My son is totally amazed by the spotlights shining on the clouds over SF tonight.

After all the b'way shows I've seen, what would it be like if I went back and watched a U of Montana theater production?

Christmas is over.

San Francisco is hunkering down for the onslaught of drunken revelers.

Barrista girl at the Coffee Bean heard my sniffling and offered me a free herbal tea. @TheCoffeeBean FTW!

To close out 2009 I wrote up reviews of all the podcasts I listen to: http://ping.fm/CeZBN

Trying to make some forward progress on my personal projects and wrap 2009 up on a productive note.

There's a remake of 'Ice Castles'? What's next, a remake of 'Breaking Away'?

It seems like highway 280 running over SLAC would cause vibration problems.

Another day of holiday feasting survived.

Hey Montanans: we're having Jo-Jo's for lunch!

I wonder what movie first used the angel/devil on the shoulders trope?

I'm going to teach this homemade almond roca a lesson, even if I have to stick with it all day. Surrender!

Bapple Sauce for Breakfast!

Wife said 'Invictus', I said 'Up in the Air'. Compromise result: 'It's Complicated'.

Santa Cruz - land of the baggy yoga pant and flip flop.

I find myself always using moviephone.com for movie showtimes, but I hate the interface and over the top ads. Anyone have any better ideas on where to get movie info?

Steam trains save the day in the UK! http://ping.fm/PXveO

Physical wifi on/of switches buried on the side of laptops are retarded.

The heavy rain is destroying my download speeds on the satellite tonight.

'Jersey Shore' is pretty much the best tv show ever.

My heart is full of christmas cheer and my belly is full of prime rib.

I just used my camera viewfinder to troubleshoot the IR transmitter on a Geotrax remote control train. Geek WIN!

The rocking of this train is really screwing up my BrickBreaker game.

Riding Caltrain on Christmas! A holiday miracle.

'apartment' and 'armpit' sound exactly the same when spoken by a three year old. Hilarity ensures.

We're having an improvised jewish deli christmas! Bring on the brisket & matzo.

Sitting at home watching the KOFY yule log as my son revels in his latest thomas train acquisitions.

I just drank apple juice that was made in China. How depressing is that?

Child sickness did not improve; Christmas delayed.

Counting down to xmas trip deadline vs. son's cough go/no-go decision.

Damn you BrickBreaker oh how you taunt me on level 8!

Any recommendations for blackberry alarm clock / timer programs? The builtin one is lame.

Is there any evidence that reCaptcha is actually contributing anything useful back to society in the form of OCRed books, etc?

Is it Christmas yet?

I could eat nothing but mexican tortas all day long and die a happy (and fat) man.

The Safeway at 4th & King finally solved their bum problem.

When did Crayola products get so freakin awesome? They are amazing innovators.

Spent the night up with a coughing kid. Today I feel like I was in a car accident.

I don't think I like Regina Spektor but man that song 'Fidelity' is an earworm.

Browser Pong! http://ping.fm/E4St8

It's definitely not a rage stroke!

My son thinks that driveways are called 'Car Coming'.

Today's accomplishment

Nothing like slogging thru the mall the week befor christmas. I need one of those Soylent Green trucks.

Found a six month old forgotten roll of thin mints in back of freezer. Christmas came early!

I now understand the difference between regular and eat when goopy persimmons. I am the persimmon master!

Today's accomplishment

Only the New Yorker would think that the word should be spelled 'coördination'.

Woke up terribly early, can't get back to sleep. Time for an early Sunday morning workout I guess.

Today's accomplishment

As a Peter F. Hamilton fan I hereby declare 'Neutronium Alchemist' to be complete crap. I'm abandoning it halfway thru.

Thinking about my snowbound eastern friends while I stroll in the sunshine by the bay.

NB 'He's Not That In To You': people in Baltimore should sound like John Waters, not California surfers.

Screwed by MUNI service changes once again. Wknd inbound N termination at Embarcadero blows.

It's Saturday morning, so you know where I'm going...

Is it rude to loudly discuss your cabbie's lack of skill while sitting in the back of said cab? Because I do that.

Do we really understand the implications of kids in Nevada killing people in Afghanistan via remote control videogames?

Should I try foursquare or is it just another ridiculous san fran internet nrrd masturbatathon?

Oh crap I just realized I like a Vampire Weekend song. Does that mean I have to buy boat shoes now?

#stinktrain smell like wet dog and sulphur tonight. Cerberus onboard?

