Hocus Pocus

“Monkeys Control a Robot Arm With Their Thoughts”

— New York Times, May 29, 2008

Here are all the clocks I have to reset twice a year for daylight-saving time: more »

Two things I want for icons in the Macintosh Finder:

1. Color-labeling icons in the Finder is OK — but I wish applying a label would wash the whole icon in color or surround it in a colored halo so that it were even more emphatic.
2. And speaking of emphatic, I wish I could adjust the size of individual icons in any window (not just change the size of them all).

I wish that when viewing Google Maps, I could see civilian aircraft when they’re located overhead (derived from the open air-traffic-control data). more »

I want a refrigerator whose entire front surface is a digital display, programmable to show pictures, text, websites, anything.

Steve Jobs is being quoted this week as saying that “people don’t read anymore.” more »

From Ann’s dual-USB iBook, January 2008:

Here’s what I really want: a Christmas album from Buddy and Julie Miller.

You said it.

Source: The Onion, accessed December 4, 2007.

Kriss: “So Jon, have you been to one of those iStores?” (Jon: “You mean the Apple Store, Kriss?” “Yes!”)

Linda: “I don’t know, I believe it was something about the cake going down your hole.”

Alisa: “You can’t have not a belly button.”

Shannon/Jon/derek: “Do I smell dope?”

Ann: “Sometimes a girl gets a sore butt.”

Shannon (of the sun): “We are talking about a heated object.”

Lucy: “Google.”

Ann: “It’s garlic Jesus.” Jake: “Does Jesus come in other flavors than garlic?”

Kriss: “I like having church on the couch.”

Alisa (?): “We’ve got to get our inaccuracies straight.”

Unknown: “That was a statement of exaggeration.”