Posts from 2008


January

Pen Glyph Back in ATX, Dei gratia, and New Year's | January 1 | Tagged: austin travelogue

Pen Glyph Getting back on the Rails: Headaches around Rails 2.x | January 2 | Tagged: ruby rails programming rails

Pen Glyph Scaffolding has changed in Rails 2.0: Has it become un-Agile? | January 2 | Tagged: programming rails ruby wtf rails ruby

Pen Glyph It's going to be a great year for me because | January 2 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Genetic Drift | January 3 | Tagged: life_and_death

Pen Glyph A movie no one should see, or everyone should see | January 4 | Tagged: entertainment movies

Pen Glyph Rails: Loading test data with fixtures | January 5 | Tagged: rails

Pen Glyph [Rails]: Is script/console not doing what you expect? | January 5 | Tagged: rails

Pen Glyph Rails and Unicode and PostGres DB (Oh My!): Understanding how UTF-8 works | January 5 | Tagged: rails software unicode

Pen Glyph [Rails]: Steven's Guide to: "Many to Many Associations" or "HABTM" (1/2) | January 11 | Tagged: rails

Pen Glyph [Rails] Cleaning up HABTM views (2/2) | January 11 | Tagged: rails ruby

Pen Glyph Me lately... | January 11 | Tagged: ruby personal rails

Pen Glyph Imagined lives #1 | January 13 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Misheard Lyrics: Sometimes earphones make the difference | January 13 | Tagged: entertainment music

Pen Glyph My Christmas Present | January 13 | Tagged: personal christmas art_and_design

Pen Glyph [Rails] Associations | January 14 | Tagged: rails ruby

Pen Glyph A simple PostGres Question I had: How to i find out the columns of a table | January 14 | Tagged: postgres

Pen Glyph No, I will not be using Facebook | January 14 | Tagged: internet_culture

Pen Glyph "Anonymous" strike against Scientology | January 23 | Tagged: scientology

Pen Glyph Why I think Barama has a secret weapon | January 23 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph "The Zero Effect": 10-year anniversary | January 28 | Tagged: entertainment movies

Pen Glyph Ruby Backreference Pattern Matching for the Brain-Dead | January 30 | Tagged: ruby

Pen Glyph [Ruby][Latin] Forget how to construct your passive voice indicative verbs in Latin? Ruby to rescue. | January 30 | Tagged: ruby latin heuristic meta-thinking

Pen Glyph That flat Russian "a" | January 30 | Tagged: music

February

Pen Glyph What language should my kids take? | February 1 | Tagged: latin

Pen Glyph I have created a Latin Web Site | February 1 | Tagged: latin

Pen Glyph Superbowl | February 4 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph I should not fail to mention this: Van Halen (neu mit 25% more Halen) is awesooooommmmeee. | February 7 | Tagged: entertainment music

Pen Glyph Dancing | February 7 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph One man's DITMTLOD is anothers, eh? | February 7 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph My friends speaking in secret codes | February 7 | Tagged: art_and_design modern_times

Pen Glyph [Ruby] Continued work around Latin Verb Conjugation Code | February 9 | Tagged: ruby latin verbs conjugation

Pen Glyph Persepolis | February 10 | Tagged: movies

Pen Glyph Roll of the Tripodometer | February 10 | Tagged: meta blogging

Pen Glyph [Ruby] A tool to convert LaTeX-style macrons to macron characters, html entities, or UTF-8 escape codes | February 10 | Tagged: apple latin ruby

Pen Glyph Rachel McAdams: Soon to be Queen of Girls Night | February 10 | Tagged: entertainment movies

Pen Glyph Écoute, s'il to plaît, à toi-même | February 12 | Tagged: culture

Pen Glyph Kids from Pennsylvania with talent | February 12 | Tagged: music

Pen Glyph [Rails] [LaTeX] [Latin] Conjugate Verbs Fully* in Latin with Ruby | February 12 | Tagged: latin ruby

Pen Glyph Smacked-down | February 17 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Trying to come out of hibernation | February 25 | Tagged: austin meta personal

March

Pen Glyph Why? | March 5 | Tagged: entertainment modern_times

Pen Glyph Steven: Agitator for carbohydrates | March 5 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph I hate / love comedians | March 6 | Tagged: sxsw2008

Pen Glyph Coming to town this week: Nicole Atkins | March 7 | Tagged: austin music

