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Very Tempting for Thursday Night: Carlo Lio @ Vessel

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:44:27 -0800

A couple of choice tracks prior to BASE at Vessel.

Carlo Lio & Coyu - Moxis Sickness [SC-EDIT]

Great Article on Getting a Job at a Startup

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:45:00 -0800

Wish I would have had this as a guide/wake-up-call before I made my
jump. With the advantage of hindsight, it's spot-on.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/28/how-to-get-a-job-at-a-startup-if-you-have-no...

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Seven Billion - The City Solution

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:05:54 -0800

"Per capita, city dwellers tread more lightly [...] Their apartments take less energy to heat, cool, and light than do houses. Most important, people in dense cities drive less. Their destinations are close enough to walk to, and enough people are going to the same places to make public transit practical. In cities like New York, per capita energy use and carbon emissions are much lower than the national average."

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/12/city-solutions/kunzig-text

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select vs select_tag vs collection_select

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:32:26 -0800

Love the simple, rules-of-thumb write-up on which to use, when.

"Use select when you require a basic drop-down selection box populated
with data not sourced from a database."

"Use select_tag when you require a drop-down selection box populated
with data not sourced from a database, and are happy to hard code the
default selected option tag."

"Use collection_select when you require a drop-down selection box,
whose source is a model/object."

http://shiningthrough.co.uk/Select-helper-methods-in-Ruby-on-Rails

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Potatoss, Artillery Duel: Everything Old is New Again

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:01:20 -0800

Brilliant. Why didn't I think of this?

...given one of my favorite games from the C64 (circa late 80's):

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The Day's List of Helpful CSS and CSS3 Sites

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:30:46 -0700

http://css3please.com

http://www.useragentman.com/IETransformsTranslator/

http://themegamag.com/coding/css-coding/drawing-with-css3-tips/

http://www.css3shapes.com/

http://css-tricks.com/132-how-to-create-an-ie-only-stylesheet/

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/opacity.html

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From My Time With Marzuki

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:40:23 -0700

One day, many years ago when I was finishing my undergrad at a small college in West Michigan, I sat in as a session drummer for a local band. Indie folk rock wasn't my thing but I knew a couple of people in the band so I did them a favor.

Not long thereafter, Shannon Stephens - lead singer of the band - handed me a cassette recording of that session. I tossed it in a box and forgot about it. Little did I know, that band - Marzuki - would go on to do big things in the folk indie rock scene.

About two years ago, I saw mention of Sufjan Stevens in some mainstream media, but couldn't believe my eyes. It didn't take long (a few searches) to find out that it was one-and-the-same.

I became curious about the location of that cassette from so many years before, but couldn't find it in any of my boxes in San Francisco. When I was last in Michigan, about a year ago, I sifted through my dusty belongings and finally found it.

For the last year, it collected dust again. This evening, though, I finally sat down and with the help of instructions from Lifehacker (and a bit of help from my wife Visda to get Audacity set up,) I digiitzed all three tracks at a little over ten minutes of music. Here's a shot of the cassette and my wife's tape-player (which had also been gathering dust as you can imagine):

I was ecstatic to digitze all three songs (hooking up the tape-player to my Mac Mini and capturing the output went smoothly) and wanted to share them, but since I'm not exactly sure if I have the copyright to post the entire songs, I decided to sample them and post to Soundcloud to test the waters.

Please excuse the cleanliness of the edits: it was my first time using Audacity.

In the first entitled Why Don't You Want Me, you'll hear me on bongos.

In the second track - Burn Through Me - I switch to drumset. You'll hear Sufjan on recorder.

In the final track, don't strain to hear too much of me: best I can tell from the recording (and remember) - I sat this one out, but do listen for Sufjan's recorder again. Here's Longing:

Enjoy.

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