Ice on the sidewalk

Ice crystallization pattern caught my eye when taking out the recycling.

@Energizer this installation template sucks #FAIL

Just glad I spotted the problem before I drilled.

Artists cannot spell #FAIL

I don't know what's worse: misspelling their own name or the boringness of their ad for art instruction.

You wouldn't like him when he's angry...

My ancient nemesis the Ninjabird has returned! The time for battle grows near! http://tinyurl.com/6488aza

'Ninja' Bird, Xenicibis Xympithecus, Discovered With Weapon-Like Wings

Ack, I just got BlackBerried http://tinyurl.com/2ars5co

Must be one of those things you don’t truly understand until it happens to you, but I now see why my wife’s office uses the term “BlackBerried”.

@Amazon define "Ready to Ship"

I don't know what's the bigger waste: the extra box and packing or the label that reads "Ready to Ship".

Dear Adobe: Why does Acrobat change β to ß in PDF to text conversion?

I can accept that Acrobat sucks at converting to Word or HTML, but why the hell does it change characters in a simple text conversion? Did it with three Greek characters, which I fixed by copying the character out of the PDF to replace the one in the text. Why couldn't Acrobat do that in the first place?

Carytown is cool

Any town frequented by college kids and same-sex couples is always interesting.

Normally I do a couple of things while on the toilet. If Angry Birds is the first, then the other is #2.

My response to the question, “what the hell else am I supposed to do while I'm on the toilet?”

Amazon packaging #FAIL

Read the green label.

Worst thing imaginable: Kate Gosselin guest stars with Sarah Palin http://tinyurl.com/35db9ke

Ronald Reagan was a movie star. Sarah Palin is a reality show star. Hooray for Republican “progress”!

At the National Cathedral

Enjoying Handel's Messiah with my three ladies.

Old school slate

Traveling back in time this weekend

Cruising through Colonial Williamsburg

Fine. I guess The Beatles on iTunes was a big deal. http://tinyurl.com/2aqxnt9

Sold 2M songs and 450k albums in first week. Apparently not everyone had a chance to already buy their stuff in the past 40 years.

Ultimate List of Black Friday Laptop Deals for 2010 | Notebooks.com http://tinyurl.com/286dcn3

My friend Josh Smith put some hard work into assembling this. If you’re shopping for a laptop, please take a look.

50% off Robeks! (Reston area only)

Check out this great offer fromRobeks. Click on the link for the coupon. http://www.thatsbiz.com/seeCoupon.jsp?cid=10375

Why is "nowadays" so commonly used by Asian people who learn ESL?

I keep seeing and hearing that word used by Asian people whose English is not so good (either ESL or pidgin speakers), from working class to PhD holders. How did that word take hold? It’s fascinating.

My holiday gift pick - ThinkGeek Canned Unicorn Meat http://tinyurl.com/26u9apb

This will be the best gift of the season.

No red lights! Route 7 from 267 past 495!

Fastest I've ever driven through Tyson's Corner! Woohoo!

Why does Adobe Acrobat suck so hard at converting PDFs to HTML?

I get that format conversion is tricky, but tags split by line breaks and no closing tag on every FONT tag? Sad.

11/16/2010: never forget the day everyone said "Who cares about The Beatles?"

Apple announces The Beatles are now available on iTunes. We will remember this day because it’s when people universal agreed The Beatles on iTunes is not a big deal.

Stop fighting the TSA and strip down to your skivvies #FlyNaked

What can they do? Arrest you for indecent exposure then digitally strip you down to your junk?

I may have to buy a camera to take photos of my phone.

Got a snazzy little keyboard and dock set up for my iPhone but can't take a photo of it without undocking my phone.

Chin Ho tells Kono to "Bing it" on Five-O

Two Windows Phone commercials every break plus product placement. Quite a Microsoft payday for Hawaii Five-O.

Turbulence ain't got nothin' on me

Bumpy ride but we made it home to our grumpy kitties. Now to choose between eat or sleep.

Bye bye SF and Kinley

Remains of a Mongolian hot pot

Blue jellyfish

Albino Alligator

B train at IAD: It's like I'm in the future

Cold weather heralds the return of the Sleep Buddies! #cats

SAI offices robbed. Flipcam left behind. http://tinyurl.com/2djq7r7 Sounds familiar... http://tinyurl.com/dbfvqh

SAI, seriously, the original story may be an urban myth, but the guys who robbed you are real and likely read that same myth too. Don’t touch anything (and certainly don’t brush your teeth) before you watch what’s on that Flipcam.

I found Waldo at #Rally4Sanity

#Rally4Sanity over, finally got cell service back

#rally4sanity would be great place for satellite phone.

Strong signal but cell traffic must be insane.

9:20 at the #rally4sanity

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

Click through for animated GIF.

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?!?