Anonymous asked:
Jawbone Up review? Looks like you had a blast in Seattle, and your wife is adorable like kittens on YouTube, but get back to work. And by 'work' I don't mean Karbon, but the other thing where you provide me with free advice on products and/or services. Thanks, Murray.
I’d love to do a review of the Jawbone UP, but my first one stopped working after 48 hours and my second one stopped working after 18. They both died in the middle of the night. I’ve been waiting for Jawbone to send me a replacement for the second one for nearly three weeks. I would just exchange it again at the Apple Store, except I genuinely believe Jawbone has released thousands of flawed units and I’d rather they send me one straight from the factory to see if it’s any better.
As soon as I get my replacement and have a few more days to play with it, I’ll post a review.
It’s Time (via johnaugust)
Nick Bilton for the New York Times’ Bits blog:
Nevertheless, Les Dorr, a spokesman for the F.A.A., said the agency would rather err on the side of caution when it comes to digital devices on planes.
He cited a 2006 study by the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics, a nonprofit group that tests and reports on technical travel and communications issues. The group was asked by the F.A.A. to test the effects of cellphones, Wi-Fi and portable electronic devices on planes.
Its finding? “Insufficient information to support changing the policies,” Mr. Dorr said. “There was no evidence saying these devices can’t interfere with a plane, and there was no evidence saying that they can.” I’m not arguing that passengers should be allowed to make phone calls while the plane zooms up into the sky. But, why can’t I read my Kindle or iPad during takeoff and landing? E-readers and cellphones can be easily put into “Airplane Mode” which disables the device’s radio signals.
I never turn my devices off, I always put them in airplane mode. It’s absolutely ridiculous that flight attendants are now saying, explicitly, “you cannot put them in airplane mode, you must turn them completely off.” Airplane mode is there for a reason—it turns off all radios and hardware that could possibly create an outward signal. Turning a device all the way off is like pulling the plug of a computer instead of putting it to sleep. It’s completely unnecessary.
In fact, on nearly every flight I’ve taken in the past five years, I’m usually asleep, listening to music on my airplane-moded iPhone before we even take off.
Anonymous asked:
Your wife is very pretty. Whats her nationality?
Of the 37 messages in my queue to answer, 8 are some form of this question. My wife is an international enigma that my Tumblr readers really need solved, and I can oblige.
Stacey was born in Russia and moved to the US when she was 12. So she’s Russian. I get a lot of questions about whether or not she’s Puerto Rican, which I guess is because she has a nice olive tone to her skin and when she stands next to me in photos I look like the whitest man alive. But she’s not Puerto Rican, she’s Russian.
And I agree, she is very pretty.
