http://www.gardenofblog.com When we stopped running around naked, God stopped watching. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:20:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's one to watch. Whether it's conversion disorder or something else, it'll be interesting. Hopefully everyone ends up fine. http://www.gardenofblog.com/2012/conversion-disorder/ I rate stuff in my current music player, iTunes, to spruce up the DJ function. iTunes really oughta support 6 star ratings, mostly for Antonio Carlos Jobim. http://www.gardenofblog.com/2012/6-stars/ As some may know I have been a budding jazz fan for years. So this post is kind of 'jazz fans only'. Every once in awhile, I have a million dollar idea. The idea is simply: Keith Jarrett Karaoke. Off-nights at jazz clubs, you put some snappy Keith ... http://www.gardenofblog.com/2012/keith-jarrett-karaoke/ Thanks to Kirk for sharing this with me; always one of my favorites to play. I like this version. http://www.gardenofblog.com/2012/dylan-cover/ ... of the mind. I think about death almost constantly, but count myself an extremely happy person. I wonder if happy people secretly obsess more on death than the rest; we've more to lose. The miracle of life is only a miracle because of mortality, because of the contrast ... http://www.gardenofblog.com/2012/another-odd-paradox/ I'd like to read this new book... Rushkoff sums up some of my own sentiments (produce or be produced?) pretty well. http://www.gardenofblog.com/2011/program-or-be-programmed/ What is it with the Beatles, anyway? I still love them. It almost seems like music on steroids. Too good to be true. The White Album? You've got to be kidding me. Here's a song sequence for you: The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill -> While ... http://www.gardenofblog.com/2011/the-beatles/ [reposted from software.unh.edu] Here I am once more at the best organized open source gathering in the world, OSCON. This is my third trip to Portland, OR for this event, having attended in 2008 and 2010. Portland is a modern and vibrant, lush, young, exciting. I would live ... http://www.gardenofblog.com/2011/reports-from-oscon-2011/ I really hope we don't miss any basketball this year. [Panini card from the 2009-2010 season. My boy Ray Allen.] http://www.gardenofblog.com/2011/lockout-blues/ Well, here I am in gorgeous Asheville, NC for my third YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) North America, taking place June 27-29th. This is by far the nicest of the three conference settings so far (I previously attended YAPC::NA at the University of Houston and at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh). Asheville ... http://www.gardenofblog.com/2011/report-from-yapcna-2001-asheville-nc/