Posts from 2012
2012
December
Actually seriously is there a uml book for the 21st century?
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@garannm Sequence diagrams have upped my OO game dramatically. Where’s book: “UML: The Good Parts?”
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@nuclearsandwich I note many tourists in SF don’t use their knees to walk but wobble foot to foot. Is walking become so rare?
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Blog: I appear on the Ruby Rogues podcast:
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Blog: Helen Keller meets Martha Graham:
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Talking and Listening With Our Bodies | December 1
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Appearance on Ruby Rogues Podcast | December 1
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Seeing 'Tosca' in San Francisco | December 1
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Blog: On seeing “Tosca” in San Francisco: Seeing ‘Tosca’ in San Francisco
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Contributing to jQuery: 70% core-team formatting review, 20% breaking up pages of chained calls, 5% fix, 5% github line comments
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Started “21st century C.” I got all the way to chapter TWO before being hamstrung by library dependency failure on sample code. Amazing!
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stuck in a florence and the machine loop. must get away. can’t get away. must get away.
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@laurennroth and I are going to see @sandimetz tonight. So excite
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Mobile Upload: Modus rerum malorum | December 15
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My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook | December 16
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Blog: My New Development Machine: Samsung Chromebook:
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Cold at Work | December 19
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Understanding the DCI Paradigm: Super Mario Brothers Demo | December 19
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I feel like I just ascended in Javascript. I intentionally used hoisting instead of avoiding it breaking my program. #xmasmiracle
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Everyone smugly laughing at the Mayan non-event: if you believe in an unprovable, eschatological tradition, you forfeit your laughing rights
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Mobile Upload: Look what I can home to! Potatoes au gratin and salad! | December 21
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Harsh Truths From Cracked | December 21
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A moody Ventura county vista.
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Orange tree laden with rain and oranges. #orangecountystyle
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My favorite Xmas baritone.
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Rode a fixie today. Not moving to the mission.
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Thanks to car trouble I’ll be spending another night in Orange County. There are far worse things.
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Like all good geek SF households, we inaugurate all new TV’s with Khaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn!
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@kurt_loder @adamcurry perhaps overvague: two voices i respect getting out their message in a way that’s enlightening and entertaining.
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@kurt_loder tweeting is to this generation what @adamcurry buying was to mine.
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November
#NowPlaying Five Seconds by Twin Shadow on #Spotify 80s synth
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“Wreck it Ralph”. There are many small humans here.
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Chris Rock for Obama | November 4
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Revisiting LatinVerb and LatinIRB | November 4
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I never really got opera until recently. But this is amazing even if you’ve not crossed that threshold. #Spotify
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I so hope @fivethirtyeight makes stats sexy to the kids, they study math, and innovate me into a stunned senescence.
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Maybe I’m late to the party here but Sandi Metz’s talk at gogaruco might be one of the best uses of 44 minutes in my career.
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Screw the swing states, we’re going swig dancing. Lindy Hop and Balboa 2012!
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Sandi Metz Live | November 7
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At the rockabilly show dancers and greasers collide and the bass string abuse line is called.
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Why is it OK to threaten Presidents?! | November 12
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Colleges include Hot Girl Factor ::eyeroll:: | November 12
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Our Product Release | November 12
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RT @ShopItToMe: A note from our CEO @imcharliegraham on Shop It To Me Threads: A New Way to Shop, YOUR Way! >
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What Happened to Videos? | November 13
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Such a great track ♫ Galaxies – Laura Veirs #Spotify
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Our product just got a shout out from @sfgate:
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OH: on Oahu they call that wind. On Maui we call that a light breeze.
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I’m thankful for the spirit of aloha here on Maui.
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@nanostalgic I feel the same when I wake up to the sound of pouring rain.
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Apple maps thinks Keawala’i church is a church of The Drowned God apparently.
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RT @tamrafeldman: in case you didn’t catch @shopittome on the TODAY show this morning as the #1 cyber monday tip:
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Seeing “Tosca.” I’m so excited to ear year voices.
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October
Just completed a 13.43 mi run - Half marathon distance. #RunKeeper
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@stevenharms hah, no I live in the neighborhood. Like within a block.
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Off to relive the 90s. We are going to see garbage tonight at the Warfield
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If this doesn’t make you glad to be alive… ♫ Exactly Like You – Django Reinhardt #Spotify
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Made it to hardly strictly bluegrass. Dwight yokam and then later del mccoury.
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Anniversary of "The Princess Bride" | October 7
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I may be a little bit late with this, but let me say that Patti Smith really killed it live at #hsbg on Sunday. See her live If you can.
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I stepped outside this morning and it was Fall in San Francisco.
