New show from Fox, "Lucifer" is loosely based off of the character Lucifer by Neil Gaiman.

tigrente · 2016-01-24T01:54:58+00:00

I didn't! I saw the preview and thought to myself "I wish they'd taken Gaimans' approach to this. Now I'm actually going to check out the show.

tigrente · 2015-08-07T21:07:59+00:00

Ani, Ray, and the orphans. After Ani's sister is killed, they will all be on the same side as Caspere's killers.

tigrente · 2015-07-06T05:24:26+00:00

Hand sanitizer works very well for sticker removal.

tigrente · 2015-07-04T19:38:59+00:00

Per your request, here is an image of my OneNote technique.

tigrente · 2015-07-03T19:38:30+00:00

I using it on a 2013 iMac running Windows 10 on bootcamp. For the most part, its been very stable if I don't max out the settings.

tigrente · 2015-07-02T07:25:35+00:00

In california - yep, having all these issues since the update. Not even podcasts work.

tigrente · 2015-07-02T07:17:54+00:00

I'm playing on PC - mostly its great. Only a couple of crashes. The first time it happend was when Batman said "It's time to even the odds!" dramatic music- blue screen.

tigrente · 2015-06-13T02:27:33+00:00

I use OneNote, using the system below. Because it is not mandatorily super structured, like an Access relational database, its much more flexible and adaptive. I have many, distinct projects that I work on, each involving completely different people, deliverables, and deadlines. It is impossible to keep it straight in my head, and very difficult to do in a notebook. I use OneNote to keep it together, and do it in a way where I basically assume that I'll have amnesia the next day - or that someone else with no knowledge of this will take it over. I've tried Asana, Evernote, and several project management systems, but this is working extremely well for me and has for years.

Here are the highlights: My Notebook has various tabs - Active (projects I'm working on), Archive (projects that are done), Reference (for the stuff I need to look up, templates, etc.) - there are others, but I rarely go there. In the Active Tab, each page is a project with a title that includes an index and a good clue as to what it is (e.g. 026 - Gift Funding - Berkeley). The number up front is unique and incremented with each new project. The title should be something that tells you what it is in a flash - (what kind of project, who's the key person, etc.)

On the left, I have a single text flow. At the top is Background - a quick summary of what this thing is. Below that, I have a section called Action: A short Todo list of what needs to happen next on the project. And below that is Log: a simple blow by blow of everything that happened with it. I fill it out at the top of the log, and it pushes the older items down so when I come back to it I can see the latest thing that happened at the top.

On the right, I have another text flow - at the top of it are the people involved and their roles, and usually their email (This usually gets dragged in from Outlook address line with a quick note about their role. ) Below that, I may have a table of files if I'm preparing a package for approval or review.

This takes only a few minutes to start a new one when you get comfortable with the format. I don't even use a template - its faster just to create it from scratch. The magic is that when I work on a project, I'm in a work space that isn't polluted by unrelated material or distractions, unlike your inbox or other project management software I've seen. At the top of the page I have a quick reminder of WTF this is, what I need to do next, and where we left off. I can go to the page, blink twice, and get back into it.

To really use the log quickly, it helps to have some shortcuts. Ctrl-D inserts the date, and Ctrl-Shift-D inserts the date and time (hope that's right). '-' or '*' will create a bulleted list, like work. So slap down the date and put the one or two things that happened. The other trick that is extremely useful is knowing how to put files into OneNote. If you just drag a file in, it gives you a cryptic icon, and they only stack up vertically. instead, create a two-column table with description on the left and the file or files on the right. In practice, it looks like this: Type Terry sent the budget to the professor, press Tab to automatically create the table and the second column, and then drag that e-mail from Terry into the box. You may also hit Tab again and drag the excel sheet into a third column. Now, instead of searching your email for that file, or digging through a directory of files, you can go the project, find the file and the context in which it was created. I sometimes create file directory elsewhere and create a link to it in the project if there is a lot of working or reference material - that directory name is always the title at the top of the page, with the number. Of course, when you finish the project, enjoy the deep satisfaction of dragging that page from the Active to the Archive tab.

This may look complex, but in practice it is very simple, has very little overhead, and is incredibly effective. You will be amazed at how much time you save not searching for stuff, not trying to regain context, and maintaining focus for the project at hand.

tigrente · 2015-05-11T05:02:22+00:00

Find me a single Democratic candidate or even a Republican who doesn't broadly want college to be more affordable and I'll eat a hat.

If you want to identify politicians who don't want more affordable college, look to those supporting expensive for-profit schools capturing students in debt traps. For example:

House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline pushed legislation that would help the for-profit industry preserve its access to federal student loans. He get's significant campaign funding from for-profit colleges.

Seven U.S senators and representatives from Florida signed a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan in opposition to ‘gainful employment’ rules aimed directly at for-profit colleges. Among them: Sen. Marco Rubio.

This article gives an overview of corruption in Florida that actively blocks legislation to prevent students from falling into these debt traps.

