Today, I received one of the most interesting signature blocks I have ever seen. Some people just include their name. Some include their full mailing address. Some include a witty saying that seems to capture their personality. And a few put it all together in a full social media statement. I tend to take the
Read More...Today I’m going to tell you about something I like – a coffee maker. I bought the Technivorm Moccamaster CD–010/S a few years ago, back in 2009. It’s a strange little device, made of a bunch of detachable plastic pieces. It has no advanced features, pales in feature/benefit comparison to other modern coffee makers, and
Read More...I know this is making the rounds, but the fact is I wish I had someone shout this at me when I was 12. Every child should watch this. More than once.
Read More...Paul Stamatiou’s Android Is Better post is generating a ton of attention (it made it to the front page of Techmeme, although it’s not there anymore), and I want to riff on it. Most readers know I am an “Apple Defender”. “Defender” is an accurate word to use because I find myself in conversations defending iOS
Read More...Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider: Rose asked the tech mogul to share his thoughts on what Apple will become without Jobs. Ellison said “we already know.” “We saw — we conducted the experiment,” Ellison explained. “I mean, it’s been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve
Read More...So there’s this app called Send Me to Heaven that’s available only Android (hmm). The idea is simple: the app tracks how high you can throw your phone. You install the app (on your android, obviously). You then throw your phone as high as you can. Go on, throw it. Catching the phone is entirely
Read More...George Saunders delivered the convocation speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013. It’s amazing and a flat-out must-read. Some excerpts: So: What do I regret? Being poor from time to time? Not really. Working terrible jobs, like “knuckle-puller in a slaughterhouse?” (And don’t even ASK what that entails.) No. I don’t regret that.
Read More...You need to get your Monday started off right, and by right I mean by playing a game on a digital stopwatch that you no doubt played when you were younger. The point of the game is simple: try to get the stopwatch to stop at one second exactly. It took me 24 tries. Apparently,
Read More...We had some technical difficulties this morning, but we’re back with an abbreviated Casual Friday post. If you tried to find us this morning, sorry about that. Thanks for hanging in there. This video might be the best thing going right now. Two siblings — the brother, a 9-year-old drummer, and the 6-year-old sister, a
Read More...Now that hockey is pretty much done and all my favorite sports are on hiatus until fall, I also use steroids so if you are interested to increase your performance take a look at steroids for sale roids, it’s time to make baseball more interesting. To me, this means adding fake British commentary. Like this:
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