Jim Willis

Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? | csmonitor.com

February 19, 2008

Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? | csmonitor.com

In a test of the American Dream, Adam Shepard started life from scratch with the clothes on his back and twenty-five dollars. Ten months later, he had an apartment, a car, and a small savings.
links for 2008-02-18

February 18, 2008
links for 2008-02-18
- Digital Arts – Features – Create amazing psychedelic art in Photoshop
  
  Rob Carissimo reveals how to layer and blend images in Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect that’s straight from 60s California.
  
  (tags: grommets photoshop tutorial)
My love/hate relationship with OmniFocus

February 18, 2008

My love/hate relationship with OmniFocus

… has once again resulted in me losing about 30 minutes of work. OmniFocus rarely crashes, but when it does, it tends to do so when I’m doing the difficult work of “the weekly review.” I went back and forth with support from Omni a couple times when this happened last month and they sort of dissmissed my problem as:

“well, your data is written to the database as soon as it’s entered so there’s no reason why you’d have to go to the previous backup in the event of a crash since it…
Digital Arts – Features – Create amazing psychedelic art in Photoshop

February 18, 2008

Digital Arts – Features – Create amazing psychedelic art in Photoshop

Rob Carissimo reveals how to layer and blend images in Photoshop to create a hazy, dreamlike effect thatâs straight from 60s California.
February 18, 2008

also discovered I’m Not A Gun in my library. Where have these guys been hiding?
Cleaner.

February 15, 2008

Cleaner.

Can we do it? Yes, we can!
Jay on choral music

February 15, 2008

Jay on choral music

What’s wrong with this song? When is it going to start rocking?

3-year-old Jay at the breakfast table noticing the 17th century choral music that’s been playing for the past 20 minutes.
Auto-categorization in Moneydance vs. Mint

February 15, 2008

Auto-categorization in Moneydance vs. Mint

Sean Reilly, a developer from Moneydance commented on an earlier piece I wrote about how the application auto-categorizes downloaded transactions. I noted that Moneydance does not auto-categorize, but he is correct, it does auto-categorize up to a point.

I want to point out how Mint and Moneydance approach auto-categorization differently and why I think Mint’s method is superior. When auto-categorizing downloaded transactions, Moneydance uses a more exact match in the merchant field of…
links for 2008-02-13

February 13, 2008
links for 2008-02-13
- Barstool Sports: New Jersey Freakshows
  
  Yup, we chose to move back here.
  
  (tags: nj funny)
Personal Finance Software for Mac

February 13, 2008
Personal Finance Software for Mac
I need some suggestions on finance software for the Mac. I’ve got three requirements:
- auto downloads transactions from Bank of America
graphs and charts for monthly budgets
auto-categorizes downloaded transactions

I’ve been using Mint for several months. I really liked its auto-categorization features but its reporting is really, really bad. I’ve got approximately 20 budget categories into which every one of my transactions falls. I want to know how I’m doing on that budget in a given…

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Code 3, 2025 – ★★★★
October 19, 2025
Total surprise. Amazing.
Mickey 17, 2025
May 5, 2025
Couldn’t finish this one. Not bad, just not what we needed at the moment.
The Penguin Lessons, 2024 – ★★★½
May 5, 2025
Looking for a comedy, this wasn’t but it did treat a tough topic in an accessible way. Still, not funny especially in light of our current political climate.
Black Bag, 2025 – ★★★★
April 12, 2025
Great spy movie, loved the style and story.
Like Stars on Earth, 2007 – ★★★★½
March 9, 2025
(date approximate)
Eega, 2012 – ★★★★½
March 9, 2025
(date approx)
Ghostlight, 2024 – ★★★★½
January 22, 2025
I love a frame tale and this one is spectacular
3 Idiots, 2009 – ★★★★½
January 14, 2025
Amazzzzzzing. Nothing like it.
Kahaani, 2012 – ★★★½
January 2, 2025
On location India footage was transportive.
Eega, 2012 – ★★★★½
January 1, 2025
so much unexpected happening here. Perfect New Year’s Eve movie.

Reading Notes

Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
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Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
December 9, 2024
the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
December 9, 2024
• No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
Read: Why Not Bluesky
December 9, 2024
The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
Read: The Tech Coup
December 9, 2024
. The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]

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