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Any Boston folks interested in seeing a classical guitar show w/ me tomorrow night? I’ve got 2 extra tix. The player: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH72zNX06e8&feature=related

March 8th, 2012


If I had a dollar for every “amazing” and “incredible” uttered from the stage at an Apple product announcement, I’d buy everyone an iPad 3.

March 7th, 2012


I had no idea what to expect, but Viva Riva!, a film noir from the Congo, is pretty badass. Check it out on Netflix instant.

March 4th, 2012


Convex http://instagr.am/p/HuNyEdiN3y/

March 3rd, 2012


It was time 3 years ago.

RT @happycog Is it time we stop showing clients static design comps? @malarkey explains: http://cog.gd/3jf

March 1st, 2012


“The average user will have 736 pieces of personal information collected every day.” Beautiful and a bit frightening: http://vimeo.com/34750078

February 27th, 2012


RT @DaveBastian: More evidence that we’re approaching Idiocracy: http://i.imgur.com/uZgBh.png

February 21st, 2012


Something from my more musical days—a bit of electronica I wrote for a friend’s college radio show, “Nervous Digital”. http://soundcloud.com/michaelbester/nervous-digital

February 14th, 2012


That conference call ended abruptly just after the sound of a toilet flushing. Coincidence?

February 10th, 2012


Daughter (4): “I know where Santa lives.” Me: “Where’s that?” D: “The North End.”

Did he change his name to Santonioni?

February 3rd, 2012


The cover for this week’s New Yorker is absolutely inspired. http://ebonymompolitics.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/new-yorker-super-bowl-cover.jpg

February 2nd, 2012


Sailing on Federal http://instagr.am/p/ldHpO/

January 28th, 2012


My Perl chops are rubbish. Any Perl nerds out there care to give me an assist? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8992301/how-do-i-execute-an-awk-statement-in-a-perl-script-which-uses-a-perl-variable

January 24th, 2012


Presented without context: “Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter”.

January 23rd, 2012


“You’ve got a spider coming out of your nose, grandpa.”

—my daughter (4) to my dad, referring to his nose hair.

January 22nd, 2012


Big congratulations to my little brother, @BesterChristian and his wife @besteraimee for finally making me an uncle today!

January 20th, 2012


Airstream http://instagr.am/p/i1vQg/

January 20th, 2012


RT @neiltyson: In 5-billion yrs the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.

January 19th, 2012


I dig my new @byrdandbelle cover for my Kindle so much, I just had to write up a piece to tell you about them: http://kimili.com/journal/byrd-belle-device-covers

January 17th, 2012


Kindling for the anti-intellectual fire that burns in the USA: Republicans attacking each other.

For speaking French.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16549624

January 13th, 2012


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