8 Things We Will Miss About Living in the States

I read somewhere that people like reading lists. I think it holds true for me, so today over lunch I was brainstorming a list of things I/we will really miss about living in New York. So here it is, in no particular order…
(Note that this is things, not people. The list of people we will [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Are you right or left-brained?

Sorry the image is a little suggestive, but I couldn’t find this done with any other image, and you HAVE to try this.
First of all, note which direction the girl is spinning when you first get to the page. If she’s spinning clockwise you’re right brained — or at least thinking with your right brain. [...]

Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Bringing back the hat?

I want this to be true so that I can wear a fedora…

Who wouldn’t look cool in a fedora? And why aren’t there any celebrities as classy as Old Blue Eyes any more?
Deep thoughts for a lazy Sunday afternoon…

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Anthem

Sorry about the down-time yesterday, our little site received a right good Slashdotting when my post on my job made it to the front page. For those of you not in the know, Slashdot is one of the top geek news and discussion sites on the Internet. For an article to make it to the [...]

Posted on February 5th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 2 - The Job

Hi Slashdot, read this, woulda ya?
Did you ever see that one Friends episode where they make up a game where they test their knowledge of each other? In one of the rounds, the girls are asked what Chandler does for a living, and the answer they come up with is “transponster!” Which of course isn’t [...]

Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Things You’ll See in Value Village 10 Years From Now…

The other day we found a beautiful little program called Delicious Library, which lets us put a visual face on our expanding collection of digital (and some physical) media. If you haven’t seen it, and you have a Mac, you should definitely check it out.
It got me thinking though, as we used our Firewire camcorder [...]

Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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What’s happening to me?

Last week I downloaded some music from Journey.
Yesterday I was strangely driven to download some from Kansas…
Let me be clear, early 80s music has never before appealed to me. Is this some side effect of aging? Does everyone, at some point in their life, find themselves drawn to the music they might have heard while [...]

Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Found on the back of my coffee cup…

So-called “global warming” is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy independent, clean our air and water, improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles, kick-start 21st-century industries, and make our cities safer and more livable. Don’t let them get away with it!
- Chip Giller

Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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BIG RED LETTERS!! SUPERFLUOUS PUNCTUATION!!!1

If my project ships on time, with no casualties — its apparently contributed to a heart attack and a car accident already — then it will be a miracle… and I’ll be really proud of this team.
Who woulda thought that software engineering could be this dangerous?

Posted on January 18th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Warning: Geek Rant - On HD Content Delivery

Last year Apple announced a new product, that we were all expecting, called the AppleTV. When it first came out, there was much celebrating, and this site even got in on some of the action. Then reality set in. Here was a $300 castrated Mac Mini that played video in only one codec and required [...]

Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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