attempting to work from Smithville's cellular deadzone...

quoted Shados, Slashdot article comment: ...if you're typing 1/2 or even 1/3 of the code you're writing, you're doing it wrong.

Quote by Shados, Slashdot article comment

Posted the following quote by Shados, Slashdot article comment on Ivory-Tower: ...if you're typing 1/2 or even 1/3 of the code you're writing, you're doing it wrong.

quoted Karo: Next time you're in jail look out for any beefy guys with "gourmet this" tatted above their ass.

Quote by Karo

Posted the following quote by Karo on Ivory-Tower: Next time you're in jail look out for any beefy guys with "gourmet this" tatted above their ass.

construction and yard maintenance noise both in the same morning?!?

walking to the store in the rain because SURPRISE I am blocked in by yet another moving van...

seeing the Ubuntu laptop site inaccessible after a good Slashdotting...

my barista got confused when I ordered a latte instead an au lait; "Norm" status is vunderbar!

I honestly thought that the professor in Psych, Yang 3 in 2D, was going to be announced as Shawn's real father...

listening to my Droid reboot itself... again... for no reason at all...

changing plans to stay in Austin tonight instead of trying to make it to the Flying Saucer for my social fix...

audio books will be kinda fucked the day robots can read to us...

working myself up to a coffee run before heading out of town...

getting ready to return to Austin...

phone tethering? No problem! Tethering while mobile? Roll saving throw and take your chances...

left my cellular broadband dongle at the house, but managing to get by just tethering my laptop to the Droid...

lots of new books for xmas this year! Will have to read several at a time to keep up now!

back from hunting; bagged my first wild pig today! It was HUGE!!!

gotta be curious what pharmacists think of this one! http://ping.fm/jWbI2

GizMag's official Top 10 Things You Won't Be Getting For Xmas! http://ping.fm/YnzEV

shutting down the office and preparing for the holiday roadtrip...

and so, several hours later, we STILL have yard workers wandering around with leaf blowers... WORTHLESS!!!

yard maintenance with leaf blowers before noon followed by issues with my phone working; another lovely fuckin day...

reestablishing a reason to have the physical keyboard on a Droid: when the software keyboard stops behaving...

Droid says we're counting this keystroke twice, the next one not at all, and then this one three times! Fuckin' weeeeeeee!!!!!!!

okay, I get it, I'm not supposed to leave the house today! I'll avoid incurring a third warning from Murphy if I can...

can't shows pre-film a few to get us through the holidays?!?

too overcast; missed the eclipse... QQ

listening to neighboring conversations in a language other than english (or spanish) is entertaining...

planning a viewing of tonight's lunar eclipse and observance of the Winter Solstice...

I ate chocolate covered espresso beans... DING!

wondering if Vindictus will continue to deliver this well after extended play... and realizing the need for a beefier box...

The Revolution Will Be Categorized!

WikiLeaks Mashup: CableGate, The Game! http://ping.fm/x0I8I

H.R. Giger and Ridley Scott start work on an Aliens prequel in February! http://ping.fm/8skKo

Sunday morning early, I refuse to eat at Taco Cabana!

Carsten is a HUGE enabler... Just sayin...

would any other applications like to update before I try to work today?

Firefox lost all my tabs at some point; guess it could only choke on that many for so long...

BofA vs Assange/WikiLeaks! Go WikiLeaks!

preparing to renew my love/hate relationship with Min Mei and Rick Hunter's romance...

nothing raises my spirits like the Robotech intro!

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just discovered all of the original Robotech on Hulu! Marathon-time!

too much work before dark, ran out of steam; anyone for a coffee house run?

Dungeon Defenders: Android MMO! http://ping.fm/1mTXX

I need a haircut... badly...

waking up and making coffee...

work, work, work...

has production on the shows I watched ceased until next year or what?

Airship Victoria to be at Burning Man 2011 http://ping.fm/tdUOM

Airship Victoria to be at Burning Man 2011 http://ping.fm/11NsL

The Agency went from a release date of tomorrow to Q4 2011? WTH? I musta read something wrong the first time...

try San Antonio for all your puffy chicken taco needs!

hitting Martha's (in S.A.) for late lunch in about two hours; txt me if ya want to meet me there and I'll pong when I arrive!

just went from socialize mode to work mode; what a relief...

need to find some place to do laundry at today...

Global Agenda: Hands-Free Jetpacks At Last!

When I first started playing this game, earlier in the year, I was dismayed to find they had placed jetpacks in a weapon slot, preventing you from being able to fly and shoot at the same time. Well, you still can't fly and shoot at the same time, but they've given everyone hands-free jetpacks now so that they are moved out of a weapon slot and assigned to the spacebar. Flying in this game just went from manual to automatic transmission!

Continue reading...

