Quick, make an app! (I always thought the red gem guy was unfairly treated.)
- Andrew C (✓)
Since the person already has "everything", that would include them already having a button that says "I have everything" on it, thus it would have probably made more sense to give them a button that says "nothing" on it, but since they have "everything", they probably have that one as well...
- Ciro Villa
What the person who has everything really needs... is storage space.
- DGentry
If someone has everything then you can't give them anything because it would, by definition, already be theirs.
- Kevin Fox
My friends just launched a startup that makes it easy to find movers, painters, childcare, etc. Give it a try and let us know what you think: http://www.vavoca.com/. They also made a cute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch... (all startups should have cute videos)
at the #crunchup August Capital party I talked to the CEO of Twitvid, Adil Lalani, he was raving about the great results from work he's shopped out through oDesk vs other "gig" type sites
- Brian Hendrickson
Sounds good. I need to find a husband who will put things on the wall and fix broken dressers, etc. Or I could just get a handyman.
- Louis Gray
The closest people to where I am are over 3900 miles away :-). Cute video though :-)
- John Mueller
Cute videos are a must for startups :) hehe
- Susan Beebe
I just tried it. I love the idea, but the results I'm getting aren't that great. Here's my search for a plumber in Nashville TN http://www.vavoca.com/search...
- Andrew
We are working on populating the categories and hope to reach other area like Nashville soon. Mostly our efforts initially are focused on the Bay Area for proximity reasons, but there is nothing preventing providers and jobs to post in other areas as well. We would appreciate any marketing help in other city's through word of mouth, facebook, etc.
- Drea Lester
Thanks for the bug report Space Cowboy, we have it resolved now. By the way...any relation to THE Space Cowboy? http://www.spacecowboys.org/ Very sad no mid day parties this year on the Playa.
- Drea Lester
Drea Lester - no problem. About the name, let's just say I liked 'Happy Feet' a lot. :)
- Space Cowboy
@niniane: On an internal mailing list. Someone mentioned a previous manager having said this at one point. As much time as I spend trying to wrestle browsers into some semblance of acceptable performance, this struck a chord with me :)
- Joel Webber
"When Erica Sadun ran a dump on the iPhone 3.0 OS, this little gem popped up: @interface UIViewController (UIViewControllerClassDumpWarning) 00010 - (void)attentionClassDumpUser:(id)fp8 yesItsUsAgain:(id)fp12 althoughSwizzlingAndOverridingPrivateMethodsIsFun:(id)fp16 itWasntMuchFunWhenYourAppStoppedWorking:(id)fp20 pleaseRefrainFromDoingSoInTheFutureOkayThanksBye:(id)fp24; 00011 @end"
- Derek Collison
from Bookmarklet
Nice, but MobileCrunch trying to claim that private methods are "secret apis" is pretty misleading
- Nick Lothian
This is right after he overturned a bucket full of soapy, mop water all over the kitchen floor. He was just in there for a quick rinse.
- April Buchheit
"Participants to the sneak preview of 'The Ledge,' stand on the new glass balconies suspended 1,353 feet (412 meters) in the air and jut out 4 feet (1.22 meters) from the Sears Tower's 103rd floor Skydeck Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Chicago. The Ledge will open to public on Thursday."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
I'd do a poopoo in my pants but I would do it...
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Good stuff. Also: try being on the engineering team at shipping port and having to climb all over 100m cranes (did in 2006). You'll grow an extra pair
- LANjackal
I think I'd go out on it. Maybe. Looks pretty awesome. Love seeing the little girl with no fear. Little kids would zip around fearlessly in jet packs if we had em.
- iTad
I think I would die if I stepped out on that, but I would try anyway.
- Rahsheen?
This is so awesome. I would kill to have something like that in Montreal
- Robert D'Alesio
If I want to fly or levitate I'll expose myself to cosmic radiation like anyone else
- Sean Reiser
You probably couldn't get me to go further than the 5th floor, let alone, the 103rd floor, plus out on a glass floor hanging over the city. Sorry Mr Wonka, but I'll take the stairs.
- Tim Young
I hope they keep a cleaning crew or a mop handy.
- George Brickner
*Gulp* I doubt I'd last even 2 minutes standing on that...
- Tyson Key
I've been coveting copper river salmon for many years now ever since Paul teased me with stories of copper river salmon being served in Charlie's cafe and how it's served only once a year (and it has to be at the right time of year, too, when the salmon is just about to travel up the river and they're still loaded with salmon fatty goodness). Now, if I could also have some of Charlie's fabled bacon cheeseburger soup...
- April Buchheit
I am so jealous, stupid baby growing in my belly keeping me from eating raw fish :)
- Georgia
Georgia it will taste that much better when you finally do. I didn't eat sushi while my wife was pregnant out of a sense of fairness. When we finally had it again it was absolutely fabulous.
- DGentry
How could the Japanese build up such a large population if it's so dangerous to have sushi while pregnant?
- Gabe
It's midnight, so it's official: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY DAVE! We were secretly married in a local park 4 yrs ago. I was flying to Argentina for a month the next day, so we each said that the other one slipped 'wedding' on the massive to-do list. I can't imagine my life without you babe, and as always: may the best of our past be the worst of our future.
