Sitting at Seamus with the family.
Tag: awesome
The Jack-O-Lobber pumpkin *cannon*.
The owner of CP Pinball takes apart a Twilight Zone playfield to check for problems. He ended up having to replace a solenoid coil that wasn’t firing properly.
This weekend was exactly what I needed. My mother-in-law was in town from Chicago, and we took the kids up to Grant’s Farm (pictures to come from that trip). I managed to get a lot of really productive work done on a few WordPress projects in the late nights, but mostly the days were spent having good times with family.
And my phone broke. But it’s OK now.
I have an iPhone 3GS. I’ve been playing with it for the better part of the day and I do have to say that this thing is about to become as indispensable as my Moleskine and my wallet.
Having this much communicative ability and utility with me everywhere I go is something that I should have done a long time ago. What an awesome little device. Considering the fact that I didn’t even have a texting plan on the old phone, this is a massive shift.
I plan on posting up more detailed thoughts on the blog after I’ve had some time to play with it.
I love being a father.
Me with three of my children at the beginning of a three-day holiday weekend:
(They asked me to do this. Well, the older one did. And my eldest is enjoying his Xbox time, so he just had to miss out on this one.)
Tapbots on the iPhone OS 3.0 adoption rate:
The data seems pretty clear. Prior to June 8th we have a fairly low adoption rate of ~3%. Starting on June 9 this jumps up to 6-8%, which can be directly tracked to the developer release at WWDC. Starting on June 17th we get a huge jump as all the non devs start upgrading. We’re currently running at an overall 75% upgrade rate which is pretty insane considering the number of devices and the fact that its only been 5 days.
The article is a great read both because this level of uptake in an upgrade release is phenomenal—even with the iPod touch, which is around 50% (and you have to pay $10 for it)—and because the statistics and data in the post are, well, really nerdy.
Apple deserves credit for making the upgrade process more or less an automatic thing. You sync the device, it checks for updated software, and shouts at you to upgrade. A couple of clicks and some time later, and you’re good to go. Lots of things should be so easy and decided for you.
I love the unintentional humor of this dialog. Can you spot what’s wrong here?
The full version of RDC has been out for something like four or six months. I refuse to upgrade to it simply so I can see this dialog every few days and get a laugh out of it.
This is my favorite image from the set I took during my visit to CP Pinball last Friday. I’m working on a longer blog post about the experience and the place (which you should visit at least once someday when you are in St. Louis), but for now, this will have to do.
The table in question is Grand Prix, an older Williams one.
There is something so very wrong and yet also so very right about this type of YouTube video. I suspect this is why the service was invented in the first place.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eooXNd0heM