Our beliefs can dictate the facts we choose to accept
I saw this quote from Joe Keohane on Matt Mullenweg's blog. I'm sure Matt had his own reasons for publishing this quote to his blog and I'm fairly certain they are totally…
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How to distress or antique furniture (with paint)
Ran across this post via Wordpress.com on how to antique (and distress) furniture with paint. I like how simple the steps are and how it doesn't permanently damage the furniture – as…
Help! What should my new voicemail greeting say?
Hello dear readers of my personal Web site (all 3 or 4 of you lovely, lovely people)! I have a problem. My voicemail greeting – you know, the thing you hear when…
Letterhead for The Official Star Wars/Lucasfilm Fan Club, complete with Bantha, circa 1985
That does it. I'm creating letterhead for myself and it is going to include a Bantha.
The GPL is a speed limit sign
For those that haven't already heard or read the transcript of Chris Pearson's arguments against using the GPL I'll sum it up for you. Chris has three main problems with the GPL….
Bourdain on Pekar and Cleveland
Harvey Pekar, comic book writer and much much more, recently died. Anthony Bourdain has a rather lovely blog post about Pekar and Cleveland. "His continuing compulsion to wonder what's wrong with everybody…
From the NFL to WordPress themes
Drew Strojny, former NFL player for the Eagles, Giants and Rams, had been moonlighting as a designer and open-source Wordpress theme developer for years. The theme business, which is supported via support-membership-subscriptions…
Our garden, so far
A quick and very, very dirty panoramic image of our garden so far (as of last week). Watch for a short video from Eliza in the near future. See also: Video: Our…
A short review of White Fang by Jack London
London's White Fang – a story about a wolf whose mother was part dog and father full-on wolf, told mostly from the wolf's perspective – is full of detail. I don't know…
Goodbye Dreamhost
As you may have noticed this website has been unavailable or erring for over 36 hours. This isn't the first time that Dreamhost has had issues and it has effected my site….
Our backyard, so far
Eliza and I have been hard at work on our backyard since spring. Whenever we get the chance, and energy, we work on our backyard to spruce it up and make it…
Tiny Desk Concert with Weird Al
An instant classic in NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series is with Weird Al Yankovic. He covers three songs. I recommend the entire series of Tiny Desk Concerts. NPR music is pretty much…
365 photos by Marisa McClellan
Marisa McClellan is shooting a photo per-day and posting it to her blog (and Flickr account if you'd prefer). Most of her photos are fairly drool worthy but the above tips the…
Photos of extremely small seeds
Photos by Seed Morphologist Wolfgang Stuppy of seeds from angiosperms.* /via NPR. *Flash is required but the photos are still boner-worthy.
Three years with the first-generation iPhone
Three years ago at the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania Eliza and I were nearly at the front of what became a very, very long line at the Apple Retail Store…
Astronomy Photo of the Day
I've been subscribed to NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day for years. I've linked to both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial shots that have been featured from this very blog many times though nearly…
On the iPad
After using the iPad exclusively for 10 days (that's right, I haven't used my Macbook Pro yet) I am getting a pretty good feel for the iPad. I figured I'd jot down…
Bees that make nests out of flower pedals
From the "coolest thing you'll see all day" department – these bees in Turkey make their nests out of carefully folded flower pedals. Striking. /via Jason Kottke. On NPR, of course.
From the iPad
I'm typing this on my brand new iPad courtesy of my lovely wife Eliza. If this isn't the future of computing, I don't know what is. When Steve Jobs said, at the…
Steve Jobs at D8
The unread count in Google Reader went from a relatively low number to an incredibly high number yesterday evening because Steve Jobs got on stage at D8. You can either read the…
Cod fishing in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Earlier this year my friends and I took a short trip to Gloucester, Massachusetts to do some cod fishing on the Atlantic. I took some random video clips during the trip and…
Duck eggs and bacon breakfast sandwich
This is a must link because there is cast iron, bacon, butter, duck eggs and cheese in this video. And, although I use chicken eggs, is pretty much exactly how I make…
Top ten annoying things to say to a wildlife photographer
Fun list. I love the "yeah, OK" tone of it.
Video: My guest appearance on Wine Library TV
For those of you that follow me on Twitter or have read my post on the Viddler blog you'll already know that I was a guest on Wine Library TV on Friday….
Ducklings in the evening sun
They love them some clover.
Bottling
Compress your CSS and Javascript with Pack
Lead Designer at Viddler, Andrew Smith, has released Pack via the Viddler blog – which is what he uses to compress Viddler's CSS and Javascript for deployment. Pack is written in Ruby…
I eat way too fast, still
Not two days ago I told Eliza that I eat too fast. Five years ago I said the same thing. Another habit that needs to die. So, how am I going to…
Old habits seemingly die easy
Sometimes you wonder if the habits you have today will simply always be your habits. I'm here to tell you that old habits die easy. Five years ago I was going to…
The moon over my patio
Last night I spent some time on my patio working and reading.