Global Agenda http://ping.fm/aMWgd

confused why anyone would think Miley Cyrus smoking out of a bong is "shocking"; I would call it a statistical probability...

finally got around to cleaning up my voicemail so that people can leave me messages again...

camping the bar at Epoch and wishing the network connection was better...

either nobody calls or every body calls; getting to be a busy week...

if your child is bawling in 50 degree weather, it just MIGHT be that it's COLD and you will only solve the problem by LEAVING!!!

hooking up my space heater in the alcove at Epoch...

when it rains, it pours; phone hasn't been this busy in weeks...

may you live an interesting life...

new favorite rumor to start: growing number of TSA employees catching VD from frisking passengers genitals!

if I wasn't planning on leaving Epoch soon, I'd snag my space heater out of the trunk and plug it in on the porch here...

my mouse double-clicks when I single-click, but Perpetuum only registers one out of every ten clicks...

working out a plan to be around other people today so that I can get some work done...

I have a craving for cake batter...

anything going on tonight? anybody else in Austin bored? O.o

dammit, I knew I shoulda brought my hoodie; it's gettin cold!

MOdular Neural Exploring Traveling Agent (MoNETA) http://ping.fm/dYNKw

commandeering a table at Epoch; feel free to join me!

just found out that Esligner's NickelChildren film is only 16 minutes long; still have yet to see it...

just learned that there will, indeed, be a seventh season of Weeds!

got my laptop screen replaced finally and working with a tax expert... finally.

poor Tanuki: color-blind people do not make the best candidates to trim a pets nails...

My car charges my phone when it's off, laptops should to; wth is up with just enough to power but not enough to let you untether eventually?!?

Every single one of the smoothie places I stopped at was closed! I should have taken the no-smoothie hint after the first or second one... QQ

chillin with the Doyle-meister...

dueling leaf-blowers! tis the season! ALL YARD WORKERS CAN ROT IN FUCKING HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need something to do today...

Aussies reject PDF format for the POS it really is! http://ping.fm/dDEKQ

viva la revolucion! http://ping.fm/hQMYg

back from the Borders "library" with copies notes from the Mojo book that I keep reading there...

laptop support call resolved; technician due to arrive in another 3-5 days... *grumble*

crossing my fingers that this time I am able to get a dell support dispatch for the correct location and actually be there too...

there should be a phone app to publish the contents of your junk electronics drawer locally for those in need...

my body will feel guilty for not staying up if I crash right now; why can't you ALL have schedules that start at noon!

that's right, mister cellular guy, got a broadband plan for my 12gig+ monthly downstream? THOT NOT, SUCKAZ!

ah'm still teh funney guy! http://ping.fm/9FWP1

left the house and went foraging for sustenance ...

glad to see all fallout about Ireland letting american companies use it to avoid paying taxes...

after all the hassling with megavideo, I don't even really want to watch the damned thing anymore...

JUST PLAY THE GODDAMNED MOVIE ALREADY!!!!!!!

don't even NUDGE the computer or LAG LAG LAG LAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

writing code is my form of meditation sometimes...

rediscovering my stash of honey-ginger tea crystals and putting them to good use!

why does "Graceful Reboot" never actually work for me? Evar?

listening to Otis Redding always makes me think of dad...

first indications that I'm starting to feel better: my brain resumes thinking about code coherently again...

every possible network connection I can find suck ass!

waiting for my mouse battery to recharge so that I can stop feeling foolish using the trackpad...

I hereby dub my internet connection "Evil Tigger"; it's bouncy bouncy, but no fun, and hell to play games on...

having a laptop well into it's second warranty doesn't bode well for the playing of new games coming out...

confirming that I have almost a year left on my laptop warranty! <3 Dell support contracts...

I think I just fried my laptop screen...

having another day that begins with construction...

coping with monday morning construction noise... the work-week has begun...

ok, no, really, going to bed now...

The Agency - Spy MMO Shooter out next month! http://ping.fm/2xi8f

Trash-To-Gas Power Plant Gets Greenlight http://ping.fm/2yYL6

had to make sure a fourth season of Californication was coming out, else I'd still be crying from the season 3 finale...

that's just exhaustion... fuckin wit you; well, fuck exhaustion; it only hurts, it never helps...

Epoch is rockin the oldies; makes me feel like I'm in a truck on my way to the dove lease with dad...

just discovered that Photic Sneeze Reflex affects 18-35% of the population; I feel so much better now!

getting ready to camp out at Epoch with Blake while we work on the Tipjar codebase...

hating on construction as a result of the sporadic hammering that I am forced to listen to...

large objects being pushed around, power tools, tejano... these are not supposed to be the noises of HOME for me, dammit!

just finished reading the latest book in the Wheel of Time series; now I need a new book!

making as much trouble for the lazy construction workers below me as I can...

Aaron Karo - The Rest Is History http://ping.fm/vlltp @d COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS THE FIRST ONE-HOUR
STAND-UP SPECIAL FROM AUTHOR AARON KARO!

awake now, thanks to construction downstairs; is a quiet apartment complex an oxymoron?

figuring out where to work from today since they are doing construction on the unit below me...

gotta wait another hour before I can watch any more Californication... QQ

Google Town In Progress

because of my father's longstanding abuse of Jujyfruits, I too am now an addict...

using porkchops to confirm that the smoke alarm works; who puts these things so close to the friggin kitchen?!?

Quote by Andy - Weeds, Season 5, Episode 11

Posted the following quote by Andy - Weeds, Season 5, Episode 11 on Ivory-Tower: If you don't climax, the terrorists win...

quoted Andy - Weeds, Season 5, Episode 11: If you don't climax, the terrorists win...

working out details for a both a retweeting and autotweeting solution on Ivory Tower...

