We recently visited the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, and today I watched the live stream of SpaceX’s launch. Lots of awe lately.
Soon I’ll live nearer to Cape Canaveral and plan to watch future launches in-person. Woo!
Continue readingOnline art community deviantART is announcing that it has received a strategic investment from software company Autodesk. The financial terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, but deviantART co-founder and CEO Angelo Sotira told me this makes Autodesk his company’s largest investor…
Two months ago I started working for deviantART as a software developer. I couldn’t have started at a better time!
Continue readingPay what you want for 11 breathtaking albums, a game, & a movie, all while supporting vital charities!
Oh cool! Purchased.
Continue readingLawrence Lessig and Bill Moyers explore how we can protect our privacy when Big Government and Big Business morph into Big Brother.
Larry and Bill discuss the real issue at hand, which is how to arrive at a surveillance operation that protects civil liberties. The discussion should not be centered around Snowden, whether he’s a traitor, where he’s holed up, or what kind of person he is. That should be the least of our concerns, and is a total distraction.
Continue readingGreat video. Blows my mind that string concatenation + eval is faster than object/hash creation + repeated modification.
Now I see why. I’ve run an experiment here.
Continue readingA ten story tall rocket hovers in the air and then returns safely to the launch pad. The future is now, and I’m amazed.
Continue readingWhat I realized in that moment was that the lights of the city, the electric light, has formed a kind of dome over the cities where we live. And it is a protective dome, a protective shield, that shields us from full awareness of how deep and infinite space is. So we sit in our cities, and our electric lights have blanked out the sky, for us, and we no longer have first-hand experience of the existential terror that is available to you at any point in time if you just try and spend one night outside on the beach or in the forest.
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The route to thinking about, caring for, and contributing to, the happiness of other people, is found by first loving oneself. Continuous, inward-facing self-hatred helps no one.
That’s my paraphrase of John’s sentiment from Roderick on the Line episode 60, at about 1:08:00. He points specifically to the northwest during the grunge era. But that form of self-reflection continues to this day inside of chronic self-deprecants, of which I have too often been one. Recovering.
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