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One Silicon Valleyite's perspective on life, politics, tech toys and whatever else comes by his desk.
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2010-12-17
| 08:43 | Publisher Houghton Mifflin screws photographers, shows contempt for the law. How'd they feel if their work was stolen? http://bit.ly/g0kGr1 |
| 09:07 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 20:01 | Yahoo to shut down AltaVista. I'm shocked! I had no idea AltaVista hadn't died years ago! |
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2010-12-16
| 09:07 | I got 40 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:15 | RT @ebertchicago: The lyrics are all names of movie directors. Listen closely. "The Akira Kurosawa Song." (rt) http://j.mp/dVKFe4 [Cool!] |
| 11:17 | Moving day? Didn't I just get here? http://plixi.com/p/63145307 |
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2010-12-15
| 06:42 | @paulandstorm Shitty Movie Dartboard is the name of my John Williams cover band. Hey, you suggested it! |
| 06:47 | Very little sleep last night. Need to stop eating like I was still in college. Indiana Jones was wrong; it's the years *and* the miles. |
| 12:16 | RT @JonahNRO Hey, if the doc about to crack my chest was a Pakistani, I might condemn the war too [And we wonder why Jews are persecuted.] |
| 14:06 | Just had a reminder of how little it takes to *really* *piss* *me* *off*. |
| 14:11 | @JustaSunGod Nope, that won't do it. |
| 15:38 | Great programming quotes. #44 explains why the iPhone was such a revelation. http://bit.ly/gzEDWs |
| 21:27 | An iPhone meat thermometer. With Bluetooth. Truly, we live in remarkable times. http://engt.co/f8gfGY |
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2010-12-14
| 09:23 | A Christmas carol for our paranoid times: Santa Claus is Coming to Get Me. (Well, he *is*.) |
| 11:27 | Judge who ruled Health Care law unconstitutional has big stake in anti-HCR GOP consulting firm. Yeah, I'm shocked. http://gaw.kr/gjo0oN |
| 18:02 | MSFT will challenge the iPad by shoehorning desktop Windows 7 into a tablet. Didn't they try something like this before? |
| 19:36 | @VictoriaDahl You have an internal *dialogue*? How many of you are in there? |
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2010-12-13
| 07:28 | So gray in Sacramento. @joelmchale very funny last night. Breakfast now, then pick up model for our shoot. Gonna be a good day. |
| 13:54 | Done shooting Kaitlin, so now I'm on my way back to the Bay Area. Still gray. I'd be depressed if I hadn't had such a nice weekend. |
| 17:28 | Phony product boxes to hide your true gift intentions. Surprised they aren't real. http://www.prankpack.com/ (Via @CarolynCrane) |
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2010-12-12
| 06:23 | Meet & greet at local studio last night. A little shooting, a little photo talk. And the place is *huge*. Hope I get to shoot there again. |
| 11:20 | On my way to Sacramento. @joelmchale tonight, photo shoot tomorrow. |
| 13:59 | Glad I didn't plan any scenic photography today. Haven't seen this much gray since winter in Iowa. |
| 18:09 | A little sushi before the show. Sacramento's a pretty happening place on a Saturday night. Or is it just this Saturday night? |
| 19:09 | Row G for @joelmchale. No problem seeing him at this distance. |
| 19:30 | Oh boy! @jonathancoulton & @paulandstorm are coming to SF in January! Already have my ticket. So excited! |
| 19:50 | "Using the BlackBerry Torch is like being trapped in a real-life version of "Waiting for Godot."" http://bit.ly/cQmDK6 |
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2010-12-11
| 09:03 | I got 5 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 15:16 | I so love the web! http://isberniesandersstilltalking.com/ |
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2010-12-10
| 10:18 | @VictoriaDahl Tron was some of the first and best CGI most of us had seen. It was like being inside a videogame of the era. |
| 10:33 | @VictoriaDahl The lightcycle game may have come out before the movie. There was at least one game that came out after. |
| 10:33 | @VictoriaDahl I think it was just how different it all looked. Like most Disney movies, it was shallow as hell. We just didn't care. |
| 12:21 | @sandrift Cracks me up every time it happens. Stupid MSFT and their stupid Auto Updater. |
| 15:28 | Via @ebertchicago, Christopher Hitchens exposes the horror and evil that are Glenn Beck. http://j.mp/eIbqD0 |
