March 2012
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My Top 5 albums of 2012
Here are my top 5 thus far for 2012 (unordered), plus a bonus entry.
1. Fort Lean - 7” single
The best way to describe Fort Lean is to imagine a 90’s british pop vibe mixed with a classic american rock band from the late 70’s. Very spacey at times, with lots of highs and lows in front man’s Mitchell’s voice. Their new 7” single is inspiring and hopeful.
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April 2011
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The time has come.
Today will be my last day at Zynga, as I’ll be leaving to embark on a new adventure. I’ll be starting a new company with my good friend Ben Bloch (Foodspotting) The last year and few months at Zynga have served as a tremendous learning experience. The gratification of writing, and architecting code that is served to millions of people everyday is tremendous and I will forever be grateful to...
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Wild Flag - Future Crimes
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Yelle - Que Veux-Tu
Really catchy tune from these guys
March 2011
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TV On The Radio - Will do
Really loving this new single. Kind of forgot about them since “Return to Cookie Mountain”
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Mother Mother - Oleander
Been listening to this one a lot lately.
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Airwaves - Ride
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Angus and Julia Stone - And The Boys
The lead up to the chorus on this song is pure gold
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Modeselektor - The Dark Side of the Sun
A little older, but awesome nonetheless.
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Baths - Aminals
The blogs has become a little stale, so I’m going to post one track a day. Let’s see how long I keep this up
January 2011
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Grubtastic
I’ve been living in San Francisco for about 9 months and discovered some great food spots in the city. I thought I’d share my list of favorites, in no particular order.
Indian Dosa (Mission)
Udapi Palace (Vegetarian, Mission)
Mexican
Taqueria El-Farolito (Best Burritos, Mission)
Taqueria Cancun (Mission)
Papalote (Mexican, mission)
French
Chez Maman (French Bistro, Potrero...
November 2010
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March 2010
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Inkage?
Contemplating a tattoo. Something witty/geeky, but not sure what to get yet. I’ll be adding to this list but so far here are my choices in no particular order. Reply with any helpful suggestions :)
1. Hello World
2. Mushroom or turtle from super mario bros.
3. <img src=”tattoo.jpg” />
February 2010
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Stuff I want
Fireball Island (Purchasing on Ebay as I’m posting this)
Forbidden Bridge
This puzzle
This table
This converted barn
This Glider
Any of these madballs
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New hotness
Hey guys,
Just wanted to inform you of a new project I’ve been working on with @Davidedicillo and @orical.
As you may or may not know, location based services are the hotness right now. Foursquare is one of them, and it’s gaining traction reminiscent of Twitter circa 2007. The idea is that you go around and check-in to different venues with an application that resides on your...
January 2010
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Menomena - Wet & Rusting
Found this tune courtesy of Marie Lucas.
Sort of feel like dipping myself in and out of water when I listen to this.
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Best cheesy inspirational songs
Decided to bring in the weekend with some kick ass motivational tunes. I still can’t believe Ralph Macchio is 50!
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Had this song in my head all day.
By far amongst the best lyrics in history.
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Cassandra Messaging Tutorial - Part 1
I am currently working on developing the basic architectural components for a project me and my buddies are putting together. Since forming relationships via communication is going to be our core business, the internal messaging system needs to be built on something solid that can scale out horizontally without the need for replication. Enough about that, the goal is to show how how to build out...
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Really re-thinking certain key things in my life...
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This song is pure bliss, with an overtone...
December 2009
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Spam
Me: I just got an email: "Your zoosk matches are waiting", we need to start spamming people! This stuff works.
Peter: Spam people... Check. You can't spell success without spam.
Me: gem install mail_spammer
Peter: Error : Dependency Check... "It seems you have morals, this gem requires you to run 'gem remove morals' before you continue."
Me: Weird.. I don't get that error.
November 2009
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Scaling on up [part 1]
For a recent ongoing project, I realized that I had to begin offloading a sub-system from mySQL to a key/value store for efficient retrieval. We all know that mySQL heavily depends on power to read as opposed to write. Therefore, when dealing with joins, and sometimes IN’s on non trivial queries, it can become fairly expensive. Not to mention my budget is finite, so I can’t (and...
October 2009
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The Bucket List
Here is a list of the 10 things I’d like to do in my lifetime, in no particular order.
1. Write a book
I have no idea what I would write about, but it would definitely be gratifying.
2. Write a horror movie screen play
As some of you may know, I have a passion for all things gore and horror, I have tons of sick ideas that could really be put to good use.
3. Be involved in a music...
September 2009
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CakePHP Error Handling
So a couple of people asked me about the correct way of handling errors in CakePHP, and defining custom error pages for websites, so I decided to not explain this any more and just hand out a url to this post.
Using standard error messages
For common errors such as 404, Controller not found etc, you could easily use CakePHP’s built in cakeError function. So if you wanted to define a 404...
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This always reminds me of sitting in a car,...
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Some Cardboard Lovin
I came across a great find today. Cardboard love, it’s by a buddy of mine Joey Hall who also happens to be the king of all fashion, just in case you need any glamor advice.
So hit up Cardboard Love and let me know what you think.
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Great fashion resource IMO →
Dope! →
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Back at work after a few disconnected days I found...
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Late afternoon delight.
Mates of State -...
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State of the now
Been fiddling with Python lately and I must say I am very impressed. It really is elegant, consistent, and powerful at the same time. This is especially true when running the language in one of the most popular and emerging frameworks, Django.
If you know me, you know I pretty much swear by PHP and it’s frameworks, but there is something about python that could just lead me to sway.
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August 2009
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Sorry I’m back with some Dan Deacon, which...
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Pikchur Shenanigans
So tonight I added the ability to post photos from Pikchur directly to posterous. A nifty little update that took about an hour. Now I am off to attempt some video editing. Farewell
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Man;Hindered
I think I am in the midst of an existential crisis, I am questioning the purpose of everything; from what I do for a living, to my current morals, to the purpose of my life. I suppose this phenomena isn’t uncommon for this stage in my life, but nonetheless it is driving me to dig deeper.
So now that I’ve acknowledged this, and confronted the inner me, I came up with some of the...
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July 2009
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