Stephen Mack

I saw it in the Merc this morning and it's been haunting me all day. - Stephen Mack

oh my god. (yes, I've investigated :( ) - did

From the 2012 blog post by Phil Plait: "Artist Nathan Hoste got as tired as I was of Hollywood’s depiction of getting tossed out the airlock, so he decided to draw a series of comic book-like panels showing the fact and fiction of breathing vacuum. He’s calling the series Bodies in Space, and the drawings are really cool." - Stephen Mack

I didn't link to Hoste's site directly, since it's a bit weirdly formatted (doesn't allow linking to individual posts or tags) and sorta-kinda NSFW, but it's here: http://ghoste.net/ - Stephen Mack

If you're interested in topic of what actually happens to you if you were exposed to the vacuum of space, this blog post is very good: http://www.urban-astronomer.com/article... - Stephen Mack

From the article by Dennis Mersereau (tagged as "very controversial opinino"): "Celsius is a scale, as Very Serious Scientists enjoy pointing out, that revolves around the freezing and boiling points of water. It's nice and even: 0°C is freezing and 100°C is boiling. "It just makes sense!" Sure! Since Celsius is based on water, it would make wonderful sense to use Celsius for the environmental temperature if we lived in water. Until we sprout gills and start flapping around the Gulf, we should use Fahrenheit for air temperatures." (Second image is from a comment.) - Stephen Mack

Curtis, no, it's not a relative scale. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... -- it's a bit complicated now compared to what it was historically. As the article says, "From 1744 until 1954, 0 °C was defined as the freezing point of water and 100 °C was defined as the boiling point of water, both at a pressure of one standard atmosphere with mercury being the working material." But then it changed to a more precise but more complicated definition, but, no, it's not dependent on your location. - Stephen Mack

Cry, probably. - vicster.

Have breakfast. Then go offline and write. - Maitani

:( - Pea Bukowski

This time next week we'll be biting our nails as we count down to... :'( - Halil

From the 2014 article: "When Donna Morris joined Adobe in 2002 as a senior director of global talent management, she noticed that the annual performance review, such a central part of the human resources job she had been hired to do, wasn’t much of a resource to the humans it served. 'At one point, the planning alone took nine months,' she says. 'It was like preparing to give birth to a child. It was like, "why does this take so long? Does this really drive the business return?" ' [...] So, [three] years ago, she abolished the software giant’s performance review system." - Stephen Mack

Andrew, it'd be interesting to see that analysis. But the main thing ditching does is save several thousand hours of labor for the company. - Stephen Mack

With first-time runners from MVARC Gloria and Erica, and Mara. - Stephen Mack

فرنفیت رو ایشون راه انداخته. - مـــمـد ☮

I always forget how beautiful the UCSC campus is. - Stephen Mack

From the article: "Two days after a federal regulator approved powdered alcohol, there's already an attempt to ban it. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said today he is introducing legislation in the Senate to make the production, sale and possession of Palcohol illegal. 'I am in total disbelief that our federal government has approved such an obviously dangerous product, and so, Congress must take matters into its own hands and make powdered alcohol illegal,' he said. 'Underage alcohol abuse is a growing epidemic with tragic consequences and powdered alcohol could exacerbate this.' Palcohol got the green light this week from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for its powdered versions of a cosmopolitan, a margarita, rum and vodka. Another product, Lemon Drop, is expected to be approved soon, The Associated Press reported." - Stephen Mack

it's the kids that worry me, it can so easily be sold to them as sweets by older children making access to drinks 1000x easier, the UK has a huge underage drinking problem which worries me as young adults are being diagnosed with liver failure now! - Halil

My favorite song on "No Cities To Love" is turning out to be a song that's not actually on the album -- this was released (along with another song, "The Fog and Filthy Air") on the deluxe vinyl LP. - Stephen Mack

I may use Facebook, but at heart to me it feels precarious, adversarial. I will never trust it. I can never relax there. It will never be home. - Stephen Mack

Hookuh, you're right. And I use FB, so the feeling I get there doesn't stop me from posting entirely. But I can't shake that adversarial feeling I get there. It's a culmination of how the UI there feels to me, and their business model, and their past privacy transgressions. My posts there feel more restrained as a consequence. - Stephen Mack

No. :( - Kristin

We're celebrating macaroni and cheese with hotdogs day at my place of the opposite of work. - Jenny H.

