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"What can i say? I am not trendy, obviously. I searched for Mike Rappaport, and although most of his recent writing was about politics, I did find some "heart" in this recent item of his. http://www.allvoices.com/contr..." - John E. Bredehoft

"There are people in the northeastern United States who would LOVE to vacation in Upland, California. Too bad the Uplander Motel is gone (although I always called it the "Lander" after its sign got damaged). Perhaps people can sleep in the Vons grocery aisles. Now that I think about it, there is that new hotel on the east side of town that wasn't there before. Perhaps vacationers will arrive there now." - John E. Bredehoft

"Most Ontario residents of a certain age were born in Upland anyway." - John E. Bredehoft

"Regarding your attempt at semi-anonymity - has the Daily Bulletin taken down all of the "show me the funny" billboards that they used to have?" - John E. Bredehoft

"It might actually be a feature. Perhaps Disqus is configured to close comments after a few weeks or something. My Disqus comments on my blogs don't do this, but perhaps mine is configured differently." - John E. Bredehoft

"I've already written some stuff about this (after I engaged in a conversation with Robert Scoble about it), but while reading your post I was just hit with a thought - we've seen (or heard) this before. Several years ago my company was a division of Motorola, and while I walked through our offices, I'd constantly encounter people talking to themselves. They would be walking alone down the hall, carrying on a conversation with their imaginary friends. Eventually I realized that these people actually WERE talking to real people - it's just that they had Bluetooth earbuds which (at that time) were not easily detectable, so it LOOKED like they were talking to no one. There's a common thread here between the two Google Glass people who walk into a bar, the guy with the Bluetooth earbud who speaks into thin air, and people like me who hang out by post offices and say that we're "playing Ingress." In all of these cases, the people are occupying two realities at once - the physical reality of..." - John E. Bredehoft

"Perhaps "radio friendly" is the key here. Historically, Depeche Mode's lead singles haven't necessarily sounded like the rest of the album. We'll have to see what the remainder sounds like. I still haven't heard the B side yet..." - John E. Bredehoft

"At least it's better than "uppity." I guess." - John E. Bredehoft

"I suspect there's an editing error in this sentence: "I will regret taking the time to experience the restaurant’s Sunday brunch." Of course, all of my writing is allways of the hihest qualtiy. I never visited Rapour myself. Did Allen have any idea why it closed?" - John E. Bredehoft

What prompted this - https://plus.google.com/#100535... - John E. Bredehoft

"9. Your girlfriend agrees with everything you say." - John E. Bredehoft

"I was already scarred by Nelson the dildo collector." - John E. Bredehoft

"I didn't see the show, but I was wondering how they could get drama out of people who work a lot. I guess they couldn't." - John E. Bredehoft

"I hope that Castle Communications can get better participation from the vendors. I attended the 2011 show, and while I enjoyed the Prius test drive (and the food trucks), I was disappointed to find no staffing in either the Ford or the Honda areas. I realize that this isn't Detroit, but it would be nice if all of the companies actually sent people to an auto show at which they're exhibiting." - John E. Bredehoft

no. and I haven't been to me, either. - MoTO #TeamMonique

^^^ Yup - Greg GuitarBuster

"I enjoyed Dragon Loco when I visited it. I have not yet been to London Burger (although I'm somewhat behind; I haven't even made it to King Taco yet)." - John E. Bredehoft

"Great, Chris, now I have the Chameleons' version of "Little Red Rooster" (complete with tree frog) going through my head... While I never officially had Crandall for a professor, the Pascal programming portion of the introductory Physics lab (including its introduction to Unix on Reed's DEC PDP/11-70) was indirectly responsible for much of my future employment. Echoing Gary Crandall's comment, it's amazing how one person can influence so many people - and this would be true even if Crandall had never worked for Apple or NeXT. P.S. I had forgotten that you were in Daryl Jenks. If you haven't heard, I must sadly report that Darrell Jenks himself passed away earlier this year. Search YouTube for a video of the "Diplomat Drummer" and you'll find him." - John E. Bredehoft

