2008

Jul

It was 114 degrees at one point today

Felt like it too. Now its down to a cool 107.
Jul 9th
'Beer Pong' Video Game Rated OK for Kids
Jul 9th
lfarm: Last night, on my roof.
Jul 8th

Up Late

I always am.  Thinking. The designer of our new logo just sent in a final treatment.  Wow. ...
Jul 8th

Audio Quality

I’m listening to Beck’s new CD in 320 kbps.  Wow, there is alot going on.  I feel...
Jul 7th

This week

is going to be absolutely crucial for our little startup.  Its the week of tightening screws, like...
Jul 7th

OSGi update

I spent most of the weekend coding up an idea I had.  I learned a ton about OSGi and am building out...
Jul 7th

How many followers do you have? or Am I...

Many networks, including Tumblr, have a notion of people you follow and those who follow you. ...
Jul 7th
“You don’t need to know which web browser I support, or what...”
— Jack Shedd (via topherchris)...
Jul 7th
Anger Management Gas Station
Jul 6th

My Saturday Night

Miller Lite and coding up a neat idea.  My mood tonight brought to you by the album Lost and Gone...
Jul 6th
iPhone 3G lines start at the Apple Cube......
Jul 5th
HOW TO - Make beer can chicken
Jul 5th
Warch Watch
mattkent: Today I’ll be celebrating our country’s independence with grilled meat and cold beer.
Jul 4th
“The Freedom to ignore Freedom”
— Me on the 4th
Jul 4th

What are we celebrating today?

Think about that. I think we are celebrating the spirit of something that barely has a pulse...
Jul 4th

Geeking out with OSGi

That shouldn’t make sense to you but thats what I’m up to this Thursday night. Holidays...
Jul 4th
“So, basically, the typical Coors customer, according to the...”
— Cold Beer? Wise Move - The...
Jul 3rd
lfarm: current setup lfarm spends a lot of time on her roof...
Jul 3rd
Starbucks To Close 600 U.S. Stores
Jul 2nd
Practical Unique Identifiers - Ted Dziuba
Jul 2nd

Hey did you know the iPhone 3G is coming...

The build up to the collective nerdgasm is already getting annoying.  We’re going to be...
Jul 2nd

Zuckercide

It has been over 6 months since I committed social network suicide (er Zuckercide). Life without...
Jul 2nd
I just watched the movie “Network.”  Epic.
Jul 2nd
Woman crashes into store then tries to buy...
Jul 1st
Nat'l Guard mobilized for Calif. wildfires -...
Jul 1st
ABC News: Big Auto in Big Trouble: Ford, GM...
Jul 1st

Hangman

The game of hangman being played in the right sidebar is slowly revealing the new name of our...
Jul 1st

Jun

Prince Charles' Aston Martin Hybrid Runs On...
Jun 30th
The Northern California sun is lavender in some areas due to...
Jun 30th
“The culture of free, seductive as it is, is destructive to...”
— Matt Maroon: Bubble 2.0 (via...
Jun 29th
There is a site celebrating the graphic shown...
Jun 28th

On Money

We were very fortunate to be invited to that extravagant event last night.  The contacts we made...
Jun 27th
lfarm: Taking my new hat for a walk. FEDORABLE!
Jun 27th
Listen Listen
katydid: There’s A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths cover by Death Cab for Cutie via...
Jun 27th
katydid: So pretty.via Hey I wonder where katy found this...
Jun 27th
mattkent: Went to a party at this place tonight. Decadent...
Jun 27th
Microsoft to buy semantic search engine...
Jun 26th
marco: energyface:chloesanchez:spiegelman:blakeley:icanhaswa...
Jun 26th

I've Had Enough

jakoblodwick: After reading my mom’s post on shutting down her tumblelog, I can’t help but agree,...
Jun 26th

I finished the video concept

but it still needs tightening and massive work.  I’ll do another test tomorrow and maybe put...
Jun 26th

Working on a video concept

might get it up later tonight. This should be interesting…
Jun 26th
katydid: Oooooo more red balloons! (via misscedar) I like...
Jun 25th
Angry kids protest gas prices after losing...
Jun 25th
Warch Watch
Whats wrong with the beer we got?  It drank pretty good don’t it. Watch from 5:20 in.  This is...
Jun 25th

word thoughts to think about

katydid: 1. Why do we park in driveways and drive in parkways? 2. Why is it that kidnapping is a...
Jun 25th
omg.  ALF was added to Hulu.
Jun 25th
Stephen Colbert’s explanation via venn diagram of Sean...
Jun 25th