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At the city target. 1 block from home. cc/@MissMauriss
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Today represents the kind of challenging day where only a double-shot of espresso and “Red Barchetta” can help. #rushfanforever
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#NowPlaying Sister Lost Soul by Alejandro Escovedo on #Spotify
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In fog-bound Pacifica, CA, where one might expect insulation from many Texan horrors, there was man in an OU cap at the bakery.
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Just had to tweet it: THANK YOU
git reflog
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Just completed a 8.03 mi run - Night run through the park. Need a personal illumination tool. . #RunKeeper
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“@The picture of the day in Texas: Big Tex burning. Here’s the front page: / @nanostalgic UT alumna LDF in byline?
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Mobile Upload: The nicest Taco Bell in the world | October 21
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How we know whether the dishes are direrrty or clean @shopittome
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Next month Gheorghiu will be performing “Tosca” in SF. #Spotify
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I wonder what John Stamos thought when the ABC memo announced that said Urkel would crash land into an episode of “Full House” via jetpack.
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Mobile Upload: Lauren scouts the best pumpkins. | October 23
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Mobile Upload: If there's a bustle in the corn maze, don't be alarmed at it. | October 23
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Mobile Upload: Corn Maze | October 23
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Listened to this most of today. Pretty good. ♫ Stubborn Love – The Lumineers #Spotify
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@dddagradi the worst part if vim usage is how insufferable it makes all other means of text entry. Looking at you iPhone.
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Sooooo proud of my #SFGiants! Come back home for the party.
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Just completed a 2.91 mi run - Ran with Lauren to trader joes north beach. #RunKeeper
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Mobile Photo: Noir del Muertos | October 30
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September
Is there anyone who wore a casual vest so well as Pam Dawber?
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The Comedic Style of Reggie Watts | September 7
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My daily @marinasdiamonds dosage may be reaching “radioactive” levels ♫ Electra Heart – Marina and The Diamonds
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The Raveonettes new record is another gorgeous, rich, angsty mix of beautiful harmonies, noisy and a morbid 50’s bal…
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Building Applications in Ember.JS | September 19
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I’m entirely staggered that this record came out in 1983. Sounds current and edgy today, still. #Spotify
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Ok that’s all for run tweeting. Hope you all enjoyed a run through the city with me.
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Lands end!
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Ruins of the Sutro baths. A bit like the Roman forum…by the sea.
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san_francisco
Deco majesty and prom dates
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My friend mike wrote a sand message to his girlfriend, now wife, in front of that rock years ago.
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As my friend saoirse says: the oh sun!
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Denkend aan holland sta Ik in de koninginwilhelminatuin
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Why does it smell like maple syrup here?!?!?
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On leash means on leash.
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Bison! Sponsored by yahoo CEO marissa Mayer and Zachary bogue
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Last bathroom til the pacific. Use it.
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Les jardins Luxembourg?
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About 20 avenues to go.
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The waterfall empties here. This little lake reminds me of Barcelona.
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Waterfall. Not natural but hearing it encourages me. Especially with cloudy fog ahead.
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Running in the park is a joy.
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Yet another code-questionable SF structure.
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Stop to smell them.
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On Sundays lindy hoppers hop here. DeYoung museum in back.
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Plants live in there. So beautiful here when it’s sunny.
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At last golden gate park. 3 miles of eucalypti, bison, musea, and then the ocean
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Through this park to the big golden gate park.
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The western addition has great jazzl, vegan food and haute cuisine.
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Ah Alamo square. The houses that launched a thousand “awwwws.” Uncle Jesse status: nil.
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Fall might be coming.
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Hayes valley has many good restaurants like Patxi’s. there are many boutiques and brunchers as well.
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Seriously 800 Larkin is awesome tonight. Great Wall art, Early era sisters of mercy, stooges, femmes on the jukebox.
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I cannot say just how lovely the new @FirstAidKitBand record “The Lion’s Roar” is.
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I could be wrong here, but I think I may be a Javascript programmer.
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Reminds me of year one with @laurennroth ♫ Galaxies – Laura Veirs #Spotify
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The Cardigans may be remembered for “Lovefool” but their “Gran Turismo” quite nearly perfect. ♫ Perfect Things
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Mobile Upload: Kim Lenz | September 28
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The awesome Kim Lenz at the Verdi Club.
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Oktoberfest
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Inspiring Though from Bertrand Russell | September 29
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August
So glad to see the re-interpretation of 50’s era sounds with electronica (Grimes) or noise (Raveonettes). #Spotify
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This one’s pretty phat. I hear Eno + Donna summer elements on this one. #Spotify
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Marina (of the diamonds), Amanda Palmer seem to both be bearers of shattered shards of Weimar cabaret.