Today's accomplishment

Christmas cards mailed!

All my dress shirts are failing same way - small tear on left elbow. What to do?

Yesterday's accomplishment

Autotune Carl Sagan! http://ping.fm/0jOlh

Fav quote today: 'hamsterizing the flywheel'. Via Charles Stross.

Come here you sweet, juicy, oh so convenient clementine slice and jump right in my mouf. Yum.

There's a lot of last-minute Amazon browsing going on in the office today.

Funicular Canals! http://ping.fm/x26QI

Today's accomplishment.

The problem with developers is they all think they are competent system administrators.

Nothing like getting on the train when it's pitch black outside.

For a lame sitcom, 'Big Bang Theory' sure has a catchy theme song.

Skype + camera + grandparents = 1989 AT&T commercial.

Guess I should have gotten around to taking photos of the old Greyhound depot by the 4th & King Caltrain Station - it's been bulldozed.

Today's accomplishment

Is it possible to go 'post-email' and conduct all of your online life with only twitter, facebook, and linkedin?

This hallway smells like pot roast cooked in a jelly bean reduction - that is not a metaphor!

I'm usually against electronic toddler toys, but the Leapfrog LeapPad is pretty freakin fantastic.

Max assembled this thomas train layout all by himself.

Apple is giving away a free christmas album with some good stuff on it. http://ping.fm/BCl9f

Tres Agaves Window

The big toddler game at our house holidays 2009: Cut the Pickle (Gickle Gickle)!

I've been using dailyburn.com to track my workouts but it kinda blows. Any better suggestions?

Today's accomplishment

The last time I wrote an actual paper check was July 2008.

Have you heard of this show, 'The Wire'? I'm starting the first dvd now.

Hey ESPN, we know that the University of Montana stadium is next to Hellgate canyon. No need to announce that every 5 minutes.

Does anyone know how to pick persimmons at the farmers market? My success rate is like 30%.

I wonder how many times over the years I've typed 'perl -MCPAN -e shell'. Seems like a lot.

Hey who brought that stinky sheepdog on the MUNI? Oh wait, that's my soaking wet wool sweater.

Hey Nestle: your 'no sugar added' Quik actually means 'full of artificial sweetener Sucralose'. Way to con me. Now I have to throw it out.

Today's accomplishment

From the future!

How long do you think my mailbox rebuild will take? I'm thinking a while. http://ping.fm/DkhAZ

A cute girl at the coffee shop just asked if I wanted to switch seats with her so I could plug in my laptop. I am now filled with christmas cheer.

1.5hrs is exactly enough zipcar time for a spirited trip to both Safeway and Trader Joe's.

Riding a horse at ft mason

I swear, iphoto is made of baling twine and monkey spit.

Art class!

I made my final student loan payment today. Only took me 13 years.

Scrooge McDuck really ruined the monocle for the rest of us plutocrats.

Today's accomplishment

Wow the Chuck D part in Sonic Youth song 'Kool Thing' sure has not aged well. Sounds ridiculous now.

Every time I hear Thriller I have an uncontrollable urge to start doing the zombie arm throw.

Lost ring & sunglasses today. Both returned. Santa is smiling down on me.

WASHRIDER

Today's accomplishment.

The eternal struggle: do I take my power adapter to the next meeting?

Enough with the banana-based tech products already, Boing Boing. I am now longing for the good old days of steampunk posts.

The tree is trimmed!

Due: 10pm

You get to ride inna hoopty if NASA picks you up at the Mountain View Caltrain station.

I dare Richard Branson to name his next spaceship the Jart.

I guess Luke Wilson needs the money?

Dangit I once again did not pick the correct sweater-weight. Turning blue.

Listening to Shoegazing bands today.

Tom Limoncelli's awesome 'dumb things to check' troubleshooting list for computer problems. http://ping.fm/69YUD

Oh that's the problem with me today - I only had one cup of coffee! Remediating now.

Today's accomplishment

On the merry go round, with twins.

Reflections in a faeirie bathtub

The sky above San Francisco is filled with foreboding today.

My Saturday night highlight? Ironing some shirts while listening to podcasts.

Liza on PBS tonight. Thought she looked lots better than last time I saw her. Then I realized I was thinking of Elizabeth Taylor.

What's with college football coaches always being surrounded by cops when on TV? Do they get a lot of death threats?

The only talented street musician to ever come out of Santa Cruz.

