Disqus - Latest Comments for Nathan Eckenrode

Re: Duck Duck Duck

Nathan Eckenrode — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:52:26 -0000

Yes, we are now at the stage where straws are a big thing as you may well know. It seems that after her visit to Florida, straws has become quite a huge development for her.

Re: Friends

Nathan Eckenrode — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:17:52 -0000

Yes, I too am quite happy that the 'Evil Nathan' has gone away- and I kant believe that I got all but ten points on the assignment - which gave me an A in both courses in this recent block! Yay! for my GPA going up!

BTW, Congrats to J and I am looking forward to finally meeting A.

Re: Sounds about right…

Nathan Eckenrode — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:40:41 -0000

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Your Linguistic Profile:

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<tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">55% General American English
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<tr><td bgcolor="#A8FFB3">30% Dixie
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<tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">5% Yankee
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<tr><td bgcolor="#A8FFB3">0% Midwestern
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<tr><td bgcolor="#D9FFD8">0% Upper Midwestern
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Re: Stay at Home all day, with the Blues…

Nathan Eckenrode — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:59:21 -0000

Oh it was a very nice day actually! I love the Blues!

Re: Uncanny

Nathan Eckenrode — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:59:07 -0000

Cornish hens~~~yum! Hey wonder what it would taste like to cook an Ortolan inside a Cornish hen inside a Turkey?

Re: Debating Disqus - Seems Stupid

Nathan Eckenrode — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:00:37 -0000

i don't particularly care about 'keeping the conversation' on my server, or not. i don't particualrly care about keeping my data on my server or not- does it really matter- not in my case- i write about my baby (biological reproduction artifact) growing up and it really doesn't matter where the comments are left. and in all honesty, i get more comments now using disqus.

yes i realize my words here are anecdotal and therefore no supportive towards any argument except that not everyone thinks that the comments are a baby that could be thrown out like a bad metaphor. but then again i have no pretension of making a living as a blogger of any sort.

Re: When Nerds Attack

Nathan Eckenrode — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:57:43 -0000

it seems to me, slightly educated as i am, that computers and the different camps of users is the only quasi-safe argument grounds in our modern society. it is not quite correct for 'normal people' to argue to fundamental differences between religious camps and political arguments are mostly reserved for AM radio heads and cable tv. so its computers that people get to get their panties in a wad over, plus we all use them quite extensively so we all know what we like, or in many cases what we are accustomed to and anything outside that safe area is wrong- thus the internet tirades.

Re: When Nerds Attack

Nathan Eckenrode — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:08:29 -0000

dear foo,

thank you for continuing the name calling, it is very helpful.

Re: When Nerds Attack

Nathan Eckenrode — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:07:28 -0000

obviously when someone is intolerant of other people's views they are a bigot, but when there is a people whose social skills are slow or hinder relationships with others why is it inappropriate to say they are retarded?

actually foo, i believe you are correct; just to answered my own question; from now on people who lash out at critic of their favorite software (ie mass defenders of Firefox in this case) it would be more fair to call them bigots than to say they are retarded. they certainly exhibit more of a tendency to be intolerant of other people's views.

now here's another question--

does bigotry count as retarded social skills?

Re: When Nerds Attack

Nathan Eckenrode — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:59:04 -0000

foo-

just for clarification purposes, i wrote the first comment not the post, i have not called anyone a *tard or a bigot.

Re: When Nerds Attack

Nathan Eckenrode — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:26:18 -0000

Excellent observation Malcolm, you have managed to verbalize, well to at least crystalllize the points i was trying to make and further more you have a suggested path for resolution to the dilemma which the entire series of tubes faces, lets get Fake Steve in here to help with the work. I am sure that we will fix this in no time at all!

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » Music Industry Booming

Nathan Eckenrode — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:49:05 -0000

copyright was originally created in 1710 to benefit the authors of books in England, yet the true benefactors were the guild of craftsmen who actually produced the material objects, or reproduced as the cases truly were. in more modern and musical applications, the phonograph drove the publishers of sheet music out of business due to the technological innovations it brought to the market. yet, still a middleman reminded between the artist and his audience, the distributors of those phonographs and later the cassettes and cds.

the music industry is not about selling music, it is really a music distribution industry, and with the digital distribution developing, the older method which has greater friction and thus greater inefficiency will has trouble competing. just like gutenburg shifted the labor market in music/book publishing by inventing the printing press.

Re: “I don’t really understand what a Web site is.”

Nathan Eckenrode — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:43:58 -0000

additionally, besides being able to admit his ignorance in the technical matters at hand, perhaps the judge was also able to get the definition of a website into the record, as it is to apply the case at hand.

the importance of a judge being able to understand the technical concepts of a website are less important than the judge being able to understand the concepts of the laws of the land some of which predate the magna carter.

Re: Unisom…call it Zombisom

Nathan Eckenrode — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:34:58 -0000

Yeah, you should live that stuff alone - it'll melt your braincells or at least cause you to nod off while your laptop catches fire and explodes!

Re: From Ninja gift-raider to Alpha tester

Nathan Eckenrode — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:52:25 -0000

I am totally right there with you, except that I'm wearing pants and my coffee is twice-used-grounds because I'm a cheap bastard. But to celebrate the official opening of FF2.0 I installed new greasemonkey scripts and extensions. woot!

Re: Upper decks, ball cocks and shelving hell

Nathan Eckenrode — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:45:46 -0000

However, should the ballcock be dislodge during the course of laying out the Upper Deck, it will dramatically improve the discovery time for the aforementioned turdblossom as the tank will not fill and constantly drain, thereby causing grave concern within the mind of the target of such scornful behavior. It is advisable that when one wishes to employ the "Upper Deck" as an instrument of revenge, to _not_ cause damage to the ballcock in order to achieve the satisfying results.

Re: Wii have liftoff!

Nathan Eckenrode — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:18:17 -0000

Whee!! So when are Wii gonna have an afternoon of playing video games!!?!!! ;-)

Re: Exaile Commands Do It Better

Nathan Eckenrode — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:27:21 -0000

I have been doing pretty much the same thing lately, ok except for the command line control of exaile, and the xfce bit. but it has been quite a good compliment to the GNOME experience! Although I have noticed the playbac volume is a couple levels lower than my amarok output, so when I intend on using my super mobile notebook as a music device(read much more capable iPod) then I must use amarok it I want to hear it on the subway.

Re: Fujitsu U810 Docking Station

Nathan Eckenrode — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:13:17 -0000

i love the leather case, especially the way it makes it feel like a nice, old book. i have been running Ubuntu on it since i bought it and recently installed the netbook remix packages onto it which makes it even more useful as a tablet.

one of my favorite new aspects of this is ow it fits into my waistpack so that my walking load is really greatly reduced.

Re: 2008/07/03/ways-to-improve-google-maps/

Nathan Eckenrode — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:04:12 -0000

you mean to tell me that Mapquest is still in business, well, i can hardly believe it!

Re: My 2,500-word-post on Twitter

Nathan Eckenrode — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:46:06 -0000

i'm assuming that these comments are going to be on Friendfeed...

Re: A tale of two photos on Flickr

Nathan Eckenrode — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:29:01 -0000

just reading this, and then seeing the photos at the end for the first time, I'll throw this out there. The second photo (the popular one) is actually interesting.