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Parks and Recreation
Parks and Recreation is an American comedy series. It aired on NBC from 9 April 2009 to 24 February 2015. Greg Daniels and Michael Schur created it. Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope, a cheerful and driven mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, Indiana.
TV Series
The Mentalist
The Mentalist is an American crime drama series. It aired on CBS from 23 September 2008 to 18 February 2015. Bruno Heller created it. Simon Baker plays Patrick Jane, a former fake psychic who now works as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation.
TV Series
NSCalendar Additions
NSCalendar offers many tools for working with dates beyond basic NSDateComponents.
Development
What is system_installd?
If you see system_installd running on your Mac, here is what this system-level installer process does.
Mac
Zoolook by Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre's 1984 album built from sampled human voices, a strange record I discovered long after.
Music
De Cock en de broeders van de haat by A.C. Baantjer
On his last day before a forced holiday, De Cock hears of the murder of Alexander de Rijke, a charismatic leader with many followers, and people soon arrive asking for his help.
Books
NSScanner
NSScanner wraps a string to pull out substrings and numbers. It has properties like caseSensitive (for matches), charactersToBeSkipped (ignores chars), scanLocation (current position), locale (for numbers).
Development
Monthly update #0298 • February 2015
Monthly update 298 • February 2015 • 2015-02-01 - 2015-02-28
Monthly Updates
The Heavy Water War
The Heavy Water War is a Norwegian miniseries. It aired on NRK in January 2015. Petter S. Rosenlund directed it. The show tells the true story of the Allied effort to stop Nazi Germany from building an atomic bomb by sabotaging the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork in occupied Norway during the Second World War.
TV Series
Batman Begins: Music from the Motion Picture by Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer's 2005 release, an atmospheric film score of mood and motion. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
Music
Interstellar
Interstellar (2014), directed by Christopher Nolan, follows Cooper, a pilot turned farmer in a dying world. Matthew McConaughey plays Cooper with heart and grit.
Movies
De Cock en een veld papavers by A.C. Baantjer
Jasper van de Gouwenaer is found dead in his flat with a dagger in his back, and a newspaper claims De Cock helped arrest him the day before.
Books
We Will Not Be Shaken by Bethel Music
Bethel Music's 2015 live album, recorded outdoors at Shasta Lake, a steady set about standing firm in trust.
Music
Monthly update #0297 • January 2015
Monthly update 297 • January 2015 • 2015-01-01 - 2015-01-31
Monthly Updates
The Screen Behind the Mirror by Enigma
Enigma's calm 2000 album, chant samples woven through electronic moods, found by me years after it appeared.
Music
What is wifip2pd?
If you see wifip2pd running on your Mac, here is what this Wi-Fi peer-to-peer process does.
Mac
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari tells the story of humankind from the rise of Homo sapiens in Africa to the present day, asking how a small ape came to rule the world.
Books
Wake Up the Wonder by Elevation Worship
Elevation Worship's live album, recorded before sixteen thousand voices, a big and hopeful set about awe restored.
Music
Useful macOS defaults: Printing
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs, controlling printing behaviour on macOS.
Mac
Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy is an American crime drama series. It aired on FX from 3 September 2008 to 9 December 2014. Kurt Sutter created it. Charlie Hunnam plays Jax Teller, the vice president and later president of an outlaw motorcycle club in the fictional town of Charming, California.
TV Series
De Cock en de gebrandmerkte doden by A.C. Baantjer
A young man tells De Cock that his former girlfriend found her new lover dead, strangled and branded on the forehead. It is the start of a series of identical killings.
Books
Monthly update #0296 • December 2014
Monthly update 296 • December 2014 • 2014-12-01 - 2014-12-31
Monthly Updates
Why I stopped using Facebook
On 1 January 2012 I stopped using Facebook. That’s 3 years ago. I didn’t miss it for a second!
Journal
Reflecting on the year 2014
Reflection on the year 2014, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal