Thoughts on humanizing technology
I didn’t get a chance to post about it earlier but man, what a show to kick off the season at Twisted Oak Winery! Sarah Jarosz with Alex Hargreaves on fiddle and Nathaniel Smith on cello played two fantastic sets that set a very high bar for coming shows.
The encore brought everyone up to the stage (if only to keep warm) for Tom Waits’ quasi-gospel song, “Come On Up To the House”. A fine way to end a special evening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzapgZI5SEc
This article in the Wall Street Journal asks the excellent question, Are Butter and Cheese Really Bad For You?
The fact is, there has never been solid evidence for the idea that these fats cause disease. We only believe this to be the case because nutrition policy has been derailed over the past half-century by a mixture of personal ambition, bad science, politics and bias.
It looks like it’s the foods that we’ve been eating instead of fats (grains, oils and sugar) that have been doing us harm.
This is where painting the entire inside of the house begins.
Think that there is someone who can actually fix your computer or website? Think again. This article by Peter Welch explains all.
The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad.
Read the whole thing: http://mashable.com/2014/04/30/programming-sucks/
Thank you, Umpqua Bank for updating your ATM interface, so that I don’t have to confirm the amount of every check in a deposit. Now that I think about it, I wonder if they were using that method to help teach the software how to recognize different styles of written checks. Anyway, it just got a lot quicker and easier.