Damn you, Peets Coffee, for your ill-fitting cup lids. I have been scalded for the last time!

Duboce & Church an absolute disaster with the N-Judah outbound service suspension for track work. Trains and buses jousting.

Eating pho at a restaurant with a two year old is a real roller coaster adventure.

Most Pretentious Old-Timey Word In a Decemberist Song (And That's Saying A Lot): Palanquin.

Morning glory plus escape attempt.

The Hold Steady sure seems to be fascinated with Ybor City.

I'd like to see some numbers for emergency room visits involving infants scalded by coffee placed in stroller cupholders. Danger!

I selected the wrong grade of sweater today. Should have gone with something like a SAE 5W-30.

Correction: TV show is 'Trauma'. My feelings of being sold out remain intact.

I just heard Dead Kennedys song 'Holiday in Cambodia' on NBC series 'Mercy'. Made me feel weird and sold out.

Tis the season for eating persimmons from the yard.

Looks like I'll be knocking over a liquor store this year so I can buy a Christmas tree in San Francisco.

Ha, Gawker used my photo to illustrate an article about the Yahoo Year End Party. http://ping.fm/kDoWP

I am using an ssh client on my Blackberry curve (MidpSSH) and it is weirdly AWESOME. Its like I'm riding a tiny clown bicycle.

Gentlemen: it is NOT acceptable to hold your phone in one hand and junk in the other when addressing the urinal.

Happy Hannukah, y'all. djBC rocks it again. http://ping.fm/3xK3V

Best post blood donation info card advice: 'make your next meal a hearty one'. Exclamation implied.

Bring on the leeches, it's time for my bloodletting!

Surveillance Society

My son thinks shoes with laces are called 'converse'.

Chewing gum right after getting a haircut is definitely not recommended.

I just ran 'eval-defun' and felt a warm fuzzy emacs feeling.

Starting my morning on the #stinktrain

Walgreens Is Watching You.

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Looks like 'The Grinch' has been remastered. Looks fab in HD.

Did I mention today was CYBER MONDAY? Tomorrow will be NIXIE TUBE TUESDAY.

Inari!

What is this baloney at Whole Foods?

Tonight's drink experiment: homemade buddha's hand infused vodka with fresh-squeezed feijoa juice. Inconclusive.

Back at home in SF after turkey day extravaganzas. Where did the time go?

Waiting at Diridon Station.

Watsonville hills windstorm survived; 60th Birthday party (not mine!) a success!

At the party!

I would rename all shops in Capitola village to 'Breakable Trinkets-by-the-Sea'.

Black Friday surprising subdued in Capitola shopping areas today.

Haircut Time!

I will never be completely comfortable with California idea of 'Thanksgiving BBQ'.

Really?

Wishing I was in NYC for the parade this morning.

It's a ghost town in the office this afternoon...

Drinking my nonfat double gingerbread latte to get pumped for the official start of the holidays tomorrow!

Computorz be mad b0rked today.

Actual NY Times head today: 'Air Defense Push Inspired by 9/11 Gets a 2nd Look'. Since when is '2nd' acceptable for the Gray Lady?

After finishing the new 'Prisoner' I feel like Jim Caviezel is kind of a second rate Christian Bale.

My Maclaren fingertip amputation protectors are now installed.

Sort of a musky #stinktrain tonight. Like I'm riding in a bear's winter den.

Yeah pretty much sums up Comp Sci. http://ping.fm/e8PP7

Google Reader has three feed sort-by options: 'oldest', 'newest' and 'magic'. Should I just always select magic?

The new Chumby looks like a lot of fun. http://ping.fm/I99xp

Homebrew Pikachu ski-mask AWESOMENESS http://ping.fm/GFdOD

Is it weird my son is eating an entire raw green bell pepper for dinner?

Doesn't it freak anyone else out that OnStar can now turn off your car whenever they feel like it?

On the Redwood Valley Railroad!

At N Berkeley BART, on the way to Golden Gate Live Steam.

Bought an entire car trunk-full of geotrax trainsets on craigslist. Someone is going to have an awesome Xmas!

XLerator vs. Dyson Air Blade? I'm voting for XLerator as the awesomest.

On the way to the Farmers Market.

Today I learned that Tia Carrera appeared on one episode of the A-Team as a Vietnamese refuge. Thanks internets!

Yesterday white rice. Tonight the kid was chomping on seaweed salad. Toddlers tastes are so weird

Afternoon accomplishment.

Putting some whitener in my coffee

The rain is gone!

