Coming out of my third kubb tournament of 2012 and my first 6-player tournament, I’m even more convinced a 6-player kubb team is an awkward number. This year at U.S. Nationals this year Jamie, Jim and I played under the Kubbchucks banner. I was the primary inkastare – for something like 9 hours non-stop. After …
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Breaking Habits
“What’s sad is that when product managers break stuff, these people blame themselves; my pain is abated by anger, theirs amplified by embarrassment.” – Tim Bray This afternoon, I fought with both an iPhone 4 and an Samsung Galaxy S to find the answer to a question both promised to make easy and straight-forward. Neither …
The Road to Beer Judging Certification: Light Lager and Pilsner
This week’s BJCP class was Light Lager and Pilsners – which is to say, beer I haven’t drank in 15 years. And oh how the quickly the memories returned; the smell of DMS and hormonal college kids in a cramped basement, the epiphany that is the first sip of a Spaten Pils, constantly asking yourself …
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Open Loop #4 – Enough Win for Everyone
Beer: Garrick‘s drinking his Roggen Brett (with Brettanomyces) and Lakefront Brewery Wisconsinite, Jamie‘s enjoying a Fulton Sweet Child of Vine Dallas Oktoberfest Kubb Tournament (also see the Kubbchucks at 2012 Dallas Oktoberfest Kubb Tournament writeup) Planet Kubb Sites Stapp King Molkky Comments on Dallas sets Jamie went to Iceland
How To Create Default Posts or Pages in a WordPress Network Site
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everything’s unbroken
“You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put …
Rations
“Unless you earn a living as an iOS/Mac developer, you may own one Apple device per person.. period. Upgrade every five years.” Damn straight. On a related note – I haven’t applied any of Apple’s updates to any of the MacBooks in the house for at least the last 6 months, likely longer. This increased …
12-18 Months
16 years later – revisiting my very first Amazon purchase
Over lunch today, I dusted off my very first Amazon.com purchase: Television at a Crossroads by Stefan Marzano et. al. Television at a Crossroads, published in 1993 (nearly 20 years ago), is a huge enveloping book documenting Philips Design’s exploration of what television will be like in the future. From television as “tele-lesson” delivery, as …
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can you say this about your work?
“This is a flight test program, not a stunt. Sure, we’re breaking a 52-year-old record, but we’re developing technology that will benefit humanity for decades to come.” – Art Thompson, technical project director, Stratos