Web Log

Occasionally useful articles mixed in with some rants & raves and other random thoughts

Yeah, I Got 20 Big Macs and 20 Large Fries

LivingSocial was selling voucher booklets: $13 for 5 Big Macs and 5 Large Fries. Being a poor and/or unhealthy person like the ~290,607 other people who also bought, I also convinced 3 others to buy one for me. With the free one I got for referring 3 others, the grand total was brought to $39 for 20 Big Macs and 20 Large Fries.

Some people refused or otherwise couldn’t buy for me, but I can’t blame them for anything. Thanks for attempting to watch my weight, but I’ve never seen this many people cash in on a coupon site deal, and I hope they’re not wrong.

On a side note, why do LivingSocial’s past deal pages say “You missed it!” even if they said “You got it!” before?

Happy Thanksgiving

Have a great Thanksgiving! Enjoy your feasts.

While we’re on the topic of irony, read an interesting rant/call by Jeffrey Zeldman.

9 November 2011 - 10:05 PM

Someone put a <form> inside a <tr> so of course the DOM inspector couldn’t find the form that a crawler needed to access. Since the table was also used for layout, I’m guessing the site was around 10 years old. What a shame it is that, in all this time, the company never invested in better front-end web development.

How to Disable “Guest User” on the Mac OS X Lion Login Window

After seeing it a few times since updating to 10.7.2 and having to click/keypress a few extra times to log in, I was annoyed enough to look up this new “feature”. If you don’t poke around your System Preferences after every update, you might not have noticed a new option under Security & Privacy. Notice how it doesn’t mention “Guest User” anywhere:

Disable restarting to Safari when screen is locked
Check it off and you're done.

Anyway, a simple tick of the checkbox resolves this issue. As with all tweaks, the usual caveats apply: do it at your own risk, know how to reverse the change if you ever change your mind, and as the source article (from OS X Daily) advises, it’s better to keep the Guest User account around if there’s a chance your computer can get stolen.

5 October 2011 - 10:31 PM

Wow, it’s been a long time since I saw Twitter over capacity, but I guess Steve Jobs’s passing was enough to push it over the edge, if only temporarily.

4 October 2011 - 11:49 AM

I haven’t gotten to completely play through the co-op part yet, but the added Challenge Mode doesn’t seem like much. Final judgment will be withheld until I finish all of it, but so far I’m not really impressed.

It’s interesting that when viewing DLC for Portal 2 on Steam, it still only shows “Summer 2011 DLC”.

30 September 2011 - 5:13 PM

How would you react?

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Portal 2 DLC (Finally) and OST Wrap-Up

Those of you who have been following Portal news know that Volume 1 of Songs to Test By was released earlier this year in May. Back then, I was still expecting the free DLC to be released mid-to-late-summer. Maybe I was feeling a bit too optimistic from seeing the groundwork in place, or perhaps my sense of time was skewed from enjoying Portal 2 too much. Anyway, “Peer Review” will finally arrive next week – or so they say – and be free as always (one of the reasons we love Valve).

Portal 2: Songs to Test By - Soundtrack Cover Art
21 September 2011 - 9:09 PM

In honor of Eli’s Web Redemption on Tosh.0, here’s my version of the transcript of that infamous Iron Mic rap battle:

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Tosh.0 Web Redemption: Eli Porter Featuring Skylar Grey

He’s the best, man. He did it!

Thanks to Daniel Tosh for giving Eli a chance to set the record straight. This is a must-watch for every Iron Mic fan. True to his word, Eli sticks with his no pen, no pad freestyle. The only thing I could have asked for is fresh lyrics in his live performance. Look for his new album Intelligently Retarded in October.

A decent end to a disappointing summer.