Jason Dettbarn - Latest Comments

Re: Band rocks out on NYC subway using iPhone apps

endonend — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:32:34 -0000

Song is way better here, than recorded in a studio...

Can listen here:
http://www.facebook.com/ato...

Re: Helvetical for Google Chrome

infogulch — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:21:54 -0000

Haha, nice! I was about to post my info because it "wasn't working," but it was just me being silly. There are three steps ppl:
1. Put .js file in your "User Scripts" dir.
2. Modify your chrome shortcut to include --enable-user-scripts switch.
3. Restart chrome
I'm using dev chrome: 4.0.213.1 on Win7 RC
Thanks!

Re: Helvetical for Google Chrome

endonend — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:56:34 -0000

OK. What doesn't work?

Re: Helvetical for Google Chrome

fatherb — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:09:32 -0000

doesn't work

Re: Helvetical for Google Chrome

endonend — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:05:02 -0000

What is the domain of your google apps install?

The user style file targets these combos:
// @include https://*.google.com/calendar/render/*
// @include http://*.google.com/calendar/render/*
// @include htt*://*.google.*/calendar/render*

If your GCall domain location is different, you need to adjust the js file.

Re: Helvetical for Google Chrome

Name — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:33:04 -0000

Seems to not work on google apps installs, even when I change the targets in the switch? Shame.

Re: You have to be kidding? Now they are attacking education.

endonend — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:14:28 -0000

More here on Fox New's role in hyping this "controversy":
http://mediamatters.org/res...

Re: The Lorax

endonend — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:08:50 -0000

I post and it becomes so:
http://www.thedailybeast.co...

March 2nd, 2012 (Dr. Seuss' birthday) is the release date for a 3-D CG animated version of The Lorax. Very cool!

Re: Sprint is a hot mess over the Pre

endonend — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:16:12 -0000

Looks like the Sprint rep that emailed me has the price correct. $474.99 at launch. No thanks. I could drop Sprint, pay the EFT, sign up for AT&T; and get an iPhone for that much money. We'll see where things stand come October, when I am eligible for the full amount.

Re: Small, Fast Changing World

Melisa — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:13:17 -0000

Wow, its so sad, but also I have to admit the music kinda makes me laugh. It is a bit on the over dramatic side! Finally light rail went through! Took almost a decade right?

I totally remember that framing shop- I think it was almost across from the community college, if you walk down toward Taco Del Mar or La Puerta. So many good memories from that area. I loved walking to the restaurants, REI, the record store, to shows and grocery store. At the same time there was so many freakish and amazing things that happened to us there that I'll never forget. We have a lot of good laughs that's for sure- homeless dudes singing christmas carols on roller skates and asking me which reindeer was my favorite, people jumping off the building next door into our dumpster, walking up our stoop to find fresh blood on the landing only to step over it to get in the door (!!), finding broken heroine pipes in the dryer, you throwing apples at dudes in the parking lot for leaf blowing in the summer at 3am, the awesome pride parades from our window, watching fireworks over the sound from our place too, impromptu marching bands in the middle of the night.... I could go on and on. The best part about it is that although the number of crazy things we ran into was high, I never never felt scared or threatened there. I always felt safe and wondered what was around the next literal and figurative corner.

Ahh Seattle. You are so amazing, yet so entertaining at the same time. I miss you. The good thing is that I bet they really debated and debated with lots of protests and public forums and letter writing campaigns and newspaper editorials and demonstrations before they tore down those houses. If I appreciate anything about Seattlites, its that they know how to exercise their democratic voice and often use it!

Re: Speaking of Religion and Politics…

Shaneen Clarke — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:01:27 -0000

Obama now is the president and I hope he will do what he needs to do for the country.

Re: Good luck, spammers.

Michael Rose — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:53:47 -0000

It should solve your spam problem. After I installed that WP plugin very few comments got through, and when they did Askimet caught them.

Re: Good luck, spammers.

endonend — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:15:04 -0000

It's looking to be a good install. Since I activated this AM, 225 attempts caught. No spam got through yet...

We'll see, if this doesn't solve the problem I may move back to Textpattern.

Re: Good luck, spammers.

Michael Rose — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:08:24 -0000

Bad Behavior rules! The amount of spam it blocked on my site before hitting Askimet was insane. Something around 1,000 or so requests a week. Haven't noticed anything that crazy with my Textpattern install. For whatever Wordpress gets exploited more.

Re: Why I am voting Republican this Fall

dubai — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:40:05 -0000

They all "PROMISE" but once in office they do everything that the US citizens do not want them to do. Its like the one that gets chosen to be the next President that they are the only ones that live in this country.

Re: Krugman on the economy

Melisa — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:44:48 -0000

This tells me 3 things:
This economic thing is freakin scary.

I am annoyed easily- by minute 6 she has asked the same question 3 times.

I am impatient- by minute 6 I lost interest and got the point.

Maybe the fact that 2/3 of the things I took away from this have nothing to do with this enormous crisis is the real problem...

Re: Live Blogging – Election Night

kjmalc — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:16:41 -0000

I saw the Live count of Votes in

http://hunkspedia.websiteko.com/obama-mccain-li...

and this could be A GOOD FIGHT BETWEEN THE BLACK AND THE WHITE GUY!

