Category Archives: Pals

Great news for you – more work for me

Dev, Pals

I’ve made the switch to blogger beta, mainly because I love tags.
The tags are up there on the upper left corner, and I’ll be going through the old posts and making sure things are tagged appropriately.

Why is this good for you, my loyal handful of readers?
As Jen W put it, I have an awful lot of “weird whacked out computer programmer drama that flies over her head”. She’s a pal of mine who doesn’t care one whit about that stuff.
I’ve got good news for you, Jen. Now you can only see stuff related to me and my pals.
Change your bookmark to point to just my posts tagged “pals”.

And there are some programmer types who frankly couldn’t care less about what a nice time I had snowboarding. They want to only see my developer stuff.

There you go. Get the stuff you like from me without the stuff you hate.

I’ll be toying around with the template a little bit over the next week or so to make it my own again after switching to this new format.

Call Nightline!

Get.rich.quick, Pals, Save.the.world

My friend Nikki pointed out the MIT Nightline for me and neither of us can get over how good this idea is. I love the idea of a number in your phone that you can call for anything. It’s staffed with volunteers.

I think you could set up a non-MIT version of this based off of free labor.

Step 1. You sign up and list what you can be called about. “I can talk to people about finances, computers, snowboarding, general whatevers”

Step 2. You sign up for a time that calls can be relayed to you. “I volunteer for 6-7 pm this wednesday.”

Step 3. You are now able to call in about any problem and get someone to talk to.

Your cost is mainly the servers, bandwidth, pbx system and phone time.

The trick is to balance the commitment that folks have to give versus the demand.

I think a good name for it would be to steal from Warren Ellis the name “Global Frequency”.

Bocce Season Begins

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Old Dirty Barristers is representing in the Floyd Bocce Tournament. Last season we came in second, this time we are going for the gold. Training will begin immediately in our firm’s training camp.
I popped our games in google calendar if you’d like to come out and cheer for the future champions.

If you’ve got a google account, you can subscribe by clicking this button:.
Other stuff, you’ll probably want the iCal address.

Robbed: NYC bites back.

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Lots of nice stuff happened today. My bocce team (Old Dirty Barristers) won our game and we are in the semifinals. I attended drupal camp over at the polytechnic and it was great. (Drupal looks great and really easy btw – I think I’m going to create a new site on it.)

It’s also my buddy Angie’s birthday on the 13th, so that’s nice. I went to her party, went upstairs, then we both came down to check out her new bike and mine.

Her’s had two more wheels than mine did. For once, I didn’t pull the front wheel off and lock it and back wheel through the frame to a fence. I got punished for it and someone used those quick release levers to help themselves to two new bike tires.

I guess I’ll be making a trip to the bike shop on Mother’s day.
–edit: I didn’t. Instead I went and kicked ass in the floyd bocce tournament.

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Happy Cinco de Matt!

Pals

bday sake set
bday sake set,
originally uploaded by snarkhunt.

I hope everyone is having as nice a day as I am. This is the lovely sake set that sam got me. It also came with three lovely bottles. I’m off to valhalla with some peeps to count my blessings, both those nearby and those far far away.

New Phone, new phone number

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I caved to my own demands and bought a new pocketpc phone. It’s an HTC Apache and it’s so nice.

Unfortunately, because I switched providers and my previous service was from another state, my number has changed too. If you didn’t get my multiple confusing and contradictory emails about my new phone number, drop me an email or a comment on this post with your email and I’ll sort you out.

look who’s on flickr now

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IWH
IWH,
originally uploaded by jrblackwell.

One of my favorite writers from the http://365Tomorrows.com website is on Flickr! Did I find this by looking around on the web for it? No.

I found it by reading the blog of Warren Ellis, a comics writer that I’ve never actually read any comics from.

In the future, more than 4 degrees of seperation for any 2 people speaking the same language will mean that one of them doesn’t own a computer.

I developed film!

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Sam bought a weird camera called a Holga. It’s plastic, cheap, and really cool. None of the parts are automatic, nothing is done for you, even the lense is plastic. It only costs about $30 and shoots large format film – 120 I think.

She got the idea from Daniel – that’s the camera he used to take those moody shots of Mancunia.

She also bought a weird little light-tight bag and bucket. We took the film out of the camera, sloshed some chemicals around, and had honest to goodness negatives 15 or so minutes later. It was magical.

Negatives to go up on flickr as soon as we get em scanned in.

Nerdvana: games bigger than your house.

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This weekend my neighbor, Matt Scott, hosted a bbq in the backyard. We had a good time and then as the day wore on, I dismantled the divider in our backyard. Next, I ganked his whole party by setting up the projector in the backyard for huge tekken projected on our back wall. This was great. A good time was had by all.

And then George the Russian Bear and I had a great idea.

We pointed the projector not at my back wall, but at the side of a building a few houses away. 3,000 ansi lumens of power tore the night away and threw up a Heihachi vs Panda match. The bastards were 2 stories high. Aaron turned to me and said “In all seriousness, you have the biggest television of anyone I know.” I have reached a nerd pinnacle.