Me: So, what are you going to do when your friend comes over?
Daughter: First, we’re going to throw rocks at stuff. Don’t worry, our rocks. Then we’re going to play in the fort. Then jump on the giant bean bag.
Me: Sounds like a full schedule.
Daughter: Yah, we’re pretty good friends.
And now for something completely different.
I wrote a song last week and spent the better part of the weekend recording and tweaking it. Everything about it screams “amateur” which is true. But I like it and I wanted to share it anyway. I also feel like if I don’t just put it out there then [...]
A Funny Thing Happened The Day After I Got Laid Off from Anthony Ferraro on Vimeo.
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“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, [...]
The Kindle’s text-to-speech capability surprised me by being much better than I imagined it would be. And everyone should expect that in the next few years computer voices will become indistinguishable from human voices (acoustically if not theatrically). The Authors Guild does.
They’re worried that Amazon’s newest e-book device has the potential to undermine the market [...]
“If you can’t get people to pay for what they love, we’re all out of business.” — Tom Ascheim, Newsweek’s chief executive, Reinvention Draws Near for Newsweek
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