Posts from 2006
January
Back to Sunnyvale for the New Year.. | January 2 | Tagged: Personal
Suck it ESPN - ‘Horns win the Rose Bowl | January 5 | Tagged: Austin Critique Sports
Road Trip to Pebble Beach | January 9 | Tagged: Pictures Travelogue
Countdown to Rome... | January 9 | Tagged: Travelogue Education Bignerdranch
Blogging offline, from Wis-kahn-sin | January 13 | Tagged: Art_and_design Travelogue
The Eternal City | January 16 | Tagged: Pictures Travelogue
Starting Cocoa class in rome | January 16 | Tagged: Travelogue
First opportunity to catch up | January 17 | Tagged: Travelogue
Finished The Confusion by Neal Stephenson | January 18 | Tagged: Books
In the Roman Countryside | January 19 | Tagged: Pictures Travelogue
More pictures from my Roman Cocoa Bootcamp | January 19 | Tagged: Cocoa Education
February
Hello Strangers... | February 1 | Tagged: Cocoa Personal Travelogue
I can see clearly now the rain is gone | February 3 | Tagged: Personal
Retirement of spectacles | February 8 | Tagged: Personal
Update on the laser-vision install | February 8 | Tagged: Cocoa Personal
I enjoy languages and computer languages, specifically | February 9 | Tagged: Programming
This whole Danish cartoon thing... | February 14 | Tagged: Modern_times Philosophy_proper
Continuing to display that countries with a free press don’t really care... | February 15 | Tagged: Politics
The secretly subversive Wikipedia mail of the day | February 15 | Tagged: Internet_culture
The Social Bobcat dips a tender paw in the online blogosphere | February 17 | Tagged: Personal
Light on the posting... | February 27 | Tagged: Personal Cocoa
March
Back from the underbelly | March 6 | Tagged: Cocoa
Finished the SudokuGrid application | March 6 | Tagged: Cocoa Programming
Blog backlog | March 6 | Tagged: Meta
Download the SudokuGrid Application | March 8 | Tagged: Cocoa
My girlfriend is great because... | March 8 | Tagged: Personal
I’m wary, but here goes | March 8 | Tagged: Entertainment
Are the sands shifting underneath our feet? | March 11 | Tagged: Politics
Unfortunate Abbreviations | March 12 | Tagged: Ruminations
Undertaking The System of the World | March 12 | Tagged: Books
I mis-Austened myself | March 12 | Tagged: Movies
A film about pin-up icon Bettie Page? | March 12 | Tagged: Entertainment
Finished Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto | March 12 | Tagged: Books
Keira Knightley’s Teeth of Doom | March 13 | Tagged: Entertainment
Hints on editing quickly | March 14 | Tagged: Vim
V for Victorious | March 18 | Tagged: Movies
Saturday at the Cine | March 18 | Tagged: Movies
Thinking about the boondocks... | March 25 | Tagged: Politics
Working with NSAffine Transform in Cocoa | March 25 | Tagged: Cocoa Objective-C
Avoid wars with someone who believes in re-incarnation | March 25 | Tagged: Mysticism Politics
Steven: Secret Survey Subversive (and sibilant) | March 29 | Tagged: Tech_support Internet_culture
April
Is this the cutest thing ever? | April 7 | Tagged: Personal
I shudder to say, but I am totally excited about Silent Hill, the movie | April 10 | Tagged: Entertainment
Latest Cocoa Program: Simple Flash Card ( neu mit Cocoa-bindings! ) | April 13 | Tagged: Cocoa Productivity
Farewell MovableType | April 16 | Tagged: Personal
Wikiquotes of the day: Euler and his Kantianism, and The Son of God | April 19 | Tagged: Gnosticism Philosophy_proper
Site revamp finished | April 20 | Tagged: News! Personal
Steven is going back to Austin | April 21 | Tagged: General News! Personal
Going slightly crazy | April 24 | Tagged: Personal Networking