Thanks.

lfarm: Too often I forget how lucky I am to have the parents that I do. I grew up assuming everyone...
Jun 25th

Eclipse 3.4 comes out tomorrow

I’m looking forward to developing some new plugins for it.
Jun 24th
More Than 500 Wildfires Burning Across Nor...
Jun 24th
Rage Against The Machine Plan Political...
Jun 24th
Warch Watch
I really hope Rage Against the Machine creates a mob scene outside of one of the political...
Jun 24th
Death Cab was great last night.  Like really great :) Photo...
Jun 23rd
mattkent: Great cake or greatest cake? Greatest. ATTN...
Jun 23rd
Death Cab tonight at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley w/...
Jun 21st
FlashBlock
Jun 21st
We are doing a massive upgrade right now of our entire...
Jun 20th
“If you woke up and the news is at your house, and you had a...”
— Best. Story. Ever. Found...
Jun 20th

How soon is now?

sharingtime: Ok, Boston. You’ve had your fun. Enough with your numerous championships in multiple...
Jun 20th

I told a room full of CEOs today

that PR (public relations) is dead and that they are going to have to rethink how they get peoples...
Jun 20th

105 Degrees

On my drive back from Palo Alto the car thermometer read 105 degrees once I entered Walnut Creek. ...
Jun 19th
marco: From Lindsay Campbell: Another amazing NYTimes pic,...
Jun 19th
Remember the open source project I was talking about a post...
Jun 19th

We think too much

about developing software.  What if instead of trying to create huge companies or sell enterprise...
Jun 19th

Spring cleaning

I am getting our Subversion code repository in order.  It hasn’t been tended to since we...
Jun 19th
Reddit goes open source
Jun 18th
Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Atari Creator In...
Jun 18th

Ted's reaction to Falcor

Ted: OH FUCK WHAT IS THAT
Ted: OH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE
Jun 18th
Falcor.  The creepy dog/dragon thing from The Neverending...
Jun 18th

Bite

I was riding my bike tonight when a giant dog (like the one from the Sandlot) lunged and tried to...
Jun 18th

apt repository hosted on S3

I just got finished writing a new s3 connection method for apt-get which will allow us to host our...
Jun 17th

Newspaper telemarketing

I just got a call from an older telemarketer trying to sell me a newspaper.  I told her I...
Jun 17th

Brand

I am filling out a brand/identity questionnaire for the guy who’s designing our new logo. My...
Jun 17th
Jun 17th
Me: wooby
Crowley: that's not a word
Me: it is in our world
Jun 17th
Feeling the new Coldplay.
Jun 17th
Jun 16th
McCains report more than $100,000 in credit...
Jun 16th
iPhone Apps To Be Very Cheap, Mostly Free
Jun 15th

Death Cab

I’m going to a Death Cab for Cutie concert on the 21st at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley with a...
Jun 14th

Drinking Miller Lite

I drink Miller Lite because I’m cheap.  You have to make a choice between the cheap three:...
Jun 13th
“the shots that you don’t see the direct picture of the...”
— a definition of the myspace...
Jun 12th

Cellphone data plans

are still highway robbery.  The cheapest unlimited plus talk plan you can get on AT&T *starts*...
Jun 11th

Fact

There are more ad sales and PR flacks in Silicon Valley than developers.
Jun 10th

Media Saturation and Software

As consumer software converges into media I think innovation will stagnate.  If the game truely is...
Jun 10th
Dark and Lonley Road
Jun 10th

Jibber Jabber

I have been doing a lot of work on Jabber in the past few days (maintenance work on some software I...
Jun 10th

The Freak Market

If I had money what I should have done is hedge against rising oil prices by investing in Lt Sweet...
Jun 10th

Worst. Losers. Ever.

