March 2009
28 posts
Bicycle Built for Two Thousand →
Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.
Bright Eyes - Papa Was A Rodeo
Bijan shared a gem...
Culinary Communion Going Out of Business →
Sad news today from our favorite local cooking school.
We took a handful of classes at Culinary Communion over the past several years, and they were always the perfect combination of fun and learning. Unfortunately, they’ve had a lot of challenges along the way, from moving and build-out costs, to permitting and liquor licenses, and the recent downturn in business combined with some bad...
Rolling Stones - Jigsaw Puzzle
Me, Im waiting so...
Mike Watt & Friends - Walking the Cow (Daniel...
“If you are such a pussy that the idea of Google entering [your company’s...”
– -James Siminoff
Great quote in regards to Google launching a voicemail transcription which competes with PhoneTag.
Whiskeytown - Dreams
Fleetwood Mac isn’t...
Lessons Learned →
This is an excellent post by Sachin Rekhi about the lessons he learned while working at imeem. A lot of it is common sense, and some of the observations are specific to the music industry, but there’s also a lot that applies to any social/web/community startup. Definitely worth a read.
Crafty Clever
You may be on to something, but I think the bitlypreview.js also accidentally gets inserted sometimes when you’ve got the bit.ly firefox add-on installed, and you’re copying and pasting html into the tumblr post editor or using the tumblr bookmarklet.
Awhile back I was having problems with my tumblr crashing IE7, and it was choking on calls into the bit.ly library when the library...
Fine Tuning Performance: A Trusty Auto Mechanic...
This is part 2 in my writing about people who have renewed my faith in good service. (click for part 1)
My car is 5 years old (aka: just out of warranty) with barely 20k miles on it, so when I experienced some odd behavior recently, the last thing I wanted to do is go to the dealer for help. So, after researching the problem online and getting a good idea of what I was in store for, I logged...
1 tag
Thank You, Brian Thielicke!
With interest rates at tantalizing lows over the past few months, we had been considering refinancing our house, but I was dreading the experience: the sea of paperwork, the countless options and permutations, and an overall lack of visibilty and understanding of the process. Fortunately, I asked my friend Rob (who works at Redfin) for some advice, and got an introduction that made this one of the...
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices
...
Baby Twitter | Swedish Medical Center →
I just found this page on our hospital’s website: Tips and themes for tweeting your pregnancy and childbirth.
Starbucks VIA Instant Coffee
I never thought I’d say it, but the new Starbucks micro-ground instant coffee really isn’t that bad. I’d even go as far as to say it is by far the best instant coffee I’ve ever tasted. Sure, it’s not the estate-farmed, shade-grown, massaged-in-sake, and pooped by rodents specialty roast from your local coffeeshop, but it is smooth, dark, and actually tastes like...