Day 1 of Intro training has come and gone... | April 26 | Tagged: Productivity Education Networking
Where, oh where are the poets like this? | April 27 | Tagged: Art_and_design Culture
Sketchup! | April 28 | Tagged: Sketchup
The Season of Closing Cycles | April 28 | Tagged: Personal
Finished INTRO training | April 28 | Tagged: Networking
Startup School | April 29 | Tagged: Stanford Startups Palo_alto
"E"asy Cheezy Pretzels | April 30 | Tagged: Culture Nostalgia
May
MemoryBank: Yet another Flash Card application available for download | May 1 | Tagged: Cocoa
I love a good prank... | May 4 | Tagged: Culture
Colbert calls Bush Arsenio, to his face. | May 4 | Tagged: Culture Politics
Handy site for firefox extensions | May 6 | Tagged: Firefox
Freedom is on the move in Iraq | May 7 | Tagged: Modern_times Politics Bush
Vatican astronomer calls creationism a version of paganism | May 8 | Tagged: Culture General Philosophy_proper
Nietzsche would be proud | May 8 | Tagged: Modern_times Philosophy_proper Politics
[ EXCLUSIVE ] Content of Ahmadinejad’s letter to Bush | May 8 | Tagged: Politics Bush
Leaving the Vale of the Sun (UPDATED) | May 8 | Tagged: Personal
Programmers and domestic goddesses | May 16 | Tagged: Art_and_design Perl
Apple does the awful: Glossy Screens | May 17 | Tagged: Apple
It’s getting warm in here, and this handbasket is awfully uncomfortable | May 19 | Tagged: Politics
Not writing much | May 21 | Tagged: Meta
Visit to Willits and Ft. Bragg | May 22 | Tagged: Travelogue Norcal
The Final Countdown | May 22 | Tagged: Nostalgia Personal
First leg of migration down | May 29 | Tagged: Personal Travelogue
Vegas, and on to the Grand Canyon | May 31 | Tagged: Travelogue
Best Western SLO vs. Paris Las Vegas | May 31 | Tagged: Personal Travelogue
What happened to the slot machines | May 31 | Tagged: Travelogue
June
Living in Austin | June 9 | Tagged: Personal
And I, for one, welcome our new machine overlords | June 11 | Tagged: Travelogue
Henry Rollins is hee-hi-larious | June 14 | Tagged: Politics
When waiting, focus your power | June 15 | Tagged: Movies Zen
Test Post from Within Textmate | June 16 | Tagged: Textmate
I am a resident of Austin, Texas now ( again ) | June 19 | Tagged: General
SIMPLIFY | June 19 | Tagged: General Personal
( - 40 1 ) days | June 20 | Tagged: Personal Yoga
Steven is a whimsical programmer | June 20 | Tagged: Ruby
Randomly running into Idgy Vaughn | June 21 | Tagged: Austin Music
Dude, an astronaut totally pwn'd you | June 21 | Tagged: Culture
Posh Spice channels Sisters frontman Andrew Eldritch | June 23 | Tagged: Culture Entertainment
Paging Herr Doktor Zyklon | June 25 | Tagged: Politics
I love the 80’s, but sometimes she’s an abusive wife | June 26 | Tagged: Culture
(+ (* -1 8) 40) days left in the 40-day yoga challenge | June 27 | Tagged: Austin Yoga
The Season of Closing Cycles Part II: California Round Trips and Folk Singers | June 28 | Tagged: Personal
At my new office... | June 29 | Tagged: Personal Work
July
Flat Track Invasion: Steven sees TXRollerGirl Action | July 3 | Tagged: Entertainment
Monday Morning Referees | July 3 | Tagged: Culture General
Kit Fisto is my favorite Jedi | July 3 | Tagged: Entertainment
Why I hate Kim Jong-Il | July 5 | Tagged: Modern_times Politics
Sally Fourth | July 5 | Tagged: Austin General
Austin: A good town for modern architecture | July 6 | Tagged: Art_and_design Austin
A Handy Tip for Ruby Developers: Dispatch Tables | July 8 | Tagged: Ruby Perl Programming
I saw "Pirates II", it wasn’t very good (1/2) | July 9 | Tagged: Critique Entertainment
Pirates II continues to disappoint (2/2) | July 9 | Tagged: Critique Entertainment
