Bert Bates

After months of being on the lam from micro$oft, they caught me last night and forced me to "upgrade" skype. As predicted, my life just took a major step backwards due to skype 8. #microsoft-fail

I want a premium compact camera with a 7x zoom. Not a 4x, not a 10x thank you. A 7x zoom. #camerafail

A shoulder hit on the fifth line and the world changed forever.

Who (rightly), proposed?: - bad teacher: "You got an 'A' Jo, you're so smart" - good teacher: "You got an 'A' Jo, your hard work paid off"

@dimsumthinking Dude! cool.. I'm icehorse on the dragon go server

@dimsumthinking Howdy Dan, hope all is well! I've been giving slow-moving lessons on dragon - let me know if you're interested

A big shout-out to Yahoo mail for arbitrarily swapping buttons that have become muscle memory for zillions of users. #yahoomailfail

Yesterday at 6:15am I joined the "5 visible planets at once club". You still have a week or two to join! (6am might be a bit safer).

Chocolate beats Silver? Video shows people choosing a bar of chocolate instead of a bar of silver. youtube.com/watch?v=bYhTFz_S… #educationfail

Having recently rented a few cars, I implore this generation of designers to read "Design of Everyday Things". Usability fails in cars???

Chomsky on NPR again. Denouncing US foreign policy again. Being deliberately misleading... again. Playing dangerous games with his power.

"Nation with Crumbling Bridges and Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall" - Andy Borowitz, New Yorker Well put Andy, well put

@finiteattention @Neuro_Skeptic @neurobonkers @neurobollocks "techno-meditation" - come on Chris, that sounds legit!

Top CS profs from MIT, Berkeley, and UNSW use dated, ineffective lecturing pedagogy. This is certainly common. We all should demand more.

The Dead gave us all a lot, and I wish them the best. At the same time, it was always awesome to get a "life refresher course" at a show :)

scant time for haiku West coast folks, alert! Venus And Jupiter now!

@3yakuya We're glad you liked it!

Eclipse! woo-hoo! clear skies!

You could buy a low flush toilet, or skip a glass of water. Or, you could skip a few burgers every month. (burger ~= 600 gals.) #drought