Somewhat Silent Mode

So one of my biggest pet peeves with the iPhone is that the silent switch doesn’t truly silence the phone. If the iPhone is set to silent mode, phone rings and all alert sounds are silenced, but the iPod is NOT. Give it a shot, flip the silent switch and go to iPod and play something, it’ll output through the external speakers.

This is clearly intentional and also clearly wrong. The only reason anyone would ever want to silence the phone is to be polite. You are in an office, a movie theater a dinner party and you don’t want to disturb anyone with your noisy phone. Thus the phone should be prohibited from making noise. Period. I’ve accidentally activated the iPod app and played music or a video when I didn’t mean to countless embarrassing times. At first because I would be fooling around with the iPhone and expected silent mode to be, you know, silent. Subsequently it’s happened several times when the headphones are slightly loose in the socket. It takes me about 10 seconds to realize that the distant filtered music I hear is not broken headphones but the blaring of my external speaker in the middle of my quiet office.

This is compounded by the fact that, once you leave iPod or lock the phone it takes a few taps to get back to a place where you can hit pause. When I’m frantically trying to silence my phone I should be able to access some kind of “panic button” to instantly quiet the phone.

One would think this would be the silent button. At the absolute least, this should be a preference. Someone fix this. Someone fix this immediately.

Census Taker

Via Garrett who has re-enacted this for me in person several times. Glad I found it.

This week Garrett and I guest wrote/directed the test film for Indy Mogul’s Backyard FX show. The effect? Blowing someone in half! In this case, Garrett. Check out the whole episode here! Picture via Erik.

This week Garrett and I guest wrote/directed the test film for Indy Mogul’s Backyard FX show. The effect? Blowing someone in half! In this case, Garrett. Check out the whole episode here!

Picture via Erik.

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A Grilled Charlie has peanut butter LAST! Peanut butter outside, chocolate inside. Butter inside, cheese outside!

“ It was weird, I actually got choked up twice during that episode. Totally out of the blue, I thought I was having an allergic reaction to my falafel or something then I realized: “Oh wait, these are emotions.

— Me, referring to getting randomly choked up during the lastest episode of Lost.

This is long, but worth it once it gets rolling. Brilliant.

“ Come again? You know I don’t speak Spanish, in English please. Huh? You pooped in the refrigerator? AND you ate a whole wheel of cheese? How’d you do that? Heck, I’m not even mad, that’s amazing. How ‘bout we get you in your PJs and we hit the hay?

— Ron Burgundy, Anchorman (A special birthday edition of Anchorman Quote Thursday!)

Birthday Cookie Cake! My co-worker Autumn made me two cookie cakes for my birthday. (Sadly I had to share them with my other co-workers — I guess that’s how this whole office birthday thing works — but they were great!)

Birthday Cookie Cake!

My co-worker Autumn made me two cookie cakes for my birthday. (Sadly I had to share them with my other co-workers — I guess that’s how this whole office birthday thing works — but they were great!)

So those with a keen eye may have noticed a bunch of interesting things during Cloverfield. But did your keen eye notice the date that flashed in the bottom right corner? Well mine did, because the date was today. May 22nd. My birthday. Hopefully today will go slightly better than it did in Cloverfield. If New York City is destroyed by a giant space alien from the sea only to ultimately be nuked into oblivion by the US military, it will definitely go down as like, one of my top 5 worst birthdays. Fingers crossed!

So those with a keen eye may have noticed a bunch of interesting things during Cloverfield. But did your keen eye notice the date that flashed in the bottom right corner? Well mine did, because the date was today. May 22nd. My birthday.

Hopefully today will go slightly better than it did in Cloverfield. If New York City is destroyed by a giant space alien from the sea only to ultimately be nuked into oblivion by the US military, it will definitely go down as like, one of my top 5 worst birthdays. Fingers crossed!

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