I’ve recently discovered Tim Ferriss’ blog and have been making my way through some of his older posts and some videos. I can’t believe I’ve never seen it before. He has an interesting and valuable approach to life. I’m going to steal a few of his ideas and try them out for myself. In hisContinue reading “Focusing Life”
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Making something of infinity
Let’s start off with some XKCD: I go through a mid-life crisis about every 2-3 months. I probably think too much about everything, but I can’t help it, so I might as well make the most of it. Actually my usual crisis is something along the lines of the comic above. Because we only getContinue reading “Making something of infinity”
Book Review: Strangers to Ourselves
Warning: I started writing this review about 4 months ago so I’m going off memory here. I recently finished reading a book with my grandmother had given to me entitled “Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious” by Timothy D. Wilson. (My grandmother has a Ph.D in Psychology so it’s not all that weird aContinue reading “Book Review: Strangers to Ourselves”
Popular Django apps at DjangoCon 2010:
The most valuable thing I got from attending Djangocon last week was a giant list of technologies. Some we already use at Mahalo (it was nice to hear that we were doing something right), and some that I hadn’t heard of before. Here’s the list, hope it helps you find something useful: django-config – aContinue reading “Popular Django apps at DjangoCon 2010:”
Learning “Questa o quella”
I started working on this song a few weeks ago. It’s an aria from Verdi‘s Rigoletto. This opera itself has a rather interesting background (assuming we can trust wikipedia). Verdi was commissioned to compose the opera with the understanding of both him and his sponsor Piave that they risked censorship by the Austrian government. TheContinue reading “Learning “Questa o quella””
Installing and using reverb in Audacity on Ubuntu Linux
So I recently opened up Audacity for what I assumed would be a pretty quick operation. I just wanted to add some reverb to a track I’d recorded at a voice lesson. Sounds like something the Audacity should, in all it’s glory, be able to handle with its eyes closed. Unfortunately it seems I’m mistaken.Continue reading “Installing and using reverb in Audacity on Ubuntu Linux”
Fooling Ourselves
Recently, someone sent me an interesting article which discussed looking for love. The article was primarily about how to find people that you can connect with in a significant and intimate way. At the end of the article, it presents you with a short task which involves writing down all the traits which you wouldContinue reading “Fooling Ourselves”
Learning “Pourquoi me réveiller”
I’m working on learning this aria from an opera called Werther by Jules Massanet. It’s pretty gorgeous, so I thought I’d share a video of Pavarotti singing it. It comes at a point in the opera when Werther comes to see the woman he loves, but whom he can never be with. He proceeds toContinue reading “Learning “Pourquoi me réveiller””
Amateurs
I went to see a performance of Cosi Fan Tutte (a Mozart opera) last night in Pasadena. It was put on by a small company, and performed in a school auditorium. There’s something about all the small imperfections of a show like that that make it all the more human for me. It’s odd, IContinue reading “Amateurs”
Look I’m famous!
Check it out, I got my a picture of me (looking really haggard) featured in my gym’s post for the day. Check it out on the Dogtown Crossfit site. Not only that, but I had a good day of lifting today. Starting off the day with a 200lb hang power clean PR was pretty awesome.