Okay, lesson learned from Ping.fm: use of tags is only evident when posting to Twitter and automatically removed from the rest...

testing out use of tags in crossposting via pingfm to see how well it works...

Ping.fm handled link translation and cross-posting just fine to Facebook, Linkedin, Blogger and MySpace; Plaxo, not so much...

I source all my status updates from my own site, Ivory Tower, where they get republished by Ping.fm. http://ping.fm/c5tVW

trying to work out an elegant link publishing system through the Ping.fm API...

Confucius say lucky golden poo is holy crap!

deciding what to work on while I wait an hour for my video viewing privileges to be refreshed...

got my TXtag account reactivated...

Time Warner's new "trampoline" broadband: every five minutes, your connection bounces offline...

calling it an early night after catching a raging headache from listening to presentation composed almost entirely of the word "um"...

yes, I keep the temperature where it's at deliberately; welcome to the reptile house!

sporting my Renny shirt; it's laundry day... or maybe tomorrow, if I can keep the shirt clean...

what a lovely day for some fucking construction next door!

back from lunch with Sean and Christina at Bouldin; finally dug out my parking sticker and affixed it to my windshield...

9am! time for people to run shit like chainsaws, apparently! FUCK CIVILIZATION WITH A BIG RUBBER DICK!

I need to stop browsing steampunk burlesque videos and get some work done...

I don't mind Johnny Cash most of the time, but 5am just isn't very good timing for it...

caught up on all six seasons of Weeds now, and probably stuck being awake for awhile after crashing early...

would go out for company and some atmosphere, but have this while "car-got-towed" bullshit to deal with first...

my Verizon bills are suddenly $30-50 lower than they have been now that the federal eye is on those shysters...

just found out my car was towed... from resident parking... where I'm a resident... much hilarity ensues... not.

end of the season 5 finale for Weeds is teh priceless!

every time a ferret backs themselves over the edge of a bed onto the floor, I hear "RING OUT!"

ok, Hulu, this commercial shit has killed your ability to compete; I watch shows online to AVOID the fucking commercials...

got a copy of my DBA so that I could open up a business bank account, only to find out that my drivers license is expired...

I should have gotten a popup alert of some kind when my drivers license expired three months ago...

tethering power from my laptop to keep my phone charged while I wrap up dialog with Scott...

feeling decidedly non-mobile after a particularly intense acupuncture session this morning...

wondering if there is an algorithm for calculating the average amount of net lag per hour of video...

ran out of minutes on MegaVideo trying to finish watching season 3 of Weeds; maybe I'll get a little work done now?

so the bank teller chick tells me I look JUST like Harry Potter in my drivers license photo...

used up my allocated minutes watching season 3 of Weeds, now doing some SVN repository cleanup...

downloading NeoSteam and re-installing Eve Online; I just wanna play a game, dammit!

just finished up a few rounds of Battlefield Heroes and preparing to install GTA2...

gave up trying to run Cabal Online after it never progressed past the loading screen...

switching from strong but slow cellular broadband to weak but fast free wifi to download 1 gig worth of game client...

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Posted the following quote by zippthorne - Slashdot comment on Ivory-Tower: Age group, schmage group. If you're not occasionally peeing or pooping yourself when out playing, you're not playing hard enough.

wondering (hoping?) that Facebook's Nov 3rd event is somehow tied to Prop 19 voting...

not eager to hunt for parking at Epoch...

motivation to work: check; desire to work: check; energy to work? need coffee...

realizing that I forgot to pick up sugar at the grocery store, earlier, so now I have to venture out again for coffee...

Karas for background noise; sometimes movies are a great replacement for music...

"Frightening legends of water goblins!" ROFL

was going to let Tanuki run around for a bit, but I don't reward feasels that can't be bothered to crap in the litter box...

just can't bring myself to do any more work today...

the word "like" is not a fucking adjective and doesn't need to be included in every damned sentence, people!

thinking that ISP's should be required to actually provide SERVICE if they want to be labeled as such...

talking subversion and monetization over coffee with Blake...

just found out that Aaron Sorkin did The Social Network; no wonder it was so good!

hoping my PMS will have run it's course by morning...

just can't bring myself to eat food that isn't what I ordered...

not in the best of moods to begin with and now saddled with someone else's order from chinese takeout...

guess I waited too late to watch The Event, since Hulu is no longer hosting episode one...

just watched a deer totally fail at jumping the fence!

preparing for a second shot at going hunting...

wondering if the neighbors would sell me their barking dog so that I can pass him directly off to the pound...

no clergy discount on a hunting license? awww....

migratory game bird sounds like a euphemism for gamer slut...

deciding which source of continuous music I want to listen to based on which ads I am sick of watching...

waiting for my Inbox to finish being backed up so that I can check mail finally; been archiving since last night...

four hours of sleep interrupted by yard maintenance equipment...

may be awake, but brain is mush; will have to find something REALLY easy to work on if I'm going to be productive...

slept past noon and now I feel like being productive instead of actually sleeping...

knocking out a nice little fix on Ruminations for Karo while I watch the steampunk episode of Castle...

getting a kick out of being part of the developer gathering at Epoch, with PHP, Java, C and Python all represented...

pumpkin-hour; will I stay or will I go now... *yawn*

spent so much time today on business correspondence that I had to think to remember I wrote code too!

