mskullcap

I still miss rdio. Even though I have pretty diverse tastes in bands and musical styles, I loved how rdio would match me up with other people who shared similar musical interests. I could look at their music collection for inspiration. I would find many new artists I loved this way.

For my 40th, my wife rented out a theatre and paid them to project my favourite film (2001 A Space Odyssey). It was all done in secret. My wife dropped me off in front of the theatre to look for parking (we were going shopping, or so she said), and then I noticed that the theatre had 2001 posters up with MY FACE photoshopped onto the characters. Talk about triggering an identity crisis! When I walked into the theatre with her all my friends were sitting ready to watch the movie. I am tearing up now just reminiscing :)

I am Canadian, I lived in Joburg for 2yrs. You are bang on: huge gaps in doors, windows that can't fully close and uninsulated homes. It was bloody cold in the winter, with my indoor temp being around 10C in the morning! And of course, all sorts of creepy crawlies appearing in my living room (scorpions, prawns) at random times. Loved the cloudless skies, however.

And, 200 TV channels at no extra cost!

I worked for Nortel for 3 months. When I returned for work after Christmas, we were sent to the Holiday Inn and told we were retrenched. I ended up with a great payout AND received a $14K performance bonus on top a month later!

All the "enter, exit" stuff is what makes d3 beautiful. From a core handful of ideas, Mike is able to express a vast world of visualizations. I think it is the most amazing framework I have had the pleasure of using in my 30+yrs of software development. Ya, you could grab bar chart library and just give it data and get a graph out, or, you could spend a little time with d3 and actually learn something so powerful you can make bar charts - or virtually any other kind of visualization you will ever need. Well worth working past the frustration, imo.

In love with Ableton, totally not in love with visual programming (Max). I wish it was easier to use traditional programming with Ableton or Max.

Very nice music! Thanks for sharing.

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point We go round every two hundred million years And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whiz As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is

So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure How amazingly unlikely is your birth And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth

That's nonsense. I have worked in remote northern locales for years as a geophysicist, and - the northern lights can be utterly amazing. You do not always need a long exposure camera to see them; they can be vivid, dancing and mesmerizing in reds, purples, whites and greens. Sounds like the sun wasn't active when you saw them. I have seen such incredible displays it was unnerving - with the entire sky shimmering in pockets of bright green whisps of light, and purple bands of light shining down upon me as I stood on a frozen lake on a cold, crisp night.

I have seen something similar. A spectacular display in the mid-90's in February at Big Trout Lake Ontario; I watched it from the lake on the winter road. The entire sky would react to waves of energy, and there was a dark hole - as you described - in the middle of the sky. I have never seen such a dramatic display of aurora, with such strange patterns (vs the typical whisps of light) before or after.

PDF generation for us. Had been relying on phantomjs for years, but it has been a bear. Attempted to write something with PDFKit to avoid the overhead of hosting headless chrome, but the effort was too great for our small team. Using chrome we are able to build high fidelity reports with the same web components we use in the application's UI.

Rdio worked the best because I could befriend people with similar tastes. I don't understand why this social aspect isn't being used explicitly on Spotify. Rdio knew I had some eclectic musical tastes and yet could find me other people with similar tastes - I found my best music by browsing through other people's collections of music.