Today
Scott is trying to think of a time he’s seen his parents as happy as they were when they were playing with Fletch.
11:36am
Yesterday
10:42pm
Scott is noticing that changing your profile picture to an adorable baby makes your price go up in Friends For Sale (and then makes you uninstall it).
12:32pm
Jan 9
4:10pm
Jan 8
8:00pm
10:23am
Jan 7
10:57pm
5:59pm
Scott is Ritual Roasters [...]
I was looking for a really quick keyboard-driven way to get items onto iCal and decided to write something instead. 1 hour later, I introduce KlepCal. Just launch it using a keyboard shortcut or Spotlight, and type in a natural language time, an event description, and a calendar name. It fires off an AppleScript to [...]
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 [...]
