That was Mailer’s response to: “Has your writing had an impact?”
While Mailer was referring to the larger influence of who controls the past determining what is relevant.
The same is true on a much smaller, person-to-person scale. Perhaps relevance is like identity – defined by everyone else. Individuals can only filter and prioritize.
“BREAD MACHINES AND HEAT GUNS WERE NEVER DESIGNED TO ROAST COFFEE”
There are three problems I’ve run into since roasting with the Poppery
Looks like a new roasting technique solves all three problems at once.
Like podcasting, I’m pretty sure I’ve got all the necessary gear in the basement. More later.
Inspired by my son’s interest in cars, I share some stories from my car history.
Listen to Garrick’s Car History [16 min].
There, I said it.
Spanking a child is child abuse. There, I said it again.
For three reasons:
If adding spanking into the definition of child abuse isn’t possible, then yes, striking a child under 4 should be punishable by a year in jail and $1,000 fine. Kudos to California Assemblywoman Sally Lieber for initiating an anti-spanking bill.
I learned about this from NPR’s Day to Day: California Lawmaker Pushes Anti-Spanking Bill
Since discovering Tangerine a couple months back, I’ve been tweaking the BPM-based playlist to find the ideal collection of tunes that keeps me working without calling too much attention to themselves.
Here’s the iTunes Smart Playlist that’s been working for me for 2 weeks:
BPM - is in the range - 90 to 110
My Rating - is greater than - 2 stars
This give me 6.4 hours including tracks from; Minutemen, Mac Lethal, Brad Sucks, Transplants, The Odd Numbers, The Gentle Readers, Two Cow Garage, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, The Its, Winter Blanket, Diesel Jenny, and Tullycraft.
One of the complaints I continually hear about companies supporting forums, comments, reviews under their own domain is that their customers will say something “bad”.
The reality is, customers find places to have these conversations – with our without formal support.
Case in point: KottkeKomments.com.
Jason Kottke doesn’t have comments on his blog, so a reader created a site for kottke.org readers.
Thanks to Jackie Huba @ Church of the Customer.
The FeedSeeder Project is awakening from a brief hibernation. While the core ideas will remain (they’ve even gotten more defined), the code is undergoing a rewrite (thankfullly, there wasn’t much to begin with).
First item on the To Make Better list: OPML import speed.
In the instances where I’ve heard the phrase ‘low-hanging fruit’ the above is true. Rarely does picking the easy stuff solve anything than checking something off a list. The real important, long-term actions take the commitment of getting a ladder.
Or making the tree shorter.
Seems to me, programs that encourage parents to send their kids to schools outside of their immediate neighborhood is a bad idea in a number of ways:
Disclaimer:
My kid isn’t school age yet, the schools in my neighborhood are pretty good.
LATER:
There’s a parallel in here with immigration. Until Mexico is a place worth staying at, borders will continue to be jumped. This only helps the bus drivers.
The best news I’ve heard in a while – High Fructose Corn Syrup isn’t ‘all natural’. The
Center for Science in the Public Interest sued Kraft and Cadbury Schweppes until they agreed.