Posts from 2006

2006

December

Pen Glyph Mysteries of the humour universe | December 3 | Tagged: art_and_design, humor

Pen Glyph On the topic of Un-Funny: Then there was Clerks II | December 3 | Tagged: entertainment, movies

Pen Glyph A delightful independent film: Raising Victor Vargas | December 6 | Tagged: entertainment, movies

Pen Glyph Nietzsche Family Circus | December 10 | Tagged: philosophy_proper

Pen Glyph Watched "Brick" | December 11 | Tagged: movies

Pen Glyph Fun with Unicode | December 11 | Tagged: unicode

Pen Glyph End of the week in SoCo | December 16 | Tagged: austin, personal

Pen Glyph I love programming languages! | December 20 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Howdy readers | December 20 | Tagged: general, personal

Pen Glyph Something’s very, very wrong in this country | December 23 | Tagged: politics

November

Pen Glyph Halloween on 6th, the masses, the masques, the religiousity. | November 1 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph Tickets for Regina Spektor on the 10th at Antone’s | November 1 | Tagged: austin, music

Pen Glyph Finished The Brief History of the Dead | November 1 | Tagged: books, ruminations

Pen Glyph Addendum to The Brief History of the Dead post | November 5 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph Steven sees Running With Scissors, the movie | November 7 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Adrienne Shelley and 1997 | November 7 | Tagged: austin, personal

Pen Glyph The handbasket is cramped, but it’s not getting hotter at that regular interval | November 8 | Tagged: news!, politics

Pen Glyph Let me put it succinctly | November 8 | Tagged: personal, politics

Pen Glyph ...and it just keeps getting better | November 9 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph From the UK’s "Guardian" paper. | November 9 | Tagged: politics, bush

Pen Glyph George, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and The Freudian Oedipal "Vision Thing" | November 13 | Tagged: entertainment, politics

Pen Glyph Surprises in the workplace | November 17 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Pre Thanksgiving goings-on | November 19 | Tagged: critique, movies, personal

Pen Glyph Finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy | November 19 | Tagged: books, critique, culture

Pen Glyph Dreaming... | November 26 | Tagged: life_and_death, mysticism, personal

Pen Glyph Traveling back from West Texas | November 26 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph iRead iWoz | November 26 | Tagged: books, design, apple

Pen Glyph Word So Totally Sucks | November 27 | Tagged: art_and_design, html

Pen Glyph The Fines of Texas are Upon You | November 27 | Tagged: austin, personal

Pen Glyph A Good Austin Citizen: Joining the Public Library | November 28 | Tagged: austin, books

October

Pen Glyph September | October 1 | Tagged: austin, entertainment

Pen Glyph Suicide | October 1 | Tagged: culture, entertainment, politics

Pen Glyph La Vie Austienne: ‘Go’ at Austin Java | October 3 | Tagged: entertainment, toys, zen

Pen Glyph Ladytron tickets | October 3 | Tagged: austin, entertainment

Pen Glyph Limbo: How low can you go | October 4 | Tagged: entertainment, gnosticism

Pen Glyph Saw "The Science of Sleep" | October 6 | Tagged: movies, personal

Pen Glyph Back in San Jose this week | October 12 | Tagged: personal, travelogue

Pen Glyph The soporific Allan Odgaard | October 16 | Tagged: textmate

Pen Glyph Monday Morning Meeting with Melbotis, The League of | October 19 | Tagged: austin, personal

Pen Glyph Visiting Ginny’s Little Longhorn | October 20 | Tagged: art_and_design, austin, entertainment

Pen Glyph Ready for the new Mac Book Pro | October 20 | Tagged: apple

Pen Glyph Entertainment Weekly covers The Cardigans | October 21 | Tagged: music

Pen Glyph In case you’re wondering, true love looks like this | October 21 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Ladytron Seen, Melbotis Met | October 22 | Tagged: austin, music

Pen Glyph TV Party at Alamo Drafthouse | October 25 | Tagged: austin, entertainment

Pen Glyph Finished "Running with Scissors" | October 25 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph "Go"-ing crazy, courtesy of the Social Bobcat | October 26 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Windy city? Austin, Tejas | October 27 | Tagged: austin

