work in progress

Nov
23rd

Mon

For Sale

I love the design and simplicity of tumblr, but having no way to export my data from the service (in the foreseeable future) is prodding me to look for a new blog home. That and the fact that I think I could learn a thing or two running the wordpress on my own.

C’mon, Brian, you haven’t posted since June 5th.

Damn twitter. Now I have yet another reminder. In the meantime, hang out on lala.com for a few hours. That site is incredibly well-executed.

Jun
5th

Fri

Good smelling plumbers

Apr
17th

Fri

Lunch in the park

Feb
11th

Wed

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

I’ve seen many great shows at this venue in Maryland, but nothing quite like this album.

Jan
23rd

Fri

Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time

Amen.

Jan
11th

Sun

Oh, you internet.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

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.

marco:

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

Introducing the Congress API

dalasverdugo:

(via pile)

This is how you keep news companies from dying.

Dec
13th

Sat

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

— Steve Jobs (via danw, mikehudack) (via marco)

Dec
9th

Tue

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

If David Lynch would’ve met m83 in the 80’s, I think this song would’ve been included in Twin Peaks.