2012

January

First brunch of the year at Rocco’s on Folsom (with “The Gambler” playing). | Tagged: tweet

New Years Day At Rocco's | January 2 | Tagged: san_francisco

Apply for a spot in the @LivingSocial Hungry Academy by January 9th! - dying to see the IT pipeline get rawked. | Tagged: tweet

Dancing at the Verdi club. Such a ton of fun to dance. | Tagged: tweet

Swing dancers: SF’sVerdi club is like Austin’s Fed, in a bar like the old Mohawk, with a bartender. #uswingoutbro | Tagged: tweet

Yesterday we hiked mt. Diablo’s summit trail. Tonite swing dancing. I need to cool myself in Lake Minnetonka’s purifying waters. #chappelle | Tagged: tweet

In time people will remember that comedienne carrie brownstein plays a great rickenbacher. | Tagged: tweet

Congratulations to the #hungryacademy applicants. Your gumption puts you ahead of 90% of the population; the requisite introspection, 95%. | Tagged: tweet

Yo dogg, i heard you like line numbers in your embedded gists so I added line numbers to your embedded gists in a gist | Tagged: tweet

Catching the Red Elvises in the Richmond. ¡ Franco ! Wish you were here to crazy Russian with these crazy Russians. | Tagged: tweet

“we now play traditional Ukrainian dance tune: ees ‘bad romance’” - red Elvises | Tagged: tweet

It Ain't Easy Being... | January 16 | Tagged: modern_times racism

Amazon Gets Into Content | January 23 | Tagged: comedy media

Glad for my first night at noir city but sad that it coincided with @melbotis’ departure. | Tagged: tweet

Oh boy! “Gilda” at the Castro with @laurennroth and @J__Swift. My Noir experience starts now. | Tagged: tweet

Half the guys at noir city look like Elvis Costello … Or Greg Proops | Tagged: tweet

She said: “I’m going to be stressed until all my ducks are in a row. me: Better get quacking, then. :: eyeroll’d :: | Tagged: tweet

I’ve been using vim seriously for a while and use “:b#” to toggle between last-edited buffer. Use CTRL-^ #protip | Tagged: tweet

February

"Soul Train" Line Collection | February 2 | Tagged: music

I’ve been watching “Robotech” on Netflix lately. My recollection of its glacial plot and annoying Minmei stands; but now I love Lisa. | Tagged: tweet

Really, there’s nothing like Alejandro Escovedo to put you in an AustinTX state of mind. | Tagged: tweet

Anatomical Art from Paper | February 6 | Tagged: art

Last night we watched “Duck Soup.” I can’t believe they ever got away with that. | Tagged: tweet

Amanda Palmer Covers Lana del Rey | February 21 | Tagged: music

Reading dutch, latin, and french means my reading meggs’ history of graphic design takes forever as I read 1940 Dutch ads or 1650 Cicero. | Tagged: tweet

Regulation | February 22 | Tagged: politics

TAing at rails bridge at fast.ly. Using git to bootstrap HTML and CSS. | Tagged: tweet

New Layout Test | February 25 | Tagged: meta

March

I am ready for the popcorn | March 2 | Tagged: entertainment

Gonna watch some pre-code movies in the Mission. | Tagged: tweet

Morrissey Music: 8-bit style | March 6 | Tagged: music

My first Vim plugin: (link text to I’m feeling lucky URL a la textmate ) thx/@stevelosh cc/@steveklabnik | Tagged: tweet

Blogging with Vim | March 8 | Tagged: vim blogging internet_culture

New Fairy Tales found in Germany | March 10 | Tagged: literature history

Blogging in Janus + MacVim + Vimblog | March 11 | Tagged: vim blogging

Technical Outreach Workshops: Needlessly Frightening at the Beginning | March 12 | Tagged: education ruby

Technical outreach curricula lose enthusiasts with git?: cc/ @ultrasaurus @sarahmei @AshAnvik @reneighbor | Tagged: tweet

Using mutt with MacVim as external editor | March 14 | Tagged: mutt

Fascinating: Why we should let go of π in favor of τ | March 14 | Tagged: mathematics

Thoughts about "Dune" | March 14 | Tagged: movies

Out of Yosemite and into the snowstorm. Thought we were home free, but need another few hundred feet, apparently. | Tagged: tweet

What to Do When You don't Know where to Start | March 22 | Tagged: excellence

Trip to Yosemite | March 24 | Tagged: travelogue

In a recent HOA mailing list argument, one party quoted Dolly Parton’s character from “Straight Talk (1992).” It just got real. | Tagged: tweet

Trip to Yosemite in winter travelogue, with pix: | Tagged: tweet

Use Vim's Sessions to Defray Context-Switching Costs | March 26 | Tagged: vim

April

Asian / caucasian understanding society in a tenderloin bar: “I love white people’s big noses. May I touch yours?” | Tagged: tweet

