iDiary by Kim

Nadira320: Gay makeout session in response to crazy...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:46:53 +0100

Nadira320:

Gay makeout session in response to crazy preacher lady

Oh my god, Kurt has a cute-as-hell nephew!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:15:57 +0100

Oh my god, Kurt has a cute-as-hell nephew!

ollynewport: So yeah, this happened. Stuck in a Lift with...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:02:00 +0100

ollynewport:

So yeah, this happened. Stuck in a Lift with Tom Milsom and Ali Jardine.

Photo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:46:05 +0100

"Home is where your Wi‑Fi connects automatically."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:32:10 +0100

“Home is where your Wi‑Fi connects automatically.”

- rocksymom

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:41:00 +0100

Holy shit, this season of MindCrack UHC got interesting.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:11:00 +0100

Holy shit, this season of MindCrack UHC got interesting.

adidasfactory: She waited 9 months for her moment I want...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:01:00 +0100

adidasfactory:

She waited 9 months for her moment

I want this to be real, I really do. But either she’s deleted this tweet since, or it’s a faked screenshot.

Rooster Teeth: Monty got Miles a present. Oh the horror,...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:46:26 +0100

Rooster Teeth:

Monty got Miles a present. Oh the horror, the horror.

Why is Gay Porn So Popular in Pakistan?

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:16:02 +0100

Why is Gay Porn So Popular in Pakistan?:

Mother Jones:

As of this writing, Pakistan is by volume the world leader for Google searches of the terms “shemale sex”, “teen anal sex”, and “man fucking man”, according to Google Trends. Pakistan also ranks second in the world (after similarly gay-intolerant Kenya) for volume of searches for the search term “gay sex pics”.

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Long before the rise of Islamic conservatism, [Shereen] El Feki says, the Middle East and India had a literary tradition that celebrated gay love, but in recent years, that openness has been forgotten.

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“The reality is that long before the West was talking openly about homosexuality, Arabs in particular were writing about this very frankly. Our history has come to be rewritten by Islamic conservatives.”

puckbox: Chrysler Building Top by Mitchell Funk

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:46:31 +0100

puckbox:

Chrysler Building Top by Mitchell Funk

drivenetwork: New Porsche 991 GT3. First Drive. The shift...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:31:41 +0100

drivenetwork:

New Porsche 991 GT3. First Drive.

The shift paddles actually rotate with the steering wheel. Sensible.

(The topic came up in a conversation between Harri, Alex, and I this past weekend. We couldn’t understand why this isn’t the norm either.)

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:11:02 +0100

The power, compactness and the way air is drawn from the bottom,...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:56:00 +0100

The power, compactness and the way air is drawn from the bottom, through a central heat sink, and then out the top — albeit fan‑assisted — reminds me so much of the Cube. That’s a very good/cool thing.

And without the outer case, the body and exposed top fan creates a shape/silhouette that reminds me of Coke cans.

And finally: I can’t wait to see someone mod this into a mini R2D2.

Kim: Remember what I said about Thunderbolt to replace PCIe cards, and efficient design? About something like a NUC or a Surface with Thunderbolt and external GPUs replacing towers?

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:20:39 +0100

Kim: Remember what I said about Thunderbolt to replace PCIe cards, and efficient design? About something like a NUC or a Surface with Thunderbolt and external GPUs replacing towers?
Alex: Yaya.
Kim: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
Alex: New Mac Pro looks badass!
Kim: And tiny.
Kim: And ridiculously powerful for something so small.
Kim: Now do you see how ridiculously, unnecessarily, and excessively ginormous your tower is?
Alex: My tower is big for the same reason my car is; overcompensating.
Kim: Silly Alex.
Alex: Hehe.
Kim: Small computer plus Thunderbolt is the way to go.
Kim: Small and *efficient*.
Kim: I told you so!
Kim: I told you so, I told you so, I told you so!
Alex: Shut up.
Kim: *goes glow‐basking*
Alex: *mumbles*

"Does this deserve to exist?"

