Friday Five: 4th of July Edition

Friday July 3, 2009

4th of JulyFavorite Things about 4th of July in Bristol, RI

  1. biking to The Parade
  2. lobster and steamers with the family
  3. fireworks
  4. celebrating my birthday, my little brother’s birthday, my aunt’s birthday, and my grandmother’s birthday
  5. the concert in Colt State Park

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WordPress Wednesday: Admin Lists

Wednesday July 1, 2009

Admin PostsRight now I’ve got just under 3,400 posts here on this site. That makes it sort of a pain when I’m browsing through them in the back-end because by default the WordPress engine is set to display lists of posts fifteen at a time. I frequently have twenty or more drafts and / or scheduled posts, so when I attempt to find something I first have to click several times to find my latest posts. I knew that the number “15″ had to be coded into the engine somewhere and I wondered if there was any way to change it.

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iTunes Tuesday: New This Month

Tuesday June 30, 2009

iTunesSometimes you just want to be able to quickly get to the new stuff. That’s why I have a Smart Playlist called “New This Month”. This playlist contains all the tracks I’ve added in the last month, and I keep it synchronized with both my iPhone and with my iPod Nano. I always have all my brand new tracks handy.

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(Almost) Daily David

June 29, 2009

There is no such thing as “dolphin-safe tuna”.
I can’t decide which is more fun: The Lyttle Lytton Contest or the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
Fans of conspiracy theories will absolutely love the MeFi thread on pharmaceutical companies, the WHO, UN officials, the Russians, Barack Obama, and the recently-deceased, single-white-gloved whistle-blower … Michael Jackson.
Swedish civil rights heroes [...]

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Weekend Links

June 27, 2009

General Stuff

My dad continues to regularly post some of his amazing photographs from Portsmouth, Bristol, and Newport, Rhode Island.
When browsing Craigslist you will often find items that are not (quite) as advertised.
The International Space Station took some awesome pictures of an erupting Russian volcano.
Trusting your eyes is just silly. This optical illusion should help [...]

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Friday Five: Periods of My Life

June 26, 2009

In my mind my life is divided into five distinct periods:

Youth (1973 – 1987)
High School (1987 -1991)
College (1991 – 1996)
Post-College (1996 – 2000)
Los Angeles (2000 – present)

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Only Old Men Wear Colored Socks

June 25, 2009

This was one of those truths that I held to be self-evident for the first 35 years of my life. Wearing colored socks was a clear sign that you had gotten “old”. Only old men wore anything other than white socks. Dick Van Dyke and my grandpa wore black socks. Guys [...]

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There Are Places I Remember

June 25, 2009

There are places I remember
In my life … though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments …
I miss my grandmother’s house sometimes. It’s interesting (to me, at least) because I’m not normally one to “miss” anything or anyone. People come, people go. [...]

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WordPress Wednesday: Pithy Quotes Plugin

June 24, 2009

If you look at the top of this page you’ll see that there is a short quip displayed in my header. Every time you visit any page, it changes. I have about fifteen little quotes in my database and they’re set to display randomly with each refresh of the page. I wrote [...]

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iTunes Tuesday: Groupings

June 23, 2009

I love covers. There’s just something thrilling about hearing someone sing someone else’s song. My favorite part of a concert is always when the band plays a cover. (How awesome was it when Pearl Jam played Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down”? Or when Less Than Jake plays Cheap Trick’s “Surrender”?) [...]

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Random David

June 23, 2009

General Stuff

I followed a link on Hidden Los Angeles and found a killer list of film locations in town. (I’m going to go out on a limb and assume LA has a lot more of these than most cities. Sometimes I forget that I am living in what has to be the coolest [...]

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How to Delete a Recurring iCal Event

June 22, 2009

I have finally resolved an issue with my Mac OS X 10.5.7 iCal calendar that has been annoying me since I converted from PC to Mac almost exactly one year ago. For some reason I could not delete my birthday! Because I’m now using Address Book birthdays — instead of having unique iCal [...]

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The Dexia Rack Laptop Stand

June 20, 2009

My mom got me a Dexia Rack a few years ago as a gift. I had seen one at a bookstore on the University of Florida campus while visiting Gainesville and said that it looked pretty cool. So of course my mom noted that and got me one for Christmas or my birthday [...]

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Friday Five: iPhone Games

June 19, 2009

The iPhone games that are occupying the highest percentage of my free time right now are:

FlightControl (previously)
Wild West Pinball
Parachute Panic
Wild West Guns
SkyBurger

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What about Sicko?

June 18, 2009

Does anyone have any idea why the Michael Moore film about health insurance in America, Sicko, got nowhere near the same amount of publicity as Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11? I’m not asking how you feel about the message / content of any of these films. I’m just trying to understand why [...]

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