I knew, just KNEW, I should have avoided using "starttime" as a variable! Damned double T's!!!

getting Subversion running knocked out FTP; "graceful" reboot failed, as usual; migrated from Bouldin to Epoch with Blake...

construction IN GENERAL isn't done on my building, just the SPECIFIC fucking noise being made that day...

returned home at the same time that construction noise restarted; working out alternate locations for the afternoon now...

construction noise has ceased; should I return to bed and recoup my lost time now?

listening to the construction nightmare start up again a few doors down...

finding refuge at Epoch while my neighbors have their floor ripped up by something loud and mechanical...

making noise before noon is a sin and construction workers will all go to hell...

going to start hanging invisible pictures on the wall just for the chance to pound on it really hard for a long time...

really not looking forward to a 10am appointment in 5 hours...

back from the Catalyst Events party down at Suite 101; the Polish Ambassador was fantastic!

watching data service from Verizon go straight down the toilet in the middle of town...

instantiate, substantiate, insubstantiate!

doesn't seem to matter which social network I try to make use of... this time "Twitter is over capacity."

feeling a lot better knowing that I'm not being targeted, specifically, by this whole "It Get's Better" campaign...

most development time seems to be spent using search-and-replace, copy-and-paste and watching FTP transfers...

wasn't ready to wake up this morning, so ready to go right back to bed at the next opportunity still...

Austin desperately needs an all-night Pho and bubble tea place...

not many other responses I could have given for "what comes after 'see colon'?"...

dev quirks: you can never tell if it's the crappy internet connection, server issues, or your own damned box...

wondering why I don't retreat into my headphones more often; it's so peaceful in here!

staking my claim on a table at Epoch and dealing with IE's insistence on downloading instead of displaying xhtml files...

society is my alarm clock and I was NOT ready to wake up yet...

realizing the building just lost water pressure...

mouse doesn't like click-and-drag very much anymore; think I need to take it apart and clean the fucker...

getting ready to knuckle down and bust out some code before crashing...

Happy to see real 1nt0rw3b technology in the Facebook movie...

preparing to brave traffic for Epoch...

enjoying some choons...

still trying to figure out if I watched all of the last season of Dexter or if I wrote it off as a demented after school special...

was considering leaving, but now am enjoying the montage of intensely cute girls, all so self-absorbed, sitting around Epoch...

can't find anybody to go to the coffee house with, and can't find the motivation to go alone...

guess i am going to Bouldin tonight...

tired of looking at WordPress for today, so I busted out an small enhancement on Ruminations.com for Karo...

adding content to client sites while I let Faust run around on the bed...

if I was in San Antonio I wouldn't have access to real coffee houses, but at least I know I could get someone to go with me...

no matter where I go, there is always someone with a whiny, nasal voice that just bugs the hell out of me...

abandoned spaceships rusting away in junkyards? Only in Russia...

catching some details on the shooter with an AK-47 on the UT Austin campus earlier...

just got a personal meet-and-greet from the owner of Bouldin; I feel like I'm home now...

thrashing away at jQuery for Frontline Solutions and suffering the repeated data interruptions of Epoc...

got about 15 minutes of power left before I retreat from Epoc...

forced to retreat into my headphones in order to escape the incessant amount of bitching from the next table over...

realizing that I didn't bring my power cord, so my visit to Epoc is going to be a bit limited this evening...

didn't make it to Epoc yet, but woke up thinking it was Sunday; now it feels like a 3-day weekend!

making it an early night, in anticipation of getting up around 4am and going to Epoc; might even get a table this time!

having some 80's flashback time with lots of Duran Duran while I fantasize about having a personal assistant...

season premier of Fringe, season 3; today is redeemed!

Droid can't: get a 3G or GPS connection in north Austin. Screw errands...

replacing my hat with headphones in order to escape the AA discussion going on at the next table...

Epoc is as packed at 5pm as it is at 10pm; I got the worst seat in the house; thinking of skipping up to Matt's instead...

trying to work out how my cellular fees are so high...

ready to cement every square inch of green growing plants on the globe just to make yard workers an extinct profession...

was going to take a break from working on projects but there are no Tribes 2 servers online, dammit...

wondering who actually checks md5 checksum's, and betting it's virtually nobody...

i am the only customer inChekos and can't seem to get anyone to take my order...

looks like Facebook is down...

can still feel where all the needles were in my hand from acupuncture...

periodically pausing the music mid-song just to enjoy the cricket-free silence...

just now remembering that I have another acupuncture appointment this morning, in about an hour...

back from HEB and flooding the ventilation with Raid to drown that fucking cricket with...

chillin at Bouldin...

wishing there was a PHP command that would pluralize keywords dynamically without my input...

thinking that maybe the game I create during testing should be as simple as possible, not a new concept half fleshed out...

finishing up work on the meta-component structure of the game module...