Pen Glyph [SXSW2008]: Day 1, Registration, What Made Milwaukee Famous, running into old faces | March 8 | Tagged: austin personal sxsw2008

Pen Glyph [SXSW2008] Day 2 | March 9 | Tagged: sxsw2008

Pen Glyph [SXSW2008]: Day 3 | March 9 | Tagged: sxsw2008

Pen Glyph [SXSW2008]: Let me teach you some manners | March 9 | Tagged: modern_times sxsw2008

Pen Glyph I love the subjunctive | March 13 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Reading a little fiction | March 18 | Tagged: modernism fiction books

Pen Glyph SXSW2008: Something's gotta change | March 26 | Tagged: sxsw2008 hackersvshumans tracks complaint redesign personal

Pen Glyph Seeing Richard Dawkins | March 28 | Tagged: philosophy argumentation atheism christianity gnosticism personal politics

Pen Glyph Would it be too late to say life imitates art creates art? | March 28 | Tagged: scientology

Pen Glyph I believe in Crystal Light | March 28 | Tagged: drinks products crystallight advertising work worklife

Pen Glyph Misuse of JavaScript annoys me | March 29 | Tagged: javascript youtube badsecurity ajax

April

Pen Glyph Last 2 days of SXSW Roundup | April 1 | Tagged: sxsw2008

Pen Glyph Is _whytheluckystiff this generation's Ted Nelson: A graphic consideration | April 1 | Tagged: modern_times sxsw2008

Pen Glyph My favorite SXSW presentations | April 1 | Tagged: sxsw2008

Pen Glyph Want | April 1 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph DITMSGHOD: 90's Edition, Strikes Back! | April 1 | Tagged: women dating media celebrity kickinitwitdaleague personal

Pen Glyph O Memnosyne! | April 1 | Tagged: latin

Pen Glyph Bliss Looks Like... | April 8 | Tagged: latin personal

Pen Glyph The M/F/F Room at the Austin Convention Center | April 8 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph Frankenscience or Fad or Delicious? | April 8 | Tagged: general personal

Pen Glyph Writing in Unix Editors: Lessons from showing others | April 8 | Tagged: writing vim emacs pico unix

Pen Glyph Is was right about to sign up for cable TV when... | April 9 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph The Plot Involves the Tarot Card | April 16 | Tagged: mysticism

Pen Glyph Victim of Keming | April 27 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Procrasti-studying: Yak Shaving by another name | April 28 | Tagged: latin internet_culture

Pen Glyph The SoCo draw and la gasolina | April 28 | Tagged: austin general

Pen Glyph Cinematic Poison: The Brothers Grimm | April 29 | Tagged: movies

May

Pen Glyph Nihil dicere | May 8 | Tagged: latin personal

Pen Glyph Complaints about SXSW addressed by SXSWi staff | May 8 | Tagged: sxsw2008

Pen Glyph Latin II: Epic Win | May 9 | Tagged: austin latin personal

Pen Glyph I r a filuhsuhfee grajuit | May 9 | Tagged: books philosophy_proper

Pen Glyph Less or Fewer | May 13 | Tagged: modern_times

Pen Glyph In my life in the Bay Area i grew to miss... | May 14 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph Everything in its proper place | May 25 | Tagged: entertainment music

Pen Glyph The Spirit of Volunteerism | May 29 | Tagged: austin

June

Pen Glyph Wisdom from "I, Claudius" | June 1 | Tagged: politics warfare

Pen Glyph Volunteerism cont'd | June 2 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph Macbook Keyboard + Vim | June 12 | Tagged: osx vim

Pen Glyph Alphabetical Phone Numbers: 223 872245489 | June 12 | Tagged: austin education

Pen Glyph Fixing "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" | June 13 | Tagged: culture entertainment

Pen Glyph Volunteering at Urban Roots | June 15 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph Stuff I Dislike: Confusing 'queue' with 'cue' or 'que' | June 15 | Tagged: culture

Pen Glyph Information Overeating Day | June 15 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Finished "I, CLAVDIVS" | June 16 | Tagged: entertainment latin

Pen Glyph "I'm voting republican" | June 17 | Tagged: humor

Pen Glyph The Washing your Hands in the Bathroom Gross Scale | June 17 | Tagged: modern_times

Pen Glyph Steven's "History of New Wave" movie | June 18 | Tagged: entertainment modern_times movies nostalgia