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:08:00 +0100

“Does this deserve to exist?”

- Designed by Apple

The ultimate guide, I think, to whether something is good, and a question I’ve been asking of every thing I do all along as well.

Following the Livestream: WWDC 2013 Keynote

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:47:00 +0100

15 minutes to go, and the livestream’s started.

I’ll catch up on the Xbox E3 presentation later.

Al Gore and Woz!
That’s a big hall.
I like this song, Sooner or Later.

Um, Magic Trackpad just said it’s running low on battery. Magic Mouse on standby.

Here we go.
This opening video feels like a continuation of the Music Every Day and Photos Every Day ads.
Cook sounds more confident. Not talking so slow.
Happy Germans.
The Berlin store song — On Our Way by The Royal Concept — isn’t on iTunes.
Apple giving the stage to someone to launch their company? That’s…rare, if not new.
These cars aren’t hitting their apexes.
Oh dear, oh dear. Don’t fail now.
Is this a tech demo, or a product?
“Weapons”. Product then.
This is definitely something Microsoft and Xbox don’t have then.
15% versus 3%, 100% versus 18% is all well and good, but actual units?
Hair Force One!
Hehe, “Sea Lion”.
Apple picking California names reminds me of Microsoft’s ski resort codenames.
I spy iBooks and Maps on the OS X Dock.
“Yes, that guy!” Federighi is a great presenter.
Good thing about tabs in the Finder is that it’s unlikely I’ll hoard them like I do with Safari tabs.
I’m not sure I want all tags to show up in the Finder sidebar? What if I decide to setup a system of many, many, many tags?
Why wasn’t Mission Control like this in Mountain Lion in the first place?
“Battery menu extra”?
So Timer Coalescing is Apple implementing Intel’s Power Optimiser?
Safari better be more stable and responsive.
I’ll be curious to see if the engineers will address in the sessions this week whether Apple’s putting more resources into WebKit, now that Google’s branched off.
“A fan of smooth scrolling”. Damn it, Federighi, that was your chance to make a reference to Steve’s “scrolls like butter”.
~~I like this new Safari start screen.~~
I can’t tell from the stream, but is that still linen?
Yes! iCloud Keychain! Finally!
Yes, better notifications.
Notifications updating during sleep is going to depend on whether the Mac supports Power Nap, I presume?
No more leather in ~~iCal~~ Calendar!
Finally one less media type in iTunes.
Hehe, no stitching.
Mmm… Travel times…
Do I have to scroll two “pages” at a time in iBooks, or is the scrolling arbitrary?
I want Mavericks. I just hope Apple hasn’t cut off my Mac.
Which cut of LotR, Phil? And why would I want to watch it in the first place?
New AirPort base stations look good.
Oh ho ho… Mac Pro sneak peek…
A cyclinder, huh?
Phil said ass!
How big, or small, is this thing?
And how quiet?
All Thunderbolt expansion, as expected. Intel better work hard to let more people build Thunderbolt peripherals.
It’s the new Cube.
“FireWire”? That’s a slip, right? You meant Thunderbolt, right?
I expect a NUC-sized Mac mini soon then, if the Mac Pro is gonna be this small.
Hmm. New iCloud logo. No more spiral metal.
Yes, new iWork!
Or…new iWork.com?
iWork.com relaunched then.
Ah, a context-sensitive Inspector. That needs to be brought to the Mac apps themselves.
I see you trying to convince us that Apple can build web apps, Roger.
I wonder if these Keynote transitions are done using really complex CSS or WebGL.
Products that people “use more and love more”.
I think “off the charts” means >100%, not 97%.
Ooh, Windows Phone’s “Very Satisfied” rating is higher than Android’s. 53% versus 49%.
Is Craig showing iOS 7, or Ive? Or will Tim handle it?
Yes, “efficiency”. My guide too.
Mmm… Layers…
I like the new folders.
Oh yes, pages in folders.
“Hair Supply”? Ha! Still prefer Hair Force One though.
Since I don’t use an iPhone anymore, I’m more interested to know how iOS 7 looks on the iPad.
I think the gradients on the new system icons are a bit too heavy. Or maybe it’s just my screen.
I also still prefer the Windows Phone Start screen and Live Tiles to Springboard.
How are they going to bridge the standard UI widgets between iOS 7 and older versions? Will developers have to supply two versions of an icon for a button, one for old iOS, and another more suited to the new look?
Ooh… That’s a nice Share Sheet.
No need to go “wee…” to NFC.
Sod off with photo filters.
Well, Moments sure sounds like a more sensible name than Events.
But…is…Photo Stream…less…complicated…‽
I kinda wish Ive or some other exec from Apple with iOS 7 had taken out their phone and quite literally popped their head into AirDrop when Craig was demo‑ing the new Photos app.
Ooh… Bing now supplies Siri’s in‑UI web search results.
No Porsche, no BMW, no Aston…Martin…
Finally, auto app updates.
Goodbye, Cover Flow.
Wait. A star on the iTunes Radio Now Playing screen? Is iTunes ditching the five-star rating system? Because I prefer that.
Well, that’s Last.fm radio cooked.
Ah, the five-star system stays.
I’m more interested in iTunes Match now. As long as the syncing is reliable.
Windows Phone has definitely got a better user experience than iPhone, but it’s the iOS SDK and APIs that I’m worried about.
“Does it deserve to exist”. That’s exactly the way I look at things too.