"I wasn't aware of the origins of this (if Cover Flow truly was the original one to use it), but it can be found in Google's Ingress game (when you need to move through your Ingress objects such as resonators and portal keys)." - John E. Bredehoft

"I revisited the comments from the 2010 post, which described various cost-related issues. And now I realize that cost is paramount in the whole debate. While a phone may be purhcased for both form and functional reasons, a case is purchased solely for functional reasons. As such, case prices are subject to demand pressures - especially since the perceived price of the phones is much lower than their actual price. (My perceived price for my smartphone was $50, so I'm not going to run out and pay $100 for a case.) I considered the inverse. What if Company X designed a really really ugly phone, and a third party developed cases that substantially improved the form of the phone? In that instance, the case would be considered a luxury item with high elasticity of demand, and I wouldn't be surprised if the case exceeded the cost of the original phone." - John E. Bredehoft

"Of course, this will increase the stress of people in nearby cubicles who hear the sound..." - John E. Bredehoft

"This will be debated more and more, as governments such as my national government in the United States and my state government in California face budget shortfalls - and we have it mild compared to countries such as Greece. In a recent post, I wrote the following (in part): "Of course this will be a nasty fight, since the governments want money to continue services, and the governments will claim that Google and Apple are throwing people on the street. The tech companies, on the other hand, want money to continue what they do, and the companies will claim that California and the European governments are throwing people on the street."" - John E. Bredehoft

Minus the aggregation, of course. - John E. Bredehoft

Nope. - Me

My grandmother was a newspaper journalist at one point in her life, during a time when women were not allowed to publish serious news stories under their own byline. She was the first reporter on the scene when Dutch Shultz was shot, but she never got credit for the story. Politics, crime, corruption, and the Mob, she had her thumb on the pulse of whatever was going on in the City of Newark, NJ. But there was also another side of her, the country girl that grew up on the family farm, with a survivalist instinct and love of science, history, and literature. She was one of 4 girls, 2 of which were school teachers that died during the 1918 flu pandemic. She was disowned by her family when she had not one, but two children out of wedlock, each by different fathers. She raised those kids during the Great Depression by herself, with no help from anyone. Her oldest child, my father, had serious health problems and wasn't expected to live to see the age of 18. Because of lung problems he... more... - April Russo

#GrandmaMemories - April Russo

"Hopefully they can reverse the trend. I use Microsoft Security Essentials on my netbook; I'm averse to paying for an anti-virus package that costs almost as much as the computer that hosts it." - John E. Bredehoft

"To extend the point a bit, remember that if one person other than yourself can see a private message, it's not private. Let's say that Nancy sent a private email to Chris complaining about their boss. All Chris has to do is take a screen shot of that message, and it can be public for all the world to see." - John E. Bredehoft

"I suspect the portal submissions are more important than the paths, for two reasons: (1) It is possible to use Ingress in a car, and (2) it is possible to turn Ingress off and on, and Ingress provides no data to Google when it is turned off." - John E. Bredehoft

Bump. - John E. Bredehoft

"Another positive from the game. After exploring some of the existing portals in downtown Ontario, California, I submitted a suggestion that a local business, Logan's Candies, be added. After I finished submitting the suggestion, I went in and got some candy canes. The net effect will probably be negligible, but I'm sure that a number of museums and the like will have increased visitations because of Ingress." - John E. Bredehoft

"Another positive from the game. After exploring some of the existing portals in downtown Ontario, California, I submitted a suggestion that a local business, Logan's Candies, be added. After I finished submitting the suggestion, I went in and got some candy canes. The net effect will probably be negligible, but I'm sure that a number of museums and the like will have increased visitations because of Ingress." - John E. Bredehoft

"This is funny for all the wrong reasons. So Verizon gets crap on Twitter for being dev unfriendly. Let me repeat that - Verizon gets crap ON TWITTER for being dev unfriendly. Twitter, that great champion of third party developers. Or, as the kids say, lulz." - John E. Bredehoft