A few months ago I was thinking about Apple’s rise in value after the iPhone and how Steve Jobs does a great keynote every year, and naturally I thought “I wonder if there’s a way to make money off quick investments around the keynotes?” Then I thought “What if you did this every year, for …
Yearly Archives: 2007
What if cupcakes could somehow become more awesome? HOWTO
I’m a big fan of cupcakes, huge fan. 30lbs overweight fan. Anyway, a couple months ago, my wife gave her students some cupcakes and someone BLEW MY MIND with a simple hack that solved one of cupcakes’ few failings: sometimes there’s just too much frosting, they’re too tall for your mouth, and/or the frosting/cake mix …
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Layer Tennis this week
I went to the dentist last week and while I was still high off the fumes, I mistakenly said “yes” to doing commentary for this Friday’s upcoming Layer Tennis match. I’ve spent the better part of today reading up on old matches and following Rafe’s excellent guide to judging. This week they’re doing video with …
Impassioned plea
I open my email this morning and there’s a long message from a vaguely familiar name. It’s dozen paragraphs long but I start to read it. The first couple paragraphs explain that I’ve connected with this person in the past either through some hipster activities in the DC area or through blogging, and the author …
2nd curtain sync with a Canon 5D
aka “Merlin’s Rockstar Flash” aka rear curtain flash aka 2nd curtain flash Hit Menu Scroll down to custom functions, hit select Change custom function #15 from a 0 to a 1 to enable 2nd curtain flash Hook up a flash (if using a 550/580EX, change setting on your flash to enable 2nd curtain, if using …
Adventures in $40 eyeglasses
I posted about my experiences buying glasses online over at 43 folders. It may not be a major thing for most people, but when I consider the many thousands of dollars I’ve paid for glasses all my life and the mystique surrounding the production (optometrists make it sound like a highly trained set of monks …
Snigglets 2.0
Sometimes I like to make up words to match situations. Here’s today’s made up word/phrase: All-You-Can-Amnesia (n) Common form of memory loss often found in food service industry waitstaff. Especially prevalent in restaurants that don’t write anything down when you order, often resulting in the wrong dressing, wrong drinks, and an entirely missed entrée. Seriously, …
Amazon blows for video games
I’ve bought a handful of video games this year and my local Gamestop seems to have trouble getting new games on release day (“sorry, UPS didn’t show up yet, maybe tomorrow”) and for the popular games, they insist on pre-ordering with a deposit. Since Gamestop was a hassle, I started ordering stuff on Amazon instead, …
The five minute Leopard review
After installing Leopard on three machines and using it for the past four days I figure I might as well write down my first impressions. Here are the high and low points for me: The installer is a bit buggy in that it doesn’t seem to recognize hard drives with any sorts of special partitions …
The Future of the Music Business
In the age of the mp3, label musicians and the labels themselves are fighting for survival. As the cost of music is driven down to near zero, they’re doing everything they can to reverse that trend — and yet, the trend continues. I’ve been thinking about music costing effectively nothing and the future of the …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 