Gary Burd

"Each coach writes down a yard-line at which they would elect to start their offense. The numbers are given to the referee in sealed envelopes; whichever coach picked the lower yard-line wins the auction and get the ball first. The game plays out in sudden death." - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

Really great in theory, but hard to imagine this getting implemented in the NFL. Also, what if both coaches write down the same yard-line? Do it again? - Dan Hsiao

"Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said." - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

They can't be making circles, least of all stoned! Ellipses, maybe. Irregular spirals most likely, random paths certainly [been there done that, and there were wallaby-equivalent giant rabbits involved!] - ianf ⌘

It sounds like Clojure is a pratical language. - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

I didn't find that article at all informative, unfortunately. I'm still waiting for a good Clojure article. I'm too busy programming in Scheme on the JVM to look into Clojure deeply myself. - Bruce Lewis

Click the > at lower left corner to view the photos. - Gary Burd

I'm told there are REO property sales in Detroit to which the bank brings cash to the closing. - Ervin

That is awesome! - Alex Scoble

I found this article linked from a story about Hilary Clinton's elbow. My elbow looks a lot like the last xray on the page. - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

You two should hang out. Maybe after the crisis in Iran (and the API release). - τorƍue

http://www.nydailynews.com/news... "She is at home resting comfortably - or uncomfortably," said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. "She is working from home. She has already taken some calls, and I'm sure learning ... how well you can text with one arm in a sling." - Gary Burd

wow, that is a nice feature - Susan Beebe

means that youtube videos that i favorite will appear on FF almost instantly, right? - Chris Hofmann

Ouch! - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

You can give her some tips. - Casey Muller

Ouch is right. - Louis Gray

:( - Paul Buchheit

ouch! - Jonas Lindberg

"So what is Opera Unite? In a nutshell, Opera Unite is a collaborative technology that uses a compact server inside the Opera desktop browser to share data and services. You can write applications — in the form of Opera Unite Services — that use this server to serve content to other Web users." - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

They are "a clinical dilemma in orthopedics." - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

That's supposed to be a different -ma word :) - Alex

Yeah, the park was in that lady's backyard. :P - Cristo

"As a broker who specializes in foreign investments, I am always wary of political risk. I must consider how the threat of arbitrary government action could undermine the value of my investments. However, recent events show that political risk is now greater here than abroad, and U.S. assets, which have historically traded at premium valuations based on faith in our legal system, will soon trade at discounts to reflect this new threat. The fear of having contracts abrogated or property rights violated when doing so serves some contrived greater good will substantially raise our cost of capital and further reduce our competitiveness." - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

I didn't hear what happened, but I'm assuming you'll be at full strength for the next ski season? - Sean O'Connor

Friend of mind got hit by car while riding his bike in December. Broke his back and wrist but wrist is taking the longest to heal and recover. Not fun stuff. - Hayes Haugen

Fun, hopefully he did lots of it in post and not post-it. - Hayes Haugen

Here's the video showing how he did it: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Gary Burd

don't like - Laurence Gonsalves

I have been doing a fair amount of one-handed typing lately, while I feed my son with the other hand. According to April's latest post, I should probably be paying more attention to him, but feeding is pretty boring. I have considered getting a frogpad. I still use vim for most editing tasks though, even one-handed. - Robert Felty

"For a meteorologist is doesn't get much better than this!" - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

Nifty. Cliff Mass weather blog was fun during the snowstorm this past winter. If you are NW weather nerd you should have this in your regulars: http://www.atmos.washington.edu/mm5rt... - Hayes Haugen

"Mish gave an @Google talk, sharing his perspective on the state of the global economy (housing, the stock market, commodities, etc.) He also provides his interesting story about how he started blogging, and the impact that it has had on his life personally and professionally." - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

I attended this talk, and was really underwhelmed. (am familiar with his blog, have read his stuff, etc.) - Sean O'Connor

"You'd better like your music dark and relentless, and contextual understandings of Sunn O))) and black metal and drone helped. Lacking those things, perhaps you suspended your disbelief enough to appreciate Malfeic's scorched voice or, unfortunately, dismissed it outright as two self-serious dudes and their fucked-up friends dicking around with darkness. Incorrect, I think, but understandable. Monoliths & Dimensions requires no such warnings. Per Sunn O)))'s long-standing dogma, "Maximum volume [still] yields maximum results." But this time, there's enough musical range and temperance to usher even the most resolute naysayer into this intricate wonderland." - Gary Burd via Bookmarklet

I tried. - Hayes Haugen

I've missed them every time they've come to Seattle. I have to admit they scare me a little. - Moishe Lettvin

Which lake is this? - Mitch

Beautiful and so peaceful... nice capture! - Susan Beebe via BuddyFeed

The hat girl brings back the memories. - Hayes Haugen

Wow, this is great. The new bounty-mechanism on stackoverflow seems to be perfect for this kind of competition. - sdfx

Except they let them use unicode which means almost twice as many bits than are available in an SMS message. Know it's a twitter contest but SMS is what it's all about. - Hayes Haugen

I found this: http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archive... - Gary Burd

Nice find, Gary. - Louis Gray

heh why did I even try to read that? :) - holly

I'll miss working with Pete! So no 'like' on this from me :( - Moishe Lettvin via BuddyFeed