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Stephen Mack
I'm a resident of Silicon Valley, father of two small children, the Director of TiVoCast Operations for TiVo (10 years now), and I care about things.
The Letter V - http://www.zeigen.com/blog...
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Suck it, rest of alphabet. The letter V has won popular culture.
- Stephen Mack
There's a magazine called "V" too, apparently, but I'm not very familiar with it.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
What, you live at McDonalds? Wow!
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Or "McDonald" [sic]
- Stephen Mack
from email
Nah, that's the dining room. Don't need a dishwasher.
- John E. Bredehoft
Train them early.
- EricaJoy
I think it's the box they're referring to - it's for people that live in boxes
- Jesse Stay
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Jet landing at Moffett while I drive on 101. It passed overhead about 100 ft. Wroooooooooooooooooooom
Rachel Lea Fox liked this
Was the pilot using his iPhone at the same time? :P
- Glen Campbell
No, using laptop on the Free Google WiFi, of course.
- Neal Krummell
I heard that one go over the house too. It sounded crazy close.
- Rachel Lea Fox
That's really scary at night, especially when they're military jets who practice lights-off landings.
- Tudor Bosman
Glen, I posted this after I parked, I promise. :)
- Stephen Mack
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Quick brain puzzler: Jack is looking at Anne, and Anne is looking at George; Jack is married, George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? Please answer "yes" or "no" or "cannot be determined."
Tyson Key, Jesse Stay, Pam Gwenzi and 15 other people liked this
yes
- Brian Sullivan
cannot be determined. no one said anything about Ann's marital status
- Josh Haley
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Yes. ROT-13 spoiler follows: Vs Naar vf zneevrq, gura Naar (n zneevrq crefba) vf ybbxvat ng Trbetr (hazneevrq). Vs Naar vf abg zneevrq, gura Wnpx (zneevrq) vf ybbxvat ng Naar (hazneevrq). Va rvgure pnfr, jr unir n zneevrq crefba ybbxvat ng na hazneevrq crefba.
- Tudor Bosman
yes - took me a while.....
- Mike Nencetti
LMFAO
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Good old ROT-13! Need to go get a Firefox plug-in, brb. Furrfu!
- Stephen Mack
Or Google for ROT-13 :) http://www.faqintosh.com/risorse...
- Tudor Bosman
I still have command line shell for #!/usr/bin/tr A-Za-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m -- but I used to have a plug-in that I liked for one-stop in-browser ROT 13 decode/encode (highlight, right-click).
- Stephen Mack
Yes
- Cristo
Oh, yes, I get it now. Yay for being able to decode ROT-13 in my head.
- Chieze Okoye
Ok, I get it now, but tudor's encoded explanation was slightly misleading. if Ann is unmarried, Jack is looking at her. If she is married, she is looking at George so I change my answer to yes. Hey, I'm sick so I get two tries.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
how is that different from what Tudor said?
- Chieze Okoye
it's not I guess. I am reading everything wrong right now. might be time to put the phone down. ugh
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Good work, all! Too easy, I guess.
- Stephen Mack
This came from the following article, which is an excellent read about how "high IQ" and "smart" are two different things: http://www.newscientist.com/article... (ignore the gratuitous but deserved Bush Jr.-bashing in the beginning)
- Stephen Mack
Yes, says "this" Anne who is married to Jack. We just can't figure out who George is.
- Anne Bouey
Well, you're the one looking at him, let us know! :)
- Stephen Mack
"A survey of members of Mensa (the High IQ Society) in Canada in the mid-1980s found that 44 per cent of them believed in astrology, 51 per cent believed in biorhythms and 56 per cent believed in aliens " -- is the implication that these are known to be false?
- Cristo
yes
- Bruce Lewis
Mensa members seem to be the type of people to answer provocatively to throw off polls, I think. So anyone read that http://www.newscientist.com/article... article? Maybe I should bookmarklet it separately.
- Stephen Mack
I'm looking at getting another beer. So I beat all y'all. Take that.
- Jim Hearts FF
Stephen, I read it. I got all the questions right. ;) I also think there is a high probability that there is life on other planets, so I guess that makes me intelligent but not rational according to some. Not sure who appointed them the rational czars though.
