Message Importance: High

Do you mark all of your emails with a High importance flag?

It makes the flag useless and makes kittens cry.

Please stop. Think of the kittens.

Much love;

Scott

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Jason Newsted's interesting solo

I've been watching more live music videos on Youtube lately as I'm still working on learning how to play the guitar. A couple of days ago, I came across the below clip of the bass solo from Metallica's 1998 DVD Cunning Stunts.

The first 1:45 of the clip before …

The challenges of being a homeowner

I was feeling pretty good a couple of weeks ago when I chemically unclogged the master bathroom sink. A couple days ago, Margo went to get something out from under the kitchen sink to find everything soaked. Great. A plumbing leak in the kitchen.

Me being a …

Nine Inch Nails lyrics tag clouds

I saw on Digg not too long ago a posting about using tag clouds to analyze candidates speeches during the Democratic debates. With a new album out, I was curious what a tag cloud for Nine Inch Nails would look like. Especially since Year Zero goes into new …

Doing some site changes this weekend

A long time ago, I had decided to separate my photographs from the main blog here. The intent at the time was for this site to be more for showing my photography than to be a "blog". As time went on though, I decided that I wasn't up to retouching my prints …

Crush them while they're still in the egg

I like the Dinosaur Rule.

It probably wasn't the intended take-away for episode 85 of the Cranky Middle Manager but sometimes you can't control your outcomes.

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Starbucks must find lost "soul," Schultz says: Business & Technology: The Seattle Times

Starbucks must find lost "soul," Schultz says: Business & Technology: The Seattle Times

This is a little old now but I've been focused on more tangible (i.e. offline) activities the last couple weeks.

I'm glad to see that someone at Starbucks is aware that …

More anti-spam measures

If you're in certain parts of Russia, you're not getting here anymore.

I need to figure out something to do here to get more people than spammers checking in on the site. Hmm.

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Starbucks launches Hear Music record label | Seattle Times Newspaper

Business & Technology | Starbucks launches Hear Music record label:

via Slashfood

So is this part of Starbucks' new strategy to re-find its soul?

Things like starting a label and signing Sir Paul take time so it's my guess that this is another way Starbucks …

Simple pleasures

Plain Greek yogurt with honey on it. Tonight was Tupelo honey.

I learned this one at Mourayo in DC. I had a gift certificate for diner for two from Christmas that I used in February. Dinner was fantastic. Then the dessert was a fruit plate with honey …

Internet abuse, harassment and what anonymity does to some people

I've been trying to think of something to say about what went down over on Kathy Sierra's Creating Passionate Users blog the other day but I just can't do it.

It just goes to show that there are a lot of messed up people out there and the internet can give …

I hate April Fool's day...

Every year, information on the internet becomes completely unreliable.

Well, more unreliable than normal. You always have to filter and think about what you read but today, even people I trust start posting stupid crap. I'm better off just marking …

...and ASUS comes through with an external laptop GPU

In February, I made a post here asking that someone make an external laptop GPU. It was one of those things that make sense to me...allow part-time gamers like me to add high-power graphics cards to a normal laptop on gaming nights. I wanted to be able to play …

Soundtrack of your life

John Head had an amusing post yesterday: Soundtrack of your life

The idea is to put your music library on shuffle, hit skip 3 times and then write down the songs that come up in order and then line them up with a set of life events. With my music collection, …

Virginia Tech shooting

I don't really have much to say on this that hasn't already been said.

My sister was an engineering student at Tech until she graduated last year. She spent a lot of time in the room in Norris Hall where most of the killings happened. I don't know what I'd …

Starting the morning with Lotus Notes and a phrase I try to live by

I'm not going to tag this as "Show and Tell Thursday" but it this post is somewhat inspired by the phrase.



Sometime in 1998 I got my first taste of working with Lotus Notes and Domino. I was the new guy in the IT department of a biotech services company. The …

Not that I'm in favor of outsourcing people's jobs to robots but...

We can put a robot on Mars. Why can't we put robots in a mine? We're in the future now and people still die in mine collapses. WTF?

Rescuers Dig for 2 Men After Mine-Wall Collapse - washingtonpost.com

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Bitter chocolate | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist

So the Grocery Manufacturers of America lobbying group is trying to get the FDA to change the rules for what defines "chocolate" in America. The new rules would allow manufacturers to substitute cheaper vegetable oil for cocoa butter. I would think that would …

Striking back for chocolate

Wow. Slashdot picked up the possible chocolate change.

Someone put in more effort than I did and got the FDA page for the change and a link where you can send in your comments by April 25th.

I'm not up for turning this space into a political soapbox but I'm …

More on Chocolate...

Looks like the FDA extended the deadline for comments on the proposed chocolate changes another month to May 25th so there's still plenty of time to comment.

Guittard set up a site called Don't Mess With Our Chocolate that takes it from the point of view of a …