Nat Turner

Quote of the day

“A programmer is most productive with a quiet private office,     a great computer, unlimited beverages, an ambient temperature between 68 and 72     degrees (F), no glare on the screen, a chair that’s so comfortable you don’t     feel it, an administrator that brings them their mail and orders manuals and     books, a system administrator who makes the Internet as available as oxygen, a     tester to find the bugs they just can’t see, a graphic designer to make their     screens beautiful, a team of marketing people to make the masses want their products,     a team of sales people to make sure the masses can get these products, some     patient tech support saints who help customers get the product working and help     the programmers understand what problems are generating the tech support calls,     and about a dozen other support and administrative functions...”

- Joel Spolsky

LeBron + Cavs off to a great start

In case you hadn't noticed (or could care less), LeBron is off to an amazing start.  After 10 games, he's  leading the league in scoring (29.2 points per game), is #6 in assists (8 per game), and is at almost 8 rebounds a game. In the last four games, he was 1 assist away from three triple doubles (including two MONSTER games with 13+ assists AND rebounds). He also appears to give a crap about defense, choosing to guard (and guard well) the best player on the opposing team on multiple occasions.  His blocks and steals are up, and he's made several noteworthy defensive stops when the game is on the line.

And the Cavs as a team? Their record could be better (currently at 5-5), but that's after their longest road trip and two tough home games.  Last night they broke Utah's winning streak, and have a few days rest.

I said it last year (and they went to the Finals) and I'll say it again this year, I expect the Cavs to go far into the playoffs.  They're one of only three teams (or was it four?) that has had at least 50 wins in two consecutive seasons, and I don't see that stopping this year.

Now if they could only figure out how to get rid of Hughes and get an all-star point guard (and play him alongside Gibson).

What's on my mind right now (11/14/07)

Trying something new.  I'm just going to leave the Edit Post window open and add to it over the course of a full day:

• Ready for school to be over. Have a paper due on Tuesday (half done), just took two exams (went well), have 2 finals in December. At least I only have 1 serious class in my last semester in the spring.
• Watched a video of CCR performing on YouTube, really wish I could have seen them live (together).
• Where does all the time in the day go?
• Just realized I spent the last 2 hours only writing emails, and now need to respond to have the responses.
• I think instead of constantly perusing Bloglines throughout the day, I'm going to dedicate 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour and night to only reading today's blog posts.
• Excited to see a Led Zeppelin cover band on Friday (well, intrigued). I usually don't appreciate covers, but The Black Crowes (although with Page) made me think otherwise.
• Liking our office, it's got a great vibe and is in the middle of everything. Just went out and grabbed supplies for tonight's dinner, ran some errands, and found a new restaurant to try.
• Looking forward to Belize in May, a week of fishing and going for the Grand Slam (bonefish, tarpon, and permit all in 24 hours).
• Albert's birthday is this weekend, gotta make sure I don't get him anything (inside joke).
• Why is my Blackberry not syncing with Outlook all of the sudden?

Philly events this week

Amazon Web Services Evangelist Meetup, hosted by Invite Media

Thanks to everyone who could make it out.  We had a great turnout, over 100 people.  Jeff Barr also did a great job explaining AWS and its benefits for tech startups. We definitely plan on having more events in the future.  Visit www.invitemedia.com to sign up for our mailing list if you haven't already.

Facebook Developer's Garage

Just got back from this event. Met a ton of interesting people, a lot of whom were at our event the night before.  Also got to hear Dave from Facebook, the founder/engineer of the Platform, speak about what's coming up and how to work with the platform.

The Black Crowes

Went to The Black Crowes concert last night at the Electric Factory.  Great concert, especially loved the one harmonica song that was introduced by a long drum solo.  Pictures to follow:

Link to flickr set