Jim Willis

  • Espalier your trees! by Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79

    Espalier your trees! by Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79

    espaliering (is-`pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit tree growing method of the Greco-Roman world. Later, during the so-called “Dark Ages” after Rome’s fall, these techniques were…

  • “Attention is a finite resource, like money.” NYT’s on new attention book: “Rapt.” http://bit.ly/Tst7A

  • No events anywhere in Monmouth Co. for next week’s Bike to Work Week: http://bit.ly/NuZ4r Disappointing but not surprising.

  • Some thoughts on the presentation I gave at the Red Bank Middle School on Social Capital: http://bit.ly/m5r4M

  • Several upcoming gigs featuring People You Know (BJ, Rich Morris, John Leccese). More info: http://bit.ly/kBEYn

  • /dev/why!?!: Networked Time Machine Best Practices

    /dev/why!?!: Networked Time Machine Best Practices

    A few hints on keeping networked Time Machine backups from getting corrupted.

  • thinking I should tag the 700+ tasks currently in my OmniFocus app as “someday/maybe,” export them into an archive and then just start over.

  • Capo

    Capo

    This looks like a cool application. Slows down songs with pitch adjustment and looping for figuring out songs.

  • I won’t be going vegan until bacon starts growing on trees but this infoviz on slaughter rates is wild: http://bit.ly/HhNJF (via bittman)

  • Looking for a sysadmin in Monmouth County to handle networking/servers for a 40 person shop. Salary or hourly. Email sjwillis@willisbros.net

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Reading Notes

  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]

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