| 15:37 | These really are the most awful gifts. http://bit.ly/e2JfNs |
| 17:58 | In a legal war between patent troll Righthaven and The Drudge Report, who do you cheer for? Let 'em both die. http://bit.ly/f2mqpR |
| 18:34 | @gruber http://bit.ly/hxqFgJ |
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2010-12-09
| 06:41 | So now the State Dept is judge, jury & executioner, at least where PayPal & Wikileaks are concerned. http://bit.ly/fZGJ5Q |
| 09:03 | I got 29 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 19:39 | RT @ebertchicago: Court seizes/freezes assets of gold company Glenn Beck was shilling for. Fraud. http://j.mp/gIcmHn [Never saw that coming] |
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2010-12-08
| 09:04 | I got 40 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 14:57 | Elizabeth Edwards might have made a fine first lady. Too bad her husband was such a hopeless narcissistic wolf. |
| 17:54 | I just got my iPhone to print to my networked printer. That is *so* cool! |
| 20:47 | Watching Eureka. What is is about Christmas that brings out the sappy in every television series? Hell, even Dragnet fell victim. |
| 20:59 | @joelmchale Coming to Sacramento to see you. You're gonna be worth it, right? |
| 21:09 | @cabri So what you're saying is that it's all the fault of sappy, humorless Christians. Yeah, I buy that. |
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2010-12-07
| 09:05 | I got 43 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:43 | RT @seattlewinegal: Absolute best 'Lost Pet' sign I have ever seen! http://twitpic.com/3dimyd [Available in cans from @thinkgeek.] |
| 13:21 | Every other movie on IMDB is rated on a 10 scale. But there's one that goes to 11... http://imdb.to/90Y4vb |
| 13:58 | @CaliLewis Sounds like fun! This is me RSVPing... |
| 14:58 | Thank you, TripIt. You just showed me I booked one hotel night for the wrong month! That could have been sticky. |
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2010-12-06
| 09:04 | I got 51 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 20:13 | Two shoots this weekend: one 40s film noir, the other a woman with pink hair. Black & white and color! |
| 21:10 | @HappyTinfoilCat That would indeed be Raven. My first pink-haired model! |
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2010-12-05
| 09:02 | I got 40 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 18:49 | I may be losing my taste for group photo shoots. This is not the chaos on which I thrive. |
| 18:50 | Cooking corned beef, also known as three hours of sensory torture. |
| 19:28 | @RaynaRamsay Gross? Corned beef is food of the gods! Of the gods, I say! |
| 21:51 | Three hours later, corned beef tastes as good as it smelled. Which, for the record, is very good. |
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2010-12-04
| 09:07 | I got 60 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 15:00 | Govt blocks employee access to Wikileaks. Barn door, meet escaped horse. http://tpm.ly/dZWdVn |
| 17:07 | My packages from @thinkgeek arrived! Bacon popcorn! Bacon fizzy drink tablets! Even more silliness! |
| 17:08 | RT @billamend: Love this! RT @aedile Star Wars + Dr. Seuss = nerdgasm! http://bit.ly/fwdm9H [Major geekulitudinousness!] |
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2010-12-03
| 09:03 | I got 19 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 12:39 | McCain will allow DADT repeal over his dead body. Which doesn't seem like much of a stumbling block, does it? |
| 12:44 | This upcoming iPhone app has me... intrigued. Scroll down and you'll see what I mean. http://bit.ly/fO9Vox |
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2010-12-02
| 09:08 | I got 94 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:13 | WebEx at 6am: when the light on my videocam glows, I'm unnerved. It *says* it isn't broadcasting, but do I trust it? |
| 13:08 | I’ve entered to win an iPad signed by @ConanOBrien! Benefits @drdrew charity @Hillsides. Enter here: http://tweethouseipad.com #teamcoco. |
| 13:12 | Is Margaret Cho to be believed? Does Sarah Palin really think Bristol's pregnancy cost her the election? http://aol.it/gpXjE5 |
| 13:46 | It's not the streets that are steep, it's the houses that are falling. http://bit.ly/i5mOKJ |
| 18:49 | Just enough tome for a burger & rings at Johnny Rockets before @SJRep & their latest production. |
| 21:12 | Intermission for Backwards in High Heels, The Ginger Musical at @SJRep. Not exactly deep, but fun. |
