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Re: Wilde Life - 1058

Technodad — Tue, 10 May 2022 23:11:50 -0000

Seeing eye werewolf?

Re: Wilde Life - 1030

Technodad — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:54:52 -0000

The cultural name trend does not bode well for Oscar.

Re: Wilde Life - 1004

Technodad — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 23:07:36 -0000

What’s the word?

Re: Wilde Life - 883

Technodad — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:32:27 -0000

That we know of...

Re: Wilde Life - 619

Technodad — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:50:04 -0000

But Brain, if they called them Sad Meals, the kids wouldn’t buy them.

Re: Wilde Life - 552

Technodad — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 00:04:56 -0000

Actually, we prefer the term “Knights Tippler”.

Re: Wilde Life - 395

Technodad — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 23:42:56 -0000

Cliff: Plus, nose of a wolf.

Re: Drafts Directory: Action: Markdown to Airmail Compose Email

Technodad — Thu, 05 May 2016 17:25:40 -0000

Thanks for doing this! I was trying to do the same thing, and had veered into using Workflow because I could not figure out how to do the HTML body. Where are you getting the information on the Airmail URL scheme? Their tech support has been unhelpful to say the least..

Re: Migrating to new iMac

Technodad — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:14:03 -0000

Can you boot the old machine in target disk mode and then use migration assistant on the new machine to read your old accounts over?

Re: 3 arrested in massive maple syrup heist

Technodad — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:05:39 -0000

Condiments of Mass Destruction are never an effective deterrent, and constitute a public danger - just look up what happened in the Great Boston Molasses Disaster. The only way to win is not to pour.

Re: draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status-00 - A New HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources

Technodad — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:17:03 -0000

Nice homage to Bradbury.

Re: China builds a jet-propelled water cannon, no fire is safe (video)

Technodad — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:44:02 -0000

Hmmm. Unless I've slipped a decimal point, 4 tons of water per minute is about 1000 Gpm, which ia pretty normal for a modern pumper - there are some commercial pumpers that can do 2000GPM. the range is still impressive, though.

I'd be interested in knowing where they will get 4 tons of water per minute to feed this, outside of drafting while along the waterfront. Collapsing the city water mains won't do anybody any good.

Re: http://technodad.tumblr.com/post/2581080383

Technodad — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:30:00 -0000

I'm still looking for the perfect RSS / news reader. My current favorite is "River of News" which integrates perfectly with Google Reader, which is where I organize my RSS feeds. However, it is online-only, so I can't sync and read on a flight. Flipbook is growing on me, particularly since they have added Google Reader sync.

Re: Skype Down for Many Users [UPDATED]

Technodad — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:04:04 -0000

Umm, skype is peer-to-peer: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/041.... One of the possible failure modes is too many people leaving the network at the same time, as happened due to a big Windows patch in 2007. Maybe too many people shut down for the holidays today...

Re: New ARM architecture (likely Eagle) better suited for OS virtualization

Technodad — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:58:55 -0000

Hmmm..looks like ARM is re-inventing Multics - segment registers, seg faults and all.

Re: Hey Foursquare, Let's Talk About a Check-in Exchange Program

Technodad — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:53:47 -0000

I think the concept of "time served" gets the idea of location-aware services the wrong way around. The idea is to create awareness of your physical location, and your engagement with (and to some extent your loyalty to) those locations. The game aspects, e.g., mayorship or points are incidental motivators to get people to provide the data.

If you relocate, you essentially abandon the relation to that location, and any investment in local affinity equity. It's just like moving to a new town - you need to find new favorite stores, join a new church, make new local friends etc.

Ultimately I think giving location affinity credit to people
who have not earned it by spending time in the location will seriously dilute the value of location awareness services. You would never know if the people were really there.

Re: Hannaford buys former Stop & Shop store in Maine

Technodad — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:28:53 -0000

Was there any comment on the future of the Green Street market in Kennebunk center? They are a Hannaford affiliate - will Hannaford want two stores so close together?

Re: LUNCHTIME POLL: What Web Services Are Worth Paying For?

Technodad — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:51:29 -0000

I'll pay for things that speed up my workflow or provide a valuable source of feedback. I'm excluding y paid-content services like iTunes, Audble and iStockphoto. Top choices:
-Flickr (already paying)
-Mobile Me (already paying)
-Friendfeed
-Delicious
-Tumblr

Re: AT&T to Launch MMS for iPhone September 25

Technodad — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:13:01 -0000

That loud bang that ATT heard after the v3 launch was the sound of the market window closing for MMS. Why pay outrageous carrier messaging fees when you can use twitpic etc. as part of your data plan?

Re: Technodad - Plunging costs show there's plenty of backbone bandwidth

Technodad — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:29:45 -0000

Just testing my Disqus link...