facebook posts from 2008 / 11

1. Ran into a college spanish professor I had 7 years ago at a party last night. Barely passed her class, didn’t ask if she remembered me.

2. Walking Hampden’s 34th street for the light and art show

3. Chaise, cake, coffee, computer, cat, carpet musics (http://is.gd/9uSd). Only one of these things isn’t on or under my lap. Damn cat.

4. Ist es nicht schön?

5. Using fluid.app for anything beyond wikipedia and google reader? I’m finally getting into greasemonkey too; très Bien!

6. just finished Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life. http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/books/184098-steve-martin-born-standing-up-a-comic-s-life?ref=stz

7. Thanks to the wood stove, our thermostat is up to 82 degrees. Running to the basement & 60 minute IPA keg for shelter from the heat.

8. I complemented @vurtyou on her red Back to the Future vest, she called me mustache man and asked wtf I know. I can’t win!

9. Steinski attempts to edit Led Zeppelin’s The Crunge from ?/8 to 4/4. http://is.gd/97xe (jump to 46:20) http://is.gd/98pW

10. Solid Steel #81 is one long interview w/ Double Dee and Steinski covering the history of the Lessons http://is.gd/97xe over the mixes. !!

11. Taking my mustache to a meeting: awesomeness

12. Act II is universally more interesting than acts I and III.

13. Browsers show protocol jargon like http:// and https:// as holdovers from dated modal systems. Modal systems are lame.

14. I always flock to music lists, and always disagree with them. I can’t find any flaws in this one: http://is.gd/8Td6 (via http://is.gd/8TdS)

15. Outlook Zen Koan: No Response Required.

16. http://www.last.fm/event/826673 Last.fm is out of control. Who wants to go to the Obama/Biden/Clinton/Oingo Boingo gig in January?

17. My mustache is better than yours.

18. Adding friendfeeds to personal microblog; they don’t give their div’s any ID atts, so I have to regex instead of display:none them 😦

19. Put on CCR, then solo the drum and bass tracks (use the mixer in your head), then fade in a good polka. Craving kielbasa and sauerkraut yet?

20. Today’s book proclaims: Visit HOE SAI GAI Chinese & American restaurant, 75 & 85 W Randolph St. Chicago. ANDOVER 3-6474" http://is.gd/8AAL

21. We have a few hundred random non-matching matchbooks from @vurtyou’s grandmother; fun to see where she and her husband traveled…

22. I’m not skipping the Baltimore Santa Crawl. I know I’ll have @sxs3200 (Jesus Santa '06) and @philip_daigle in tow. Anyone else?

23. Truth: Credence Clearwater Revival’s excellent “Ramble Tamble” is used for the theme music to Family Feud because FF was John Fogerty’s idea

24. Is The Mekons “Where Were You” remarkably similar to Fugazi’s “Do You Like Me” or is it just a lyrical coincidence?

25. USB drive -> time capsule wifi -> itunes on powerbook -> wifi -> airport express extending time capsule wifi: fail 😦

26. Ben and Chrissy’s baby saw it’s shadow and hid again. Five more weeks of winter for the rest of us! 😦

27. Gave The Boy the old catnip bag, he told me that if he doesn’t come down in a few hours to take him to the vet. He’s in bat country now.

28. The wood stove was still embers from a large log I put on last night at 10PM; reloaded it 18 hours later and it’s roaring again ❤️

29. I love listening to lawyers talk about discovery practices. Geeks asking loophole questions crack me up.

30. Google icebreaker: Name the cartoon character you’d most like to be and why. I went with Daffy Duck from Duck Amuck.

31. On the road with to Philadelphia with Jason for a Google sales event - where can we get good sushi for lunch?

32. We fired up the wood-burning stove for the first time this season and are reheating gumbo.

33. Max’s seems to be full of developer, old guy, and swinger meetups.

34. #charmsec: Any reason not to ditch the Wharf Rat in favor of Max’s for the next r Meet-up?

