If I live until Sunday one of life’s hurdles will be behind me as my odometer flips over to 40 on Saturday. My doctor assured me during a visit this that I am a healthy 40. My good cholesterol looks good, my bad cholesterol is better than normal, and my blood pressure checks out. The …
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Adventurer Dies Quietly
There are not many obituaries left to be written like “John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74” published recently in the New York Times. At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle. At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a …
Reading is Social Now
As we follow recommendations from the people we follow online (my wife calls them my “fake friends”), reading is not necessarily a solitary activity these days. From Steven Johnson on the Findings blog: My article/essay/blog post reading has become intensely social. I think easily more than half of the articles I read in the average …
Seeing Coulton in Style
So, Julie and I found out our Internet pal and songmeister Jonathan Coulton was coming to our hometown of Chattanooga to open for They Might Be Giants at Track 29. Score! Since my birthday is imminent and we already have our income tax refund we decided to whoop it up and spend the night downtown …
Grab a Bucket and Start Bailing
The ship is sinking and it’s time to put your back into it and start bailing water out of the boat, but which bucket do you use? They all look so useful! Just as I got the idea for this terrible metaphor, I froze. There are too many bit buckets to choose from and it’s …
Mac Writing Tips
Take my word for it Mac writers–I’ve wasted the time for you–you only need a couple of things to finish your work. If you want to focus on writing, do this: Learn about Markdown (can’t thank @gruber enough for this one) Buy Scrivener for Mac for longer work Pick a plain text editor for Mac …
Trying on #!/usr/bin/perl
This morning I was having one of those “this should be easier” moments while working on website. After uploading a PDF using Interarchy, it’s easy to copy the FTP URL or the public URL, but neither is exactly what I need to make a working link. I would end up with one of two things, …
Mapping My Future
My life is pretty great right now, probably better than ever in spite of a few challenges, but some aspects either seem to be out of control or lack vision. Several years ago, I found Michael Hyatt’s e-book titled Creating Your Personal Life Plan at his website, filed it away as something that may be …
In Case You Forgot, NVAlt is Awesome « Macdrifter
Automatic Markdownification of new notes into nvALT is one of the applications coolest features and the one I always forget about. Thanks to Gabe for this reminder. Click through to his blog for screen shots for visual cues. In Case You Forgot, NVAlt is Awesome « Macdrifter: Copy a URL and switch back to NVAlt. …
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Perspective on iPhone Mute Switch
There has been a lot of talk–a lot–about the Great Apple Mute Switch Conspiracy of 2012 since a conductor halted the New York Philharmonic’s performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 in media res in response to someone’s iPhone alarm went off and kept going off. John Gruber (who approves of Apple’s implementation) and Andy Ihnatko …