Adam Wishneusky

Tuesday Tunes

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:05:00 -0400

If you’re not listening to You Look Nice Today yet, you should be. This latest episode is about another of the trio’s business ideas, songparts.biz (which they apparently actually have). Make sure to listen to the music at the end of the episode.

Tuesday Tunes I Think I Need a New Heart by Magnetic Fields From...

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:22:00 -0400

Tuesday Tunes

I Think I Need a New Heart by Magnetic Fields
From Liz’s entry in the 2009 Fog Creek Summer Intern Mixtape Contest

How to get a job at Fog Creek

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:41:39 -0400

My coworker Tyler recently started a series of posts on how to get a job with our employer, Fog Creek Software. If you’re curious why anyone would care, you can tell the level of awesomeness of where I work from a mere TWO pictures.

ps- we just shipped FogBugz 7.0 and that called for a group photo and a fancy dinner (lunch) with live jazz and champagne :)

Tuesday Tunes - Geek Edition Today’s a Tuesday Tumblr...

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:12:00 -0400

Tuesday Tunes - Geek Edition

Today’s a Tuesday Tumblr Twofer. This second posting is a great Apple Fanboy iPhone ad / music video by Julian Smith

Drinking outdoors.. you read my yelping mind

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:51:37 -0400

I just got an email from Yelp that reminds me I have no life. I need grad school to end! Only about a (hellish) week left of this term though, so if you want to join me in searching for beer gardens in Brooklyn/Manhattan, drop me a line.

Now that it has finally stopped raining every day, it’s time to re-emerge from hiding and enjoy the rest of summer! And what’s the best way to do that? By drinking outside, of course! So slap on a sundress or suit up in seersucker, because this week we’re hitting up the best Brooklyn spots for imbibing outdoors!

I'm flickring

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:54:01 -0400

I'm flickring:

After years of trying (not very hard) to figure out a photo posting/sharing/archiving strategy, I’m a little closer today. I have decided that I’m putting everything in iPhoto on my Mac, and good stuff will be posted to flickr, mostly in sets. Parties and events with friends I want to tag will go to facebook.

You can subscribe to an RSS feed of my flickr

Tuesday Tunes Heartbreak Scorsese by SNOB SCRILLA sometimes when...

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:11:00 -0400

Tuesday Tunes

Heartbreak Scorsese by SNOB SCRILLA

sometimes when I meet girls I tell them “I’m bad news” with no further explanation. via @neilgrabowsky

The inverse of a haircut

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:21:57 -0400

The inverse of a haircut

After years of waiting, I got an iPhone. Here are the awesome...

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:28:00 -0400

After years of waiting, I got an iPhone. Here are the awesome things I have discovered:

The tiny remote in the headphone cord is awesome: pause, next and volume controls
Syncing takes forever mobileme is worth $100/year to avoid all non-music syncing. Also, if my phone gets lost of stolen, I can FIND IT. How bad-ass is that?
Everything is nearly instantaneous and the network and video performance are better than my laptop.
Location-based everything ROCKS.
Google Maps with GPS and compass means I never have to know where I am or where I’m going again.
Push notifications for AIM and email means I don’t keep checking my phone all the time.
Three things that I never would have expected loving, but WAY up on the list:
- $.99 app to make the iphone the Apple remote I never had for Front Row on my mac (mine’s an old pre-Intel one)
- Playing music through the iphone’s speakers
- Free white noise app
Control itunes on my Mac when I’m home with basically the full interface on the iphone’s screen. The less I touch my computer the BETTER.
Watch and listen to podcasts in my queue on the road AND get new/other episodes over wifi or 3G! never run out of entertainment!
Shazam identifies songs I hear for free
Pandora wherever I want for free
Manage my Netflix queue immediately when someone recommends a movie instead of having to make a note and do it later
RTM’s iphone app is as good as the web version I’ve been using to manage todos
My co-workers’ great tools:
- iTrans NYC - subway maps with routing that don’t need a network connection (i.e. you can make/change plans when already below ground)
- RulerPhone - measure anything using the camera
I will never use Skype but it will be useful to lots of people
Oodles of free and cheap games I thought I’d have no interest in but are good for filling those 10 min periods of boredom in our lives. This one and this one are faves so far.
Check movie listings, restaurant and bar reviews, find reservations while out for last-minute plan-making
Voice control that I won’t use
Tethering that I WILL use to get my crapbook online away from home. I have much less need for this with all the iphone does, but once in a while I need a full computer ;)
View my files in DropBox

And here are the sucky things:

Not having flash sucks only because some places use non-youtube video such asvimeo
The battery JUST lasts a day. Once my initial iphone-craziness passes, I’ll develop a usage pattern and know when I need to charge it at work during the day or whatever. Also, getting mobileme means I don’t have to sync, so I can plug in by my bed, not only where my computer is.