Pen Glyph Thinking about "Hancock": Nietzsche, "Kill Bill", and Will Smith | June 22 | Tagged: entertainment philosophy_proper

Pen Glyph Speaking of new-wave movies..."Control" | June 22 | Tagged: movies

Pen Glyph A very average movie weekend | June 23 | Tagged: entertainment movies

Pen Glyph What I cooked for dinner last night | June 24 | Tagged: cooking

Pen Glyph Mediterranean Misnomers | June 24 | Tagged: culture modern_times

July

Pen Glyph We are home from Beautiful British Columbia | July 2 | Tagged: personal travelogue

Pen Glyph New Internet Jargon: Banality Inertia | July 2 | Tagged: internet_culture

Pen Glyph Polyglotism ruined my grammar | July 3 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Travelogue: Vancouver Day 1 | July 3 | Tagged: travelogue vancouver

Pen Glyph Travelogue Day 2: Vancouver Parks and Harbourside | July 4 | Tagged: travelogue

Pen Glyph Vancouver Travelogue: Day 3: We gets some culture | July 7 | Tagged: travelogue

Pen Glyph 4th of July Fun | July 7 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph Rollerderby Action | July 7 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph I loved "Wall·E" | July 7 | Tagged: movies

Pen Glyph Vancouver Travelogue: Day 4, Vancouver Island and departure | July 8 | Tagged: travelogue

Pen Glyph Lone Star Ruby Conference | July 9 | Tagged: austin ruby

Pen Glyph Wednesday | July 10 | Tagged: general

Pen Glyph Reiser story coverage made worse by Gawker Media ads | July 10 | Tagged: critique culture modern_times software

Pen Glyph Dancin’ Machines | July 11 | Tagged: austin dancing

Pen Glyph One of my favorite David Bowie stories | July 13 | Tagged: music

Pen Glyph The Netflix Recommendation Engine Says: | July 13 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph As reported yesterday... | July 13 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Austin, rigor mortis | July 14 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph Sunday-night boredom | July 14 | Tagged: austin movies

Pen Glyph I fear your bacteria | July 15 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph "Dark Shadows Rules": I love Rush, so does Colbert, and Nicole's new mission | July 17 | Tagged: culture kickinitwitdaleague nostalgia personal

Pen Glyph Coldplay: White, Whiny, Wealthy | July 17 | Tagged: music

Pen Glyph Dark Knight: spoiler-free | July 19 | Tagged: movies

Pen Glyph Serge Gainsbourg could write a song... | July 20 | Tagged: movies music

Pen Glyph Degrassi | July 24 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Degrassi | July 24 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph Safari v. Mozilla | July 24 | Tagged: networking cocoa

Pen Glyph BREAKING: Good coffee place in North Austin: Sodade Coffee | July 25 | Tagged: design

Pen Glyph I missed the early mornings in Austin Coffeeshops | July 30 | Tagged: austin

Pen Glyph We saw "Hellboy II" | July 30 | Tagged: entertainment movies

August

Pen Glyph How I write Perl | August 1 | Tagged: perl functional_programming

Pen Glyph We saw "Wall·E" again and I still love it | August 3 | Tagged: movies

Pen Glyph Thinking about China | August 8 | Tagged: modern_times

Pen Glyph The summer anniversaries | August 11 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Perl things I always forget | August 13 | Tagged: perl

Pen Glyph Teenage Jobs and Cake Disasters | August 15 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Benefits of "Functional Perl": ease of modification | August 15 | Tagged: perl latex functional_programming

Pen Glyph "I Kissed a Girl" is a very evil song...and it's bad too | August 20 | Tagged: modern_times music

Pen Glyph Information Shadows | August 21 | Tagged: semanticweb symsys

Twitter icon I just joined twitter after disparaging it, hating it, not getting it and generally thinking it kinda sucked. Hell much colder. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Tw00t | August 22 | Tagged: internet_culture twitter

Twitter icon College calls at 730 on friday to say Latin III canceled due to low enrollment. Drink up to the death of classical education! | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Waiting for Lauren so we can go to CHUY’s | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon I think typewriters are beautiful. The power of the Guetenberg movable type press on your desk. And the italians made beautiful ones… | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Completing my Unicode library, listening to Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Killing Moon” | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Finished my Ruby Library for dealing with Latin strings that contain Unicode glyphs. Submitted to peer review via Austin ruby Coders. Ulp. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon SLR Camera Icon Want: | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon The owls make beautiful, gentle music: http://www.myspace.com/theowlsband with a folkish, mamas-n-papas, minnesota feel. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph The Wisdom of Adam Savage | August 24 | Tagged: modern_times