35. Anheuser-Busch’s logo sort of survived the merger with InBev: http://is.gd/88li the design sucks compared to MillerCoors: http://is.gd/Orw

36. New strategy for e-mail address forms: local-part.@domain.tld: The . isn’t valid, if the form accepts it (lame), win. http://is.gd/87mo

37. A major security vendor should buy Bleep Laps. Screw dashboards, I want my console to look and sound like an LFCO http://is.gd/86JP

38. http://is.gd/84cs Andrew Bird @ 9:30 in February? Anyone want to carpool from Baltimore?

39. Sports! Home team spread was fine until the ref flag-carded the kicker, go #3, hand-eye coordination! Balls! Fists!

40. SELinux is clippy: You appear to be using httpd. Would you like help: 1) chconing 2) viewing useless sealert -l output 3) disabling selinux?

41. Troubleshooting SELinux every few years makes so not fun. Does anyone wonder why this gets disabled so often?

42. If the number of secured gates and locked doors one has to pass through to get to their cube is any indication of coolness, I’m Chilly Willy

43. The secong day is always worse. My wrist is demolished due to nailgun carelessl. Airtools > me.

44. We are playing Taboo in a college class as part of someone’s presentation and none of us have any idea why. Halp.

45. Doing homework the day before class instead of hours before class, as an experiment. Basement be damned.

46. just finished reading Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Org… by Clay Shirky. http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/books/1469412?ref=stz

47. I hate pulling wire. 100’ of 12 gauge in the basement walls later and two basement rooms are joined to whole-house-audio system.

48. Impressed how defensive Floyd in the excellent Live @ Pompeii film is defensive about using synthesizers but still being musicians

49. The ‘valid xhtml’ bragging in so many Wordpress blog foots are lies. Code is poetry I guess, right? Er, markup.

50. Dinner plans? I’m going to Pho Huong Moi tonight (alone with a book: http://is.gd/7xDx ) http://is.gd/7xCG

51. I registered for the Philadelphia session of google’s Data Governance in the Cloud workshop http://services.google.com/events/cloudcamp2008

52. XM & Sirius mashup means we get XMPR /and/ NPR, with different awesome programming! Yay!

53. Friday, Thursday told me all about you and I’m not falling your Saturday impression so stop fooling around.

54. I’m looking for examples of the ‘my’ meme pre-win95 My Documents to find who started the growing my(org.org|.org).tld intra/extranet meme

55. http://twitpic.com/ll1q - I drew a giant :chin101: for Will, he couldn’t be happier!

56. Real keyboard cowboys use DOS with Command Extensions enabled.

57. Enjoying a Unibroue Maudite and not writing the last two pages of my paper http://is.gd/7g81

58. I’m having complete and utter writer’s block working on a school assignment for the third day in a row. Argh.

59. Apps that steal focus suck. Interfaces that allow a dialog to lock focus for the entire interface suck plus infinity.

60. And people say I don’t make sense: @dogfish_ale you seem to be auto-tweeting an RSS feed of your own tweets? Look in opposing mirrors much?

61. Drier squeak is now permanent and loud enough to hear upstairs from the basement. EEeeeeEEEEEee…EEEeeEEEereE…EEerreeEEERR… for hours! 😦

62. REDACTED for my meeting today about REDACTED. Man, you wouldn’t REDACTED FFS! Who does that! They’ll probably delete this but REDACTED

63. Some time between lunch and now, I bit my tongue. I don’t remember it, but it is the only explanation. I need to lay off the gum.

64. http://twitpic.com/kyqd - Frosty mugs help the burn slightly moe than the smell of andouille. Mmmmm

65. Burned my thumb dumping roux into the stock pot, using the leftover cut celery @vurtyou froze for a cold compress.

66. … and use that raw log data to give magic back to partners, customers, etc…

67. Start-up idea: use APIs and partnerships on linkedin, last.fm, flickr, facebook, twitter, friendfeed, and so on, to export raw log data…

68. Did you know that my wife’s middle name “Walker” is an old Native American word for “tells rambling stories”?

69. My grandmother after all 100+ of us sang Happy Birthday to her for her 80th: “I’m the luckiest person in the world and I love you all!”

