Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Check Out The NetFlix Prize Leaderboard
Take a moment today to review the Netflix Prize Leaderboard to see if anyone has improved the Netflix movie recommendation engine ("you like ‘Sleepless in Seattle‘? Try The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants‘!") by 10%. Currently the board is dominated by Torontans. Netflix Leaderboard, originally uploaded by juggernautco.
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Villa Elsa: Peace and Quiet near Rome.
A friend of Deirdre’s runs an agricultural bed & breakfast in the countryside just 30km from Rome called Villa Elsa. I created a site for them a while ago that has some basic info about the place, floorplans & maps, and links to nearby attractions. The photo album is what really gets you, though. Great…
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Launch: Juggernautco Redesign
Today I launched a redesign of the first site I ever made: www.juggernautco.com.There’s a crazy amount of content in there. Complete text of all my books, plays, etc. NecklacePoem images, all sorts of posters. Also used the design here on Derivative Works. Juggernautco Redesign, originally uploaded by juggernautco.
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Sat Next to a Bare Naked Lady on the Red Eye Last Night
In minor celebrity news, I flew home from a business trip in Los Angeles last night and did some armrest wrestling with the frontman for Bare Naked Ladies. Seems most (but not all) the band was on my flight. Very full flight. Seems every flight is crazy-full these days, no matter what time or where…
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Carving a Turkey is Really All About Dismantling a Turkey
So on Thanksgiving I had to carve the turkey. Even though I am a grown 39-year old man, a father of two, a divorced family guy who has seen my fair share of November dining rooms, it was the first time I ever carved a turkey. I think it’s for the same reason I’ve never…