Fun Size Bytes
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Dr Wife was watching Alien (which she had not seen before) and we were chatting via iMessage. This was at the end of the movie…
Rachel: Oh good lord she’s smart.
TJ: I knew you’d like her :-)
Rachel: It’s over!
TJ: OR IS IT?
Rachel: Stop it. The credits are rolling.
TJ: OR ARE THEY?
Rachel: I CAN SEE THEM WITH MY OWN TWO EYES, TJ.
TJ: OR CAN YOU? Scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare that seeing is believing?
Rachel: Have you heard of binocular disparity?!
TJ: Is that when I have binoculars but you don’t?
Rachel: It’s part of how the brain “processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception.”
TJ: I’m sorry, are you questioning my quote from The X-Files?
Rachel: I’m questioning your knowledge of sensation and perception psychology.
TJ: I’ll take that as a ‘no’…
This has been another episode of “Dumb Guys Argue With Smart Women.”
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Are you sure that YOU didn't eat the cookies in an ambien-induced haze and Noah just attacked the empty box?
Don’t defend him. He knows what he did.
(And The Wife knows that she left the box on the stove unattended.)
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Remember that time Kally’s cookie was too big to dunk in her glass of milk?
SADDEST FACE EVER.
(Yes, I posted a picture like this before, but in this one you can see Rachel making sexy eyes at Kally’s cookie.)
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Remember that time those two cute girls came over and let me watch as they fed each other fudge marble chocolate chip cookies?
Related: SST
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Instapaper Costs
tj:
rartastic replied to your photo: The way that you can tell that Marco is a nice guy… Why does instapaper cost so much to keep running? Any chance that was an exaggeration?
Well, first Marco pays himself $9,950/month in salary…
(I’m kidding.)
(OTOH, he lives in Brooklyn, so I assume his rent is about $9,000/month. :-)
Honestly, I have no idea, and that’s an interesting question, however, I don’t think it was an exaggeration. I suspect that the costs are for database servers (and “backup” servers in case of increased need), storage, backups, and bandwidth.
I’m going to ask him, and maybe he’ll talk about the answer on Build & Analyze.
For those of you who are interested in the answer to this, Marco answered it in Episode 92 of Build & Analyze around the 47 minute mark.
He explained that his costs before he pays himself a salary are about $16,000/month: about $11,000 for servers, and about $5,000 for health insurance.
He also explains some of the features that he has that the other apps don’t have.
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2 free copies of Instapaper still available
rartastic replied to your photo: The way that you can tell that Marco is a nice guy… Why does instapaper cost so much to keep running? Any chance that was an exaggeration?
Well, first Marco pays himself $9,950/month in salary…
(I’m kidding.)
(OTOH, he lives in Brooklyn, so I assume his rent is about $9,000/month. :-)
Honestly, I have no idea, and that’s an interesting question, however, I don’t think it was an exaggeration. I suspect that the costs are for database servers (and “backup” servers in case of increased need), storage, backups, and bandwidth.
I’m going to ask him, and maybe he’ll talk about the answer on Build & Analyze.
fuiru replied to your photo: The way that you can tell that Marco is a nice guy… Interesting. How does Instapaper differ from Read It Later, other than the latter being free?
Honestly, I’ve used Instapaper since forever, so I haven’t checked out Read It Later. I can tell you that I find Instapaper “integrated” into more iOS apps. There’s also an API that you can use to add your own articles, and you can even send URLs via email (or even just long emails). You may be able to do those things in RIL, I’m not sure.
Anyway, I’ve only given away 8 of the 10 copies I offered, so there are still 2 left if anyone is interested! See http://funsizebytes.com/post/29415698386/the-way-that-you-can-tell-that-marco-is-a-nice-guy for details.
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There’s a new blog in town. Check it out, won’t you?
Rachel & Rachel Read Mysteries: An Introduction
There are some opportunities in this world that are simply too good to pass up. For example, a free, all-expenses paid trip to the French Riviera would be very difficult to walk away from, as would the chance to win Carl Kasell’s voice on your home answering machine. Ice cream is also very hard to turn down, although that is not really so much an opportunity, as it is just incredibly delicious.
Likewise, when you are a girl named Rachel who loves to read mysteries, and you have a friend named Rachel who also loves to read mysteries, it is very hard to pass up the opportunity to start a blog about how you are both girls named Rachel who love to read mysteries.
Incidentally, this was exactly the situation that my friend (Rachel) and I (Rachel) found ourselves in one February evening, as we were discussing our shared love of the mystery/thriller genre.
“We should turn these conversations into a blog,” Rachel said.
“Yes!” I exclaimed. “We could call it Rachel & Rachel Read Mysteries.”
“How could we not?” asked Rachel.
