One of the longer term (i.e. not this year) projects around the house is the basement. Currently, it’s comfortable place to hide from a storm, but not more time than that. Yesterday we were at IKEA and noticed 2nds of their floating floor are 1/2 off. After brunch this morning we picked up 25 boxes …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
We Met at a Dunn Bros – But Not the Same Dunn Bros
“We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks but we saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other.” – Meg Swan, Best in Show Meeting for coffee at a Dunn Bros. on University this afternoon and just got the call that there’s more than one. We each chose a different …
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Remodelling
Despite not having written in a while, I’ve gotten some excellent comments on the look of this site. “…I don’t know if that’s artsy or what, but I wasn’t all that impressed.” and the more concise: “conspicously vacant” Perhaps suck.com had the same problem 😉 Either way, this site’s role has changed, and it needs …
The Power of Vendor/Gems
Right now, I’m heavily reliant on an unsupported (if not completely abandoned) ruby gem library. Historically, I’ve just gem install bizarro-gem and moved on. A couple of issues have changed my perspective: My host, textdrive, doesn’t allow installing bizarro gems on their shared servers and I’ve had difficulty freezing them, so I worked around the …
Hugh MacLeod Explains My Entire ‘Comic’ Category
“PPS. Being a Marketing 2.0 geek/blogger/entrepreneur is pretty cool, but being a cartoonist is WAY cooler.” – Hugh MacLeod
To Do Before I Die: Get 99 Other People to Speak My Made Up Language
While Toki Pona‘s minimalism feels too much like Newspeak for my taste, the notion of creating a new common-use language is an intriguing thought. Especially if the language’s biases were deliberate – and I agreed w/ them 😉 – from the beginning. Initial thought: a highly technolibertarian version of Dutch. Thanks to: Hobbies in everything- …
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Assuming a Silo?
My only issue with A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web is that it seems to assume a silo. Cause, why else would it be needed? If I always have full control (i.e. installing and maintaining a wordpress install on my own servers – not at wordpress.com) why would I need beg …
RE: Rice Lake Cross Country Meet
Back in HS XC, the Rice Lake race was one of a handful of races I always looked forward to. Aside from being a very competitive race, the course had an interesting features – back then, it started out around the Community College’s baseball diamond, as people fought for position and got into their pace …
Innovation in Feed Aggregation = Search?
“So what do I say when people want me to switch my reader away from Google Reader? I answer ‘it’s too late.’” – Robert Scoble 1 Anyway, in the comments, there’s a pointer to fav.or.it. Like streamy and aiderss it’s another attempt to make a new kind of aggregator. From the screencast, it seems more …
Dr. Who’s to Blame
If you’ve been watching the new Dr. Who series (even via Netflix like myself) then you you can be relieved to know that Torchwood is now it’s own series1. Laurel points to this review: “If Torchwood has one real problem, it’s that it’s trying to be two series at once. One is a mostly smart, …