The new iPhone announced on Monday is officially called the “iPhone 3G S” by Apple, but others (myself included) immediately started calling it the “///gs” — a combination of the Apple ///, and the Apple ][gs, two early pre-Macintosh Apple computers. This was too good an idea to pass up, so I’ve created iPhone and…
Category: ramblings
Twitter Suspension: Please Help Rob Rhyne
My friend Rob Rhyne has been suspended from Twitter for the past week or so because of circumstances beyond his direct control. I submitted this to their support ticket system today: I understand that you are probably very busy with support requests, but I hope to encourage you to look into a case where it…
Time Code Window for FCP
Many times in my edit review screenings, I’ve had a need to pull up a timecode display quickly and easily in Final Cut Pro, so the producer can see where we are and make notes about the cut with at least rough TC. But unlike Avid editors who are used to being able to easily…
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Commemorating the legendary consumption of Strawberry Napoleons at the NSCoderNightDC meetings at La Madeleine in Bethesda.
Jiminy!
Inspired by @amyjane’s tweet in February of 2008 about her husband falling down the stairs, which kicked off months of geeks in the Mac community using the word “Jiminy!” as the exclamation du jour. This is the tee that I sketched out a design for over a year ago, but just finally got around to…
Station in the Metro Logoware
Mainly because I wanted them for myself, there are now a few items available with the Station in the Metro logo “M” at my SpreadShirt store.
10th Anniversary
It came and it went and I totally missed it. Without fanfare of any sort, Station in the Metro turned ten a little over a month ago. Well, actually, it’s a tiny bit older than that, but that’s the date of the first column I wrote on what I then thought would be a weekly…