From my Twitter stream:

11:50am

Kinda wishing I was at OSCON. Instead I'm designing user service APIs. And avoiding the hard one, at that.

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FedEx SmartPost != Smart.

Est. in Home 07/23/2008

Date Time Description Location
July 22, 2008 1:40 PM Sortation Center Arrival NEW BERLIN, WI
July 22, 2008 10:43 AM Sortation Center Departure INDIANAPOLIS, IN
July 18, 2008 2:32 PM Sortation Center Arrival KENT, WA
July 16, 2008 9:28 AM Sortation Center Arrival LOS ANGELES, CA
July 15, 2008 8:14 AM Sortation Center Departure DALLAS, TX
July 14, 2008 5:13 PM Sortation Center Arrival DALLAS, TX
July 14, 2008 4:20 PM Pickup CARROLLTON, TX

One would argue that perhaps it should have been delivered Monday, while, you know, it was still in the puget sound area. But, I won't begrudge it an adventure.

From my Twitter stream:

06:02pm

Wondering how major the diet change would need to be to make my eyes blue again

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05:52pm	With my freeze ray I will stop the pain.
11:02am	Masochists are annoyingly difficult to punish.

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Awesome is getting ship notification at 9:56am and delivery at 11.
Even if it is all gement's fault.

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From my Twitter stream:

02:08pm	ARGH! My mp3 of Twilight Zone cuts out at 5:59, comes back at 6:12 for a second, and then starts skipping!
02:17pm	@joeytrimmer: damned good question!
02:19pm	Bugger. The only copy on amazon mp3 downloads is a live version. I'll have to find the CD and rerip it.
09:41am	@spinnerin: Seattle.
09:42am	cranking the re-ripped Twilight Zone on the living room stereo while getting ready for work.
08:03pm	I'm supposed to be identifying with Dr Horrible, right? Captain Hammer's a git, right?
09:27pm	Awesome. iTunes doesn't see the need to download the new Dr.H episode yet. Fucking iTunes.
09:52pm	@drhorrible and @feliciaday: Excellent. I always like it when the bad guy.. uh.. wins. I .. guess. If we're calling that winning.
10:05pm	Joss Whedon, you are a bad man, and I love you for it.
10:14pm	Martian says to vixy, "perhaps it's that I identify too well with the character."
10:14pm	sure, you've lost everything that could have given your life meaning, but you've achieved every ambition.
10:15pm	Yes, life is horrible, but that is what it is to be Doctor Horrible.
10:31pm	@drhorrible: I must know where you bought or got the pattern for the smocks. The red's particularly nice.
11:30pm	iTunes check-for-purchases /still/ doesn't see the new DrH

I'm going to give my ipod to my dentist. In light of this, 'Property of Martian' was perhaps a poor choice of laser engraving.

What should I get on the new one? two lines of 29 characters (17em or less, it looks like).

Current thought is "[insert laser engraving here]"

I find myself feeling insecure about my geek cred a lot more lately. Especially when a) people are talking about their hardware hacking, which I basically never do despite many intentions otherwise and b) when thinking about all the websites I wanted to do, which other people have subsequently done.

I need a coat like his, I think.
I like my goggles better, tho.

I see: A dozen people trying desperately to escape from a tarpit.
I think I want to try making one thusly: take a large shallow metal bowl, attach it to a vibrational apparatus (say, a subwoofer), set it to vibrate as a continuously-changing subsonic frequency. color the material, maybe, to make it more interesting. Leave it running, as a little kinetic sculpture. For more interesting effects, maybe add in bits of metal a-la ferrofluid, and add some motorized magnets below, to stir it up.

You'll see this again in my automagic greader post, but you need to watch this. and make everybody else watch it.

From my Twitter stream:

10:24pm	It occurs to me that I may have enough servers laying around to put one on every major tectonic plate.
09:50am	@Jenk3: a few trips later, I think the car might still be cheaper.
10:04am	@HollyQueen: ok.
10:05am	It's just that it would cost $300 to get four people to portland for a day trip, we'd have less than 7 hours in town, and ...
10:06am	... and we'd still probably need to rent a car to get around to everything. even without a car, it's too expensive.
10:12am	ok, no. today's APOD is TOTAL FAIL.

