Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world
tomierna
(Admin)
– December 07, 2007 08:50PM
Hell, it was a popular icebreaker on the ancien boards ...
Get up close and personal with excruciating details of your quotidien
existence!
How's your dirty laundry?
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John Willoughby
– March 02, 2011 07:08AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I just lie to them. "Yes, I've remodulated the freemostat couplings. Yes, I have torn down all buildings within a five mile radius. Yes, it is plugged in."
Cloudscout
– March 02, 2011 10:45AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
ddt
– March 02, 2011 02:09PM
Off this evening to faaaaaaabulous Long Beach for an academic conference (that rejected my panel presentation proposal). You may begin being jealous now.
ddt
John Willoughby
– March 02, 2011 04:41PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
[Moved to health thread. These aren't the droids you're looking for. You can go about your business. Move along.]
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ddt
– March 05, 2011 12:50PM
Just got back from the Digital Media and Learning conference -- a lot of really smart and passionate people doing good work.
Aaand a lot of teams from the MIT Media Lab. Oddly, none of them had heard of a certain Mr. Johnny K. Eeeeeenteresting.
ddt
John Willoughby
– March 05, 2011 12:57PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
They're not cleared for that level of awesome.
Cloudscout
– March 05, 2011 01:08PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Johnny K is his stage name. They know him by his real name.
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johnny k
– March 05, 2011 02:19PM
You found me out. I really went to the Milwaukee Institute of Thinkin'.
Those are the learning people. I ran with the HCI crowd. Though one of my friends from Tufts, Louise, was at that conference.
Bruce Robertson
– March 05, 2011 02:43PM
Loving TouchMyData for fast simple iOS device access to Filemaker data.
John Willoughby
– March 11, 2011 10:58PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Then it's official: there is no kind of party anywhere that I can tolerate.
El Jeffe
– March 28, 2011 05:10PM
What a journey.
In all these years of going downtown here, I just for the first time noticed I pass a CLIFTON street. lol
Saw the sign off to the right of the road today
Cloudscout
– March 28, 2011 05:13PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Hehe.
By the way, are you aware of the fact that you can take a screenshot of just a portion of your screen by using SHIFT+CMD+4 instead of SHIFT+CMD+3? That lets you select which part of the screen you want to capture.
johnny k
– March 28, 2011 06:05PM
That, plus holding down ctrl while releasing the mouse button (send to clipboard), is my favorite shortcut... wish it was a little more obvious for users.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– March 28, 2011 06:07PM
And if you use shift+cmd+4+spacebar - a little camera icon appears allowing you to grab a screenshot of the frontmost window on the screen.
El Jeffe
– March 29, 2011 03:31AM
What a journey.
could someone edit my post above? Yeah, I use shift command 4 many times a day. But on google maps it did not allow the overlay of Clifton St. to appear once I did. And I thought the sign was illegible.
Sorry for the BIGGASSSSS PHOTO! (I have all the shortcuts printed off on a sheet sitting here. But THANKS... I just forgot I wanted to do some post editing.
johnny k
– March 29, 2011 04:34AM
No variety in names in Massachusetts. All cities have the same couple of names: Mass Ave, Boston Ave, Beacon, Magazine, High Street, Summer, School. And what kills me is that none of the streets of the same name line up across city boundaries. GPS is required. I guess back in the 1600's everyone was very literal and local. "Oh, that's the way to Boston. Oh that's the way to the nearest school. That street's on a hill."
Worst city for driving.
John Willoughby
– March 29, 2011 07:14AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Miskatonic, Arkham, Dunwich, Innsmouth...
ddt
– March 29, 2011 07:47AM
Yeah, there's a strange reuse of place names here in the Bay Area. Castro is everywhere (THE Castro, Castro Valley, so many cities have streets named Castro), and other names are almost as common. And about a mile from me is Telegraph Ave., which runs in a straight line through Berkeley and Oakland. Most annoyingly, the street numbers go up on one side of the city line and down on the other, so there's (say) an 1800 Telegraph in two places! If you don't know which city it's in, and why would you care if it's all within a mile, you easily end up at the right address in the wrong place.
ddt
johnny k
– March 29, 2011 09:14AM
JW, oh, city names are fine. Interesting even, as long as you don't try to pronounce them to locals. Worchester = Wooster is the key one I remember to tune my accent.
Two-way Telegraph, that one's rich. Next earthquake, let's have Silicon Valley come up with a better scheme.
Much love to Chicago's grid and numbers, but Phoenix is even more gridded. There's a road called Baseline, and it is. It runs through several cities for about 40 miles and is a goddamn straight line. That is the correct way. Along that road I grew up, got married and will settle down and die.
The towns seem to avoid the Boston problem of same names, different streets because most of the streets are named after councilmen and rich families original settlers particular to that city.
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