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4/28/09 02:04 pm - Not quite as much fun as it sounds...

My hot shoe slave arrived yesterday. Now, in theory, I can flash from up to 150' away. But I prefer to do most of my flashing closer up.

4/26/09 08:06 pm - Cool site - The Right Blue

Found a cool marine biology / diving / etc. site:

http://therightblue.com/

Cool pictures, well written.

4/26/09 11:32 am - bookmark manager bleg

Anyone know of a good, preferably plug-in (firefox, safari, opera, lynx, whatever, I'm browser poly), bookmark manager? I'd settle for a website, but it isn't my first choice.

What I'd like would be the ability to add tags (humor, science, politics) and preferably have some sort of web-of-tags so I could find the one e.g. science->oceanography->humor (or humor->oceanography, etc) site. What I'm looking for is navigation sort of like what the old Yahoo used to look like, just populated with my own metadata.

No, del.icio.us ain't it. Don't care so much about the collaborative aspect.

4/12/09 04:17 pm - Are You Disturbingly Profound or Profoundly Disturbing?

You Are Disturbingly Profound
You're contemplative, thoughtful, and very intense.

Taking time to figure out the meaning of life is a priority for you.

Because you're so introspective, you often react in ways that surprise people.

No one can really understand how you are on the inside... and that disturbs them.
Are You Disturbingly Profound or Profoundly Disturbing?

4/12/09 04:07 pm - Is anyone surprised by this?

You Are Pause
Compared to most people, you are reflective and thoughtful.
You're always willing to take a break and digest everything that's happened.

You are patient with life. You are happy to sit back and let things unfold.
You're not in a hurry. You're content to take things at someone else's pace.
What Remote Button Are You?

3/27/09 08:14 pm - and the bullets whiz by...

10 co-workers got riffed at my site today. A couple of them excellent, a couple of them good, almost all of them at least really nice folks.

3/19/09 11:48 am - I guess the grog explains the bumbling...

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Fifteen men on a dead man's chest!
Cutlass or pistol?
What is the name of your pirate ship?
Where is your secret pirate base?
What kind of loot do you prefer?
What do you and your crew prefer to be called?
Parrot or monkey?
Argh!
Your capable first matedjoflips
Your bumbling cabin boy with a heart of goldchalepa_ta_kala
The aloof, yet honorable, pirate with a mysterious pastambar
Is always the first one into the fraypixie_paige
Is the naval officer who ruthlessly pursues your shipshadowsmark
Is the comical pirate who is always drunk on grogchalepa_ta_kala
Is currently in Davy Jones's lockertsennyipa
The amount of money you make as a pirate$156,861
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3/6/09 11:40 am - Subtle differences between the UK and US...

For example, go here and explore the list of available titles.

Hat tip to [info]shadowsmark

1/29/09 03:41 am - Brain takes a holiday

I leave the house this morning
- I leave the phone at home

I come back at lunch to retrieve the phone
- I discover I left the front door unlocked

I put some lunch in the microwave
- I retrieve my phone
- When I leave, I make sure I lock the front door

I arrive at work
- When I get to my desk, I realize I left the phone in the car

I go to retrieve the phone from the car
- I realize I did not take the house keys with me when I left home

I arrive back home nowish (Fortunately, I have a spare key stashed)
- I find lunch has been sitting in the microwave waiting for me for nearly 14 hours

You know, I *was* feeling a bit peckish this evening.

1/24/09 10:10 pm - Yes, exactly...

Now I am going to have to lie here for the next hour, with no trousers on, basted like a Christmas turkey, bloody Enya simpering away in my ear, while some failed hairdresser rhythmically tickles away at my flabby parts as if petting a consumptive hamster.

12/12/08 05:37 pm - Cool visualization...

This is a very cool animation of immigration to the US from 1820-2007.

12/3/08 01:08 am - not nearly as gross as the first sentence implies...

So, one of my beard hairs got ingrown....

Not a big deal. It happens frequently. The major reason I don't shave down to the skin.

What was interesting is that it happened to land right on top of one of those facial nerves the dentist has to block with Novocaine and had the same effect. So a good chunk of my jaw and cheek were numb yesterday and I kept expecting a bright light and drilling sound.

12/3/08 01:00 am - Ah, Orygun...

