I’m a big fan of the leisurely Sunday morning; reading the paper, drinking good coffee, having a Krispie Kreme or two. Over the weekend, my internal clock was off and I picked up the donuts late Sunday afternoon. Yesterday, I returned to the home office from an afternoon meeting needing a little something. I grabbed …
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How Many is a Brazillion?
I gotta thank Mark for passing this one along. It’s had me chuckling the last couple days. “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.” “OH NO!,” the President exclaims, “That’s terrible….How many is a brazillion?”
Treo Replaces iPod for Brush Clearing Listening
Finally had a few moments to clear out the tree damage we had from the late summer thunderstorm I mention eariler. About halfway through, the battery in my 40gb iPod started flaking out – as it’s so prone to do. With the battery only reliable when it’s plugged in, the usefulness of the iPod is …
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Another Political Preference Test
You are a Social Liberal (91% permissive) and an… Economic Liberal(23% permissive) You are best described as a: Strong Democrat This one’s from The Politics Test at Ok Cupid. I’m fairly sure Ok Cupid isn’t a Libertarian organzation. Though I could be mistaken.
Law Firm Hosts Fashion Show, That’s Like Blogging
Tonight Jen and I attended PKR&G‘s Never Out of Fashion show. Yes, in the interest of full disclosure, our invitation was part of our 6 part PKR&G podcast series at the First Crack. Howard Rubin kicked off the event asking, “Why does a law firm host a fashion show?” The same reason you’d blog. Here’s …
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Locally Running Multiple Rails Apps on OS X
There’s a couple of place describing how to support multiple Rails apps locally. They were either unavailable or way more complicated than I’d like (the HowtoDeployMoreThanOneRailsAppOnOneMachine at the RubyonRails wiki was both). Here’s how I was able to get multiple Rails apps running under Apache on OS X 10.4 Tiger. Created 2 Rails apps; AppOne …
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Hoegaarden and Tivoli as Storm Provisions.
We picked up a Tivoli iPAL a couple weeks ago. I’m glad we did. Tonight was the first big storm of the summer – without the Tivoli we would have been without a battery-powered radio. Before the weather went south, I thought a nice Belgian beer would be refreshing in the 80 degree heat. The …
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The Second Lesson From Las Vegas
Sam and I checked out the grand opening of the Shoppes at Woodbury Lakes last week. Yes, it is a Shoppes at Arbor Lakes for the east Metro. Same developer. A couple years back, I did a deep dive into urban planning books and one of the texts Lewis Dijkstra recommended was Robert Venturi’s Learning …
Jonathan Coulton Spells Jonathan Coulton
I can’t believe I haven’t raved about Jonathan Coulton here yet. He’s been on heavy rotation since I stumbled across Ikea nearly a year ago. The honesty and bizarre humor of his song writing is matched with some of the catchiest guitar riffs. Everytime I hear Skullcrusher Mountain I envision Skeletor serenading an increasingly uncomfortable …
Print Publication Says Podcasting Is a Horseless Carriage
I like to thank Steve at Micro Persuasion for pointing out MacWorld’s sensational “Is the Clock ticking on podcasting” rant. As usual, the Jennifer Berger only listened to radio ported to podcasting (KCRW, Inside Mac Radio). These are good listens, but they are not where podcasting’s future lives. They are not even an example of …
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