I feel the geometry going wrong in the Childrens’ section... | July 10 | Tagged: Austin Books
Musical Accopmianiment to Austin’s Modern Homes | July 12 | Tagged: Austin Music
Busy, Busy | July 23 | Tagged: Personal
Thoughts... | July 23 | Tagged: Politics
Completed the 40-day Yoga Challenge | July 29 | Tagged: Austin Gnosticism Personal Yoga
August
Summertime with my baby | August 6 | Tagged: Austin Personal
Kit Fisto, party of two | August 10 | Tagged: Personal
Wet...hot...shaving action | August 10 | Tagged: Modern_times Personal Toys
A nice birthday... | August 10 | Tagged: Personal
Dateline NBC attacks the hard questions | August 18 | Tagged: Culture
Working up to AJAX by learning something about the DOM and Javascript | August 20 | Tagged: Ajax Html Javascript Web
Going further with JavaScript and the DOM | August 20 | Tagged: Ajax Javascript Functional_programming
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia | August 20 | Tagged: Austin Personal Web
A fun weekend | August 22 | Tagged: Austin Personal Toys
Doing the trivia thing with the Mayor, Alfredo, and Osakatomebaby-lady | August 23 | Tagged: Austin Nostalgia Personal
I can see the metal in your eyes | August 24 | Tagged: Entertainment Music
Shutter the Pentagon, close Westpoint: The War Nerd rules | August 24 | Tagged: Culture Entertainment Modern_times
Bruno Kirby goes into the great beyond | August 25 | Tagged: Entertainment
Lauren’s first visit to The Alamo Drafthouse | August 26 | Tagged: Austin Entertainment
The Previews! | August 26 | Tagged: Austin Entertainment
Parler francais avec Tex | August 26 | Tagged: Austin
It’s only really worth having if you can give it away... | August 27 | Tagged: Politics
Good WikiQuote Weekend | August 28 | Tagged: Modern_times Philosophy_proper
Inflicting indignities upon a dignified people | August 31 | Tagged: Entertainment
Michael Bay, this is the last straw | August 31 | Tagged: Entertainment
Why my girlfriend totally rules | August 31 | Tagged: Austin Personal
Rappacini, Philip K. Dick, Origami, and the Zen of the unnatural natural | August 31 | Tagged: Arete Culture Design Ruminations Zen
Updating some layout | August 31 | Tagged: Meta
September
Early morning movie thoughts | September 2 | Tagged: Entertainment
Testing more formatting | September 2 | Tagged: Meta
Making some progress with JavaScript menus | September 2 | Tagged: Ajax Design Javascript
Site Update Complete | September 3 | Tagged: Meta
Enjoying the weekend and holiday | September 4 | Tagged: Personal
Hitler’s rise to power | September 5 | Tagged: Politics
Oh the difference a percent makes | September 5 | Tagged: Modern_times Politics Warfare
Is the war on terror over, barring a much bigger can of worms? | September 7 | Tagged: Politics
Arguments about politics | September 7 | Tagged: Politics
Five years later... | September 8 | Tagged: Politics
The man in black for president | September 8 | Tagged: Entertainment Politics
Curse you Neal Stephenson and your knack for similitudes! | September 11 | Tagged: Unix Programming Writing
Visting the Scientology street fair | September 11 | Tagged: Politics Religion
Some things in life bear repeating many, many times | September 12 | Tagged: Entertainment
Is America learning cabaret? | September 13 | Tagged: Entertainment Music Politics
The natural world is full of amazing things | September 15 | Tagged: Gnosticism Personal
Aguierre: The Wrath of God | September 19 | Tagged: Entertainment
September is the month of..... | September 26 | Tagged: Personal
OpenLDAP ate my week... | September 29 | Tagged: Programming
