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Re: Arroyo Grande, CA Weather | Personal Weather Station: KCAARROY50 by Wunderground.com | Weather Underground

Fungible — Tue, 26 May 2020 17:31:36 -0000

Nice station you got there!

Re: http://www.returnpath.net/blog/2012/03/remembering-jen-coy.php

Fungible — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:29:35 -0000

Damn. F@#$ cancer. Sorry to hear it.

Re: Interlude: Some Not-Even-Remotely-Edited Nerdrage

Fungible — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:14:30 -0000

YES. THIS.

Re: http://www.returnpath.net/blog/2011/04/new-intelligence-data-drives-the-latest-release-of-our-deliverability-monitoring-suite.php

Fungible — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:17:36 -0000

Congrats!

Re: TechCrunch Giveaway: A Boxee Box #TechCrunch

Fungible — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:31:23 -0000

Boxee is good stuff - decoupling from DirecTV would be nice.

Re: The new compensation: going to anti-hoarders?

Fungible — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:57:34 -0000

Whuffie. (see Cory Doctorow)

Re: Now Yahoo! Says Delicious Will Live On...Somewhere Else

Fungible — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:02:20 -0000

Google didn't donate Delicious, they donated Wave...

Re: Apple's new MacBook Air (update: video)

Fungible — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:22:20 -0000

11 inch model, too!

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Fungible — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:45:12 -0000

Run!

I never wanted to run before, but enjoy it now.

If you have any interest already, try it!

It's a good way to be alone inside your head with the rest of everything pleasantly bobbing by outside.

Re: http://jessicanow.com/post/459051954

Fungible — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:16:28 -0000

Great idea!

Parties and artificial lines in the sand just serve to divide people... and someone who may identify with one party's position on one issue, may very well identify more strongly with another party's position on a different issue.

-Rick/@Fungible

Re: Inspired by Wordpress’ seriously clever use of... | Tumblr Staff

Fungible — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:16:45 -0000

This is odd... When I look at my stream Tweetie 2 after setting up my Tumblr account as shown above, it only shows my own posts, rather than those of the blogs I follow.

Re: Obama is the anti-christ: Victoria Jackson

Fungible — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:35:37 -0000

I sense another career disappearing in flames, like Michael Richards...

Re: The number one reason I want a kindle

Fungible — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:40:23 -0000

Clie NR-70V at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Sony-...

Re: The number one reason I want a kindle

Fungible — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:39:58 -0000

I thought the same about the small screen at first... I've been using an OLD Sony Clie as a reader for about 9 months now, and nearly all of its 5.5 x 2.8 inch size is usable screen area for reading.

I found that I could adjust to a medium font size and not have any eyestrain (less than with dead-tree books, actually, since my eyes don't have to scan, just read down). Plus with backlight (turned to lowest setting) I can read at night without eyestrain or lamp either.

For $50-75 used, this might be a good solution to play with while you wait for the Kindle (or other solution) prices to come down! If you do - definitely go the Sony route. The resolution is twice as high as most standard Palm devices - 320x480 full color.

No matter which one you pick, it'll be hard to go back to "dead-tree" reading for anything other than comics... it was for me!

Re: The number one reason I want a kindle

Fungible — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:00:50 -0000

I'll be using my iPhone for the same function.

Reads PDFs already, keyboard can be hidden when you just want to read and not type, fits in the hand better, reads more formats, doesn't charge extra to read blogs, costs less and also functions as phone, *color* browser, GPS, and all the other goodies. Single device, fits in pocket, doesn't leash you to Amazon store for new eBooks, doesn't flash light/dark on every page turn.

I really want ePaper devices to work. I just don't want to have to see a screen-flash every time you change the screen, like slow, bad interlacing.

I *totally* agree with your "lean forward, lean back" analogy, though. I expressed a similar sentiment on a private mailing list just recently. Being able to hold your "loungable" reading material anywhere you like and get comfortable with it, will indeed resuscitate the book industry.

-Rick (@Fungible)

Re: Me And My Kindle In Silicon Alley Insider

Fungible — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:54:19 -0000

Fair enough... I've been reading ebooks on an old Sony Vaio for a while now, and loving it - especially the one-hand page turns and the backlight so I can read at night without keeping my wife up with the bedside light on, and the ability to touch-scroll or scroll-wheel pages with a fractional thumbroll.

I wish they'd do an e-paper device that had an option for backlight (indiglo?) also. I'd have to play with one to see if I could get used to the flicker, but last time it was definite eyestrain.

I'm planning on getting the 3G iPhone and seeing if it'll become the uber-ebook-reader that I hope it will...

Hooray for the march of technology- glad you're enjoying your Kindle!

Re: Me And My Kindle In Silicon Alley Insider

Fungible — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:12:57 -0000

Question - does the Kindle do the annoying "page color inverse" when changing pages, like the Sony ebook reader does?

For that headache-inducing reason alone I've stayed away from the "e-paper" devices, even though I love the concept...

-Fungible