Distractions
Man, it's hot today. Fall's on the way, though. I love the mountains in the fall. Is that a guitar I hear? I hope we have pizza later. The last pizza I ate wasn’t hot when it got to the house. This coffee is hot, though. Hot coffee is the best. With cream and sugar. I shouldn’t use sugar. I don’t need the calories. Wonder what time the gym closes tonight? Hope that smelly dude doesn’t show up on the treadmill next to me again. Maybe I’ll run outside if he’s there. I need to cut my grass. And finish putting up blinds. Man, I have to pay bills tonight, too. Gonna be a late night, I’ll probably end up brewing a pot of coffee. Where’s my coffee? I could have sworn I poured a cup.
The day we built houses, not websites
Once a year, we here at NewCity step away from the business of building websites and spend a day working with Habitat for Humanity. Like last year, we joined up with other volunteers in Pulaski, VA, to continue work on a group of houses being built down there.
There was siding to be hung (twice).
There was trim to be put up (and there will be a…
Voice Your Vote…Or At Least Sling Some Mud.
This is a great and fun online post where designers can create a political button – however serious, funny or totally whacky – and post it to their site for a chance at prizes. There's a lot of great political button designs here! – and also a few that you look at and say "how did that #%*@# get here?"
If a picture is worth 1000 words…..
Well, then maybe a video is worth 1000 pictures…
When I am not at my desk at NewCity, doing the things I do here, I am off working on my property or at my parent's farm. Often "at my parent's farm" means the same thing as "spending time with our Friesian horses".
It is foaling season and this week we had a new horse baby born on the farm. I made a…
And they’re all obsessed with coffee, too!
I haven't read Lee Siegel's anti-Internet book Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob yet, but the New York Times has reviewed it and the opening, at least, sounds like the kind of argument I've heard against computers and technology ever since I was calling electronic bulletin board systems in high school: computers…
Star Trek Analytics and the Value of Observation
SiteLogic Founder Matt Bailey uses the power of analytics — that is, statistical analysis — to determine how Star Trek's famous Red Shirts can live long, happy lives instead of being messily killed on one of Captain Kirk's adventures. A noble project. But Bailey's analysis ignores both context and behavior, and this is the result:
We can reliably…
