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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Mandy Brown on feeding/reading
Mandy Brown exquisitely compares reading books to both reading feeds online and cooking bread. Her final paragraph sums up her post nicely.
“In our own time, I wonder if the very slowness of books makes them more valuable in the face of all the quickness around us, if their singular nature will prove to be their [...]
Posted in Links Tagged books, feed reader, mandy brown, reading, suggestions, writing Leave a comment
How to turn weight gain into weight loss, and a slight change to The Diet
The entire purpose of The Diet is to help myself, and everyone else on the diet, stay motivated to get to a healthy weight and stay there. Usually this goal is somewhat shrouded under the veil of a competition. But for good reason: competition usually motivates people.
But that isn’t the case with everyone. Some people [...]
Posted in Diet Tagged chris-fehnel, dieting, mike-stickel, motivation, p90x, pat dryburgh, weight gain, weight-loss 8 Comments
Random 60: Holding onto wishes
Random 60: Holding onto wishes | Favorite on Viddler.
Do you hold onto wishes, or things, too long? I do too. There are boxes and boxes worth of stuff floating around in our apartment that I wish I could use, learn to use, or have the hope of using in the future.
Perhaps we’re holding onto these [...]
“Just beginning to use wheels”
Another fantastic entry in the journal of Henry David Thoreau (which I’ve mentioned a few times before) this time dealing with being able to use “cars”, or wheeled wagons, in late-March in Concord, Massachusetts.
Here is the snippet from Mr. Thoreau’s March 26, 1856 entry:
“They are just beginning to use wheels in Concord, but [...]
Posted in Links Tagged cambridge, concord, entry, henry david thoreau, history, journal, massachusetts, snow, wagon, wheels Leave a comment
The $1 bird feeder
I’ve wanted to have a bird feeder on one of our windows for a while. I’ve looked a few times for one and somehow turned up empty handed. Last week Eliza returned from a shopping trip with a $1, suction cup powered, bird feeder for our window! Thanks Eliza!
This morning at 8:30AM I hung the [...]
Weigh in: March 29, 2009
The first full week of the new diet effort is over and done with. The response from this round has been great. I really like having family and friends join in on trying to get healthy. It helps me stay motivated and focused on my goals and I hope that I help others do the [...]
Random 60: Penmanship.
Random 60: Penmanship. | Favorite on Viddler.
How is your penmanship? My penmanship is little more than chicken scratch. Since I’ve started writing more I’ve been practicing my penmanship. It is slowly getting better but I have a long way to go.
Here are some tutorials that I’ve followed, so far, that have helped my writing a [...]
Blockbuster coming to Tivo, iTunes?
Dave Caolo on TUAW, who is apparently from Scranton, remarks on statements made by Blockbuster’s Vice President of Digital Entertainment Kevin Lewis that Blockbuster will be offering content through Tivo soon and maybe through Apple’s AppleTV (or iTunes).
I like his opening paragraph:
“On a January day in 1981, my sisters and I experienced unbridled glee when [...]
Posted in Links Tagged apple, blockbuster, kevin lewis, movie rentals, on-demand, reuters, tivo, tuaw Leave a comment
Stunning Light Art Performance Photography
LAPP, or Light Art Performance Photography, are long-exposure photographs of people playing with light in different ways. The site is in flash, and I’m still linking to it. That should tell you something. (via Coudal Partners)
Random 60: Are you camera shy?
Random 60: Are you camera shy? | Favorite on Viddler.
Do you find yourself shy around cameras? Maybe you have no trouble chatting with your friends at bars but the second someone takes out a camera, you find yourself hiding?
Today, we explore why that is with Donna DeMarco, Vice President of Viddler, because [...]
Posted in Videos Tagged bethlehem, camera shy, donna-demarco, pennsylvania, r60, shy, viddler hq 9 Comments
Wolfenstein 3D now on the iPhone, but wait, there’s more
id Software recently released Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone. This is fantastic news. The game that started the entire first-person shooter genre is now on the iPhone.
But there is more. id is releasing the source code for the game. (See link at the bottom of this page.) And John Carmack, the brains behind nearly [...]
Posted in Links Tagged app store, daringfireball, games, id software, iphone, john carmack, john-gruber, open-source, source code, wolfenstein 3d 2 Comments
Trailer: Where The Wild Things Are
Where The Wild Things Are looks great. I’d have more to say but I don’t want to take up too much time as I believe this trailer will be getting removed from the Web as soon as the leak has been seen.
Like the guy on I Watch Stuff said: “This film looks like warm Krispy [...]
MarsEdit 2.3 is out and supports Tumblr
You may have seen me quip about MarsEdit the other day on Twitter. Really, though, it is an excellent piece of software that should be given a go by anyone that writes a lot.
I’m spoiled by a rich-editor in Wordpress, that saves drafts automatically and even has multiple revisions, and so I’m sticking with Wordpress [...]
Posted in Links Tagged apple, applications, blogging, macintosh, marsedit, red-sweater, software, tumblr, wordpress, writing 8 Comments
Coaching a Community by Laura Brunow Miner
Some of us in the “community” space think about these topics every single day. Seldom do we get a good soapbox to talk about them. Laura Brunow Miner, editor in chief at JPG Magazine, did on A List Apart in her brilliantly detailed yet simple piece entitled Coaching a Community.
“In the end, we’re talking about [...]
Posted in Links Tagged a list apart, community, jpg magazine, laura brunow miner, viddler Leave a comment
Random 60: Doing what you love, not what you’re good at.
Random 60: Doing what you love, not what you’re good at. | Favorite on Viddler.
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I often find myself doing things that I really like to do, even if I’m not particularly good at them. Art, for me, is a great example. I like dabbling with watercolors, pastels, pencil sketches, [...]
Quietube now supports Viddler
Quietube, which I linked to the other day, removes all of the cruft from around videos on sites like YouTube and now Viddler and Vimeo. Here is an example of what the result looks like with a recent episode of Wine Library TV.
When I saw Quietube I immediately recognized that, well, some people just want [...]
How to: Soften butter quickly
Great how-to article from Simply Recipes on how to soften butter quickly. I guess jamming it into the microwave for a few seconds isn’t really ’softening’ butter, it is more like melting butter.
Posted in Links Tagged butter, cooking, how-to, recipes, simply recipes, soften, tutorial 2 Comments
Calorie needs
Pat Dryburgh, my dieting nemesis, wrote up what I think is a thoughtful approach to his diet. He explains how he measured his current caloric intake and then researched what his intake should be. He also explains how he is planning to lose 1-2 pounds per week by simply eliminating 500 calories per day.
This approach, [...]
Random 60: Reading.
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Random 60: Cheap cookies