After several months of tinkering I have finally, successfully, gotten my hackintosh setup complete with working sound. Last night I got home from Food+Tech Hackathon in SoHo and decided that I was going to make it my mission to get this heap in working order. After about an hour, a shower and some Jameson, the bad mamma jamma was running smooth like butter.
Some other not-so-awesome achievements was finally installing Outlook 2011 on my MacBook after being embarrassed because I was unable to open up a spreadsheet while working on Milk Hack. Which, in and of itself, deserves a little bit of explanation. I decided to go to this food hackathon hosted by the great Danielle Gould and one of the ideas that was proposed was her own: to find get some visualizations in pricing information released by the USDA.
Now most of you that know me can attest that I absolutely hate the process of wrapping my head around statistics, but I love information and data hacking. Luckily enough I was joined by the R guru Drew Conway and what he was able to produce was a sweet animation that we threw up on vimeo. After pouring through several spreadsheets of data I then went to work on what is now the design of http://milkhack.com.
All in all it was a great day spent outside of the cold day in New York City. Big props go out to the Gojee team for hosting the event at their offices. I had a blast, met some great people and ate some amazing food. Who could ask for more?
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