Venom! | September 29 | Tagged: Personal
October
September | October 1 | Tagged: Austin Entertainment
Suicide | October 1 | Tagged: Culture Entertainment Politics
La Vie Austienne: ‘Go’ at Austin Java | October 3 | Tagged: Entertainment Toys Zen
Ladytron tickets | October 3 | Tagged: Austin Entertainment
Limbo: How low can you go | October 4 | Tagged: Entertainment Gnosticism
Saw "The Science of Sleep" | October 6 | Tagged: Movies Personal
Back in San Jose this week | October 12 | Tagged: Personal Travelogue
The soporific Allan Odgaard | October 16 | Tagged: Textmate
Monday Morning Meeting with Melbotis, The League of | October 19 | Tagged: Austin Personal
Visiting Ginny’s Little Longhorn | October 20 | Tagged: Art_and_design Austin Entertainment
Ready for the new Mac Book Pro | October 20 | Tagged: Apple
Entertainment Weekly covers The Cardigans | October 21 | Tagged: Music
In case you’re wondering, true love looks like this | October 21 | Tagged: Personal
Ladytron Seen, Melbotis Met | October 22 | Tagged: Austin Music
TV Party at Alamo Drafthouse | October 25 | Tagged: Austin Entertainment
Finished "Running with Scissors" | October 25 | Tagged: Books
"Go"-ing crazy, courtesy of the Social Bobcat | October 26 | Tagged: Entertainment
Windy city? Austin, Tejas | October 27 | Tagged: Austin
November
Halloween on 6th, the masses, the masques, the religiousity. | November 1 | Tagged: Austin
Tickets for Regina Spektor on the 10th at Antone’s | November 1 | Tagged: Austin Music
Finished The Brief History of the Dead | November 1 | Tagged: Books Ruminations
Addendum to The Brief History of the Dead post | November 5 | Tagged: Books
Steven sees Running With Scissors, the movie | November 7 | Tagged: Entertainment
Adrienne Shelley and 1997 | November 7 | Tagged: Austin Personal
The handbasket is cramped, but it’s not getting hotter at that regular interval | November 8 | Tagged: News! Politics
Let me put it succinctly | November 8 | Tagged: Personal Politics
...and it just keeps getting better | November 9 | Tagged: Politics
From the UK’s "Guardian" paper. | November 9 | Tagged: Politics Bush
George, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and The Freudian Oedipal "Vision Thing" | November 13 | Tagged: Entertainment Politics
Surprises in the workplace | November 17 | Tagged: Personal
Pre Thanksgiving goings-on | November 19 | Tagged: Critique Movies Personal
Finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy | November 19 | Tagged: Books Critique Culture
Dreaming... | November 26 | Tagged: Life_and_death Mysticism Personal
Traveling back from West Texas | November 26 | Tagged: Personal
iRead iWoz | November 26 | Tagged: Books Design Apple
Word So Totally Sucks | November 27 | Tagged: Art_and_design Html
The Fines of Texas are Upon You | November 27 | Tagged: Austin Personal
A Good Austin Citizen: Joining the Public Library | November 28 | Tagged: Austin Books
December
Mysteries of the humour universe | December 3 | Tagged: Art_and_design Humor
On the topic of Un-Funny: Then there was Clerks II | December 3 | Tagged: Entertainment Movies
A delightful independent film: Raising Victor Vargas | December 6 | Tagged: Entertainment Movies
Nietzsche Family Circus | December 10 | Tagged: Philosophy_proper
Watched "Brick" | December 11 | Tagged: Movies
Fun with Unicode | December 11 | Tagged: Unicode
End of the week in SoCo | December 16 | Tagged: Austin Personal
I love programming languages! | December 20 | Tagged: Personal
Howdy readers | December 20 | Tagged: General Personal
Something’s very, very wrong in this country | December 23 | Tagged: Politics