Gabe

"There's a ruler in inches and cm, and sort of free form protractor, (which can also be used to measure pipe diameters, although that's a bit redundant, because it's right next to a ruler) there's also lines for writing and prioritizing notes, and a rudimentary RGB/CMYK color wheel" - Gabe from Bookmarklet

Let's home you never lose or gain significant amounts of weight. This could end up being as accurate as the yard's origin being the length from the center of the chest to the tip of the fingers. - Andy Bakun

I think it might be more useful to have the 0 point at the wrist end rather than the elbow end. - Gabe

Assuming I have a weather report (temperature, pressure, and relative humidity), how can I determine the mass of water vapor in some volume of air? - Gabe

Thanks, Clare. I just figured that there was some common equation to tell me specific humidity. I didn't expect that it was so uncommon that it would require derivation and table lookups. You see, I am trying to figure out the heat rate for a gas turbine to compute what it would cost to run. The heat rate is specified at a specific temperature, pressure, and humidity, so I wanted to... more... - Gabe

Dress up as an AV device for Halloween. - Gabe from Bookmarklet

fantastic. - T. Brent, technopeasant

I'm pretty sure I had SOMETHING to do with giving you this idea.. I just can't remember. - Alex

From Midwest ISO - Gabe from Bookmarklet

It's interesting that it can go negative. You would actually have to pay to generate power! - Gabe

Experience tells me that if I had to pay $4 for them, there would be much more. But why would they be free? - Gabe

yuck - 3 musketeers! - Maggie

$5 - Paul Buchheit

Whole Foods sells small bananas for $0.60 each, or they sell bananas for $0.60/lb? - Gabe

Emma Lee - Gabe

Possibly a street name? - Maggie

Gabe, I'll bet you were thrown off by the term "Pop". Check out "What Do You Call a Carbonated Soft Drink? [US regional differences; enlarge map]" http://friendfeed.com/billrom... (and a few more: http://friendfeed.com/monasfe... , http://friendfeed.com/itafrom... ) - Micah Wittman

Let's say that airport security has confiscated your razor blades but you really like your razor and don't want to get a crappy disposable? - Gabe

"cheap, crappy disposable" is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. I ended up having to use a two blade airport hotel disposable on a recent trip, and it made the razors I normally use seem like a luxury. Of course, you could always just grow a beard or let your leg hair grow. ;) - Cristo

Different segment? - Paul Buchheit from iPhone

My original statement really applied to my thinking of already compiled code that was in memory in the process of being executed. Areas of memory can be used to store code as data, and can be used to execute data as code. In my mind, data that is executed as code which immediately faults or raises exceptions was not intended to be code. Then again, there were people in my CS classes that could probably produce this result also. ;) - Cristo

Why would they do something silly like that? - Gabe

Yes, but you can crowd source the corrections. ;) - Cristo

I turn them off anyway. Why do you need them? - Cristo

Sometimes I log into Facebook several times a second. And then I poke some people and leave very quickly. - Cristo

Hazel went shopping for pumpkins for her first Halloween today. - Gabe

The coat was actually a gift from my boss (really his wife). I'll tell him that you like it. In case you want one of your own, it came from http://www.hannaandersson.com/ - Gabe

The Sun is not a mass of incandescent gas. It is actually a miasma of incandescent plasma. - Gabe

"Zachary’s offense? Taking a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school. He was so excited about recently joining the Cub Scouts that he wanted to use it at lunch. School officials concluded that he had violated their zero-tolerance policy on weapons, and Zachary was suspended and now faces 45 days in the district’s reform school." - Gabe from Bookmarklet

The great thing about zero tolerance is that it eliminates discrimination. Apparently the answer to black kids getting suspended more often than white kids is to suspend the white kids more often, rather than suspend the black kids less often. - Gabe

“It just seems unfair,” Zachary said :) - François Dongier

Love it! I bought that skeleton outfit too! so so cute! - Rachel Lea Fox

sweet baby - Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ

I was sure surprised to find out! - Gabe

I guess you don't watch ER much... - Maggie

The 59 Bel Air is about 18" and maybe 180lbs bigger than the 2009 Malibu - Gabe from Bookmarklet

Andrew, it was an unrestored '59 Chevy with 74k miles on the broken odometer. It didn't even have a V8. Not much was wasted. - Gabe

Ha you're so geeky - Becca

Hey, I didn't come up with that. - Gabe

We feel fortunate that Spencer doesn't really seem to cry just cause he feels like it. Sometimes it can take a little guessing as to what he wants, but there is usually a solution. - Robert Felty

"I want to get from A to B. Step A: Something goes wrong. I investigate. Dead end. I google it. Dead end. I check logs. Dead end. I increase logging. More evidence. I google that. Dead end. I download a tool that will get more info. Tool fails to install. I google the installation failure. Dead end. I look for another tool, install that, run it: crashes. I investigate the crash. Dead end. I find a different tool, install that. Get more info. Investigate that. Dead end. Google it. Dead end. Stack overflow it: dead end. Drink coffee, consider taking up smoking. Dead end. Wait two weeks, increase bounty at stack overflow. Dead end. Reboot, check patch level, look for random hints from astrological tables, listen to reggae... dread end. Sometime later, randomly: breakthrough. And on step B." - Gabe from Bookmarklet

1.6x 18MP, 8fps, ISO 6400, 1080p video, all for $1700 - Gabe from Bookmarklet

I calculate that this thing is moving 143,327,232 pixels per second (18MP * 8fps = 144MP/s), which makes it at least 15% faster than any other camera (the next fastest I could find was the D3x, 24.5MP * 5fps = 122MP/s). - Gabe

In 9th grade, I deemed myself the Princess of Darkness - Becca

"Steve Valdez says he was shocked when he was told he had to put his thumbprint on a check written on his wife's Bank of America check. Valdez says the check was written to him with the same address he has on his driver's license. Although he had two forms of identification both with pictures, the bank still required Valdez to give a thumbprint before it would cash the check. But that was impossible, because Valdez was born without arms and wears prosthetic devices." - Gabe from Bookmarklet

My 4-month-old doesn't have any shoes as far as I know. I certainly never even considered getting her any until now. - Gabe

"Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city's surveillance network has claimed. The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch criminals. In one month CCTV helped capture just eight out of 269 suspected robbers." - Gabe from Bookmarklet

This stat in the article was also interesting though: "We estimate more than 70% of murder investigations have been solved with the help of CCTV retrievals". I wonder how instrumental CCTVs were in those cases and how much spin the police spokesperson was imparting on that statement. - Simon

Hazel attended her second wedding today. - Gabe

To celebrate her 4th birthday, we decided to take her to get give her some extreme pain. There must be some anesthetic in the vaccines, though, because she was asleep before she got back in the car. - Gabe