If you're not already at the #rally4sanity, you will not be near the stage

At the #rally4sanity

On the Metro to #rally4sanity

Going with this sign for #rally4sanity

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My Green Lantern lantern is a #TEGAv2

Also useful in explaining to people what "Green Lantern" is by pulling up the IMDB page.

My cheap-ass Halloween costume

Made from items I already had. Same deal with my rice dish for the potluck.

Robocalypse - Mobile Mayhem finally updated for iOS4

Thank goodness. Without Robocalypse, I got re-addicted to 7 Cities.

I can't believe nobody commented on the photo in this post. http://tinyurl.com/2cnqrsf

My own fault for distracting people with a topic that gets their emotions up. Still, you’d think someone would have said something.

Overheard at Apple Store "It's like an iPad with a keyboard."

Sitting at a new corner of the Reston Town Center

The Register: "HP whips out iPad challenger Windows 7 fondle-slab" http://tinyurl.com/34vvzv3

Subhead: “Stylus means only strong wrists can handle this tool” – Stay classy, The Register!

Boom! Tagteaming the HP Slate 500 coverage

Kickin' tires at the Toyota dealership

Actual just servicing and floor mat recall. Need picnic tables and/or benches out here.

Consistency is Victory -- Ultra Magnus http://tinyurl.com/p2z2rc

Ah, once again my old standby tactic of sticking to my guns and waiting for a dumb-ass adversary to make a mistake pays off. As Ultra Magnus says “Consistency is Victory.”

Sleep problem on #TEGAv2 fixed! Sleep or resume in one second!

Hugo isolated the problem to chipset drivers. Put my TEGA v2 to sleep and back several times in the last few minutes. Love how speedy that SSD is for this. Everyone else should get the email soon.

TEGA v2 and wine #TEGAv2

TEGA v2 at a pumpkin patch #TEGAv2

Two tablets in one bag #TEGAv2

Need a proper slip cover, but the TEGA v2 fits snugly in my pack next to my Fujitsu Lifebook T900.

@MrMobilePC Dude, I do want people to ask me about the #TEGAv2 but Sumocat does not wear medium :)

What's on the dock? TEGA v2 installing updates. #TEGAv2

What's in the box? Oh right, a TEGA v2 Windows 7 slate #TEGAv2

ink blogging from stevieblue http://www.stevieblue.com/

Got pinged by stevieblue in a couple of new ink blog posts in which he discovers the joys of Windows Journal, the chisel tip, and Build 52. Showed off some Evernote ink too. Thanks for asking about Homer! Will spill some ink on this later.

A truly profound non-fortune

I normally abhor non-fortunes in my fortune cookies, but this one transcends the rabble.

Happy 10/10/10

Missed 10:10 10/10/10 so I'll now have to drive west really fast to catch it in another time zone.

Crayon inequality

It's my cat in a box!

Cat beds are a waste of money. Letter/legal boxes are cheaper.

The view from Pennybackers

Harrisonburg, VA

Try to make me go to rehab and I say...

It's not drug rehab and not for me.

Angry sky for an angry day

Reminds me of the storms back home, except there's no mountain behind these clouds, just more darker clouds.

Everything today either pisses me off or brings me down

Work, tech, and personal, all news today has been bad. Need to call some family members tonight to hear their cheerier news (and hope they don’t have worse news to share).

Really, Google? Held my day's blog tweets for a single burst? #FAIL

Must remember to reference "My friend Nicole Scott" @Nicole_Scooter

Nicole Scott (@Nicole_Scooter) 9/24/10 6:42 PM I like it when people cover my stories and say "My friend Nicole Scott" If I had heard of you or your site it might seem less creepy! lol

Great. I took the hit on the Ctrl-Alt-Del button for nothing.

From Ars Technica: "The enterprise targeting is also apparent; there's a dedicated ctrl-alt-del button, to accommodate the Windows default of requiring the magic keystroke to log on in domain environments."

 

Great. This is exactly why I avoided mentioning corporate login in my defense of the Ctrl-Alt-Del button on the HP Slate, for which I am now getting bashed. I log in to a corporate server every day. I know why Ctrl-Alt-Del is needed. What I didn't want is for the button, which should be standard on every Tablet PC, to be equated with corporate and enterprise use. Oh well.

Patty actually sleeps like this

Not a mid-motion pose. He is actually sleeping like this with forepaws at side and head on pillow.

Dis freaky spider wanna kill me

Very intimidating. Or it would be if it wasn't so tiny.

Fear or sanity: Those are your only two choices! http://tinyurl.com/2fxtpad

Jon Stewart is holding a "Rally To Restore Sanity" to be countered by Stephen Colbert's "March To Keep Fear Alive”! And they’re being held in DC! Yeah! I am so there.

Fujitsu Lifebook T580: "IT'S MORE THAN A SLATE, IT'S A TABLET PC" http://tinyurl.com/35e7qat

Dug up the preliminary data sheet for this upcoming, “slate-beating,” entry-level Tablet PC from Fujitsu. So glad to see them standing up for the Tablet PC.

New ThinkGeek catalog is standard size

So glad they upsized from the half-page sized catalogs. Makes me nostalgic of my catalog writing days (until I remember how that turned out).

OMG! What's in the box?!?

Instinctively figured out how to add page numbers to PDFs

I seem to be highly lucid this morning. Was about to look this up when it just clicked in my head to go to Documents à Header & Footer to add page numbers to PDFs in Acrobat. Brain is linking data like crazy. Could be me getting over my head cold or the Breathe Right strip I wore on my nose last night.