We can't still predict who will win, instead if they have landslide lead...

So the question here, Who Will be the next President, is it Black Obama or White McCain?

Let us hope that this game would be fair and peaceful!

Re: Joe the (unlicensed) Plumber?

endonend — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:24:21 -0000

OK, so maybe the points were valid for the 5% of small business owners (or what ever extreme minority it is) that it applies to, but why keep on this 'Joe the Plumber' guy if his story isn't true? Two dozen times. McCain dug his own grave on this one...

Why? Because 'Joe the Plumber''s "story" is more compelling than saying a (wealthy) small percentage of you will have your taxes go up under Obama's plan. That doesn't sell the issue to the majority of middle class (or 90-something percent who will get a tax cut under Obama) viewers... but "hey, if you work hard and get to a point where you can become an entrepreneur, you are going to be penalized for your hard work." does (or at least more so)... why not come out and say that, instead of keeping on this fake life story? Or, how about this... even easier: find a guy (or gal) that it really applies to and make them the centerpiece of your debate? That would have been too easy, huh?

To me, it just seems as if the McCain campaign has repeatedly shown they aren't very interested in the details, which is a big deal when you want to be a leader of a world super power (in my opinion.)

Re: Joe the (unlicensed) Plumber?

Jerms — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:18:09 -0000

What's the point? This is merely a cheap attempt to discredit a guy who made some valid points. This information has no real bearing on the points he was making. A fine example of not only yellow, but blatantly biased "journalism." Probably a cheap attempt by John Seewer to get his 15 minutes...typical journalist...make a name for themselves at the expense of other people's names.

Re: Will it really end?

Matt — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:45:25 -0000

Last week I saw Naomi Wolf in Seattle give a talk about her new book, “The End of America.” The basic premise; we are heading towards a “closed society” -- a police state, and we can look to history (Hitler, Pinochet, Mussolini) for the evidence as to how this occurs. Scary stuff. She highlights ten steps a nation almost always takes (either a right wing or left wing government) in closing a society. Steps include spying in citizens, controlling the media, and privatizing militias.

One of the most concerning moments of her talk occurred when an audience member asked a question regarding her Naomi’s knowledge of Continuance of Governance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_of_gove...) discussions in the military. The man asking the question described that he was a member of a military family and that there are strong debates occurring within the military right now about their role in a COG situation. Remember the military answers to the commander in chief, and they do not answer to the people. Coupled with ignoring Posse Comitatus and the Insurrection Act the topic of Naomi’s work starts to sound less and less like a conspiracy theory.

Unfortunately, if everything goes smoothly and Obama wins, the system will not correct itself. It is highly unlikely that Obama wouldn’t use the expanded powers of the executive branch to his own advantage, and without reversing this trend, future presidents, including republicans, will continue to have and abuse these new powers as well. Obama is not the solution to fixing the system, and I say this as an Obama supporter. We have to remember this after he wins and continue pushing for reform.

Re: McCain wins debate!

Adam Varga — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:29:54 -0000

The sign of a good leader is if their capable of preemptively saying they won... even before the battle's over... just like Bush's "Mission Accomplished" ;)

Re: Declare bankruptcy, get a (huge) bonus

Nancy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:47:26 -0000

This is the very same stunt that Delphi/the auto industry and steel companies pulled-your Dad being one of many victims in this country. The very same Delphi executives that ran the company into the ground are STILL get huge bonus and stock option packages and STILL have their jobs. And, now the auto industry is looking for a government bailout, too! When Paulson was asked how he, one man, would oversee the takeover of all that the government will be now handling, he replied that good people were at them all and he would count on them. You have to be kidding me! I'll join you in one of these jobs!

Re: No Questions!

endonend — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:04:44 -0000

Sour grapes, you're right... but it's the McSame campaign saying "I'm taking my ball and going home," because they don't like their VP being vetted in public.

Saw a recent poll -- over 65% of Americans have no clue about Palin's past performance, her credentials as a 'reformer', or the scandals she is involved in... but almost 70% know about her daughter's pregnancy.

Are those the kind of priorities Repubs value? The tabloid, half truth, spin-it-to-death stories? It sure seems like those are the ones they are pushing, because they have no where to stand on the real issues.

I mean, what excites you about McCain? If you make under $250k per year, you'll get a better tax break; some kind of universal health care; more focus on the environment and alternative, renewable energies; focus on actually improving education (rather than a policy with a snappy name that doesn't do anything, like Bush); someone who actually understands the constitution and defends it; and someone who acknowledges that the economy is actually doing pretty poorly for a vast majority of Americans -- with Obama.

Palin and McCain don't talk about those issues very much, because they can't compete. Their campaign manager even says so... it tells you a lot about the campaign, when both acceptance speeches didn't touch on very many key issues (McCain's) or none at all (Palin).

Re: No Questions!

J Eidens — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:39:02 -0000

Bada-bing!!!! Sour grapes. Face it, the dems were out manuvered. I suppose the lady will at least be diplomatic and not refer to a Russian Head of State as a "commie pig"

Re: Making My Case for the VP

Edith White — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:19:23 -0000

Count me in the "few dozen!" - Edie