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My current employer is looking for a solid .Net/C# developer with experience programming web sites (ASP.Net, MVC, AJAX, JavaScript, etc.) and Windows applications (WinForms, WPF, etc.). If you’re interested in working for a great company located in downtown Manhattan, shoot me an email with your resume. Check out the craigslist posting for . . . → Read More: Wanted: Talented .Net Web/Windows developer This is the first in a series of posts about my past life as an amateur musician. Other posts include A brief history of an amateur musician, Part II: The Hardcore Years and Kulturkampf and A brief history of an amateur musician, Part III: Assorted Recordings and Dirt Man’s King.. Something not everyone knows about me is that, prior to being a computer professional (sometimes hard to identify based on recent blog posts!), I was a musician. This blog post (and others to come soon) is a brief history of that part of my career, for the hordes who could care less. (I know you’re out there!) The Early Years I started playing guitar at 15 years old, teaching myself songs by Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, and Metallica. When I started college, I studied (among other things) . . . → Read More: A brief history of an amateur musician, Part I: The Early Years and Overnight Delivery While idly browsing through Buy.com’s web site today, I came across a “hot deal” for a wooden spoon. $16.40 for a wooden spoon? You’ve got to be kidding! Tack on shipping and it’s nearly $23. Do people really pay that much for a wooden spoon? Sure, it’s a Paderno wooden spoon (I guess that means something), but really now… Just do a Froogle search and find a perfectly good 18” wooden spoon made of beechwood for $2.59. Even better, buy a dozen of those beechwood spoons for $1.99 each (plus shipping, of course). Consider your options: Spend $23 and have one wooden spoon for yourself. Don’t insult grandma and buy an overpriced wooden spoon. She wouldn’t . . . → Read More: Don’t overpay for wooden spoons It seems the bureaucrats in Albany have decided that the most expedient fix to the MTA’s billion-dollar budget woes is to defer the problem to the future. No surprise there, of course. Even the New York Times is aghast. In the end, a standard non-reduced fare is likely going up to $2.25, up from $2.00. Plans which Albany scrapped included some which looked for a more substantial fare increase, up to $2.50. Let’s face it – running one of the largest transit operations is expensive. Is $2.25 too much to pay? How about $2.50? $3.00? What if I told you that the MTA can raise the fare by 50% (to $3.00), and you’ll still be paying no more for a ride on the subway than you did in 1975? Would you believe me? In historical context, we can look at subway fares in New York City in the past and compare them to . . . → Read More: MTA raises fares 50% and reduces fares to 1975 prices!
For a guy who spends most of his days commuting reading things like The Economist and Scientific American, it felt somewhat strange pulling out a book whose subtitle is Complete protection from the living dead. Yet here I was, reading just that book, on a recommendation by an old friend, Mr. Vikar (who knows a good book when he reads one)… and enjoying every minute of it. The Zombie Survival Guide is the work of Max Brooks, son of comedian/writer/director Mel Brooks (the brains behind of one of my all-time favorite movies, Blazing Saddles). In it, the author takes us on a journey that describes, as only a self-help survival guide can, how to survive a zombie invasion. Everything zombie-related is covered, including their physiology (they’re dead) and psychology (none); their source (a virus, Solanum); and, of course, an in-depth education on how to identify them, kill them, and . . . → Read More: Book Review: The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks |
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