2008

Aug

sad that openoffice for mac is so bleh

Now, Borgnine! There’s a guy who knows how to clean the upholstery. If you get my drift. Gus.

Weee, 60 more free days of MobileMe! Yay bugs!

Watching more Mad Men

When I said “beat my girlfriend” I meant “arrive at this location sooner than...

Why do I beat my girlfriend here even though she walks half as far? It is such trouble to be a man.

Walking to Whole Foods for after work groceries then cabbing home. How nice to be rich and fauncy!

Just heard on the street: *WHOOMP* clang clang! Now, why is that manhole cover askew, and what is...

git has some issues but I still like it more than svn. definitely needs to mature some more.

A classic: http://tinyurl.com/627btv

Blofeld firmware update!

Back at Kozy’s feeling less misanthropic following a cheeseburger.

Aaaand Kozy’s loses the sale.

Seriously this dude will not shut up. Trying to bikecyclopedia out on some suburban family while we...

Endless wait at Kozy, where everybody has decided to buy bikes but only one dude is working.

SimplifyMedia: Much better in concept than in practice :\

You can now stream ‘Avec Cloture’ by Parks and Gardens from last.fm:...

If not Getting Things Done, at least know which Things I’m not Getting Done

I hate when all my SP’s start on the same day

Cooking breakfast for some chick I picked up after the show last night

I want a global to-do list that lives in the cloud and is writable from my iPhone.

Downloading Things and listening to Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO. Why are Germans...

Trying out OmniFocus. Is “Things” better?

I have probably seen at least 2/3 of the Eternals shows in Chicago and I have yet to be...

Heading to the Eternals show at Hideout. Cannot recommend this band highly enough!

I bought a book of photographs of Fugazi. Only two things really make me feel patriotic: NASA and...

Nate’s yard: - Josh

Suburban dad: - Josh

Ideating: - Josh

Virgil’s root beer: - Josh

Gus’s Soda: Not too sweet - Josh

On the balcony watching the Navy consume jet fuel

Brunching at Lula, like we do.

Wow! Emusic upgraded my plan without informing me! How’s that for customer service? :\

At Paramount Room with @auralfixations and @smartina for a post show drinky. Sorry, Quenchers crew....

Starts at 8:00, we should be on maybe 9:45/10:00

Parks and Gardens TONIGHT: Bucketrider Gallery 835 W. Washington St. Chicagoooooo

having .Net flashbacks looking at NetSuite SOAP interface code

Drinking tequilla against my better judgement. Again, walking distance FTW.

Emptying my swollen inbox

How is it that I never heard Bowie’s “Pin-ups” until this week?

I think what @jaknowlden meant to say was “we’re all tremendously excited about the deal...

Dear dude singing “happy and you know it” on a bullhorn somewhere on Grand Ave, and dude...

I just got a CD in the mail from my teenage cousin’s rock band. Awesome! Shouts out to Balance...

My life is so much better since I stopped using Outlook

I am growing to accept the fact that I kind of have a “thing” for SQL. Is that so...

Watching the warshow on the roof.

Haha, I paid $4 for MobileChat. It’s an utter failboat. Developer seems contrite anyways....

Just got another invite for a meeting I already attended yesterday. Rejected. Reason: See Stephen...

Sending email to !totally! the wrong address. Nothing too embarrassing thankfully.

Listening to new Eno/Byrne jam. Even better than Eno/Coldplay?

Watching the freakiest interview GuitarWorld probably ever did:...

Just bought http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1901033600/

All hands all hands

Yay I found my copy of the Alltag video

Up too late. Going to bed. 9am meetings and stuff!

Practice went well. Come to the show friday night, especially if you know something about how to mix...

Back at the P. Cans

man when you are having a crap day sometimes it helps to write a really ‘leet named scope and...

Tootsie-rollatio

Tech Stab Meating

Hassell/Eno’s Possible Musics makes me want to quit life and move to a monestary with nothing...

so tired of the sugary CT greeting text

Taza again! I just can’t quit you.

not exactly the most accessible material in their canon

busting out the cab voltaire box set

O Noes! They took Mad Men season 1 off the OnDemand. Idiots. Piracy is now my only remaining...

git fsck sounds mean

Eating leftoverz

Back on thee Twinkle

If you don’t have cuberunner installed on your iPhone WTF is wrong with you

My iPhone is fk’d up. Phantom icons, disappearing apps. Icky.

