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Re: BFAds 100 Days To Black Friday 2019 Giveaway - BFAds 100 Days To Black Friday 2019 Giveaway - Black Friday Shopping Guide

Thomas Beutel — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:49:44 -0000

I'd definitely go for a new Chromebook

Re: Why Have Interracial Marriages Shot Up Since 1997?

Thomas Beutel — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:22:49 -0000

I second the motion

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Thomas Beutel — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:31:20 -0000

Mario Kart!

Re: Athletic Socks Apparently Like Chrome Lures

Thomas Beutel — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 21:45:17 -0000

Thanks! I didn't think about it at that the time, but I should start creating wall mounts of these rarities. With enough coats of shellac it might look pretty good.

Re: Where are the halibut and stripers at Crissy?

Thomas Beutel — Wed, 24 May 2017 12:38:42 -0000

Caught another one on May 22, this one was even smaller at 11 inches. But they are definitely present.

Re: Where are the halibut and stripers at Crissy?

Thomas Beutel — Tue, 23 May 2017 16:22:24 -0000

Finally caught my first halibut on May 20. I guess they're here. It was a short one at 16 inches but I hear that a lot of them are short this year. There must have been a really good spawn a few years ago.

Re: Super Bowl 50 Committee Asks San Francisco Take Down Muni Wires

Thomas Beutel — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:26:21 -0000

We love our wires and electric buses and streetcars. Make the SC go away.

Re: Doing the Worm: A Brief History of Muni's Graphic Art

Thomas Beutel — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:59:20 -0000

The Hetch Hetchy RR logo should also be considered an O'Shaughnessy logo. It shared a strong family resemblance to the Muni logo.

Re: Nginx with php-fpm generating blank page

Thomas Beutel — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:07:08 -0000

My pleasure, I'm glad it helped. Thank you for the offer of stars, that means a lot to me. If you have a blog you can link to this post or you can tweet this post. That would really help others find this.

Re: Nginx with php-fpm generating blank page

Thomas Beutel — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:02:13 -0000

I'm glad it helped.

Re: Microsoft's bet-the-cash-cow move

Thomas Beutel — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:53:34 -0000

I get that Microsoft is thinking about moving to touch, but I really want both. I'm thinking of replacing my old cranky Macbook and my iPad 1 with a Windows 8 hybrid (HP Envy X2). But I'm fully expecting to use desktop mode when it's a laptop, and Metro when it's a tablet. I don't just want one or the other. The only thing I really do in tablet mode is surf the web, which is now broken (Safari crashes all the time) on my iPad 1 because I foolishly upgraded to iOS 5 (downgrade not possible). I really haven't found any touch apps that are compelling enough to use in my work. I do all of my real work in laptop/desktop mode with a keyboard (yay, emacs) and I'll definitely be plugging in a USB mouse. So here's hoping that the future of computing doesn't discard stuff that is working, and working pretty well.

Re: Result of expression ‘document.forms[0].submit’ [[object HTMLInputElement]] is not a function.

Thomas Beutel — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:38:07 -0000

I'm glad it helped! - Thomas

Re: Arduino upload problem: avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00

Thomas Beutel — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:48:52 -0000

Thanks for the additional info! - Thomas

Re: Scripting News: JSON API for my.reallysimple.org

Thomas Beutel — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:20:30 -0000

If we are using GET, is there an implied limit to the length of the parameters. I know the HTTP spec does not place any limit on GET parameters, I'm just wondering if there is for this project?

Re: Scripting News: WikiLeaks on the run

Thomas Beutel — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:30:34 -0000

It would be nice if it could be distributed as an HTML5 app with a manifest file. That opens up many possibilities for indexing, timelining, better visualization etc. Anybody know of javascript libraries for dealing with large amounts of data?

Re: Scripting News: Feedhose -- a firehose for feeds

Thomas Beutel — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:50:40 -0000

The seed (or actually, the whole year-month-day-serialnum) has the feel of a Twitter status ID number. Does this mean that I can refer to an individual item by the seed? Or should I avoid that?

The reason I ask is that it's kind of cool to be able to refer to the "NYTs 651st news item on Sept 30" in additional to its other names and IDs.

Re: Scripting News: Today's ride: Real HDR pictures

Thomas Beutel — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:38:05 -0000

Is the ghosting around the woman on the right due to HDR?

Re: Scripting News: Ping: It's even worse than it appeared

Thomas Beutel — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:37:06 -0000

Another example this is not a social network: "Your profile photo is currently being processed". My guess is that like apps for the app store, your profile photo needs to approved before it is displayed in iTunes. A real social network would simply have a "Flag this photo" option.

Re: Scripting News: A social network for music called Ping

Thomas Beutel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:54:45 -0000

If Apple ever does have an API for Ping, it might be a lot like building Apps for iOS. In other words, not web based, but Cocoa, with lots of developer restrictions. Webkit aside, they don't seem to be gravitating toward open web technologies.

Re: Scripting News: A social network for music called Ping

Thomas Beutel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:45:48 -0000

At first I thought I heard that Ping is a layer on top of Facebook. But now it's clear that it's standalone. Too bad. We could have used the FB API to mess with Ping.

I wonder if Apple wants to become a Facebook competitor. There are many economic reasons to do so. But if Apple said "we want to build a better Facebook" they'd get a lot of laughs. Better to bring it in the back door through iTunes, and get 100M users easily that way. I suppose the next step is to turn MobileMe into something "real" with Ping.

Re: Using jQuery and Prototype together while avoiding the dreaded element.dispatchEvent error

Thomas Beutel — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:22:24 -0000

Hi, this goes in the head section of the webpage. Take care.

Re: Scripting News: About Flipboard and reading surfaces

Thomas Beutel — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:31:38 -0000

HTML5 defines some semantic elements that might help authors express their intent. Examples: <section>, <nav>, <article>, <aside>, <hgroup>, <header>, and <footer>

Re: Scripting News: How an EBS for Twitter could work

Thomas Beutel — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:01:03 -0000

It'd be nice to simply have an offline mode using HTML5 offline storage techniques. This doesn't address the issue of emergency broadcast, but at least I can still create tweets in the moment and know that they will be sent, eventually.

But I like the idea of an EBS, if simply to spur the development of alternate communication channels, finally.

Re: "It's Complicated": The Smart Conversation About Media Bias - Ideas Special Report - The Atlantic

Thomas Beutel — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:03:34 -0000

"Unintended Consequences" sounds like a great idea for a special section in the Atlantic.

Re: The new Safari scrapes ads. (Scripting News)

Thomas Beutel — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:51:10 -0000

Apple could create a meta tag to allow website owners to disallow reader. Perhaps <meta name="safarireader" content="disallow">. But website owners would be doing that at their own peril if reader becomes popular.