Jun
5th
Fri
5th
Good smelling plumbers
Apr
17th
Fri
17th
Lunch in the park
Feb
11th
Wed
11th
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I’ve seen many great shows at this venue in Maryland, but nothing quite like this album.
Jan
11th
Sun
11th
Oh, you internet.
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It is fun to see new people discovering a love of mine that started around 1997: Tape-trading. I’m still impressed by how well the community has evolved. I remember mailing around cassettes, then DATs, then CDs. Then it was one-two day FTP sites that would run in college. Now you can practically stream everything from the LMA on archive.org.
If you like this track, check out the Phil Lesh & Friends from 4/15/1999 with Trey Anastasio & Page McConnell.
Phil Lesh and Friends - St. Stephen (live at Bethel Woods Center For The Arts, July 9, 2006 — the enitre show is legally downloadable for free at that link)
I like modern jam bands, but could never get into the Grateful Dead. Fortunately, they have a lot of great cover bands. (Correction from truestory: Phil Lesh was the Grateful Dead bassist, so this isn’t really a typical “cover band”. I don’t know what you’d call it.)
Here’s a great 12-minute jam that’s loosely related to the Grateful Dead song, St. Stephen. (It starts slow. Give it time.)
Thanks for the recommendation, John at Aroma! (Big shout-out to John for always having very good music playing on weekday mornings when I get coffee.)
Jan
10th
Sat
10th
Introducing the Congress API
(via pile)
This is how you keep news companies from dying.
Dec
13th
Sat
13th
We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that’s exactly what we did. And it worked. And that’s exactly what we’ll do this time
Dec
9th
Tue
9th
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If David Lynch would’ve met m83 in the 80’s, I think this song would’ve been included in Twin Peaks.
Dec
4th
Thu
4th
Free Public WiFi
jstn:
Have you seen this wireless network? I see it *everywhere*, and it’s so suspicious because it’s always ad-hoc (meaning broadcasting from a computer rather than a regular access point). I imagined for a long time it was part of a virus; it waits for someone to connect, redirects to a page that exploits some hole in Internet Explorer, scrapes your hard disk and sends your social security number to Russia, sets itself up as “Free Public WiFi”, repeat.
After seeing it for the thousandth time at the train station Philadelphia yesterday I decided to look it up. Turns out it’s not a virus (at least not in the usual sense) but rather an interesting fuckup on Microsoft’s part, with viral consequences.
Basically, if Windows can’t connect to a preferred network that happens to be ad-hoc it creates the network itself with the same name. At some point, somebody was connected to a real ad-hoc network called “Free Public WiFi”. They went to another location where it didn’t exist, their laptop helpfully recreated the network, more people connected to it (and probably disconnected when it didn’t work), those people carried it with them somewhere else, and the cycle has been repeating ever since.
