What’s up Apple? Is writing code not as creative an endeavor as music or design? I was a PC/Linux user for ages before I purchased my first Mac (the G4 quicksilver tower, I think was my first one). And the only reason I bought that Mac was because of OS X was really just a…

I installed these fenders less than 48-hours before departing for an extended bike camping trip along the Erie Canal in upstate NY. The forecast called for rain and boy am I glad I got these installed. Did a great job keeping the rain and mud from spraying all over me, my bike and my gear.…

It is unbelievable to me that Microsoft SQL Server does not support regular expressions. In the absences of regex, replacing multiple occurrences of the same string/char becomes super tedious. You can nest multiple Replace() statements which gets ugly and impossible to read and you have to know exactly how many multiple occurrences there are. But…

Wealthy white boys from North America are more likely to be full of shit than other kids: Having derived and established the comparability of our bullshit scale via measurement invariance procedures, we go on to find that young men are more likely to bullshit than young women, and that bullshitting is somewhat more prevalent amongst…

Whoa. Mesh. Where have you been all of my life? Picked up a Netgear Orbi bundle the other day on Amazon. All of a sudden all of my Rogue Amoeba Airfoil setup is WAY more stable and predictable. Stoked. Detailed review forthcoming. #wholehouseaudio #firstworldproblems

Ten years ago Kyle built up my Surly LHT and he’s been my go-to guide for all things bikes ever since. New Jersey is so lucky to call this guy our own. Terrific to see him getting some recognition on The Radavist. #surly

Great piece by Brent Simmons (the guy who originally wrote MarsEdit, the app that I’m writing this entry in) about the freedom to make your computer your own and how that freedom is slowing eroding away. With every tightened screw we have less power than we had. And doing the things — unsanctioned, unplanned-for, often…

Was out cruising in the Atlantic Ocean this past week so broke my streak of posting but I’m back. Here’s a picture from the trip.

I listened to this absolutely fascinating podcast yesterday. Tyler Cowen is a great interviewer and he and Boyden cover such a huge range of neuroscience topics: from mental illness to optogenetics to ketamine to meditation to blowing up bits of your brain using a material like the use in diapers so that the bits are…

Love it when shuffle gives you EXACTLY the right song for snaking through Red Bank traffic.</>