Tuesday Tunes Raw Sugar by Metric (sorry about the lame youtube...

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:34:06 -0400

Tuesday Tunes

Raw Sugar by Metric (sorry about the lame youtube video, thought I had this track)

my BFF Amanda visited me for Memorial Day weekend. We went to...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:39:00 -0400

my BFF Amanda visited me for Memorial Day weekend. We went to Prospect Park and used the peddle boats. We kept it classy. We had a good time.

Already going to outdoor parties. Now to start trying out...

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:11:28 -0400

Already going to outdoor parties. Now to start trying out NYC’s many biergartens

Tuesday Tunes I Wish I Was The Moon by Neko Case

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:49:25 -0400

Tuesday Tunes

I Wish I Was The Moon by Neko Case

Crazy college party what?

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:20:00 -0400

This past Saturday, my buddy, Christine asked me along to a party her Stanford buddies were throwing. They host these “Special Dinners” which I guess are more Drunky Drunkfests than dinners, but there was tasty food, and it WAS special… so you know. This one was “Gates of Hell” themed since the place is on Gates street.

I focused much more on drinking than on photographing but here are a few choice shots:

The wackiest thing was that at least three people there know of / were interns at Fog Creek and know a couple of my coworkers. Small world. See all the pictures here. The last three in the album are from when Christine and I took the show on the road to my friend Laurie’s friend’s party.

Summer Prettiness in Brooklyn

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:59:00 -0400

Yesterday I checked out the Atlantic Artwalk near me in Brooklyn. It’s pretty spread out but there were a few cool things and it was an excuse to finally get a Merguez (lamb sausage) pita sandwich. Mmmmm meaty.

When I got down to the western end of Atlantic Ave, near the harbor, I wandered up into the southern edge of Brooklyn Heights so soak in some quiet, green streets and gorgeous buildings. I didn’t didn’t take many pictures and definitely plan to do more architecture tourism around here this summer. (The pictures are here in the album)

And finally, some pictures of my street, and of course my beloved backyard. My landlord got a nice new table and chairs. They served Amanda and I well for breakfast when she was here—I’ll post that stuff soon. (The pictures are here in the album)

The Cutest Place in Brooklyn

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:34:00 -0400

I discovered the cutest place in Brooklyn via Twitter recently. It’s Warren Place in Cobble Hill. A secret little Alley between Warren and Baltic Streets.

The buildings flanking the alley are cuter than the other brownstones and townhouses, but that’s just a hint. Entering the alley, you see two pedestrian paths with gardens running down the center.

Incredibly lucky (and rich?) people get to live in the many tiny and adorable apartment buildings on each side that open onto Warren Pl. Two alleys run on the other sides of the buildings providing backyard space too. (see all the pictures here)

On my walk home, I encountered one of those “Building under 24 hour surveillance” places:

Tuesday Tunes White Daisy Passing by Rocky Votolato

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:33:00 -0400

Tuesday Tunes

White Daisy Passing by Rocky Votolato

"Kate was a young lass from Caldwell, But said that her town should be called Hell! There were no..."

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:42:00 -0400

“Kate was a young lass from Caldwell,
But said that her town should be called Hell!
There were no young men,
She could get to her den,
So she got a job at a brothel!”

- Adam Wishneusky, for an okcupid girl

Today marks my one-year anniversary with Fog Creek. Yay!

Fri, 29 May 2009 10:06:00 -0400

Today marks my one-year anniversary with Fog Creek. Yay!

You can now watch Aardvark’d: Twelve Weeks With Geeks...

Thu, 28 May 2009 21:37:59 -0400

You can now watch Aardvark’d: Twelve Weeks With Geeks online from the comfort of your own computer. See What Fog Creek was like way back in 2005 when they had a whopping 12 people. Now we’re so big people need* scooters to get down the hall.