September

Pen Glyph Early morning movie thoughts | September 2 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Testing more formatting | September 2 | Tagged: meta

Pen Glyph Making some progress with JavaScript menus | September 2 | Tagged: ajax, design, javascript

Pen Glyph Site Update Complete | September 3 | Tagged: meta

Pen Glyph Enjoying the weekend and holiday | September 4 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Hitler’s rise to power | September 5 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph Oh the difference a percent makes | September 5 | Tagged: modern_times, politics, warfare

Pen Glyph Is the war on terror over, barring a much bigger can of worms? | September 7 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph Arguments about politics | September 7 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph Five years later... | September 8 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph The man in black for president | September 8 | Tagged: entertainment, politics

Pen Glyph Curse you Neal Stephenson and your knack for similitudes! | September 11 | Tagged: unix, programming, writing

Pen Glyph Visting the Scientology street fair | September 11 | Tagged: politics, religion

Pen Glyph Some things in life bear repeating many, many times | September 12 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Is America learning cabaret? | September 13 | Tagged: entertainment, music, politics

Pen Glyph The natural world is full of amazing things | September 15 | Tagged: gnosticism, personal

Pen Glyph Aguierre: The Wrath of God | September 19 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph September is the month of..... | September 26 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph OpenLDAP ate my week... | September 29 | Tagged: programming

Pen Glyph Venom! | September 29 | Tagged: personal

August

Pen Glyph Summertime with my baby | August 6 | Tagged: austin, personal

Pen Glyph Kit Fisto, party of two | August 10 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Wet...hot...shaving action | August 10 | Tagged: modern_times, personal, toys

Pen Glyph A nice birthday... | August 10 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Dateline NBC attacks the hard questions | August 18 | Tagged: culture

Pen Glyph Working up to AJAX by learning something about the DOM and Javascript | August 20 | Tagged: ajax, html, javascript, web

Pen Glyph Going further with JavaScript and the DOM | August 20 | Tagged: ajax, javascript, functional_programming

Pen Glyph Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia | August 20 | Tagged: austin, personal, web

Pen Glyph A fun weekend | August 22 | Tagged: austin, personal, toys

Pen Glyph Doing the trivia thing with the Mayor, Alfredo, and Osakatomebaby-lady | August 23 | Tagged: austin, nostalgia, personal

Pen Glyph I can see the metal in your eyes | August 24 | Tagged: entertainment, music

Pen Glyph Shutter the Pentagon, close Westpoint: The War Nerd rules | August 24 | Tagged: culture, entertainment, modern_times

Pen Glyph Bruno Kirby goes into the great beyond | August 25 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Lauren’s first visit to The Alamo Drafthouse | August 26 | Tagged: austin, entertainment

Pen Glyph The Previews! | August 26 | Tagged: austin, entertainment

Pen Glyph Parler francais avec Tex | August 26 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph It’s only really worth having if you can give it away... | August 27 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph Good WikiQuote Weekend | August 28 | Tagged: modern_times, philosophy_proper

Pen Glyph Inflicting indignities upon a dignified people | August 31 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Michael Bay, this is the last straw | August 31 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Why my girlfriend totally rules | August 31 | Tagged: austin, personal

Pen Glyph Rappacini, Philip K. Dick, Origami, and the Zen of the unnatural natural | August 31 | Tagged: arete, culture, design, ruminations, zen

Pen Glyph Updating some layout | August 31 | Tagged: meta

July

Pen Glyph Flat Track Invasion: Steven sees TXRollerGirl Action | July 3 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Monday Morning Referees | July 3 | Tagged: culture, general

Pen Glyph Kit Fisto is my favorite Jedi | July 3 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Why I hate Kim Jong-Il | July 5 | Tagged: modern_times, politics

Pen Glyph Sally Fourth | July 5 | Tagged: austin, general

Pen Glyph Austin: A good town for modern architecture | July 6 | Tagged: art_and_design, austin

Pen Glyph A Handy Tip for Ruby Developers: Dispatch Tables | July 8 | Tagged: ruby, perl, programming

Pen Glyph I saw "Pirates II", it wasn’t very good (1/2) | July 9 | Tagged: critique, entertainment

