Another great video from the commoncraft folks.

Twitter in Plain English

“That’s my boyfriend!” she tells us as the grey-haired man pushes himself slowly backward. Using his feet. The wheelchair moved more easily that way.

“I think the world of her,” he says being careful not to move too quickly lest he jar his neck brace. (She calls it a “halo.”) His age amplifying his injuries

Her face, at age 91, beams as he says this. And she suddenly looks exactly as I imagine she did at age 18 Kind words will do that Those kind in particular Especially in this place

Busy vs. Productive

“The busy outnumber the productive by a wide margin.”

And please see the Busy vs. Productive table. Yep.

DHH writes a piece I can agree with whole-heartedly.All code will eventually go stale

Here’s something I don’t say often: Suck It Up. If you work on more than a few projects, they can’t all smell like today’s fresh linens. It doesn’t mean you’re a bad programmer. It simply means that you’re prioritizing.

Yes, yes, you should clean up around you when you dive in to those older applications, but beware the lure of a full Spring cleaning. You’ll get pulled in and before you know it you’ve broken half the application and won’t know how to get back out with your ego or tests intact. Add your feature, fix your bug, and leave everything you touch in better condition than you found it, but that’s it. Move on from there.

Ken Rockwell says Your Camera Doesn’t Matter

Mike Reichmann responds, and says Your Camera Does Matter

They’re both wrong.

I seem to have a weak spot for rude British humour. I lost nearly an hour laughing uncontrollably watching Death at a Funeral. It’s probably not that funny, but who cares, it felt great anyway.

Michael Pollan: Don’t Eat Anything That Doesn’t Rot: ”

Lengthy interview with the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food

Don’t eat any food that’s incapable of rotting. If the food can’t rot eventually, there’s something wrong.

The Darjeeling Limited

Precious. Too precious. Kept waiting for there to be a story. Never happened. Skip it.

I’ve officially lost interest in Wes Anderson movies.

merkley???

“The Inept take meetings as the Adept take naps.”

Interesting fella, that merkley. Good photographer as well.

The assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Beautiful, but boring. Not “casually paced.” Not “drawn slowly.” Just boring.