Apologies for the lower-quality photo. Taken with my phone and not my “nice” camera.
Life
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Jun 11
My Books Are Now Super-Awesome Deals on Kindle
Effective today, the Kindle editions of my books, Starving the Artist and The Trouble With Being God are both now just $2.99 each.
If you’re unfamiliar with my work, Starving the Artist: How the Internet Culture of Free Threatens to Exterminate the Creative Class and What Can Be Done to Save It is about 100 pages on the value of creative works and how that fits in with today’s online culture (based primarily on my experiences from working in the online music industry.)
The Trouble With Being God is a fictional thriller / murder mystery with a healthy heaping of gory bits in there. My first book, written in my early-to-mid-twenties. has gotten decent reviews, although it seems to be more of a love it/hate it kind of thing for most people.
So yeah, they’re both just $2.99 each on Kindle. Enjoy.
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Jun 11
Liberty Defined / Ron Paul 2012.
Liberty Defined: The 50 Urgent Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Fantastic book about the basics of liberty and what it is to be free. Anyone voting in the upcoming Presidential election should absolutely read this – especially if they are going to be voting in the Republican Primaries. Ron Paul writes eloquently, and his intelligence and well-thought arguments come through quite clearly here – much more so than when in an on-stage debate.
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May 11
Raccoons Invading the Birdfeeder at Night
They’ve started doing some major development across the street, and in the process have cut down a ton of old growth trees and completely destroyed a large field. Pretty much every night since this started, I’ve noticed my bird feeders have been ravaged during the night. When I wake up in the morning, they’re on the ground, emptied.
Obviously I was determined to find the culprit. I had a feeling it could be raccoons, but I’d never know for certain until I had proof.
So, one day I decided to set up some night time video surveillance.
I set the video to record all night long at the lowest possible quality, so I wouldn’t run out of space on the memory stick, turned on night vision, and started it up. What follows is a true account of what happened at roughly 1:15 a.m. the night of May 19, 2011. Note, the footage contains graphic imagery of an actual robbery in progress and is not for the squeamish.
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Apr 11
It Turns Out You CAN Use Exchange on a Xoom
Well, for the last week I’ve been using Outlook Web Access to check work email on my new Xoom. Couldn’t figure out anything inside of the GMail app that was on my home screen about how to add an exchange server. It turns out there’s a separate e-mail app for that and I just had to set it up in the settings.
Here’s how to get there. Follow the link at the end to visit Motorola’s site for full instructions.
Add an email account
1. From the home screen, touch Apps
2. Touch Settings
3. Touch Accounts & Sync
4. Touch + Add account (upper right hand corner)
5. Touch Corporate
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Apr 11
Filed Under WANT: Temple Laptop Briefcase
Saw this in Wired Magazine recently and fell in love with it. Unfortunately it’s almost $500. So, I am willing to let anyone out there who wants to buy it for me do so.
This Laptop Briefcase is hand-crafted out of vintage military duffel bags and Italian RiRi zippers.
via Laptop Briefcase – Leather iPad / iPhone Case – Temple Bags Store.
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Apr 11
Lemur vs. Robot
Today a battle squadron of robots arrived in the mail. Tonight, an epic battle was waged. Behold: Lemur vs. Robot.
