• Bike Snob on Christian Rock in High Road of Missiles and Missionaries”

Empire State Of Mind – Forest Hills State of Mind with Billy Eichner and Rachel Dratch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nS5QyNC24w

(via Gothamist)

    * While The Pasta Cooks
        * Pasta with Greens
            * Spaghetti with Spinach, Bacon, and Toasted Bread Crumbs
            * Spaghetti with Greens, White Beans, Bacon, and Toasted Bread Crumbs

Let’s be honest: bacon does make vegetables taste better. Meat haters are missing out.

(That said, I <3 vegetables.)

Brand New, Welcome to Bangkok

Photo Credit: “Purple Ball Flowers” by Cheddarcheez licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic.

Yup, I’ll get right on emailing you about you not being able to serve me advertisements.

My new daydream for my future. Maybe I should start wearing sweater vests.

The midtown offices would probably have none of that

Next wish: provide centralized bike parking. Or at least non-rotating doors that actually open.

• MathWorld’s page on Pi: Always fascinating to read crazy facts about mathematical constants.
• Ignite: It’s Really Just a Series of Tubes: An interesting 5 minute talk on the intracity pneumatic tubes used for communication.
• Upgrading to 9.04 and Ext4 Remotely: Don’t do this, but this will be useful for me in the coming weeks.
• New Filing: DOJ claims immunity in wiretapping case: I’m sad that the Obama DOJ not only embraces the legality of domestic wiretapping, but they’ve produced a new legal doctrine that basically says the president is above the law. Glenn Greenwald gives a detailed analysis.
• Co-founder of Starbucks exclaims his love for his French press: I have mixed feelings about mine.
• Super-expensive bike store in TriBeCa, sales down: Leah and I walked by the other day; she asked me why I didn’t buy my bike here. This article explains why.
• Self-appointed traffic cop in Washingon Square: Give me 23 years and I might be this guy.
• Water Tanks in NYC: It’s nice to know a bit more about the water tanks on buildings in my town.

via Dreamhost Blog.

the Machine Shop at Columbia University’s Physics Department.

• High school football coach Rich Dombroski, from A 91-0 Football Game Tough for Both Sides to Take.

Even when one is down, realism is where the truth lies. It may not help the situation, but finding a place to lay blame when the reality is clear is generally non-productive.

(Or, at least that’s the theory I’m testing recently).

Freaking awesome. I <3 ratm.

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blockquote>I really cannot believe that glib is a word, I had to look it up. My English is not perfect, but it’s rare that I mix up Gnome dependency libraries and real words.

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Look at me. Look at me! When you make love to me Gaius, you don’t always think about me. Your mind wanders, I know that. You think of equations, puzzles… your laundry. it’s the nature of the mind to disconnect from the body and journey on its own .

• Six to Dr. Gaius Baltar, Battlestar Galactica

If this sort of transparency leads to complaints so be it. Castle managers should be prepared to explain their prices (or to pour boiling oil from the battlements onto vistitors who besiege them with complaints).

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“This is two minutes and twenty seconds of extreme awesome.” -Six

So. True.

(Though replace “CIO” with “senior technical management” and “Is” with “Can Be”. While you’re at it, replace “Application Developers” with “System Administrators. Let’s try this again.)

9 Reasons Why System Administrators Think Their Senior Technical Management Can Be Clueless.

I don’t really see any reason not to start charging for plastic bags. Well, maybe I do. It’d be supremely inconvenient for consumers, but for places like super markets where your purpose of going is to buy groceries, it won’t be hard to bring a couple of canvas bags with you.

Precisely. People will adapt to this stimulus. They will change. That’s why high prices of oil are good for exactly one reason: it encourages positive behavioral change toward efficiency.¹

1. Granted, the fact that it may mean less food for some families suck. This is a consequence and a testimony to the power of economics and proper planning, at both the macro- and microeconomic scale.

From an interview with Marc Ecko:

Whatever you do in life, be passionate about it. At least once a month, if not every day, reassess what you’re doing and make sure you still love it. If you’re passionate about something others around you may see as a dead end, pave your own way. Be a trailblazer.

From “Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking,” a discussion on mainframe technology:

“Technologies want to survive, and they reinvent themselves to go on,” he said.

From the opinion piece “The Republican Resurrection” by Frank Rich:

Mrs. Clinton is fond of mocking her adversary for offering “just words.” But words can matter, and Mrs. Clinton’s tragedy is that she never realized they could have mattered for her, too. You have to wonder if her Iraq speech would have been greeted with the same shrug if she had tossed away her usual talking points and seized the opportunity to address the war in the same adult way that Mr. Obama addressed race.

Yes and No

I’m really glad those questions were answered for me.

• RFC2870, “Root Name Server Operational Requirements”

Random statistic:

But what about the other 6% of young people? Spawns of the hellbeast, must be.

You mean software vendors distribute patches to existing installs?

This is from the website of a new condo building being built in my neighborhood.

“Where SoHo meets Tribeca” ? You must mean Canal St, but don’t want to make people think of Chinatown or hellish traffic.

Wow. Who ever would have thought?

For whatever reason, when I visited this website, my mind made an unconscious decision as to what kind of robot I was interested in…

The secret to managing a board of directors: “You never ask board members what they think. You tell them what you’re going to do.”

“In Defense of Rosé Champagne” highlights why men should not be afraid of buying pink alcohol.