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@ethanschoonover @laurenroth tells me I like condiments more than food and editors more than programming. +1 for @vimconf
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I’m no vim slouch as many will attest, but @nelstrom’s book got me dropping Ex bombs and argdos during a refactor today. Recommended
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Used vim to update 245 deprecated statements in my #emberjs code using a trick I learned from @nelstrom ’s book:
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Bringing code into compliance with Vim, :argdo, ack case study: Upgrading to Ember 1.0-pre | August 4
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@laurennroth is playing some Siouxsie. It’ stunning that 30 years (!) later she still sounds like she cut those tracks today.
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Security checker called the fig newtons in my bag “old people cookies.”. Say what? These are NEWTONS
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Urban Planning and 50 Shades of Gray | August 16
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Moved my blog off of Wordpress and onto @Heroku + octopress. surprisingly easy and with mo ruby flavor:
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The Girlfriend | August 20
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Migrating from Web Hosting + Wordpress to ... Free! (Jekyll + Heroku + Google) | August 20
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Among the perfect things in this world is this record by David Bowie. ♫ Five Years - 2012 - Remaster – David Bowie
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Post: Seeing “Ruby Sparks” and women leads stop “needing” to “save” or “rescue” the men:
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Post: Moving from Wordpress to Octopress (free blog hosting!):
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Loving the movie Drive | August 24
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Got tickets for the last weekend of les miserablès in SF with @laurennroth . So excited. #teameponine.
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At Zeitgeist with a good chunk of thoughtworks and github it seems.
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I cannot deny that I think @marinasdiamonds is wonderful.
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July
I love running from my front door to ocean beach: the GGB’s fog horns, the musea in the park, Dutch windmill, and, at last, the sea.
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I was finally on the mood for something edgy, so we watched “Drive.”. Felt very Michael Mann. Loved the synths and the “realer LA” scenes.
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Apparently in the first 7 months of this year i have put 515 miles on my car. Last year, I put 10K on it.
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< 24 hours later I’m pretty sure I’m ready to say that “Drive” was the best movie I’ve seen within the last 5 years, possibly more.
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Just once I’d like to hop on muni and hear some Wagner or Holst leaking out of headphones.
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%w(knife fork bottle cork).join(’ ‘).equal?(“New York”) #=> true
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We had a great fedex day at @shopittome yesterday. Wrote a rake task to start a rack server that runs Qunit on rake-packaged #emberjs assets
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I wonder if Teri Nunn got flashbacks from listening to the “Drive” soundtrack.
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sharon van etten, sarah jaffee: do a double bill in san francisco.
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Sometimes I just forget how wonderful Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was. Here’s a reminder ♫ Jesus, etc. – Wilco #Spotify
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Adding Unicode symbols at the command line in Mac OSX using iTerm2 | July 29
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I first heard this record in, I think, 1991. It still blisters the eardrums. #Spotify
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I love Karmin’s amazing rap covers, but their original pop stuff is catchy as hell pop sung by a girl who can, get t…
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June
RIP Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles have an elegiac beauty that has rarely been repeated.
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My homage to Ray Bradbury:
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RIP Ray Bradbury | June 8
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I was wrong. The new Wes Anderson movie #moonrisekingdom is wonderful, his best since “Rushmore.”
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I was trying to count how many browser tabs i have open, but I ran out of numbers.
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Dove to Houston from Amarillo today. #limp. Braums and dinner at big tex and family and beautiful weather helped put sadness out of mind.
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Seeing “the magic flute” at #sfopera. the synopsis suggests a golden dawn / Tarot / Masonic allegory. Hermes trismegistus here we come!
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The song I wish I’d had enough popped collar to write between 1992 and 1994 ♫ Girls Like You – The Naked And Famous
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Patxi’s pizza. I can eat only one slice.
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Saw #sfgiants Madison Bumgarner shut out Cincinnati last night with the @shopittome crew.
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Mobile Upload: Noir City | June 30
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May
My favorite Ruby methods are Enumberable#zip and Array#product. Love them.
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Seriously, who cuts their nails at a in public? Come to think of it, who the hell thought collectible clippers-as-keyring was a good idea?
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In August it will be so hot, I’ll become a cooking pot. Cooking once, cooking twice cooking chicken soup with rice. Sendak forever - and mom
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The end! Such a fun run!
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Bay to breakers: the bay part. 13K to the other part.
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RT @DanielMiessler: Is Trojan really a good name for a condom company? The original was let in trustingly, released its dangerous payloa …
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Golden gate birthday features local-themed music: tony Bennett, joe satriani, and a thrash band from the 80’s called Metallica. #GGB75
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Off to celebrate my town’s most famous landmark’s birthday: happy 75th Golden Gate Bridge!
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Possibly the most Romantic thing ever written for piano. #Spotify
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April
Asian / caucasian understanding society in a tenderloin bar: “I love white people’s big noses. May I touch yours?”
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At Puccini and pinetti doing some thinking.
