The Lights are on, but nobody’s home

Obligatory reference: LED traffic lights don’t melt snow (@Engadget)

Whenever I start feeling sorry for a group of engineers, I just imagine if they were the software development group

Public Funding

“So, to get this straight. The taxpayers paid our partner to author and post the content. And then later paid us to copy and repost the content. Now the taxpayers should pay us so they can credit us so that the taxpayers will know that we are are the source of the content they paid for already?”

New! Improved! Now with even more questionable, but great taste

So, after a few-years-flirtation with fame and fortune and plastic dinosaurs running their own domain has come to an end, and the dinosaurs are back here, to their original home on the web – because, well, they brighten up the place. And who wants to type “conversationswithplasticdinosaurs.com” anyway? (ok, so I know you don’t type it, but I did on the iPhone once, and that was quite enough).

So – update your links to all your favorites and remember:

Parody, satire, and humor are core values to the human experience.

And so are dinosaurs.

And plastic.

(man, this intro so needs theme music)

Actually the dinosaurs exist to give me an outlet to be marginally funny.

The key word is “marginally”

A big thanks to Ben MacNeill for the initial gift of the dinosaurs. And for James for making me register the domain name before he did and became a domain squatter and making me go to some group of lawyers with legal pads and labeled folders to take it back from him. [Ed. - yes I copied this from the old site. I said "marginally funny"]

And thanks to organizations everywhere (including mine) and all the content running over the series of tubes we call the Internet for the ongoing inspiration. You guys rock!

(Hello Wisconsin!)

(whoops, wrong ending credits – we’ll get that corrected shortly)

For Occasional Use Only

There you have it folks – being the newphew of the first cousin of a board member is recession proof – particularly if you can figure out how to print reports from PowerBuilder

The App Committee

I can’t imagine how those 175 million users get by without supervisor notifications and custom team logos

The Product Cycle

Apple Product cycles, you have to love them.

William Shatner image by Jerry Avenaim, used under the Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 per license listing at wikipedia.org

The Brave New Distribution Channel

You mushy brained fools, hulu is for computers, not for your televisions.

The Proposal

Tell me what that movie is about again? Helping the bombardier with a website proposal?

The Final Frontier

Africa is a continent, not a country – I never knew. Next they’ll be telling us the earth revolves around the sun!

The Wiki

thanks to a tweet from Mark Pilgrim and several years of running multiple wikis in multiple locales for the inspiration for this post