I has an iPhone!

I’ve been trying to integrate PayPal as a payment solution for a project I’m working on. The whole developer area is anarchy. The products are confusing and poorly differentiated. The documentation is absolutely abysmal. The testing environment doesn’t work right. Here are some of my gripes…
After finally figuring out that [...]

Jack: I assume you’ll be adding more things to amazon [registry] then some geeky book
Shu Chow: Anneliese might. That’s the only thing I wanted from Amazon
Shu Chow: It’s a good book. It’s getting some great reviews
Jack: u should put ur own book on there, add to sales
Shu Chow: I’ll have them available for purchase at [...]

“People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking shoppers to boycott PetSmart after the advocacy group released undercover video of pets to be sold there apparently being abused.
An employee took video that shows a rabbit being neutered, with a dull razor and no anesthesia. The animal kicks its legs in pain.”
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“A company spokesperson [...]

Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it, Scientology?
War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology — There Can Be Only One

A loose confederation of online troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous have declared war on the Church of Scientology by flooding its servers with fake data requests, describing the attacks as punishment for the Church’s alleged abuse of copyright [...]

First off, my misery is not due to the Suffering Bastard. It was due to a bout against the stomach flu. Second, the party raised over $5,000 for a needy family, so I declare it was worth the pain. Therefore, bring on more Suffering Bastards!
The MacBook Air sucks. It’s expensive. [...]

Oh God, I swear, I will never drink a Suffering Bastard ever again.

Tonight, pure awesomeness was captured on film.

Me drinking my new favorite drink, the Suffering Bastard.

The schwag is scant and kinda blows this year, which is the best indicator of a slowing economy. I’m at the Microsoft Blogger Lounge, which is this cushy, carpeted, walled area only open to bloggers. You can’t get in unless you give them your blog url. So while the plebes are outside [...]

So I took at drive into Brooklyn yesterday. My first stop was the ConEd building on 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street in Park Slope. Along 3rd Avenue, between 1st and 3rd Streets, is a wall. This wall was part of the left field wall of New Washington Park, where the Dodgers played [...]