January 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Resoe (47) MillionYoung (38) Jack’s Mannequin (24) Major Lazer & La Roux (18) School of Seven Bells (15) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 31st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Katy Perry (43) Kanye West (34) The Beach Boys (23) Cartel (17) Jack’s Mannequin (14) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 27th
Nut Allergy
So I’ve long suspected I might be very acutely allergic to some kind of nut.   I noticed long ago that if I ate out of a tin of mixed nuts, my mouth and tongue would eventually feel annoying and prickly—essentially putting me off eating mixed nuts and nuts in general—except Peanuts (LEGUMES)—for quite a while As I don’t eat many nuts I kind of left it at that for a long time.  Only...
Jan 23rd
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Kid Sister (45) The Beatles (31) Jack’s Mannequin (24) Something Corporate (14) Lynyrd Skynyrd (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 23rd
“The President further advised that the rule should ensure that participating...”
– Hospital Visitation Regulations Go Into Effect Today
Jan 20th
What do you say to people when they say that... →
Ask them if writing about a complex topic, distilled down to 200-600 words, in English, without a single spelling or grammatical error is mentally demanding. Now don’t forget you have to convey all the important parts of the story, summarize the entire backstory, and play phone and email tag with people who probably don’t want to sit on the phone with you. You are also expected to...
Jan 18th
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“American schools are more segregated by race and class today than they were on...”
– On MLK Day, Some Thoughts on Segregated Schools, Arne Duncan, and President Obama
Jan 17th
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The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to... →
A great read (beware, it’s long—you may want to print this out or put it on your Kindle): I’ve watched the show obsessively because I’ve been unable to figure out what makes it so devastatingly effective, and elevates it so far above the likes of Dilbert and Office Space. Until now, that is. Now, after four years, I’ve finally figured the show out. The Office is not a random series of...
Jan 17th
Sailing down the Hudson with RVM →
We recently decided our CI server needed an overhaul. I really enjoyed Integrity as a build server, but after trying out Hudson it’s hard to say I want to go back. Hudson has several huge advantages
Jan 16th
Jan 14th
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11 International Oysters to Travel For in 2011 →
If you want to truly understand the essence of a place, then go in search for its oysters. These ancient creatures will reveal a lot about the world–from the subtle flecks of color in the shells to the way that they are devoured–the oyster evokes the hidden truth behind the land, water, and people.
Jan 14th
Life is better on the half shell: The Oyster Blog →
Subscribed to this blog and saw: We then headed to the famous Shaw’s Crab House (think the classic saloon charm of New York City’s Grand Central Oyster bar), where the selection was extensive and the servers were knowledgeable. We of course go to Shaws all the dang time, but we only first got to go to The Oyster Bar Saloon in GCS this past December.  It was great, of course.  In addition to...
Jan 14th
“I’m pleasantly surprised that Google’s removal of H.264 from Chrome in favor of...”
– An Encoder Is Not A State Machine
Jan 14th
“Arrington didn’t like Engadget’s analysis of the situation and he let AOL know....”
– Wow Just Wow… AOL’s New Problem: Mike Arrington Mikey, you got some man’splainin’ to do! (via nickdouglas)
Jan 13th
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A Day in the Future →
I bathe while standing. The water comes out whatever temperature I like. I use a few machines in my kitchen to get my breakfast ready. It takes about five minutes. Toasted buckwheat groats with raisins, almonds, dates and sunflower seeds. I don’t know where it came from but I’d be surprised if it was from anywhere near here… …Then I turn on one of my favorite machines. It’s about...
Jan 12th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-9) →
The Beatles (144) Ben Folds (23) Taylor Swift (20) Johnny Cash (14) The Doors (9) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 12th
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“In politics, you don’t need to treat everyone with decency and humanity,...”
– The Giffords Tragedy: Is the Media Partly at Fault?
Jan 11th
Gondor : Hello from Gondor →
Wow, this looks really awesome!  Crazy easy deployment too; like a Heroku for Django! We’ve been building out what we’ve internally dubbed “Gondor 2.0”. It currently supports: revision control via git or mercurial  dependency management using pip  database migrations via South or nashvegas full backups of your entire application asychronous and scheduled task...
Jan 6th
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2010 Books
The Christianity and Arabs books ate up a considerable amount of time this year.  They are both really, really, long books—1184 and 704 pages respectively. Moby Dick also seemed to take forever. Here’s a list of most of the books I’ve read this year:  Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of...
Jan 1st
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2010 Books
The Christianity and Arabs books ate up a considerable amount of time this year.  They are both really, really, long books—1184 and 704 pages respectively. Moby Dick also seemed to take forever. Here’s a list of most of the books I’ve read this year:  Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of...
Jan 1st