Pen Glyph Ruby Debugger Things I Always Forget | August 24 | Tagged: ruby

Twitter icon Watching Python’s “Meaning of Life” | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon I’m porting Perl code to M4 macro language so that I can flexibly deploy it to dev/ prod, and stage situations. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon @lauren’s diet advice: Are you really hungry or do you just want the flavor tunnel to keep on going? A good way to eat half a sandwich. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Looking outside to see how close the thunderstorms are. Nothing roars like Texas thunder: like a hungry bear lurking overhead. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Saw Tropic Thunder. Respect for Ben Stiller returns to 1991 levels. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Back at UTexas waiting for a class to start. 8 years later. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon At the UT Union Loggia. Last time I studied here ( 1997 ) there was a vampire real-world cosplay game going on. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Open Source Rap for spunky female English rapper | August 26 | Tagged: music

Twitter icon processing the foodbomb known as the Freeb!rd. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Yes, I'm still a DVORAK user | August 28 | Tagged: dvorak

Twitter icon Watching 30 rock season 1 on DVD . | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Got twitterberry working. Lauren and I rocking it 1987 style at olive garden. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Studying gre material at office on labor day wknd. I know how to party. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Back from kyakking on lady bird lake! Wonderful summer day in austin! | Tagged: tweet

September

Pen Glyph Introductory Khmer | September 1 | Tagged: austin

Twitter icon Writing M4 Macros. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Most qualified candidate possible... | September 2 | Tagged: culture politics

Twitter icon In line at prufrock’s at utexas. Anyone else feel the hint of fall this morning? | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph A Happening | September 3 | Tagged: austin personal

Twitter icon At the Lone Star Ruby conference. A place where you can say “mapreduce” without fear. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon @laurennroth: at LSRC we’re modeling the “greedy” dice game :) | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Watching Matz, author of Ruby, be an enthusiastic student of James Gray II, a Ruby expert. Curiosity and humility ought always be emulated. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon SLR Camera Icon For the Hannah Arendt lovers following me: | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Girlfriend in minor car accident. See you ruby ppl some other time. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Do you know who could write? Ralph "Invisible Man" Ellison | September 6 | Tagged: modern_times personal

Twitter icon Going with post-car-addicdent @laurennroth to Manuels, and then to catch “Elegy” at the Arbor. It’s hard to find movies without car crashes | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Oh but by the way. Don’t be hatin’ I loves me my Hall and Oates. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph She's OK. | September 9 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Icing on the cake | September 9 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph Minnesota is full of win | September 10 | Tagged: modern_times internet_culture memes

Twitter icon Back from stocking up on ike rations | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Seven yrs ago I was sleeping late due to a conf later that day. Roommate knocked n ddo “dude you’ll need to see this”. Thought fire? Quake? | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Batteries, lanterns, fresh water, gas in the auto. We’re set for Ike fallout. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Made huge leap forward on ruby code base. Very happy. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Should i get a facebook account now? I’ve resisted due to their Chrome-like attitude to my personal data: but its ubiquity is hard to miss | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Ruby Work: I have made a short video of my LatinVerb class. It’s stil 0.01 grade, but going the right way. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Going to go hand over the title to GEICO. farewell car. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon They call them blister packs–but i think they’re ‘cut your finger on sharp plastic, bleed everywhere, cursing and grab a steak knife pack’ | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon going to mighty fine burger before the game. In and out’s got nothing on this | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Discovered a scratch- gouge in the back of my car’s trunk door. Looks shopping-cart-y. As Aristotle said: we live in the corruptible world | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Life, not blogging | September 21 | Tagged: latin personal ruby

Pen Glyph LaTeX I always forget | September 21 | Tagged: latex

Twitter icon /me won’t be registering for SXSW until he finds out if the erlang and javascript classes got approved. I want to talk with MAKERS. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon @laurennroth Good afternoon my special one! You are the joy of my heart. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon After a night at @austinonrails I drink chocolate milk and listen to Elliot smith. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon I now have my Latin Verb Conjugator library passing all of its 600 Unit Test assertions and correctly building 5 standard verb types. w00t. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Financial Doom and Gloom | September 26 | Tagged: personal

