I'm very excited about a new Martin Sexton album (Sugarcoating) and a new tour. And as an added bonus, the Ryan Montbleau Band will be opening for Martin and performing as his backing band. Congratulations, RMB, you guys deserve this.
I have tickets for a Saturday night show in Madison, Wisconsin, and the next night [...]
Bob Lefsetz directed my attention to a New York Times op-ed piece by Damian Kulash, Jr., "WhoseTube?" I'm not familiar with Damian or his band, OK Go, but was interested to hear how EMI no longer allows the band's YouTube videos to be embedded, which had previously contributed greatly to their visibility and success:
We woke up to some beautiful frost on Saturday; all of the trees coated in white. I took a few pictures, but my bland suburban lot and poor photography skills didn't make for anything share-worthy.
But then I received this in my inbox:
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A winter wonderland. I like the lone deer in the foreground.
This [...]
I've been more aggressive lately about creating helper scripts and aliases for common tasks, and I liked this find helper enough to want to share it. I find that I often do filename searches like this:
find -iname "*some_word*"
That's not so bad to type, but why not make it even easier for my, and maybe your [...]
Please allow me a promotional post. I don't get a kickback or anything from this other than some potential FNPs (Favorite Nephew Points).
My Aunt Sharon is selling these super Soup Saver Scoops:
She is retired and has started up a business to sell these things. She came up with the idea based on an old utensil [...]
Every moment instructs, and every object: for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after a long time.
Stratospheric traces of our transitory flight
Trails of condensation held
In narrow paths of white
The sun is turning black
The world is turning gray
All the stars fade from the night
The oceans drain away