women go through from being friends with them, both on- and off-line, so I thought I’d give you a little insight into what it’s like to be a guy.

See picture of stickers for “Phoebe’s Cupcakes”
Subconsciously think of Phoebe Cates
Boobs!

BOOM! That’s all it takes.

Usually steps 1 and 2 are completely optional. There’s just no telling when boobs are going to pop into your brain when you’re a (hetero) guy.

We don’t try to be like this. We just are.

image via worldwarmike

reimer: Twitter’s new prompt, brought to you by Long Duk...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:38:22 -0500

reimer:

Twitter’s new prompt, brought to you by Long Duk Dong.

ARB (Automatic ReBlog, for those who have always wondered) for Sixteen Candles, the movie that brought Courtney Reimer and me together ;-)

What are your favorite recipes?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500

I am sick and tired of every damn restaurant in town and everything they have to offer

In my defense, there are only like six (if you don’t count fast food/pizza places) and we’ve been here 6+ years.

Of those six, about three of them are not “chains” (and none of your fancy Red Lobster/Olive Garden/Applebee’s either… our “big” restaurant is a Bob Evans. Yes, really).

Some of you obviously like to cook, and almost all of you like to eat.

So I’d like to hear you favorite recipe(s). They don’t have to be super fancy, anything above “This is how you make PB&J” is welcome :-)

If you don’t feel like reblogging, you can send them here: recipes112009@luomat.net

If you’re not sure I’ll see it, feel free to email me the URL or put in the “answer box” below.

Who knows, maybe I’ll compile them into our first Tumblr cookbook :-)

Postcards

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:49:14 -0500

No, I haven’t forgotten
No, they haven’t gone out yet.

CatPaint is the premier cat-based image editor for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:16:48 -0500

CatPaint is the premier cat-based image editor for the iPhone and iPod Touch :

CatPaint is an immersive and multi-sensory experience, wherein you can put adorable cats on top of your photos. Also, they mew. With just a few touches, you can take a photo, cover it with cats, and send it off to your friends and family.

To get started, simply pull out the litter-box drawer to select a kitty, then tap anywhere to place it. Should you misplace a kitten, just gently shake your iPhone or iPod Touch like an Etch-a-Sketch to Undo. Shake a little and one cat will disappear, shake a bunch and clear all the cats and start again.

Download it now to ensure that your life becomes even more pathetic than it already is, pathetic cat person who read this far without rolling your eyes at the patheticness of the cat people.

Yeah, I said it.

There’s something delightfully ironic about this. (Not...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:06:45 -0500

There’s something delightfully ironic about this.

(Not the least of which is that @luomat retweeted it as well.)

But I’m glad to get the word out…