July 2011
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Doing my life's work
When you’re on auto-pilot, no problem. You’ve done it before, so you recognize every pattern you’re in and there’s no need to worry.
But this also means you’re going the wrong way. You’re getting no new input, so you’re not recognizing any new patterns. If this is the way your life is going, you are actually actually becoming more useless. In an increasingly chaotic world, the best pattern...
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GPX route file for the 2011 Cycling World Cup in...
Yesterday I tweeted a question about finding a GPS app for iPhone that lets you draw a route to follow because I want to try and ride the route the riders will follow for the 2011 Cycling World Cup in Copenhagen.
Thanks to Søren Johannesen I came across MotionX-GPS, a GPS app that accepts route files in the GPX format. The World Cup website has a link to a Google Map of the route where I...
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Trouble On My Mind
This video is an example of why I’m really excited about where rap is going right now. OFWGKTA mastermind Tyler, The Creator joins one of my favorite rappers of the last couple of years, Pusha T, for an ironic take on the traditional cars-and-women rap video.
It’s just so much fun. Pusha T’s Re-Up Gang are usually unironic unapologetically hardcore gangsta rappers; they incapsulate the genre...
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30
I’m turning 30 tomorrow. 30 is the birthday of bucket lists and I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been considering how my life is going. To sum up: Almost perfectly. I just moved in to a great new apartment with the girl of my dreams. I have a fantastic job with inspiring colleagues and interesting assignments (and I’ll have even more great challenges to talk about soon,...