Taught my son the difference between a trolley and a cable car. Has a
cable car toy now and is extremely interesting in riding one. #t
pubtrans,sanfran

I can't explain it, but this is pretty much the best website ever:
SELLECK WATERFALL SANDWICH http://j.mp/9GCAQI

This describes the perl code written by everyone I work with: http://j.mp/bp2dB4

I recommend amazing documentary 'Monster Road' http://j.mp/agKVat about stop-motion animator Bruce Bickford. Haunting.

I feel a smug sense of superiority when I see a Maclaren without finger amputator protectors.

Pier 43 Ferry Arch.

Eating a Mallo Cup and reminiscing about the east coast.
http://j.mp/cVX4Qz

Dave Atell: all the blue collar worker shows on TLC should be called: 'GED and a Meth Problem'.

Only NY Times would think this legit to print: "He has enough French cuffs to outfit half of the Fourth Arrondissement" http://j.mp/cMbMGX

Highest tide I've ever seen at the Ferry Building.

Crap I just realized that I'll have to get a subscription when the NY Times goes behind a paywall as that's pretty much my only news source.

I just used a fairground motorsport metaphor to describe a diaper load: FULLL PULLLL!!! The kid was confused by that.

Here's a little flashback to the second worst cabling job I ever got involved with: http://j.mp/aAIcXO

Kid in a candy store (NO IRONY)

90mhz pentium, 4mb ram, boot drive not found, probably not going to give me a muni ticket.

Motocross at AT&T park tonight. The Embarcadero is awash in herda hatta.

Perfect after-workout snack? Ice cold beer and a big handful of raw almonds. Yum.

The Make Magazine TV show http://j.mp/cwYhwr is pretty fantastic. Recommended.

My macbook has been locking up playing movies but I installed smcFanControl http://j.mp/d1Rccz and cranked up the fan speed - now fixed?

Hey @munidiaries, my son just came up with a band name: 'Dirty MUNI daddy, dirty!'

SF F-line PCC trolley 1076, 'DC Transit'

Ferry arriving.

I just saw a guy wearing a shirt that said 'Praise the LARD' but I think it wasn't referring to Jello Biafra's band.

Pretty much a spectacular day in San Francisco today.

Some pretty awesome photos of an abandoned old-timey industrial site: http://j.mp/aXegKb

Taking solace in the fact that I found and solved a longstanding dependency issue in a package today.

'Nine' was basically 'All That Jazz', except boooooring. Also no jazz hands or Roy Schneider, unfortunately.

My NYC peeps will verify that the Grand Prospect Hall is real @http://ping.fm/Wvm6D - I wish my dreams had that much glitz.

Freestyle snowmobile is kind of the nascar or the X-Games. Boring and dangerous.

Someone who actually enjoys riding Amtrak in California: http://j.mp/a5ACBT @amtrak,pubtrans,train,comfort

My son is only 3 but he climbs the rope ladder at the park like he's preparing to take Omaha beach.

Fat man, do not drive a Smart.

When my blackberry says 'say a command' my response is 'STOP ACCIDENTALLY VOICE DIALING'. Never works.

Best 'Eve of Destruction' lyric? "My blood's so mad, feels like
coagulatin!"

Reading 'The Emperors of Chocolate', a history of Hershey and Mars. Highly recommended. http://j.mp/bNgDNt

next if m/iPad/; Please?

Switching to using Review Board http://ping.fm/RZbPj to vet all our config file changes in our subversion repo. sysadmin,codereview

Also, why does Cameron hate / fear corporations so much?

So I'm thinking that if anyone watches Avatar on the Apple tablet tomorrow that will probably cause the Singularity. You have been warned.

Well, Cameron seems to keep making Vietnam movies. This one was pretty spectacular.

Ok, Liam Neeson saying 'Release the Kraken!' does kinda make me want to see the movie.

Ok I'm finally going to break down and go see that new movie directed by the dude who did 'Piranha Part Two: The Spawning".

My pasta was a little bland so I poured some banana sauce on it. BAM! Delish.

The Caltrain San Fran station is extra full of crazy hobo guys tonight.

Got a replacement laptop at work due to dead keyboard. New laptop makes me realize I put some serious wear on old one.

I can see no reason why the Bayshore Caltrain station exists. A political sop to San Mateo county perhaps?

I thought the Missoulian website wasn't bad, until a GIANT LOBSTER PAGECURL AD happened. Suck it, old media. http://j.mp/7bfq8b #t dinosaurs

Check out how google image ads destroy the mutt-dev mailing list archives: http://j.mp/6IFXDk Plus why is that ad so weird?

Nordstrom Rack closed tonight for inventory. My discount shoe shopping will have to wait for another day.

Isn't it about time for Live 105 to get rid of the Max Headroom announcer effect?

