I recently came across this post on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like “microblogging” service: http://weibo.com/1654694194/BnIEU7RQ6 What do you mean, you don’t read Chinese? Fine. Here’s Google’s auto-translation: To be fair, I can see how someone in China might be confused, since I…
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I Kinda Wish I Had Seen This Sooner
TL;DR: Don’t buy Western Digital or Seagate hard drives.“Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014” from the Backblaze blog Setting up new external HDD, hope this one lasts more than 2 years, should probably just shell out for RAID/NAS next,…
I Don’t Worry Too Much about Piracy and Here’s Why
TL;DR: oh, just go read Cecilia Tan’s blog post instead. This summer, my friend Katrina Archer self-published her YA fantasy novel Untalented (previously a 2009 ABNA quarterfinalist): This week, she discovered that the eBook version had been pirated: If I…
I Am Home
It’s been less than a week since my Clarion West (CW) adventure concluded, and I’m still readjusting to normal life and catching up on all the e-mails I’ve been ignoring for six weeks or more. I’m almost done clearing out…
I Followed the Oregon Trail to Find Terry, Who Apparently Has Very Poor Impulse Control
A few days ago, I noticed several of my Twitter-friends retweeting this: You meet a man on the Oregon Trail. His name is Terry. You tell him: “Thats a girl’s name!” Terry shoots you You have died of dissin Terry…
I Hear Your Voice
Disclaimer/Disclosure: images below are Amazon.com affiliate links. On Monday night, DeeAnn and I watched the Veronica Mars movie at home (which was awesome, and I can’t wait for the day when all TV shows and movies are distributed on-demand, but…
I Less Than Three Portland
(Today’s “The I in MEAT” blog post is brought to you by the perfect texture, The Doubleclicks, and the Twitter.) Back in 2007, DeeAnn and I went all in on what we called “the writer move.” In particular, we decided…
I Hate the Word “Tribe”
Just to be clear: this is not a rant against Seth Godin. I actually think he’s got some pretty great ideas about leadership, as shown in his TED talk from 2009 (worth watching for the vintage Kindle 1 prop, if…
Important Data Visualization of the Day
Because I know you’ve been wondering: That is all.
SnoutCast #197: Think, Think, Think
In which we do not tell knock-knock jokes. Not a single one. Nope. Zero. [ Download mp3 – 23 MB ] 00:59 – “cerebral”23:17 – The End Linkage Curtis’ Ignite Portland 12 talk: “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” 2010…