The Get Down Guy

Mar 10

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) -

  1. Monsters of Folk (4)
  2. Shout Out Louds (3)
  3. Joy Division (2)
  4. The New Pornographers (1)
  5. Ramones (1)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

The Hardball Times Projections -

The Hardball Times is releasing their first player forecasts.  I already get the Baseball Prospectus (PECOTA) projections, and there are plenty of free options, but I’m looking forward to what THT can add to the mix.

Mar 05

NPR's Austin 100: A SXSW Mix For 2010 -

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In preparation for the 2010 South by Southwest music festival (March 17-20), NPR Music’s staff has spent weeks sampling songs by more than 1,000 of the acts in attendance. Some reaffirmed our pre-existing love, a few came out of nowhere to stake at least a momentary claim on our affections, and many made us want to superglue our index fingers into our respective ear canals.

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Loving this awesome mix.

Feb 26

[video]

We got hit pretty hard last night.

We got hit pretty hard last night.

Feb 20

Preparing for fantasy baseball 2010. This is the only way to do it.

Preparing for fantasy baseball 2010. This is the only way to do it.

Feb 19

Feb 10

What are the chances?

What are the chances?

Feb 09

Why You Should Start a Company in Austin. -

I love Austin and am glad to see it getting recognized as a great place to start a company.  I’m a bit biased as I was born there after my dad and his friends started a software company there in the 70’s. Besides the fact that Austin is wonderful, there are two takeaways:

  1. The last paragraph about successful entrepreneurs who take the quality of life upgrade and disappear is not a positive for Austin’s startup scene.  Jeff Bussgang talked about this same phenomena in Boston.
  2. No mention of Rackspace which is a major startup win for Austin.  I believe it was the only 2008 venture backed IPO.

(Found via Wyomingirl)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) -

  1. Bob Dylan (11)
  2. Wilco (3)
  3. Ramones (2)
  4. Phoenix (2)
  5. royksopp (1)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Feb 08

This is Yahoo Fantasy Baseball’s “Commissioner Corner” which is supposed to be a helpful tool for commissioners to set up new leagues among other things. It’s a message board.  You can rate the posts.  Most people have to post their email address to get the leagues set up.  This is bad, but Yahoo! is not unique in having terrible tools for their most important fantasy customers.

This is Yahoo Fantasy Baseball’s “Commissioner Corner” which is supposed to be a helpful tool for commissioners to set up new leagues among other things.

It’s a message board.  You can rate the posts.  Most people have to post their email address to get the leagues set up.  This is bad, but Yahoo! is not unique in having terrible tools for their most important fantasy customers.

Feb 06

whitneymcn: pieceofthesky: Hank Williams playing his Martin D-28 to Hank Jr in 1949. Hank Williams Jr later sold the guitar to a friend for some shotguns. A few owners later Neil Young tracked the guitar down and he’s now owned it for more than 30 years. “I’ve got a Hank Williams’ guitar, but I play it all the time. It’s an old Martin D-28. I bought it from Tut Taylor. It’s always great when someone understands what this is that they’re holding, who understands the effect Hank Williams had on all of us. They are sort of awestruck by being in the presence of anything that he touched - to the point that to actually play his instrument elevates them to another level. It’s a wonderful thing to have a guitar for that reason. A lot of people who should have played it, have played it. I’m careful about it, but I use it all the time. It’s not on a wall in a museum.”

whitneymcn:

pieceofthesky:

Hank Williams playing his Martin D-28 to Hank Jr in 1949. Hank Williams Jr later sold the guitar to a friend for some shotguns. A few owners later Neil Young tracked the guitar down and he’s now owned it for more than 30 years.

“I’ve got a Hank Williams’ guitar, but I play it all the time. It’s an old Martin D-28. I bought it from Tut Taylor. It’s always great when someone understands what this is that they’re holding, who understands the effect Hank Williams had on all of us. They are sort of awestruck by being in the presence of anything that he touched - to the point that to actually play his instrument elevates them to another level. It’s a wonderful thing to have a guitar for that reason. A lot of people who should have played it, have played it. I’m careful about it, but I use it all the time. It’s not on a wall in a museum.”

Jan 29

Jan 26

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) -

  1. Dirty Projectors (8)
  2. Dead Kennedys (4)
  3. Joy Division (2)
  4. Sex Pistols (2)
  5. The Jesus and Mary Chain (2)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 21

Looking forward to this.  Although I don’t get why Will Leitch is leaking the final copy of his book about the war on terror. leitch: We are just more than three months away from book launch. Here’s what the cover’s mostly going to look like. It’s important to Hyperion that you know it is “not final.” In case you missed that. By the way, I am happy with that title, even though, devoid of context, it sounds like a book about the war on terror. (It’s not a book about the war on terror.)

Looking forward to this.  Although I don’t get why Will Leitch is leaking the final copy of his book about the war on terror.

leitch:

We are just more than three months away from book launch. Here’s what the cover’s mostly going to look like. It’s important to Hyperion that you know it is “not final.” In case you missed that.

By the way, I am happy with that title, even though, devoid of context, it sounds like a book about the war on terror. (It’s not a book about the war on terror.)