I have an about-to-expire-and-I'm-not-renewing subscription to Men's Health. The two things that bug me the most about this magazine:
A) All the stupid stats. Stuff like (and I'm making this up as an example): studies have found that eating broccoli before noon decreases your chance of dying from a tooth infection 14%!
If you try hard enough, you can probably do a study that will create any stat you want. If you look hard enough, you can probably find a statistic that will support whatever you want to say. I guess it's a curse of our bullet-point world.
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February 23rd, 2011
I've been using subversion (svn) for a few years for a variety of projects. It's a solid system, and great if you want to basically have an easy backup of every change. However, I heard a lot about git and gave it a try and after the initial "this makes NO sense" stage -- where all the stuff you got familiar with in svn doesn't work quite the same way in git -- I was HOOKED. Git is awesome. I converted a major work web site to it right away (probably against better judgement, but it's been a glorious thing to be using daily) and now we intend to move another major work web site, this one using a WordPress 3.0+ install, from svn to git.
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December 30th, 2010
I was just discussing this with my wife the other day, here's a great movie scene, from the movie The Untouchables starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery. There are two brilliant scenes in this movie - "brings a knife to a gun fight!" - , actually (this one says it was a deleted scene but I remember it, maybe from VHS I guess), and Connery kills in both. I'm not a big Costner fan, but I can put up with him if Connery is stealing his scenes.
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December 23rd, 2010
I've been a Burn Notice fan since Episode 1. When Michael walks into the guy's mansion, grabs a yogurt and starts looking around, intending to say "Oh man, this isn't Tommy's house?" if busted, then cracks the safe and presents Bad Guy #1 with a copy and says "Leave my client alone" then says to the beefy-but-stupid bodyguard "Nice shirt, does it come in mens?" I was hooked.
Then Michael shoots Sugar in the knee, breaks through the rear wall and sends him packing and teaches a 10 year old how to beat up a bully. The show was the perfect blend of campy private investigative work crossed with style and pinache. MaGyver meets Magnum P.I. meets Miami Vice.
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December 22nd, 2010
This is my current Five Star playlist on iTunes. This is a great playlist that shifts and moves easily. Every time a song is played, I can rate it 1-5 stars. If it's currently a 5-star, it shows up here. If I want only my top songs at a given moment, there it is. If it starts to shrink, I pull
out the 4-star list and start promoting, or listen to an "unrated" or "low rated" list to see if there is anything that's not burned at the moment.
There are songs not on this list that I like and have but maybe I'm tired of hearing because it was on the 5-star list. As you can see I like variety.
Awesome God - Rich Mullins
Baby Bye Bye - Dan Bern
Baby Please Don't Go - Gary Glitter
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December 19th, 2010
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