trying to bull through a motivational lull from realization of my empty schedule for the evening...

realizing that I only downloaded the latest code, I didn't upload it where I was trying to install it yet! Doh!

wishing leafblower guy would die in a fire. fuck this asshole, I'm going out for breakfast; friggin monday...

channeling pure hatred at the fuckhead across the street with a leafblower...

capping the night off with an orange creamsicle before crashing...

still wanna play some kinda computer game...

unentertained by any type of available media and doubtful of the success of texting or online chat; just wanna go out...

lacking the motivation to do more than highlight passages of Gamer Theory by Wark...

wishing I could just blow a buncha money on books at Amazon right now...

came home to BSOD again; performing a BIOS upgrade to try and fix it...

upgrading my laptop hard drive; got a few hours of data transfer to waste...

when I make my own drip coffee, it's the same color, but dark and rich instead of burnt, and has twice the zing!

brewing bath tea, on orders from my acupuncturist...

still waxing poetic over my acupuncture experience this morning; ready to sleep again...

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feeling more mobile today, tho still getting frequent muscle twinges; maybe I'll get some work done finally...

not tired enough to sleep, too much pain to move far, bored to tears...

finally got Facebook Connect logins to work on http://ping.fm/upKmQ

Quote by Matt Doyle

Posted the following quote by Matt Doyle on Ivory-Tower: I think Dad felt a little nostalgic with a 6 yr old ignoring him completely over a video game.

quoted Matt Doyle: I think Dad felt a little nostalgic with a 6 yr old ignoring him completely over a video game.

awake now, so I'm betting it stays quiet the rest of the damned morning...

still utterly baffled that garbage collection starts before noise curfew ends in the morning...

if it isn't the garbage truck, it's some asshole throwing tools into the back of his truck at six in the fuckin morning!

two drink fails at my desk inside of ten minutes; fuck it, time for bed before I manage to hit the laptop...

got this mad salt craving that will probably drive me outside tonight; who's in?

about done with this whole laying in bed and flipping over every few minutes; I feel like a burger...

hobbling down to the car for a quick jaunt to Pluckers and pick up my South Philly for a late night snack!

a small robotic pet could be armed with a contact taser for when real animals think they might be food!

and so Facebook's new application creation form set doesn't seem to be working now...

considering migrating all of my Xaraya apps to Drupal since xarSecAuth just NEVER fucking seems to work...

had this weird dream where Faust had kids and then there was 30 little albino ferrets running around to keep track of...

ice pack FTW...

trimming my beard to look younger has been canceled out by pulling a muscle in my back; back to feeling old again...

busting out updates on http://ping.fm/xbL8z

even the feasels are more interested in sleeping right now...

texting around to see who is awake to go hit Pluckers for a South Philly!

Need a massuse in the worst way...

Quote by CarpetShark - Slashdot comment

Posted the following quote by CarpetShark - Slashdot comment on Ivory-Tower: No one would argue that ASP.net sites aren't bad, but calling them criminal is a bit much.

quoted CarpetShark - Slashdot comment: No one would argue that ASP.net sites aren't bad, but calling them criminal is a bit much.

ripping the dishwasher out of the wall to retrieve the world's stoopidest ferret...

working out a Mailman snippet to use for grabbing subscribers for CatalystEvents.org...

wondering who I could find at this time of night for a massage...

wondering how long it will take my shoes to dry after wading through the parking lot...

glad the rain will leave a cooler day than usual, but still unable to get motivated yet today...

taking a break from trying to implement fluid dynamic columns in CSS...

breakfast time! call, text or just meet me at Cheko's on Koenig; I'm tired of all ping, no pong...

hoping that watching Sea Patrol doesn't cause flashbacks...

stuffed full of muffaleta, etouffee, crab cakes, chocolate cream pie and root beer to move normally...

Some days you just want to play Tekken, ya know?

working out what work I want to work on. O.o

Hung, Ep.19: "DON'T! CALL! ME! THAT! I! AM! A! PIMP!"

waking up, contemplating breakfast at Cheko's...

French maids, Spanish housekeepers, and British nannyies; find the pattern...

just something about ferrets makes you want to shake em like a british nanny...

the free WiFi I was abusing went down; oh, well, back to cellular broadband!

Rolled down to Bouldin on my own, since nobody else seems available...

reminding Sean that working hours are based on availability of light and the need to farm, neither of which is a factor...

woke up at 8am and just wasn't ready to start my day yet, rolled over and now waking up again at 1pm. Score!

just isn't anything inspiring enough to watch at the Drafthouse tonight...

wondering what to do tonight; work or socialize? work on what? socialize with whom?

having taquitos at Cheko's, join me if ya want to! no phone today due to complications, so just show up...

getting ready to chow down at Sambets fine cajun cuisine!

wondering how Lloyd is going to make it out of Flagstaff...

wondering if there is a single person I know in Austin who is in town, might be awake, and would be down for a diner...

tagging Lloyd mid-Flagstaff static reception to ask about making a sustainable inland canal city...

current gourmet point totals on Ruminations.com do not reflect much of how clever I thought I was before bed...

if you don't tell me what context you need a name for a project in, I assume xProject, every time, sorry. ;-)

okay, it's been about twelve hours now, and I still think you all have GOT to watch the latest episode of Lie to Me.

too wound up after watching Lie to Me to go to sleep; guess it's time for Cheko's!!!