As a child I viewed rice crispies as a 'non-sugared' cereal and put extra sugar on it. Turns out the second ingredient is sugar!

Tried Breathe Right strip last night. Recommended.

A beautiful fall day in Sunnyvale.

'TITANS ... WILL ... CLASH' - that's really the best tagline you could come up with? http://ping.fm/URw97

Vaccine Waiver http://ping.fm/16Qqs

Toddler dinner: WHITE RICE.

Android visual voicemail app records messages as ogg vorbis. Thus if you email messages only linux users can listen to them!

Google Reader just told me that I'm 'following 1 people'. Really Google? Can't be bothered with proper noun/verb agreement?

David Chang Was Right http://ping.fm/yJI3E

Grown man next to me on bus reading 'Atlas Shrugged'. He doesn't even look like an architect.

iphone 'camerabag' app users: stop with the holga effect. If you want the holga effect, go buy a real holga for $10.

Stop the tyranny of top posting! http://ping.fm/TI0zj

Conan just called 50 cent a 'rapper / actor'. That is... not true.

I feel like I am becoming an NCO in my career path. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing.

Seems awfully optimistic to build this big new building in north Sunnyvale...

Juniper Networks ($JNPR) has updated the signs on all buildings with new logo. Never a good omen.

On the train at 7am sharp for an early morning phone conf with Bangalore.

Experiments of exposure to poison topsoil on families without a dad. http://ping.fm/Tjiir

I just realized my entire mental model of LA is based on the lyrics to the Tom Petty song 'Free Fallin', combined with the video.

First use of 'be seeing you': 4 minutes into the premier of new Prisoner.

Watching remake of 'The Prisoner' on AMC, thanks to reminder from my sis.

It's the height of pretension to smoke a pipe while riding your bike. Unless, of course, your bicycle is a Penny-farthing.

At the playground, or as I like to think of it, 'H1N1 infection vector'.

There will be a 'Yo Gabba Gabba' float in the Macy's Parade this year. http://ping.fm/4EqjV

Roaring Camp Steam Train
At Roaring Camp Railroad in Felton, CA.

Made cinnamon vanilla banana pancakes for breakfast. Suck it, IHOP.

The Black Eyed Peas were unsurprisingly poor on SNL tonight.

Enjoying the company of a two year old and a fine homemade Zahidi date shake that I mixed up.

Tonight my son said, "more sushi, please". Also, my son likes sushi?!?

Buddha's Hand

Columns

Son completely enamored with BART though we never ride it. He cares not at all about MUNI. Mktg FAIL

A solution to problem of archiving shortened URLs. http://ping.fm/o2M5K

Somehow Firefox on my mac has lost it's icon - the doc and task switcher display a blank space where it should be. Persists across reboots.

Reading a library book in the hot tub seems awfully daring

Megan Fox to star in a 'Jonah Hex' movie, based on the wild west comic series, not the post-apocalyptic one (which was better).

My son refuses to get in the Ergo now. No more babywearing for me and I am sad.

'A History of Violence' was the last major motion picture released on VHS.

The future created Lady Gaga to distract us from finding the Higgs Bosun. http://ping.fm/P5Y4s

A many button mouse specifically for OpenOffice use. http://ping.fm/iYdlp

My day is shaping up to be doublestuf ungood.

Wearing tiger stripe costumes while you dance to 'Eye of the Tiger' is probably taking things to literally.

Saws a tshirt on train with a pic of a dead bird labeled 'Atticus'. Is that some sort of Kill A Mockingbird reference I can't figure out?

Check out Salling Media Sync if you just bought a Droid and are wondering how to sync your itunes and iphoto http://ping.fm/s82m8

Apparently Noe Valley is the SF version of Park Slope.

The continually circling google blimp adds a touch of gatsbyesque whimsy to the San Fran skyline.

DirecTV has stealth rolled out widgets on their TV boxes for Flickr, etc. but the whole thing is super slow and buggy. Wtf?

David Chang (Momofuku chef) is signing books at the Ferry Building Farmers Market right now. @lferrybldg

I have a dual core 2.2ghz macbook pro with 4gb of ram, yet it cannot play youtube videos without stuttering. WHY?

My life has no meaning until I show up on some twitter lists.

Just asked my son where he wanted to go tonight and he told me, "ART CLASS!!!"

The forecast for this afternoon is drool and numbness.

Time to get a filling. So not excited.

