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Author Archives: Adam Thompson
Sharing art is personal
Earlier this evening I was replying to a political thread on Reddit, a site for discussion and link sharing. I carefully crafted and published my comments. Within minutes, I felt a familiar anxiety. Are people reading and liking my comments? Every few minutes I’d reload my comments to see how they were being voted upon. [...]
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“Managing Your Mind” (Gillian Butler, Tony Hope)
Amazon Link I read this book on my flight to Ukraine. I skimmed most of it. It’s a good book, but most of it is inapplicable or redundant after studying Objectivism. The book states that it should be treated like a buffet, so here are the ideas that I found interesting and unique. The rest [...]
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2010 Review, 2011 Goals
My achievements in 2010: Health: I solved all of my health problems. I studied, tested, and treated myself for my food allergies+intolerances, and my adrenal+thyroid issues. I exercised effectively. I learned to cook and travel with my diet. I slept enough. Mind: I improved myself. I read the books I wanted to (Body By Science, [...]
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The Child Goddess
Today I watched the indie movie/documentary “Catfish” (warning, mild spoilers follow), about a man tricked into believing that a fake online identity is real. My life is lived online, so the movie speaks to me powerfully. When I was a teenager, I staged a deception similar to the woman in the movie, though smaller in [...]
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How to find a good developer on Craigslist
I’ve been sending out web contracting bids to Craigslist today. Here’s my advice for employers posting ads there: Don’t mention SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Good developers automatically build SEO-”optimized” sites, it’s not a primary skill. Further, most people requesting SEO are fishy. If you must pursue rankings through SEO, hire a web marketing person separately. [...]
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Dance Tempo seating app
I made this in collaboration with a dance studio client a while back. It’s my best full product to date. It’s done using Flex, PHP, MySQL, and Amazon Payments, with a touch of Javascript for the login. http://dancetempo.com/ A couple of years ago, I made an initial version using purely JavaScript, no Flex: http://dancetempo.com/demo1 . [...]
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RealChatty, my ChatRoulette clone prototype
I made this simple app a while ago to experiment with Adobe’s Stratus P2P service, which is awesome. http://realchatty.com/ The source code is Free, too: http://realchatty.com/realchatty.zip I love having this up on the web with my name on it, hopefully I can do more projects like this in the future.
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Twitter: I’m on it
http://twitter.com/AdamThompson12 It will be focused on my work. I added a widget to the bottom right menu of this blog. I was convinced to try it by a post on OActivists. Here’s what I wrote there: This post has convinced me to try Twitter, finally. I’m a software developer with some interest in social media, but [...]
Lab Results: Thyroid, liver, renin
Here is a comparison of last year’s lab results to this week’s results, with my interpretations. February 2009 context General blood test Very high stress in my life Diet is a standard American diet, with undiagnosed gluten, casein, and other intolerances, and constant food allergies. 12 hours of fasting, except for eating 3 eggs six [...]
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