Stumbled on this eye catching wall downtown, and it seemed like a good place for a bike portrait.
Stumbled on this eye catching wall downtown, and it seemed like a good place for a bike portrait.
Now it’s more like the back of a knee. Port Authority area along 8th avenue sure has changed a lot. Much less sleaze and surly threat. And sitting in Dean & Deluca is a much better option than waiting at the Greyhound platform. Nice coffee and a slice of Sullivan Street zucchini and parmesan pizza.
Stroller density
I have these Yamaha monitor headphones (RH-5Ma) that I use when working with GarageBand but haven’t actually used for listening to music much. I just plugged them into my laptop and played a great Los Lobos tune (“Burn It Down” from Tin Can Trust) — in okay quality VBR MP3 — and I was stunned [...]
I have been a big fan of Picasa for a number of years. I use it to manage the ever-growing set of digital photos I’ve taken since leaving analog behind in the late 90′s. Recently, I have been amazed at the steady improvements in the facial recognition capabilities built into the product, and I find [...]
Lately I’ve had a series of encounters in my work that highlight the importance of trust. I’m talking specifically about trusting someone’s technical perspective. The correlation between wisdom and gray hair is not guaranteed, but it’s certainly indicated. Even more than gray hair, though, is a different indicator that I realized must be present for [...]
I stumbled on this quote in a Wikipedia article on Lutes: Matheson, ca 1720, stated if a lute-player has lived eighty years, he has surely spent sixty years tuning. My immediate thought was that if a programmer has lived eighty then he’s probably spent sixty holding some combination of the control and arrow keys.
Inspired by some recent comments I made at the New York CTO club, my colleague Dan Woods just published an article at Forbes.com in which he interviewed me about what I see as some of the most significant advantages of the Groovy language in enterprise software development environments. I will just add that over the [...]
Not sure if my Latin is correct, but my meaning was to seize the coldest day. I just got into the office after a fantastic but normal morning commute. My bike is leaning against the wall by the window, and I’ll feeling way too warm under all the layers I’m wearing. Hard to believe I’m [...]
This week finally brought the feel of winter to NYC streets. The wind reached inside and straight to the bones. The light was thin but blinding in the mornings, fast and short in the late afternoons. It’s tough when the sun’s setting by 4:30 and the avenues are filled with edgy taxis. The steam from [...]