Using mail2ff, you can friendfeed from the plane and it gets delivered once your phone reattaches to the internet (assuming you have offline email).
- Paul Buchheit
Terminal -- Good idea about mail2ff. I should have taken a picture :)
- Joe Beda
You're a frequent traveler these days.
- Scott Ludwig
Why Lab-Created Diamonds? Lab-created diamond chemically are diamonds. As one might expect, they look just as beautiful as natural diamonds. They are not the same as diamond substitutes, which have different chemical and visual properties. There are several reasons one might prefer lab-created diamonds to natural, mined diamonds: * No chance of them being "conflict" or "blood" diamonds. * No/low negative environmental consequences. * Easier to get colored diamonds. * No involvement from DeBeers, a company many regard as evil for its long-time monopolistic manipulation of the diamond industry prices and its manipulative advertising, as described in the classic Atlantic article, "Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?". * More important than the issue of conflict diamonds, natural diamonds help keep millions of people in poverty through the "natural resource trap" (aka "Dutch disease"), as described in Chapter 2 of Paul Collier's excellent book, The Bottom Billion. In the case of othe
- EricaJoy
from Bookmarklet
That particular example is kind of a gross color, though.
- ⓞnor
Yeah I'm not a fan of canary diamonds myself. Now the whites and the blues are an entirely different matter.
- EricaJoy
Thanks for sharing; now i need to get the mp3. Anyone recommend a particular recording of this piece? (preferably available at Amazon's mp3 store) :)
- Dan Hsiao
Definitely checkout Yo-Yo Ma's rendition. It's always at the top of my "Top 25 Most Played" iTunes playlist.
- Benjamin Golub
Janos Starker's performance is so much better than Yo-Yo Ma's, if you ask me. Starker tends to be more emotional where as Ma always sounded to be a bit sterile. Also, Ma only recently began playing it properly with the double-stops.
- Akiva
"This year, however, proponents of same-sex marriage have found encouragement in both the California Supreme Court decision and in a subsequent order by Gov. David A. Paterson of New York, instructing agencies in his state to recognize same-sex marriages performed legally elsewhere. The California court has also rebuffed several challenges to its May 15 decision, made by two conservative legal groups and by Republican attorneys general who fear that the California marriages will lead to legal challenges brought in their own states."
- Bret Taylor
The current UK administration defused the issue of same sex unions by the introduction of Civil Partnerships in 2005 linked to an across the board change of relevant laws to provide parity with married couples - with the exception of those with religiious objections (who should really know better) this has gone smoothly and been introduced across the UK. Its not called a marriage but has all the advantages (and responsibilities!) of the mixed sex varaint.
- Jican
The opposition should be pleased. Now that they're married, they'll be having less sex.
- Phil Wolff
from Alert Thingy
our friends Bob and Michael get married in SF on August 20th.
- Todd Mundt
Is that Bruce Willis in the second picture? j/k
- Nesta Campbell
It makes me very happy to see gay folks entering the light in California. I'm also very amused at how frustrating it must be to the Right. Well, I guess in a few years one of us will be proven right. Either a small percentage of the population of California will be happily married and gay or the country will lay in smouldering ruins and people will be having sex with box turtles.
- iTad
Tad: I feel a box turtle urge coming on! Hah.
- Robert Scoble
@Tad - I had box turtles as pets when I was kid. Never considered that activity with them though...
- Hutch Carpenter
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife." - Rick Santorum (Idiot) ex-Senator from Virginia
- iTad
Dude in the pic with "Bruce Willis" is freakin HYOOOGE! I wonder how many opponents of gay marriage have been pwned by his hand...LOL
- Rahsheen?
Oh crap - sorry to pollute Virginia with Santorum! Oops. I wouldn't wish that on anyone...
- iTad
I hope it "sticks". My boyfriend and I are waiting until after November. To have the rug pulled from under us after enjoying a few months of wedded bliss would be too much for the heart to bear.
- Jason Menayan
In my home town in Austria, we had a case of a black man and a white woman wanting to marry, they ended up being refused by the marriage registrar. Of course, we also haven't got gay marriage legalized here. The US have problems, but in some cases, law is way more progressive than in Europe.
- sebmos
@Phil: LOL! This has certainly been a momentous (and good) development. But it would be nice to see these kinds of decisions made through the legislative process. The fact that this decided in the courts will make the outcome more contentious than it would have been had the population been forced to have a legitimate conversation about the issue. The more bigoted corners of our society now have a victim card to play - and play it they shall...
- Forrest Cox
@Forrest: The genius of our system of government lies in its checks and balances. In particular, an unfettered democracy would be subject to the problem of the "tyranny of the majority". Fortunately this is offset by our Constitution and our courts, whose job is to ensure that individual rights are not trampled on, no matter how unpopular that individual may be, for whatever reason. Any bigots playing the victim card are ignorant of basic civics.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Ruchira I agree. The Cali court is playing exactly its Constitutional role, and it's essentially a conservative and Federalist approach to reconciling changing societal mores and the demands of a minority. As I've commented elsewhere, we are winning this argument, and we're doing it state by state, rather than through a Federal fiat, which simply is not feasible at this time. All good things...
- Rick Powell