Can anyone explain to me why there is an entire Cheezits section at Safeway?

Humidifier died. Faxed copy of receipt to Germ Guardian. They immediately sent me a new one, no requirement to return old one. Wow!

An engineer told me that Caltrain engines without separate head end power are called 'growlers'.

Whenever I'm in a meeting and someone asks, "are you going to project?" I want to say, "NO I DON'T THINK SO CAN YOU HEAR ME OK?".

Ugh it looks like I have to mess with deduping my maildirs http://j.mp/6SSI1i due to my exchange server woes and multiple POPs.

Interesting article on how gender differences make it hard for women to get ahead in the workforce. http://j.mp/5LJjkt

The left channel on my curve headphone jack has died. Not good for pandora.

Just realized I'm going to have to dedupe all my mail messages
(http://ping.fm/zSXzr) after tonight's exchange server shenanigans. @t
sysadmin,mail

Exchange is b0rking my attempts to read a giant mailbox via imap, due to http://ping.fm/euFVO Maybe magic rebuild required?

Best thing about traveling by train. train,caltrain,pbr

Best dessert ever? Giant brand Neopolitian ice cream sandwich, eaten while on a commuter train.

Standing in front of Diridon Station

Guy in front of me just bought a quart of milk and two mini bottles of jack daniels - paid in nickels. Very Santa Cruz.

Will The Who play My Generation at the Superbowl? I want to see look on geriatic Townshend's face when he sings "hope I die fore I get old".

Attended memorial for friend's dad in the bar where we used to spend all our time. Combo joyful reunion / sad event. Glad we went.

I miss Tcl. Maybe I should write up a few admin tasks with it for retro cool feeling.

I notice there's an abandoned Bradley fighting vehicle in the field behind the old FMC plant by the San Jose airport.

Due:monday
Prio:2

On Caltrain once again.

Thank you Alan Tudyk for being in the only DirecTV ad that doesn't make my ears bleed.

I've been avoiding the whole thing but tonight I couldn't resist. Team CoCo all the way!

Having more than one software architect is probably worse than having none.

Presentation by @yesthattom at bayLISA http://ping.fm/iyL25 very enjoyable and informative. Fewer neckbeards than expected!

Social media ProTip: if you don't have anything interesting to say in real life, you probably won't on twitter, either.

Someone's phone is playing 'Nokia tune' and it is making me intensely nostalgic for my old 5190.

Had a Targus backpack I really liked, but they replaced it with a crappier one (http://bit.ly/6qNkcx). Suggestions <$50?

Today's best quote (so far): "you might have to man up and shell out from php".

I spend all my time on automated systems which do not enforce ordering, so according to http://bit.ly/8MCcjj I'm screwed. sysadmin turing

Remember Matthew Looney (http://bit.ly/6Zmnr3)? Loved those books. Illustrated by Gahan Wilson, who was just interviewed by @youngamerican.

Every time I try to do a rasta accent I sound like a leprechaun.

Heads up sysadmins: bayLISA meeting 7:30pm tomorrow night in Mtn View. @yesthattom will be speaking. http://bit.ly/4PiYNF

Extremely high tides in the bay today.

Waiting for the N train.

After walking several blocks towards the train station in howling winds and horizontal rain, I came to my senses and walked back home.

The long-awaited followup to my article on having a baby in the city: Big City Toddler! http://bit.ly/4WVm6y Tips! Tricks! Ruminations!

Today involved a lot of command line package queries and bugzilla scripting.

I don't mean to brag, but my pancake technique is unstoppable.

If there's one thing my years of public transit ridership has taught me, it is this: always carry an umbrella.

I'd rather you didn't.

Luckily I had an umbrella for the walk I just took between buildings A and C.

who is Keyser Soze? Wolfram|Alpha knows! http://ping.fm/60SsQ

If I want to shorten and gather stats on a bunch of links on my website, is bit.ly the best choice or should I be using something else?

It's interesting that amazon.com is a much more reliable long-term link to product information than other merchant sites or even vendor sites.

Crackly, drinky, indie cockrock: GbV covered by the Breeders http://ping.fm/ciu35

Nice use of 'Adagio for Strings' on How I Met Your Mother. I almost saw Willem Dafoe in there.

Introducing son to the magic of Play-Doh.

Ok I think I can still manage to write a trivial program like FizzBuzz. http://ping.fm/VNKHz

Soylent Green, anyone?

Today's forecast: blustery, possibly with a bombastic storm front. sanfran weather

I take a lot of pleasure in knowing I will one day get to teach my son the proper way to shave.

This woman buys cheap old cameras and tests them out. A fun and insightful read. http://ping.fm/szyfX

Whoopsie, Meryl Streep just f-bombed us all on the live E channel post-show. #goldenglobes

Jeff Bridges is biting Kris Kristofferson's style. #goldenglobes

Robert Downey Jr.: best non-acceptance speech evar! #goldenglobes

Isn't Jack Bauer getting really, really, really tired by now?