At Puccini and pinetti doing some thinking. | Tagged: tweet

The Rasperry Pi | April 6 | Tagged: unix

More Astounding Videos By OK! Go | April 7 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Seriously, I want some good jazz vibrophonist recommendations. | Tagged: tweet

Use ack instead of grep to parse text files | April 10 | Tagged: unix cli

Sup dog. In GA at radiohead with mah peeps. | Tagged: tweet

Mr. Yorke and the lads. | Tagged: tweet

Went to the lunch spot across the street: lovely day with downtown reflected behind Lauren. | Tagged: tweet

At the sf javascript meetup, er, the gotye show. Missy Higgins is doing a blistering opener. | Tagged: tweet

A lovely spring warm night in North Beach. Wish you were here. | Tagged: tweet

Belgian brew in little Italy. Must return. | Tagged: tweet

Ni hao future Chinatown subway stop. We’re you here I could take you to the future stop across from my home. Now? Run. | Tagged: tweet

Union square means almost home. | Tagged: tweet

Registered for Bay to Breakers. No reason not to pay a ton of money to run through a town i live in. | Tagged: tweet

Stand-ups are early and memory fades. Be kind to teammates: git log master@{yesterday}…HEAD –author=(Your Git Name Here) –pretty=medium | Tagged: tweet

Maluca Mala | April 27 | Tagged: music

Fitting in in the marina: hey brah sweet Patagonia parka with your rainbows. | Tagged: tweet

May

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? | Tagged: tweet

My favorite Ruby methods are Enumberable#zip and Array#product. Love them. | Tagged: tweet

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 | Tagged: tweet

Bay to breakers: the bay part. 13K to the other part. | Tagged: tweet

The end! Such a fun run! | Tagged: tweet

RT @DanielMiessler: Is Trojan really a good name for a condom company? The original was let in trustingly, released its dangerous payloa … | Tagged: tweet

Off to celebrate my town’s most famous landmark’s birthday: happy 75th Golden Gate Bridge! | Tagged: tweet

Golden gate birthday features local-themed music: tony Bennett, joe satriani, and a thrash band from the 80’s called Metallica. #GGB75 | Tagged: tweet

Possibly the most Romantic thing ever written for piano. #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

June

RIP Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles have an elegiac beauty that has rarely been repeated. | Tagged: tweet

My homage to Ray Bradbury: | Tagged: tweet

RIP Ray Bradbury | June 8 | Tagged: books education entertainment writing

I was wrong. The new Wes Anderson movie #moonrisekingdom is wonderful, his best since “Rushmore.” | Tagged: tweet

I was trying to count how many browser tabs i have open, but I ran out of numbers. | Tagged: tweet

Dove to Houston from Amarillo today. #limp. Braums and dinner at big tex and family and beautiful weather helped put sadness out of mind. | Tagged: tweet

Seeing “the magic flute” at #sfopera. the synopsis suggests a golden dawn / Tarot / Masonic allegory. Hermes trismegistus here we come! | Tagged: tweet

The song I wish I’d had enough popped collar to write between 1992 and 1994 ♫ Girls Like You – The Naked And Famous | Tagged: tweet

Saw #sfgiants Madison Bumgarner shut out Cincinnati last night with the @shopittome crew. | Tagged: tweet

Patxi’s pizza. I can eat only one slice. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Noir City | June 30 | Tagged: mobile photography san_francisco

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. | Tagged: tweet

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. | Tagged: tweet

< 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. | Tagged: tweet

Apparently in the first 7 months of this year i have put 515 miles on my car. Last year, I put 10K on it. | Tagged: tweet

Just once I’d like to hop on muni and hear some Wagner or Holst leaking out of headphones. | Tagged: tweet

%w(knife fork bottle cork).join(’ ‘).equal?(“New York”) #=> true | Tagged: tweet

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 | Tagged: tweet

I wonder if Teri Nunn got flashbacks from listening to the “Drive” soundtrack. | Tagged: tweet

sharon van etten, sarah jaffee: do a double bill in san francisco. | Tagged: tweet

Sometimes I just forget how wonderful Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was. Here’s a reminder ♫ Jesus, etc. – Wilco #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

Adding Unicode symbols at the command line in Mac OSX using iTerm2 | July 29 | Tagged: linguistics mathematics

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… | Tagged: tweet

I first heard this record in, I think, 1991. It still blisters the eardrums. #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

August

So glad to see the re-interpretation of 50’s era sounds with electronica (Grimes) or noise (Raveonettes). #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

Marina (of the diamonds), Amanda Palmer seem to both be bearers of shattered shards of Weimar cabaret. | Tagged: tweet

This one’s pretty phat. I hear Eno + Donna summer elements on this one. #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

