Category Archives: humor

Austin, TX – For SF residents in exile

By Dave | Published: March 15, 2010
I’m here in Austin, TX for a few days for our gdgt live event at SXSW. Since such a large contingent of the San Francisco tech crowd is here, a group of San Franciscan folks are handing out SF Embassy cards. On March 11, 2010, the San Francisco diplomatic mission to Austin commenced with the establishment of the SF [...]
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Grocery divider etiquette

By Dave | Published: March 4, 2010
Are you constantly confused on who is responsible for putting a grocery divider down when in line at the check out stand? It’s a dilemma that I often find myself in as well. Stephen Pastis breaks is down. I am constantly confused by the rules of etiquette for the little plastic dividers you use to separate [...]
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This happens to me all the time

By Dave | Published: March 3, 2010
What’s even scarier is how true the cats comment is. [Via Ryan Block]
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An AT&T App Conspiracy…

By Dave | Published: February 10, 2010
Awhile ago, AT&T released an app for the iPhone called Mark the Spot, which allows users to send a message to AT&T pinpointing their location, the problem (dropped call, no data coverage, etc), along with various diagnostic information. I use it often. One thing I’ve noticed lately though is that whenever I open the program to [...]
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Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy

By Dave | Published: February 2, 2010
An old clip from the Late Show with Conan. Louis C.K. explains how our life is amazing, but no one is happy. Hilarious!
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Star Wars intro mashups

By Dave | Published: December 29, 2009
Hah! Star Wars / A-Team intro And even better, here is a Star Wars / Airwolf intro
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Funny shorts in Barcelona

By Dave | Published: December 18, 2009
While traveling through Europe last year, we stopped for a few days in Barcelona to check out the capital city of Catalonia. The hostel we were staying in gave us a flyer of interesting things to do over the next few days. One particular entry caught our eye. “¡Una nit de curts còmic!” It’s written in Catalan and [...]
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Muni’s new augmented reality app

By Dave | Published: December 11, 2009
I’m releasing a new augmented reality application for San Francisco’s Muni system soon. How does it work? Basically, you just point it at your stop to see the latest arrival times. Here is a preview screenshot! Seriously though, everyone is getting on the bandwagon with augmented reality applications lately! A local developer just released a new [...]
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She gets good reception

By Dave | Published: December 8, 2009
Seriously, DISH Network doesn’t offer as many HD channels as Tegan does. She just had surgery to remove a bladder stone. Yuck.
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Working in retail: Holiday shoppers

By Dave | Published: November 30, 2009
Now that the holiday shopping season is underway, I was recently reminded of an experience I had while working in Apple’s retail division during the holidays a number of years ago. A customer came in and wanted demanded an iPod nano in a specific color and capacity that we didn’t offer. I told him that this [...]
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