Hillary Clinton and (especially) her supporters have to go down in history as some of the worst...
Jun 10th

Mt Diablo

I ascended a good part of it tonight on my bike.  Mt Diablo State Park is just a few miles away from...
Jun 8th

Opera

I am giving the Opera web browser a try on my 64 bit Linux machine.  It kills Firefox 3 in terms of...
Jun 7th

Quake

Two quakes just happened 15 miles away from where I am in Walnut Creek, CA.  First a 3.0 then a...
Jun 6th

Firefox 3

on Linux at least has some major major problems.  It has something to do with repeat connections...
Jun 6th

May

I'm moving

I’ll be internet-less for the weekend.  Call me.
May 30th
He comes Obama, in control… A president that reads. ...
May 27th

I don't know what I don't know

It has officially been a year since I pulled out of a driveway in suburban Pennsylvania and drove...
May 27th
Warch Watch
katydid: Above is the trailer of the new HBO movie, Recount which “recounts” the story of the 2000...
May 27th

Albany Hill

On Sunday I took a bike ride per usual but decided to inspect this hill that sits prominently just...
May 26th
“Jim, hi. Meeting went well today, we’re still on track for...”
— Overheard at Dulles (via...
May 25th
Warch Watch
Weezer outdoes itself here.  It knows exactly what its core audience is: a bunch of goddamn nerds.
May 25th

I am going to shoot guns

for the first time ever tomorrow. This should help with the stress.  Update:  It did.
May 24th

translating Starbucks' cup sizes

katydid: (No, not Starbuck’s cup size.) I’ve always wondered why Starbucks named their cup sizes...
May 23rd
An Engineer's Guide To Weight Loss
May 22nd
marco: (thanks, confessions)  Welcome to my entire life.
May 21st
Risk
May 21st

deteriorating

I am.
May 20th
This is AW.  I am getting closer and closer to the character...
May 18th
katydid: energyface: SF tumblr meetup @ Lucky 13katydid,...
May 18th

SF Tumblr Meetup

Was great.  Major props to katydid for making it all happen.  We may have a new Tumblr mafia out on...
May 17th
This is Todd.  It’s casual Friday.
May 15th
This is Carl. He has a mullet.
May 14th
Things Younger Than McCain
May 12th

A note on the Houston airport

Its now the George Bush International airport complete with statues and shrines to the man.  In...
May 8th
Narrow Stairs cover art.
May 7th

Narrow Stairs

I may or may not have just started listening to the new Death Cab album in its entirety :)
May 7th
Red Eye tonight.
May 7th
Montreal Canadians fan this past Sunday doodle. Go Flyers. 
May 7th

Upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04

If you have issues with your nVidia drivers upon an Ubuntu upgrade here is the magic command to make...
May 4th
One advantage to being single: You can eat as much garlic as...
May 3rd
allisonweiss: nevver: Pie Chart / ChangeTheThought ...
May 2nd

Misc.

I can’t stop listening to the new Death Cab single I Will Possess Your Heart. I want to do...
May 1st

Apr

Apr 28th
My Muxtape
Apr 27th
MythicalMan.org
Apr 26th
Warch Watch
allisonweiss: This song is really awesome. Extremely unexpected subject matter! The video is...
Apr 26th
Listen Listen
Mythical Man Episode 1 Part 2 - Marco Arment of Tumblr Part 2 of a conversation with Marco Arment,...
Apr 26th
Listen Listen
Mythical Man Episode 1 Part 1 - Marco Arment of Tumblr Part 1 of a conversation with Marco Arment,...
Apr 25th
lfarm: Abercrombie & Fitch placement behind Barack last...
Apr 24th

Revolutionary Kick

I’ve taken a recent interest into the founding of our country as this election heats up. ...
Apr 23rd

Relative Silence

I’ve been quiet during these past few months. I’ve deleted myself from Web 2.0. ...
Apr 22nd

The last post

is a picture from the movie There Will Be Blood.  It’s from the beginning of the movie when a...
Apr 22nd
Apr 15th

Silicon Valley 101

FACT: A set of slides that you prepare for investors is commonly refered to as a deck.
Apr 14th

One day

We will have to write a detailed account of starting up Persai. 
Apr 5th

I'll be on a panel next week in Austin

I will be at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Austin, Texas next week from Monday night...
Apr 3rd

Mar

Charlie Rose
Mar 26th
You’ll still be my friend, right?
Mar 24th

Persai definitively exists

The company was referenced in a New York Times print article today.  It is now part of the public...
Mar 21st

The News Hour with Jim Lehrer

is the last news program I regularly listen to. Its run like a more traditional news program that...
Mar 15th

At least its a woman...

The Elliot Spitzer meltdown has a bit of a silver lining: its a good ole fashioned extra-marital...
Mar 14th

After much bitching

I finally got Spock, the stalker engine, to remove my profile. For those that don’t know Spock...
Mar 13th

The Mythical Man Wiki

Last night I bought MythicalMan.org for a reason.  I wanted to start a wiki focused on the...
Mar 12th