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 | Tagged: tweet

@ethanschoonover @laurenroth tells me I like condiments more than food and editors more than programming. +1 for @vimconf | Tagged: tweet

Used vim to update 245 deprecated statements in my #emberjs code using a trick I learned from @nelstrom ’s book: | Tagged: tweet

Bringing code into compliance with Vim, :argdo, ack case study: Upgrading to Ember 1.0-pre | August 4 | Tagged: javascript vim

@laurennroth is playing some Siouxsie. It’ stunning that 30 years (!) later she still sounds like she cut those tracks today. | Tagged: tweet

Security checker called the fig newtons in my bag “old people cookies.”. Say what? These are NEWTONS | Tagged: tweet

Urban Planning and 50 Shades of Gray | August 16 | Tagged: modern_times personal philosophy_proper politics

Moved my blog off of Wordpress and onto @Heroku + octopress. surprisingly easy and with mo ruby flavor: | Tagged: tweet

The Girlfriend | August 20 | Tagged: entertainment culture

Migrating from Web Hosting + Wordpress to ... Free! (Jekyll + Heroku + Google) | August 20 | Tagged: technology ruby tmux

Among the perfect things in this world is this record by David Bowie. ♫ Five Years - 2012 - Remaster – David Bowie | Tagged: tweet

Post: Moving from Wordpress to Octopress (free blog hosting!): | Tagged: tweet

Post: Seeing “Ruby Sparks” and women leads stop “needing” to “save” or “rescue” the men: | Tagged: tweet

Loving the movie Drive | August 24 | Tagged: movies

At Zeitgeist with a good chunk of thoughtworks and github it seems. | Tagged: tweet

Got tickets for the last weekend of les miserablès in SF with @laurennroth . So excited. #teameponine. | Tagged: tweet

I cannot deny that I think @marinasdiamonds is wonderful. | Tagged: tweet

September

Is there anyone who wore a casual vest so well as Pam Dawber? | Tagged: tweet

The Comedic Style of Reggie Watts | September 7 | Tagged: comedy music

The Raveonettes new record is another gorgeous, rich, angsty mix of beautiful harmonies, noisy and a morbid 50’s bal… | Tagged: tweet

My daily @marinasdiamonds dosage may be reaching “radioactive” levels ♫ Electra Heart – Marina and The Diamonds | Tagged: tweet

Building Applications in Ember.JS | September 19 | Tagged: ember javascript programming

I’m entirely staggered that this record came out in 1983. Sounds current and edgy today, still. #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

Seriously 800 Larkin is awesome tonight. Great Wall art, Early era sisters of mercy, stooges, femmes on the jukebox. | Tagged: tweet

Hayes valley has many good restaurants like Patxi’s. there are many boutiques and brunchers as well. | Tagged: tweet

Fall might be coming. | Tagged: tweet

Ah Alamo square. The houses that launched a thousand “awwwws.” Uncle Jesse status: nil. | Tagged: tweet

The western addition has great jazzl, vegan food and haute cuisine. | Tagged: tweet

Through this park to the big golden gate park. | Tagged: tweet

At last golden gate park. 3 miles of eucalypti, bison, musea, and then the ocean | Tagged: tweet

Plants live in there. So beautiful here when it’s sunny. | Tagged: tweet

On Sundays lindy hoppers hop here. DeYoung museum in back. | Tagged: tweet

Stop to smell them. | Tagged: tweet

Yet another code-questionable SF structure. | Tagged: tweet

Running in the park is a joy. | Tagged: tweet

Waterfall. Not natural but hearing it encourages me. Especially with cloudy fog ahead. | Tagged: tweet

The waterfall empties here. This little lake reminds me of Barcelona. | Tagged: tweet

About 20 avenues to go. | Tagged: tweet

The fog… | Tagged: tweet

Les jardins Luxembourg? | Tagged: tweet

Last bathroom til the pacific. Use it. | Tagged: tweet

Bison! Sponsored by yahoo CEO marissa Mayer and Zachary bogue | Tagged: tweet

On leash means on leash. | Tagged: tweet

Why does it smell like maple syrup here?!?!? | Tagged: tweet

Denkend aan holland sta Ik in de koninginwilhelminatuin | Tagged: tweet

As my friend saoirse says: the oh sun! | Tagged: tweet

My friend mike wrote a sand message to his girlfriend, now wife, in front of that rock years ago. | Tagged: tweet

Deco majesty and prom dates | Tagged: tweet

Ruins of the Sutro baths. A bit like the Roman forum…by the sea. | Tagged: tweet san_francisco

Lands end! | Tagged: tweet

Ok that’s all for run tweeting. Hope you all enjoyed a run through the city with me. | Tagged: tweet

I could be wrong here, but I think I may be a Javascript programmer. | