Dave

Tech Zen: Avoid heartbreak over accidental data loss by avoiding acquiring any data you care about.

The flight attendant asked the passenger next to me to cover the solar panel on her calculator during take-off.

That you can count on 2% changing their presidential vote just because the VP candidate is from their home state tells me we are broken.

Turing test variant: Bot listens to a full court trial and issues a verdict, attempting to match the majority of the actual jury opinion.

Inbox 0! And another 0! And another! I’m doing great! t.co/DOD5ruc0

So far I am successfully keeping the bar low enough that later in my life I will be able to say I’m in the best shape of my life.

You know that early 1900s video of everyone failing to build flying machines? I would watch a show where they successfully made those fly.

New Olympic event idea: marathon ending in a pole vault / pool dive.

The scale of Mars Curiosity to the rovers is partly why this is such a big deal: t.co/cBEk2UFW

Along the lines of having the punishment fit the crime, instead of a fine for speeding there should just be a long time delay.

I’ll go ahead & feel proud for beating comedian @kumailn to this joke: t.co/V6WIqgAu (mine, the day before: t.co/RfKXneuF )

You know that thing where you make eye contact with a car before you cross a street in front of them? Not if you’re from Seattle, you don’t.

So u for v is the new “drop the last vowel” I guess. Svbtle Svpply Svbscription.

Everyday my RSS feed hosts a Twitter Olympics between @torrez & @KenJennings faves & they don’t even know it.

People always talk about wanting business graphs to go up & to the right, but it seems to me that just going up would be better.

Announcers haven’t adopted to widescreen, leading to hilariously awkward shots of them needlessly close to each other. t.co/yj01CBQj

I get why some sports are divided by men & women but some like archery seem unnecessary to split up.

I asked if I should wake her up for the 5:30am USA v France basketball game & she said no. She must be planning to just stay up for it.

I am simultaneously bummed and impressed that Mac’s dictation spells “woot” as “w00t”.

I think I could make the Olympic volleyball team if I could always be the guy who looks like he’s going to spike it, but then doesn’t.

Mirroring Olympics from Mac to AppleTV, remote trackpad app on iPhone, reading live commentary on iPad. I’m living a 90s AT&T You Will ad.

I think Cook Islands has the greatest % of their population in the Olympics: 8 in 11,000, or 0.07%. If the US had that it’d have 218K in.

What’s the term for getting a to-go box out of guilt for not eating everything you ordered?

Finally. t.co/saHIfjtW

I’m at Cafe Mox w/ @gatzby_ t.co/mfy6sORH