tomhodgins
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Fresh from the ‘meatri’ dish
So for the past couple of years I’ve noticed increasing awareness about the production of ‘lab-grown meat’ as a replacement for livestock in the human diet. For the uninitiated, the process goes something like this: a tissue sample is collected from a living host (animal) without killing it, which acts as a ’seed’ to grow [...]
Is it live, or is it Memorex?
December 11, 2009 - 4:03 am
Tags: epiphany, truth
Posted in life, thoughts | No comments
So I was contacted by somebody from my old work today who found herself in a pickle. In an attempt to add to the company website (which I designed) she had accidentally edited something and the main page wasn’t displaying.
/me puts on his ‘web-troubleshooting hip waders’ and steps into the murky swamp of the website…
Two [...]
A Rotten Apple™ ?
December 10, 2009 - 1:45 am
Tags: Apple, heartbreak, why
Posted in design, rants, software | No comments
So I have a bone to pick with Apple’s design user-experience department:
In OS X 10.4 Tiger, when you brought up the ‘Get Info‘ dialog box when a file was selected, it gave the option to preview the file. If the file happened to be an audio or video file, a seek-bar showed up with [...]
Beauty in the Dark
So for the past few months I’ve been taken by the lyrics of a song called “Alone with the Sea”, by the band Hurt. The lyrics speak to the emotions of a man left behind by lost love.
Because I’ve strangely become immune
To the thought of seeing you
And the smell of cheap perfume
Is just a ring [...]
What’s love got to do with it?
I hear so many people talking about love as if it’s some abstract cloud of feeling that can only be understood by staring from a distance after it’s passed you by. I’m not one of those people and my understanding of love is very logical and clear. Am I a heartless robot, or do I [...]
tomhodgins’ magnificent music-box
Hi everybody, I found a neat little script that would let me easily ad a web interface for a folder full of MP3’s I like to listen to wherever I am, so now you can too!
Most of the music here is non-copyright and occasionally there will be copyrighted stuff there, but only that which the [...]
random versus arbitrary: a rant
December 5, 2009 - 10:28 pm
Tags: english, grammar-nazi, language
Posted in rants | 1 comment
So this is an issue that has been on my mind for a while; the misguided popularity of the word ‘random‘. I don’t want to turn into a grammar-nazi on everybody, it just doesn’t make sense to me and the more I think about it, the less sense it makes. So here we go:
random |ˈrændəm|
adjective
made, [...]
I’m Dead Serious
December 5, 2009 - 4:51 am
Tags: afterlife, death, life, religion
Posted in life, thoughts | No comments
So how often do we stop and think about the afterlife? For some of us that’s a pretty scary thought, for some of us it’s a lot closer than for others.
Well, I heard a group of religious thinkers talk about it a couple of years ago at the university here in town, representing a bunch [...]
how to turn websites into OS X Applications
December 4, 2009 - 3:05 pm
Tags: mac, software, tricks
Posted in software | No comments
So you have a few favorite websites (like this one of course) and you run OS X, and want to turn the website into an application you can put on your desktop, or your dock for easier access. Luckily there’s an app called Fluid that will help you do this!
Watch the video below and see [...]
Where’s the beef?
December 2, 2009 - 11:08 am
Tags: life, meatless, vegetarian
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So it’s been three years since I stopped eating meat this December. It looks like this is going to be a long-term thing, so I thought I’d take a couple minutes to share a bit about why I stopped eating meat in the first place, as well as why I continue to keep it [...]
