Extraordinary talents, these two.
One, last I heard, was racing planes in Reno.
The other just launched a totally awesome iPhone app. It features a panda in a bib. And makes it possible for anyone, regardless of language skills, to navigate Chinese menus and restaurant interactions like a pro. Here's a song one of them recorded a few months ago. Anyone want to guess which one?
Evolution, through the eyes of a metaphorically inclined computer programmer:
Old age is a feature, not a bug. With less turn-over it would be difficult to life as a whole to adapt to changing environment. It has drawbacks as knowledge lost by the dead individual. Advanced life forms overcome that with culture. Earlier simpler life forms probably lacked the aging feature, and were superseded by others who had it.
Thank you, Wiley, for passing that along. Your ability to stay current with the Slashdot comments is both a mystery and an inspiration.
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From the GChats:
Wiley: Have I shared this with you?
The Secret saved my life!
me: you have not
Wiley: I've heard it described as the best customer review on amazong, ever
me: wow
ok
i'll read
I did read. And I laughed. And Amazon(g) gets big props for leaving it on their site. They could easily have taken it down. Maybe should have. But definitely shouldn't have.
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Wiley and Tuna and I sung harmonies on The Weight for months in Beijing.
My sister, my uncle Zach, and I just made plans to watch The Last Waltz sometime in the next week.
And I'll be surprised if I don't always remember this song as one that I only fully discovered after it made an accidental introduction from my left-behind iPod.
I don't know when or how The Band released this version of Get Up Jake, and, since the internets aren't giving me easy answers, I'll leave it at that.
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When I told Wiley I had found a totally awesome music video, he asked if it was as good as Dirt Nasty.
Good question.
You be the judge.
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When I wrote about DjangoCon the other day, I mentioned PyCon, so I linked to a post I made a few months ago about an email conversation Wiley and I had while he was in Chicago at PyCon this past spring.
In those emails were questions about confidence, doubt, and our ability, as rookies, to build real live production quality websites.
I wrote about the emails, in part, because they reminded me of my theory that we all have both a level of genius capable of creating The Office and a level of ineptitude that could serve as the inspiration for one of its characters. We are all simultaneously Ricky Gervais and David Brent.
A couple of days ago, I watched this video, an animation set to an interview with John Lennon. In 1969, a 14 year old named Jerry Levitan snuck a tape recorder into John's hotel room and convinced John to talk on the record about peace. Apparently John saw a fascinating duality in people too.
We're all Hitler inside. We're all Christ inside.
Makes me want to read Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Thank you Garry, founder of Posterous, for the introduction to the video. And thank you Jerry Levitan for getting John on tape.
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