Literal Barrage

BRASSFT PUNK

Doug — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:41:40 +0000

Daft Punk classics, rendered as New Orleans brass-band-style Dixieland/jazz. Incredible.

Via .

MC Frontalot, “I’ll Form The Head”

Doug — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:24:30 +0000

Absolutely, hands-down my favorite track off Frontalot’s “Solved” album.

So good.

(Okay, “Disaster” is also pretty darn good, too.)

EDIT: Whoops, “Disaster” is off “Zero Day”, not “Solved”. Still, I don’t regret posting the song. So good.

Better Names For Things At Lowes

Doug — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:52:58 +0000

If you dig the music, it’s available over on Soundcloud, too:

My Move To The Mac (Encapsulated In A Few Brief Tweets)

Doug — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:58:50 +0000

I had a mini-discussion with Neil Stevens about the genesis of my Mac use, sparked by the news that GNOME is moving to JavaScript as its primary development language. I used to be a strict Linux-only user and tended to look down on Macs as mere playthings. I’ll let the Tweets tell the rest of the story.

@presjpolk Plus, it could be worse: GNOME could be going all-Objective C.

— Doug Stewart (@zamoose) February 4, 2013

@presjpolk Funny you should mention Apple alongside GNOME development *cough*Eazel*cough**cough*

— Doug Stewart (@zamoose) February 4, 2013

@presjpolk Yeah, at that time I was a dedicated Linuxer with no time for Mac, so I didn’t even know who Hertzfeld was.

— Doug Stewart (@zamoose) February 4, 2013

@presjpolk I was actually dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Mac. C-levels in my old company had Macs and felt we in IT weren’t…

— Doug Stewart (@zamoose) February 4, 2013

@presjpolk …being properly supportive, so they said “You have to dogfood this. No more Linux desktops until we’re satisfied”.

— Doug Stewart (@zamoose) February 4, 2013

@presjpolk It’s been all Linux servers and Mac laptops for me ever since.

— Doug Stewart (@zamoose) February 4, 2013

@presjpolk It was strange. In retrospect, though, I was rather bigoted, seeing the Mac as a toy for the Comms and Art teams.

— Doug Stewart (@zamoose) February 4, 2013

@presjpolk (In my defense, that was truer in OS 9 than most Macheads would care to admit. OS X was a turning point.)

— Doug Stewart (@zamoose) February 4, 2013

G3Rst: “I Want Stacy’s Mom”

Doug — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:57:13 +0000

Fountains of Wayne vs. Lena Horne vs. The Wiseguys vs. Grease vs. Karen Young. This has no right being as good as it is.

“How Will You Measure Your Life?”

Doug — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:58:54 +0000

This TEDxBoston talk from Clayton Christensen is incredible. In it, he talks about why not just nations, but companies, families and individuals fail and how, so often, we measure precisely the wrong things in order to succeed, whether we want to be good businesspeople, citizens or, most importantly, parents. How will you, and ultimately God, measure the “successes” in your life?

I was humbled, particularly, by his insights on investing in your children.

“It’s actually really important that you succeed at what you’re succeeding at, but that isn’t going to be the measure of your life. God doesn’t count, he doesn’t aggregate.”

Watch all 20 minutes of it.

AXE COP Motion Comic, Episode #1

Doug — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:25:59 +0000

Does what it says on the tin. And yes, you should be excited about this.

Dragon House + Gramatik*, “Illusion Of Choice”

Doug — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:22:48 +0000

Awesome stuff.

Son Of Coul

Doug — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:18:53 +0000

Good news, everyone! Agent Coulson has been confirmed to be headlining the upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show.

“Smells Like Nirvana”

Doug — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:23:22 +0000

Hey, Tony Hawk is in the video! Did you realize that?

(Found this out via this awesome SPIN interview with Al and his band on the 20th anniversary of the song’s release. Jeepers, I’m getting old.)