Twitter icon @mirven @laurennroth give me a neko case afterworld, so that I can be in velvety awe eternally. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon At work implementing a change of back end processes. After a 45 hour backup, and a 9 hour new process kickoff, i’m closing in on the end. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Sometimes I feel like henry higgins, listening to others’ speech patterns and wanting to chronicle their grammar and morphology | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Back from am spent working at BMW of austin. Their waiting room is nicer than many deluxe offices. Bonus: car healthy, $0.00 outlay! | Tagged: tweet

October

Pen Glyph Scenes from a cohabitation | October 1 | Tagged: modern_times

Twitter icon My dad, repub. said: “This election is about who won’t blow the planet up, taxes are small potatoes”. Palin talks small potatoes #current | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon the straining strings of zoe keating’s cello make my macbook vibrate sympathetically. should i be worried? | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon going to spyglass access on the green belt | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Leading Men | October 5 | Tagged: entertainment

Pen Glyph LatinIRB | October 5 | Tagged: latin ruby

Twitter icon If the government, via our tax dollars is supporting no-longer-private industry, isn’t that technically communism? Привет! | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Freebird’s with my beautiful girl! Spring day! Bliss! | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Dear Apple: why isn’t the clipboard hold n-many cuts? Closer to Emacs’ kill-ring. Copying youtube url over important stuff sucks. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Has finally dug out of his Perl programming hole. Back to Ruby and, possibly, some C. | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Claims we are a purely capitalist country seem inaccurate | October 9 | Tagged: economics politics

Twitter icon At PCL reading about political cunning and fooling the masses in the gallic war. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon I see people using ASL rapidly with one another. I wonder if they’re arguing and if they sign “don’t yell at me”. Yelling= Intent not volume | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Austin traffic is a wreck in every directon thanks to those going to Dallas. Icing on the cake, bus ahead of mine broke down on Guadalupe. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Cracked magazine says something that we all know but simply don’t say: | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Just back from salsa dancing at copa on congress. Nice spot. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Has begun his fast in preparation for the Salt Lick tonight in observation of @laurennroth’s birthday! | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon I have the kind of life where we listen to The Cowboy Junkies and make brunch on Sunday. I like it very much. | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Hey, Sarah Palin | October 13 | Tagged: politics

Pen Glyph Today is Lauren's Birthday! | October 14 | Tagged: personal

Twitter icon Birthday dinner at chez nous was great; the duchess merely ok. Birthday time with birthday girl @laurennroth always great | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon can i tell you how much i love Metric’s “Combat Baby” | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph West St. Paul | October 15 | Tagged: modern_times funny

Pen Glyph England, Home of Progressive Synth Bands, thanks to 80's television | October 19 | Tagged: music

Twitter icon Home from a wonderful day at Maker Faire ( no Bill Murray Seen ) and a nice house party with some of my fave hi school friends, SO’s, & fam. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Caffe medici latte and tacodeli b’fast taco. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon is going to be in San Jose the week of the election! I’ve never voted early, but suppose there’s a first. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Pictures of Maker Faire Austin | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Sometimes when translating latin it dawns on me that I’ve been holding my breath until the sentence is done. I exhale audibly, surprised. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Yes palin spends a ton of cash on clothes. Our society esteems women based on their looks. This isn’t a her issue, it’s an us issue. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph End of an Era | October 25 | Tagged: personal

Facebook Glyph Volcker on Charlie Rose | October 25 | Tagged: economics

Twitter icon At fonda san miguel with sister, mom and gf | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon I cooked a tandoori chicken, dal, and rice dinner for @laurennroth, mom, and sis:bro in law. Delicious! | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon information or linguistics? | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Tainting the Cops' Food | October 29 | Tagged: politics

Twitter icon another vote for hope in Austin. | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Ting-Tings | October 30 | Tagged: music

Facebook Glyph The Economist endorses Obama | October 30 | Tagged: politics

November

Twitter icon Getting ready for a dia de los muertos party ( nox mortui ). | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Just de-made-up from dia de los muertos party. I now have long, lustrous lashes. It’s not maybelline. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Visit to aapl store got me a brand new battery! Thanks for fixing bunk hardware! More reasons why I am a mac guy | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Ppl in apple store’s genius bar happily tipsy on change! | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon I liked mccain’s message. America is a great promise, it’s a great place where the dialectic of disagreement makes us stronger. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon So say we all …. Er yes we can | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Going to bed in CA: Thanks, Nation! | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph My Kennedy Moment: Obama is President | November 5 | Tagged: modern_times politics

