July 2010
6 posts
Wow. My one-week experiment to pay better attention to things could scarcely have worked better.
I have unsubscribed from nearly all of my RSS feeds (I now follow 14 feeds, down from about 60, some of which were high traffic). I spend a lot less time leaning on the “k” key to scan through and process anything I may want to see. (You know Reader supports vi-style keys, right?)....
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Eric lay back in the bath, the no-longer-hot water lulling him into relaxation and, as it cooled, mild discomfort and annoyance. He tried to lower himself into too shallow water and keep all parts of him warm, while the room grew darker.
Money on the heat, that wasn’t frivolous; he couldn’t keep doing this, he’d end up sick and that would be his experiment in austerity over....
WatchDylan on Spiders.
June 2010
5 posts
Focus, concentration and listening to good advice.
— “Career Advice” by quinn.anya
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
— Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman, Diplomat and Wit, 1694-1773
It’s not an uncommon theme for me; I’m constantly complaining and linking to articles about excessive multitasking and at the same time I juggle a half-dozen or more tasks,...
Recent Reading
It’s Saturday morning, and I finally finished my Instapaper eReader export from last week:
CMMI For Dummies
A really good introduction into what the Capability Maturity Model Integrated is all about, and how to take a company from level 1 (effectively chaos) to through the levels of documenting process, then following, measuring and finally improving.
Shareable Futures and The Jammie...
http://thisistheglamorous.com/post/654125604 →
When we got the food, people were complaining that the sauce was too spicy or the chicken wasn’t cooked the way they liked it. When one of the people in my group asked me how I liked my food, I responded, “It’s great. Someone bought me this food. I can’t ask for anything more.”
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What I was eating was not the best tasting variation of this dish I’ve had but it’s not horrible. ...
May 2010
7 posts
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So this whole thing is your crusade against monkey overpopulation? I’ll...”
– What is the Monkeysphere? | Cracked.com
Homebrew Rack Cabinet, German/IKEA Style →
The most depressing CC file ever.
WatchApollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 (by Mark Gray)
My Dad would have loved this.
(via acontinuouslean)
April 2010
11 posts
“Baldwin has a tattoo on his left shoulder of the initials “HM” for Hannah...”
– Wikipedia - Stephen Baldwin (via bestrooftalkever)
Why YouTube Recommends Heroin →
What fascinates me most is that the system not only works out, say, that you’ll probably like martial arts films or anything containing Keira Knightley; it also learns how critical you are as a human being. It then gives you a kind of secret ‘Scrooge rating’ so that it knows how to adjust other people’s scores to meet your overly high standards, and so that your unjust and frankly rude reviews...
Achievement Unlocked
That’s three hours of my life I’m not getting back
They should make students studying history play Civilisation; I’m sure they wouldn’t object, especially if it’s for their passing grade.
There’s nothing like the final stages of a domination victory, when you’re pumping out catapults and conquistadors like there’s no tomorrow, when you’re...
“But, really, I’d just like a simple transaction: I’d like to pay Google $30 a...”
– Frank Chimero’s Let Me Pay. Let Me Tip. (via breefield)
March 2010
19 posts
These two photos go pretty well together, IMHO. I think Pizza Express may be the kids’ new favourite place to go out in town- take that McDonalds - we’ll talk when you serve hot chocolate in tiny little espresso cups so the kids can join in with coffee after the meal.
When rats raised on regular chow were suddenly given unrestricted access to a high-fat diet, they lost complete control over their eating. Not even mild foot shocks kept them from compulsively feasting on chocolate bars, cream-stuffed cakes, sausage, frosting and other highly palatable human foods. Within 40 days, their body weight had increased 25%.
— National Post - Bacon and...
A Scary Story →
[The] babysitter had one final request… she asked if she could cover up the David Bowie statue outside the bedroom window with a blanket or cloth, at the very least close the blinds, because it made her nervous. The phone line was silent for a moment, and the father who was talking to the babysitter at the time said, “Take the children and get out of the house… we will call the police. We do...
You can buy the jogging shoes and you can buy the Runner’s World, but until you put them on and walk out the door every day, you’re just a fat man.
— Merlin Mann, from The Market Place of Ideas Interview
Also; I’ve just decided that the “quote” template in Tumblr looks so bad, I’ll go back to posting text with “>” and “—”, the...
“On 22 July 2007, during severe flooding, Hammond left his Porsche 911 - in which...”
– Richard Hammond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Electric Independence: Vince Clarke and the Temple... →
Down to earth is not the word.
(It’s the phrase)
Watch2082 called (on Vimeo)
Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board →
We had our own, comparatively down-market, status screen at work. It displayed four full-screen browser sessions (our coffee-round rota, Google News, Cacti graphs and currently playing music) on a…
DailyKos: State of the Nation →
On stimulus, Keynes wrote, “Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of classical economics stands in the way of anything better.”
He knew that there are better ways to stimulate economies than piling up rocks or killing each other. But if politicians can’t support smarter policies, piling up rocks will have...
Juxtaposition Win
The Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a new organization and certification body focused on online identity management, today named Google among the first identity providers to be approved by the U.S. Government as meeting federal standards for identity assurance.
— Google announcement on being approved for U.S. Government Single Sign On
“I forgive Google, I forgive Google, I...
February 2010
14 posts
6 Things Your Body Does Every Day (That Can... →
A sneeze can rupture your ear drums, break your spine or straight up murder you. It’s like Mortal Kombat inside your face.
— Cracked.com
A Mercurial Tutorial →
It turns out that if you’ve been using Subversion, your brain is a little bit, um, how can I say this politely? You’re brain damaged.
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This story is so common I should just name it “Subversion Story #1.” The story is this: at some point, they tried to branch their code, usually so that the shipping version which they gave their customers can be branched off separately from the version...