https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SdqOC8NA7s when did our future go wrong when our present doesn’t look like this

The humans, like many other races, bring tiny bits of their world along against homesickness↵https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/flowers http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/688513453921816576/photo/1

Home alone
Just like I did on 18 July, 2014, this one is mostly for keeping a record of a first time activity or occasion. This time it was Kent’s first home alone day. He is almost 15 years old, and for the first time he spent eight hours home alone, while Kim and I were at work.

Happy “graduation” step, Kent! ⌘ Read more

hybrid record players and cutters - press “cut” and it’ll cut off a ring making a very particular sound like biting into chocolate slowly

Dumping dollars left and right

“DOD charged the American taxpayer $43 million for what is likely the world’s most expensive gas station.”

That’s what Special Inspector General John F. Sopko found when he looked at the construction of a natural gas station in Sheberghan, Afghanistan.

According to the report, at most that station should have cost about $500,000. But in this case, the Department of Defense’s Task Force for … ⌘ Read more

Walking and using the phone
Walking around with your head stuck on the phone is like playing the chicken game. The fully aware pedestrian walking in your opposite direction—and on the same path—is forced to play the game. Not as dangerous as driving but still very annoying. When you walk, please pay attention, look where you are walking, and leave the phone in your pocket. ⌘ Read more

Protecting Francis
The Pope has recently been to Cuba, and today he will be arriving to the United States. Like any other dignitary, the Pope needs protection from both, bad people, and adoring crowds. Yet, doing so is not easy feat.

“The crowds throw things,” Mr. Clancy, who took over as the head of the Secret Service last October, said in an interview. “They throw flags, dolls and, obviously, babies towards him. It� … ⌘ Read more

Shogi
Kent’s latest hobby is to play Shogi. That makes me an obligatory player and fan as well since, just like chess, Shogi requires two players. We bought a cheap board from Amazon, but he has already stated that a better quality board and pieces is what he would want for Christmas (yes, he is already planning for it).

The game isn’t difficult to play, but I am having an excruciating hard time remembering each piece—labeled with kanji characters—and how they move. Ah, the j … ⌘ Read more

About the removal of garbage apps
Tim Cook answered a few questions for BuzzFeed, while they talked about things iPhone, iPad Pro, and many other Apple–related things. This part got close to me, as I am sure it might be to anyone who likes iPhones. Why can’t we remove certain apps?

Why are there apps on the iOS that I can’t delete even though I never use them? Why does Apple insist that I keep Tips and Stocks”on my iPhone when I’d like nothing more than to delete them? For Cook the … ⌘ Read more

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Basic Go Routines (like Threading) ⌘ Read more…

NixOS Foundation
The NixOS Foundation
was started to improve our ability to maintain and extend the infrastructure
used by the Nix related projects. If you would like to support us, please go
here and donate some money! ⌘ Read more

TIL http://t.co/FvhyPpEQWK is like the olde timey myspace. My eyes hurt from all the glitter.

Looks like the second big wave of site optimizations will come with HTTP/2 https://t.co/2oHl11Lio4

@micaelwidell Looks a lot like @danger5tv to me https://t.co/brL7T4F9vy.

Me, but you, but me
On May 28, 2010, Mark Pilgrim wrote the entry below on his weblog. He has since long been gone, but I am keeping this entry, named “ Me, but you, but me,” which I liked very much. I really wish he would come back.

I’ve been active online for 9 years now. With one exception, nothing I’ve done online has brought me closer to m … ⌘ Read more

#DEN #Eurovision That was one catchy song. Liked it.

I really like the #EST style #Eurovision2015 #Eurovision The girl is overdoing it a little but the song is nice.

Gmail.app on iOS
I like Google and its services. Like is too little, I love them! Their mobile applications on the other hand — specifically those running under iOS — are horrible. The UIX is confusing and it does not follows Apple UIX design. Their choice of font is of poor taste and, again, does not match the rest of the OS. They lack of functionality and/or their functionality is limited by poor choices and, what is seems to be, a lack of common sense. I could describe and point out the problems on any of the … ⌘ Read more

@Ulrikama that’s strange, It looks like this for me: http://t.co/woWgoloIQa. Maybe your account needs activation or something.