(Baby pool at bebepool.com, Micah's site. Thanks Micah!) - Stephen Mack

12! - Stephan Planken

They're pretty far along, and they have an FF feed import feature (that I haven't tried yet). You should be able to sign up at http://www.frenf.it/earlyad... - Stephen Mack

Awesome. Too bad I fatfingered my account name. :( - Aloof Schipperke

(Testing the YouTube URL thing.) - Stephen Mack

heh i can see that too. and yes, ryan's hair has its own zip code. - holly #ravingfangirl

I learned so much from this. - Stephen Mack

Jennifer Dittrich http://friendfeed.com/jenn2d2, Jenny H. http://friendfeed.com/kellih, Eivind http://friendfeed.com/eivindn, Louis Gray http://friendfeed.com/louisgr..., NOT THE CRICKET http://friendfeed.com/jimminy, Spidra Webster http://friendfeed.com/spidra, Tamara J. B. http://friendfeed.com/express..., joey http://friendfeed.com/joeybean, The Other Yvonne http://friendfeed.com/ychache..., imabonehead http://friendfeed.com/imabone..., Hookuh Tinypants http://friendfeed.com/tinypan..., MoTO Boychick Devil http://friendfeed.com/barrywy..., Corinne L http://friendfeed.com/corinnel, Anne Bouey http://friendfeed.com/abouey, Stephan Planken http://friendfeed.com/stplank..., John (bird whisperer) http://friendfeed.com/dendroi..., Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart http://friendfeed.com/zoblue, Micah http://friendfeed.com/micahwi..., Steven Perez http://friendfeed.com/silas216, bentley http://friendfeed.com/bentley... - Stephen Mack

It may be possible in the future, to provide that graph. (It was always a lack of data, and accurate & accessible time info.) - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

Everything is fine. FINE I TELL YOU. - Stephen Mack

Stephen, the image of your bare chest is etched on more than just my canvas. - Josh Haley

(I stole this joke from Akiva.) - Stephen Mack

you be nice! it's a new service! - Aloof Schipperke

*imitates Sam Neill in the cinema at the end of "In The Mouth Of Madness"* - Big Joe Silenced

I keep reading the last part as saying "Close to learn more" - Stephen Mack

My neglected WordPress blog, which I will probably make my main priority for posting henceforth: http://www.zeigen.com/blog/ - Stephen Mack

Other stupid sites I don't use much: Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos... and G+ https://plus.google.com/+Stephe... and https://instagram.com/drzeige... and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub... and About Me: http://about.me/zeigen and http://about.me/estephen - Stephen Mack

More like me. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

ONLY JIMMINY CAN SAVE US NOW - Stephen Mack

(I used to do this every week. But the last time I did this was 2010, http://friendfeed.com/zeigen...) - Stephen Mack

Dev Patel is a very interesting actor to me (he was compelling in The Newsroom). It's fascinating to see him appear in two such very different movies in the same week. - Stephen Mack

From the article: "Symptoms: People who have misophonia are most commonly angered by specific sounds, such as slurping, throat-clearing, people clipping their nails, brushing their teeth, chewing crushed ice, eating, drinking, breathing, sniffing, talking, sneezing, yawning, walking, chewing gum, laughing, snoring, typing on a keyboard, coughing, humming, whistling, singing; saying certain consonants; or repetitive sounds. Sufferers experience fight/flight symptoms such as sweating, muscle tension, and quickened heartbeat. Some are also affected by visual stimuli, such as repetitive foot or body movements, fidgeting, or movement they observe out of the corners of their eyes. Intense anxiety and avoidance behavior often develops, which can lead to decreased socialization." - Stephen Mack

*holds stock still and makes zero sounds* - Stephen Mack

Doesn't explain why the same person (in multiple) is seeing colors differently. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

But "Satellite" (at 10:24) is a close second: https://www.youtube.com/watch... - Stephen Mack