- Cristo
yes. I was about to go with cannot determine :). I only got 2/3 of the articles questions right :(
- Dario Gomez
Cristo, I think that probably most rational people believe life probably exists on other planets. It's the visiting us on Earth part that's unsupported by evidence or logic.
- Stephen Mack
Cristo, I don't think life on other planets or any of the quoted beliefs in your comment are falsifiable, and I don't think people's non-falsifiable beliefs measure rationality. Just to be clear, I was answering "yes" to the puzzle, not your comment.
- Bruce Lewis
this married Jack is looking at married Anne and loves what he sees :-) wanna go out to dinner?
- Jack Norris
Heh heh heh -- I sent Anne a DM asking her if this "Jack Norris" guy was bothering her. She was very polite in pointing out that it's her husband.
- Stephen Mack
This sounds like a Google interview question
- Jesse Stay
Beloved boardgame Settlers of Catan comes to iPhone (CNET Reviews) (Plus my own review is http://www.zeigen.com/blog...) - http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19...
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From the (brief) review: "...there's more than enough variety here to keep Catan newcomers and veterans alike gaming happily for hours, days, even weeks on end. And given that the actual board game routinely sells for around $40, the $4.99 iPhone edition is practically the bargain of the century." My review posted at http://www.zeigen.com/blog...
- Stephen Mack
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I'll review myself tonight when I get a chance to try it out.
- Stephen Mack
Awesome! I love this game!!
- Georgia Diehl
Still my favorite board game ever.
- Stephen Mack
Android version coming at some point. :)
- EricaJoy
Erica: Yeah sure! :)
- Stephen Mack
They are already working on it. No release date set yet though.
- EricaJoy
My review is here: http://friendfeed.com/zeigen...
- Stephen Mack
No multiplayer other than passing the phone around? Well that's silly. Looks like they rushed to get it out the door. Hopefully more features will come in rapid releases.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin: Fully agree. But to be honest for any kind of iPhone game I'm looking more for single-player experiences anyway.
- Stephen Mack
I think we should get together and play in person!
- Dario Gomez
I bought it. Was a lot of fun while I was sick in bed
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin, hope you're feeling better. Dario, would be great to set up a game night.
- Stephen Mack
I am feeling much better, thanks!
- Benjamin Golub
Catan iPhone app review - http://www.zeigen.com/blog...
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OMG!
- Kate Schmidt
Hi Kate -- go get it!
- Stephen Mack
Craigslist Sitar Lessons - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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The blogger who writes "Living Craigslist" took my sister Joanna up on a free sitar lesson, and made a vlog about it. The blog post is here: http://www.livingcraigslist.com/... -- and yes, that's my sister Joanna in the video teaching him. She's a full-time sitar teacher.
- Stephen Mack
You damn lawn, get off my kids - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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ha!
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Castle On the Ocean -- Could Paper Craft Get Any Better? | ZuZu Top - http://zuzutop.com/2009...
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From the post: "Going through a recent paper craft exhibition in Tokyo, simply called ‘Castle on the Ocean’ exhibition, one thing that couldn’t escape an attendee’s attention is a piece of work by a Japanese paper craft genius going by the name Wataru Itou. From the piece of work – a complete city, with all the trappings like a electrical lights and even a train – one would be forgiven for thinking the creator is someone who has been in paper craft for decades. Yet as it turns out, Itou is but ‘just’ a student of art at one of Tokyo’s university. Obviously, there lies a very promising student. Words alone cannot exactly capture the intensity of Itou’s creation."
- Stephen Mack
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Very cool. I wonder how long that took to craft? A month? A year? Longer?
- Ken Gidley
Good question, Ken. The article doesn't provide much in the way of detail. It would have to be more than a month, right?
- Stephen Mack
snopes.com: Ring Around the Rosie. Claim: The nursery rhyme 'Ring Around the Rosie' is a coded reference to the Black Plague. Status: False. - http://www.snopes.com/languag...
Heard some friends repeat this urban legend over the weekend. A teacher taught me this myth when I was a young kid and I believed it completely until I stumbled across this Snopes page years ago.