BEST LIE TO ME EPISODE EVAR! ...

just couldn't make myself crash before watching the latest episode of Lie to Me; DAMN BUT IT'S INTENSE!!!

getting ready to finally bed down for the (night?) while I let the feasels frollick on the bed to stretch their legs...

ready for Chekos to open so I can get some breakfast tacos and stop working from the beanbag...

made it to Austin safely and spending the rest of the night working on code...

prepare for immanent arrival, Austin, I'm heading back tonight...

still think the Bible needs a chapter that is just called "Platitudes"...

Quote by Jackie Kraeft

Posted the following quote by Jackie Kraeft on Ivory-Tower: Coffee grounds are ruffage for your garbage disposal!

quoted Jackie Kraeft: Coffee grounds are ruffage for your garbage disposal!

watching Faust dig all my boxershorts out of my travel bag...

only now realizing that I've been watching a show that has been out for over a decade, ie: no season three, for sure...

my 2:30 feeling is homicidal rage at having to rewatch the same fucking 5Hr energy commercial every 15 minutes...

there has to have been a better way to do a pretzel M&M's commercial besides a prison rape metaphor...

"air" may not care who you are, but you have interrupted my entertainment viewing and are therefore condemned to hell...

WTF, Hulu? You can stream shows just fine but you can't fucking churn out a goddamned commercial without lag?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

going to hire an ex Hulu employee to just mute and un-mute my laptop for these stoopid fncking commercials...

on the seventh day, god rested... and in the eighth month, he melted Texas...

wondering why Hulu commercials seem to cater exclusively to the douche crowd...

still don't understand how a show like StarHunter 2300 stayed under my radar until completion of season 2!!!

can't tell if I'm sweating or melting, just ready to either go back to NorCal or have summer end soon...

not sure why medical debt collectors don't appreciate my jokes when I have yet to appreciate theirs...

considering connecting an air-raid siren outside that is tied to the telephone ringer... just for dog-owning neighbors...

finally got Froyo on my Droid and playing with voice commands...

some odd internal drive is trying to motivate me away from going back to sleep again...

made it back to Corpus; taking the feasels in for the night since it's so damned hot outside...

finally packing up the car for a trip to Corpus...

catching a great music performance by two guitarists at Mozart's.

trying to decide if I have the motivation to work on anything, sleep, or just feed my addiction for another episode of Jeremiah.

so, Verizon, yer rollin out Froyo as of yesterday, huh? still waiting for the upgrade to Voice Search, m'kay?

stepping out to Trudy's to finally try their migas, and maybe get some folx together for a hookah nearby...

and NOW the hot water is back...

was fairly warned by Doyle that he was still working and, well, he is still working..

still wearing the aftermath of a smoothie spill on my crotch and no hot water to wash with here...

blew my plans for trekking south to Corpus today by working on projects all day...

catching a eulogy given by post-apocalyptic children while watching Jeremiah...

relieved that Faust survived playing Mission Impossible in a dog yard...

wondering how the American Families Association never considered that California has gay judges; fucking POETIC!

coping with a cement truck running right outside; welcome back to Austin, please enjoy all the unnecessary noise...

three days in a car gave my back a heat rash...

mentally preparing myself to peanut butter 2 ferrets

txt me some love Austin, I am back!

made it to Austin! g'nite!

after midnight in the middle of nowhere? time to chat up tha UK!

not sure how this works out but I may have found the last store/restaurant that allows smoking inside...

less than five hours of actual driving left...

Faust just loves rest areas...

just... gotta... keep... driving...

I swear the road gets longer every time I stop to rest...

new wishlist item: fully reclining driver seat in this car!

zoning out in a McD's parking lot; they got Smoothies here? I am dubious..

this is my rest area; there are many others like it but this one is mine... and I am tired of driving...

if you don't like kids, don't let ferrets out at rest areas...

feasel break and dubstep at the meteor crater rest stop...

tree sap? really, Faust? damnit, how to get tree sap out of weasel fur while traveling? ugh...

quoted James Pritchet: We have that service here...

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catching brunch in Tehachapi...

crashing at a motel after starting to nod a bit

stopped at a rest area to let tha feasals stretch.

finally on tha road, long way to go; just wasn't ready for a long chat in the middle, sorry mom...

figuring out where to brunch with the Doss clan before bouncing out of town on exodus...

hourly hot tub rentals? I love this town!

reminiscing about times past when I've ordered $100 worth of books off Amazon as a way to console myself when depressed...

waiting for the laundry to finish so that I can get my towel back and take a shower...

wrapping up work for tonight on the requirements component for the game engine...

jumping onto Dungeons and Dragons Online with Sean, restarting on his server this time as a dual-wielding elven cleric...

getting mentally prepared for the drive back to Texas tomorrow...

grabbing a list of service ID's from Ping.fm's API...

grabbing a list of service ID's from Ping.fm's API...

giving this service specific posting feature yet another shot...

giving this service specific posting feature yet another shot...

giving this service specific posting feature yet another shot...

determined to work out a solution to post only to select services... WorkTweets

wishing Ping.fm's API handled pound-signs better... WorkTweets

second test segregating tweets by topic during post... WorkTweets

testing out code to split my Ping.fm API posts by category...

loudest futon to unfold evar.