People continually amaze me with their ability to abuse perl. open ( FH , "/bin/cat -n $File | "); is really horrible.

Steak House or Gay Bar? http://ping.fm/lo9un

My job is nothing but edge cases, bounded by corner cases. Also, occasional singularities I must avoid.

THE MOST IMPRESSIVE DOGS IN THE GOLDEN AGE http://ping.fm/HKUo8

I declare the official start of San Francisco Sweater Weather.

DOWSING FOR BOMBS http://ping.fm/ghxSe

Hey Tweetards: now you can buy a device that does nothing else! http://ping.fm/lRZji

Flu shot time!

Spent 3+ hours last night replacing the lcd in a MacBook. No extra parts when done!

If I keep hitting the StairMaster every day I'm going to have to start wearing Zubaz.

Suck on this, anti-vaccination fools. http://ping.fm/dv00d

It is foggy everywhere in San Fran today... Except of course South Beach.

Preparing to escort a two year old in full Thomas regalia to a halloween party.

I have been complaining about this since I first heard the song. ( http://ping.fm/tkTC7 )

Biggest Linux thing I miss on the mac: focus follow mouse autoraise

There's an establishment in Mountain View called 'Hacker Dojo'. I am intrigued.

Considering porting my verizon cell to parkmyphone.com and forwarding to google voice for $10/mo to reduce costs. Thoughts?

Attention movie script writers: nobody stores data on or hacks into 'the mainframe'. Stop saying that.

My son calls soda water 'bubble juice'

Newsflash: Morrissey collapsed at a concert. Probable cause: ennui.

Busted out the holga for the first time in over a year, to take kids halloween pictures. It was like being reunited with an old friend.

Brunch at home: tangerine mimosas, blueberry pancakes, cheesy bavarian sausage, mangoes. Lets pretend the recession is over!

I can't tell the difference between Ryan Reynolds and Dane Cook.

Terrible NY Times headline pun: referring to Hugh Hefner as 'The Loin in Winter'.

Halloween Pool Party!!!

I would describe 'Where the Wild Things Are' movie as disturbingly kafkaesque and haunting.

Nothing like hangin at the pool with a toddler on a beautiful fall night.

Michael Penn's 'March' album has really stood the test of time.

REM is the reason I know what the word 'eponymous' means.

flickr now supports tagging people in the facebook style. Prepare to be annoyed.

Yo momma so dense she got her own event horizon. ( http://ping.fm/t6SAA )

Reading the 2009 Lego Christmas catalog makes me feel like I'm reading the Sears 1984 wishbook all over again.

I'm going viral with my new cassingle.

I'm worried the free m&m gumball machine in my office is going to give me H1N1.

Bugzilla is my primary CYA tool.

Caltrain engineer Petey made my day yesterday.

Today's farmers market was at Cabrillo College instead of the Ferry building. Same produce, half the price.

Domo Kun coffee at 7-11. Way to get on that trend 5 years late.

Nothing like putting a two year old in his new toddler bed for the night... 17 times in a row.

John Larroquette's son has a wicked funny podcast. ( http://ping.fm/OxphH )

Never pass up an opportunity to wash your hands.

So You're Moving to San Francisco? ( http://ping.fm/Cez6n )

The wife just made a killer roast in a crock pot. I am in food coma now.

Ghetto punk on muni spent 10 minutes flashing a light at me and staring trying to get me to throw down.

T to downtown 53 minutes?!?

I just asked my son what his name was and he told me, 'Nordlart'.

I just realized I have been a unix hacker for so long that I now have to grow a neckbeard.

Saw a Lotus Elise in a carpool parking spot at work. Seems faintly wrong, although no doubt technically valid. @ work

Agenda today: watching Fleet Week Blue Angels show ... on a BOAT.

I am monetizing this meme virally in the cloud.

Even Galifianakis can't save HBO series 'Bored to Death'. I really wanted to like it but Jason Schwartzmann is just too damn annoying.

I found the answer for a technical question on the web... in a mailing list message I wrote 5 years ago. Mental acuity eroding.

Android on VZW - finally I can get a sorta decent phone. (http://ping.fm/6tIB8)

90% of the time when I write the word 'apparently' I am unnecessarily being a sarcastic jerk.

If you wear a windows 7 shirt in silicon valley it's pretty much guaranteed you work at microsoft.

Making profits on Wall Street is like eating the stuffing from a turkey. Some higher authority must first put the stuffing into the turkey.

