I just learned about Mr. Pine’s Purple House as I read a review about Amazon’s new phone.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 271)
After reading that Apple was granted a patent for an iWatch/iTime device that includes “gestures,” it made me think of a company whose name I can’t remember, but they wanted to let you perform gestures in front of your Mac/Windows PC. If you could perform gestures in the air over your iWatch device, like in The Minority Report, that would be pretty cool.
Buddhist monks in flying training class. :) From this Twitter URL.
Happy Birthday, Edward Hopper, born July 22, 1882. Nighthawks is one of my favorite paintings.
A pilot in Anchorage, Alaska went rogue yesterday (July 21, 2014) and painted a smiley face in the sky. :)
A great quote from Jonathan Ive about focusing on product, and how when you focus on product (design), everything else just falls into place. (Personally I think this is true when someone is clearly in charge, like when Steve Jobs was in charge, or now that Mr. Ive seems to be in charge of design and software.)
Football coach Rod Marinelli (formerly of the Bears, now of the Cowboys) talks about using repetition to build habits. (Text and image come from this espn article.)
Before the thyroid cancer and radiation treatment I could bench press the entire stack of weights. Today I can only do the amount shown. All I can say is that you do what you can do on any given day, and try and hope to keep getting better every day.
(Originaly posted on July 21, 2014.)
The Alaska Dispatch News, founded in 2008, bought out the Anchorage Daily News within the last year. This is the first print edition of the “new” newspaper. (The adn.com website was changed over some time ago. Image from here.)
I thought this was a very interesting comment by Shinzen Young on this page of his website where he talks about meditation and aging.
Sadly, the last edition of the Anchorage Daily News was printed today. Image from here.
Another circle changeup grip, this time from MLB pitcher Huston Street. (Photo from here.)