Pen Glyph Pirates II continues to disappoint (2/2) | July 9 | Tagged: critique, entertainment

Pen Glyph I feel the geometry going wrong in the Childrens’ section... | July 10 | Tagged: austin, books

Pen Glyph Musical Accompaniment to Austin’s Modern Homes | July 12 | Tagged: austin, music

Pen Glyph Busy, Busy | July 23 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Thoughts... | July 23 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph Completed the 40-day Yoga Challenge | July 29 | Tagged: austin, gnosticism, personal, yoga

June

Pen Glyph Living in Austin | June 9 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph And I, for one, welcome our new machine overlords | June 11 | Tagged: travelogue

Pen Glyph Henry Rollins is hee-hi-larious | June 14 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph When waiting, focus your power | June 15 | Tagged: movies, zen

Pen Glyph Test Post from Within Textmate | June 16 | Tagged: textmate

Pen Glyph I am a resident of Austin, Texas now ( again ) | June 19 | Tagged: general

Pen Glyph SIMPLIFY | June 19 | Tagged: general, personal

Pen Glyph ( - 40 1 ) days | June 20 | Tagged: personal, yoga

Pen Glyph Steven is a whimsical programmer | June 20 | Tagged: ruby

Pen Glyph Randomly running into Idgy Vaughn | June 21 | Tagged: austin, music

Pen Glyph Dude, an astronaut totally pwn'd you | June 21 | Tagged: culture

Pen Glyph Posh Spice channels Sisters frontman Andrew Eldritch | June 23 | Tagged: culture, entertainment

Pen Glyph Paging Herr Doktor Zyklon | June 25 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph I love the 80’s, but sometimes she’s an abusive wife | June 26 | Tagged: culture

Pen Glyph (+ (* -1 8) 40) days left in the 40-day yoga challenge | June 27 | Tagged: austin, yoga

Pen Glyph The Season of Closing Cycles Part II: California Round Trips and Folk Singers | June 28 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph At my new office... | June 29 | Tagged: personal, work

May

Pen Glyph MemoryBank: Yet another Flash Card application available for download | May 1 | Tagged: cocoa

Pen Glyph I love a good prank... | May 4 | Tagged: culture

Pen Glyph Colbert calls Bush Arsenio, to his face. | May 4 | Tagged: culture, politics

Pen Glyph Handy site for firefox extensions | May 6 | Tagged: firefox

Pen Glyph Freedom is on the move in Iraq | May 7 | Tagged: modern_times, politics, bush

Pen Glyph Vatican astronomer calls creationism a version of paganism | May 8 | Tagged: culture, general, philosophy_proper

Pen Glyph Nietzsche would be proud | May 8 | Tagged: modern_times, philosophy_proper, politics

Pen Glyph [ EXCLUSIVE ] Content of Ahmadinejad’s letter to Bush | May 8 | Tagged: politics, bush

Pen Glyph Leaving the Vale of the Sun (UPDATED) | May 8 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Programmers and domestic goddesses | May 16 | Tagged: art_and_design, perl

Pen Glyph Apple does the awful: Glossy Screens | May 17 | Tagged: apple

Pen Glyph It’s getting warm in here, and this handbasket is awfully uncomfortable | May 19 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph Not writing much | May 21 | Tagged: meta

Pen Glyph Visit to Willits and Ft. Bragg | May 22 | Tagged: travelogue, norcal

Pen Glyph The Final Countdown | May 22 | Tagged: nostalgia, personal

Pen Glyph First leg of migration down | May 29 | Tagged: personal, travelogue

Pen Glyph Vegas, and on to the Grand Canyon | May 31 | Tagged: travelogue

Pen Glyph Best Western SLO vs. Paris Las Vegas | May 31 | Tagged: personal, travelogue

Pen Glyph What happened to the slot machines | May 31 | Tagged: travelogue

April

Pen Glyph Is this the cutest thing ever? | April 7 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph I shudder to say, but I am totally excited about Silent Hill, the movie | April 10 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Latest Cocoa Program: Simple Flash Card ( neu mit Cocoa-bindings! ) | April 13 | Tagged: cocoa, productivity

Pen Glyph Farewell MovableType | April 16 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Wikiquotes of the day: Euler and his Kantianism, and The Son of God | April 19 | Tagged: gnosticism, philosophy_proper

