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I enabled the ability for my Mac to speak text to me. I highlight several paragraphs, use a keybinding to start it reading the text, and then follow along while it reads the words. It's amazingly helpful.

I wrote them and suggested they have some type of liquor icon for "Write" and a coffee cup icon for "Edit" (a play on "Write drunk, edit sober," which he never said but everyone wrong attributes it to him).

Sad it didn't make it in. Guess I'll keep writing sober.

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I tried to do a little counteroffer Jedi mind trick. It didn't go as planned.

After working almost seven years, I went on an interview that an acquaintance told me about. The interview went very well, and shortly after I left the office, they called and offered me a job. I told them I'd need a few days to think about it.

I went into work the next day and told them, then tried to see if I could get a counteroffer from them. It wouldn't have taken much for me to stay; I was working in town and the new job would be a commute. If they could have matched half of what the new offer was, I would have stayed.

But it was no dice. I took the job.

And you know what? It ended up being the best choice I could have made. The acquaintance who worked there and told me about the job I know call "friend." I moved from a solo environment to a team. My skills have improved, the pay improved, and even the commute has turned out to be a blessing thanks to audiobooks and podcasts.

Just something to think about. Honestly, I think if you think it's time to leave, you should just go. It's time. Don't fight it.

Yes, count me in as a Starting Strength lover. Excellent book. Started squatting at 95 lbs. at the end of March, today I'm squatting 200 lbs. (I do other exercises, of course, but just an example of the types of gains can be made with the right knowledge and persistence.)

In America, most people get a degree and leave school with unbelievable debt that can't be bankrupted, should hardship ever occur.

I would have taken apprenticeship over college any day.

"If you really look at the two accounts, it's not necessarily clear that they're contradictory except in a couple of statements on speed ..."

So what does Broder have to say about that?

"It happened just the way I described it."

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-f...

I've been working on putting my _actual_ resume on Github using Markdown (when finished, I'll have a HTML version up using Markdown and Strapdown.js, too).

https://github.com/rumblestrut/ejg-resume

I've neglected my resume for a long time and recently felt the need to update it. After considering different options, I thought "Why not just put this thing on Github?" Ultimately, I just wanted something that would withstand the test of multiple document formats over time, and a text file was the best thing I could think of.

So yes, quite literally, Github is my resume.

Most Kickstarter-like campaigns start out strong, dip down, then get a lot of traction right before the close of the project (for the ones that are going to be successful).

Sorry to sound skeptical, but back in the day cancer was killed twice a week on Digg.

This page seems to indicate that both are coming May 24.

http://panic.com/coda/comingsoon.html

"Coda 2 and Diet Coda will be available May 24, 2012."

It's funny that you never find someone that's free, when any time I go I get asked by no less than five people if I need assistance.

My advice for Best Buy would be this:

1. Make sure all your displays work. 2. Stop your employees from treating customers like shark bait.

That ought to do it.

Dear Facebook: My student loans are for sale at cost. Please contact me for details.

http://www.siliconprairienews.com for those of us here in the midwest/plains areas.

I saw this tweet yesterday after listening to the TAL program. He says his work should be treated differently because it's theater, and yet the program notes seen here state:

"THIS IS A WORK OF NONFICTION."

https://twitter.com/#!/afgld/status/181439210643931136/photo...

Daisey doesn't understand that, "I'm sorry. I lied. Please forgive me," would have went a lot further than what he's doing now.

I have found this approach to be quite useful with my co-workers, friends and even my spouse.

Sometimes I hear an idea and my initial reaction is "No," when what is really going on inside me is "Let me mull it over." The trick for me is to not open my mouth too soon before I've truly given the idea a chance to breathe a little.

My meeting rules are simple.

1. I don't go to a meeting that doesn't have an agenda.

2. After I get the agenda, I try and work out what I can over email and phone, if possible.

3. If I can't get out of the meeting following step two, I let the meeting organizer know I'm available for 45 minutes at the maximum.

4. I leave at 45 minutes regardless if the meeting is done or not.

These principles have served me well.

Maybe you could put that in the github repo?

(Or maybe I could, I know, I know ...)

What a great read.

I've been fascinated with ISS since learning about TWISST. If you follow @twisst on on Twitter and your location is in your profile, you'll be sent a tweet with where ISS will show up next in your area. It's been fun to take the family outside and look at the space station as it goes by.

I am a little jealous, though. I want to go for a ride.

Well I know what I'm doing today. Thanks!

In my Steve Jobs memorial (http://www.ericjgruber.com/blog/2011/10/thank-you-steve-jobs...), I opined about the Apple IIe and one of my favorite games growing up, Montezuma's Revenge. And sure enough, it's there.

Seeing this made me wish I could play it again. Excellent job.

If that's true, then I'll go ahead and transfer them now. One of my concerns was losing money on transferring them way before they expire. Thanks!

I set up a Namecheap account and purchased a domain yesterday. No terrible upselling, pretty straightforward shopping cart (not a fan that it didn't take Discover, but no biggie). Overall, it was a pleasant experience.

I'm a longtime Go Daddy customer and have several domains with them.

I've thought about moving from GoDaddy, but never made it a priority. But I finally got motivated enough to see the process of switching might not be as painful as I thought. Now that I've seen what else is out there, it's go time. As my domains expire in the next few months, I'll switch them over to Namecheap.

At least for me, it's too little, too late this time for Go Daddy.

And, I would argue that politicians need those social issues to stay the same to continue to engage their base.

How sad it is we must work to spread huge internet campaigns to try and protect our freedoms from those we have elected to office.

(me: https://twitter.com/#!/ericjgruber/status/147004394448224256)

I have no idea what options there are for a non-iOS user, but ...

There's an excellent iOS app called TurboScan. It's fantastic. Take a picture of your receipts and it'll convert the image to low file size, but high-quality, PDFs. You can then send those PDFs to your Evernote email and have them stored neatly in a notebook.

It's a fantastic solution for portable document scanning. And with the iPhone 4s camera being so improved over its predecessors, it makes great PDFs of receipts.

I like clear and concise. I'm like that a lot (unless I'm intentionally verbose) and tend to get looked at in the same light.

I tried searching for local Ruby guys, and some of the top Django/Python people I know showed up at the top of the list.

It might need some tweaking.

I'll second that. Instapaper 3.0 is incredible.

I use Readability and Instapaper for different things. With Readability, I use the Chrome extension to make articles readable in the same way Safari does on the fly.

With Instapaper, I save articles and read them later on my iPhone, and I get a collection of articles that I've saved sent automatically to my Kindle every Friday. Saturday mornings with my Kindle, saved articles through Instapaper and French Press coffee? Life is good.