Category: General

Ordinary Breakfast

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In response to getting tired of her friends posting pictures of their fancy meals on Facebook, my friend Jenny Lee started a blog titled Ordinary Breakfast, where she documents her morning cereals and other generally normal looking meal. In Jenny’s words: “Last night two friends and I discussed the topic of people taking photos of their meals and posting them online. Sure, we see tons of photos of extraordinary meals, but what about the ordinary ones? My breakfast, which usually consists of a bowl of highly unremarkable cereal and soy milk, eaten out of a paper bowl and with a plastic spoon (sorry, environment) at my desk at work, is just… Ordinary. Average. Heck, it’s probably even below average. And it

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The Cloud’s Got My Back

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I’ve had a rough couple of weeks with my computer — at times I’ve felt as though I’m back in the 90’s when computers just crashed on a regular predictable basis for all sorts of nonsensical reasons. The focus of this post is on various cloud backup solutions, and how well they worked for me throughout my most recent computer mishap. For anyone reading who doesn’t use cloud backup, I’d seriously consider it if you have content you don’t ever want to lose. My recent problem all started with an upgrade to Windows 8. I paid the $40 to try out the new OS, and the install went fairly smoothly. I won’t spend a lot of time reviewing Windows 8, but

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Gordon Brown

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Not the former Prime Minister of the UK. My friend Gordon Brown, who lives out in San Diego, and is just beginning his acting career. He’s the good looking guy driving the Dodge Journey on the beach:

Color Perception

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How do we know we all see the same colors? The short answer is that we don’t know, and according to some new research, there’s a good chance we don’t in fact all see the same colors. Via Marginal Revolution: Anyone with normal color vision agrees that blood is roughly the same color as strawberries, cardinals and the planet Mars. That is, they’re all red. But could it be that what you call “red” is someone else’s “blue”? Could people’s color wheels be rotated with respect to one another’s? “That is the question we have all asked since grade school,” said Jay Neitz, a color vision scientist at the University of Washington. In the past, most scientists would have answered

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What is success?

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A great post from a good friend’s blog:  A lot has been written lately about David McCullough Jr.’s “You are not special. You are not exceptional” speech recently at Wellesley High School’s graduation, most recently this NY Times Article and this blog post now going viral.  I think this has really hit home with me as it’s something I’ve been slowly working my way through myself the past year or so as I’ve made some pivotal life decisions.  As my 30th birthday quickly approaches, I’m realizing more and more that it’s the journey and not the destination.  When you are younger, success was much easier to measure and attain.  Make the honor roll, win a baseball game, do well on the SAT’s, get into college, etc..

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The Studio

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I spent the weekend in a recording studio in Maine with Vanessa Kafka, Aaron Pearsall, and Matt Beals. We were working on Vanessa’s new EP. It was an awesome session, and so far it sounds great. Thanks again to everyone who helped support the project. And here are a few pictures from the studio: The Board: Stuff I Don’t Understand: The Studio: Listening Back: A Beautiful, Beautiful Amp: