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May 23, 2013February 13, 2020

Key Of Awesome #71: Start A Mumford Band!

Spot-on.

May 15, 2013

BRASSFT PUNK

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

Via @alexknowshtml.

May 13, 2013

MC Frontalot, “I’ll Form The Head”

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

So good.
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May 10, 2013

Better Names For Things At Lowes

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

February 4, 2013

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

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.
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January 9, 2013

G3Rst: “I Want Stacy’s Mom”

Fountains of Wayne vs. Lena Horne vs. The Wiseguys vs. Grease vs. Karen Young. This has no right being as good as it is.
https://soundcloud.com/g3rst/g3rst-i-want-stacys-mom

December 21, 2012

“How Will You Measure Your Life?”

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.