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Question: {{ INSERT ANY QUESTION ABOUT ANYTHING HERE }} Answer: It’s all about playing four quarters. I think we played well but the other team played well too. They took advantage of certain circumstances that arose. It’s a physical game. We tried to capitalize on some mistakes they made. In the third quarter they ran […]

This is my favorite knife. This is a very nice portable jambox. These are the best socks.

@chriscoyier You should blog (personal site) a list of really great documentaries. Enjoyed the last one (although slightly creepy). — Christopher Burton (@itschrisburton) October 18, 2012 Home Movie I Like Killing Flies Marwencol Indie Game: The Movie Alone in the Wilderness Some musical favorites Be Here To Love Me Why Old Time? Give Me The […]

Somehow, despite being a banjo enthusiast, I’d never heard of or seen the documentary Give Me The Banjo. I fixed that last night. It was spectacularly good. Preview of it: It’s narrated by Steve Martin. Yes, that Steve Martin. He’s plays the banjo. I bet you knew that. It’s kind of a funny scourge on […]

My grill is about a year old. It gets used on average once a week and has gone through maybe 3 or 4 LP tank changes. Not super new, but pretty new. The last few months it’s been really crappy. Just doesn’t get very hot. I did some obvious checking of stuff like making sure […]

If I didn’t have my phone on silent 95% of the time I would totally buy these.

After hating the book as a kid, now I’ve seen a couple movie adaptations and I kinda love it. STOKED for this new one: Kinda sad about the typography though.

hahahahahahahahahaha. Digby freaks out when there are like 4 balls.

Dan Mall is going to take the working in public idea and go big. He’s working with Reading is Fundamental and an assembled dream-team, to redesign the RIF website. Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing updates about this project: the good and the not-so-good, the failures and the victories. So great. This is […]

If you use Stripe to process credit cards, and you don’t sell physical goods, you don’t need to collect an address. Pretty cool, because you can make checkout forms super tiny and quick to fill out. Easier forms = better conversion rates. But if you ever need to leave Stripe, all the other major processors […]

My last five phone bills were: $339.93, $217.32, $219.20, $217.09, $217.09. I knew it was too high but I just kept putting off dealing with it. I found out that there was some additional $99.99 and $5.99 international feature tied to the account that I didn’t need. I added it, but was told it was […]

From the season opener of Season 5 of Fringe. Observer: You miss music? Walter: There’s not a lot of it here. Observer: We tolerate it. But it’s merely tones, rhythms, and harmonic vibrations. Walter: Mostly it amazes me. Music helps me shift perspective. To see things differently if you need to. Observer: See things like, […]

Taken with the front-facing camera on my brand new (got it today) iPhone 5. I wanted to test it’s audio/video quality a bit, while doing something useful like marking my progress on a particular song (not my best rendition, but alas). I’m now posting it at an airport while tethered to the iPhone 5 which […]

Back in college and just after I was in an old timey(ish) band called The Missing String Band. I recorded some of our shows. I don’t have those recording anymore (who knows) but I had the forsight to upload some of our live shows to the Internet Archive. Like this one. Mostly embarrassing. But I’m […]

I was in it. Here’s some photos I took of the print copy I got. Photos were taken by Scott McCormick and Jeff Penman.