"I think your social network is trying to sell you something.
Construct your identity through collected friends and directed advertising."
As of December 07 2007 this journal is Friends Only and all posts prior to December 07 2007 have been made private.
I twitter publicly as strabd.
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Construct your identity through collected friends and directed advertising."
--Library Voices, "Love in the Age of Absurdity"
As of December 07 2007 this journal is Friends Only and all posts prior to December 07 2007 have been made private.
I twitter publicly as strabd.
Comment on this post if you'd like me to add you to my friends list.
I was going to make this friends only, but who cares–we’re all friends on the internet.
Concerns for the week:
- I need to gemify my little project password_dynamo. Initially, I worte it as a Sinatra web app that does one thing, returns a password with four common words as a web page. I wonder if the gem will have a command line component like the ’t’ gem, or might add methods like the ‘twitter’ gem. Hrm.
- Anyhow, that gemifying project is for the Ruby certificate program I’ve been taking at UW. It’s taught by Reneé De Voursney–she’s a rad teacher. I’m really enjoying this class.
- Thursday is Thanksgiving with Wendy’s parents. Friday we’re hosting a dinner with friends. It’ll be avery socially full holiday.
- In response today has been very logistics of food related. Wendy and I went shopping to stock up before the grocery stores go absolutely nuts. We filled carts at Safeway and Trader Joe’s… Made a long list before we headed out. I even went so far as to plan our meals for the next three days.
- I spent a little bit of time improving Make Better Mistakes and working on my reboot of Strabd.com. Still trying to figure out what my internet persona is. I think he’s somewhat like me, but he talks about beer and cheese more.
Concerns for the end of the year:
- I’m really trying to do a better job at making time for learning outside of work. I’m not busy, I keep a fair amount of free time to just be with myself. But I find it difficult to shift into spending an hour or two on looking at more code. Oh, who am I kidding, I spent a few hours poking at a Sinatra projecthis weekend and I loved it. I just feel like I should be doing more, but I don’t know that I have the spare attention to dive into something new.
- Live frugally in the next month. I want to recuperate and rest as we approach the start of Winter. This year has been a lot of moving and now that it has stopped, I want to see if I can just enjoy where I am for a few.
- I want to enjoy my home, which means eating good food, sipping good beers, playing my guitar… but I also want to get into contributing with some open source projects, because I know a few neat folks who I admire that make open source contributions, and I want to be like them.
Lucky and Smiling, Strand
- 09:00:00: RT @megmander: "fuck you!" said my roommate! "Give me the saxon origin of the word!"
- 12:21:42: RT @JPBarlow: The problem with increasingly reflexive democracy is that the People are usually wrong at first.
- 12:28:29: At http://gslug.org listening to nerd gossip and jokes about MUD clients not working with specific Linux flavors.
- 12:51:44: @tehgeekmeister #GSLUG needs an official back channel like Wil Wheaton has a posse.
- 12:55:18: @JoePerring Have we met IRL or on the great wide and wooly interwub?
- 12:56:27: @tehgeekmeister http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-channel#In_public_speaking
- 13:42:59: I'm glad I got a chance to graffitti the Google Fremont offices with a LUG appropriate slogan. #bashorGTFO http://t.co/gKtVtjS
- 13:49:02: @lazzyfair I am sorry for your loss.
- 15:02:29: Nomberry is nom. http://t.co/sNwZXXq
- 23:37:01: Can't get my thoughts to wind down after a fun day with friends. Tomorrow is a day with no plans. The first in a long while.
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- 08:15:40: RT @JPBarlow: You can learn a lot more about Practical Anarchy in Detroit at the moment than you can at Burning Man.
- 08:42:11: RT @mcmoots: You know how sometimes you realize that you had an alternate interpretation of an earlier conversation & thus said wrong th ...
- 12:26:22: Anxiety, like woah!
- 13:15:28: @mcmoots It's that or the sunshine, and I like sunshine.
- 13:16:19: @Ttalsnov Thank you, sir.
- 13:20:31: RT @busterbenson: Don't be afraid that being afraid is the only thing that keeps the things you're afraid of from getting you.
- 13:26:10: @FarMcKon But Lex Luthor is bald.
- 13:28:24: @Goopypanther I prefer an em dash to the double en, but will use one in a pinch.
- 13:41:43: Someone should make an herbal tea blend called "calm the fuck down" so I can pour myself a glass of "calm the fuck down."
- 14:56:07: @aerobicfish I think I'm not getting enough fiber. Or I need a weekend. Or I'm not doing enough maintenance. Or I need more sunshine and fre
- 21:04:26: @aerobicfish There should be an Arial dog what looks almost like the Helvetica dog.
- 21:05:24: @EGBridge Add "acquire commas" to the list.
- 21:20:27: RT @KrispyJ: Everyone's telling me The Rapture is coming on May 21st, BUT NO ONE WILL TELL ME WHERE THEY'RE PLAYING! WTF? I'm sick of se ...
- 23:22:24: RT @abraham: Hacker Writing Style - “This sentence no verb”, “Too repetetetive”, “Bad speling”, “Incorrectspa cing.”- http://goo.gl/cvT6s
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- 15:53:15: From now on '{' shall be known as "left moustache," and '}' as "right moustache."
- 18:02:15: RT @mattrebeiro: One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there, just an awful lot of ...
- 18:20:01: @vonslatt My father worked in construction. Broke his leg when I was young, has knee and shoulder issues from the work. I prefer keyboards.
- 18:26:37: @lunasidhe Sounds nom-alicious, are you making that chili?
- 18:29:26: @isafarnik If you were, then you would think this song is about you.
- 19:59:51: RT @FarMcKon: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/ma
nifest.git ; repo sync ; make" NOPE! #b ... - 19:59:55: RT @FarMcKon: (aka Android 3.0 is not open source http://bit.ly/hYnRAH )
- 20:00:34: @lunasidhe I was the kid who liked mushroom pizza.
- 20:10:10: RT @chentiffy: Fierce, Feminist Beats - The Rumpus.net http://tinyurl.com/3bov7gu
- 20:39:02: @vonslatt I pace around the office and take workout breaks. Also can't beat nail guns or Hole Hawgs: http://s.coop/1dzw
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- 13:50:30: Mid-day workout + beet salad = focused mind.
- 17:45:22: @themaili I never got why you have seven calendars. Now you don't have to.
- 17:46:03: Do you care if I read your tweets?
- 17:50:50: @TensorFlux Burn all of the work on a pyre. Hibernate. Begin anew.
- 17:53:13: @mcmoots I want to lobby for more productive afternoons by way of not coming in in the morning. #notgonnahappen
- 18:02:07: @fbaum The Elite.
- 18:10:16: I must be blessed: I doubt I could ever become a workaholic, cause I hate the taste of workahol.
- 18:28:53: @abraham Dress like the robot you want to become.
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- 12:34:15: RT @mcmoots: I want a "paste" function that is smart enough to convert smart quotes back to stupid quotes.
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- 13:32:33: RT @JPBarlow: Excellent analysis of Great Firewall by @EthanZ. It's less about power than culture & stability. http://bit.ly/mCZcMQ
- 16:12:27: "If you want to write long sentences, be a genius. Or at least make sure the sentence is under control from beginning to end…"-W Zinsser
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LIVE THE DREAM
Full-time work + evening classes is a lot of time and energy to devote to any one pursuit. Extra hugs for your overachiever guilt complex!