Douglas Dollars is Six Times Alive

January 31st 2012

Earlier today I thought it’d be nice to have a reminder to get hot chocolate before a meeting in February. Isn’t this the year 2000? Why not just have Frank (our robot assistant) remind me when it actually matters? That’s why he’s the assistant, and a damn good one, because he gets smarter every day.

Also new, along with Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It,” we can trigger part of Yellow’s “Oh Yeah” (AKA “Day Bow Bow”) any time we like.

We’re professionals. We’re working hard.

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January 31st 2012

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It’s been a busy couple weeks. This app launches tomorrow and lasts for six weeks, but we’re already working on our next couple projects.

We keep our project management low-tech. Index cards and magnets show the true work done with one piece of functionality held on each card. It keeps what usually is a very digital process securely in the physical world.

The rule is that you can only work on one card at a time, and as cards move from the backlog, through development, into review, and “Done!” you get a quick view of where the project actually stands.

A column or checkbox in a spreadsheet doesn’t share the same impact as handing a client an inch-tall stack of index cards at the end of a project and saying “this is what we’ve built for you.”

Posted at 10:48am.

It’s been a busy couple weeks. This app launches tomorrow and lasts for six weeks, but we’re already working on our next couple projects.

We keep our project management low-tech. Index cards and magnets show the true work done with one piece of functionality held on each card. It keeps what usually is a very digital process securely in the physical world.

The rule is that you can only work on one card at a time, and as cards move from the backlog, through development, into review, and “Done!” you get a quick view of where the project actually stands.

A column or checkbox in a spreadsheet doesn’t share the same impact as handing a client an inch-tall stack of index cards at the end of a project and saying “this is what we’ve built for you.”

January 30th 2012

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Surely it is. (“Talking to Strangers” by Paul Auster)

I you create enough work and reach enough of those strangers, at some point both sides become familiar with each other and no one is a stranger any longer.

Posted at 11:10pm and tagged with: Paul Auster, Writing,.

Surely it is. (“Talking to Strangers” by Paul Auster)

I you create enough work and reach enough of those strangers, at some point both sides become familiar with each other and no one is a stranger any longer.

January 30th 2012

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Speaking of that Veruca Salt SNL performance, here it is. Holy shit, right? I know. Seeing this is what made me fall in love with Louise Post.

Not that anyone’s comparing, but Louise over Nina forever. Oh, hold on a sec. My phone’s ringing.

Voice: Hello Doug?
Me: This is. Hello.
Voice: You know that thing you had in junior high for Veruca Salt, Liz Phair, and just about any act out of Chicago?
Me: I like rockin’ ladies with low voices. So what?
Voice: THE CRUSH IS BACK. NOW SPIN ME SOME EXILE!

(Source: chelylove.buzznet.com)

Posted at 8:08pm and tagged with: Veruca Salt,.

January 30th 2012

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maxistentialist replied to your photo: Everyone, I want you to meet my new Swedish girlfriend…

OH MAN

I KNOW. I live the weirdest little fantastic life, but since I’m probably not seeing anyone for at least a couple more months I can treat myself far too well for my own damn good.

Posted at 3:51pm and tagged with: maxistentialist,.

January 30th 2012

Cody Chesnutt — My Women, My Guitars

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Cody Chesnutt - “My Women, My Guitars” (3:16)

I remember when The Headphone Masterpiece was released that I was impressed both in its scope and in that it was recorded entirely on a four-track machine.

It still impresses me. And I’m glad Cody Chesnutt is back to touring and making music after such a gap.

The lyrics to this one are just so matter-of-fact.

Posted at 3:19pm and tagged with: Cody Chesnutt,.

January 30th 2012

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Upgraded. The cost difference between good and great these days is pretty minimal, and I love to capitalize on bargains where I can. So I bought six.

Keep your trends, nothing will beat a crisp white shirt, ever.

petezange replied:

dang! looking sharper already!

Why thank you!

foolonyou replied

I’m curious. Did you go to their store in Calgary to get made-to-measure?

I didn’t! Thankfully I know my measurements pretty well and if anything tend to over-estimate. This is straight off the Brooks Brothers website.

Posted at 2:47pm and tagged with: Brooks Brothers, DDS,.

Upgraded. The cost difference between good and great these days is pretty minimal, and I love to capitalize on bargains where I can. So I bought six.

Keep your trends, nothing will beat a crisp white shirt, ever.

petezange replied: dang! looking sharper already!

