Heh – this is a couple years old, but I had forgotten how spot-on it is.
shacker’s Jam Odyssey
thisismyjam.com encourages users to post one new track per week, with embedded video. I wasn’t religious about keeping up with in 2012, but did manage to post about half the time. The end-of-year twist is that they can (on request) produce a compilation of snippets for the entire year, as a “Jam Odyssey.” Pretty cool idea. Here’s mine:
Cheeze Doodle Nirvana
When was the last time you experienced this much bliss?
Aleksander Gamme had been trekking the South Pole for 86 days, living on a meager diet of health food. He had lost nearly 50 pounds. Before he began, he had planted caches of supplies at 200k intervals. He had purposely not kept track of what each cache contained. Nearly out of food, he came across one of his last caches. This was his moment of extreme bliss, discovering a bag full of Cheeze Doodles, chocolate, and Mentos.
Part of Radiolab’s excellent Bliss episode.
Mission San Miguel
Stopped off with family at Mission San Miguel on the way home from the Central Coast last week – hadn’t been there for years. Caught this weird light glowing through a dusty old cow skin window.
Mission San Miguel
Lion’s Broken Color Picker
One of two mystifying downgrades that come with OS X Lion / Mountain Lion* is the fact that all traces of hex values have been removed from the Digital Colorimeter. For hundreds of thousands of web developers, obtaining hex values is the only purpose of Colorimeter, and I suspect that web developers are the bundled app’s main users. This one is a total head-scratcher. Hopefully the change is a bug, not a feature, and it’ll be back someday.
Meanwhile, if you’re looking for a workable free replacement, check out this simple Colors app. Not quite as elegant, but gets the job done just fine.
* The other mystifying downgrade in Mountain Lion is the “snooze” feature in iCal alerts. You used to be able to set a snooze to be re-reminded a few hours later, or the day before, or whatever you like. Now your only option is to acknowledge the alert and dismiss it, so the daily GTD workflow for bazillions of users is completely broken. What went through the heads of the designers removing this critical feature is anyone’s guess.
Winter leaf in glass
A drinking glass, left outside on our deck overnight, caught this perfect little maple leaf falling from a nearby tree overnight.
Spam Training on cPanel for Desktop Mail Clients
This is primarily a guide for administrators of cPanel hosting systems, though tech-savvy cPanel users with shell access will be able to use this technique as well.
Users of webmail systems like GMail, Yahoo, etc. are accustomed to having a “Mark as Spam” button in the interface. Clicking the button tells the server that the selected message is spam, to prevent similar messages from showing up in the inbox again. So how can administrators of standard cPanel-based hosting systems provide similar functionality?
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Best Mac Upgrade Ever
A couple months ago, upgraded my wife’s old Mac Mini to a 13″ MacBook Air with SSD, and was stunned at how it blew my 3-yr-old MacBook Pro out of the water, performance-wise. Having 8GB rather than 4GB was part of it, but the real clincher was the fact that it shipped with an SSD drive rather spinning platters. I had read about the huge performance gains that solid state gets you, but was unprepared for just how great it feels to work in all-RAM environment. No more waiting 45 seconds for Photoshop to launch (four seconds, anyone?). No more feeling the crunch as you’re trying to start that Skype conference while both Backblaze and Spotlight indexing are competing for swap space.
Masterful Dreadlocks
Spotted at the sandwich shop today:
At first thought it might be Jaron Lanier, but nope – a construction worker on his lunch break. Had to wonder how many years it had taken to grow these, and what kind of ecosystem lived within.
Whatever his reasons, a respectable accomplishment.
Will We Ever Run Out of New Music?
Ready to have your musical mind blown? New at Stuck Between Stations: