August 2008
3 posts
“So like cable went up from 20 to 60 a month, and my mom can’t afford to...”
– Overheard at the bus stop.
July 2008
11 posts
When my wife and I first started dating, she listened only to Pop music, limited to what was played currently on the local mega radio station. I listened almost exclusively to Industrial or Electronica music.
This made for some awkward car rides where we’d either have to take turns loathing what we were listening to, or compromise with talk radio.
From all of this jockeying it seems our...
A Twitter friend of mine, JimPunkrockford asks, “Wife off island for a few days. What did I use to do with myself when I was a bachelor? I forget.”
I’m having a similar experience this weekend; my older two of three kids are out-of-town at Grandma’s house this weekend, leaving my wife and I with a very well-behaved newborn. We’ve been pretty much at a loss as for...
Slashdot references an article heralding the ‘Death of Nearly All Software Patents.’ Oh man that would make my day. I’ve always held that software patents are just plain wrong, or at the very least way too fast and liberal as they are.
The most recent account I can think of was a company suing a laundry list of new startups because they had a patent that equated to...
I’ve seen two articles in less than a week talking about the US defaulting on its loans. That’s some scary stuff.
“Perhaps it is no surprise that traders in the credit-default swaps market have recently made bets on the unthinkable: that America may default on its debt.”
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11751139
And even more in-depth:
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Unsolicited Twitter App Advice
Two things a twitter app could do to set it apart from the herd:
1: Offer a fall-back system that would make Twitter’s notorious downtime invisible to other users using the same app. It then can automatically sync up with Twitter once back online.
2: Do title lookup for all of the various URL shorteners. Sites like is.gd or tinyurl are great, but why not help people with the link’s...
Girl in Car: I couldn't find any empty spots, just handicapped ones.
Cop: Are you handicapped?
Girl: No, unfortunately...
Barrier to Purchase
I can walk into a store, impulsively spend $5-10 on something and walk out. Even sending text messages costs me $0.20 apiece, but I’ll send a handful a month without thinking twice. But when it comes to grabbing a $0.99 song on the internet, or paying $15 for a web service, I tend to balk.
It is simply too hard to spend impulsively on the internet. (I’m NOT talking about ecommerce,...
You may actually have to cross the street to go to... →