Scary.
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Fun with Siri
If you say “Call me %” where % is your name, Siri will say your name instead of just showing it on screen. This works for any phrase and does not need to be in your address book. Siri currently calls me “Captain Awesome.”
Other fun phrases I found:
- I’m sleepy.
- I love you Siri.
- Tell me a story.
- How old are you?
- How old am I?
- Who is on first?
- What is your favorite food?
- When is your birthday?
- I need to go to the bathroom.
- What the f*ck, Siri.
I thought these were ironic and clever:
- Can you wash my dishes?
- Can you clean my room?
- I’m drunk.
- I’m bleeding.
- Where can I buy drugs?
- I want to go for a walk.
- What kind of bear is best?
Since Siri is an external service, the chance exists that any response can or will be tweaked in the future. That’s pretty exciting since more and more clever responses can pop up at any time. If you have any good ones, I’d love to see them in the comments!
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BuddyPress 1.5 “Lombardi” released
Could not have said it better myself. Reblogged from Boone @ Teleogistic:
It’s finally here! After many, many months of bug squashing, refactoring, and general bloodsweatntears, BuddyPress 1.5 has been released!
This long development cycle has been frustrating in some ways and extremely rewarding in others. On balance, I’m quite proud of the work that’s been done, and quite pleased to have worked so closely and so well with John, Paul, and all the other contributors to BuddyPress. My sincere thanks to all the users and developers who have been supportive during this dev cycle.
Most importantly, BuddyPress 1.5 itself kicks ass. The bp-default theme has seen some serious improvements, some much-needed features have been added, and the codebase has been overhauled in terms of additional internal APIs, documentation, style, and so on. If you’ve done development with BuddyPress in the past, do yourself a favor and check out BP 1.5 – you are in for an extremely pleasant surprise.
Here’s to 1.6 and beyond!
Boone and Paul, thank you both for your hard work and dedication. You are great developers and outstanding friends, and I’m excited at what we will accomplish in future versions!
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Drunk Moose Gets Stuck Up Tree
Going forward, being drunk shall hereby be called “being bullwinkled.”
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Switching to UTC
At the tone the time will be (13:05 – 4). BEEP.
Working at Automattic and on several open source projects means I am often working with people from all over the world at any given time of the day or night. As such, we tend to coordinate our lives around UTC. Between traveling, daylight savings, my absent circadian rhythm, and my shorter than average attention span these days (squirrel!) I’m always a bit worried about missing a meeting that’s happening someplace I am not.
I know that right now I am EDT, UTC -4, which will be UTC -5 come winter. Half of my team is on PDT which is UTC -7, which is -3 more than me. At the end of September I’ll be at WordCamp Lisbon which is UTC (GMT +1 DST) and in October I’ll be in Hungary which is CEST (GMT +2 DST).
This is me going cross-eyed.
I’ve had quite a few exciting changes in the past 2 years. I have a dog; I switched over completely to OS-X; I switched to Dvorak; I switched to the Lion backwards-mouse-thing; I moved to a part of the United States I’ve never had aspirations to live in; I survived a hurricane. Since times they are a changin’ I’m switching all of my clocks over to 24 hour UTC time until I memorize what’s going on where.
If you see me around, please don’t ask me what time it is for the next few weeks, because I will literally have no idea.
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I Spoke at WordCamp San Francisco!
This year I had the privilege of speaking a total of three times at WordCamp San Francisco and MC’ing the dev track all day on Friday.
The footage and slides below are from my first talk on Friday morning about BuddyPress 1.5.
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[slideshare id=9052698&w=515&h=375&sc=no]Overall I’m happy with the way things turned out. I’ve always been comfortable on stage but have fallen out of practice in recent years. I love being able to use footage like this to improve each presentation that I give, and am excited to apply what I learned this time around.
Sean Duffy
I found this email to be hilarious. Copy and pasted, bad grammar et all:
Gooday, I am your group regional Instructor for Gooday,I am your group regional Instructor for Ebay Secret Shopper LLC,. Henceforth. We are looking for a secret shopper and your wage is $200 per assignment. Email me back with the Information below then i can send you the procedures on what you will be doing 01 – Full names: (**last Name first): 02 – Home Address(include Zip): 03 – Phone: 04 – Country: 05 – Age: 06 – Occupation: Regards Sean Duffy
Thank you Sean Duffy, but I respectfully pass.