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Steve Jobs 1955–2011

by Mike on 10/6/2011

in Apple Fetish

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

A little bit of nerdery, inspired by the OpenID-friendly login system at SB Nation’s Baseball coverage: If you want to set up an OpenID authentication using your Google account—and hey, who doesn’t—on a domain that you control, it’s easy as pie. Gina Trapani shows us how. First, Google Profiles (and, it turns out, idproxy.net and [...]

Tampa Bay Rays, 2011 AL Wild Card, a photo by MikeWas on Flickr. From a 9-game September hole

A hot North Carolina summer filled the room as my roommate and I looked out the window. It was open because our dorm, like all the others on campus, had no air conditioning. We looked out to see two girls standing under a tree beneath our window waving at us, inviting us to come down [...]

The Courthouse Security Kabuki Dance I’m no stranger to courthouses. About three times a week, more or less, I submit to the ritual security screening that protects our citizens while exercising their right of access to the courts. (In reality, only the judges are protected, because everyone else is vulnerable to threats of all kinds [...]

St. Pete Times: DEAD., a photo by MikeWas on Flickr. St. Pete Times headline, 5/2/2011

Alex and Nate went charter fishing with Grandpa, a photo by MikeWas on Flickr.

The season opens The day I’ve been waiting for all summer has finally arrived—the start of running season. Here in Florida, June through August, and even into September, are just too damned hot to run seriously outdoors unless you have a hankering for heat stroke. But once fall hits, and temperatures drop below 90 for [...]

Most of all, this message is for Evan Longoria and David Price. You’ve got the best record in all of baseball the American League, playing in the toughest division in baseball. You’re one game away from clinching the second playoff berth in team history. And yet you’re forced to wonder: where the hell are the [...]