Kraken Watch

The KudOktopus case is stainless steel, 42mm in diameter, and has sapphire crystal on the top and back. Its mechanical movement requires manual winding to keep its tempered blue Breguet steel hands moving smoothly. The strap and buckle are Louisiana alligator or calf leather and stainless steel.

Even better than the photo above is a video.

#fashion #tentacles

It's Friday morning and sky is blue!

#smellsperty

Star Wars glasses filled with sweet treats given to me on this Valentine’s Day. My beautiful wife knows me well. Licorice, chocolate covered cashews, macaroons, mini Snickers.. Oh my.

#photos #starwars #marriage

mysql - how to mysqldump remote db from local machine

-1, cause this is about answering questions and not linking to places where one needs to create an account, download something and eventually find an answer or NOT. – user667073 Jan 30 at 13:38

I <3 answers and answer replies like this.

#software #mysql

If you continue to harass the monkeys, they'll throw poop at you.

#justice

What To Do About The Rise Of The Robots? - Forbes

For decades, increased automation has led to greater productivity, displacing some classes of jobs, but creating whole new industries.

Innovations like robots in factories, ATM machines and self checkouts in stores have all met with some grumbling, but have also lowered prices while providing more convenience.

Generally,the chattering classes have taken it in stride. After all, when poorly educated workers’ jobs are being replaced, they can be trained to do higher level work. The attitude has basically been, “when computers can replace human thinking and intuition, then we’ll worry about it.”

It’s a little lengthy but non-geek friendly and a good overview of where we’re at and where we’re going.

#robots

Mac keeps auto-correcting “cronjobs” to “corncobs” — makes me think I should coin the word “cornjob”

#mustarddogs

This Week: Modern Love | WireTap with Jonathan Goldstein | CBC Radio

Is there such a thing as too much love? In this special Valentine’s Day episode, we bring you a story about a time when love was endless. Plus, a man spends over a decade of his life in love with a woman who doesn’t exist, kids share their relationship advice, and a woman recounts the worst first date of all time.

I listen to just about every episode via their podcasts and this one I particularly enjoed. Choice quotes below:

Because love, as you know, also means taking on another person’s pain.

You don’t really decide who you’re gonna love. It’s just your heart that says this person, I like this person. This person.

I think it’s like an existential loneliness. You can find people who you can connect with deeply who really make you feel happy and nurished. But I don’t think anybody can cure our existential loneliness.

Do u wanna see who I have on my iPod?

Oh.. And I made it easy for you to listen.

#podcasts

What John Waters really said

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.” -John Waters

I missed this originally when it was making the rounds.

#literature

In One Fell Swoop, Facebook Glitch Deep-Sixes the Web

Now we may know how powerful Facebook really is.

On Thursday, many major websites were taken down by an error that stemmed from Facebook, as Internet mainstays like MSNBC.com, CNN, Yelp and New York Magazine all sent users to redirect pages almost immediately upon loading.

Upon visiting the sites, users were redirected to an error page inside of the Facebook website, which seems to suggest that the error lies in Facebook Connect, the software platform that snakes Facebook’s reach throughout the entire backbone of the Internet. Connect is seen on many third-party-publisher websites in the form of the “Like” button — especially BuzzFeed, the viral news site which relies primarily on social media to spread throughout the Web.

This is why I hate using third party JavaScript on websites, your whole site it at their mercy. Bugs happen. Don’t Use Facebook’s code. Problem solved.

In related news, Facebook study: Growth fueled by desire for self-affirmation.

I read a similar article last summer wherein the author noted that people, especially kids, are addicted to social media sites because they need to know “who wants me?”

Why are they constantly checking their phone, won’t let it stray from arm’s reach? Simple: they get instant digital gratification that their photo was liked, their tweet was retweeted and/or their video made the most-popular list.

In other words … that they’re somebody. And having hundreds, thousands, millions of people validating you is damn hard to compete with. Best advice to parents: monitor your kids online activities. They don’t need Facebook to feel good or even “okay” about themselves. They need you for that.

#facebook #devhell #fail