Plannin’ On It

FormSpring Question

If you were a goat, what kind of goat would you be?

I don’t understand the question. Clearly I am a goat. Have you not been paying attention? Honestly, is anybody screening these submissions?

Ok, ok. I’ve always been particularly fond of the goats that climb trees. It’s not a particular breed of goat, I don’t think. It’s just that, in the absence of mountains, goats will climb anything that will hold their weight. There’s a life lesson there, I think, but since few things can hold my weight, I’m not sure what it is.

Thank you, anonymous person, for the question. Anybody else?

Who, me?

hurtling:

Excerpts from an otherwise glowing performance evaluation:

“… I’d like to see Rommie take a more positive attitude.”

“As a newsroom leader, Rommie needs to stay upbeat and find ways to make positive change happen.”

“Everybody likes and respects Rommie … but he is perceived by many to be extremely negative, and it’s bad for the morale of the team.”

Seriously, I try really hard to be positive and constructive at work, but I guess I’ve just always been a glass-is-half-run-by-incompetent-idiots kind of guy.

Anyone in the news industry with a positive attitude should be fired immediately for knowing nothing about the news industry.

We all have 18 million ways to contact each other

So of course we need FormSpring forms now. Of course.

Fine, here’s mine. Hit me.

My Tumblr App Challenge

wordishness:

I will pay the princely sum of $10 to a developer who comes up with a Tumblr app that does not suck.

Anybody else want to throw in?

Features must include reading, liking, and reblogging posts; ability to post new content, including scheduling posts; and not sucking.

Let’s get something better than this POS “official” app that Tumblr should be embarrassed by.

I’d write a Tumblr app and let you keep your ten bucks if Tumblr had a Dashboard API. As it stands now, the only option is the iPhone Dashboard, which in my opinion sucks. It limits you to a web view of the Dashboard — you can’t write an iPhone native UI for it. That’s the reason reblogging is so bad.

Tumblr Gear gets around this by scraping the dashboard for the data. I assume they’ve got a proxy server that handles the actual parsing, otherwise they’d have to release a new version every time Tumblr’s HTML code changed. Regardless, it’s a hack.

I complain about this whenever the Tumblr app is mentioned because it’s so frustrating. I believe you would see a surge in decent Tumblr apps on the App Store if there were a Dashboard API. I know I’d try my hand at writing one.

What are your favorite recipes?

funsizebytes:

So I’d like to hear you favorite recipe(s). They don’t have to be super fancy, anything above “This is how you make PB&J” is welcome :-)

Angela and I love to cook, and we’ve tried just about everything from fancy French dishes to ramen stir-fry. Here’s a couple of our favorites:

• Smoky Shrimp Jambalaya

• Blackened Chicken — This is the dish I made for her when I proposed, and it’s the reason she married me.¹

Both of those recipes are on our semi-private recipe blog. Feel free to poke around to see if there’s anything else you like.

¹ There may have been other reasons, but I’m giving all the credit to the chicken.