I am tried of: bottled water, hotel wifi captive portals, VPNs.
@rubikfruit I am not *that* Rockhopper. But any friend of his is OK in my book.
Ohmygosh! I am in China… by myself… surrounded by Chinese people… speaking Chinese… in China!
7pm in Beijing, and the sky is an improbable shade of brownish grey.
Always annoyed when my Mac software changes ‘…’ (3 dots) to ‘…’ (ellipsis). Learned today that’s an OS setting in prefs, lang&text, text.
I was told about 30 seconds ago that there is no internet access from this lab.
The insanity begins: before we are allowed into the lab building, we must pass a multiple choice fire safety & policy quiz (in Chinese).
Getting into character… playing the part of an international businessman, starting the day with breakfast at a posh Beijing hotel.
August had been the month where everybody calls me “Robert”. #middleNamer
A journey of thousand miles begins with an unexpected side-trip to Washington to get a sticker in a passport.
With all the talk of conjugal felicity, intercourse and love-making, it would be easy to mistake “Pride and Prejudice” for a steamy novel.
Oops, rain… windows down!
Morrisville is constipated.
iOS7 tip: time-entry widget defaults to 1-minute wheel, double-tap to switch to 5-minute wheel.
Congratulations to @ncnearspace for retrieving their NSL-14 payload from the Burlington Maker Faire launch!
ncnearspace NSL-14 has been recovered!
Woah, it looks like @ncnearspace has sent up another balloon! http://t.co/yLt3UUYQEU Launched from Burlington Mini Maker Faire.
I recently did a re-spin of Tipster, my 2009 tip calculator app. It hit the App Store today. A muted celebration ensues.
D2 lost 2 teeth today. One needed help from the dentist. The other one willingly escaped before the dental visit.
Went out to check on the #perseids. Saw a few dim blips that very well could be imagination. Finally 1 gorgeous sparkler to prove it’s real.
Star Wars has invaded Club Penguin!
Hmm, how do I test the battery in my voltmeter?
D1 is a “hacktress”. She quickly figured out how to game the system on an online quiz to show all correct answers w/o penalty. I’m so proud.
Brain is confused by Mac OSX natural scrolling (trackpad OK, mouse seems backwards). ScrollReverser pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/ to the rescue.
There is no “I” in “breakfast”.
Today’s login “fortune” = The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it’s further away.
Shortest-lived Linux installation ever… colleague (a Linux software dev) blew away his Win7, then had immediate regrets, scrambled back.
@romanmars Your tech did the WP plugin magic… now I have a lot of catching up to do. Thanks for sharing your podcast with the world.
Making my kids change the spark plug and air filter on the lawn mower. Now it runs a lot better. But now they’re running a bit slower.
@500px_Help You have to admit, though, at 15x15 px, your (∞) looks a lot like their (cc). Larger image would be easier to differentiate.
@500px Your tiny “license circle infinity” sure looks a lot like the much more well-known Creative Commons logo, misleading.
@nonrecursive Site requires sign-up before a visitor can even see previous content, to see if it’s worthwhile or a ghost town. Make it easy.
@romanmars Wanted to catch up on old 99% podcasts, but many older episodes (1-22,24-52) MP3s give “AccessDenied” error. Bummer. Fix?
Linux tip: running a service as an unprivileged user? Start the service using ‘cron’, use special time code ‘@reboot’.
iPhone Twitter app has gotten so slow to load, I start it and then do something else while it loads. Distractions²
Perfectly-timed thunder puts an end to our after-supper pool plans.
Irritated when I read a magazine article, and it’s only a teaser for their lengthier online article. If I’d wanted to read a web page…
I kept asking myself: How would Apple have done it?
Not much pomp and circumstance on our first day at Oracle. In fact, it was “crickets” all around. I was disappointed, but not surprised.
There’s an oncologist in Florida with the same name as me, and so now I am getting spear-phishing spam with oncology subject lines.