Posts tagged “MacBook Pro”

  • Hugh Hefner: Teen Cartoonist
  • Have you ever ordered any of these secret restaurant menu items?
  • Congratulations to the Gators, who won their first NCAA Indoor Track Championship this weekend. (It’s nice when the football team has a running back who spends the offseason being one of the fastest sprinters in the nation.)
  • A solar-powered iPhone charger is a pretty cool idea.
  • Almost everyone I know uses a computer on a daily basis. Almost nobody I know understands the differences between files, applications, and websites. That’s why Apple is doing the smart thing by hiding all of that.
  • “Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.”
  • The best way to learn about database design is to design databases. It sounds simple. It gets more complicated when you try to design a database to manage gay marriage.
  • There are quite a few pearls of wisdom in the 2009 annual letter to shareholders from Warren Buffett.
  • Somebody needs to buy me these boots. They are awesome. Size 11, please.
  • This was a sort of depressing headline to see in my feed reader: Once-revered South Carolina lawmaker freezes to death alone.
  • “Faced with a flood of headlines on an ever-increasing variety of topics, we shut off. We turn to news that doesn’t require much understanding — crime, traffic, weather — or we turn off the news altogether.”
  • I’ve been looking for a way to run three displays from my MacBook Pro for over a year now and not found any that weren’t ridiculously expensive. And then I came across this guy running four displays!
  • Geek out with this awesome CSS3 Generator.
2024-04-09: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
  • If you are (a) a man or (b) a woman, you should read Kay S. Hymowitz’ Love in the Time of Darwinism: A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive.
  • Fascinating facts can be found with a statistical analysis of graffiti found at the University of Chicago Library.
  • I never knew there was a name specifically for the edges of uncut book pages.
  • In 1959 the Santa Susana Field Laboratory suffered a partial radioactive meltdown, leading to the contamination of the neighboring hills in Canoga Park. Now a group of Oak Park tenth-graders — Teens Against Toxins — are trying to reverse that contamination with a bake sale. (The cities of Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Oak Park, and Chatsworth all have extremely high rates of cancers similar to only one other place in the world: Chernobyl.)
  • There are literally hundreds of t-shirts in my closet, and I swore I wouldn’t get any more. But I must have this one. (Maybe I will have one of my other ones turned into a sleeve for my MacBook Pro.)
2024-10-01: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
Switching to Mac:  Top Ten Things I Like

Switching to Mac: Top Ten Things I Like

In which I write about switching to Mac

Converting to Mac

Converting to Mac

In which I finally bite the bullet

What Is This?

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bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.