Why thank you!

foolonyou replied I’m curious. Did you go to their store in Calgary to get made-to-measure?

I didn’t! Thankfully I know my measurements pretty well and if anything tend to over-estimate. This is straight off the Brooks Brothers website.

January 30th 2012

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Everyone, I want you to meet my new Swedish girlfriend.
She’s so tiny but made of tough stuff. She’ll be singing songs here soon.

Posted at 2:30pm and tagged with: OP-1, Teenage Engineering, Jugend Ingenieur,.

January 30th 2012

Parenthetical Girls — Careful Who You Dance With (Tearist Remix)

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Parenthetical Girls - “Careful Who You Dance With (Tearist Remix)” (4:48)

“This wasn’t how we planned it.
And now don’t go asking where we’ve been,
we’re all reckless romantics.”

If you have a good bass response on whatever you use to listen to music, this is what has been running through my evenings the last week or so. As I’m so fond of you, I’m doing what I can to turn your days into a dance party.

Posted at 1:53pm and tagged with: Parenthetical Girls,.

January 30th 2012

Devendra Banhart — Bad Girl

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Devendra Banhart - “Bad Girl” (4:48)

“I’ve been a bad girl / I ain’t playin’ fair
I want you to be free / but I don’t wanna share”

Whatever you’re doing, you probably needed this song in your day, and you’re welcome to it.

Posted at 1:34pm and tagged with: Devendra Banhart,.

January 30th 2012

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Spin: Lana del Rey - Born to Die

Can Rob Harvilla review all of the albums?

(via airgordon)

I have nothing to say about the artist or the album, but all art is a presentation whose motives the artist and the audience may not fully be aware of, despite a modern audience’s frankly irritating insistence that they’re always on the inside of a plot and “get it.”

If people spent some time making their own art, or appreciating that someone else is at least trying something, they’d find a lot less time to speak poorly of others. Our saying in the development world for this is, “Talk is silver, code is gold.”

Posted at 9:48am and tagged with: lana del rey, spin,.

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‘Bob Dylan’ is not his real name. The ‘Ramones’ were not related. ‘Sun Ra’ was from Alabama, not Saturn. The Strokes’ dads are not plumbers. ‘Rick Ross’… look, we don’t have time for this. Yes, Internet, and God bless you for devoting most of the past half-year exclusively to pointing this out, Lana Del Rey is a pose, a persona, a version 2.0, at least, the contrivance of a messy, wayward, unformed, aspiring pop star rummaging through closets and clutching at borrowed pearls. Desperate to be what she thinks you want her to be. Calculated, malleable, untrustworthy, fumbling indelicately for ‘her’ voice or a voice that’s ‘real.’ As the Bard wrote: ‘I can change / I can change / I can change / I can change / If it makes you fall in love.’

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January 29th 2012

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The Oregon coast (2 of 2). I shot this back in August on my telephone and forgot to show you. (Video is 19 seconds long)

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January 29th 2012

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The Oregon coast (1 of 2). I shot this back in August on my telephone and forgot to show you. (video is 15 seconds long)

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January 29th 2012

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In early January my sleepy fingers hid an invite to the Tip of the Iceberg festival, and I never thought to see what it was about (let’s be honest, I used to shoot a lot of concerts so most things I get invited to are two sweaty teenagers shouting and falling over guitars in someone’s basement, and I’m a little old for that these days, boys).

Two days ago I was reminded of said event and quickly changed my R in the RSVP to Attending. Good thing, too, as it allowed me to finally meet Sarah Hoyles after about a year of poor timing, and also to pick up the record I’d purchased from Doug Hoyer who after many incidents of my poor memory I also met yesterday.

Fun shows, great afternoon, goodnight Tumblr.

Posted at 7:22pm and tagged with: Tip of the Iceberg, Old Ugly, Sarah Hoyles, Doug Hoyer,.

January 29th 2012

Sunday

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Coming up today on this station: I choose to reheat soup (for breakfast!), I clear through six long email and write a penpal back, and then fill the rest of the morning up with reading and watching In Time, which will likely be unintentionally amusing.

Later, I have library books to drop off and then will be at the Old Ugly Tip of the Iceberg show in Churchill Square from about 3PM onward. You’ll all be at the show and I’ll say, “It’s so good to see you here! I’m glad you made it!” Then I’ll probably take a great portrait of you because it’s one of my better skills that I’ve been neglecting, or I won’t, but I’ll keep thinking about it while some great music plays on and we all nod our heads so slowly.

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