Daily David July 31st, 2009 @ 2:54 pm PDT
General Stuff Ladies and gentlemen, I present the governor of California. And speaking of the governor … An analysis of the temporal anomalies in the Terminator series is pretty interesting. Dracula’s drycleaner must die! (link via mefi) Techie Stuff You must read John Gruber’s excellent essay on the long, slow decline of Microsoft. Spam, spam, […]
#FridayFive: Silly Spammers July 31st, 2009 @ 7:04 am PDT
Read the Friday Five …Daily David July 30th, 2009 @ 4:54 pm PDT
General Stuff Reading emails from crazy people is at least as much fun as reading psychotic letters from men. The iConcertCal app lets you know when the artists in your iTunes library are performing near you. That’s just a good idea. While I was on vacation, my coworkers wallpapered my office pink and plastered hundreds […]
Daily David July 29th, 2009 @ 4:34 pm PDT
General Stuff Personal urns are a new and exciting way to memorialize your loved one. How many people have been looking for unusual paintings of Obama naked with unicorns? Is it possible to cheat on the Rorschach test? Techie Stuff Spam, spam, spam, spam, and now … more spam. Although coverage in Los Angeles is […]
iTunes Tuesday: iPhone Music Streaming July 28th, 2009 @ 4:37 am PDT
No matter how hard you try to keep your music library organized, compressed, and free of ABBA, eventually you’re going to have more tunes than you can fit on your iPhone (or iPod, or any other mp3 device). The most recent iPod Classic has a capacity of 120GB, which can certainly hold a lot of […]
Summer Reading List July 26th, 2009 @ 10:18 am PDT
A long time ago I realized that it’s going to be impossible for me to read every book I want to read before I die. Fortunately that hasn’t stopped me from giving it the ol’ college try. As I get older I find that I spend more time watching television and the computer than I […]
Born Standing Up July 25th, 2009 @ 9:54 am PDT
In which I review Steve Martin’s memoir
#FridayFive: Classic Board Games July 24th, 2009 @ 5:30 am PDT
Read the Friday Five …iTunes Tuesday: How to Organize Playlists July 21st, 2009 @ 12:57 pm PDT
If you’ve been creating new playlists left and right, eventually you are going to have a long and cluttered list of them running down the left side of your iTunes window. You do know you can group them into folders, right? Just click File and then New Playlist Folder. Now you can drag and drop […]
How to Make Great Coffee with a French Press July 20th, 2009 @ 7:42 am PDT
Last year while visiting David Snyder, my business partner and a man who positively oozes class, I enjoyed for the first time a cup of coffee made with a French press. It was just about the best cup of coffee I’d ever had. I remember when I was in high school my father went through […]