August 2009
44 posts
Zee Avi - Slow Hands
Keeping the Friday tradition...
July 2009
42 posts
3 favorite commands
Along the lines of my last post, here are three of my favorite unix/linux utilities that I often take for granted, but that a lot of people aren’t familiar with.
screen - screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells).
iostat -The iostat command is used for monitoring system input/output device...
How to Run External Commands Without Leaving Vim →
I love that even after years & years of vi/vim, I still constantly find random tricks and tips. A few of my favorite commands/settings, that other people get happy when they discover are: :set ic (case-insensitivity) :set paste (so you can paste without smart indent,etc) :set list (shows newlines and tabs) :sp (split screen) :vs (vertical split screen) :r <filename> (read in a file)...
Cat Power - Islands
We escaped the sweltering...
303 E Pike St 312, Seattle, WA 98122 →
Flipping through the real estate listings today, I saw this unit for sale. What’s so special about it? Well, it’s the first place I ever bought, back in 1999. I loved that building, and we constantly lament that we moved out when we did, rather than buying one of the larger units.
The colors and furniture have changed a little over the past 10 years, but fun to see the things that...
Blind Pilot - Oviedo
My co-worker Kat...
Deer Tick - La Bamba
A rip-roarin’...
Congratulations to my cube-mate Joseph, who has been a huge part of getting TeachStreet to where it is today! And for all you ladies out there, Joe has been featured for his Seattle Twitter Class on Daily Candy, so if you need a lesson, you know who to call…
josephsunga:
introducing my one year anniversary at teachstreet.com! wow. its been a rollercoaster of a year at teachstreet and i’ve...
WatchNick Burns: Your Company’s Computer Guy
Jennifer Aniston: “I know about computers, ok? I’m on the Internet at home.” Nick Burns: “Let me guess, you’re on AOL?” JA: “Yeah, what’s wrong with that?”
Nick: “Nothing, except it doesn’t understand Javascript! …God, I wish someone were here who knew about computers,...
Watchgary:
AOL doing things I think many people should be doing….I am serious! I really think what AOL is doing is very smart and I think many other platforms should be following the model!
I had written off AOL’s future for a long time, but they’ve been making some smart acquisitions of late, and doing a great job with hyper-local and letting their new properties maintain their own...
Where the heck is Etters? →
On October 27, 2002, an article appeared on the front page of the Harrisburg Patriot News entitled “Where the Heck is Etters?” that describes how people live in a place and have listed on their driver’s licenses a place that is not on a map.
Working on local search, you see a lot of weird places. Today’s find was Etters, PA which is actually not a town, but rather the...
Death Cab for Cutie - 405
We’ve seen Death...
Tonight is our first night away from Ruby since she was born. She’s sleeping over at Derek & Lee’s house while we go out to dinner and to a concert. We’ll miss her, but it’ll be fun to hang out sans-baby for a night!
Yim Yames - My Sweet Lord
Yes, it’s Jim...
Foursquare Shows The Business Potential Of... →
This is cool. Lots of potential here.
I admit I didn’t see what was interesting, special, or different, about foursquare versus all the other location-based social services when it first launched, but I’m beginning to see the light.
A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools →
Smashing Magazine has a great post today that’s chock full of info, links, and resources for GA. It’s super-long, but there’s a ton of useful stuff here.
Lucinda Williams - Hard Road
It’d be near...
A nice night
I usually stay at the office until pretty late, so it was awesome leaving around 6:30 tonight on a lovely and bright Seattle summer’s evening. I got some sun riding my scooter home in short sleeves, took Brooke and Ruby out for a drive, a walk around Ballard, and dinner, then back home for a couple games of Scrabble and hanging out with Kekrops. It’s hard to imagine a more perfect...
Robin Pecknold - Two Headed Boy (Neutral Milk...
TechCrunch: TeachStreet Launches Payments Platform... →
We rolled out the latest version of the site tonight, including payment services for teachers, phone tracking, and lots of underlying changes to support those and other features moving forward.
The TeachStreet blog has more details, but I’ll just say that I’m pretty excited about what we’ve built, and looking forward to what’s next (perhaps after a few hours of sleep).
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Fleet Foxes - Oliver James (Live at KEXP)
We got...
ditto, but my lyric of choice (minus the...
WatchTeachStreet TV: Daryn Teaches the TeachStreet Team how to Draw (via TeachStreet)
Each week at our Friday afternoon meeting, someone takes a turn at teaching the rest of the team something fun. This was my contribution…
Jim Ward - My Town
I was in El Paso once as a...
“This is meant to be a serious book, although 10 years from now it may not appear...”
– Bill Gates, foreword to The Road Ahead
The Decemberists - July, July!
It’s July...