Juliana Margulies is wearing the bestest Star Trek uniform ever. #goldenglobes @lhome

When did William Hurt become a Robber Baron? #goldenglobes

Max pushing me on the merry-go-round.

I hereby nominate Mariah Carey's boobs for a Golden Globes award.

My sis in the front row (in hat). http://ping.fm/zRJz6

Taught my 3 yr old son to make guido noises. Next stop: the Shore! Problem: Is it abuse to spray a child with Axe?

Probably the craziest sysadmin task I ever did - disassembling a gigantic infiniband cluster. http://ping.fm/MoADV

Sigourney Weaver in the Grady Wilson sex techniques ad on SNL was pretty awesome.

Adventureland got a lot more serious than I expected. What a great movie.

Hey fancy home furnishings store, your giant vinyl sign is not so stylish.

Ring bell for assistance.

MUNI can bite my shiny metal ass for discontinuing N service inbound past Embarcadero on weekends.

My son can now name the Breda, PCC, Milan, torpedo, and Melbourne. If only there were any Boeings left.

Reading a paperback at the Ferry Building.

What's the exit strategy with these earlobe expander plugs? Are you committing to wearing them for life?

What if you filmed a commercial double speed so it appeared normal when fast forwarding your dvr? Has anyone done that?

Former Flickr ops manager John Allspaw (@allspaw) has some good thoughts on operation of large websites on his blog http://ping.fm/YCl9J

I feel like there could be a public transportation-themed blue movie called 'Rideshare'. Possible?

A perfect example of why the Joel Hodgson MST3K was the absolute best. http://ping.fm/qUUKv

I just had to ask a gentleman at the coffee shop to stop streaming his netflix movie on his laptop so the the rest of us could use the wifi.

Public transportation in San Francisco used to be pretty terrifying: http://ping.fm/sB3oB

Buckyballs | The Amazing Magnetic Toy You Can't Put Down http://ping.fm/0xASR

ATCS (computer control) of MUNI trains in the tunnel does nothing but slow down the whole system, and doesn't prevent accidents.

Was going to post vid about my hometown at http://ping.fm/mURk2 but realized its all in a big flash garbage container. Thx newspapers.

I gotta get me this fisheye lens for my Holga. http://ping.fm/oaAU9

Son's running around in Safeway privileges have been revoked. Travel by cart only now.

In Soviet Russia, software release MANAGES YOU!

Oh the insanity: Android Powered Microwave Oven! http://ping.fm/Lk5O3

I've trained my three year old son to put the smartcard in the washer and press the start button. Next up: folding!

Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All http://ping.fm/Q1ilh

OH: crazy man on street: one more reincarnation and I am OUTTA HERE!

At my work instead of redshirts we have yellowbadges.

The weather in Sunnyvale is absolutely glorious today.

I swear to god I have a pocket in my backpack that is actually a Bag of Holding.

Attention coworkers: 'Juicy' style sweats outfits are never acceptable office wear, no matter how casual your office may be.

The Wenger Cube - a weirdly useful structure you can build out of scrap lumber. From Santa Cruz, naturally. http://ping.fm/g1FZo

I'm getting very proficient with -- key combo to reboot my blackberry ever since I installed the new @UberTwiter beta. Suffering too many lockups. :(

This list of 40 gut busting restaurant specials is making me kinda ill. http://ping.fm/ahAdw

Well here's all the music from 2009 I need to look up. http://ping.fm/OxOrS

MUNI routes with most scary people: T train (Bayshore) 47 bus (Hall of Justice-Tenderloin connector). Anyone disagree?

I'm trying to figure out which level of hell is package dependency hell, because I'm in it.

You can now reply to facebook notification emails to create a reply inside facebook. About time.

Why is the Whole Foods in Oakland so much better than the one in SOMA?

Good thing I don't have to do video for the phone conference I'm on right now.

I now become annoyed when I reach the end of an online article only to see that comments are not allowed. I'm looking at you, Gray Lady.

Just watched a three year old play with an LED headlamp for an hour. Priceless.

Dear IM clients: stop eating the @ signs from my code cut and paste examples and regurgitating smiley faces. Lame!

Attention public transit riders: keep your pants on from now on! We can't afford to scare away any more passengers! http://ping.fm/wzqYp

I hate that metallic taste in the back of my throat when I take pseudoephedrine. Do methheads have the same problem?

There's something so awesome about a put-together middle-aged woman driving her Camaro to work.

Wow I work with some serious computer scientists. My coworker, when asked a question, replied, 'well, that question has scope'.

