Pizza Paradiso is my all time favorite neapolitan pizza, beer bar, and restaurant. If ever find yourself in Washington DC, make a point of stopping in.

Kill your television folks! Adbust your counterculture!

I grabbed 10 Shmoocon tickets this year, and that was forgetting two people.

Ben: http://www.google.com/experimental/ you can now enable google vim like bindings on web searches via cookie

I’m enjoying the first track of In Rainbows, Mk 1, and it has a nice callback to the first disc over a gradual fade-in. Down Is The New Up has a nice start, and what could be more refreshing than a normal drum kit played by a human? It sounds great! The song builds and builds, string and piano interaction backing Thom nicely. The beat changes from a slow hip hop roll to kicks and snares together at the 3:03 mark and the strings and piano begin echoing with urgency. A crescendo is approaching as we approach 3:30 into the tune.

I just picked up 2 tickets for DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist’s current tour, called “The Hard Sell”.

I keep going on about Tufte stuff.

Tufte finds Conway’s law frequently rearing it’s ugly head. If you’ve worked on engineering projects, or taken over for someone else’s engineering project, you’ll recognize it immediately.

I had the pleasure of attending a one day course on the presentation of data and information given by Edward Tufte in Washington DC.

Debian Administration has great advice for requesting that bash keep a history of all commands recorded. Add this to your .bashrc!