I hate to be pedantic, but I find something lacking in the Mac OS X Dictionary’s definition of pedantic:
pedantic |pəˈdantik|
adjective
of or like a pedant : many of the essays are long, dense, and too pedantic to hold great appeal.
Marni: Brett Hilton recommended Baby Depot.
Scott: Is that a web site?
Marni: No, it’s someone I work with.
In the UN’s list of oppressed peoples, Condominium Developers are somewhere below adorable kittens. Yet I recently found my politically inactive self speaking in favor of San Francisco’s 7 Hills Developers at a recent Board of Supervisors meeting.
About three blocks from our house is an abandoned paint store. The parking lot is fenced off and […]
When we wrote the User Profile feature for SpotDJ, we decided we wanted something a little more interesting than just filling in your username and password. We came up with the idea of presenting the user with three questions, randomly selected from a list that we could easily change. I think it was Grant who […]
Turns out that the method of integrating online chat and television that I co-invented as a Microsoft intern was approved late last year and nobody told me:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=F0R9AAAAEBAJ&dq=kleper&ie=ISO-8859-1
My favorite part of the patent application (which I didn’t write) was the sample chat between the WebTV co-founders, which includes this gem:
Bruce: This is the best movie of […]
Ever listen to a song and realize that when you were a kid, you totally misinterpreted the lyrics? In 4th Grade, I was really into the Beastie Boys because my friend Arthur was really into the Beastie Boys. But rap was new to me, so I looked to Arthur to explain some of the finer […]
Okay, so maybe it’s only the second most “Newly Popular” pirated book, but still — we’ve got more seeds and leechers than the first episode of “The Tudors.” And we’re trouncing other books in our category — Suck it, Professional ASP NET 2 0 Server Control And Component Development!
Thanks anonymous sketchy friend who apparently uses […]
As an allergy sufferer, I’ve never had a traditional pet. But I did have something better — my pet hermit crab, Jessie. Jessie’s crabitat was a gift from my wife about two years ago. And while he’s been through a few roommates that didn’t last very long (Jessie attacks other crabs), Jessie’s cautious approach to […]
My friend Adam challenged me to turn an email thread we had into a blog post, and this is the result. Actually, the real challenge was to post a certain phrase in context, but you’ll have to read on to discover what that phrase is. (Unlike Adam, I don’t put spoilers in the title.)
I started […]
TUAW reports that Apple has confirmed the iPhone to be a closed system like the iPod — no developer SDK and no third party applications. If true, this is a major bummer; Apple is setting itself up to be the only smart phone vendor that doesn’t allow users to download and install applications, other than […]