HBDT me... >.<

holding off on seeing both Inception and The Sorcerer's Apprentice until I can watch them properly at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin...

Quote by Steven Brust, To Reign In Hell

Posted the following quote by Steven Brust, To Reign In Hell on Ivory-Tower: ONE

Descend, then! I could also say: Ascend! ’Twere all the same. Escape from the Created To shapeless forms in liberated spaces! Enjoy what long ere this was dissipated!
—Goethe, Faust


Primordial ooze. Flux. Chaos. Cacoastrum.
The essential of the universe, in all its myriad forms and shapes. Essence.
Any and all combinations of form and shape exist within this essence. Eventually, of course, cacoastrum may deny itself. Order within chaos.
How many times is order created? The question has no meaning. A tree falls in the forest, and the universe hears it. Order doesn’t last; cacoastrum will out.
The flux creates the essence of order, which is illiaster, which was the staff of life long before bread had the privilege. It can’t last, however. Conscious? Sentient? Self-aware? Perhaps these things exist for a timeless instant, only to be lost again before they can begin to understand. They may have shape; they may have the seeds of thoughts—none of this matters. One of them may be a unicorn, another a greyish stone of unknown properties, still another a girl-child with big brown eyes who vanishes before she really appears. It doesn’t matter.
But let us give to one of these forms something new. Let us give it, for the sake of argument, an instinct to survive. Ah! Now the game is different, you see.
So this form resists, and strives to hold itself together. And as it strives, cacoastrum and illiaster produce more illiaster, and consciousness produces more consciousness, and now there are two.
The two of them strive; and then they find that they can communicate, and time means something now. And space, as well.
As they work together, to hold onto themselves, a third one appears. They find that they can bend the cacoastrum to their will, and force shape upon it, and command it to hold, for a while. They build walls at this place where the three of them are, and a top and a bottom.
Cacoastrum howls, almost as a living thing itself, and seeks entry. The three resist, and then there are four, then five, then six, then seven.
And the seven finish the walls, and the top, and the bottom and for a moment, at last, there is peace from the storm.

quoted Steven Brust, To Reign In Hell: ONE

Descend, then! I could also say: Ascend! ’Twere all the same. Escape from the Created To shapeless forms in liberated spaces! Enjoy what long ere this was dissipated!
—Goethe, Faust


Primordial ooze. Flux. Chaos. Cacoastrum.
The essential of the universe, in all its myriad forms and shapes. Essence.
Any and all combinations of form and shape exist within this essence. Eventually, of course, cacoastrum may deny itself. Order within chaos.
How many times is order created? The question has no meaning. A tree falls in the forest, and the universe hears it. Order doesn’t last; cacoastrum will out.
The flux creates the essence of order, which is illiaster, which was the staff of life long before bread had the privilege. It can’t last, however. Conscious? Sentient? Self-aware? Perhaps these things exist for a timeless instant, only to be lost again before they can begin to understand. They may have shape; they may have the seeds of thoughts—none of this matters. One of them may be a unicorn, another a greyish stone of unknown properties, still another a girl-child with big brown eyes who vanishes before she really appears. It doesn’t matter.
But let us give to one of these forms something new. Let us give it, for the sake of argument, an instinct to survive. Ah! Now the game is different, you see.
So this form resists, and strives to hold itself together. And as it strives, cacoastrum and illiaster produce more illiaster, and consciousness produces more consciousness, and now there are two.
The two of them strive; and then they find that they can communicate, and time means something now. And space, as well.
As they work together, to hold onto themselves, a third one appears. They find that they can bend the cacoastrum to their will, and force shape upon it, and command it to hold, for a while. They build walls at this place where the three of them are, and a top and a bottom.
Cacoastrum howls, almost as a living thing itself, and seeks entry. The three resist, and then there are four, then five, then six, then seven.
And the seven finish the walls, and the top, and the bottom and for a moment, at last, there is peace from the storm.

quoted James Pritchett: You'll just have to be more present with yourself when you do it...

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spent all day tranlating PSD's into HTML and I really just want to spend a few hours writing actual code, ya know?

back from a tour of the TechShop in Menlo Park, where you can make just about anything you can imagine...

can't eat cherries without thinking of Witches of Eastwick...

feeling an inspiring wind in the air, wondering what creative endeavors today will include...

four guys, two bathrooms: time for morning musical chairs with the toilets...

just got back from Blues dancing with Lloyd; had a great time, except for that first girl that brushed me off...

working on a Flash based Open Farm Tech presentation with Lloyd...

just now waking up after an ad hoc nap...

trying to drum up support for a sojourn into China Town tonight...

watching the feasels tear apart plastic bags while I consider which neighbor might be awake and making coffee...

you want to watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? I'm glad it was so exciting that you all passed the hell out...

no, neighbor lady, we're not trying to break in; we're just four guys attempting to play hacky-sack on a small back porch...

