Week ending Sunday 2011/04/17

Monday 05:06 · Ah, the airport at 4:55AM. #goingToCaliforniaWithAnAchingInMyHeart [Original.]

Monday 05:27 · Overcommitment, Robot surgery, etc: www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/04/11/100mm-Overcommitted [Original.]

Tuesday 07:52 · The Googleplex is almost unspeakably beautiful early on a bright California spring morning. [Original.]

Tuesday 09:55 · The PDML Photo Annual 2011 is ready. Gonna be some damn fine pictures in there: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2098910 [Original.]

Tuesday 10:00 · Available as an ebook too, natch: www.robertstech.com/pdmlbook/ [Original.]

Wednesday 08:06 · Hg and Eclipse sittin' in a tree. Eclipse got confused by a merge, fell 75ft, fractured vertebrae. [Original.]

Thursday 14:21 · Most geeks transit SFO often. Pieces are moving around: crankyflier.com/2011/04/14/touring-san-franciscos-new-terminal-2/ [Original.]

Thursday 21:33 · Was one read away from the NYT firewall & thus writing on the subject... but did they take it down? [Original.]

Thursday 22:01 · Rubber (2010) 82 minutes, Comedy/Drama/Horror: www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/ [Original.]

Friday 07:14 · Dear America: Your tax rates are low. swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/04/15/the-socialist-threat-tax-day-edition/ [Original.]

Friday 07:21 · Mobile developer shortage online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704547604576263200170918660.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews Just like Java 15 years ago, the Web 10 years ago. [Original.]

Friday 09:14 · Portal 2 videos are the best postmodern marketing campaign ever. Nothing else is remotely close. [Original.]

Friday 09:16 · Correction: I mean the "Aperture Investment Opportunity Opportunity" videos [Original.]

Friday 09:23 · Follow Friday: twitter.com/timbray/favorites [Original.]

Friday 12:00 · @cwilso I'd say consensus among heavy speakers is that Keynote slides look better and authoring is way faster. [Original, responding to @cwilso.]

Friday 12:09 · @cwilso I tweak like crazy. You are aware that the control key turns off the snap-to-alignment behavior? [Original, responding to @cwilso.]

Saturday 10:50 · Assuming it's OK to turn Google off for a couple days next week to play Portal 2. kthksby [Original.]

Sunday 09:58 · David Simon, American revolutionary: www.guernicamag.com/interviews/2530/simon_4_1_11/ The country needs more of 'em. [Original.]

Sunday 10:07 · Hey, it's Sunday morning, and Twitter is rejecting Twidroyd with some authent-error bumph. Wonder whom I should be mad at? [Original.]


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