Goodbye (www.mikecorreia.com/goodbye.mp3)
My co-worker Mike recorded this song to mark the end of our time working together. Wiping away the tears now.
New project: The Big Quote
I spent the weekend working on a new project that I’m calling The Big Quote. My first source of inspiration was Kevin’s Picture Quotes site, which pairs a quote with a photo of the person being quoted. I’ve also been looking for a chance to use Scott Robbin’s great jQuery plugin that adds a dynamically-resized background image to any page. Given the rising popularity of mobile apps and sites, I wanted to make a site that takes full advantage of the huge, beautiful displays most of us have sitting on our desks. Enjoy.
Sam/Dann/Brad’s apartment, Cambridge.
If you have plenty of money, the best consequence (so they say) is that you no longer need to think about money. In the future we will have plenty of technology — and the best consequence will be that we will no longer have to think about technology.
We will return with gratitude and relief to the topics that actually count.
Yosuke Yamashita Trio, 1972. Awesome.
2009; co-workers on couch; Brookline, MA. Taken with iPhone.
Another tool to help you not buy books from Amazon
There are more than a few good reasons to not buy books from Amazon.com. That said, Amazon’s site is still one of the best ways to research books before you buy them. So this is my suggestion: go to Amazon to do your research, then use the convenient bookmarklet I’ve created below to get yourself over to the site of a local bookstore, where you can make the final purchase. I’ve chosen Harvard Book Store to redirect to, but this bookmarklet can be easily modified to redirect to any other bookstore that uses the booksite.com service. [Hint: in the bookmarklet, replace 1624 with the id for the bookstore of your choice.] The more ambitious in the audience might consider creating a version of this that works for IndieBound.
Instructions: Drag the link at the end of this post to the toolbar in your browser. When you are on a book detail page at Amazon.com (for instance), just click the link to be sent over to the Harvard Book Store page for the same book, where you can buy it (and even have it delivered by some hippy on a bike). Easy as pie.
