Thursday, July 30, 2009

High speed stock trading and computer gaming hardware vendors. (http://ping.fm/pT0du)
The conductor insists on calling it 'Pally Alto'.
There is a new TRON movie coming out, and Jeff Bridges is in it. I WILL WATCH 27 TIMES. (http://ping.fm/OmEwP)

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Getting ready to attend 'Sysadmin Appreciation Day' event at DNA lounge tonight.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Monday, July 27, 2009

This is either terrifying or 'business as usual' (http://ping.fm/bUFOl)

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Somehow we ended up in Duboce park instead. Glorious day.
On the way to Golden Gate Park for a family picnic.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Note to San Franciscans: stop sauntering, lollygagging, & moseying. You are blocking the sidewalk. @l san francisco, ca
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It's a beautiful day for a trip to the farmer's market.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Well my toddler son is certainly a big fan of quinoa.
The yahoo messenger client on the blackberry is an impressively well-designed piece of software.
iScrobbler can't connect to last.fm and play my radio. I am forced to listen to my own itunes library today.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Listening to chiptunes covers of Weezer songs. http://ping.fm/ME4Rl

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Actually went jogging today. Outside. At the garbage dump (remediated). Included a stop at WeirdStuff to buy a network cable.

Monday, July 20, 2009

If there's one thing Jeff Goldblum knows how to do well, it's chew the scenery.
Ubertweet is very nice but it crashed my Curve yesterday. @l San Mateo, CA
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

On Caltrain back to the city after a wonderful weekend with friends and family in Santa Cruz. @l Menlo Park, CA
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Thanks to the magic of Costco I am eating pork buns and quinoa and raisins for breakfast. Cross-cultural!

Saturday, July 18, 2009

No milk in the house, force to use soymilk for creamer. Now my coffee tastes like edamame.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Computing on the third public transit system of the day. @l Los Gatos, CA
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It looks like there's about to be a punch fight on the VTA lightrail I'm riding.
I just actually used this command: diff <(awk '{ print $2 }'

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Wow last.fm is handing me some seriously twee song recommendations today.
We sure use the word 'remediate' a lot in my office.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Props to Mark/Space techs for their very helpful assistance in getting my BES-attached Blackberry to sync with my mac via Missing Sync.
Stuck on a slow train to work this morning. Luckily I have evdo.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

I just saw a beard described as 'Linux-worthy'. Awesome.
Looks like it's going to be a scorcher in the bay area today.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Props to my friend who worked his magic to get me a Google Voice invite.
Running outlook via remote desktop to a terminal server so I can edit my server-side exchange rules.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

It's a beautiful day at at&t park today.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Zipcar + Babies R Us + Target + In N Out = whew!
At ferry building farmers market once again.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Sitting at home sniffling and sneezing and trying to get some work done.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Exhibit A demonstrating The Onion actually used to be funny. (http://ping.fm/6Ni0I)
Interesting tech word usage: 'cascade' as a verb to replace 'disseminate'. "Joe, please cascade this schedule change to your team."
Somehow strained a muscle connecting my ribcage to my shoulder blade. Pain every time I breathe.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

OMG Lee Majors is now shilling for the 'Lee Majors Bionic Hearing Aid'
Musee Mecanique was somewhat underwhelming and sad.
Dutch tourists on the f trolley just assumed I was dutch too and started asking me for directions ... in dutch.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Watching last year's X-Files movie and feeling like it's 1999 all over again.

Friday, July 3, 2009

I did not expect that character to be played by Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

I'm looking at popurls.com so today must nominally be Friday.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

“Sometimes they’re deep and sometimes they’re shallow,” he said, “but we keep digging them.” (http://ping.fm/etAcK)