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2010-11-30
| 08:28 | Barely made it through a mercifully short 8am meeting. How will I do on Wednesday, when I have one at 6? Yes, 6. In the morning. |
| 09:08 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 11:23 | "So you want to write a novel." I think I'll stick to photography as a way to make my fortune. http://bit.ly/dJXLaH |
| 11:58 | Tech toys to give people you really don't like all that much. http://bit.ly/h3JyIn |
| 12:15 | "Ceci n'est pas une invoice." I love ThinkGeek! http://bit.ly/iaFy5S |
| 13:46 | MSFT delaying payments to WinPhone 7 developers, not telling them what they've sold. Think they have something to hide? http://t.co/BQUC9hd |
| 19:15 | @PetFoodMax Getting photos accepted at @Shutterstock starts out hard but gets easier. I've learned a lot, and made money in the process. |
| 19:47 | @PetFoodMax Mostly I shoot what I like and see what sells. That keeps it fun, keeps me motivated, and helps pay for itself. |
| 20:46 | @PetFoodMax Mine's a Nikon D300. How about you? |
| 21:28 | Comcast's blackmail of Netflix makes me glad I'm on AT&T. Yeah, they're slower, but they haven't pulled this crap yet. |
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2010-11-29
| 07:37 | Turns out the Kuwait Times got one thing wrong in story about Kuwait DSLR ban. That one thing? Absolutely everything. http://bit.ly/g19x1j |
| 09:03 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:43 | The Nation apologizes to John Tyner for innuendo-laden conspiracy piece on TSA protests, admits it had no facts. http://bit.ly/g8zWFW |
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2010-11-28
| 06:39 | And suddenly I want to watch the whole endless trilogy... http://bit.ly/cqsbIJ |
| 06:50 | Why did nobody tell me about How It Should Have Ended before now? Genius! http://bit.ly/dBCMDf |
| 09:03 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:32 | Just noticed AmEx gave me a credit in Nov for a canceled charge it'll show in Dec, thus screwing up totals for both months. Most confusing. |
| 11:56 | In San Francisco for a photo shoot. Good thing we didn't plan to shoot outdoors. It's wet and cold, at least by California standards! |
| 16:07 | Pope says embryos are dynamic, autonomous individuals. I'll believe it when one calls the pope an asshat. http://bit.ly/h6K9Rm |
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2010-11-26
| 08:41 | Oral Hygiene #badmacysparadefloats |
| 15:54 | New Yorker review of Bush's Decision Points. Being The Decider is easy, when nuance isn't in your vocabulary. http://nyr.kr/dZ8mJ9 |
| 16:11 | What am I thankful for? Every piece of software that has an Undo function. Preferably if it has multiple levels of Undo. Lots and lots. |
| 16:24 | Enough photo editing. Off to thanksgiving dinner with friends. Yes, I have friends. What are you implying? |
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2010-11-25
| 06:57 | It's Thanksgiving eve day, and I have an 8am meeting. Lucky it's via WebEx, so no one will notice me looking confused & disengaged. |
| 08:29 | Made the 8am meeting. And amazingly enough, I understand a lot of the conversation! Three weeks in, and I'm not totally lost any more! |
| 08:53 | So Novell ceases to be. Finally, a dead computer industry icon I *didn't* work for. After DG, Sun, SGI & Compaq I was starting to wonder. |
| 09:05 | I got 40 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 15:04 | Rat killer and ex-House Majority Leader DeLay adds a new title: convicted felon. Ah, sweet justice. |
| 20:29 | Regarding this News Corp newspaper for the iPad, am I the only iFan who would never ever trust the guys behind Fox for their news? |
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2010-11-24
| 06:31 | Now that's a bad review! $99 Android tablet from Walgreens. http://bit.ly/afJlQI |
| 06:32 | @Molly23 Happy 21st, Molly! Now you can sit at the big kids' table! |
| 07:14 | Listening to the rain, I have zero desire to get ready for work. And yet I must, even though it'll be a ghost town today. |
| 08:37 | For the record, I did make it into work, lack of energy notwithstanding. |
| 09:08 | I got 56 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:47 | Via @ebertchicago, Pauline Kael makes Plan 9 sound a whole lot better and more interesting than it really is. http://j.mp/fWEkxH |
