i made dinner tonight. lauren and the kids loved it. i feel proud of myself :)
Month: December 2008
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21)
Practice, Practice, Practice
I just read two posts about the importance of practice.
Tim O’Reilly writes about practice in programming:
“If some entrepreneur introduced the bicycle today, no one would fund him. You have to actuallylearn how to use it! …I saw a controller for Guitar Hero that costs a couple of hundred dollars. You can get a decent electric guitar for that price. But you’d have to actually learn something to play it!”
Bob Lefsetz writes about practice in music.
Greatest guitarists of all time? How about Duane Allman. Not only did he practice while watching television, he even brought his guitar to the bathroom! Sure, you’ve got to have talent, but you’ve got to PRACTICE! How much practicing have today’s musicians done?
Great stuff.
Highly recommend reading both posts.
lauren and the kids made this snowman today. (via bsabet)
Mobile Payments & A Good Cause
Some people saw my recent tweet and asked me what it meant
There are two things to going on here.
First, Cambridge-based TipJoy has developed a super easy, lightweight to send mobile payments on Twitter. Simply enter the following into Twitter:
“pay $x @twitterusername”
And that’s it. You will have sent the other Twitter user a payment.
I can see a lot of ways people can use TipJoy and Twitter together. So far I’ve received a few dollars from my friends John Borthwick and Andy Weissmen as a kind gesture. That’s great.
I’ve started doing a few Twitter polls and trivia. Maybe I’ll start using TipJoy for the various winners of my fun trivia tweets. Classifieds on Twitter also seem like a natural.
Another way people are using Tipjoy is for a good cause. That’s the second thing going with my above tweet. @wellwishes was started by Laura Fitton. She is asking fellow Twitter users to contribute for a very good cause – clean water for children. Read the full post here.
So far over $1,300 has been raised. Sign up for Tipjoy and make a donation today!
Bag of Hammers – Thao Nguyen
I’m late to the wonders of Thao. Her voice is out of this world.
McCartney & Lennon, 1964.
Christmas Show Rehearsal, Donmar Hall, London.
—via winstonwolfe:butterflyeffect:vruz:
What a lovely photo.
I find the best stuff from my Tumblr friends. Thanks.
We don’t want to become just a carriage provider. That would tend to commoditize what we do.
Shane Kim – Xbox VP via “What Xbox Wants to Be When It Grows Up” – NYTimes.com
Revealing interview with Xbox head at MSFT. Because they heavily subsidize the Xbox to generating game revenue, they are struggling with the idea of opening up Xbox to a wide variety of 3rd party services.
That’s why the world needs Boxee !
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa – Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel
I love the original version of this song by Vampire Weekend. It’s on one of my favorite albums of the year. And this cover is so good.