So 'Chuck' is like 'Greatest American Hero' with the random badly-controlled superpowers now?

West Portal is like the Palo Alto of San Francisco.

Nothing bookends a trip to the mall like an early dinner at the Olive Garden.

I'd like double ammonia and hold the e coli on my McDonalds cheeseburger, please.

Taking the M to the mall.

Fav word today: respecognize.

Giuliani completely off his rocker. http://ping.fm/Rbgxg

When I separate the whites from the colors for laundry it makes me feel a little guilty.

I am trying Dove Men+Care extra fresh body and face bar, because I like Dove and this one was on sale.

Is the 'favorites' mechanism in twitter a useful thing? I can't decide. http://ping.fm/BuXvm

English open-top trolley is running today on the F line #sfmuni

I'm against this whole modern idea of cupcake as frosting delivery vehicle. Why can't we enjoy the cupcake on it's own?

Ever since the movie 'Ghost' I can't take a potter's wheel seriously.

Sometimes all a man wants is to be left in peace so he can play his BrickBreaker.

Time for the biweekly zipcar / trader joes / safeway shopping trip extraordinaire!

Woman on Jeopardy just guessed that 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' was a tragedy. Clearly she didn't attend the U of Montana with me.

Holy crap the most stereotypical herd of bears just got on MUNI with me. I have never seen such expanses of flannel in my life!

Amoxicillin not working. Back at doc for stronger measures. Maybe a bloodletting or purging?

Today I am assembling a software release made of a maze of twisty little packages, all alike.

My son is demanding ice cream at 9:32 in the morning. Has he no sense of propriety?

There's a guy in the clubhouse watching the football game while he knits. That is making me vaguely confused and uncomfortable.

My almost three year old let me carry him in the Ergo tonight. So happy to be able to babywear again!

BACON or BEER CAN http://ping.fm/9D2fH

Serving size of the 'Flirt' candybar I am eating right now? ONE FINGER. Like scotch or what?

Companies walk away from bad investments all the time - why shouldn't we do the same with our houses? http://ping.fm/Se10B

Latest boingboing word which must be stricken from the record: WUNDERKAMMER.

I thought a truck ran into my building at work this morning, but it was just an earthquake.

Dear bacteria: you are welcome for using my ear as your drug-resistant breeding ground. I expect lavish thank you dinner

Apparently there is a chihuahua overpopulation crisis in California and they are being airlifted to NYC. FOR REALS.

Shoeshine lunch.

I've made the transition from trifold to bifold and I now feel more sophisticated

Performing my daily firefox restart because it has gotten unusably slow again...

Great article about an old-time polaroid street photographer in NYC. http://ping.fm/Zsa76

Ok these ridiculous Bladerunner Nexus-6 nrrd jokes have got to stop.

If I ever get to design my dream house there will be a pillow fridge next to the bed. Oh the luxury!

Rounding the corner towards day three of massive ear infection. Ready for antibiotics to hit this out of the park already.

'Internet' is a mass noun, like butter. If you divide it in half you don't get two internets.

Sign I'm getting old: today I increased the default font size in terminal.app.

Trying mucinex for first time. Will evil green booger monsters fly out my nose like in commercials?

Dear baby jesus: thank you for the magic of vicodin. I no longer want to stab myself in brain with icepick.

Dude wearing converse with no laces on MUNI: what magic is keeping your shoes on?

According to chart on wall I am at 'tiene el dolor mas fuerte que usted pueda imaginar'. Commencing fetal position.

I'm sitting in an urgent care called Concentra and wondering if they will also try to sell me some enterprise consulting.

Fireworks + camera on r/c plane + AC/DC = AWESOME. http://ping.fm/B7OvU

The Science Channel show 'Deconstructed' is a lot better than I expected. Sort of a bookend to 'How It's Made'.

Weirdly technical NYTimes article about the awesomeness of magnetic bearings. http://ping.fm/LcMOx

I think I'm using the socratic method to discipline my child, but I'm not sure if he is ready to debate his actions.

My son gives a big thumbs up on @HorizonDairy Little Blends Strawberry/Carrot yogurt. Wish it was cheaper tho.

Commercial kids tv station Nick Jr. has no commercials but PBS kids station Sprout has them all the time. Wtf is happening around here?

Bloated, schlubby Luke Wilson is making me afraid of AT&T. I want Bottle Rocket Luke Wilson back.

Why do clothes smell so awesome after you wash them with real bleach? I was huffing in the laundry room.

Why do the buckeyes have little pot leaves all over their helmets? #rosebowl

Writing my christmas thank-yous right now, so 2010 is off to a good start.

Seriously Whole Foods, knock it off already.

Saw a gaggle of hungover kids on the street and it made me nostalgic for a moment.

Goodbye to 2009... it's been an interesting, rewarding, exhausting and crazy year.