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Goat Island Flower Stick Thing
A weird flower that grows on “Goat Island” (Levitha). These things grow on a stalk straight up about four feet tall, from a bulb. I suspect I did not see them at their best, but they’re charming still.
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Sailling
My girlfriend was the one who recommended the Greek islands. She probably recommended it for the local culture, the beautiful weather, the cool blue water, but I didn’t let her tell me any of these...
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Istanbul Juicer
These guys are all over the city with fresh oranges and pomegranates, a juicer, and really fast hands. For about a dollar, they’ll juice something like eight fruits for you. Mixing the pomegranate and...
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From the Journal: Istanbul
Something I wrote after wandering one of the tourist sites of Istanbul: September 28th, 2012 Turkey is certainly more exotic than Greece. Eminence is much more recent here. Greece hasn’t really been...
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I enjoyed this chat with Jeff Bezos at yesterday’s AWS Re:Invent conference. We don’t get to hear too much directly from Bezos… he doesn’t have a blog and he doesn’t speak often. But he’s an old school...
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Things I learn from reading source code: Crossfilter
Michael Bostock’s Crossfilter is an awesome speedy JS library for filtering and grouping data. He’s got some well-documented sorting algorithms implemented in JavaScript, so it’s an interesting read....
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