July 2010
4 posts
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly...”
– C.S. Lewis
Jul 15th
“We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
– Jewish proverb
Jul 6th
“A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on...”
– Hardy Amies
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June 2010
7 posts
π% of 1337 ≈ 42 →
Now you know. (via Hacker News)
Jun 28th
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Jun 23rd
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 21st
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Jun 20th
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Jun 18th
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Jun 2nd
May 2010
9 posts
jennyjenjen asked: Whaddaya think of the iPad?
May 25th
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May 20th
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An Excellent Point
In his earthly ministry Jesus angered religious people while putting sinful people at ease. Yet no one would seriously contend that Jesus gave anyone a “pass” on their sinful behavior. The only One who had the right to judge others found ways to befriend the sinner and infuriate the self-righteous. Ray Hollenbach, When Famous Christians Are Gay
May 19th
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May 18th
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 17th
Steam for Mac. Oh yes. →
May 13th
“Money is like gasoline during a road trip… You have to pay attention to money,...”
– Tim O’Reilly, in a profile at Inc. Magazine. (Via Jason Kottke)
May 7th
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May 5th
April 2010
11 posts
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“In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that...”
– C.S. Lewis
Apr 26th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 12th
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Anonymous asked: What?
Apr 11th
“Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.”
– Robert Heinlein
Apr 10th
Apr 8th
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Time-space synaesthesia?! Awesome! →
Frankly, the human race owes it to ourselves to encourage the propagation of these genes.
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
Ask me something, anything! →
Thought I’d enable a new feature here on the blog and allow you to ask questions of me. You’re smart people out there, so let’s see what you’ve got! Answers will be published here on my blog. Feeling shy? That’s okay, you can even ask anonymously. 3, 2, 1… Go!
Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
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“The friendly and flowing savage, who is he? Is he waiting for civilization, or...”
– Walt Whitman
Apr 4th
March 2010
8 posts
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Mar 28th
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“There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an...”
– Author Unknown, quoted in Mark Sisson’s Definitive Guide to Sleep.
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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Portion Sizes in ‘Last Supper’ Paintings Grew Over... →
The researchers’ analysis showed that portion sizes of main courses (usually eel, lamb and pork) depicted in the paintings grew by 69 percent over time, while plate size grew by 66 percent and bread size grew by 23 percent. The paintings analyzed covered the last 1000 years or so. What a fascinating way to measure changes to our collective views of food over time based on its relative...
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“I don’t clean, I play the game “Where does this belong?”
– Rands
Mar 10th
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Mar 2nd
February 2010
10 posts
“The reason you feel most comfortable with a job… is that you’ve been...”
– Seth Godin
Feb 28th
CrossFit Nick →
Last night I fired up a blog to keep track of my workouts and various thoughts on fitness and nutrition. It’s probably not very interesting to most people, but there you have it :)
Feb 25th
WatchWatch
The modern workplace is structured completely wrong. It’s really optimized for interruptions. Jason Fried - Why You Can’t Work at Work. Another required viewing for anyone involved in building software. Especially if you’re in a management or supervisory role ;-) We really let people make their own decisions… Quality is the leader, and everyone has to understand that that’s...
Feb 24th
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Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: David Heinemeier Hansson, 37signals - Unlearn Your MBA (Entire talk). Required viewing for any entrepreneur involved in building software.
Feb 24th
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Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis'... →
All kinds of awesome. Totally worth the $5, particularly if you have any tendencies toward musical geekery.
Feb 23rd
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Nuit Blanche (via Motionographer, which has a link to the making-of)
Feb 11th
“What a man can be, he must be.”
– A.H. Maslow, A Theory of Human Motivation
Feb 8th
Nine Questions to Ask During a Job Interview →
These questions are great not just for job interviews, but for periodically asking of your current job. For example, How is success in this job measured? Also has some good questions to avoid during an interview, a few of which I’ve been guilty of handling less than delicately myself. Oops!
Feb 5th
January 2010
11 posts
Jan 29th