I cooked homemade vegetable soup tonight! And everyone liked it! And I can cook pancakes now!

got some morning work done around the house, exercised the feasels, and sitting down to work on some new code now!

with all the mist rolling up the mountain, I feel like I'm in Rivendell!

now that I'm done working for the day, it's 2am in Texas, where there are not many people left awake to appreciate my call...

just ate some fantastic Cameroonian food at the Ashby Market...

enjoying a late night session of The Cure with Sean while I repeatedly focus on not smoking...

ATTN DESIGNERS: a vertical space is a linebreak. If you ask for a space after something, yer gettin a SPACE!

going to unwind before dinner with some Eve Online; I <3 the new planetary resource system! ^.^

wondering what sort of tasty dish that Sean is working on tonight and how long until it is ready to eat; I'm starved!

got my mojo back last night...

just found out that Starcraft 2 is scheduled for release on my birthday this year!

Sunday is Father's Day! Don't forget to buzz your old man and thank him for all the effort!

reading about Stephen Buchmann "swarm running" with bees...

watching Sean scramble to get power back to his laptop after it died while watching that last goal in the World Cup...

eating pancakes while I watch a bluejay try to stake it's claim on the back porch, to spite the ferrets...

pulling off another timezone fail when I called Texas... 'course it's after midnight here too, so not sure what I expected...

living with two guys and volunteering for dishes has to be the realization of a curse from one of my ex's...

tried logging into Eve Online five minutes before nightly server maintenance...

damned weasels somehow managed to slip their fence, navigate the roof to the lowest point, and make it to the side yard...

woke up from a weird dream, think I'll stay up and work since I crashed out so damned early...

uphill still kinda sucks but the view of the bay area all lit up like xmas was a nice end note!

going on a midnight hike with my ocarina!

force feeding Faust medication and then accidentally leaving the weasels a puddle of nutriet goop to lick up...

feeling a little better about my fingers after seeing them not covered in blood or iodine...

recovering from a rough day dealing with the fingers of my left hand being cut open from helping move a washer bare-handed...

riding around the bay area with Michael and David...

force feeding meds to Faust, but happy that she's walking around again finally...

letting Tanuki have the run of the back porch after she spent the afternoon keeping Faust warm after the visit to the vet...

two and a half miles is fine, as the crow flies, but I'm never going to try walking into Montclaire from the house again...

still not quite used to the fact that I've slept but it's still Sunday...

hooking up a last minute client request and phone call before passing the hell out!

getting a friendly warning not to leave the feasels loose unattended in their big cage... on account of HAWKS?!? O.o

is it really Sunday? All I remember is highway... O.o

got away with using an old Jedi mind trick to get into Cali with ferrets...

finally stopped in Albuquerque for the night (morning?) before grabbing some Frontier breakfast and hitting the road again...

four more hours to Albuquerque...

dealing with thieves in Lubbuck desperate enough to try jacking shit from right in front of a restaurant...

catching some downtime from the road trip at Orlando's Italian...

iPod plus movies equals best audio books evar while driving!

finally on the road to Cali, g'bye Texas!

catching the stadium effect from out of sync TV's at Chekos with Asa...

packing up while I listen to some chill tunes on SOMA.fm...

getting up early to (potentially) start the trip to Cali...

didn't have a morning as bad as Sean did; put everything into perspective quickly. Hope he feels better in the morning...

thinking I might need a CDN on my own site for my own personal browsing convenience... until I realized backups were running...

catching the last of a beautiful lightning show going on, out east now, reminiscing about watching them as a kid with dad...

attention Texas motorists: I got woken up in a shit mood and will be on the road. You've been warned...

going to erect a lawn care memorial depicting me standing on top of a pile of corpses and wielding a machete...

YES, 9AM IS TOO FUCKING EARLY TO DO CONSTRUCTION ON THE UNIT NEXT DOOR!!!

everybody has to pocket-dial me lately, wtf?

ratting out the Austin Crane Service driver for leaving his damned diesel engine running all morning unattended...

wondering what idiot at PayPal decided to call the checkout that requires full PayPal registration "CheckoutExpress"...

quoted Laurie Tenberg: I use way too much magic...

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chilling out to Secret Agent on SOMA.fm

defined Shibboleth on Ivory-Tower: Any distinguishing practice which is indicative of one's social or
regional origin. It usually refers to features of language, and
particularly to a word whose pronunciation identifies its speaker as
being a member or not a member of a particular group.

defined Rinpoche on Ivory-Tower: an honorific used in Tibetan Buddhism. It literally means "precious one"

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Added the definition for Rinpoche to Ivory-Tower: an honorific used in Tibetan Buddhism. It literally means "precious one"

for some reason it took coffee to help me tell the difference between Sean and Quinton after I woke up...

preparing to pass out after an extremely long and unplanned Allods session with Wendy and Laurie...

realizing about two decades too late that I really would have enjoyed taking drama/theatre classes in grade school...

I think that The Island of Doctor Moreau would make a great sim!

wish I had been filming when the movers dropped the entertainment center in the middle of my hearing about how great movers are...

having professional movers drop the first thing the try to move while listening to

reconsidering going back to college at UT in Austin under the Hazelwood Act...