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You hear a song off Bob Mould’s album Workbook used in a TIAA-CREF commercial.
I think I’ll just nip off and shoot myself.
Technorati Tags: Bob Mould,Husker Du,Workbook,TIAA-CREF,Commercials,Middle Age,midlife crisis
In: Life
3 Feb 2008I don’t often (ever) talk about my musical taste. It is unremarkable for the most part, with flights into madness and impulsiveness.
Lately, I have discovered Icelandic music. Mainly Sigur Ros, Mum, Apparat Organ Quartet, Aniima, and (of course) Bjork. Apparently Icelandic music is all the rage, with people trying to understand how such a small [...]
In: Life
3 Nov 2007Part of the problem with making a lot of East to West trips across the US is that the flights back are a nightmare for timing. You either lose most of a day or have to take a red-eye.
Well, taking the red-eye has only one advantage: you get to camp in the airline lounge and [...]
In: RANTING
9 Sep 2007In today’s Boston Globe, there is an article discussing why Facebook went to the Valley instead of staying in the Boston area (article online).
Having now lived in both areas for nearly equal amounts of time, I can tell you that there are substantial differences between them. People from Boston may violently disagree, but I have found [...]
If you use GrabPERF on a regular basis, the somewhat flaky navigation method has become second nature to you. In fact, to circumvent some of the idiosyncrasies, you have probably bookmarked your favourite pages.
Yesterday, I broke your links.
When I redesigned GrabPERF in February 2006, I had just discover the require function in PHP, and decided [...]
In: Life
21 Feb 2007Sorry to quote a hideous dog treat commercial from eons ago, but this post at the Core 77 Design Blog reminded me of it.
An alarm clock that reminded me of my halcyon days, when carcinogens and fat mattered less to me.
It also reminded me of a passage from Neal Stephenson’s Zodiac describing the all-black breakfast. [...]
In: Life
6 Feb 2007This Moleskine hack is perhaps the best I have seen. [here]
Ninth Wave Designs has taken a Moleskine and turned it into an ancient alchemical tome. Cruise the Flickr stream to see all the fantastic designs.
Technorati tags: Moleskine, Ninth Wave Designs, alchemy
I ANYONE wanted to buy me something that would make me worship the ground they walk on, the Phaidon Design Classics would be the thing.
This is a series of three volumes that contain 999 of the modern design classics. It’s one of those things that you have around, you pick up, and you go “wow”.
But [...]
I try and avoid the “me-too” factor that has dominated the land of blogs for most of the time I have been involved in it. Simply aping one persons comments with a slight variation, or personal interpretation doesn’t add much to the initial thrill of finding the original germ of an idea.
Kathy Sierra, someone who [...]
The Network World article on telecommuting appears to be getting a lot of play this morning on the RSS feeds.
I agree with Daemon at the Web Worker Daily: Yeah, and your point?
I learned a long time ago that I would NEVER be happy as a do-nothing management hack (whoops! did I say that out loud?). [...]