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The other guys are going to talk about the Jantar D’espirito Santo (Dinner of the Divine Holy Spirit) at an overview level, so I wanted to share a few of my favorite memories of the three days we spent on this project.
Sunday Morning Sopa Delivery
After getting up at 6 AM on [...]

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The time has come to share a few more observations and experiences of our time in the Açores. Today I shall regale you with tales of the Portuguese Age Factor, and my new nickname.
The Age Factor
One thing we’ve been noticing as of late is that up to a certain point, most [...]

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This trip has been my first opportunity to really experience the ocean, and experience it we have—we’re on an island surrounded by the Atlantic. While “really” just a layer of salty water covering part of our planet, to those of us used to the landlocked life of the Canadian prairies, the [...]

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Hello and good day from the island of Santa Maria in the Açores. This trip has been an amazing one thus far, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who’s up for an adventure. For the non-Portugese types, having some Portugese assistance on your side certainly helps and is also [...]

I’m going on hiatus for the next three weeks (not that you the reader noticed — it’s been longer than that since my last update). I’m headed to the Açore Islands in Portugal with Paulo Fernandes (and his parents) and Dan Lussier to have a bit of a vacation.
Follow us on our travels…

This is probably an incredibly cliché meme, but I haven’t seen it and thought it might be interesting to see what we all can’t get enough of, musically speaking.
Without further ado:
Song / Artist / Album / Playcount
Blast Off / Weezer / B-Sides And Rarities / 34
Smoke (Strings) / Ben Folds Five / / 33
Comptine [...]

While going through the available commands in Mac OS X 10.4, I found some interesting ones…
amaze – wander around in a maze
bison – GNU Project parser generator (a replacement for yacc)
lipo – create or operate on ‘fat’ files
yes – (be a yes man…) repetitively output ‘y’ (or an expletive of your choice) for all eternity
wall [...]