70. There Goes Rhymin’ Simon is a great album to put away a few bottles of wine to.

71. Random fact I just made up: There is no XYZ in ping data padding ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwabcdefghi’ because ping doesn’t like Rush either.

72. is Elam Barnett

73. If I go this year, it’ll be my sixth Santa Crawl. http://is.gd/6yh8 Currently that’s a big IF. It’s always the same Sat in Dec, the *****.

74. Weight Watchers ‘Chicken’ Parmesean for diner with the alley blinds closed. Don’t want the pigeons to see me - I think this fowl is squab.

75. SonicWall guys, your crappy outsourced spamming listserve needs more if loops http://is.gd/6x1Y

76. If your RSS feed isn’t full content, you are lazy, evil, or don’t get RSS.

77. Thursday, I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

78. Make ready the fleet for the jump off of 83N into uB traffic, Mt Vernon detours, and slow meander back to 83N south of jump off. Facepalm.

79. Dear ultra-passive driver making left without a left turn light: we have sat through four greens, please, yes we can, etc…

80. I need a designated driver this morning.

81. 2016 Olympic log candidates http://is.gd/6u6b Chicago > Madrid > Tokyo > * http://is.gd/6u61

82. I stick with IT to help people w/ human factors, and I’m into infosec becuase it is where IT has failed human factors the most

83. Late to @charmsec, on the way now, walking

84. Heading to @charmsec tonight, but I forgot the figlet sign! Come looking geeky, find me, a bald guy, and a ponytailed guy drinking beers

85. Well, this is nice.

86. This is called ability to accomplish a thing by sheer cunning.

87. I’ll bet those socialists at the Grant Park Chicago party wish they were at an invite only party listening to a wedding band in AZ.

88. NBC is putting red/blue state shapes on an ice rink, @will_torres and @glen_francis, go throw some elbows!

89. Watching Psycho on AMC instead of 1% votes reported filler on CNN. Norman Bates reminds me of a young Aaron from Primer.

90. CNN pandering to the critical Star Wars viewership tonight flubs by mentioning Trek in same sentence. I want Triumph to come chat w/ them

91. Outlook Zen Koan: “A dialog box is open. Close it and try again. OK”

92. That was painless. Diebold touch screens with smart cards. Hope they weren’t pwned.

93. Senior center line is 1/3 way around the block. Should move fast.

94. Baltimore ballot questions A through P: “sir, let me hold some $$, my car broke down and I gotta catch a bus? No? Food money? I got kids.”

95. Ugh, 103 question scantron and 13 essay questions. I haven’t used a number two pencil this much in ten years. Who still uses scantron!?

96. I am sitting in a room, leaving myself voicemail of myself leaving myself a message using a second speakerphone http://is.gd/3yt8

97. I am sitting in a room, leaving myself voicemail using speakerphone phone, of myself leaving myself a message using second speakerphone :||

98. Scoops of food hit 3 bowls, 12 paws patter on 2 wooden staircases, one after the other, 6 eyes watching, only the one eats. Two wait.

99. Took Dad to Fogo De Chao for dinner, now watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Long weekend!

100. Amazing Halloween party @ Linda & Kevin’s w/ my Barf costume provided by Ken & Erica. Until next year, cheers.

101. http://twitpic.com/jfif - LIVE: Highlandtown man trapped in home after Halloween pranksters take front steps

102. Di Pasquale’s margheritta pizza for lunch is the best party about Saturdays http://www.dipasquales.com/

103. Omniweb feature request: ⌘-C with no text selected should yank active tab’s url to the clipboard. The url could be shortend via is.gd

104. #!/ignore/jargon blacktree.com or omniweb helpfully bzip’s and then salts the QS dmg on GET. bunzip2 errors it. Omniweb or blacktree bug?

105. Substituting Coffee for in every capitalized noun of moronic C.S. Lewis apologetic claptrap; beginning to understand http://is.gd/5qbY

106. It is in the process of being worshipped that Coffee communicates Its presence to men.