Overheard in a meeting in re sneaking alcohol onto a plane:
Time release shots
Perhaps I need to talk to my father about putting this together. He needs something to do in his retirement from organic chemistry.
Month: August 2014
I nominate Courtney Cox
Dumping ice water on your head is good and all but when my Facebook feed is >40% ice water challenge videos I’m going to say this feels a little played out. Let me know when the meme morphs into the bukkake challenge for HIV research.
O’Slution
My favorite typo of the day so far: oslution. Like something you’d find in poetry written by a frustrated chemist…
O, Slut ion
Whence will you bond?
My feelings remain positive
Your affect remains negative
Still alone, we drift in solution
Hey Porter
Willie Nelson doing a card trick. It is as simple and beautiful as that.
Dyyynnnnnooooo BIKE!
Geneva Convention
I have a deep, unsettling feeling that the lunch I ate is on the verge of making me a bad neighbor in Cubeland.
Masochists
Dudes in the next set of cubes over are discussing how lame owning a Prius is, mostly by bagging on the higher-than-most MPG a Prius gets.
Because it’s so much fun to pay for gas as frequently as possible?
MEEEE-EEEeeee-eeeee
What could possibly go wrong with the the lineup the Beatniks are going to sport this weekend?
Sheesh.
Punt!
ESPN is locking down their public API effective December of this year. While I never did more than plonk against it, that was because the functionality was exceptionally limited. I understand that they’re sitting on a goldmine of stats and information but there is a whole mess of potentially awesome applications that could be developed if that information could be tapped for non-commercial usage. I had hoped that ESPN would see itself fit to broaden the functionality over time.
Instead, I got this via email today:
Dear ESPN API Developer,
Since the launch of the ESPN Developer Center in March 2012 the capabilities and direction of our API program have continued to evolve in order to serve sports fans in the best way possible.
As part of that evolution, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue our public APIs, which will enable us to better align engineering resources with the growing demand to develop core ESPN products on our API platform.
Effective today, we will no longer be issuing public API keys. Developers utilizing the ESPN API with a public API key may continue to do so until Monday, December 8, 2014, at which point the keys will no longer be active.
We want to thank you for supporting the ESPN API, and we hope you found value interacting with the service over the past two years.
Boo!
Tapioca bitches
I’ve been hanging out with a new crop of the oldsters lately. I can’t imagine they’re representative of their generation at large. On the other hand, they’re very Teabaggy. At any rate, I’ve had to sit through several of these lately.
And it’s getting real old.