February 2012
31 posts
NPR on Low Power FM: license translators first →
nesbittslimesoda:
Summary: After finally quieting down long enough to let a bill that allows more community radio stations on the air, NPR is now saying that a huge backlog of translator applications (which would crowd the low power stations off a lot of the available frequencies) should be dealt with first.
And this is not the first time NPR has gone after other community and educational...
I just signed into the student loans website..
… since I got one of those “HEY WE HAVE A LETTER POSTED FOR YOU” (note to the internet: that’s what email is for, not your website) and discovered I have a balance of $0.00.
Something — not me — paid off the balance of my student loan 3 days ago?
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: Neon Cathedral, from Ryan... →
That’s my music at the bottom there!
mackryan:
Recently, I got a chance to work with Reed Ruddy and the Seattle Rock Orchestra at Studio X on a record we’ve been chipping away at for a while now. It’s a collaboration between us and Allen Stone titled Neon Cathedral. You may have heard the track when we premiered it at the sold out Allen…
Sorry, I thought this was just amazing. →
On the various bots that roam Amazon and price books:
Before I talk about my own troubles, let me tell you about another book, “Computer Game Bot Turing Test”. It’s one of over 100,000 “books” “written” by a Markov chain running over random Wikipedia articles, bundled up and sold online for a ridiculous price. The publisher, Betascript, is notorious for this kind of thing.
It gets...
Idiolect.: to the left →
federov:
What I didn’t mention in my post last night (the one about how I was called pompous by my prof) is that those comments occurred in the context of a conversation about “masculine” and “feminine” writing conventions. Basically, masculine writing is assertive/aggressive/direct (lots of…
Pompous! I admire the original poster for getting called pompous, as a lady it’s pretty...
“But we still have legitimate concerns here. It seems unfair that the designers...”
– From -alpha To -webkit: Fix All the Prefixes—Revolt! Puppy—I blogged my answer to this question last night. If you’re a web designer and not exhausted with the vendor prefix mess, why not have a read? (via ragdoll)
This was a great post. Just sayin’!
I wonder how “gun-meet-foot” it would be to go shopping for sweaters (I’m thinking super tight 50s and early 60s style?) instead of practicing the music for my concerts this week.
Today was terrible!
Last meal was over 10 hours ago. Now spending all the cash I made at my orchestra gig on a cab ride home.
Planes
I like the different groups of people on the flights that go to Lincoln and to Seattle.
Seattle flights have aging hippie-ish moms with bright striped socks and sensible Mary Janes. Dudes in their mid-40s with black plastic glasses that still spike and floof up their gray hair. Lots of brightly colored hair. Multiple musical instruments. Dead silence as everyone taps on their smart...
