IMPORTANT: I’ve discovered the ugliest aircraft yet conceived by mankind.
Is that seriously a mouthwash dispenser?
How I ended a game of 20 questions in 3:
Me: “Is it a man?”
Brendang: “Yes.”
Me: “Is he an actor?”
Brendang: “Yes.”
Me: “Is he still alive?”
Brendang: “Shit…I’m not sure.”
Me: “Gene Wilder.”
Brendang: “You asshole.”
In case anyone still isn’t sure, today’s his birthday.
See, I keep thinking Sam Neill is dead, but he isn’t.
(Source: morgiepi)
Look what I got. No big deal.
Notes after a day of living with iOS 7:
Pretty much all of the changes “make sense” from a user experience standpoint. There’s much less “Oh, I guess I have to do it this way” and more “Oh it should have worked that way the whole time”. The color palette is a little, “toyish” though.
1) The Control Center is incredibly useful, and long overdue. See that icon in the lower left? Quick access to Flashlight. God damnit is that useful.
2) The app switcher is way better than the old one. I Can’t emphasize this enough.
3) BLOCKED NUMBERS? You can have a block list, and calls and texts from that number won’t get through. That’s a pretty big small feature.
4) Apps automatically update, which is really convenient, except if you didn’t want to update an app for some reason.
5) You can now have multiple twitter accounts signed into the OS, which could be really handy.
For a 1st Beta, it’s pretty solid. Multitasking now allows apps to do more, and that’s caused a few out-of-memory crashes - including 2 spontaneous reboots of the whole phone. Battery life is, well it needs improvement - but it’s not as bad as some later betas of the last OS.
I think I’m keeping it, for now.
“The Sno Kone Joe owners were arrested last month after a Mr. Ding-A-Ling driver told police they followed his truck, playing music at high volume, trying to lure away customers with promises of free ice cream and yelling at one point, “This is my town!”
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Actual Wall Street Journal article.
Also, Mr. Ding-A-Ling?
Hey everyone great news.
I’m the luck winner of the international cricket council’s email AWARD PROMO.
Look at this congratulation email I got.
I’m quitting my job, brb.
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Today the (A) train returned to the Rockaways after several months of absence in the wake of Sandy.
To mark the occasion, as the top photo shows, the MTA ran a vintage train of 1930’s R1/9 Subway cars. Adorned on the front was a banner that said “Rockaway Here We Come!”
What you may not know is that this very same message appeared on the very first subway to visit the Rockaway peninsula when the line was opened in 1956, as shown in the bottom photo.
This is a cool thing they did there.
