Knowing that the hard drive in my MacBook Pro will go at moment, I picked up a MacBook Air this week (13″, 1.8GHz, 256MB, 4GB). In the process of setting it up – I’ve decided to make this new machine a focused, minimal, work, machine. Despite Migration Assistant – I want to start some new …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Opting Out of the Old You
“In other words, I need to unsubscribe from my old habits, and embrace new ones. It’s about time”. – Anna Spysz
How to Automagically Sync Directories Across Multiple Macs with Git & Launchd
In an effort to minimize my downtime when the funny noises this MacBook Pro is making finally amount to something – I’ve wired up a git repository to OS X’s native launchd service. The git repository hold all of my active projects – whether development projects with their own repos, research projects, consulting project. Everything. …
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email’s inviting
Landing in my inbox this morning: “Many people have mentioned that they didn’t receive the Evite invitation we sent, so I’m sending this follow up email…”
It’s been a long time since I’ve ….
read any William Gibson (Idoru, ATM – thx to Jim) listened to Bad Religion for half the day then listened to drum and bass for the rest of the day done any programming that made my life easier and more confident. Yet, for whatever reason, they all feel so perfect right now.
Some Chose IRC
“I want to experiment with more slow-cooked communications, and with making deeper connections to the people I interact with.” – Gregory Brown It makes me smile to think about a mass migration out of Twitter into boring, timeless, technologies like email and IRC. IRC especially.
REmail
I’m so tired of doing this kind of thing in silos. Email is mine. Google+ is Google’s. In terms of location, I feel like I’m in a corporate setting in Google+, and I feel like I’m at home when I’m in email. The reason, aside from design differences, is that email is free-as-in-freedom. Its protocols …
Small Victories
Sam Adams Latitude 48 IPA Deconstructed
Here’s my ranking of the hops in Sam Adams Latitude 48 IPA Deconstructed. Simcoe Zeus East Kent Goldings Ahtenum
Scott Adams on Opt-out
“Lately I’ve started worrying that I’m not getting enough boredom in my life….it’s worth keeping an eye on the link between our vanishing boredom and our lack of innovation.” – Scott Adams