January 2012
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Sleeping with my iPhone and My Favorite CES Find
Back from CES means back to a regular work schedule and, more importantly, a regular sleep schedule. My “sleep hygiene” really suffered the week I spent in Vegas, a fact that was made abundantly clear to me thanks to my favorite find at CES, Zeo’s Sleep Manager Mobile.
Zeo uses a comfortable, lightweight headband that tracks the brain’s electrical activity as I sleep and...
December 2011
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On the value of the off-balance mind
As I’m about to head out to run, I’m realizing that 2011 is closing much as it opened … A sunny cool day during which I spent the morning learning something new. Last year, it was running. This year it’s playing the ukulele.
As I’ve strummed my way through this week trying to figure out how people cram all their fingers into an area the size of a postage stamp,...
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Run facefirst into the Winter Solstice
This Thursday, 22nd December, is the winter solstice, the day when the night is the longest. In ancient times, our forebears would observe all manner of dramatic rituals … huge bonfires, virgin sacrifices, fanstastical savior birth narratives, making gifts of heavy inedible cakes. Anything to beat back the wolves of Death and Darkness from the door.
This year, I’m saying “Fuck...
November 2011
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Steve Jobs had designs on melting your toddler's...
The Unofficial Apple Weblog reacts to a report just published by Common Sense Media. The study examined tablet and video game usage is the under-eight set.
In part:
Common Sense Media suggests 20% of parent use a mobile device to keep their child entertained so they can get some errands done.
Where this post breaks down - and where most blog posts that are commentary on a news item break...
October 2011
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Candy Golde covers Paul Simon's "Boy in The... →
Happy Birthday, Paul.
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On Facebook, No One Knows You're Dead
Sooooo, Facebook keeps suggesting I add, as a Friend, a person who is dead. Which raises a couple of questions:
Assuming no supernatural intervention, who is it that actually Confirms my request to be a friend?
If I don’t take FB up on its suggestion, is that denying the friendship we had (have)?
Why, having declined the suggestion several times, does Facebook continue to suggest them...
September 2011
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if this then that - super awesome robot butler on... →
Webmacros. Awesome. WIth a user community building recipes by the hour, IFTTT makes something happen in your web world when you make something else happen.
Post to instagram and autosave a copy to Dropbox. Back up tweets as their tweeted. Lots of cool stuff. Think this could rock and looking forward to playing with it this weekend.
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All of your digital life are belong to Zuck.
This is a meditation on Facebook, memory and time.
Workmate and social media phenom Dave Delaney discusses the impact that Facebook’s Timeline (and Facebook in general) are leading to the shift from personal blogs like this one to something completely different. It’s absolutely worth a read.
What I wonder is if the idea of digital legacy is all that different from one’s...
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36:51 - final time on last weekend's 5K
Chip time was 36:51, pace of 12:05, placed 28th of 35 in my age bracket. That’s TT improvement of 2:12 and a pace improvement of 25 sec./mile. FEEEAAAAAR ME!
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Tuesday Tips: How to Make Portraits of Strangers →
Great advice whether you’re a photojournalist or jut trying to move beyond your crippling fear of shooting people.
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Du Hast - Rammstein. Accordion, and plastic...
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The Model, on an accordion.
The Love Drums.
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GOP vs. Tea Party - The Battle for Conservator
CNN reports “GOP split down the middle over tea party support.” GOP Will Eat Itself? #punsmixingpoliticsandmusic
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“I have heard a lot recently about the role of writing, song, music, painting, in...”
– John Hodgman, excerpt from a reading he did 25 Sept 01. Clipped from NcSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Google sez carbon footprint of 3 days YouTube vids... →
So every time you send a Michelle Bachman autotuned video, or force me to watch the extended 3 hour megamix of nyancat, God kills a pony, a tree gets knocked down, and Dick Cheney drinks the tears of babies. SO stop sending me stuff. Unless it’s awesome.
So I'm playing with 500px as an alternative to... →
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Time to start a Flickr Death Pool?
Acrimonious CEO firing. Auction-block rumors. And the general feeling that Yahoo (didn’t Yahoo get formed by like some unholy union of Prodigy and Compuserve or something?) has somewhere between little and no interest in keeping Flickr alive makes me wonder if it’s time to open an over/under on how quickly Yahoo’s owners shutter Flickr. What do you think? 8 months? 6? The...
