aaron c beals

• Warning: Your Attention is Under Siege
  - the points about information overload and ADD have been made before. however, what i like most about this post is that it concludes with four easy-to-put-into-practice suggestions for regaining some focus. i also feel that the distinction between pleasure and satisfaction is key.

• Comic: Full Circle
  - a glimpse into my life as a parent roughly 7 years from now.

• Constructive
  - this xkcd couldn’t be more fitting, given the events of the past week at GHDonline.
• Net Shorthand
  - it’s all true. these young whippersnappers and their newfangled inventions. #crankyoldnerd

• Comic for October 26, 2010

• Kill Trolls On The Go With The Disqus Mobile Moderator Apps
  - these guys (disqus) spoke at Djangocon – largest Django-powered site out there. nice to see them giving some customer love on the mobile front.
• New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs
  - driving through Dennisport last weekend, I noticed they converted traditional street signs to vertical signs, so they could go on the side of existing telephone poles. let me tell you how hard it is to read all-caps text in a vertical orientation, while driving at 35 mph: hard.

• Video Demo: The Bundled Packing Method Fits More Clothes with Fewer Wrinkles [Travel]
  - i actually gave this a try for a recent trip to the West Coast. the only downsides are 1) my carry-on is a little small for the base width of my shirts; 2) you have to unwrap the whole bundle at each stop of your trip.
• Our Favorite Office Objects: The Endlessly Versatile Binder Clip [Workplace Timesavers]
  - such a useful device. i’ve gone to staples to buy a few containers of them for the house.

• Comic for September 5, 2010
  - Yep.

• Comic for June 27, 2010
  - this is why i’d be better off forgetting everything i ever knew about computers.

Paul Pierce opting out of his contract seemed like a slam-dunk in theory a few months ago: he’d opt out, sign back with the team for less money per year (so we could tap into the rich free agent pool of 2010) but over a longer period of time, and retire a Celtic.

suddenly, the reality of the free market has hit me. if Doc doesn’t return and the team doesn’t re-up Ray’s contract, they might start re-building around Rondo now, and we might be Pierce-less. *gulp*

i realize that I’m being more sentimental than practical — if i were GM, i’d be letting Pierce walk unless he re-signed for much less money so we could start building for the future. barring a miracle, the current aging core is not going to bring us another championship. i’m not the GM, though. i’m a long-time, hard-core fan. so i’m now devoting my remaining mental energies to thinking about anything and everything but this.

more info from around the web:
Celtics Blog reports and has some nice analysis
Boston.com rolls out a photo montage of Paul’s time in Boston (ease up. he’s not gone until he signs elsewhere, guys.)
Mazz represents the non-sentimental approach i’ll probably talk myself into if Pierce walks away

• Twitter Feels Like Falling in Love, At Least From a Hormonal Perspective
  - scary. also, i wanted to feel better, so i’m sharing this with all of you.