August 2012
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July 2012
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Tuesday Imperatives
Google your neighbors at your peril—life is simpler when you don’t know.
Teach your children chess. Not for the game itself, which is pointless and stupid and designed to make you feel bad, but for the ability to think six moves ahead when they are someday managing their careers, and for the knowledge that half the pieces on the team are worthless and expendable.
LOL at the...
Odd universe
In which, a few hours after you voice your long-simmering suspicion that it’s time to hang it up, you get an email from a total stranger who was trying to remember a song you wrote 28 years ago and wondered if you had a recording or even just a copy of the lyrics.
I’m not taking it as a Big Message or anything. But that’s just weird.
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Gig recap
I busted an A during the fourth song. I had to finish that one with five strings, detuned and awkward. I was like Jack White without the violent misogyny.
It went downhill from there. My tone sucked, my forearms felt leaden, I was in poor voice, I sweat through my shirt. I had a headache and it hasn’t gone away.
It’s like this: my particular style of playing has been described as...
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steelopus replied to your photo: For a guy who only plays part-time, I sure do have…
How do you like the Eventide?
We’re in love and looking for a state where it’s legal for a man to marry a digital effects device.
Its only flaw—and it’d be so mad to know I was talking about this on the Internet!—is that in performance mode I only have easy access to two...
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cinco
I build my boxes from the inside out.
I have cobwebs in my workshop.
I hear poorly except in the middle of the night.
I observe conversations while I have them.
I smell like rust.
“Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to...”
– Thomas Paine (via reader submission rebutting Sullivan)
Thomas Paine: Kenyan Socialist
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Building superintendent discovers secret NYPD safe... →
sblaufuss:
nickdouglas:
The NYPD tried to cover it up, but the Associated Press sued and finally got the records (and the 911 call that revealed the safe house) released.
Brilliantly, the NYPD has been encouraging people to call 911 about suspicious behavior exactly like their own. In New York, we see signs in every subway: “If you see something, say something.” The police are trying hard to...
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gigs!
Enough of that other stuff. Keep on dancing til the world ends. Here’s what’s up:
Sunday, July 29, 4:20pm, with The Bradburys at Taste of Wisconsin in Kenosha, WI.
Tuesday, August 7, 6:00pm, with The Bradburys at the Pennoyer Bandshell in Kenosha.
Friday, August 10, 6:00pm, with The Recliners at Poopy’s in Savanna, IL.
Sunday, September 2, 1:00pm with The Recliners at...
So I try to reduce my footprint and take the blue line in.
And I sit here, stuck behind a broken train while watching the cars on the Ike whiz past at 70mph. What normally takes 20 minutes will be well over 60.
We deserve what we get.
There are still some entrenched souls arguing that the planet’s frightening, accelerating climate change is not anthropogenic in origin. But whether it is or not (hint: it is), I don’t think there is anyone left arguing that it’s not happening at all. You can try to argue against the climate scientists, but you can’t really argue with the meteorologists. The thermometers...
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Do You Live in a Bubble? A Quiz →
ericmortensen:
Do us all a favor and don’t share your answer. Do it for yourself.
I took this and found myself getting increasingly (and irrationally) angry at it, to the point where I intentionally answered a couple of questions to put myself deeper into my “bubble.”
I need to get out more because I don’t know a NASCAR driver? Fuck you, quiz. And the condescending dickweed...
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More like Bullshit Tuesday
Forecasts Show U.S. Drought Worsening: Scientific... →
monkeyfrog:
krippner:
One of the things my wife does is run food cost projections for various state agencies It ain’t pretty, folks. She’s waiting for the latest numbers from USDA but everybody pretty much knows what those are going to say.
I’m in western Illinois and nearly in Wisconsin which puts me right in a dusty disaster.
They were talking on the news last night about what this...
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I stumbled onto an email I wrote about a year ago promising big changes I’d make early this year, changes I didn’t make. I find myself saying almost exactly the same things now about early next year. Come on, John, do this.
Getting my property tax bills didn’t really help with the whole “leap and the net will appear” thing, though. Lord have mercy.
That newish...
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DIET COKE IN MY EYE
DIET COKE IN MY EYE
Question for web designers
What do you use to mock up designs before you actually create the CSS?
Paper? Whiteboard? Some kind of app? If an app, which?
Or do you just work with whatever app you use for layout (assuming you don’t just hack CSS in an editor)?
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final update to the update
My complaint got forwarded around and eventually ended up with the screaming coach himself. He responded to me a little while ago.
He is, in fact, her father. It will surprise no one that he’s also an illiterate, absolutely unrepentant bully, quite proud of how he handled himself. There will be no consequences.
So, please keep a good thought for his daughter. She’s got a tough road...
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Tue
I’m sorry, but most nose studs look like acne in phone camera pics.
Documentation for web programming / SaaS stuff always leaves me feeling like I am starting in the middle of a serialized TV show, or like everyone is in on a hilarious joke but me.
Got a mighty dose of cold feet about the Next Big Idea this morning but I’m working through it. I don’t have to invent something...
update
A single association governs the house leagues of several near west suburban towns, including that of the abusive coach. That association also hosted the tournament where the terrible incident occurred. I wrote the president of the association to express my shock and anger at what I witnessed. Given the incestuous relationship of the board, those teams, and the tournament, I still think...
Dashboard collation algorithm
bananacasts:
bookspaperscissors:
It is so unbelievably rubbish that Tumblr doesn’t show everything posted by everyone I follow on my dashboard.
And that some of my long time followers might not be seeing my posts now!
ivotemelkov told me that Tumblr said:
“The first page of the Dashboard (or the first 10 posts if Endless scrolling enabled) shows the most recent 10 posts among all the...
Engineering Management Is Dying
deathrayresearch:
Now engineering managers divide much of their time between status reports (which often say nothing of how the work is progressing), and a growing load of HR paperwork. There is little that might be construed as “making the future happen”. Instead, we tend to the career aspirations of our charges, show or feign an interest in them as people, provide formal feedback as needed...
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monkeyfrog replied to your post: I looked upon pure evil today: viciousness,…
Report it to league management. Please. I’ve been that kid.
The problem here is that there is no league. These are ad hoc tournaments between all-star teams from different towns that last two or three days each and then they just end. This tournament ends tomorrow and I’m sure that team was eliminated just...
I looked upon pure evil today: viciousness, cruelty, and rage, delivered from parent to child. He didn’t hit her, though I have little doubt he would. Truthfully, though, I cannot imagine that to beat the child would do any more net damage than the humiliating, scornful dressing down he delivered point blank in front of her friends and a large group of horrified strangers.
The girl is 8...
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Five things I am researching this Friday
DIY coppersmithing
Open source symbology
Renting telephoto lenses
The pedagogy of hitting a baseball
edited Space
