Abraham Vegh

"High-end thrill-seekers pay to be kidnapped"

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:26:04 -0400

"High-end thrill-seekers pay to be kidnapped":

“Through the company’s simulated kidnapping packages, for instance, the participant is abducted without warning—after leaving a restaurant, say, or in the supermarket parking lot. Paying “victims” are then bound, gagged and imprisoned for four or 10 hours (depending on the scenario they choose), allowing them to experience the terror of the real thing. Additional elements such as ransom, escapes and helicopter chases can also be involved. Manhunt packages, meanwhile, can last either one or two days, with the option to play the role of either hunter or prey. Then there’s the Go-Fast Adventure, where participants take the role of a drug dealer smuggling cargo on the high seas. Finally, a recently added “extreme” package allows clients to wake up on an autopsy table in a morgue, surrounded by corpses and body bags. Pricing on a basic kidnap package is EUR 900.”

Typography fascinates me.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:33:24 -0500

Typography fascinates me.:

(via mclaughj)

iPhone icons

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:16:39 -0500

iPhone icons

Linux doesn't really have that sort of problem

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:23:08 -0500

Windows Server Friend: My own machine is DOS'ing itself.
Me: So it's a virus or something?
Friend: I guess so. I scanned it; I don't know what I'm going to do.
Me: Yeah, us Linux folks don't usually have that sort of problem.

More Random Spewing on The Tablet/Event

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:48:00 -0500

It’s not going to have the word “tablet” anywhere in the name. The name will make perfect, “of course” sense once it is announced, and the name will likely be a common term that will be forever known as a name that changed computing as we know it.

Yeah, I went there.
The mockups are all foolishly wrong. There won’t be any tiny UI elements (like the OS X menu bar), nor will there be any reused UI elements like the Dock, although I’m sure it will have a reimagined element which echoes the Dock the same way the iPhone Dock does.
It will not be offered for sale immediately. I’ll go out on a limb and say that they’ll ship it in March or April, but only because the summer “release slot” is occupied by the iPhone.
Speaking of the iPhone, my prediction for the “one more thing” at the event is iPhone OS 4.0.
Steve is going to need the “one more thing” for 4.0, because his three talking points will be iLife ‘10 (with a completely new, never-before-seen application), the tablet, and something else (which I haven’t the foggiest clue as to what it is). iLife ‘10 will run on the tablet in a perfectly optimized fashion, not a slap job.
There will be no mention of any new iPhone hardware, but advances in the SDK will lend to speculation of new hardware, and a “surprise” release of the new device will debut at WWDC.

I’m done here.

Can anyone identify this song?

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:59:38 -0500

Can anyone identify this song?

juliaroy: Words to live by (via hello-therelove)

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:51:09 -0500

juliaroy:

Words to live by

(via hello-therelove)

Random Thoughts on "The Tablet"

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:25:01 -0500

I didn’t feel like going all-out with a post, but here’s a quick, non-edited thought:

Thus far, every commentator (aside from the philosophical ones like John Gruber and the like) has focused solely on the “touchability” aspect of the device.

I don’t believe that this is the case. With the iPhone and then the iPod touch, Apple introduced multi-touch to the world, and yes, the new device will definitely feature a touch-centric interface with a large, gorgeous, high-definition display. But they will not choose to harp on the “touch” part of the device. Instead, the touch capability will just fade into the background, and become an “of course” part of the computing experience. The new device will focus on some new, never-before-imagined method of interaction with a computer of any kind.

Twitter Tees?

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:43:59 -0500

spinchange:

Someone nominated one of my toots to be a threadless twitter t-shirt:

I don’t know who @abrahamvegh is but it was a nice and welcome surprise. Here’s where I shamelessly ask you to vote for it, provided only, of course, that you enjoy it :)

Just your friendly neighborhood nominator. ;)

how was your day?

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:18:56 -0500

Rather boring, and not over yet.

Email Aliases

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:31:17 -0500

Email Aliases

SiteSprint II

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:28:52 -0500

SiteSprint II

An Ode to Droplr

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:41:44 -0500

chrisbowler:

It’s so much more enjoyable to work within the Droplr interface than the WordPress backend.

Chris, I’d like you to meet Dean, and his little friend named “Fluency.” ;)

topherchris: Happy Hanukkah, chosen people!

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:59:19 -0500

topherchris:

Happy Hanukkah, chosen people!

marco: Keep this checked. I just unchecked this this morning....

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:46:19 -0500

marco:

Keep this checked.

I just unchecked this this morning. Now I’ve re-checked it.

topherchris: ZOMG ANSWER ANSWER I CAN’T TAKE IT

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:06:07 -0500

topherchris:

ZOMG ANSWER ANSWER I CAN’T TAKE IT

langer: Cray-1 Computer System promotional brochure (pdf) The...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:57:37 -0500

langer:

Cray-1 Computer System promotional brochure (pdf)

The Cray-1, released in 1976, had a single megabyte of RAM, weighed 5.25 tons, cost $8.86 million, and was advertised as “a compact mainframe occupying a mere 70 sq. ft. of floorspace”.

The Cray-1 had roughly 4% of the computational power of an iPhone 3GS.

Plus, it came with a free bench.

Rav Shmuel — Protocols I see this guy every day. Epic music.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:02:22 -0500

Rav Shmuel — Protocols

I see this guy every day. Epic music.

You don’t need Mac OS X’s single-application mode

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:47:44 -0400

You don’t need Mac OS X’s single-application mode

on Personal "Profile" Sites

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:56:03 -0400

on Personal "Profile" Sites:

Morgante Pell:

With respect to the design, I feel I’ve reached the ideal equilibrium with respect to the Goldilocks Principle: interesting, but not garish.

This is one of the reasons I chose a mostly black-and-white scheme for my new personal site. Too much color only serves as a distraction. Morgante’s site is wonderful though. And his writing is even better.