http://blog.op-design.com One small adventure at a time. Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:13:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You know you have an iPhone when people thank you for letting them take your photo using your iPhone. http://blog.op-design.com/2007/07/26/iphone/ I was at the gym today and I used the elliptical trainer for 30 minutes. (Yay!) I noticed something unusual about these machines: when one increases the resistance, the machine made a quiet low-pitched beep. But when one decreases the resistance, the machine makes a very LOUD high-pitched beep that ... http://blog.op-design.com/2007/02/10/subtle-motivation/ I went to Sea World recently (OK, not so recently) and I really like these photos. http://blog.op-design.com/2007/01/26/sea-world/ I just got back from a fantastic ski trip to Vail, Colorado. For my birthday, I got a nifty Ski GPS unit, so being the nerd that I am, I recorded some interesting stats from the trip. It was a 4 day trip, but I forgot to bring the GPS ... http://blog.op-design.com/2006/12/16/back-from-vail/ The blue angels are driving me crazy. Every 10 minutes on of the damn planes flies overhead practicing for Fleet Week and since I'm at the top of the hill, they fly very very close. They're sometimes even flying at eye level in the next valley over. These things make ... http://blog.op-design.com/2006/10/05/blue-angels-2/ My phone is dead. Cause of death: being dropped into a bowl of chocolate ice cream. I guess it's literally "death by chocolate." http://blog.op-design.com/2006/10/01/death-by-chocolate/ When a Windows PC dies what do you see? The Blue Screen of Death. Ugly. Boring. Utilitarian. Blue. What do you see when a Mac dies? The Multi-colored Vertical Stripped Screen of Death. Fun. Vibrant. Useless. Pretty. I think the (very helpful) guy from Apple's tech support summed it up pretty well: ... http://blog.op-design.com/2006/08/23/apple-style/ So here I was today eating a tuna-fish sandwich on the steps near the Ferry Building. I was sitting at a funny angle trying to simultaneously read the newspaper, eat my sandwich, keep the wrapper from blowing away and waving my arms to prevent the pigeons from stealing a bite ... http://blog.op-design.com/2006/08/18/comeuppance/ My good friend from junior high school, David Ulevitch, has just launched his new business venture, OpenDNS. OpenDNS is a service that corrects typos and disables phishing sites when you type in a domain name. So if you typed, www.iconator.comm by accident, it would automatically correct the spelling of .com. ... http://blog.op-design.com/2006/07/11/opendns/ I've been trying to sell my old PowerBook on Craigslist. It turns out they really keep their value. I received this email from a prospective buyer yesterday: Hello, How are you doing?i was came across your advert today concerning the item you posted for sale. am really intresting and this item is ... http://blog.op-design.com/2006/06/22/cross-cultural-exchange/