Some sort of drunken college kid race or scavenger hunt in San Fran today.

Testing ping.fm url shortening stats gathering - click through to my personal website if you like: http://ping.fm/I76LS

Finally got around to embedding Google Analytics on my website. Interesting statistics.

Having an AT&T Blackberry in San Francisco gives me all the suck of all those iPhones on the network with none of the coolness of an iPhone.

I would have gone to D&D Camp. (http://ping.fm/0QBiS)

Do you drink from public water fountains? (http://ping.fm/NhzH1)

Well, good thing that tsunami warning for San Fran was a false alarm.

It seems like every project I work on involves a discussion of
deduping at some point. My data is too redundant.

How have I never seen Matt Dillon's first movie 'Over The Edge'? (http://ping.fm/u6SN4)

The date vendor is back at the farmers market! Deglets this week and barhis are back next week.

It's an absolutely stunning day in San Francisco today.

If you click & hold on the accept button for an event in iCal a popup appears which allows you to select the calendar to use for the event.

This Improv Everywhere stunt really made me smile. (http://ping.fm/D0jes)

Asked a woman on train today what her tattoo represented and was told, "it's a geometric vagina - you know, from Finnegan's Wake?"

Buzzword bingo: deep dive

I probably find this fascinating due to years of Boy Scouts. (http://ping.fm/eQlQg)

The Piggy Market in Aptos has been replaced by the Palm Deli. Its an improvement.

Taking a two and a half year old to the Santa Cruz County Fair is highly recommended.

Happiness is a new belt and resoled shoes.

This is how Getty heirs waste their time. Priceless. (http://ping.fm/gLhOn)

Configured my old Linksys WRT54GL as a wireless bridge so my DirecTV box could get on the internet without a wired connection. On Demand!

Tonight's bachelor night movie: District 9.

It would appear that once again I did not win the yearly SNL ticket lottery.

Spent the afternoon fixing video and audio on a Dell Mini 9 after
Ubuntu system upgrade. I still hate administering linux on laptops.

I think more things in this world should be variegated.

If a guy on muni has duct tape as part of his clothing you probably don't want to sit too close.

Why do I so often feel like I am being stalked by an adorable midget
who throws things for no reason?

Dennis Quaid in another outer space movie? Not since 'Enemy Mine' have I been so excited!

The new 'smart add' bar in the Remember the Milk web interface is pretty fantastic.

There's a guy in my office who wears his hair in the style of 'the Blag'.

This train is vibrating so much I'm having problems focusing on my
laptop screen.

Do I finally upgrade to Aquamacs 1.8 now that Snow Leopard is messing with colors? Last upgrade required lots of config tweaks.

Well, at least most of the bowl of soup my toddler just spilled landed on the linoleum...

On Caltrain back home after successful boating wknd. Sore biceps and quads.

Highlight of the day: tandem tubin with the wife behind a powerboat.

Boating is ON!

Boating canceled, too windy. Rescheduling to tomorrow.

The child abuse prevention center in Modesto is boarded up.

On the way to hook up with T-Pain for the weekend. See all you copy flippin suckas later!

Snow Leopard fixes the Services menu. Good news for us keyboard junkies.

XScreensaver updated to work on Snow Leopard; all is now right in the world. (http://ping.fm/BozED)

The 'Resource Scheduler' software from peoplecube is probably the biggest piece of crap I have to deal with on a daily basis.

I really dislike the term 'freemium'.

Pandora just put a Fugazi song on my 'The Mae Shi' station. First time I have been genuinely surprised by Pandora.

After a weird hang on reboot and a forced restart/reinstall from the DVD I finally got Snow Leopard installed last night.

Taking the plunge with Snow Leopard.

Train in front of ours died. Our train is coupling up to push it out of the way. Real life Thomas action going on.

I sure am enjoying having to restart firefox every other day due to
massive cpu suckage. Maybe I shouldn't have 30 tabs open.

Shaping up to be a scorcher even in SF. Trip to farmers market before I retire to the pool.

I just realized that 'Paper Airplanes' by M.I.A. is about forging IDs to cross international borders.

Just got a sweet hoodie at work for participation in a big software rollout.

Andrew Dice Clay really ruined 'Hickory Dickory Dock' for me.

There are new TransLink stickers up on Caltrain trains. Maybe that system is going live soon?

Glut of blueberries at Safeway caused me to overbuy. Experimented with freezing them myself, with excellent results.