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The Rasperry Pi | April 6
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More Astounding Videos By OK! Go | April 7
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Seriously, I want some good jazz vibrophonist recommendations.
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Use ack instead of grep to parse text files | April 10
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Mr. Yorke and the lads.
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Sup dog. In GA at radiohead with mah peeps.
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Went to the lunch spot across the street: lovely day with downtown reflected behind Lauren.
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At the sf javascript meetup, er, the gotye show. Missy Higgins is doing a blistering opener.
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A lovely spring warm night in North Beach. Wish you were here.
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Registered for Bay to Breakers. No reason not to pay a ton of money to run through a town i live in.
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Union square means almost home.
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Ni hao future Chinatown subway stop. We’re you here I could take you to the future stop across from my home. Now? Run.
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Belgian brew in little Italy. Must return.
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Stand-ups are early and memory fades. Be kind to teammates: git log master@{yesterday}…HEAD –author=(Your Git Name Here) –pretty=medium
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Maluca Mala | April 27
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Fitting in in the marina: hey brah sweet Patagonia parka with your rainbows.
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March
I am ready for the popcorn | March 2
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Gonna watch some pre-code movies in the Mission.
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Morrissey Music: 8-bit style | March 6
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My first Vim plugin: (link text to I’m feeling lucky URL a la textmate ) thx/@stevelosh cc/@steveklabnik
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Blogging with Vim | March 8
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New Fairy Tales found in Germany | March 10
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Blogging in Janus + MacVim + Vimblog | March 11
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Technical Outreach Workshops: Needlessly Frightening at the Beginning | March 12
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Technical outreach curricula lose enthusiasts with git?: cc/ @ultrasaurus @sarahmei @AshAnvik @reneighbor
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Using mutt with MacVim as external editor | March 14
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Fascinating: Why we should let go of π in favor of τ | March 14
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Thoughts about "Dune" | March 14
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Out of Yosemite and into the snowstorm. Thought we were home free, but need another few hundred feet, apparently.
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What to Do When You don't Know where to Start | March 22
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Trip to Yosemite | March 24
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Trip to Yosemite in winter travelogue, with pix:
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In a recent HOA mailing list argument, one party quoted Dolly Parton’s character from “Straight Talk (1992).” It just got real.
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Use Vim's Sessions to Defray Context-Switching Costs | March 26
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February
"Soul Train" Line Collection | February 2
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I’ve been watching “Robotech” on Netflix lately. My recollection of its glacial plot and annoying Minmei stands; but now I love Lisa.
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Really, there’s nothing like Alejandro Escovedo to put you in an AustinTX state of mind.
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Anatomical Art from Paper | February 6
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Last night we watched “Duck Soup.” I can’t believe they ever got away with that.
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Amanda Palmer Covers Lana del Rey | February 21
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Reading dutch, latin, and french means my reading meggs’ history of graphic design takes forever as I read 1940 Dutch ads or 1650 Cicero.
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Regulation | February 22
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TAing at rails bridge at fast.ly. Using git to bootstrap HTML and CSS.
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New Layout Test | February 25
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January
First brunch of the year at Rocco’s on Folsom (with “The Gambler” playing).
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New Years Day At Rocco's | January 2
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Apply for a spot in the @LivingSocial Hungry Academy by January 9th! - dying to see the IT pipeline get rawked.
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Yesterday we hiked mt. Diablo’s summit trail. Tonite swing dancing. I need to cool myself in Lake Minnetonka’s purifying waters. #chappelle
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Swing dancers: SF’sVerdi club is like Austin’s Fed, in a bar like the old Mohawk, with a bartender. #uswingoutbro
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Dancing at the Verdi club. Such a ton of fun to dance.
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In time people will remember that comedienne carrie brownstein plays a great rickenbacher.
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Congratulations to the #hungryacademy applicants. Your gumption puts you ahead of 90% of the population; the requisite introspection, 95%.
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Yo dogg, i heard you like line numbers in your embedded gists so I added line numbers to your embedded gists in a gist
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“we now play traditional Ukrainian dance tune: ees ‘bad romance’” - red Elvises
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Catching the Red Elvises in the Richmond. ¡ Franco ! Wish you were here to crazy Russian with these crazy Russians.
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It Ain't Easy Being... | January 16
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Amazon Gets Into Content | January 23
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Oh boy! “Gilda” at the Castro with @laurennroth and @J__Swift. My Noir experience starts now.
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Glad for my first night at noir city but sad that it coincided with @melbotis’ departure.
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Half the guys at noir city look like Elvis Costello … Or Greg Proops
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I’ve been using vim seriously for a while and use “:b#” to toggle between last-edited buffer. Use CTRL-^ #protip
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She said: “I’m going to be stressed until all my ducks are in a row. me: Better get quacking, then. :: eyeroll’d ::
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