I still cannot figure out this Red Sox team. I would be fine with them just letting all the young guys play though. I am about 3 games away from ordering a Pedro Ciriaco Fathead for my wall.
*See also* [Fenway West’s Recap](http://www.fenwaywest.com/2012-articles/july/yankee-killer-pedro-ciriaco-does-it-again.html)
Brett Terpstra tweeted his favorite Mac OS X default[^spoiler]. It remove the delay before showing a hidden dock[^like]. My favorite might be “Make Text in Preview selectable:”
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE
[^spoiler]: *Spoiler:* defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float
[^like]: Don’t get me wrong, I like that one too.
A well written response to the Internet’s cry for HBO to “just take [its] money.”
> The short version is this: HBO, more than any other network, benefits from the pay TV ecosystem currently in place, so it has little incentive to try to go around it. If it were to sell directly to consumers, it would have figure it was leaving more money on the table by not currently doing so than it would cost (and risk losing) by doing so.
The reasons laid out by “Jasper” are exactly the reasons I hear for why HBO will not be making the jump to direct subscriptions in the near future. I do hope he’s right that things might change in a few years.
(via [The Loop](http://loopinsight.com))
It’s official.
> And during the fast and furious 200 seconds that it took the race to play out, some hastily reached conclusions underwent radical revision. Ryan Lochte plummeted from being labeled the greatest swimmer on Earth to being unfairly labeled a goat. Michael Phelps was reclassified from fading to formidable.
Great summary by Pat Forde of a great race to watch. Too bad the US came up just short.
I have been using this trick for some time, but my fiancé did not know about it. I figured I would make sure my readers did.
> [A[n emailed statement that the ceremonies “are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them.”
Because if anyone had the option to turn of Lauer and Vieira they would have.[^f1]
[^f1]: If the comments are Twitter were any indication, I am not alone in thinking that the commentary during the opening ceremonies was atrocious. Of course the reason they did not put the ceremonies online was because they wanted to get a huge ratings number for the event, and of course they are not going to come out and say that.
I’ve noticed that since Wednesday I’ve started to receive “rate limit” messages from [Instapaper](http://instapaper.com). Though I found one [StackExchange](http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/29291/hitting-rate-limit-page-on-instapaper) posting about it, I have not seen a lot of mentions about it on Twitter. My theory is that my method of using Instapaper[^insta] is not how they would prefer people use the site.
I hope the last couple of days have been a blip[^ml] and/or the rate limit rates are relaxed. I’ve been using Instapaper since [John Gruber first linked it in 2008](http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/01/30/instapaper) and have been a subscriber since the iOS app has had an option to subscribe. I really would prefer to keep it as my only “Read Later” service. If, however, I am causing too much strain on Instapaper’s servers by sending it too many things, there are other “Read Later” services I can use to spread out my articles[^rl]. Hopefully it will not come to that, but at least I have options in the market if it does.
[^rl]: *E.g.,* I could send sports and politics stuff to [Readability](http://readability.com) and tech stuff to Instapaper.
[^ml]: I did send a metric buttload of Mountain Lion stuff to Instapaper and that will not be happening again any time soon.
[^insta]: Since I normally go through RSS feeds in short 2-3 minute bursts, I send any article I think I *might* want to read to Instapaper. The decision takes about half a second. I will then sit down in both morning and evening and pick articles out of my Instapaper queue to read. This means I probably end up reading only 30-40% of the stuff I send to Instapaper.
> Although Adrian Gonzalez’ bat has gone missing, Carl Crawford is just now wading back into the pool of full-time play, and Nick Punto continues to exist, the 2012 Sox are fully capable of going on an absolutely torrid stretch. And I mean torrid in a good way, not in an “every episode of ‘Happy Days’ after Ron Howard left the cast” way. In fact, a 21-8 August is not entirely out of the question. Neither, of course, is the thought that a race of alien Jessica Biels will abduct me and whisk me away to their home planet to help them repopulate. But just work with me here.
I’m trying to be this optimistic, but I just do not think this team is going to go on some kind of winning streak. I hope I’m wrong.
I really want to like Stamped, but it has felt like a ghost town for the past few months. Hopefully this new update, and the [new profile pages](http://stamped.com/kivus), brings some people back.
Taught me how to turn off iCal stuff in Notification Center (which were annoying since I use BusyCal.) I just wish they had not presented it as a slideshow.
Michael Schechter makes the argument against using things like Markdown that might prevent you from moving your data to another platform. Though he makes a good point, I would counter by saying I simply refuse to use a platform that does not support Markdown.[^note]
[^note]: My counter does not relate to his argument regarding his footnotes plugin. I agree with him on that,
> UPDATE: Some users have reported getting a “Could not restore – Invalid argument” error at the end of the restore process. Our testing shows the error message can be safely be ignored; the drive can be mounted and will boot your system to install Mountain Lion. As noted in the comments, however, mounting the InstallESD.dmg file before performing the restore process avoids triggering the error message.
Knowing that would have saved me the last hour of my life.
Why is “shipments” the key number with respect to comparing companies? At this point, I wish tech sites would not post any “results” that are not either “items sold” or “profit.” I really do not care about how many Galaxy Notes are sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
If I was writing my [Resurgence of the Email Newsletter](https://johnkiv.us/2012/07/20/the-resurgence-of-the-email-newsletter/) this week, I’d have to add this to the list. I’m looking forward to the release of issue 1, which should be later today.
The way this season is going, I would expect nothing less.
*UPDATE: Wally’s been located. It was apparently an employee who took it without permission. No charges filed.*
No real surprises, but [TechHive](http://techhive.com) sums them up nicely.
You can follow his Olympics blog until then.
I hope this is just the lingering feud between Twitter and Facebook and not a precursor to Twitter blocking all third party clients.
I signed up yesterday. The sign-up process was well designed and worked flawlessly. I have high hopes.