Had toddler in baby backpack eating a banana tonight. Ergo I actually
had a monkey on my back.

The Pixies documentary Loudquietloud has seriously diminished my Kim Deal crush. Thanks a lot, reality.

I am required to bring an entire bag of toy trains to the farmer's market today.

Trying PodTracker podcast listening app on my bberry. Seems to work pretty well and is probably worth $9.95 price.

Being a perl programmer makes you realize the ambiguity of the semantics of the equal sign in everyday usage. Comparison or assignment?

I have in my hand a retractable Sharpie. Will technological marvels never cease?

I feel I am becoming a big Cheap Trick fan. Witness: 'Dream Police' & 'Surrender'.

The word I would use to describe my toddler tonight would be insouciant.

I had forgotten the awesomeness of Eazy-E's "Still Talkin'".

I am really loving using brace expansion in newer versions of bash to generate integer lists.

I just recently discovered that my favorite fruit is the donut peach, even though it does not taste like donuts.

I'm pretty sure Cole Fox is the awesomest hardware store in SF.

The Ballad of G.I. Joe (http://ping.fm/LYR43)

I'm considering renaming my son 'Snotrocket Mcgee'

Trip to 49ers game demonstrates the fail that is Muni.

I think it's pretty awesome that I have a job where I get to use the words 'transitive' and 'orthogonal' in conversations.

There are 9 streetcars stopped on the two block stretch of Embarcadero south of the Bay Bridge right now. Nobody is going anywhere.

Childrens' tv shows that keep breaking the fourth wall drive me nuts. I'm looking at you, Dora.

There sure are a lot of businesses with names involving dick jokes in the Castro.

Feeling logy from too many Lorna Doones after giving blood today. I think my blood is half shortening now.

If I hear one more person use the term 'leverage the cloud' I might lose it.

6 word obit: For Sale: Wii Fit, Never Opened.

It seems like no matter what station I create on Pandora it always manages to play Coldplay and/or Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Today I noticed that I have advanced to the last hole on my belt (in a good way). Exercise regime & diet change seem to be working.

It's a beautiful day in San Fran. Just had a great workout and am now heading to the pool.

Thanks to my Indian co-workers I now know that 'updation' is a real word. (http://ping.fm/KTL8M)

Mp3 stream of ambient music mixed with Apollo moon landing audio: http://ping.fm/4UYOr

At the Rosicrucian museum in San Jose. Bring on the mummies!

Discovered this morning that my pomade was moldy. No wonder: first two ingredients water and sorbitol. Stuff is pretty much agar.

Shouldn't the dentifrice be a horrible mythical beast like the Cockatrice?

The Pandora online radio app for the blackberry is 100% TEH AWESUM. Ok well maybe 99.9%.

Blowing bubbles at the park.

Hancock was not the movie I was expecting.

I am continually disappointed that Bacon avocados do not in fact taste like bacon.

Isn't the plot of 'The Matrix' basically the same as the plot of 'The Dark Crystal'?

New personal best today on stairmaster: 30 minutes/855 Kcal.

My toddler son keep using a word that sounds like 'enbubbouy' and I can't figure out what that means.

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)

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

So how do I access the database? (http://ping.fm/iCvmY)

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

Somehow we ended up in Duboce park instead. Glorious day.

On the way to Golden Gate Park for a family picnic.

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.

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.

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

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

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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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!

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

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 }'

Wow last.fm is handing me some seriously twee song recommendations today.

We sure use the word 'remediate' a lot in my office.

Best. Online. Refererence. Ever. (http://ping.fm/7StIk)

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.

I just saw a beard described as 'Linux-worthy'. Awesome.

Looks like it's going to be a scorcher in the bay area today.

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.

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

Zipcar + Babies R Us + Target + In N Out = whew!

At ferry building farmers market once again.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I think that if you can read a magazine while you are working out you are probably not exercising hard enough.

The fail, it BURNS!

Ate at Popeye's on drive home this evening. Regretting massive transfusion of fat and salt. How do people survive eating that stuff?

Blew the water pump in the jeep but still got the boat on the lake yesterday. Another hot and sunny day on the water today!

Going to the lake.

Going to the lake.

I feel like the 'you're a puppet and I'm the puppetmaster' dance move is super played.

Why does this train have magic fingers?

Thinking about ackles this morning.

Best thing heard from a crackhead tonight on walk home from store: "now you have a Merry Christmas!"