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I always envy a little the kids from work who tweet their late mornings and brunches. Enjoy it. Because no matter how cool your kids/pets are, they will NEVER want to linger over Bloody Marys and the Times crossword as long as you do.
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Don’t care what any marathoner, sprinter, Iron Person or ultramarathoner says. The hardest part of the run is putting on your shoes.
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WatchTook momma to the airport.
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Memento app lets me catch up on my own greatest...
The reality of social media for writers is this … anyplace we tweet, replay, post, expound, rant or rail is writing (just like, I suppose, Twinkies are, technically, food). And For anyone trying to become a diarist, an increasing amount of what would once have been relegated to the pages of a diary or blog ends up being left on the various fora and social media sources we take part in....
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NYPL's Biblion is why the iPad exists.
Saying Biblion is an ebook is like saying that iPad is a tablet. Technically, you’re not wrong. You’re just missing the larger point entirely.
Built by Potion, an interactive design firm formed by a group of MIT grads, Biblion is an exhaustive written and visual study of the 1939 World’s Fair. What amazes me so much about the app is that it delivers on an idea I’ve...
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August 2011
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Pictures.
After I finished cleaning the bathrooms, I nipped off to try and make some pictures. I started out at the silos on First, but wasn’t feeling any of what I saw there and moved on to the old Durango Boot factory at 3rd and N Margin.
I got a couple of images that might be worth keeping but I’d held my ticket too late and the light had snuck off behind the trees, leaving the old roof...
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On reading Gregory Maguire's "Next Queen of...
Even when you’re really, really good at something, you have to take a break every now and then to cleanse, reorganize and reset. Maguire is well on his way to being an “important” author whose work will be read and loved by my kids as much as I did. But anyone looking for another recasting of a fairy tale from Gregory Maguire’s “The Next Queen of Heaven” will...
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Abercrombie drops 9% after 'Jersey Shore' diss
Don’t know if this reflects more poorly on Jersey Shore douchebags wearing A&F, or the stock market for giving a rat’s ass about Jersey Shore douchebags wearing A&F. Irregahdless, douchebaggery abounds. Abercrombie drops 9% after ‘Jersey Shore’ diss http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/17/news/companies/abercrombie_jersey_shore/
River Trail, Franklin, TN
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On Curation
Since returning from New Mexico last month, I’ve been thinking a lot about curation and curatorship.
I shot 7 rolls of B/W film and about 4 GB worth of digital photos. Of that, I made 5 prints from the film, and have yet to publish any of the digital.
Part of the hesitation is personal. Part of it is laziness. But a larger part is the fact that I’m still thinking on what the...
Nashville's 31st in a ranking of the 100 Most... →
So what this has to do with the price of flash memory in China, I have no idea. But it’s always nice to end up in the top third of a tech-adoption list, no matter how dubious the methodology.
Now if we could just start working on getting out of the top rankings of some Luther lists like “Most Obese” or “Largest Number of Prescriptions per Person, THAT would be something...
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Pondering...
What exactly was Haysi Fantazee getting at when they posited “John Wayne is big leggy”?
July 2011
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Digital Visual Elegy - a 360 of the Shuttle's... →
An almost elegiac spin around the decommissioned Space Shuttle Discovery. Something especially final feeling with the insulated port baffles (or whatever they’re called, snapped into place.
Lots of buttons. Lots and lots of buttons. Also, this is what every man-boy in the world wished the inside of his car looked like.
Slowly browse through and note the adaptations that the astronauts...
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“If the individual viewer realizes that for him what he sees in a picture...”
– Minor White - OnEquivalents: The Perrenial Trend
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Cover Ferris! →
Coverville puts up a tasty selection of covers of music from Ferris Beuller’s Day Off (despite the fact that the movie never released a soundtrack). Personal faves include Dream Academy’s cover of the Smith’s “Please Let Me Get What I Want,” and an a cappella cover of “I Dream of Jeannie”.
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Should've happened yesterday.
The Books (@thebooksmusic) and Mike Doughty ( @Mike_Doughty_ ) A collaboration. Why hasn’t it happened yet?