tommynazareth

nudist?

I also have no problem using GAE and Emacs. I just run the dev server from the command line and its all good. Make changes to the code in Emacs, refresh the browser, and the changes are there. Where would you run into a problem that'd make you switch editors?

Why not Craigslist? I've had so many good experiences with Craigslist that it is my default solution to anything involving "stuff".

Joseph Heller embodied this idea in Dunbar. When your life is in imminent danger, you can extend it a great deal by remaining exceptionally bored.

Thank God for Emacs ;-)

I can only think of one ad that I've responded to - a Reddit ad for the game Minethings. There are two reasons that I think I took the time to click on it: the Reddit ads appear like a normal post, but are at the top of the page and clearly labeled as advertisements, and for some inexplicable reason Reddit makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I've ignored countless advertisement, I have no idea why I'd be intrigued by the Minethings ad, but I've been playing Minethings ever since ;)

Yeah, right...

I know it's a real word. Now explain it to the masses on Facebook.

TextMate doesn't have split windows?!

Write a simple Android app and you'll start gaining experience in software development. If you want to balance that by studying some computer science, there are a wealth of top notch textbooks freely available. How To Design Programs is probably a good place to start.

There are so many directions to go and so much advice out there. To cut away all of the fat, I'd say 'Make Something'. Decide on something you want to make and finish a piece of it today. Eventually you'll find a technology stack that works for you, a niche you can serve, etc., but start today with just creating something. Learning involves a lot of consuming, but above all you need to learn to be a maker.

As a habitual tapper of things and singer of nonsensical syllables, I agree with the conjecture that music originates with the sound of people moving, but it also originates in everything we hear as we sit still and listen to other things move. And like spoken language (I think), as the music we produce grows from its roots, it is influenced by out exposure to cultural artifacts, including other music.

An interesting area for inspection is the spectrum between organic music, technical music, abstract music, and emotional music. Is the original music we produce from simply moving tied to an emotional experience? At what point do we begin understanding music as a language that can exist in absence of physical experience? It'll be a cool book if it delves into these kind of questions.

I have trouble reading this page because the background image makes me feel like I'm going to fall if I don't look at it.

Maybe something related to Dandelions?