- Stephen Mack
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I'd quote from the page but I'm too busy to defeat their stupid anti-copy-and-paste script. They also have an annoying number of pop-unders. I wish they had an option where I could pay them money to avoid ads.
- Stephen Mack
I think 'Ring Around the Rosie' is a coded reference to 'Flash Forward', - e.g. the 'all fall down' part. :)
- Ken Gidley
Ken: Heheh.
- Stephen Mack
Dang, I've repeated this urban legend many a times. Thanks for the correction Stephen. I'll add it in with the Nova legend, and lemmings going over cliffs.
- Dario Gomez
If even one person doesn't repeat the legend, it was worth posting. Thanks for being that person, Dario!
- Stephen Mack
Two birds with one stone in this case. A mistake which in fact was in one my history books growing up! The mistake is that the wizard of Oz was based on the populist movement of the time. Another fun bit of trivia I'll have to discard. :(
- Dario Gomez
"V" begins tonight on ABC, so get your Season Pass on your TiVo DVR. I'd wondered what Morris Chestnut was up to. - http://www3.tivo.com/tivo-tc...
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Does this have the same plot as the previous V?
- Cristo
Cristo: NO SPOILERS. :)
- Stephen Mack
...but I'm guessing, probably, yeah.
- Stephen Mack
So are they going to remake LOST next? :)
- Cristo
They already tried, it's called "Flash Forward."
- Stephen Mack
Hey! I like Flash Forward! So far anyway :p I have too many shows to keep up with lately that Idk if I can fit V in. Altho being a scifi fan you'd think I'd have seen marketing on this.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from iPhone
Zulema -- I think ABC has done quite a bit of advertising, but maybe you're skipping those commercials? :) And I still watch Fast Forward (although they're losing me) so just wanted to poke a little fun.
- Stephen Mack
Modern Man’s Kama Sutra - http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/modern-...
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Reminds me of my high-school years
- Neal Krummell
starting at about age 13 or so....yep, I can see it....
- Morgan Haley
If only all PC cases used thumbscrews...
- Stephen Mack
Hello, Jack-O-Lantern - http://www.zeigen.com/blog...
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I Love xkcd on Vimeo - http://www.vimeo.com/7151435
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Perfect adapation of http://xkcd.com/442/ ("XKCD Loves the Discovery Channel") into a song and animation. Full of subtle meme references and enhancements to the original strip. Awesome.
- Stephen Mack
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Definition of being a jerk: 1. Go to your "best of the day" feed. Note that it includes a picture from a friend of yours, of that friend's twins enjoying Halloween. 2. Take a screenshot and post it and complain that it's "not interesting."
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Also, fail by calling the community not geek enough when you have a tab open in said screenshot on how to take screenshots.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Mehmet, ha ha ha!
- Stephen Mack
Look, I actually admire Robert as much as the next geek, but this is a low class move. Robert, you need to rethink what you're doing here.
- Stephen Mack
Amen I'm glad to see more people calling Scoble on his crap. I won't see any more of it because he's blocked.
- Gunny Wallen
Good grief, it was at 10pm EST on a Sunday. People have better things to do than make Robert happy at that time of day. No more Robert Scoble in my feeds.
- Kenton
strange folks! and i thought i was the only kid here, well i dont like your post Louis would never even had thought about that, people just need reasons to make a post ;)
- ffcode
ffcode, you don't have to like it. :) Not everyone has to agree. The fact you disagree doesn't change how I feel. Louis may not even feel it's rude, but that doesn't change the fact that to me Robert's behavior seemed very rude.
- Stephen Mack
okay can be
- ffcode
Mehmet, good catch!
- Micah Wittman
;) I aim to please
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
++Stephen....couldn't agree more.
- Bonnie Foster
I don't think Robert is trying to be Rude, I think he's just trying to stir the pot. Many take the bait, not because we disagree with him (which we clearly do) but, to remind him that the tools he is now bashing (FriendFeed and Google Reader) are very much alive and well. That said, this whole debate is getting old.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I made a new blog post.
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I tweeted about the blog post.
- Stephen Mack
I liked the tweet.
- Stephen Mack
I made a comment
- Josh Haley
I went to FF to promote the blog post.
