pdxgene

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by pdxgene 8y ago
I go back to "Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin once or twice a decade. It has an uncanny combination of page-turner pace and sheer stop-and-savor-it writing beauty that makes it a sheer joy every time.
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by pdxgene 8y ago
Swimming laps most mornings. I never had the discipline to learn to swim properly when I was younger, and have always been an avid runner and cycler. Adding swimming into the mix has balanced out my conditioning, and the meditative state yo
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by pdxgene 8y ago
I moved across the US a year ago, and moving with a single suitcase (until the moving truck arrived, months later) re-taught me how little I need in order to live comfortably. Since then, I've been aggressively paring back my "mat
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by pdxgene 8y ago
I severely cut back on notifications -- down to just a few apps (SMS/messaging, home security, calendar), and it's had a remarkable impact on my phone use. The other major change I made was to disable badge notifications on all ap
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by pdxgene 9y ago
How would neighboring states' follow-on legalization diminish tax returns over time? Washington has posted $280 million in tax revenues so far, and Oregon $85 million. Neither seems to threaten the other -- demand is pretty much ubiqui
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by pdxgene 9y ago
Say what you want about Uber, but I've never had them refuse to take me to Brooklyn...
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by pdxgene 10y ago
That's so 2013...
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by pdxgene 10y ago
I do this with business books -- turn on assistive screen reading on my iPhone's Kindle app, and tweak the speaking speed to as fast as I can reasonably understand. But I'd never do it with a Mark Helprin novel, or anything with s
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by pdxgene 10y ago
My experience of first reading these books as a disaffected, ornery, insecure teen in late-1980s America seems to support your impression.
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by pdxgene 10y ago
Whatever you do, don't try to start a lemonade-sharing service...
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by pdxgene 10y ago
"Please don't learn to code" keeps echoing in my head as "Please don't learn to read and write music". There's intrinsic value in understanding the technology on which our life now fundamentally depends, a
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by pdxgene 11y ago
Thanks for this. Brings back wonderful memories of the biomechanics courses I took way back in college. I recall with glee the shock of recognition that all creatures live in moving fluids -- and our experiences are delineated merely by re
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by pdxgene 11y ago
I remember reading this in 1997, about a year after I switched from the awful Mac Performa that I had used in college and dragged out west with me to the first in a series of increasingly uninspiring beige WinTel boxes. It would be nine ye
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by pdxgene 11y ago
My headshot from age 35? 27. My recent headshot (I'm 40): 42. A photo I took just now with PhotoBooth? 29. Seems like a slot machine...
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by pdxgene 11y ago
I agree with the skeptical comments leveled here, and am certainly cognizant of the (mostly necessary) regulatory overhead that goes along with the creation of medical devices. Everything is on a spectrum, though, and there are plenty of op
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by pdxgene 11y ago
Original statement from Google: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/04/announcing-pa...
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by pdxgene 11y ago
The label "no user-serviceable parts inside" springs to mind...
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by pdxgene 11y ago
I'm in violent agreement with you here -- the notion of a smart home platform, for example, that allows me to customize it via an API, or, if I choose, by tinkering with its basic software, sounds awesome to me. But I'm a programm
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by pdxgene 11y ago
+1. Yes, please.
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by pdxgene 11y ago
Not intending to be argumentative -- merely to present a countervailing perspective: When I was 13, I was incredibly fortunate to land an internship at Marvel Comics in NY. For a teenage boy obsessed with the X-Men, this was like dying and
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by pdxgene 11y ago
Those cuts are typically referred to as "rebates", and yes, they're standard operating procedure. There's an interesting history behind how this practice got started, that's a good lesson in how multi-party market
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by pdxgene 11y ago
"Argue for your limitations, and they're yours."
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by pdxgene 11y ago
+1 for telecaster "shape" -- I grew up on Strats, but play a thin line Tele most of the time now. I concur with your assessment of being able to "feel" where it is.
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by pdxgene 11y ago
In the course of working on a mobile app project, I had the opportunity to try out two of Line6's recent modeling input devices: http://line6.com/mobilein/ http://line6.com/sonicport-audio-interfac
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by pdxgene 12y ago
Just came in to say, Golden gave this talk at our conference last fall, and it was very well received. You can watch it here if you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0AdsVReXi8
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by pdxgene 12y ago
The oddest thing about this article is that the author seems to think that the JOBS act is to blame for Kickstarter backers being fleeced, which is just weird. Unless I'm missing something, JOBS doesn't have anything to say about
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by pdxgene 14y ago
Re: sponsors on stage -- is this a relatively new rule? Wieden+Kennedy sponsored TEDxPortland 2011, and John Jay, their Executive Creative Director, was one of the featured speakers.
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by pdxgene 15y ago
Thousands of employees, slim (if any) margins... sounds a bit like Kozmo.com...
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by pdxgene 15y ago
About 9 out of 10 workdays, my commute is on a 2010 steel-frame Kona Honky Tonk bicycle. But every tenth workday or so, and a lot of weekends, I roll the 1990 Carrera 4 cabriolet out of the garage, which totally makes up for not being on a
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by pdxgene 16y ago
The last time I was in NY, I emerged from a hotel in midtown, and asked the next cab waiting in line outside the hotel to take me to SoHo. He just shook his head and sat there. I asked the hotel cab-wrangler if the cab was working, and he

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