“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
After lunch, Ben took a few moments to explain some of the finer points of how the VM image he’s setting up for me will make it easy to safely push changes to the production server while ensuring everything’s properly checked in to git as well as backed up off-site.
He explained it really well — still, some of the python stuff confused me.
Is that a choad at the bottom of this technical drawing?
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
As I was going through my parents’ audio cassette collection, I discovered an old favorite- “Merry Christmas from The Beach Boys”. However, once I started listening to it, bad/good things started to happen, depending on your optimal ratio of Beach Boys to beach noise.
Politely ignoring the gap between an increasingly sophisticated economy and the capabilities and knowledge of the typical consumer will not make the problem go away.
Auto-Tune the News #8: dragons. geese. Michael Vick. (ft. T-Pain)
I’ve been around the production of some viral videos, and the production of a lot of live shows. People who don’t produce entertainment have no idea the work that goes into a tight 90 seconds.
These guys have done that, but they’ve done soemthing else, gone a step further. They’re doing it again and again, and each one is better than the last.
I realize that these videos are small amusements. I don’t want to call them inconsequental—all entertainment is inconsequential…that’s the point—but I think that the series of them coming out like this does teach a lesson. (A lesson for artists, I mean; the civics lesson that our federal legislature is ridiculous cannot be taught enough and could not be more timely.)
An artist (I’m not going to use the twee San Francisco word “maker”, which is stupid) is not the person who has done something awesome. They’re the person who will do something awesome tomorrow.
With Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard update shipping today, one can’t help but wonder what’s next.
5 months ago | Tags: apple osx