- Stephen Mack
I made a comment on the comment to the blog post tweet.
- Stephen Mack
I had it fed into Google Reader and liked it there.
- Stephen Mack
link to the blog post?
- JSNFLMNG
I made a meta post about the process.
- Stephen Mack
I spell-check all Josh's coemmnts. =)
- Micah Wittman
"Things are so complicated nowadays. In my day, if you had to pee, you peed on a tree."
- Josh Haley
I made a Facebook fan page for readers of the post.
- Stephen Mack
I lol'd twice at Josh, but that's beside the point.
- Stephen Mack
I bookmarked the blog post in a dozen different services.
- Stephen Mack
Some of those bookmarks got aggregated, so I liked those too.
- Stephen Mack
I bookmarklet'd your Facebook fan page into Posterous so back into Friendfeed.
- Micah Wittman
Too bad the blog post sucked.
- Stephen Mack
"The End"
- Stephen Mack
I hope you enjoyed the text version of the YouTube video I just made about the blog post.
- Stephen Mack
Submitted to Digg.
- Josh Haley
It all came back to FF.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
I completely story-boarded all this so Spielberg could make a blockbuster.
- Micah Wittman
In retrospect this would work better in comic book format, posted to flickr.
- Stephen Mack
if only that process could be done collaboratively.
- JSNFLMNG
We could all work on the wiki page together.
- Stephen Mack
Our count this year: 240 trick or treaters this year, down from 275 or so last year.
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Wait, 241. Kid, it's 10:15, go home, Halloween is over.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
So, it's just LA kids that are lame. They didn't even take candy from the bowl I left on the porch.
- Anika
Saw that, Anika -- weird. Did you have lights on?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Combined total of zero trick or treaters for the past 25 years. No excuse for buying Halloween candy. :-(
- Marvin Smith
Yep. Any non-lazy kid who took the time to walk to the steps would have seen the bowl. But I think most kids were just lazy. I heard many kids yelling from the sidewalk at people, "Do you have candy?" Pfffft. You gotta work for it.
- Anika
Number of trick or treaters was down at my place this year, we had maybe 50-60, down from about 90-100 last year. Leftover candy FTW! (or the office)
- Ken Gidley
Swine flu? Parties? With the full moon and Saturday and mild weather, I expected bigger numbers. Plus the church around the corner was having a big party with live music. Most of my neighbors' houses were dark, though, and the crazy over-the-top place on the corner is gone.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
And we just got two very tired teens at 11:35. Maybe I should switch off the lights.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Total number of tick or treaters at our apartment: 1 - Total number of doors we knocked on that had treats for kids: 0 - apartment complexes suck for Halloween - We had a good haul from Downtown Saratoga trick or treating though.
- Carl Haynes
We had about 100-120 kids. We were surprised though since they didn't start until 7:30ish, at 9:30 we turned off the lights.
- Georgia Diehl
We had 427 visitors on Halloween and 85 on the day before.
- Rachel Lea Fox
That sounds like an awful lot of kids, we only ended up with about a dozen visitors at my house. I bet that every house on your block is probably overflowing with kids.
- Davis Freeberg
Davis, it was maybe once house in five that was answering the door. I think a lot of my neighbors get intimidated from the volume of trick-or-treaters. Our record was a few years ago, we had probably around 400.
- Stephen Mack
Georgia, that's more than I would have expected for your neighborhood -- and surprising you got nothing before 7:30. Rachel, ah, thanks for giving us the Saturday count! 427 is amazing and up a lot from last year, right? I bet you break 1k in 2010 if you run it Sat/Sun.
- Stephen Mack
"The Caretaker" at Haunted Fox Hollow
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He is guarding the souls at http://hauntedfoxhollow.com/ -- he'll get ya get ya get ya one way or another.
- Stephen Mack
from email
I love this pic!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Unsolicited parenting advice printed on the plastic bags in the produce aisle: TO AVOID SUFFOCATION KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN
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Thanks Safeway! I'll keep as far away from them as I can. But those damn children are everywhere, following me, suffocating me. I just want to be free.
- Stephen Mack
In unrelated news, Google Chrome gives outs unsolicited Halloween advice when you enter incognito mode: "BE WARY OF PEOPLE STANDING BEHIND YOU."
