Red Monkey

Ten, really? Impossible. Instead, I've narrowed this down to the 15 most influential books I read as a child and another 15 I encountered from junior high on. Books that most influenced me as a...

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Sung to the Monkee's "Last Train to Clarksville" - idea courtesy of @lartist . This was a fast 5 minute re-write ... imagining Harry before walking out into the forest.... Take the last train ...

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A lot of web folk responded virulently against Facebook scientists' paper which revealed they'd manipulated people's timelines to show posts that were either more positive or more negative to se...

http://www.coyotethunder.com/RedMonkey/archives/2014/06/a_lot_of_web_fo.html

Through most of Western history in particular, we've seen a very broad, general trend. As a government becomes entrenched, it swings in favour of the type of people who make up the government an...

http://www.coyotethunder.com/RedMonkey/archives/2014/05/the_guerrilla_r.html

So over the weekend, Paul Graham unintentionally set off a shitstorm about women in tech. Once again, my Twitter feed was full of people debating whether women could hack it as hackers; whether w...

http://www.coyotethunder.com/RedMonkey/archives/2013/12/problem-solving.html

I got a project the other day. Easy-peasy. All I had to do was add a map to the site, at the request of local customers who want to pick up their order rather than have it shipped. We don't reall...

http://www.coyotethunder.com/RedMonkey/archives/2013/07/google_maps_api.html

Dear Tracy, There are certain people from your childhood whom you never forget. You were one of those people. Bigger than life. Quick to laugh. Quick to anger. Slow to cool. That's my take, but...

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I started this blog in 2005. It looks like I'm ending it 9 years later. The last post I wrote was one of the best pieces of writing that I've done in years. And not only did I get no comments...

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The last few weeks had been difficult. Seemed like one thing after another was just not working. But today? Today had been a good day. The sun was shining - though, to be fair, the sun is almost ...

http://www.coyotethunder.com/RedMonkey/archives/2013/05/the_bruising_wi.html

So, Scout has used a little cat carrier for years as her kennel and loved it. But her back is not great and she was starting to balk at having to duck into it to go in. (She could stand inside, b...

http://www.coyotethunder.com/RedMonkey/archives/2013/03/scouts_palace.html

The high cost of health care is sooooo in the news lately. As if this is suddenly some kind of revelation. I saw a headline and a tweet today that claims - as if this is news to anyone in the rea...

http://www.coyotethunder.com/RedMonkey/archives/2013/03/middle_america.html

What's real here and what's not? Eric Hansen asks regarding the Manti Te'o about the hoax or scam regarding his girlfriend. I'm not really sure why it's national news that a college football s...

http://www.coyotethunder.com/RedMonkey/archives/2013/01/fictions_we_tel_1.html

I wrote a story once where the main character was talking about childhood heroes. Max had grown up reading those storybook American Biographies and latched onto the fictional histories. > ...(...

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I have found that many geeky people - self-proclaimed or not - tend to eschew things considered "popular." I think the more you are used to being on the "outside" for liking to program or enjoyin...

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I woke up this morning, happy to go to work. I was relaxed, I was eager to get to my day. I wasn't trying to escape from home. I wasn't dreading the work ahead. Content and eager. I drove in ...

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