Matthew Gifford

According to this post (via Boing Boing) at Gawker, Howard Stern has said that he secretly writes a blog.

As nice as it is, I've grown tired of the default desktop image for OS X. So, I'm taking matters into my own hands. As I create new ones, I'll post them here. I hope to eventually start writing programs to generate images. Until then, Photoshop is going to have to suffice.

This image is what's currently on my notebook. The source material is a photograph that I took the other day. I'll send a gift to the first person who can guess what it is. I'll even give you some help. I did the following to the picture to produce this image:

1. Crop
2. Motion blur
3. Brightness/Contrast
4. Hue/Saturation

Thanks to Gabe for pointing out that Chicago now has a food blog.

Oh man, this is getting good.

Last night, I saw Rowena sitting in a strange position and had to snap a picture.

From The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World by Christopher Duncan:

It's just no fun being under this kind of pressure only to work in an environment that almost guarantees buggy releases.

Instructions: Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, and post its text along with these instructions. Point back to where you got the idea so that we can follow the threads.

Via Tim Bray.

It looks like the train explosion in North Korea may not have been as bad as first reported.

The new color for the 2005 MINI Cooper S is really sharp. It reminds me of BMW's Laguna Seca Blue. I wish they would make a MINI in something similar to Imola Red.

This image was attached to a blank e-mail that I received this morning. Strange stuff.

Sufjan Stevens is playing two shows at Schubas tonight. The 10 PM show is sold out, but there are still tickets available for the 7 PM show. I really wish I could go. I need to pay more attention to who is coming to Chicago.