| 13:55 | 58% of Repub voters think GOP in Congress should give up govt health coverage. What are the odds they will? http://bit.ly/ezWYja |
| 18:46 | Star Wars mice. Too much cuteness... http://on.io9.com/frbXEh |
| 21:16 | What happens when @billamend of FoxTrot takes on xkcd. Hint: it's awfully nerdly. http://xkcd.com/824/ |
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2010-11-23
| 08:54 | An example of Google being evil? Or just incompetent? http://bit.ly/9PxZ2x |
| 09:02 | I got 35 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:08 | "I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is that we're snowed in..." http://bit.ly/ciznkA |
| 09:13 | RT @thinkgeek: Google "35 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh PA," map it, go to street view, rotate, bask in the nerdy glow. [Hee!] |
| 13:29 | Because the first Buffy movie wasn't enough of a trainwreck, they're doing it again. http://on.io9.com/fUYKF4 |
| 18:24 | Joss Whedon's reaction to news of Buffy remake is more entertaining than Buffy remake. http://eonli.ne/dMov87 |
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2010-11-22
| 09:06 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
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2010-11-21
| 09:03 | I got 40 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 14:29 | RT @leeunkrich: Product design FAIL. http://twitpic.com/38mz52 [Not drinking from that. Nuh uh.] |
| 18:52 | Lightning? We never get lightning. Okay, hardly ever. |
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2010-11-20
| 08:31 | Steampunk computer, a nerd lust object: http://j.mp/aSIJpN |
| 08:35 | Captcha on @shutterstock had Hebrew letters! Not fair! |
| 08:38 | TSA: Rifles are fine, but we're taking those dangerous nail clippers! http://bit.ly/cIjX8L |
| 09:04 | I got 19 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 11:01 | RT @ggreenwald: So funny: RT @elliottjustin MSNBC hires former GOP congressman, then suspends him for GOP activism. [The mind boggles.] |
| 12:10 | I know it's bacony, but I'm not at all sure about this. http://j.mp/arSQDA |
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2010-11-19
| 08:06 | RT @ebertchicago: Roger Ailes calls NPR "Nazis." He's an evil, harmful man. http://j.mp/cdJNlJ [Who's more famous for The Big Lie than Fox?] |
| 09:07 | I got 19 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:33 | @paulandstorm Harry Potter is long, tedious and ultimately pointless. #makingtrouble |
| 16:27 | I want Internet access at home as good as I have at work. Is that too much to ask? Granted, I do work for a networking company... |
| 16:30 | @mariancall Oh no! Not another windshield crack! Happened to me two days running in the South in May. |
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2010-11-18
| 09:10 | I got 31 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:35 | MSFT aces browser benchmark the old fashioned way: by cheating! http://bit.ly/972G4O |
| 09:48 | If anybody's looking to get me a holiday present... http://bit.ly/9tAr4r |
| 09:52 | "You keep using those letters. I do not think they mean what you think they mean." http://bit.ly/apwqnf |
| 20:22 | How could I not have heard of A Klingon Christmas Carol? Must. See. Now. http://bit.ly/cMgTiM |
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2010-11-17
| 06:48 | 2 PayPal phish attempts this ayem, one from paypali.com, the other claiming (but not really) it's from paypaI.com (with an I). Oh bother. |
| 09:05 | I got 20 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 09:21 | RT @joelmchale: I know nobody has a lot going on so come see me Dec 11 at Sac Memorial Auditorium. http://bit.ly/cqvbmh [Got my ticket!] |
| 10:32 | RT @JohnRossBowie: RT @SethMacFarlane Didn’t support the troops, saw a bumper sticker, now do. [Still looking for that compelling sticker.] |
| 10:50 | Jon Stewart on McCain: Spend a year studying whether soldiers deserve civil rights & 30 minutes deciding on your veep. http://bit.ly/bN8Pjg |
| 20:17 | RT @ebertchicago: New GOP congressman demands Obamacare for self & to hell with anybody else. http://j.mp/9Ku1Sq [A hypocrite in Congress!] |
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2010-11-16
| 09:04 | I got 40 images accepted to @shutterstock today! Check out my gallery here: http://tinyurl.com/ltgjp5 |
| 13:08 | This work thing is really intruding on my tweeting time. |
| 15:06 | My work MacBook arrived. So now I get to do all my setup all over again... |
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