The very last of something

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There hasn’t been an article like this for a while, that fills me with such feeling of sadness, and emptiness. For as long as I can remember, a cartoon I saw as a child started my attraction for rhinoceros. Such lovely animals!

And now, the one pictured above (CB2/ZOB/Brent St … ⌘ Read more

Oh I like that so much https://t.co/zu6FP6DFf1

OMG I have like 10 repos on Google Code, time to move them http://t.co/9Rm21YVP1K

@ebidel @googledevs Yes I see like 5 potential problems in chrome://gpu/ will disable it now, that I found my closest G I/O location 10x

iCloud Drive on standby
When Apple announced the iCloud Drive integration in Yosemite, I got really excited. As I was already part of the “Apple ecosystem” (iPhone, iPad, iMac), the iCloud Drive availability in all, specially on the desktop, seemed like the culmination of all my dreams: a Cloud to rule them all. I ordered the 200 GB for $4 a month right away.

As it turns out with products in infancy, the iCloud Drive is no yet mature. My single complain, but a very important one, is the lack of selec … ⌘ Read more

@Virtusize Seems like you caught a Twitter bug

Cold winter morning small talk
We have 36 Fahrenheit degrees this morning (2.2° Celsius). That is mighty cold for almost-always warm, sunny Florida. I stressed it to my child yesternight: he must wear warm clothes the next day. Reluctantly he said “OK”.

Then comes this morning, and the iMessages exchange look like this:

Child:“Mama is trying to make me wear an incredibly uncomfortable shirt and is yelling like a siren.”Me:“Why? What’s going on?”Child:“She wants me to wear a … ⌘ Read more

@sandelius http://t.co/2KtiYAp5cD “word” should be escaped for regexp special chars like (){}+* a.s.o.

Comment on Ubuntu 13.10 Default Wallpaper Revealed by Tobias Müller
In reply to John Porter.

Elementare is super fast and god looking… An OS I would recommend to,… well, my mother maybe, but I’m missing some features and I like unity dash More than their equivalent ⌘ Read more

Comment on Ubuntu 13.10 Default Wallpaper Revealed by Stinger
Looks like a blurry banana : D ⌘ Read more

Looks like @YouTube is also down

#like ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1Tq

Create files on GitHub
There is a new feautre on GitHub, and this one allows you to create files directly from the web interface. This is very handy, for those of us running Jekyll.

This is my first test of the feature, I had to try it right away. Only wishing now to have a friendlier Markdown/kramdown editor. But it’s a start. I like it! ⌘ Read more

Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs
Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He is also an awesome human being.

As always there are those who reveal their asininity (as they did throughout his career) with ascriptions like “salesman”, “showman” or the giveaway blunder “triumph of style over substance”. The use of that las … ⌘ Read more

What I thought when my plane crashed
From CNN Opinion, this\
article, written by Ric Elias I liked. I liked it
so much, I decided to keep it here, for when it is not longer available
at CNN. As I did with a previous\
article I kept from the WSJ, if CNN
does not likes what I have done, let me know and I will remove it, or
adapt it to a compromise. Please do not sue … ⌘ Read more

Many changes coming soon
Just very recently I wrote about me moving to Jekyll from WordPress:

After much thought, and tinkering, I decided to ditch my six year old
or so WordPress and start blogging like a hacker
with the awesome Jekyll.

I also wrote —fairly recently— about [living on a Linod … ⌘ Read more

Ricky Gervais - Why I’m an atheist
This is an article
written by Ricky Gervais, for The Wall Street Journal back in 2010.

Reproduced entirely here, as SpeakEasy seems not to be keep articles
around long enough. If WSJ does not like what I have done, let me know
and I will remove it, or adapt it to a co … ⌘ Read more

@stan_bb единия не е ли от шефа от LIke the Boss ?

Forget Hyde, moved to Jekyll!
After much thought, and tinkering, I decided to ditch my six year old or so WordPress and start blogging like a hacker with the awesome Jekyll.

I am still getting a few things in place, like making sure all entries are properly converted to markdown, but overall I … ⌘ Read more

Living on a Linode
TL;DR.

Moved to Linode. Love it, highly recommend it. They reward customers that bring referrals, but notice my links do not have any referral code. That much I like their product.