Off to read about something other than computers

I tweet too much esoteric crap

It used to take Anita G. ~100 seconds to load her collaborations, now she can do it in ~50 seconds...

But man this query is getting faster

Home again, fell right back off the wagon

Trying out Twinkle.

Wheaton visiting cats and parents.

Forced rehab in the ‘burbs sans laptop.

Continuing endless struggles with workaholism. I may have hit rock bottom.

Goldanged Internet just went out. Stupid tubes!

At Green Zebra with my lady! Non non nom!

Profiling and optimizing ActiveRecord queries! Weeeeee!

Rocking the Pulaski Pavilion on a Friday night! Woah!!

At English. Wish I brought earplugs.

writing the ghettoest profiler ever because that’s easier than learning something new

last.fm player just cued up “since u been gone” … i’m embarrassed that it...

I feel excited and secure!

Somebody just pointed out that the dude on the back of my King Crimson shirt is doing “the...

Well, okay … if you have good content and you print a reasonable summary I may just warn you....

Unsubscribing my RSS reader from all blogs that do not publish the full text of their articles. I...

Paying the bill for my NYC trip

http://flickr.com/photos/stringbot/2742441221/

Crimson: excellent. Park West seating: not so excellent. My ass hurts.

Off to see some aging prog rockers

21st Century Schizoid Man: This is the first concert t-shirt...

Dinner at La Sacrola last night was friggin’ awesome

Oohh. I got to band practice and there was Oberon! The real stuff!

Going to see King Crimson tomorrow!

Man that meeting was tense

Listening to Imperial Distortion on the Grados and reading code

Going to NYC in late Octoberrrrrr

Making nummy lentil rice

Post Apple Store lunch with my girl at Elephant and Castle.

Twitter search is the new weather radio

Tornado warning for Chicago is over, you can come out of the basement

http://tinyurl.com/6loxfo

Hey that’s a tornado warning

I hate when people do find(:all).select .. that works great for 25 rows, but once you get to about...

Architecting a solution for better ideation of solutioning architectures.

Got git from github. Great!

Wearing Udon noodle juice on my nice white shirt. Sometimes I eat like a man-child.

My first ‘git push’

I should maybe cut back on the Twitter.

Best thing about comic-con? COSPLAY http://tinyurl.com/6y4sv4

Best T-Shirt of the night: Obama “Mr. November”

I have the Flickr JavaScript upload tool open in FireBug and it is blowing my mind. That is some...

Unknown Pleasures: Slightly less regrettable.

Love and Rockets

Sears Tower, Chicks

Aon Building, David J

Some Dude, behind Us: I love that hat

Lollapalooza Skyline

Mark Ronson, et al

Police Surveillance Tower: Watching YOU smoke that doobie.

Kanye: SO fucking good.

Mr. West: With himself he’s so impressed

Bunny People: I hope they made a ton of money

Man, Flickr just does everything right, don’t they?

Surprised to find that Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was actually alive until today

In hindsight, Obama wouldn’t touch Kanye with a 10-foot pole. 1) B-word. 2) N-word. 3) F-word....

The full stage step sequencer is pretty rad.

Does Trent have a fauxhawk?I’m going home.

Lollapalooza = AT&T sponsored iPhone FAIL-zone

Hanging out with the olds for Love and Rockets

Mark Ronson. Nice fucking suit, Frodo!

Love and Rox looked pretty good for a buncha olds.

It’s kind of like paying $80 to hang out in an Abercrombie commercial

Looks like nobody gives a fuck about Love and Rockets

Mmm rebellion packaged and sponsored by AT&T

Spotted dude with sign reading “Kanye Sucks, Remember Bonnaroo!”. Fuck that dude.

Rumors abound that Obama is going to spit 16 bars during Kanye’s set

Lolla Lounge is nice but kinda segregationist.

Taking piano lessons from Paul McCartney via side two of Abbey Road. Fucker loves his 7ths....

Got git. Getting gooder at gitting.

Turn that FAIL into a SUCCEED: http://www.allowe.com/Humor/tugboattrouble.htm

git is the shit