March 2011
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“The 10th president of the United States, John Tyler, has two living grandsons.”
– From sherwoodforest.org:
Tyler lived from 1790-1862.
He married his second wife, Julia Gardiner, in 1844 at the age of 54 (she was 24).
Their fifth child, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853.
Lyon’s second marriage was to Sue Riffin, born in 1889 (so she was 36 years younger than...
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“The time difference between when Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus lived is greater...”
– Tyrannosaurus: 65.5-67 million years ago.
Stegosaurus: 150 million years ago.
Mind: blown.
(via @MrDavPaz)
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“If you pay $59 or $69 dollars and you get no updates — but you pay 99 cents for...”
– Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio, responding to comments from Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata that games like Angry Birds are devaluing the industry. Angry Birds Dev Fires Back at Nintendo, Console Games - 1UP
Also: I love that Vesterbacka lists his title at Rovio as “Mighty Eagle.” (via chartier)
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The post-Tumblr options
Seems to me if Posterous were smart, at the first sign of Tumlbr’s problems, they’d have implemented feature-for-feature clones of as much as possible of Tumblr and a decent migration tool to carry all posts over with permalinks still working. If they had, they’d pick up a lot of users by making the transition as smooth as possible. But they haven’t. Blog migration that leaves your content behind...
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Health update #10: almost back to normal
A few people have been asking me for updates on my recent pulmonary embolism (see here for previous posts).
I feel a lot better these days. Not 100%, I think, although after you’ve spent a prolonged period ill it’s hard to remember exactly what fit feels like! Once I had my diagnosis and got started with my medication I had a few weeks where I quickly improved and felt better every...
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Announcing my new food blog- Objection: Salad! →
As I’ve teased a few times over the last few weeks, for some time now my friend Nick and I have been plotting a collaborative food tumblr for some time now. Today we are flipping the switch and putting it live with a post each from us — baked beans from him and, topically, pancakes from me.
I know a lot of my followers really like the food posts I do here, and I also know Nick is a...
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By me at TUAW: "Notes on the iPad 2 launch" →
This one was a lot of effort, but I’m proud of how it turned out.
Speaking of the iPad 2, here’s how I did on my predictons:
Front-facing camera for FaceTime (and maybe a low-res backside one too for completeness)
Score one for me.
Increases to RAM (at least doubled to 512 GB) and CPU and GPU specification
Apple’s keeping mum about the RAM but I’m still betting it’s...