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Three quick iPhone snaps from http://www.hauntedfoxhollow.com tonight. Can you believe this is actually the first time I've ever uploaded photos to Flickr? The Flickr iPhone app is pretty, and not bad to use. Slow, though.
- Stephen Mack
I posted the second one in the "noir" color scheme separately @ http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... and the third one was posted separately @ http://friendfeed.com/zeigen...
- Stephen Mack
Can't wait to visit Rachel and Kevin's haunted house in Sunnyvale (http://hauntedfoxhollow.com/)
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TONIGHT! Kevin and Rachel, hope preparations are going well!
- Stephen Mack
What time you going over Stephen? Lisa and I probably going to stop by tonight too, maybe 8:00ish or so.
- Ken Gidley
Probably 9ish -- depends on how quickly the kids fall asleep. :)
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
So awesome! Amazing job. Huge talented cast too.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Two quick pics, one at http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... and the other at http://friendfeed.com/zeigen...
- Stephen Mack
I think I know one stop tomorrow! Thanks for the reminder. :)
- Louis Gray
Pirate ahoy at Haunted Fox Hollow
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Kasabian Football Hero - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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What do you get when you combine freestyle football players performing to promote a song, an abandoned warehouse, a lifesize guitar-hero clone, and some engineering? THIS VIDEO.
- Stephen Mack
In this code, the developer discloses his feelings about the PSD format (XeePhotoshopLoader.m - xee - Project Hosting on Google Code) - http://code.google.com/p...
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From the comments: // Trying to get data out of a PSD file is like trying to find something in the attic of // your eccentric old uncle who died in a freak freshwater shark attack on his 58th // birthday. That last detail may not be important for the purposes of the simile, but // at this point I am spending a lot of time imagining amusing fates for the people // responsible for this Rube Goldberg of a file format.
- Stephen Mack
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I find this hilarious
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Mohomed, heh, yeah, this is worth a read.
- Stephen Mack
Well, Mohomed and I thought it was funny anyway.
- Stephen Mack
needs moar lolcats Stephen. Little screens with "g"s on them aren't engaging enough media ;)
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Halloween dry run - http://www.zeigen.com/blog...
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I posted this using the new WordPress 2 iPhone app. It has zero improvement in how it handles photos. I asked it not to resize the pics, but it shrunk them down anyway. Still no way to adjust the settings for photo posting. I'm not impressed by the WordPress 2 iPhone app at all.
- Stephen Mack
United loses luggage of 'United Breaks Guitars' guy - thestar.com - http://www.thestar.com/enterta...
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From the article: "When he flies United Airlines, Dave Carroll can't catch a break. The Halifax-based singer-songwriter became an Internet sensation for his music video 'United Breaks Guitars,' a folk ballad chronicling his yearlong battle for compensation after a United Airlines baggage handler broke his guitar. The video nabbed nearly 6 million views on YouTube and prompted the airline to promise it would do better. But when Carroll flew into Denver International Airport on Sunday, he learned that United had lost his bag. What's worse, Carroll was in Colorado to do a keynote speech for a group of hundreds of customer-service executives. 'The irony is palpable,' Carroll said Thursday in a phone interview."
- Stephen Mack
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Looks like he got his bag back on Wednesday, so this one isn't a big deal. He says he's not going to write a song about it...
- Stephen Mack
Castle: "Space Cowboy" (Firefly/Serenity) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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This is the clip from the opening of the most recent episode of Castle starring Nathan Fillion, where he dresses up as Mal Reynolds of "Firefly" for Halloween. (Discussed in http://friendfeed.com/jhuebel...)
- Stephen Mack
I have watched a few episodes... Not bad but not great
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, you're absolutely right. I think it's a cut above most police procedurals, but mainly due to Nathan's charming presence. Co-star Stana Katic is growing on me. I think this most recent episode was actually their best to date -- funny banter and a decent mystery, plus this hilarious Firefly opening. (Plus they managed to squeeze in references to both Underworld and Buffy.)
- Stephen Mack
Apparently a few other easter eggs as well, as uncovered in this TiVo Community forum thread: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...
- Stephen Mack
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