toolongfortwitter Car feature context I bought a Mexican Coke at a gas station yesterday, and as I was driving away I remembered that they don't have twist-offs caps. As I looked around my car's interior for something to pry it open with, I thought with all seriousness "Why isn&
toolongfortwitter No Social Networking in 'The Social Network' The Social Network via workbench.cadenhead.org Interesting observation from Rogers Cadenhead. Oh, and I wrote something about my relationship with Twitter vs. Facebook on Medium a couple weeks ago.
toolongfortwitter Like eating chocolate air, like having your body reset to 100% perfect Having experienced two wonderful things for the first time in my life in the past couple weeks, I now have the overwhelming urge to to grab each of my friends and shake them vigorously while shouting "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT PERFECTLY PREPARED CHOCOLATE SOUFFLES AND
toolongfortwitter Sometimes you're old Every time the singer turned the mic towards the crowd, everyone but me shouted lyrics in unison. They were at a concert, I was at a calculus exam in underwear.
toolongfortwitter Happy Birthday Twitter Twitter turns five years old officially today. I remember when it came out and that I hated it from the start, due to the precious name (it had the groan-inducing title "twttr" originally) and that I rarely used SMS on my clunky t-9 keypad phone. I recall that
gaming The future of Microsoft A lot of people seemed worried about Microsoft's future, given less people are buying computers running the Windows OS and their Microsoft Office cash cow could be threatened by free alternatives going forward. But I have to say in the week I've owned an xbox 360,
crazy shit off the top of my head Why everyone loves coming up with ideas in the shower A shower is great for coming up with ideas because it's essentially a sensory deprivation chamber in your very own home. Lots of white noise from the water, coupled with all white walls and obscured glass means there are no auditory or visual outside distractions to hinder thinking.
toolongfortwitter Charming wake up Whenever I hear the default iPhone alarm chime "Marimba" I'm instantly reminded of the soundtrack from the climactic scenes in American Beauty. My mind sees flashes of a nude teen covered in roses for a split second before my homophobic neighbor puts a bullet in my
toolongfortwitter Twitter doesn't scale when you have 2.5 million followers From Lance Armstrong's twitter stream, he decides to play a little guessing game with his followers and posts from his blackberry (ubertwitter client) on the massage table: Then he later logs onto the website to see his @replies tab to figure out the winner, but then this happens:
News In Defense of Twittering During Tragedy Yesterday, I noticed blogs lighting up as they passed along the story of a mother supposedly twittering while her son drowned and the massive backlash that followed including instant accusations of parental neglect. The story sounded too good to be true, the kind of stuff people write in their heads
toolongfortwitter The games people play... My daughter invented a hide-and-seek game today, using her toys in her dollhouse. I would leave her room, she'd hide a small playmobil kid in a large dollhouse, then I'd go back in and try and find it, and vice versa. Fun for hours. She was
bluetooth Odd Technology I discovered a new first world problem. I called a friend's mobile phone while he was at home and we were discussing things for ten minutes or so. Then his spouse arrived home from a trip to the store and parked the car inside their garage. My call
crazy shit off the top of my head Thoughts from the bottom of a ditch after veering off the road while reading email on my iPhone while riding my road bike near a farm Man, there sure are a lot of beer bottles and cans down here. If my 18 year old self could see me today at 36, I'm sure he'd want to know why I'm still doing stupid shit like getting so engrossed with my phone
crazy shit off the top of my head Perchance to dream Slug, originally uploaded by visualdensity. I had a dream last night that we solved the energy crisis by forcing the animal kingdom to create energy for us, but the trick was picking an animal ugly and unlikeable enough that the least number of people opposed the enslavement. So in the
crazy shit off the top of my head TLFT*: Michael Phelps Watching some recent olympic track and field events still sitting on TiVo, I'm finally starting to understand how amazing it was for Michael Phelps to swim 17 races and win 8 medals and break multiple records over the span of just a few short days. For some reason