An exploration of life aboard the International Space Station, and the surprising reasons the mission is still worthwhile
Got to be good-lookin' 'cause he's so hard to see.
technology
January 17th, 2015 @ 5:27 pm
November 12th, 2014 @ 8:26 am
In which I detail all the problems I’ve had with the iPhone 6
October 25th, 2014 @ 7:17 am
I prefer to run first thing in the morning.* I like being up and at ‘em before the rest of the world and I know that if I wait until the end of the day I’ll find some excuse to be lazy instead. Right now I’m living in an area without adequate street lighting, and […]
September 26th, 2014 @ 6:07 am
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman
450, 32, 1, 0: Four Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp for $16,000,000,000.00
Mac Pro-tip: Pressing ⌘ and + will make the font larger in just about every program you use. (And ⌘ and - will decrease the font size.)
It’s a silly little tip that almost everyone knows. But if you don’t know it, it’s a godsend. (It’s a little depressing to admit that your eyes are getting older, but …)
I have about 40,000 photos, which makes iPhoto impossible to use. I don’t mean, “It’s difficult for me to use.” I mean, “I can’t use it at all.” It crashes on me constantly; And on the rare occasions I am able to even open the application, its performance is too unbearably slow and unresponsive to […]
December 31st, 2013 @ 7:26 am
If you include solo albums by John, Paul, and George, and things like Wings and the Plastic Ono Band, I’ve got over five hundred tracks in my iTunes library that I consider the work of The Beatles. I love The White Album indescribably, but even I don’t want to hear Rocky Raccoon ten times in […]
December 24th, 2013 @ 7:06 am
The only really annoying thing about the holidays is that most radio stations play the same ten or so songs over and over and over again. No matter how much you love the song, nobody wants to hear Baby, It’s Cold Outside five times in the same day. You’ve got plenty of Christmas music in […]
December 17th, 2013 @ 6:18 am
If your hard drive is low on space, a good place to look for things to jettison is your iTunes library. Lots of music files are large because the songs they contain are very long — Alice’s Restaurant Massacree clocks in at over eighteen minutes! — or because they’re encoded using AAC or the Apple […]
Depending upon the size of your iTunes library and how you have your playlists configured, you could have a bunch of awesome songs that you are either hearing over and over and over again, or that you’ve not heard in ages. Those are both terrible situations, of course. You want to have a happy medium. […]
September 13th, 2013 @ 6:12 am
These are the iPhone apps which I use most frequently:
* I’m excluding games and Facebook.
July 26th, 2013 @ 6:56 am
Here are the five apps I use most frequently on my MacBook Air:
May 10th, 2013 @ 7:16 am
Five things I would feel compelled to replace immediately if they stopped working:
- iPhone (Apple)
- electric toothbrush (Braun)
- bedroom DVR (DirecTV)
- MacBook Air (Apple)
- bedroom television (LG)