2008

Jul

It was 114 degrees at one point today

Felt like it too. Now its down to a cool 107.

'Beer Pong' Video Game Rated OK for Kids

lfarm: Last night, on my roof.

Up Late

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

Audio Quality

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

This week

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

OSGi update

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

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. ...

“You don’t need to know which web browser I support, or what...”
— Jack Shedd (via topherchris)...

Anger Management Gas Station

My Saturday Night

Miller Lite and coding up a neat idea. My mood tonight brought to you by the album Lost and Gone...

iPhone 3G lines start at the Apple Cube......

HOW TO - Make beer can chicken

mattkent: Today I’ll be celebrating our country’s independence with grilled meat and cold beer.

“The Freedom to ignore Freedom”
— Me on the 4th

What are we celebrating today?

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

Geeking out with OSGi

That shouldn’t make sense to you but thats what I’m up to this Thursday night. Holidays...

“So, basically, the typical Coors customer, according to the...”
— Cold Beer? Wise Move - The...

lfarm: current setup lfarm spends a lot of time on her roof...

Starbucks To Close 600 U.S. Stores

Practical Unique Identifiers - Ted Dziuba

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...

Zuckercide

It has been over 6 months since I committed social network suicide (er Zuckercide). Life without...

I just watched the movie “Network.” Epic.

Woman crashes into store then tries to buy...

Nat'l Guard mobilized for Calif. wildfires -...

ABC News: Big Auto in Big Trouble: Ford, GM...

Hangman

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

Jun

Prince Charles' Aston Martin Hybrid Runs On...

The Northern California sun is lavender in some areas due to...

“The culture of free, seductive as it is, is destructive to...”
— Matt Maroon: Bubble 2.0 (via...

There is a site celebrating the graphic shown...

On Money

We were very fortunate to be invited to that extravagant event last night. The contacts we made...

lfarm: Taking my new hat for a walk. FEDORABLE!

katydid: There’s A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths cover by Death Cab for Cutie via...

katydid: So pretty.via Hey I wonder where katy found this...

mattkent: Went to a party at this place tonight. Decadent...

Microsoft to buy semantic search engine...

marco: energyface:chloesanchez:spiegelman:blakeley:icanhaswa...

I've Had Enough

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

I finished the video concept

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

Working on a video concept

might get it up later tonight. This should be interesting…

katydid: Oooooo more red balloons! (via misscedar) I like...

Angry kids protest gas prices after losing...

Whats wrong with the beer we got? It drank pretty good don’t it. Watch from 5:20 in. This is...

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...

omg. ALF was added to Hulu.

Stephen Colbert’s explanation via venn diagram of Sean...

Thanks.

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

Eclipse 3.4 comes out tomorrow

I’m looking forward to developing some new plugins for it.

More Than 500 Wildfires Burning Across Nor...

Rage Against The Machine Plan Political...

I really hope Rage Against the Machine creates a mob scene outside of one of the political...

Death Cab was great last night. Like really great :) Photo...

mattkent: Great cake or greatest cake? Greatest. ATTN...

Death Cab tonight at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley w/...

We are doing a massive upgrade right now of our entire...

“If you woke up and the news is at your house, and you had a...”
— Best. Story. Ever. Found...

How soon is now?

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

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...

105 Degrees

On my drive back from Palo Alto the car thermometer read 105 degrees once I entered Walnut Creek. ...

marco: From Lindsay Campbell: Another amazing NYTimes pic,...

Remember the open source project I was talking about a post...

We think too much

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

Spring cleaning

I am getting our Subversion code repository in order. It hasn’t been tended to since we...

Reddit goes open source

Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Atari Creator In...

Ted's reaction to Falcor

Ted: OH FUCK WHAT IS THAT
Ted: OH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE

Falcor. The creepy dog/dragon thing from The Neverending...

Bite

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

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...

Newspaper telemarketing

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

Brand

I am filling out a brand/identity questionnaire for the guy who’s designing our new logo. My...

Me: wooby
Crowley: that's not a word
Me: it is in our world

Feeling the new Coldplay.

McCains report more than $100,000 in credit...

iPhone Apps To Be Very Cheap, Mostly Free

Death Cab

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

Drinking Miller Lite

I drink Miller Lite because I’m cheap. You have to make a choice between the cheap three:...

“the shots that you don’t see the direct picture of the...”
— a definition of the myspace...

Cellphone data plans

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

Fact

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

Media Saturation and Software

As consumer software converges into media I think innovation will stagnate. If the game truely is...

Dark and Lonley Road

Jibber Jabber

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

The Freak Market

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

Worst. Losers. Ever.

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

Mt Diablo

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

Opera

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

Quake

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

Firefox 3

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

May

I'm moving

I’ll be internet-less for the weekend. Call me.

He comes Obama, in control… A president that reads. ...

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...

katydid: Above is the trailer of the new HBO movie, Recount which “recounts” the story of the 2000...

Albany Hill

On Sunday I took a bike ride per usual but decided to inspect this hill that sits prominently just...

“Jim, hi. Meeting went well today, we’re still on track for...”
— Overheard at Dulles (via...

Weezer outdoes itself here. It knows exactly what its core audience is: a bunch of goddamn nerds.

I am going to shoot guns

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

translating Starbucks' cup sizes

katydid: (No, not Starbuck’s cup size.) I’ve always wondered why Starbucks named their cup sizes...

An Engineer's Guide To Weight Loss

marco: (thanks, confessions) Welcome to my entire life.

deteriorating

This is AW. I am getting closer and closer to the character...

katydid: energyface: SF tumblr meetup @ Lucky 13katydid,...

SF Tumblr Meetup

Was great. Major props to katydid for making it all happen. We may have a new Tumblr mafia out on...

This is Todd. It’s casual Friday.

This is Carl. He has a mullet.

Things Younger Than McCain

A note on the Houston airport

Its now the George Bush International airport complete with statues and shrines to the man. In...

Narrow Stairs cover art.

Narrow Stairs

I may or may not have just started listening to the new Death Cab album in its entirety :)

Red Eye tonight.

Montreal Canadians fan this past Sunday doodle. Go Flyers.

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...

One advantage to being single: You can eat as much garlic as...

allisonweiss: nevver: Pie Chart / ChangeTheThought ...

Misc.

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

Apr

MythicalMan.org

allisonweiss: This song is really awesome. Extremely unexpected subject matter! The video is...

Mythical Man Episode 1 Part 2 - Marco Arment of Tumblr Part 2 of a conversation with Marco Arment,...

Mythical Man Episode 1 Part 1 - Marco Arment of Tumblr Part 1 of a conversation with Marco Arment,...

lfarm: Abercrombie & Fitch placement behind Barack last...

Revolutionary Kick

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

Relative Silence

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

The last post

is a picture from the movie There Will Be Blood. It’s from the beginning of the movie when a...

Silicon Valley 101

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

One day

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

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...

Mar

You’ll still be my friend, right?

Persai definitively exists

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

The News Hour with Jim Lehrer

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

At least its a woman...

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

After much bitching

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

The Mythical Man Wiki

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