I first hiked Mt. Mansfield in the summer of 2002. A. & I had just moved up here, I was working an inhuman series of overnight shifts, and our first visitor had come up to see us and decided that in one of the two precious daytime afternoons where he and I could hang out, […]
flump (tags: Flickr) WORDPRESS GOD: 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog (tags: wordpress todo)
Blows Against the Empire @ The New Yorker (via lawnczar): good article on PKD (tags: scifi writing literature todo) 22 Tips for Effective Deadlines @ lifehack.org: GREAT short article on how to “hack” your productivity through short-term, aggressive deadlines (surprised that this isn’t a 43f special) (tags: GTD productivity work lifehacks)
The road is some amalgamation of Rt. 7 in Burlington and 355 in Gaithersburg; yet at the same time it is neither. An overgrowth of trees abuts the road at each stretch, each intersection, each fork. The town is dense right along the road but unravels quickly into rural settings at each branch, every turn. […]
Gwar interviewed on The Joan River’s Show via False 45th: because … you know … it’s GWAR! (tags: music Gwar humor video)
Record shopping. During work hours? (Your work has perhaps come home with you.) The music plays, interrupted periodically but the 60 second samples of new, desired tracks. You uninvited guests stare at you with irritation at each beefy bass beat and treble-toned sweep; your tune browsing is not what they bargained for. A moment’s pause […]
From plasma crystals and helical structures towards inorganic living matter via B^2 (“Inorganic Life?”): article (data?) may be new but the idea (at least in speculative fiction) is not; going to be an interesting read, to say the least (tags: science research todo) Imaginary Foundation: cloud and blueprint sweatshirts B^2 “coverage” of 2 new, incredibly […]
Peanuts characters as manga @B^2 (tags: comics manga culture art) Peter Walsh’s clever hanger trick @ 43 Folders (tags: lifehacks productivity) How to Criticise People without Causing Offence @ lifehack.org (tags: lifehacks management leadership todo work)
As previously mentioned: Schmapped! Now with 100% more proof!
Just a brief figure to illustrate Comcast’s on-going craptacularness: So yeah. Even without getting into the specifics (i.e., price & download speeds) we can see the areas of discrepancy that might cause an educated consumer to be … well, rather alarmed. Burlington Telecom: if you’re listening: hurry up with the wiring in my neighborhood.