I drove the northwestern and western periphery of Oregon (from Portland to Astoria to Brookings) yesterday.

Some of the waypoints included:
Scappoose
Clatskanie
Manzanita
Nehalem
Tillamook
Neskowin
Yachats

Names that, aside from the place of good dairy, might cause a non-native some pause.

The familiarity was nice. It reminded me I came from somewhere once.

11/18/08 10:47 pm - 90 seconds a day to make craigslist a better place

This a plea for some collective action.

Some bozos are posting a slew of housing listings on the Bay Area Craigslist over and over and over with a bazillion keywords set as hidden text. I'm asking, if you have a few spare seconds, to periodically go and flag these fuckwads as spam/overpost.

The easiest keyword to look for is 'sunn'. There's currently only one legitimate ad with 'sunn' (they meant sunny). You'll see the pattern very quickly.

The entire block of hidden keywords is:
Search keywords: Belmont, San Carlos, Atherton, 
Hillsborough, Los Altos, Milrae, Hills, San Mateo, San
Bruno, Woodside, Redwoodcity, Redwood City, Menlo Park,
Mt. View, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Mid Peninsula, mid
pen, Pennisula, RWC, SF, Bay Area, Bay, north, west, east,
south, Hillsdale, silicon valley, city, n, s, e w, city,
private, rent, lease, santa clara, Sunnyvale, san jose,
sj, los gatos, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, #, one, two,
three, four, single, family, dishwasher, hardwood, hard,
wood, flooring, full, size, patio, balcony, bbq, pool, rec
room, realtor, property, real estate, duplex, apartments,
condo, unit, investment, sale, first, second, units,
home, house, townhome, thownhouse, town home, town house,
condo, duplex, pagemill, view, vies, university, manager,
managers, management, 24 hours, gated, community, Stanford,
university, Menlo, college, Menlo, Park, secured, cisco,
hp, Hewlett Packard, hp, va, hospital, bright, light,
lights, el camino, real, pets, friendly, dog, cat, student,
professional, school, sec 8, section 8, google, systems,
east bay, security, Hewlett-packard, sfo, sjc, airport,
downtown, dt, down, town, corporate housing, student, cal
train, muni, apts, freeway, highway, 101, 280, hwy, rwc,
internet, food, shopping, restaurants, entertainment,
amenities, freeway, utilities, gas, electric, water,
parking, carport, whole foods, public transportation,
midpenisula, mid peninsula, RWC, SSF, SF, UCSF, CSM, SJSU,
de anza, jr., jr, collge, foothill, san mateo college,
pagemill, long-term, long, term, short, short-term, 92,
380, house, apartments, five, sun, patio, bayckyard, back,
yard, carpet, paint, Luxury, Penthouse, flat, Sunn, ebay,
beds, baths, bathroom, onsite, on site, Ikea, university
circle, four seasons, hotel, short-term, short, term,
long, long-term, end of month, immediate movein, move
in, rent ready, week, month, 30 days, property, units,
foreclose, credit, check, flexable, cisco, cisco systems,
corporate housing, furnished, parking, restaurants, public
transportation, school, schools, ravenswood, sequoia,
district, union, month, week, end of month, yahoo, move,
graduate, graduated, teacher, specials, special, movein,
move in, bike, walk, palo alto, updates, modern, updated,
landscaping, landscape, deposit, flexible, dates, drive,
short, long, promotion, discount, affordable, reasonable,
holding, hold, reserve

10/10/08 08:44 am - Sad...

Mother's Cookies closes after 92 years of business in Oakland

8/30/08 12:48 am - Friday night (wonky) gold...

8/14/08 12:34 pm - Dalek - Mark I

8/8/08 04:16 pm - I'm quotable...

23andMe put up a couple quotes I made at their shindig a couple weeks back:

https://www.23andme.com/overview
https://www.23andme.com/research

Look at the "Our customers are saying..." section down in the bottom right.

Neither one would win me much praise at a Toastmasters event, but it's still really cool that someone there thought that what I said had enough merit to transcribe.

7/27/08 02:44 am - Am I the last one to know...

That you can add &fmt=18 to the end of a youtube url and get much higher quality video?

7/27/08 12:47 am - Tonight's musical de-stressing moment...

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