3 years today since I last drank. Yay, me!

#confessional #alcoholism

Opened up one of my favorite books and was simply delighted.

#photos #advancedsoul

This is why I absolutely hate working on another developer’s code:

if (false) { }

That was the last line of the WordPress wp-config.php file from a WP Engine site.

Seeing crap likes this does nothing but waste people’s time.

#devhell #worknews

Peeps, I would like to visit the place pictured here. I like the little engine and the wheels and axles.

I have no idea where or when it was taken. I found it on the internet. I was supposed to be working but decided to pause and do something more personally productive. Such is life.

#trains

Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east.

#hobbits

#wednesday #animatedGIFs

Modern Family episode takes place entirely on OS X desktop

According to reports, the plot of the February 25 episode will revolve around main character Claire (played by Julie Bowen) trying to track down her daughter after a fight; as such, viewers will see the episode unfold from her laptop’s primary screen while e-mails, Facetime calls, and texts pop up (along with visual gags like web browser usage to tell jokes).

Producers confirmed they built a fake OS X Yosemite environment, upon which they overlaid footage shot exclusively on iPhone 6s, “new iPads,” and Macbook Pros; supposedly, the latest OS X was chosen so that the episode could take advantage of its “Continuity” feature. While footage was shot on actual iDevices, camera crews had to hold phones on actors’ behalf and then film simultaneous scenes in disparate locations to mimic the feel of people talking to each other through video chat.

This is totally cool. We’ve watched Modern Family since episode 1.

#tv #macosx

Peeps, here’s your video for today…

… “everything looks perfect from far away”

I am thinking it’s a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images
And when we kiss they’re perfectly aligned

And I have to speculate
That God Himself did make
Us into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay

And true it may seem like a stretch
But it’s thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you’re away
And when I am missing you to death

And when you are out there on the road
For several weeks of shows
And when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home

They will see us waving from such great heights
“Come down now” they’ll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
“Come down now” but we’ll stay

I tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon the sending

And that frankly will not fly
You’ll hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
And this is guiding you home

They will see us waving from such great heights
“Come down now” they’ll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
“Come down now” but we’ll stay

#musicvideos

Google and blogs: “Shit.” – Marco.org

Everyone’s spending increasingly more consumption time dicking around in apps and snacking on bite-sized social content instead of browsing websites and searching Google.

Publishers are relying more on social traffic not because Google’s squeezing them out, but because that’s where everyone went. The dominance of mobile usage, social networks, and YouTube, plus attention-competition from apps, are the real problems for web publishers and blog writers.

The social and app revolutions haven’t been purely additive — much of the time people spend on those now has come at the expense of search, RSS, and bookmarks.

You’ll get no arguments from me. I tend to skim the social medias more than Googling these days. All the peeps are there and I’m much more interested in what they’re doing and reading than rummaging around with what Google has to offer. A peep’s opinion that I trust has much more weight than a search algorithm.

I’m still a big proponent of RSS, I’m in my RSS reader at least twice a day. There’s a whole lot of bullshit on the web and I prefer sticking with the sites that make it easy for me to get and read their content. And I only subscribe to blogs and sites that I trust as well.

Wikipedia is another frequent stop. I’d rather start my research there with measure of quality than starting with a blank page of Google unless I’m looking for very specific technical items. Then I always seem to end up on Stack Overflow anyways.

Maybe that’s the whole thing. Maybe it all comes down to trust.

#socialmedia #internetss #trust

I get this at least 3 out of 4 times when trying to use iTunes Radio. Even worse is that it never accepts my password — I just click the cancel button and go about my business.

Apparently I’m not the only one.

Talk about loosing faith in Apple — this is my Apple ID (your user name for everything you do with Apple) we’re talking about here.

The “Reset Warnings” button has been clicked so we’ll see what happens.

#apple #itunes #fail