And thus, Rachel & Rachel Read Mysteries was born. The premise of the blog is simple: To chronicle our nerdy but insightful discussions about the fictional genre we love, one page, chapter or up-all-night-marathon-reading at a time. Think of it as an online book club where all of the novels are crime-based and all of the readers are, well, Rachels.
We hope you’ll take this opportunity to join us in our literary adventures…because honestly, how could you not?(Image modified via)
Rachel and I are doing this new thing! I’m super excited about it! Join us, won’t you?
Even if I didn’t know and like these two, I’d follow it for the name “detective-tastic” alone.
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Why?
I presume that you are asking why I posted the screen caps from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997).
The “Evacuation” scene is brilliant. It goes on for almost an entire minute, cutting between Powers (who has just been thawed out via the “Warm Liquid Goo Phase” and then cleaned) and the military leaders, who are waiting for him.
How many science fiction movies have used some sort of cryogenic/suspended animation element where people wake up months or years later? Eleventyhundred? And how many of them dealt with the very basic reality of “DAMN, I’VE GOTTA PEE”?
(Of course, we are expected to suspend our disbelief that he would have gone through the shower phase without peeing, but that’s Hollywood for ya.)
I loved this:
That may only be funny if you are used to standing while you pee, but every guy over the age of 20 can relate. You just woke up, you staggered to the bathroom, and the “morning constitutional” takes so long that you decide to prop yourself up with your hand against the wall.
Every guy has done this, especially after a long night.
Austin Powers has been ‘asleep’ for 30 years, so it makes sense that he would need “a little extra” time.
But the military guys steal the scene. None of them has a word of dialogue, all they have to do is wait for a guy to finish peeing. But they do a superb job of it, mirroring what the audience is feeling.
When I saw the movie in the theater and this scene came on, I remember thinking:
- “HA! That’s funny.”
- “Ok, I get it, move on.”
- “Seriously? They’re taking all of this time on this one joke?”
- “Ok, I’m laughing again.”
Somewhere in step 3 I started to come around to it because it just went on for soooooooooooooo long. (TWSS.)
The best part is that after 60 long seconds of that, including 15 seconds of the computer voice trying to say “Evacuation Complete” and Austin “trickling”, we hear him start what sounds like a very… extensive “round two” and we see this:
and the scene ends.
After having set us up to expect that this could keep going on and on, after waiting long enough for us to get past the resistance to the scene and come back around to it being funny again, it starts the cycle over again and then cuts it off before we’re ready.
I’m sure Austin Powers 1 wasn’t the first movie to use this “keep the joke going on long enough that it goes from funny-to-unfunny-to-funny again” but it certainly wasn’t common. So many other places has done it since, but I can’t think of any who have done it as well.
There’s also a later scene where Dr. Evil and his cohorts are laughing together very maniacally… a very common “Here we see the bad guys plotting” scene. But this time the camera stays with them and eventually the laughter fades and they’re all just standing there like every awkward moment at every awkward party you’ve ever been to when someone told a joke and everyone laughed and then the conversation died and everyone is trying to figure out if anyone is going to say anything.
I think it’s one of the reasons that the first Austin Powers movie was so good, and why it’s still funny 15 years later.
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rartastic replied to your photo: It’s about that time to start thinking about which…
but no really, in “kiss kiss, bang bang” he kisses robert downey jr.
KISS KISS, BANG BANG seems like a good match for Val-entine’s Day.
Especially if you’ve had a bit too much to drink and are out trolling the bars, IYKWIM.
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In a word?
rartastic replied to your post: Wow YOU SLEPT NORMAL PERSON HOURS. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? WHO ARE YOU?
Ambien.
Yesterday, after getting 3-4 hours sleep, I left my wallet at my office when I went to lunch (fortunately I walked down to the restaurant, so it wasn’t far to go back).
After lunch I locked my office door, turned off the light, and slept in my office chair for about 45 minutes before going to get a haircut.
And left my glasses there.
After I picked up The Boy from school, I went home, slept for about 2 hours, took him to Tae Kwon Do, put him to bed at 9, and took an Ambien & a shower.
I’m fairly sure that if my (3) alarm(s) hadn’t gone off, I could have slept through today entirely. But I feel much better.
Sorry this wasn’t funnier. I could mention the puddle of pillowcase-drool I woke up to, but I’m never sure if people find that funny or gross, so I’ll skip it.
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This is going to get messy.
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rartastic replied to your photo: There are some perils to sharing your iCloud… is Lindsay Cheese Wife? Also, not serious.
This is how she added herself to my address book:
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There are some perils to sharing your iCloud contact with your spouse.
Especially if I am your spouse.
(Which happens more often than you’d expect.)
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Dear Dr. Wife: I love you.
rartastic replied to your photo: I always feel a little awkward doing this. have you lost weight?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…NO.
But that’s not a bad question to ask 4 days before Christmas.
(Now where was that link to your Amazon.com Wishlist?)
