Seven months ago, I took this photo of a somewhat funny/ironic auto breakdown in Miami Beach. I posted it to my Flickr account, thinking it was mildly humorous and mostly harmless. Well, a few days ago the driver of that auto somehow stumbled across that photo (or was he looking for it?) and commented on it! A conversation ensued. Check it out. The world gets smaller every day. Combine that with overpopulation, and it’s getting pretty claustrophobic on this planet!
Reading and Bookmarks
- Making Meetup February 10, 2012New I/O sometimes better than Old I/O We decided to try repackaging an internal service, which was running a servlet container, in a custom built NIO server. Its baseline request load fluctuates… […]
- Restore a Gateway to Dignity February 9, 2012Congestion and aesthetic blandness define Penn Station. It’s time to address the calamity that is Penn Station. Nearly a half-century has passed since the destruction of the great 1910… […]
- Riak Compared to MongoDB February 8, 2012This is intended to be a brief, objective and technical comparison of Riak and MongoDB. ( This comparison is current as of the 1.6 release of MongoDB. ) High Level Differences Riak and MongoDB… […]
- paperplanes. A Tour of Amazon's DynamoDB February 8, 2012My goal is not to outline the entire API and its full set of options, but to dig into the bits most interesting to me and to show some examples. A lot of the focus in other posts is on performance, scalability and operational ease. I think that's a great feature of DynamoDB, but it's pretty much the same with all of their web services. So instead I […]
- Those who think The Onion is real journalism February 8, 2012RT @kottke: Those who think The Onion is real journalism […]
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/jpotisch/status/167332554364563457/photo/1) February 8, 2012@readability And this, seriously, is how I learned about it. […]
- What I've Been Up To (2011-09-20) February 8, 2012.@dlsspy is incredibly, unbelievably prolific: […]
- Memcached surpasses EhCache and Coherence in Java usage February 8, 2012Around January 2011, Memcached became the number one caching solution used by Java developers based on job demand trends by Indeed.com . Memcached expanded beyond its LAMP roots and has entered the… […]
- MoneyWell - Personal Finance Software for Mac and iPhone February 8, 2012Now *this* is how you make a 2.0 version of an app: /via @khoi […]
- HeapAudit – JVM Memory Profiler for the Real World February 8, 2012[…]
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Music I like from Pandora
- Human Hands by Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down Quartet February 10, 2012Human Hands by Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down Quartet from the album Duper Sessions […]
- Concerto For Violin, Strings & Continuo No. 1 In A Minor, Bwv 1041: I. Allegro by Johann Sebastian Bach February 10, 2012Concerto For Violin, Strings & Continuo No. 1 In A Minor, Bwv 1041: I. Allegro by Johann Sebastian Bach from the album Bach: Violin Concertos […]
- Animal (Punks Jump Up Remix) by Miike Snow February 10, 2012Animal (Punks Jump Up Remix) by Miike Snow from the album Animal (Remixes) […]
- Wild Horses by The Sundays February 10, 2012Wild Horses by The Sundays from the album Blind […]
- West Coast by Coconut Records February 10, 2012West Coast by Coconut Records from the album Nighttiming […]
- Broken Open by Cold War Kids February 10, 2012Broken Open by Cold War Kids from the album Mine Is Yours […]
- Guitars Need A Sinners Touch by Computer Vs. Banjo February 10, 2012Guitars Need A Sinners Touch by Computer Vs. Banjo from the album Computer Vs. Banjo […]
- West Coast by Coconut Records February 10, 2012West Coast by Coconut Records from the album Nighttiming […]
- Change (Live) by Blind Melon February 10, 2012Change (Live) by Blind Melon from the album Live At The Palace […]
- Home by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros February 10, 2012Home by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros from the album Up From Below […]