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telepatch: October 2008
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008. Improv Everywhere and the power of collaboration. I've recently been working a proposal for an innovation program at work. Today, I met with one of my peers to discuss it and he suggested adding an element of competition to the program as a means to drive quality and interest. A group I first heard about on This American Life. Their original No Pants. Stunt is now an annual event in New York City. More collaboration, less competition. Truly a goal worth striving for. Canning" f...
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telepatch: April 2009
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Sunday, April 26, 2009. Minneapolis versus Seattle taxes. After hearing the Minnesota state senate has proposed a new income tax top rate of 9.25% (which does not apply to me) to deal with our huge budget shortfalls, I remember my friends who moved to Seattle told me there is no income tax there. A simplistic comparison at the state level from census bureau data:. Revenue (1000s) $18,320,891/. Estimated population 5,220,393/. Median income $55,802/. Of median income 6.2%/. Total tax revenue $18,320,891/.
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telepatch: Drummers and clicktracks, again...
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Monday, March 23, 2009. Drummers and clicktracks, again. A few weeks back, John found the following out on reddit:. We found this fun, and e-mail discussion ensued. I'd offered this:. Steve Gadd is well-known in the music community, both for deep groove and drug use. The song "Aja" on the album of the same name is legendary. Which led me to:. Anyway, I downloaded the package referenced in John's linked article and had it look at some tracks. Four of them are Gadd (Steely Dan - Aja; Paul Simon - Late ...
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telepatch: July 2008
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Sunday, July 20, 2008. Feymann has so many incredible stories. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feymann. Is a classic, but here is a web post. He lived many lives. The only problem with his writings is he set the bar so high for the rest of us. Sunday, July 6, 2008. Five Daily Show segments. The Daily Show makes M and me laugh. The culmination of a week of trash talking on the. Daily show, the colbert report, and conan o'brien during the writer's. Strike, when they are desperately trying to fill airtime.
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telepatch: Hanford, WA
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Monday, July 13, 2009. Since moving to Seattle almost six years ago, I have heard several mentions of the Hanford Downwinders. I knew this group had suffered medical problems related to some kind of nuclear facility, but until today I had never knew that the Hanford site was the source. Of the plutonium for the bomb exploded over Nagasaki. There are some remarkable photos of the site here. July 13, 2009 at 9:43 PM. July 13, 2009 at 9:45 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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telepatch: July 2009
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Monday, July 13, 2009. Since moving to Seattle almost six years ago, I have heard several mentions of the Hanford Downwinders. I knew this group had suffered medical problems related to some kind of nuclear facility, but until today I had never knew that the Hanford site was the source. Of the plutonium for the bomb exploded over Nagasaki. There are some remarkable photos of the site here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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telepatch: September 2008
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Thursday, September 11, 2008. Tax evader appears to have no grip on reality. Did I mention following this tax evader's story? He seems not in touch with reality. Wednesday, September 10, 2008. Rlwrap, a geek's friend. Have you ever used a UNIX command-line utility that doesn't have filename completion? Painful, isn't it? Someone clever produced a wrapper to add filename completion. Here's the example for gnuplot:. Rlwrap -c -a gnuplot. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Rlwrap, a geeks friend.
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telepatch: Computing wattage
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Sunday, March 8, 2009. I am pondering a new computer for gaming. The dudes I game with all have recently replaced their rigs, so I'm the holdout. They're PCI Express, I'm still AGP. Many are the reasons I don't want to buy something new: $ , time, and abusing the earth. To address the last, I pulled out our Kill-A-Watt. And hooked the computer power bar into it. Computer on but screen off (or in "I'm off" blinky mode): 106W. Computer while playing video games: 200-220W. March 22, 2009 at 8:39 PM. Subscri...
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telepatch: Minneapolis versus Seattle taxes
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Sunday, April 26, 2009. Minneapolis versus Seattle taxes. After hearing the Minnesota state senate has proposed a new income tax top rate of 9.25% (which does not apply to me) to deal with our huge budget shortfalls, I remember my friends who moved to Seattle told me there is no income tax there. A simplistic comparison at the state level from census bureau data:. Revenue (1000s) $18,320,891/. Estimated population 5,220,393/. Median income $55,802/. Of median income 6.2%/. Total tax revenue $18,320,891/.
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telepatch: August 2008
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008. Jenny hadn't seen the Weezer Pork and Beans video. And watching it sent us on an internet meme-fest, reviewing all the referenced videos. I was surprised/saddened that the Back Dorm Boys. Weren't represented. After Gary Brolsma, they might be my favorite YouTube sensation. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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