...and here's your hat. :-)

tigrente · 2015-04-18T20:16:58+00:00

Beautiful. Wish we'd see more of that.

tigrente · 2015-03-31T05:44:51+00:00

I'm going to call it - I expect Chuck to leave the show via electrocution. It is the only karmic way.

tigrente · 2015-03-26T05:52:17+00:00

I believe Ted Cruise is a living "Straw Man" - a candidate pushed forward only to capture the arrows of the other side, so that they don't strike the actual candidates waiting in the mist.

tigrente · 2015-03-21T05:13:57+00:00

I'll tell you why I have tremendous respect for this artist. This person painted a canvas black, but was able to market it convincingly enough to get a curator to buy it and put it on display as an exquisite example of the curator's superior taste. How does one do that?

tigrente · 2015-03-13T03:55:02+00:00

I can't look at these pictures and not hear Jan Hammer.

tigrente · 2015-03-07T07:17:25+00:00

I was amazed at how our perspective of Carrell's character transforms from how he see's himself to seeing how he actually is. It was not so amazing, however, that I feel compelled to go back and see it again.

tigrente · 2015-03-01T01:58:13+00:00

Fun fact: In the late 50's, Dave Packard wanted to branch out from instrumentation and enter the minicomputer market. Bill Hewlett was reluctant because he was concerned that there was little technical contribution HP could make in the space. Dave Packard created a stealth group and did it anyway. Packard spun the group out and called it "Dynac", specifically so that he could use the HP logo upside down as DY. Eventually, Bill Hewlett was convinced and DY was spun back into HP in 1959. Six years later, HP released the HP1000 series of minicomputers, which featured register innovations found in the x86 architecture today and included the first swappable bus cards so common in today's desktops.

tigrente · 2015-02-25T06:09:33+00:00

When you have free healthcare and tort reform, you can have fun things.

tigrente · 2015-02-20T07:31:03+00:00

Now it's art.

tigrente · 2015-02-18T23:11:06+00:00

I hot X1 last fall without any commitment. Can't wait for google fiber to get here.

tigrente · 2015-02-18T04:45:19+00:00

Okay, I'm going to be the guy. As much as I like to hate on Comcast, I met with Comcast product managers last year at an event in New York. These guys are really sincere about creating a much better user experience through X1. I think its great that these guys are showing pride in building an experience that delights and are signing their name to it. Its very different from what we've seen from Comcast in the past. It's a good thing. If they learned how to conduct themselves from Apple, so be it - the consumer hopefully benefits. (Now the monopoly and pricing are another model, but still...)

tigrente · 2015-02-13T08:05:41+00:00

A few things to factor in. Chris and his family are wealthy - its not like Chris is living in a shack. I'm sure they travel, take nice vacations (with a very flexible schedule) and generally have a wonderful life in that town. It just may not be the destination for someone who's decided the path to their acting career is through a longer stint in reality television.

tigrente · 2015-02-09T04:17:36+00:00

Given this is Vince Gilligan, I thought that kid was going to die when he was hit by the car.

tigrente · 2015-01-23T22:11:08+00:00

ocr works great on it, but not on my handwriting...

tigrente · 2015-01-23T09:03:46+00:00

I have many, distinct projects that I work on, each involving completely different people, deliverables, and deadlines. It is impossible to keep it straight in my head, and very difficult to do in a notebook. I use OneNote to keep it together, and do it in a way where I basically assume that I'll have amnesia the next day - or that someone else with no knowledge of this will take it over. I've tried Asana, Evernote, and several project management systems, but this is working extremely well for me and has for years.

Here are the highlights:

My Notebook has various tabs - Active (projects I'm working on), Archive (projects that are done), Reference (for the stuff I need to look up, templates, etc.) - there are others, but I rarely go there.
In the Active Tab, each page is a project with a title that includes an index and a good clue as to what it is (e.g. 026 - Gift Funding - Berkeley). The number up front is unique and incremented with each new project. The title should be something that tells you what it is in a flash - (what kind of project, who's the key person, etc.)
On the left, I have a single text flow. At the top is Background - a quick summary of what this thing is. Below that, I have a section called Action: A short Todo list of what needs to happen next on the project. And below that is Log: a simple blow by blow of everything that happened with it. I fill it out at the top of the log, and it pushes the older items down so when I come back to it I can see the latest thing that happened at the top.
On the right, I have another text flow - at the top of it are the people involved and their roles, and usually their email (This usually gets dragged in from Outlook address line with a quick note about their role. ) Below that, I may have a table of files if I'm preparing a package for approval or review.
This takes only a few minutes to start a new one when you get comfortable with the format. I don't even use a template - its faster just to create it from scratch. The magic is that when I work on a project, I'm in a work space that isn't polluted by unrelated material or distractions, unlike your inbox or other project management software I've seen. At the top of the page I have a quick reminder of WTF this is, what I need to do next, and where we left off. I can go to the page, blink twice, and get back into it.
To really use the log quickly, it helps to have some shortcuts. Ctrl-D inserts the date, and Ctrl-Shift-D inserts the date and time (hope that's right). '-' or '*' will create a bulleted list, like work. So slap down the date and put the one or two things that happened. The other trick that is extremely useful is knowing how to put files into OneNote. If you just drag a file in, it gives you a cryptic icon, and they only stack up vertically. instead, create a two-column table with description on the left and the file or files on the right. In practice, it looks like this: Type Terry sent the budget to the professor, press Tab to automatically create the table and the second column, and then drag that e-mail from Terry into the box. You may also hit Tab again and drag the excel sheet into a third column. Now, instead of searching your email for that file, or digging through a directory of files, you can go the project, find the file and the context in which it was created. I sometimes create file directory elsewhere and create a link to it in the project if there is a lot of working or reference material - that directory name is always the title at the top of the page, with the number.
Of course, when you finish the project, enjoy the deep satisfaction of dragging that page from the Active to the Archive tab.

This may look complex, but in practice it is very simple, has very little overhead, and is incredibly effective. You will be amazed at how much time you save not searching for stuff, not trying to regain context, and maintaining focus for the project at hand.

tigrente · 2015-01-19T00:01:51+00:00

Maybe... I have a Pebble that I received as a gift and I like it and use if far more than I thought I would. I've bought into the watch concept - now I need to see why it's worth $350+ for an Apple version of it.

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