Author: sjwillis

Citarella’s Market, a set on Flickr. Additional photos from the Citarella’s Market piece on redbankgreen.com.

Why We Should Memorize Poetry : The New Yorker April is National Poetry Month, so this is worth a re-post.

I came across some excerpts from Downbeat’s Blindfold Listening sessions with Miles Davis the other day. The gist of the blindfold listening session is that a musician listens to several cuts from different albums and comments on them without the benefit of knowing who they’re listening to or which recording they’re hearing.  The listener in me appreciates…

Looks like David Byrne and St. Vincent will be at the Count Basie this summer. You can get tix here.  (Source: http://www.npr.org/)

I haven’t posted a whole lot of stuff to the internets over the past few years but a few of the posts I put up were massively popular. Oddball stuff generated a crazy amount of visitors like: how to setup a Columbia Cougar Flats tent or how to lock down the iPad for kids to…

My kids are under 12. I don’t want to spend all day hovering over their shoulders as they use their new iPads.  I don’t make any guarantees that this will keep your kids out of trouble online. Here’s what I’ve done. I’ll update this as necessary: Step 1.) Setup OpenDNS Keep your kids off of websites…

This map includes campgrounds within an afternoon bike ride (or car ride + bike ride) for possible S24Os: http://batchgeo.com/map/2f3193df4c2b468ce7df9b62feb093f9 This map stretches the radius out to 100miles from Red Bank: http://batchgeo.com/map/2f3193df4c2b468ce7df9b62feb093f9

Fans of Harper’s Mag will like this interview with their webmaster, Paul Ford. Covers paywalls and subscription models: http://bit.ly/dm08VD

Understatement: “I spend most of my time using Emacs.” Stallman on The Setup http://bit.ly/7h0qn3