November 2009
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“Good writing does not succeed or fail on strength of its ability to persuade. It...”
– Malcolm Gladwell October 2009
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The Beach Boys - Wipeout 4 tags
Favorite/Least Favorite Halloween candy?
My favorite: Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups Least favorite: Runts Your turn, Tumblr.
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The Apple tablet and iTunes
In asking if you would use an Apple tablet, MuppetPants raised an interesting point: The DVD/TV replacement would require downloading movies on iTunes as it couldn’t have a disc drive. Seems very limiting. Seeing what Apple did with the Macbook Air and its USB CD/DVD drive, they’re going to be reluctant to put any kind of an optical drive in a device designed to be primarily portable. If...
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Would you use an Apple tablet?
The consistent rumors point to an Apple tablet actually happening. Bill Keller, editor at the New York Times may have slipped and called it the Slate. An educated Apple rumor expert (which we all are, aren’t we?) would assume that they’ll announce the new product in January 2010 from their Cupertino headquarters since they’ve pulled out of Macworld. That begs a few questions: ...
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How to hold your breath like David Blaine →
Author Tim Ferris claims that after 15 minutes of training from this article he increased the amount of time he could hold his breath from 40 seconds to 3 and a half minutes. I’m skeptical but I’ll try it, more details on my breath-holding to come.
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“Homeowner’s insurance is catastrophe insurance. It pays if the house burns...”
– Gregg Easterbrook Easterbrook poses some great points that have clearly been overlooked by Obama and Congress: The first step would be a standard-price rule…And the standard price must be published to allow comparison shopping. Good physicians and hospitals could still distinguish themselves... 
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Wolfram Alpha's $50 iPhone app
Ranked number 44 in the Reference category of the App Store, Wolfram Alpha’s behemoth $50 application is apparently selling. They don’t need to sell many apps at 50 dollars to work their way up into the ratings, however. The price point to me seems astronomical. Why pay fifty bucks when their website is free? iTunes lists their app as weighing in at a mere half of a megabyte which...
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Sam Cooke - Having A Party It’s my birthday... 2 tags
So you voted for Obama, now what do you think of...
It’s inevitable that opinions fall once a presidential candidate gets into office. There’s nothing better than the promise of great things that are one the horizon and all you have to do is vote to put that person right where you want him. So now it’s October and Obama is been in the Oval Office for almost a year. What do you think of him now? Has he met your expectations? Are...
ronniebruce: The Gaslight Anthem - We Came To... 4 tags
Haunted by In-N-Out
I’d kill for an In-N-Out burger. I’m 64 percent serious. I’ve heard for years that In-N-Out is the burger, that Five Guys, Fat Burger, Good Times, Burger King don’t even compare. But In-N-Out is so far away and it seems like the closer I physically get to an In-N-Out location, the more I hear the praise and the farther away I feel. Living in Maryland you hardly ever hear...
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“When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don’t...”
– Joe Strummer (via stevenebowman) (via adamwhite) The world has a lot it can learn from Joe Strummer Brand New - Soco Amaretto Lime 'Iron Chef' Morimoto to Launch Airport Eateries... →
The bistros, appropriately titled Skewers, will serve an assortment of yakitori — skewered grilled or deep-fried meats and vegetables — served with rice bowls for portable consumption, as well as soups and salads. The restaurants’ settings would take the form of two different models — a take-out counter and a traditional sit-down approach — and both would feature open...
What are you listening to?
I have “Choked and Separated” on by Hot Water Music. I’m really digging them. What are you listening to, Tumblr?
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I'm sick
Pros about today: It’s raining out so I don’t feel guilty about spending the day in bed I can play on Tumblr which I haven’t been able to do in weeks I might write some music because I have nothing else to do do Arrested Development marathon? Cons: My Internet sucks so no streaming Netflix Massive midterm tomorrow that I should probably study for No gym today
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Eating, drinking and the immune system
The same principles that relate drinking alcohol and the human immune system also relate to eating and the immune system. In short, the more work your body has to do to break down and digest (or attempt to digest) the unnatural additives that plague the American diet, the less energy there is for your body to fight infections or sicknesses that may enter your system. Just as you may feel sick...
WatchThis was incredibly done. You’d think that the over-eager new guy would shut up after a while but he just keeps going! marco: Dan Meth’s latest video is great: Google Street View Guys A new College Humor cartoon! Ever wonder what it’s like for the dudes who have to drive those Google camera cars around? I think it’s a little something like this…
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Attention people going to The Fest 8 later this...
Please go support two bands and good friends of mine: Ninja Gun and Apologies, I Have None. Ninja Gun is a kick-ass band from Georgia doing the good work that Tom Petty started. They’re a bunch of great guys who love what they do and it shows. Please go support them. Apologies, I Have None is one of my favorite acoustic-punk acts to come out of England recently. They started as Dan and...
Today was a long, tough day
Tell me something good would ya, Tumblr?
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RTD Mobile Bus Times 1.1
I’ve been working hard over the past few weeks on RTD Mobile Bus Times 1.1, which I hope to submit to Apple before Halloween. Let me start by saying thank you very much to those who have bought and supported the application so far. The response has been fantastic and I hope to maintain that as I improve RTD Mobile Bus Times into the future. The 1.1 update is a vast improvement over the 1.0...
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“It is too bad that younger bodies are so forgiving. People in their teens,...”
– Dr. Andrew Weil in response to the notion that the “the human body comes with a forty-year warrantee” The birthday debacle: TV vs. record player
I’ve got a birthday coming up in 12 days and I’m trying to decide what to ask for. Any thoughts?
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Email/Forum spam pet peeve
Over the past year I’ve made it my mission to simplify my email system so I get only the things that I want or need and I eliminate the rest. The things that keep finding their way into my inbox over and over are emails from forums that I haven’t used in years, or ever at all, that want me to come back and the only way I can get rid of them and unsubscribe is to login to that very...
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Frank Turner - I Knew Prufrock Before He Got... How do they transport a giraffes?
…and what if they hit their heads on the bottoms of bridges?
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“If you already own Tweetie and don’t buy Tweetie 2 because you feel like...”
– The original (now edited) version of Gizmodo’s Tweetie 2 review. 5 tags
ESPN Outside The Lines - $1,200 seats at Yankee... →
New Yankee Stadium is the Dubai of baseball stadiums. In New York there’s no such thing as the cheap seats. Sure New York is full of Wall Street types, celebrities, tycoons and other people that generally have more money than they know what to do with, but what about the people just like you and me? Here are a few things you could do with $1,200 rather than blow it on one night behind home...
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Un-restricting my blog
I wrote a week or two ago that I wanted to restrict my blog to three topics, journalism, technology and sports. After doing that for a little while and realizing that it takes half of the fun out of my blog and inserts a hell of a lot of work in place, I think I’ll go back to the free-form, do whatever I want with my website blog that I’ve had for the past year and a half. I have a...