You think that’s an appropriate font?!
posted in: Design
Ugh. Read this: Butterick’s Practical Typography And then we’ll talk.
Mexico Vacation Vid
posted in: Vacation
A short little video of our latest Las Gaviotas vacation. Surf’s up! Full quality download (~600MB) available here or there’s always youtube:
“This is not the realm of priests.”
posted in: Health
Having finally sobered up after I stopped going to AA meetings, I found this an interesting read. My own experiences with problem drinking, the “program”, and my success afterwards, are reflected in many of the descriptions in the article. I never … Read More
Turns out …
… upgrading a 9 year old iMac with an SSD is worthwhile too. Although I had to re-purchase, download, and create a bootable USB stick of OSX 10.7 Lion to format the new drive. But what the hell, now I … Read More
The New Media Center iMac is Born!
Thursday night I ordered a refurbished iMac from Other World Computing. It cost $359 and is the 20 inch mid–2009 iMac education model. I also bought the maximum amount of RAM for this model (8GB), and a 240 GB SSD … Read More
” … the contemporary dying process has been elongated.”
posted in: Uncategorized
Great article in the Atlantic about quality of life through old age: Why I Hope to Die at 75
“… bigotry generated by the high priests of commercialized superstition …”
posted in: Uncategorized
I had no idea Frank thought this way. And how articulately he shared his views in this interview. Wow, still letting it sink in. Please read this: Frank Sinatra’s Playboy Interview, 1963
“Maybe they can’t afford the small piece of cable …”
posted in: Tech
Hilarious response by Level 3 to Verizon’s boohooing about asymmetrical peering relationships due to Netflix and their ilk: Verizon’s Accidental Mea Culpa Somebody remind me why are we arguing about net neutrality? Oh right, it’s not the bandwidth consumers arguing, it’s ISPs seeking … Read More
Memento Mori
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