Brandt Kurowski

having fun with my new router (woodworking, not networking)

lighting the grill

no Internet at home, feels like the friggin' dark ages

JS-Kit ECHO - http://js-kit.com/

So now there are two ways to spend $100,000 on a full-size luxury hybrid sedan. We’d buy this one. Then again, if BMW and Lexus were buying retired tugboats, lining them in leather, and putting wheels on them for street use, we’d have an opinion on which of those to buy, too. But that wouldn’t make it any less of a goofy purchase. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

Comcast down AGAIN! WTF? 2 years of great service, then I cancel my backup DSL service, then 4 weeks of daily outages. Time to get DSL back…

Put This On, “a web series about dressing like a grownup”. Jeans that are too long, with sneakers whose laces drag on the ground? Who considers this “grownup”? - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

So when a client says to me, ‘If I cancel all my TV [spending] and replace it with blogging, what will it do for me?’ the answer is, ‘We don’t know.’ - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

But the underlying argument has not changed: Vaccines harm America’s children, and doctors like Paul Offit are paid shills of the drug industry. To be clear, there is no credible evidence to indicate that any of this is true. None. Twelve epidemiological studies have found no data that links the MMR […] vaccine to autism; six studies have found no... - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

problem with living on top of a hill is that when a water main breaks gravity sucks water from your pipes to service those at bottom of hill

@scottycline let me know when you do, I'll be there opening night!

zero trick-or-treaters. Halloween called on account of rain?

They've arrived! Halloween is on!

enjoying a Dogfish Head Burton Baton

backup hard drive just failed. makes me glad i keep 3 backups these days!

laughing out loud at regretsy

Unmasked by Chris Ware for The New Yorker. Lovely. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

“Adams’ graphic shows the eight CEOs with the highest compensations and the number of minimum wage earners that each respective CEO’s compensation could have supported. Bruce Wasserstein of Lazard ltd. was the top earner at $133 million, or the annual salary of 8,866 minimum wage earners.” (via How Much Do CEOs Make in the United States? |... - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

Prints for People Who Love Data + Design | FlowingPrints - http://flowingprints.com/

being driven crazy by GSM interference

found while Command-Tab'ing between applications, hit Command-1 to Exposé an application's windows but I can't find this documented anywhere

When switching to agile processes there is a temptation to not “start from here”, but to try and create a sort of alternative reality before you start where it will be easier to migrate to the new process. This misses the point. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

looking forward to migrating some things to Amazon RDS soon

RIP GeoCities. I hope that between all the various archiving projects there is a complete copy of you saved somewhere.

ExpanDrivel » Apple releases new 27″ LED Cinema Display – comes with a free Mac - The ExpanDrive Blog - http://blog.expandrive.com/2009...

For example, when I tap on something, I don’t have to hover for five seconds wondering “now did it get that tap, or do I have to do it again?” This is something other platforms are still struggling with. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

Part of the problem is educational: apparently some schools, textbooks, etc. teach that zero is neither odd nor even. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

The first move we have to make is simply give up the idea that the best technology companies are created by VC money. - http://tumble.brandt.kurowski.net/post...

wow, github really *is* faster these days!