Twitter icon In. North beach, sf, ca living the cool, sudden, early dark of the city’s falll. O urbs francisci santi, te semper amabo. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Joy division is played in the bars of sf. The midlands are good for music. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon In south san jose in the foothills. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Inbox Zero | November 11 | Tagged: productivity internet_culture

Twitter icon Just back from Lindy Hop dancing. It has been 2 months off so we down-stepped a skill group. It was good to shake the rust off again. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Up early to head out to Lexington, TX to get “the best BBQ in Texas”. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Worked out; hopefully de- sinning from sweet, sweet snow’s bbq. | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Missionary Converted | November 17 | Tagged: modern_times linguistics

Twitter icon OK look, I seriously love the pixies. But dear God it’s annihiliating my ability to concentrate. I can rant in spanish frothingly too. | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: Dr. Marvel | November 20 | Tagged: personal mobile photography

Facebook Glyph SNL: Sportscenter | November 21 | Tagged: funny

Pen Glyph November Doldrums | November 24 | Tagged: personal

Facebook Glyph What Happy People Don’t Do | November 24 | Tagged: modern_times

Twitter icon Headed to new mexico, next milestone: abilene | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Texico. Truly nothing for miles but the destination. | Tagged: tweet

December

Twitter icon FYI Jasons Deli no longer does the single-trip salad. You must now get the full salad bar. Tax on eating with restraint is lame. | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: Stanford | December 1 | Tagged: mobile photography

Twitter icon Just re-drafted the first half of a Philosophy of Science essay I wrote ~10 years ago. Less verbosity: cuts much easier with a decade on ya | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon I just had a jr. Hi flashback and remembered the pants known as skidz. Bad name, worse clothing. Only brenda walsh can save my mood. | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: For Jim: his IM icon in the flesh | December 3 | Tagged: mobile photography

Facebook Glyph Abomination / Obamanation | December 4 | Tagged: politics

Twitter icon I am exhausted. Preparing writing samples on anthropic principles and work and getting recoms | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Thanks to living in CA 6 years & ATX smoking ban, I had forgotten coming home & thinking “i need to wash my hair”. Until 2nite, iron cactus | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Going to a late lunch at torchy’s with @laurennroth | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Kicking it at thunderbird café: Too many peepz at Epoch. | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Reshoot "The Fountain?" | December 6 | Tagged: movies

Twitter icon watching milk was like a best of trip to san francisco: all hills and Deco? No urine smell. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Trying to relate to society again | December 7 | Tagged: personal

Pen Glyph "Milk", the film | December 7 | Tagged: movies

Twitter icon I was rereading one of my favorite books and found a KNACK sticker, 1995 vintage. In it. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon writing sample ( redraft of anti anthropic principle paper near done ) cites ruby pickaxe ruby book, Wittgenstein | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon About to get my roller skate on. Bump that sean paull playland skate center | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon just for the record, my favorite time of day is the very nerdly, 2:56. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon going to Alfredo Garcia’s house and then going to the Trail of Lights! Austin Christmas is here, proof, it’s 80 degrees out. | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph The Public Debate | December 16 | Tagged: modern_times

Facebook Glyph Excellence and Outliers | December 17 | Tagged: excellence inspiration

Twitter icon I am trapped in the arbor walk complex’s hellish traffic flow. 15 minutes from floyds to mighty fine. | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: Nieman-Marcus display | December 20 | Tagged: mobile photography

Twitter icon if you like a burger with that great char grilled flavor, methinks there I’d none finer than smokey mo’s on mcneil | Tagged: tweet

Pen Glyph Ain't Love Grand | December 21 | Tagged: entertainment

Twitter icon My first Rails app: LINGUA LATINA IN VIIS FERRORUM | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon Necessary luxuries in houston’s galleria has taught me more about shaving in one day that I have ever imagined possible. | Tagged: tweet

Twitter icon About to watch “wall-e” with dad and @laurennroth. Good christmas visit coda. | Tagged: tweet

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: It's a Beaver! | December 28 | Tagged: mobile photography

Facebook Glyph Hollywood vs. Suburbia | December 29 | Tagged: modern_times