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2013-05-17 13:32:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Charles Duke, Apollo 16, April 1972

2013-05-17 05:08:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Writers get high on morphemes.

2013-05-14 01:25:25 (54 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Anyone look familiar?

This is my growing collection of those faces in web ads that are used to get you to look at the ad.

2013-05-11 14:43:35 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Happy Birthday to my favorite physicist.

R.I.P. Professor Feynman.

2013-05-06 04:13:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

"Nothing made him angrier than making something simple sound complicated."

Danny Hillis on Richard Feynman

Here's where I found this quote:

"We tried to take advantage of Richard's talent for clarity by getting him to critique the technical presentations that we made in our product introductions. Before the commercial announcement of the Connection Machine CM-1 and all of our future products, Richard would give a sentence-by-sentence critique of the planned presentation. "Don't say `reflected acoustic wave.' Say [echo]." Or, "Forget all that `local minima' stuff. Just say there's a bubble caught in the crystal and you have to shake it out." Nothing made him angrier than making something simple sound complicated."

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-machine/

2013-05-05 22:48:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Happy Birthday to the lead Bunnyman, Ian McCulloch.

2013-05-02 22:21:22 (18 comments, 23 reshares, 52 +1s)

Each at its origin: The Motorola DynaTAC, 1973 and Google Glass, 2013

At first, they're clunky and look stupid and you're weird if you have one.

Then, they get sleek and more powerful and you're weird if you don't have one.

2013-04-28 01:29:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Maybe the most covered song you've never heard of.

Here are 26 covers, and the original from Wire, of "Outdoor Miner."

2013-04-28 00:11:53 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Free Market

2013-04-27 16:22:00 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

One is original, I've modified the other.

Which is which?

2013-04-26 19:04:48 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Short brand and domain names are worthy goals, but sometimes they seem silly.

Here are some short domain names for sale, with suggested branding.

2013-04-26 15:36:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

R.I.P. G.J.

2013-04-25 19:05:33 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Thanks to +Todd Vierling for helping solve the mystery.

My original post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/107650271986223730197/posts/Eo1M4SeAwGA

2013-04-25 18:52:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

My daughter found this pic yesterday.

2013-04-23 16:37:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

If you're starting too many sentences with If, you're writing about too many possible or imagined situations.

2013-04-23 03:32:22 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Watching Forrest Gump.

If someone hasn't written this book, someone should.

2013-04-23 02:26:50 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

I believe in human ingenuity and I love the Earth.

When I read this article about two years ago, I had a "these are my people" moment.

"Modernization theology should thus be grounded in a sense of profound gratitude to Creation—human and nonhuman. It should celebrate, not desecrate, the technologies that led our prehuman ancestors to evolve. Our experience of transcendence in the outdoors should translate into the desire for all humans to benefit from the fruits of modernization and be able to experience similar transcendence. Our valorization of creativity should lead us to care for our cocreation of the planet."

2013-04-21 19:38:59 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

This LAN is your LAN, this LAN is my LAN
From gateway fiber to handhelds and laptops
From the WiFi router to the DVR and audio node
This LAN was made for you and me.

#remixedlyrics2013

2013-04-21 00:28:50 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Netscape artifact that I just recovered today.

2013-04-20 20:54:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

If you can't reckon why today is the best day of your life, reckon some more.

2013-04-20 14:19:14 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

If something doesn't make sense to a kid, it probably doesn't make sense.

2013-04-20 02:41:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-19 01:19:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

2013-04-18 00:02:31 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Now in the iTunes Store, 77 Tips Second Edition.

Point your iPhones and iPads to the link below.

This is a free ebook that I encourage you to share with others. If you do, please attribute my words to me. I don’t want to end up like Anonymous.

2013-04-17 13:24:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

44) Apologize. Parents make mistakes. When you do, it’s very important to apologize to your child promptly and sincerely. You should do this not only because it’s proper, but also because you want your kids to express the same behavior when they mess-up.

Free: Download the complete second edition below for your iPad, Kindle or browser.

2013-04-17 13:11:47 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

It's Free: 77 Tips for a Grown-Up Man, Second Edition

I've just finished the second edition of my book.

iPhone, iPad: http://goo.gl/mWys4
Webpage: http://goo.gl/9G5y1
Most electronic formats: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/51922

If you like it, please feel free to share this book with your family and friends.

2013-04-16 15:07:47 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The biggest dog weighs around 350 pounds.

The biggest cat weighs around 850 pounds.

All cats know this.

2013-04-14 03:05:21 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Paul and Pete

Photo by Janette Beckman.

2013-04-08 03:35:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Fischerspooner cover Wire's The 15th.

This cover holds-up really well against, and some may say exceeds, the original.

2013-04-08 02:41:41 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

"I wish that people would remember my name and properly attribute my quotes to me."

Anonymous

2013-04-07 00:16:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Happy Birthday, Frank Black Francis Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV!

2013-04-06 02:12:29 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

2013-04-05 00:25:00 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Red interior, red plaid sport seats in a 1971 Porsche 911.

2013-04-05 00:06:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

Louis Hector Berlioz

2013-04-03 15:28:18 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Happy Birthday!

"The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released on 3 April 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation."

With a 4 MHz CPU and 64 kilobytes of main memory — imagine that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1

2013-04-01 14:52:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Fool backwards is loof.

Don't be a loof.

2013-04-01 14:30:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?"

Oni-Wan Kenobi

2013-03-29 23:54:13 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

To the folks in Austin who are planning an invasion of North Korea — I'm in.

2013-03-29 20:13:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"You can't fix jackass."

Words that my mom has often whispered into my ear reassuringly since I was a baby.

2013-03-28 16:19:11 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Fairly new Dinosaur Jr. song being read by an amplified, diamond-tipped needle which rides inside grooves and along bumps which are solid representations of sound waves expressed in a tight spiral on the vinyl disc.

2013-03-23 15:58:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-03-19 01:07:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."

Katharine Whitehorn

2013-03-15 04:10:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Modern, alt-country waltz. 

New from Son Volt.

2013-03-13 14:58:16 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

1969 Ford GT40

Stunning and it sounded like condensed thunder.

2013-03-13 14:56:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

If things turn out worse than you imagined, you don't have much of an imagination.

2013-03-01 16:54:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

"It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different."

John Archibald Wheeler

2013-03-01 04:23:47 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

BigDog now throws cinder blocks with an arm and hand that comes out of its face.

2013-03-01 02:29:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

‎"I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding—I was fired today."

Groupon founder and former CEO, Andrew Mason.

2013-03-01 00:49:46 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Wireless notebook.

2013-02-22 23:30:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)