Costco in Fairfax carries Mexican Coca-Cola

Made with sugar for real Coca-Cola flavor, not that corn-flavored junk.

Rover Puck: Up to 4 hours of nonstop Pucking http://tinyurl.com/2w3ak2h

Love the specs on the new Rover Puck mobile hotspot: “Battery: Up to 4 hours of nonstop Pucking”, “SSID: Bust out two Service Set IDs - one for you and one for your Puck buddies.” But as much as I’d enjoy 4 hours of nonstop Pucking, their coverage doesn’t cover me as well as their map thinks.

Zucchini crust pizza and panini

On the fence

Apple needs to work on their keywords

Just did a search on “iphone ipod ipad” and came up with no hits to Apple’s main site or store. Pretty weak search engine optimization, Apple.

Black & white on color

Grew a couple big tomatoes

Not the first from this crop, but they are the biggest and several more are set to follow.

How I take iPhone photos two-handed

How I take iPhone photos one-handed

Blower, Puncher, and Kettle: Scientists or Superheroes?

Ran across a trio named Blower, Puncher, and Kettle. Scientists or superheroes?

The truth about clearance pricing

Death by PowerPoint... about PowerPoint

Just returned from viewing a PowerPoint presentation about PowerPoint. Felt like putting a bullet point through my head.

Remains of a meal

Banjara Indian Cuisine. Wonderful service. Extremely responsive to drink refills.

Completely random junk mail

No relation to publishing or nuclear medicine, and we sure don't mix anything here.

Tiny mantis

The view up in Markham

Getting a stronger wireless signal up here than back home.

Spooky at the vet

Good thing about Spooky is you can always rely on him for a fecal sample.

Blog Test: Fail Whale in ASCII

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Via Commenter Jay at Engadget

Spent ten minutes figuring out how to sync audiobooks from iTunes to iPhone

Damn it, Apple! Why do you have one folder for books in iTunes then split books and audiobooks in two sections in the iPhone sync screen? Burned ten minutes trying to figure out how to sync audiobooks for a friend before realizing her little Macbook wasn’t showing the bottom half the sync screen.

Honeymoon decision dice #fail

You know your marriage is off to a bad start when you roll the Honeymoon Dice and get "sleep outside."

Multi-grain rice bowl @ Lotus Restaurant

More of a plate than a bowl. Rice was as much bean as grain. String beans and fried "fish" were excellent.

Mark the time: at 10:28AM, Steve Jobs announces free Bumpers http://tinyurl.com/3y5u66f

10:29AM "We think this has been so blown out of proportion... it's fun to have a story, but it's not fun on the other side. So here's what we're going to do to make our users happy. The first part is the software update, that fixes the way the bars report and other bugs, that's out now. Second, people said the bumper fixes everything... 'why don't you give everybody a case'? Okay -- we'll give you a free case."

 

From Apple’s Antennagate press conference: http://tinyurl.com/3y5u66f

Truly brilliant move by Apple showing off their "Cerebro" chamber. CR tests in a shed? We test in The Matrix.

From Apple’s Antennagate press conference: http://tinyurl.com/3y5u66f

 

Steve Jobs: "We've been working our butts off..." - Clearly. Have you seen the man's butt lately? Neither has anyone else.

From Apple’s Antennagate press conference: http://tinyurl.com/3y5u66f

Upon learning the Droid X marketing tagline is "Are you man enough for this phone?"

Excerpt from my comment left on Gizmodo’s review of the Droid X: “…is that really their tagline? Were the Star Wars-licensed name, Matrix-style backgrounds, and tough guy voiceovers really not enough to keep women away that they had to specify gender in the tagline? What's next? They going to measure your dick before you can buy?”

Things I can't unlearn: a tampon can be any absorbant mass stuffed into a body cavity

So if a paramedic says he’s going to stuff a tampon into your open chest wound, it’s cool. Thanks Susan.

Do tampons really need to be described as "vaginal"?

Just analyzed a paper dealing with imaging an inserted vaginal tampon. Not sure what’s more disturbing: the images I cannot unsee or the fact a tampon is regularly described in medicine as being “vaginal”. No one uses the term “hand glove” or “foot sock”, so why… wait, that’s just one more thing I don’t want to learn.

Alien monster or iPhone accessory?

Got a suction cup attachment for my GorillaPod articulated tripod. Works great on the flat glass back of my iPhone.

Still time to win a HP Pavilion dm4 notebook and accessories from Notebooks.com - http://bit.ly/cRde2n

HP Pavilion dm4 laptop, Camera, Beats headset, Printer. Just one short survey at Notebooks.com http://bit.ly/cRde2n

Sunday morning is a good time to web surf

 

Broke down and bought a Bumper

Was going to wait it out, but as the Apple genius agreed, the edges on the iPhone 4 are uncomfortable. Also, turns out people pay money for SIM cards on eBay, like the 40 Apple gave me.

Just paid my AT&T bill from my iPhone while in the AT&T store

Just in here setting up my wife with my old iPhone. Taking extra time because we're trying to port her old number.

Giveaway at Notebooks.com: HP Pavilion dm4 Notebook, Beats Headset, Canon Camera and HP Printer http://tinyurl.com/23kfohb

I’m not eligible but maybe you’d like to win some cool swag.

Happy Independence Day from Homer

Wonder Woman wears pants... tight, cheek-hugging pants

Via the new DC Comics iPhone app with free preview of new Wonder Woman storyline and tight pants.