The last load out. Tomorrow the dumpster gets picked up. I never enjoy the last bits if a move. I sort of wish it could all be done at once. But I know that has it’s own stresses. As I left Natick, I changed the ‘home’ favorite in my GPS to Mosaic. Guess it’s officialRead More
Month: March 2009
Briefly, from the iPhone. We moved.
Trying out a blog tool from the iPhone. More details later once I figure out if it sucks or not. We moved today. 9 hours with professional movers, plus a cast of thousands of wonderful awesome people. Pictures are on flickr, but for now I’m too tired to list out all the kudos necessary. ARead More
Dear iPhone Developer Community…
You see that switch on the side of the iPhone? That little switch that means “Be quiet, I’m in a place where a vibrate will do?” Pay attention to it! There is absolutely no excuse to write a game, app, utility, or tool that starts making sounds or playing music upon startup if that switchRead More
Glimpses Back – The House that held Homeport – Up for sale!
It’s always interesting looking into houses that have so much history for you personally – after you’ve moved out of them. The house that got to be well known as Homeport, which we sold about three and a half years ago, is back up for sale. The listing on Realtor.com has a whole series ofRead More
Mame Cabinet delivered and installed
Before I got sick last week, I installed the Mame cabinet into the rec room at work. Since we’re moving, it seemed like a good way to get One More Thing out of the house, and it would be nice to have the machine get some use. Feedback from folks at the office has beenRead More
The Move. T-Minus 10 days – Disassembly of Interlude begins.
In less than 10 days, Cat and Zach and I will be moving to Mosaic. It’s an intense time for all of us, and what with me being down with the crud and life continuing apace, taking no notice of our challenges, things have become a little… chaotic. Unlike some of my friends, I’ve movedRead More
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
At Arisia ’08 I saw this video as part of their film series. The DVD was not available at the time, though it’s one that I do want to add to my collection. (edit: apparently it is available at JasperMorello.com, which appears to be down at the moment). Now, here it is in it’s entirety…Read More
Day 3 – Still sick
I’m sick. I started noticing the telltale throat itchiness Thursday night, and by Friday morning it was in full swing. We’re to the point of thinking this is flu now, as I’ve been down for almost 3 days, and at last sensor check, I’m running a 101 fever. Sudafed and Nyquil are keeping things underRead More
Brilliant Animation : World Builder
Found this via UniqueDaily.com World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo. “A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves. This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of ‘405’. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 yearsRead More
Blog Refactoring underway
It really was time. Planet-Geek’s style really was getting long in the tooth. When I first set up the blog, I hacked the templates and stylesheet enormously to get it to look a certain way. What that meant though was I ended up with templates that could not be updated in any sane fashion. TonightRead More
iDracula for the iPhone. iCarnage!!!
Just a quick one before I head off to my next meeting. My latest addiction for the iPhone is called ‘iDracula’. It’s sort of a mix of Diablo vs Quake vs Robotron. The 19th century ‘van helsing’-esque setting is beautifully rendered, and the soundtrack adds the appropriate head-banging necessary for any good vampire slaughtering. There’sRead More
The problem with cloud computing – or “BITE ME, GOOGLE”
While browsing around this afternoon using the (usually) awesome Google Reader, I saw a sudden change in my entire look and feel. Apparently Google decided to punch out an update to Reader while i was using it. No notification, no information about it, just “oh, by the way, here’s a redesign of your page layout.”Read More
A Panoply of Pidgin Plugins
I have this ongoing personal philosophy. “Don’t get too wedded to a single environment, because the designs will channel your way of thinking, and those ‘new fangled’ ideas about UI’s and systems? They they may have something there, give it a try.” To that end, not long ago I switched from KDE to Gnome. ThatRead More
You, yes you on your phone in Starbucks.
We’re very impressed you have a nice blackberry, Jawbone bluetooth headset, and brown loafers. The leather case you’re carrying is pretty snappy. I think it’s particularly fascinating how you’ve managed to park yourself in a sparsely populated Starbucks, cranked up that wonderful gear of yours, and decided to CALL EVERYONE IN YOUR PHONE BOOK. IRead More
Speaking of webcomics. What are your favorites?
While on the topic of webcomics, I’m curious what strips folks read regularly? I have all of mine loaded up in Google Reader (currently one of my favorite toys), and while I’m not necessarily looking for other good strips to add to my lineup, I’m always interested in finding new interesting comics. Some I addRead More