Stephen Mack

I shared my daughter's birth here. And the end of my marriage. And a few thousand other moments and thoughts, big and small. - Stephen Mack

Thank you for everything, Stephen. - bentley

My 9 year old son Samuel gets a drenching on a raft adventure with Kauai Sea Tours thanks to Captain Kevin and crewman Jake. - Stephen Mack

A: It didn't take 20 minutes to prepare - Stephen Mack

Get one of these: Easy Tool Stainless Steel Fruit Pineapple Corer Slicer Peeler Cut https://www.amazon.com/dp... https://www.amazon.com/dp... Done and done. :) - Ken Gidley

We had to get up at 5:30am but it was totally worth it. Exploring sea caves, landing on Napali to hike to a hieau, snorkeling, and then an exciting ride back. Great 6.5 hour trip. - Stephen Mack

Beautiful! - AHnix (Anna Haro)

The Grand Hyatt is ridiculously beautiful. The kids loved the food and the show. - Stephen Mack

:) - Jenny H.

*hi fives* #pokebrothers - Micah

#cheersFF - CAJ was here

I'll miss the #saturdayff tradition most of all. Thanks for starting it, Louis. - Stephen Mack

Bump for Laura! - Stephen Mack

((hugs)) see you around, Stephen! - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Take care and safe travels! - Galadriel C.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. My cares float away. - Stephen Mack

FF shutting down was making me upset until I relaxed with this tape this morning. - Stephen Mack

Nothing is better then clicking the "Darude" button to add Darude to a Darude cover. - Stephen Mack

No it was there is Chrome when I went, just not Firefox. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy

From the release: "SAN JOSE, CA – April 1, 2015 -- TiVo Inc., a leader in the advanced television entertainment market, today announced the most significant achievement in the history of visual entertainment. The television viewing experience will never be the same thanks to TiVo Quantum. Watching previously aired, recorded television will be a thing of the past, Quantum will give consumers the control to view anything their heart desires – days before it actually airs." - Stephen Mack

Andrew, isn't that what good fanfic is for? Heck, isn't that what crappy fanfic is for? - bentley

Check out the RunKeeper + Netflix Marathon Challenge! Can you track 26.2 hours of TV watching? http://blog.runkeeper.com/3311... - Stephen Mack

I'm all over this. - Stephen Mack

#sillyday - Stephen Mack

cool, I'm re-watching GoT before the new season, and I've got just enough left! - Ken Gidley

you'd have more time to enjoy it if you walked - MoTO Boychick Devil

It's pretty, Stephen. Especially from the couch while sipping coffee. :) - Stephan Planken

Also, happy birthday to my brother-in-law Robert. - Stephen Mack

Nice! - Anne Bouey

Congrats. That's one cake more than I have ever made. - Stephan Planken

I have either made one or zero cakes in my life, depending on the bar set for "cake." (I attempted to make an apple cake as a school project in elementary school, but I forgot the apples and probably a few other things, because the result was an apple-less cracker.) - Eivind

was the size of a small room. - Stephen Mack

I like these posts about the early days of computing. I was four years old when you were doing this. - Richard A.

This is a set up (funny, but a set up). I want someone to do the opposite perspective. - Stephen Mack

This is just a small and coincidental personal connection I have to one part of this horrible event. I wasn't friends with Carsten, but I had several classes with him and remember him well. I had no idea he'd become CEO of a major company. - Stephen Mack

Cold. Wet. Like an establishing shot for a spy thriller ;) - Pete's Got To Go

wet n windy in London - Halil

boingboing is porn, right? - Kristin

Y'all got jokes - MoTO Boychick Devil

teehee - t-ra: sentimental gorgon

From the article: "Egg McMuffins aren't just mediocre pastries stuffed with microwaved eggs, bright yellow cheese and ham product. They are a form of tyranny. That, at least, is the upshot of 'Routine Republic,' a riveting and surreal new Taco Bell campaign from Deutsch. A year after the agency cheekily hired a bunch of guys named Ronald McDonald to celebrate the Mexican-themed fast-food chain's first foray into breakfast, the shots at the Golden Arches are barely masked. In the three-minute centerpiece ad below, McDonald's affable but intrinsically creepy mascot is reimagined as a sunken-eyed Stalinist clown (though perhaps bearing closer resemblance to Mao). He rules over a small army of look-alikes and an oppressed proletariat in a decrepit, cloistered city with a beefy security apparatus. Run-of-the-mill breakfast sandwiches are his preferred method of subjugation." - Stephen Mack

Nice! - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

That just seems too much to pay for a show. - Stephen Mack

At least the Book of Mormon will start on time. Madonna.. doesn't start till 4 hours later then it states. - CW

Photographs by Greg Anderson. From September 2013. - Stephen Mack

That reminds me of the trouble I had on 'announcement day.' I dumped my browser cache and it sorted out. - Jennifer Dittrich

Ok never mind, restarting the phone fixed it. - Stephen Mack

That's iPhones for you ;-) - Halil

Yeah. It was odd. Reloading the page didn't fix it. Force-quit and restarting the browser didn't fix it. But restarting the phone did fix it. Never seen that happen before. - Stephen Mack

Not at the moment. - Jennifer Dittrich

I get the occasional oops - Halil

(There's a story here here but I'll have to relate it later.) - Stephen Mack

So we were upstairs in the cafe a couple of weeks ago (like we are most Sundays) and there was some abstract art by local artists hanging. And so with the kids we got into a discussion of modern art and some of the pieces that sold for millions despite appearing on the surface that a child could conceivably have painted them (e.g., http://www.artsumo.com/blog... ). - Stephen Mack

Now, the cafe has coloring pages that allow you to "Make your own Mondrian" and provides crayons as well. So Samuel created his own piece. We then talked about art shows and showings and the expressions on an artist's face as he or she displays their completed work. Sammy was then talked into signing his work and hanging his completed Mondrian in between the local pieces, while staring off into the middle distance. - Stephen Mack

So, therefore, I present this photograph: Young Samuel Mondrian, with his newest work, "Composition with Blue and Yellow and Green and Red 2015." - Stephen Mack

From the article: "The past few days have been great for sky-watchers as a beautiful aurora sank as far south as the Midwest and Northeast on Tuesday night, the result of a severe geomagnetic storm. And Friday will add even more splendor as three astronomical events coincide on one day: a total solar eclipse, a supermoon and the vernal equinox." - Stephen Mack

I saw the eclipse, at least. :) - Jenny H.

Jenny, how was it? - Stephen Mack

Exciting! I didn't get to see the entire thing because of cloud cover, but it broke in time to see the second half. It was my first! :) - Jenny H.

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