Later today, I want to hear from WWDC: Haswell MacBooks. The next Mac OS X. Better public transport...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:42:00 +0100

Later today, I want to hear from WWDC:

Haswell MacBooks.
The next Mac OS X.
Better public transport integration in iOS Maps.
iOS app-interoperability.
The iOS status bar to just stay black.
Allowing third-party developers to plug in to the Share menu, so that I can use that instead of a bookmarklet to send an article to Instapaper, or share something to Tumblr, for example.
Documents in iCloud to be app‑agnostic, rather than kept separate to whichever one I created it with or saved to.
iCloud database syncing to be reliable enough that developers can actually use it.
iCloud to sync my Safari browser history, Mac and iOS.
Photo Stream to no longer be this weird, convoluted mess.

And from Microsoft’s E3 press event:

All this.
Forza 5. Though to be honest, I don’t think I’ll be getting a Xbox One on release, so it doesn’t matter so much. (I’ve only ever bought Halo edition Xboxes, and I don’t intend to change that.)

Alex: makes stupid decision

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:10:00 +0100

Alex: *makes stupid decision*
Me: Stupid Alex.
Me: Stupid Alex.
Me: Stupid Alex.
Alex: Stop calling me stupid!
Alex: You're stupid for calling me stupid.
Me: You're stupid for not realising you've been stupid!

Watching F1: 2013 Canadian GP

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:17:00 +0100

I still miss freaky sidepods.

Ooh, it’s dry today?
That engine…
That’s it? That’s the Hamilton–Moss interview?
Oh dang, it’s an EJ grid walk.
Canada is “tired”? Bernie, Canada is good!
It has got much warmer.
Tidy start.
Bottas tried well enough.
Ooh… Watch it there, Sutil. That was lucky though.
I like watching Massa punching his way through.
Massa versus Räikkönen!
With a presumably brief Ricciardo interlude.
They’re pitting on lap 13 already?
This protracted Rosberg–Webber fight is quite intriguing.
Stewarts are pretty swift today.
How is Di Resta still not in yet?
Ask Brawn what he thinks of Di Resta’s stint on the primes!
Hamilton shouldn’t be in too much of a hurry. All that matters is that he hangs on, and then pass on the last lap.