Shia LaBeouf: Professional Doofus (http://ping.fm/c1rsz)

Dear Sprint: your Sprint Smartspeed evdo software on the mac blows. Thanks for locking up my machine if I don't disconnect before sleep.

Today I be vdiff'in.

Father's Day dorkout: watching 'Swiss Rail Journeys' on PBS with my son.

My toddler is the exact opposite of a yes-man.

Getting ready to head to the Farmer's Market.

It's weird to walk out of a ballpark... and be home! Kind of a cold windy one tonight.

I've got a Sprint wireless card with gps. However I can't figure out how to get the location info into anything useful like Fire Eagle.

...yeah it was called of course Steg O' Saurus! (cc transcriber did that accidentally)

Gym TV closed captioning taught me a joke: Ever hear about the Irish dinosaur?

Tried to put $30 on my laundry card - machine malfunctioned and charged my bank card 5 times - $150! Wtf Coinmach? Srsly?

Bran Van 3000 does a rocking slow jam cover of 'Cum On Feel the Noize'.

NY Times just used 'effect' when they meant 'affect'. (http://ping.fm/RqUw6)

Starting my Monday morning on Sunday night with coworkers in Bangalore.

Santa Cruz = white people trying too hard + tattoos.

Riding the hwy 17 express bus and enjoying a young girl's ukulele
playing. Recommended soundtrack if you are headed to Santa Cruz. @l
Los Gatos, CA

Reading 'Rocket Fighter', an autobiography written by a German Me-163 pilot in WWII. That took some serious cojones.

I'm converting my life to digital today and turning off my analog broadcasts.

If you think WONTFIX-EAD is funny then you have been working with bugzilla waaay too much lately. Oh wait, that's me.

Wow how many commercials is Brooke Shields in right now? Not that I'm complaining.

Well according to last.fm recommendations I am apparently the biggest 'Tilly & The Wall' fan in the world. Don't know how I feel about that.

Billyburg trustafarians endangered! Yes! (http://ping.fm/jVvcJ)

I'll Pose Like Rocky Tonight! (http://ping.fm/RTAjC)

Well apparently I am 12 years old because I keep giggling every time I crack open a fresh Phuket.

I'm eating tayberries for lunch, which makes me keep thinking about Vic Tayback. Yes, both of these are real things.

Crackhead ahead of me in line at Safeway just dropped his crackpipe and then pretended it wasn't his.

How come the TV show 'Cheers' was supposed to be set in Boston but nobody sounded anything like people actually from Boston?

Go see 'The Hangover' as soon as possible. It is completely funny and amazing and makes you cringe and feel good all over at the end.

Today's milestone: Mommy cheese please!

Sourceforge.net has been down for hours today... which makes me realize how much open-source software depends on that one site.

I have a terrible craving for an NYC bodega-style ham & cheese on a roll. Will someone overnight one to me please?

Bernanke has something hidden behind that beard. It's either a baby sparrow or the collapse of the US economy.

Toast is my substrate.

I'm using wikimapia.org to see which apartment complexes in my neighborhood have outdoor pools.

Turns out that guns, cars, and men do kill people. http://ping.fm/E247e

Anyone have any recommendations for renter's insurance?

Ran a mile on treadmill today. Last time I ran that far was in high school.

My two year old sat quietly and watched WALL-E tonight for over an hour. Absolutely enthralled.

Check my photo on sfist. (http://ping.fm/gkbZD)

If you can't provide me with a .ics file we can't schedule a meeting.

An old friend reminded me that the battle of Coral Bay (so violent it appears in none of the history books) occurred on my birthday.

Really appreciative of all the facebook birthday wishes from everyone. Thanks all!

Seems ridiculous that Skype charges 11.2 cents per US text message sent. Also you can't spoof the sender phone # to be your cell phone.

I just put chocolate milk in my coffee for creamer. Delish.

I have learned from a two year old that it is always better to run absolutely as fast as possible than to walk.

The Jumpoff: http://ping.fm/wUVs1

I just accidentally swallowed a cherry pit... am I going to die now?

I just subscribed to last.fm for $3/mo mainly so I could listen to the extra stations like 'my loved tracks'.

I just realized what I'm not getting enough of these days: webisodes.

I just set my dvd player to 'progressive' and now movies look way better on my LCD tv.

Having a quick Stella at the Rose & Crown in Palo Alto before I go home.

Wishing I was back on Lake Don Pedro today.

Something about the new Canadian tourism camcorder tv commercials is incredibly annoying. Maybe the fake reality?