re: 10 Obscure, Thought Provoking Reads

Found a blog post today by a random. The author suggested 10 obscure books. The list wasn't all that obscure imo (not saying that i really think that some of them on the list deserve to be on any list, let alone a list of 'thought provokers'), but there was one book splattered on there that I haven't thought about for years and read maybe a decade ago?? The book: Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice. It actually was a thought provoking book. I'm not a fan of books that spew folkloric revenants, nor a religious fiction fan, but this book did it for me. Read it.

"bullshit" in sign language

I have to admit that I only learned of Rives after TED started posting video feeds. 'Twas a very video intensive part of my life... Anywho, thought some might enjoy this:

Mike Doughty vid

And that last post prompted this....

for those w/ no patience, skip to the 40 second mark.

Your Arturo clip du jour

Lame story of the day: I was on the search for a song from a cd of mine that I lost oh-so-long ago. I knew a Brecker brother and Arturo Sandoval played together in it, and simply couldn't find it... that's the lame part. The cool part is that I found a Bobby-McFerrinesque clip of Arturo singing. Here ya go:

CARB: It was almost a year ago now, but...

Last year I read a blog post from the (former?) CEO of Tesla Motors. Definitely worth the read if the relationship between state governments and the auto industry interests you.

If you're too lazy to read the page-worth, his short testimony pretty much says, "As long as CARB and the auto manufacturers here seem to keep pushing for a technology that is 10 years away (and has been '10 years away' for over 15 years), I'm simply here to say thank you and keep doing what you're doing because we're making a killing... oh, and it would be nice to have some competition if anyone is interested."

The Reubenstein is the coolest Ruby developer I know

I'm not kissing your ass Ben, but it's pretty cool that your mod_rails setup post made this week's Rails Envy Podcast. Go team!