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iPhone 4S Wallpaper
I’ve been looking for an Apple-style wallpaper for my iPhone 4S for a while. I couldn’t find anything that both matched the existing UI and was subtle enough to look like it belonged there, so I made my own. Using the standard Apple pattern and a few round-cornered rectangles, I think it turned out good enough to share.
Edit: I’ve also attached the original with no inlays if you’d like to make your own.
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World Wide WordPress 5k – #wwwp5k
This past Sunday, Paul and I took part in Automattic’s second annual wwwp5k. We walked all around the east side of Providence for a total of 4.7 miles. Paul met a bunch of new puppy friends, the weather cooperated, and we had a lot of fun!
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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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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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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.
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World Wide WordPress 5k – #wwwp5k
This afternoon Paul the puppy and I laced up our retro Nike Shox and took part in the World Wide WordPress 5k. Our goal for today was neither speed nor endurance, but rather to get our butts off the couch on a Sunday afternoon and explore the neighborhood. These are the results, tracked with RunKeeper Pro:
World Wide WordPress 5k Results -
Home Office Clean-up
I ordered two of the Twelve South BackPack’s so that I could hide my Mac Mini and the two 1TB drives I have hooked to it. While I was getting everything situated, I zip tied some cables together and took some shots of the rest of the work bench.
As you can see, my battery backup is still a rats nest that I haven’t really figured out what to do with. I tucked the Verizon Fios router in the bottom drawer of my little shelf under my desk, on top of which is an Airport Extreme that is setup so I get great signal on the patio (if the precipitation ever stops.) I think the end result is better than what I had before, but could use additional cable organization. Would love to hear suggestions on how to hide the giant battery backup and organize the power cables.
For anyone that’s curious, most essential software is sync’ed to the MacBook Air either via MobileMe or DropBox, so things like Skype, Colloquy, keychains, and non-sensitive local development files are always in sync between the two computers.
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LunaTik – iPod Nano Watchband – Kickstarter
A few months back I jumped on the iPod-Nano-as-a-watch bandwagon, and have been waiting for a suitable watch band ever since. I tried a few and none of them really felt solid enough for daily wear. I even made my own out of a $6 X-Men wristband from Hot Topic, which lasted an hour until I ripped it taking it off.
Then I saw the LunaTik on Kickstarter. I went for the limited anodized red edition, which came with the awesome (but not quite as awesome) TikTok.
I’ve been wearing it for 10 minutes so far, and it’s as awesome and well constructed as it looks. The band feels really strong and comfortable, and the Nano fits exactly perfectly inside it. Unlike the Transformers watches I had when I was like 7 years old that kept falling off in the Wisconsin leaf-piles, there is no way the Nano is coming out of this thing no matter how sweet of a jump I hit.
Great job Scott and everyone at MINIMAL!