All my domains have resided on a ServerBeach dedicated server for over six years now. I have tried to find something else be … ⌘ Read more

A month

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It has been a month since our Jean passed away. Times flies, yet it seems like it was yesterday. Nor a day has passed by without coming to mind, one way or another. We miss her like we did the first day. I truly dislike Warcraft, but I am keeping her toons alive, and advancing. Somehow playing something she dedicated so much time on, where she had so many good friends, gives me the feeling she still lives. Quiet mornings, though … ⌘ Read more

Back from vacations
We are back from vacations. It was a great one, but at the end we agreed that there is no place like home, for many reasons. They are mostly minor things, to which we have grown accustom to, but that combined make the type of life we live. I might detail some of those little things later.

A few posts will be due, to narrate some relevant things from the trip: Iberia and our misplaced luggages (and their English/Spanish phones lines), Hertz and our lemon like rental car, speed limits, Aix- … ⌘ Read more

It’s decided
It’s decided, my next machine will be an Apple computer. Most likely I will end up buying a Mac Mini, although an iMac is also being considered. Now, who wants a (still under warranty) DELL XPS 630i? It is a Q6600 (quad), with 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, and NVIDIA 9800GT. Comes with Windows 7 Ultimate. Nice machine!

Note: Someone contacted me, but the email went to spam, and got deleted. Try … ⌘ Read more

Clan of the Cave Bear
Just saw the Clan of the Cave Bear movie, for the first time, on it’s entirety. Great movie. Touching; got me a knot on the throat in more than one occasion. I think it is a sad movie, and brought up many memories. Sometimes movies, like music, have that effect. Sometimes it is just us, and how our mind works. ⌘ Read more

Bookmarklets I use
These are some of the general bookmarklets I use. I have them synchronized with Chrome and Google Docs, but I am listing them here in case I want to share them with someone else, like you (yes, you there, reading this now). Here there go:

• Tweet it! : document.getSelection ? document.getSelection() : document.selection.createRange().text); if (!q) q=prompt(“Enter your Tweet”,“”);if (q!=null) location=”http://twitter.com/home?st … ⌘ Read more

Bright House follow up
You will remember my previous Bright House post. The same day I wrote that, I got a call from a Bright House customer service representative. Since there is no need to know names, let’s call her Christine. I like that name.

Christine told me Bright House was aware I had publicly written about my displeasure with their services, and that her job was to make sure I was completely satisfied. Fair enough. After patiently listening … ⌘ Read more

Facebook and OpenID caching
When I first read that Facebook was going to allow OpenID logins, I was happy. OpenID means less usernames and passwords to remember. So I merrily went to setup mine, just to find out that their support was exclusively for OpenID version 2.0, and my implementation was 1.1. No graceful fall back, Facebook demands OpenID 2.0. So I decided it was time for me to upgrade my implementation for one capable to handle 1.1 and 2.0.

Of course, the first one I tried I did not like it … ⌘ Read more

Special, just like you
At first I thought I was special, when I received my first offering of marriage, or the bank transfer to help the widow of some foreign fallen dignitary. Then they kept going, and I knew I was “special”, just like everyone else.

Read one of today’s emails and smile:

I am 26 years old, just started work with Central bank of Nigeria, as a scientist and why i was diong system maintance . I came across your file which was marked X and your released disk painted RED, I took t … ⌘ Read more

Not allowed to tell
A local bank in front of which I sit quite often has a locked metal box sitting outside the branch. Yesterday my curiosity got sparked when I saw one of the employees (which I greet daily) opening it and taking a canvas bag out of it. When I asked what was the box for, she stopped like frozen, and muttered “ _Company doesn’t allow me to tell._”

Now, won’t you agree with me that such answer was a very silly —and dangerous!— one? ⌘ Read more

Hillary speaks like Bush
Obama accuses Clinton of using the language of Bush on Iran

In the sharpest attack, Obama said that Clinton’s threat to “totally obliterate” Iran should it attempt a nuclear attack on Israel was inappropriate. “It’s not the language we need right now. It’s language that’s reflective of George Bush,” he said.

Obama said it was time to get away from a foreign policy of “bluster an … ⌘ Read more