Pen Glyph Site revamp finished | April 20 | Tagged: news!, personal

Pen Glyph Steven is going back to Austin | April 21 | Tagged: general, news!, personal

Pen Glyph Going slightly crazy | April 24 | Tagged: personal, networking

Pen Glyph Day 1 of Intro training has come and gone... | April 26 | Tagged: productivity, education, networking

Pen Glyph Where, oh where are the poets like this? | April 27 | Tagged: art_and_design, culture

Pen Glyph Sketchup! | April 28 | Tagged: sketchup

Pen Glyph The Season of Closing Cycles | April 28 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Finished INTRO training | April 28 | Tagged: networking

Pen Glyph Startup School | April 29 | Tagged: stanford, startups, palo_alto

Pen Glyph "E"asy Cheezy Pretzels | April 30 | Tagged: culture, nostalgia

March

Pen Glyph Back from the underbelly | March 6 | Tagged: cocoa

Pen Glyph Finished the SudokuGrid application | March 6 | Tagged: cocoa, programming

Pen Glyph Blog backlog | March 6 | Tagged: meta

Pen Glyph Download the SudokuGrid Application | March 8 | Tagged: cocoa

Pen Glyph My girlfriend is great because... | March 8 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph I’m wary, but here goes | March 8 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Are the sands shifting underneath our feet? | March 11 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph Unfortunate Abbreviations | March 12 | Tagged: ruminations

Pen Glyph Undertaking The System of the World | March 12 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph I mis-Austened myself | March 12 | Tagged: movies

Pen Glyph A film about pin-up icon Bettie Page? | March 12 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Finished Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto | March 12 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph Keira Knightley’s Teeth of Doom | March 13 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Hints on editing quickly | March 14 | Tagged: vim

Pen Glyph V for Victorious | March 18 | Tagged: movies

Pen Glyph Saturday at the Cine | March 18 | Tagged: movies

Pen Glyph Thinking about the boondocks... | March 25 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph Working with NSAffine Transform in Cocoa | March 25 | Tagged: cocoa, objective-c

Pen Glyph Avoid wars with someone who believes in re-incarnation | March 25 | Tagged: mysticism, politics

Pen Glyph Steven: Secret Survey Subversive (and sibilant) | March 29 | Tagged: tech_support, internet_culture

February

Pen Glyph Hello Strangers... | February 1 | Tagged: cocoa, personal, travelogue

Pen Glyph I can see clearly now the rain is gone | February 3 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Retirement of spectacles | February 8 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Update on the laser-vision install | February 8 | Tagged: cocoa, personal

Pen Glyph I enjoy languages and computer languages, specifically | February 9 | Tagged: programming

Pen Glyph This whole Danish cartoon thing... | February 14 | Tagged: modern_times, philosophy_proper

Pen Glyph Continuing to display that countries with a free press don’t really care... | February 15 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph The secretly subversive Wikipedia mail of the day | February 15 | Tagged: internet_culture

Pen Glyph The Social Bobcat dips a tender paw in the online blogosphere | February 17 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Light on the posting... | February 27 | Tagged: personal, cocoa

January

Pen Glyph Back to Sunnyvale for the New Year.. | January 2 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Suck it ESPN - ‘Horns win the Rose Bowl | January 5 | Tagged: austin, critique, sports

Pen Glyph Road Trip to Pebble Beach | January 9 | Tagged: pictures, travelogue

Pen Glyph Countdown to Rome... | January 9 | Tagged: travelogue, education, bignerdranch

Pen Glyph Blogging offline, from Wis-kahn-sin | January 13 | Tagged: art_and_design, travelogue

Pen Glyph The Eternal City | January 16 | Tagged: pictures, travelogue

Pen Glyph Starting Cocoa class in rome | January 16 | Tagged: travelogue

Pen Glyph First opportunity to catch up | January 17 | Tagged: travelogue

Pen Glyph Finished The Confusion by Neal Stephenson | January 18 | Tagged: books

Pen Glyph In the Roman Countryside | January 19 | Tagged: pictures, travelogue

Pen Glyph More pictures from my Roman Cocoa Bootcamp | January 19 | Tagged: cocoa, education