thecoffman

The Atlantic is one of the few magazines that I subscribe to in print. There's a nice blend of culture, politics, and forward thinking, and there doesn't seem to be a ton of editorial stance. You'll read one article from a liberal perspective, and then another one from a conservative one. It seems to be an all around solid publication. I don't always agree with what they publish - but its almost always thought provoking.

One note - if you're going to have people turn over their phone numbers to you - its probably best to include a privacy policy of some sort that explains how they will (or won't) be used.

site: http://calendaraboutnothing.com/ blog post announcing it: http://techno-weenie.net/2008/10/6/calendar-about-nothing/

Additionally - time is very rarely an important sorting criteria for me. I take the same half dozen flights regularly and I know what times they depart and arrive - I don't need to see that laid out. What I need to see is the price to book it.

Website: http://www.askcloudy.com

I downloaded and played with this quite a bit - its actually really cool. I especially like that your "questionees" don't need to have the app in order to participate.

You could argue that the level of service isn't commensurate with what you'd get on a Delta or AA so its not the same product - but I'd say personally that my experiences with Southwest are far more pleasant than my dealings with any of the others.

edit: s/fare/far (pun notwithstanding)

When I first hooked it up and put in the sports game there's a definite "holy shit" moment when you realize that moving to your left and right and aiming your kicks in the soccer game actually works. You can take two or three steps to the left, around a defender and then kick the ball with the appropriate foot, in the air or on the ground, etc and it works, well. As someone who writes software for a living it was a feeling I haven't had with a hardware/software combo in a long time.

On the other hand there are parts of the experience that just aren't there yet. One of parts that seemed to have the most potential was the 10 foot interface - controlling ESPN and your dashboard without ever touching a controller. Unfortunately this just isn't very good. Its finicky and much less efficient than just using a controller. I tried it for a few days before going back to a normal controller or the occasional voice command. To me - this is the part of the experience that needs the most work.

I can easily see the Kinect being a revolutionary technology as it evolves and improves - it already is one for games, but its not quite there yet in my opinion.

Embarrassing - despite my best efforts it appears as if my little linode couldn't handle being frontpaged - here's a cached entry for now:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UehgGNU...

The blog entry is cached as a static page hourly and served via nginx as such - this load shouldn't have killed it. Will be interesting to dive into.

When I get my utility bill - he calls and leaves me a voice mail with the total and then I combine it with my rent on a single check and send it in. That's not efficient by anyone's standards. Best of luck to you guys, maybe my next landlord will be using RentPost!

Unfortunately both of my previous two lacked even an email address. My job has a contact email for employment verification and I had to get a special phone number from HR for my landlord because they didn't use email. This company probably has two dozen properties around town (each with multiple units) and doesn't even have email. Sometimes its amazing when we step out of our tech field and see how normal people live and work.

That being said - if you could convince landlords to give you 20 minutes for a demo, I bet you could sell a lot of them on it. You would probably need a sales team for that though.

Want to start a vegetable garden? That starts at $20/year and goes up from there. Can we say hypocrite?

That being said - it seems like a very cool library!