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About Star Wars

If you want to listen to hours-upon-hours of people talking about the Original Trilogy, then you owe it to yourself to listen to the following episodes of The Incomparable:

There are two podcast episodes for each movie and some truly excellent commentary on all of the films. My favorite two are definitely #67 and #68 where they cover The Empire Strikes Back (easily the best Star Wars film and just an excellent film in its own right), but you really should listen to all six of them, in order, to get the whole effect.

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Technology

New Git Site

A new website for the Git was launched last week and it looks pretty great.

Along with the new site is some new branding as well. Overall, I think everything looks really great … but why not a responsive site?

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Technology

Postgres.app

Recently I followed a link to http://postgresapp.com/ and was intrigued by what I saw.

Postgres

Not just the icon, which is nice, but the actual app itself. Go ahead and check out the site for more accurate information, but basically it comes down to this:

  1. Download the file
  2. Unarchive it
  3. Move Postgres.app to your /Applications folder
  4. Start up the app
  5. …
  6. Profit!?

That’s it. You then have a fully-functioning install of PostgreSQL 9.1+ for your Mac. To update, you go ahead and download the next version, shut off the currently-running one, and then move the new one over to /Applications again.

Super nice.

There is a ton more information at their documentation page, so head on over to find out more. This is a HUGE win as far as simplicity when installing PostgreSQL so that you can begin work on applications for Heroku (who just announced their free development database built on PostgreSQL 9.1). Head on over and try it out.

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Life

Ag Reality

The Star Tribune recently ran an editorial by Susan Hogan titled When political rhetoric trumps child safety. Basically, she is upset about how corporate interests have killed proposed rules to protect children under 16 working as farmhands.

I’m not taking issue with the proposed rules here, but I am taking issue with where she perceives the problem coming from. Here is the problem paragraph for me:

But to abandon the entire safety reform effort because of public outcry from special-interest groups put political gain above children’s well-being, and that should never be the case.

Special interest groups? Those “special interest groups” are mainly family farms and farmers. Those are the people who were going to be hurt the most with these new rules and, rightly by my estimation, felt it as an overreach by the government.

If family farms are special interest groups, then every person is a special interest group. This is just ridiculous and a case of the person completely missing the point.

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Life

Awkward Years

Please go and read “That’s Why You Don’t Have Any Friends” by Joe Peacock. One of the best reads on the web for quite some time.

I can relate to much of what he talked about and I would give the exact same advice to anyone who was dealing with the issues of not “fitting in” during the ridiculous and hyped teen or adolescent years.

Please read it and, like I am planning on doing, take to heart what Joe says because you never know when you are going to need to tell someone that you love those exact same words because they are “weird”.

But weird, is good.