That’s right. Step right up and watch a man entrance and lure fireflies right to his iPhone.
FireflyCall Video Demo
August 5th, 2009Slime Vortex?
July 14th, 2009Anybody ever seen one of these before? Seems like a slug mating site, since they swirl around each other like crazy and pump out tons of slime. I thought they did this hanging from trees though.
FireflyCall 1.0 Now LIVE!!!
July 5th, 2009FireflyCall 1.0, an iPhone App that lets you communicate with fireflies is now live!
Version 1.1 coming soon with a few tweaks and a bug “wah wah wah” fix.
Firefly Call App Submitted to Apple
June 24th, 2009FireflyCall has been submitted to Apple for Review. Hope everything goes smoothly. We are pretty sure we dotted and crossed the appropriate vowels and consonants, but are still nervous about losing more Northern Hemisphere summer.
Please Hurry Up Apple Legal
June 21st, 2009Not sure what the hell is going on, but Apple has had our second application for joining their developer program in limbo for two and a half weeks.
Since the app we are starting our venture off with is summer oriented, we are really, really starting to get frustrated and are chomping at the bit.
We signed up under Keston’s business, Fauxmachine LLC in order to expedite things – Stone Gears LLC was not yet decided on as a name at the time. Figuring switching out the name later wouldn’t be that big of a deal, we went ahead in order to be able to dev and distribute betas. That was a big mistake. We waited for weeks for Apple Legal make the switch.
Finally the Developer Help line people suggested just applying from scratch under the new LLC. Now we are into 2.5 weeks with that process.
What GIVES Apple Legal? You are going to kill our business before it even starts. Then we have to wait for the app to get approved too. Sheesh.
Lessons:
1. Have seasonal based products in the bag and ready to rumble at least a season before
2. Don’t EVER plan on switching anything in your developer enrollment at Apple. EVER.
StoneGears Launches Itself Out Cannon
June 18th, 2009
After a decade of preparing, whether we knew it or not, the culmination of experiences, skill sets, and expertise of this small group of talented artist-nerds has led us to this point. A mashup of interests and individuals, our goal is to use technology to bring new ideas and services to market from a fresh and hopefully weird perspective.
Keston Helfrich of Fauxmachine and Chris Harvan of Skipstones Media are the primary operators, but there are a host of other associates who are called up for collaboration. More StoneGears’ driven web and software based projects to be announced soon.
Some Dinnerware Brings Me To Tears
June 12th, 2009If you recognize the location and the plate, you would understand!
Bawled on my way up The Hill to get here. For all the stress I have been under, for all I have been putting my wife through, because this place feels strangely like home, and especially because this is Hazel’s “point of origen” – as it were. Last summer will NEVER be recreated. Makes me kind of sad, especially now because our lives have changed so drastically. There will be new adventures to come, but “Hotdog Tooth” is never coming back.
Two Wagon Cancer
June 12th, 2009I90 outside Utica. Two semis. Each with two trailers. Radiactive medical waste from chemotherapy. Is cancer really this big of an industry? How could there be motive to really root out and clean up our environmentally triggerred cancer causers if there is so much money to made from the disease?
Greenhouse Tavern
May 29th, 2009Delicious and interesting. All sorts of great new experiences. The staff was a delight as well.
The radishes were fantastic and the cardoons like nothing we ever had before.
Cannot wait to go back.
http://thegreenhousetavern.com/
Squeaky Cycling Shoe
May 29th, 2009The luxury of tinkering with my bikes and making sure they are clean, well lubed, and perfectly tuned escapes me due to the lack of a trust fund – or something.
That said, I and the people I ride with are sensitive like squirrels when it comes to creaks and squeaks. My Look style pedals were making everyone crazy.
After tightening the pedal, it got worse. Lubed the spring and it went away, for a ride. I swore it was the pleather on the shoe. Would have put money on it and wasn’t sure how to lube synthetic leather – found no suggestions online except Armor All.
Then it got way way worse and I finally had the bright idea of looking at the cleat itself. As you can almost see in the blurry shot below, it was worn down to the screws and there were CHUNKS missing from the cleat itself! Further inspection of the pedal revealed wear marks from the screw heads.
Replaced the cleat.
Silence and engagement I have not experienced since I bought the bike.
Probably should have been replacing the cleats every season. Will do so in the future. This is all pretty boring, but wanted to share the experience for anyone else looking up squeaky bike shoes with Look style cleats. Now do your work, internet.