February 2012
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j2d2 on Fandalism →
A friend sent me an invite to Fandalism yesterday. I didn’t notice until today, but the invite still worked so I set up an account. Here it is.
Social Network for Musicians
I think this is a cool idea. I am excited about the idea of a social network for musicians and think this could be really awesome. There are lots of ways for bands and, essentially, finished projects to be showcased....
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“Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events and small minds...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via crashzone)
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Mr. Meowgi - Cup Of Tea R
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Living In An Artform's Past
My brother and I were discussing Amazon’s CD-on-demand service. He put his music on Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp and basically everywhere by using Tunecore. He doesn’t have it on Amazon’s on-demand yet.
There’s been something of a tape phenomenon lately. Lots of music creators have released music this way in very limited numbers. They become cool collector’s items and...
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Things I Pay For.
The things I pay for are basically this:
Spotify
Netflix - streaming only
The Economist - I read it on my phone and ipad.
GitHub
Books for Kindle
A grandfathered-in unlimited-data ATT phone bill
All very worthwhile and pretty much cover everything I need. Other than that I watch both Meet The Press and The Daily Show online.
Notice Cable TV ain’t listed. :)
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Lazy Properties & a Nifty Decorator
I sometimes use properties as a form of cache. You see this in Brubeck with current_user and current_userprofile. The idea is that if you don’t need access to the current user, the message handler won’t attempt to load it. If you do need it, the first time you try to access it will trigger the loading mechanism and off you go.
HT Tornado - I originally saw this technique in...
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