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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

I’ve read Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series, and had long been meaning to get into the Big Over Easy. As we’re now reading most of these nursery rhymes over again (and again, and again) to our 1+ year old, it seemed even more appropriate. I ran across [...]

Short hops – Boston Sports Blog:
I think it’s safe to say Remy and Don Orsillo are well on their way to conquering YouTube.
Check out the video at the very bottom of Eric’s post. It will be a very, very sad day when Remy no longer covers Red Sox games.

Sane’s out now, with a title borrowed from this very ‘blog.
Exciting!

openjfx: Getting Started with the JavaFX Script Language(for Swing Programmers)
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Below is a summary of the JavaFX Border classes and the Swing borders to which they correspond:
Oh dear God in Heaven. Now, when someone pointed out this new language from the Java team, I thought, “Oh man. Rich content [...]

Not that I ever talked about work much here (not counting the complaining), but I’m about to switch jobs. Gave notice yesterday at my current, Charlestown-based startup, will be finishing up in a few weeks’ time, and starting for a Cupertino-based company after that.
And that’s that.

Borders Book Club: Michael Chabon:
Chabon’s book is a smart homage to ’40s noir and an earnest reflection on lives in exile
This was actually a pretty interesting video book club meeting with Michael Chabon about his latest book… I figured, upon seeing the mail from Borders, that I would maybe watch the first clip or so, [...]

The Soul of Baseball: The Winds of Fenway:
I start with this story because today’s blog is about home and road, and how Fenway Park has influenced the way we have watched baseball the last 50 years or so. So right up front, I want to say that I’m not ripping Yaz or Jim Rice or [...]

This reminds me of Avalanche.
Of course, we never made any music videos. And most of us (well, I was, thereabouts) weren’t as young as these guys. But the vibe reminds me of those days down on Hudson Street in NYC. The good days, before we went bust. The office looks very similar to our office, [...]