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?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/2007 09:44PM by tomierna.
El Jeffe
– January 02, 2012 04:58PM
What a journey.
Ron, did you watch the London fireworks? We just did. Spectacular. (a bit UN-green, though lol)
http://bit.ly/toFWL3
Ron Burns
– January 03, 2012 12:37AM
"We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation." Voltaire
I'll see your London and raise you an Edinburgh...
http://bit.ly/v0nYV3 Castle and ceilidh thrown in! (if not so professionally filmed...)
Get it pencilled in for next year - only 7 hours drive in a superior Citroen!
Alan Lehman
– January 03, 2012 07:15AM
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johnny k
Thanks to Tom and all of you for another good year of Sporkicity. This time, you even put your money where your mouth is and helped me launch something big. Got a bit of a bump in the last few days from a big tech blog in Brazil and the blessing of Ashton Kutcher (as tweeted to his 9 million followers). 4 more days, and with some help I think we might hit $500K. I'm trying to show non-geeks how connecting things can be neat, so I made another video.
http://vimeo.com/34348293
I think it's awesome that our group is this tight. You being the first to back Twine makes the 'virtual community' not seem virtual at all. Happy new year!
'Might' hit 500k? Might? That doesn't look like a might to me. That looks more like trouncing 500k. Very few groups with serious products manage 15x what they needed.
Well done.
Oh, and I voted for the amperage sensor just in case a sporker gets any extra pull.
Happy New Year!
Cloudscout
– January 03, 2012 08:02AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Amazing results... of course, now comes the hard part.
I just pored over the list of backers and saw that, aside from Sporkers, there were other people I know in the list. That's cool, especially since I neglected to share the link with my friends. I thought that I had but I guess not.
Cloudscout
– January 03, 2012 08:13AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
DPBD
It's cool that Ashton Kutcher shared the project with the world, mainly because of the amusement factor when reading through the idiots' comments on it:
https://www.facebook.com/Ashton/posts/10150424589587820
johnny k
– January 03, 2012 11:44AM
Yeah, agreed - I don't think we actually got a lot of backers from him. Ever since Facebook allowed people to reply to people who aren't following them, Twitter-style, you get a lot of this idiot-comment-whoring. Noticed the same thing when Zuckerberg commented on someone else's posting. "OMG You are Mike Zuckeburg loved your movie!!"
I've recognized some names on the backer list, too. Big cheeses from Apple and MS and others. And Robb - kudos for slipping in at the end! My favorite Sporker, I'll make no bones about it.
Don't worry, JW, you won't have to pull any strings - the current sensor is going to win. I'm projecting that the third winner will be an RFID reader. I still want the high-temperature probe, though.
John Willoughby
– January 03, 2012 11:55AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
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johnny k
Don't worry, JW, you won't have to pull any strings - the current sensor is going to win.
It was Tom who had a sensor preference; I am sensor agnostic. I'm just glad to watch Twine's climb to glory. And to help, in a tiny way.
johnny k
– January 03, 2012 12:32PM
Sorry, meant Alan. My eyes are defocusing after being at the computer since I got up.
tliet
– January 03, 2012 03:39PM
A belated happy new year everyone, currently travelling through south India and got some catching up to do. Johnny, congrats with funding Twine, didn't get in, but wish I did.
El Jeffe
– January 05, 2012 05:00PM
What a journey.
Received my first NDA papers/contract just now.
El Jeffe
– January 05, 2012 05:01PM
What a journey.
Dave Loudin
– January 05, 2012 05:58PM
Found where it's at!
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El Jeffe
Received my first NDA papers/contract just now.
Aw, geez! What are you waiting for? Tell us all about it!
;)
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– January 05, 2012 11:49PM
He's not DMK... (we think...)
tomierna
(Admin)
– January 06, 2012 06:16AM
Hideously Unnatural
My company will be doing substantial things (as a subcontractor) for NFLX this year.
Bill, if you are going to visit NFLX, let me know so I can tell you where on property I'll be!
(I can't really talk about what we're doing yet, but it involves a lot of Mac Minis!)
Jeff Cooper
– January 06, 2012 07:23AM
Tom, if I go, I'll look for you too.
I've been warned that the campus will be part of the Super Bowl madhouse, especially Friday-Saturday-Sunday. Fortunately, I don't teach those days.
El Jeffe
– January 06, 2012 11:46AM
What a journey.
Cool. Is NFLX short for NetFlix? Or something NFL and something X? (I'm such a football ignoramus)
Well, maybe Jeff, you and I can find a spare hour or two? Keep us informed.
I just noticed earlier today that Indiana has a website for 46 sandwiches. Duh, superbowl 46. Just put the two together. And I always know which number the superbowl is because it's my AGE.
http://www.in.gov/visitindiana/super46/
Just look at some of those sammies.
tomierna
(Admin)
– January 06, 2012 01:04PM
Hideously Unnatural
NFLX is the "NFL eXperience".
It's a sponsored tailgate party, and booths from companies which want to pitch to Superbowl goers. There are memorabilia vendors, museum-like booths, a theater which shows NFL highlights, the Lombardi Trophy is usually in a shrine of sorts. Many networks (ESPN, whichever one has the SB) will be broadcasting their shows live from the NFLX for the week leading up.
I'm not a big sports guy either, but I am an AV geek, and SB and NFLX are very heavily into that.
El Jeffe
– January 06, 2012 04:43PM
What a journey.
Oh, one more thing, while watching C&As, wife got a call, job offer, AND accepted. So, that'll be a change!
(not too soon. I really, really expect to be fired in a month... but I also wasn't even sure I'd be ALIVE in 2012, either, so what do I KNOW!?)
El Jeffe
– January 08, 2012 04:49AM
What a journey.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– January 22, 2012 11:02PM
It was 27˚C today which isn't too bad at all for Brisbane - except for the 98% humidity...
I was out in the rain and still hot as hell. Bleah...