From my Twitter stream:

10:00pm	@Jenk3: don't forget reading the paper and doing the crossword.
11:02am	I've got 6 posts sitting unread in greader from @scottru, and one from @spinnerin. Because I actually want to read them. And.. so I haven't.
12:23pm	I'm left wondering if the near-miss of 99942 Apophis will knock out any geosync sats, and get people's attn enough to make them do something
03:48pm	... predicting earthquakes based on hurricane landfall. alrighty then. with 4900 follows and 158 followers. b'bye, spam.
09:07pm	Why has growl suddenly started working on my macbook air? also, why hadn't I noticed it /not/ working until it resumed?
09:23pm	@dianthus: whosiwhat?
09:24pm	dropbox is kinda neat. wish the symlink trick worked better. would like to sync my password files with it using links out, not links in
09:50pm	Interesting. To get 4 people to portland, gas would have to cost $16.7/gal for the train to be cheaper. at 20mpg. It's also slower.

Would anybody else (besides hollyking, I mean) be interested in a day trip down to portland, either this saturday or next? I'm thinking head down too-early (say, leaving somewhere between 7 and 9) due to the 3-hr transit time. (spent a moment there thinking of taking the train, but it'd cost almost $50/person and still require leaving at 730. shouldn't part of the point of train tracks be being able to go faster than cars?) Hit the saturday market, hit Powell's tech, maybe hit the main Powell's, hit Penzeys. Eat a couple times. Do whatever else may sound interesting, and then head back.

Next weekend might be better, but I'm just gauging interest at the moment.

From my Twitter stream:

03:13pm	@Jamgrrl: already downloaded it. just waiting for new ziphone so I can run all these apps!
03:22pm	@Jamgrrl: ah. yes.
09:00pm	@wilw: I find it interesting that I've seen more people talking on their phone handsets /since/ the WA ban went into effect than before.

I continue to be tempted by a switch to gmail. Especially whenever I look at SPF and DKIM and such, and the fact that I should implement them on rigel asap. And still haven't.
One of the big stumbling blocks was that I have a LOT of domains, all of which can receive mail. But, I just searched their help docs, and you can create domain aliases, so that solves that. No indicator of a limit on those, however.
The free version would be adequate in terms of storage, I think. My current archives are less than 3GB, and deleting the spam archive would kill a good chunk of that.
IMAP support would mean that my normal mode of use wouldn't see any change.
People who use alpine or such on rigel would see a difference, but I know alpine can work with IMAP.
Some of the routing controls and policy management might be useful, I don't know, but I'm not willing to pay $50/user/year for it. Not unless I kick everybody else off my domains, which wouldn't be very nice.

... oh ho. I read the help page about upgrading to premier, and it says you can add domain aliases to premier accounts. which implies you can't with standard. which it doesn't mention on the page /about/ domain aliases. awesome.
Hm. There are 11 mail spools on rigel. Some haven't changed in a very long time and can be deleted and ignored. some I know the user never looks at them, so I can probably blackhole them. So, I'm left with 5 to 7 people. Most of whom are probably not willing to pay $50/year for their email.

Hm.

Cute toy, Wordle

My LJ from 2007:


My LJ from 2008 (to date):

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09:47am

Twips are an annoyingly STUPID unit of measurement. Also, RTF sucks.

I also went to get my new chair yesterday. Here's a picture. Ordered it a few weeks ago, it came in friday. Yesterday I took the rear seats out of Joshua and drove down to pick it up (didn't want to pay another $90 for delivery). It's extremely comfy so far. Wide enough I can sit cross-legged in it, narrow enough I'm not uncomfortable when I do so. The cushions are attached, so they won't slide out when I huddle in the corner. The arms have frames, rather than just being foam, so I can push myself up out of it easily. In short, I'm quite pleased. Going to give it a week or two before I buy the second (for loree), to make sure it doesn't secretly suck in some way.

I'm glad I never got around to ordering a Das Keyboard II, to replace the I I've got at work.
'Cause yesterday I pre-ordered the new Ultimate, which is the 3rd gen model without labels. I'm a little disappointed they're producing one with labels, but I understand why (it's a great keyboard, may as well make one that's usable for people who can't live without labels).

Glad I ordered it when I did, too. Pre-order is $30 off, and it's available on monday (which I assume is when the price will go up). La.

The old one will probably come home to be used on Arcturus, or on the workbench or something.

I hate RTF.
I really HATE RTF.
Twips are the stupidest of stupid things ever.

Here's the RTF version.
And still the HTML and text versions.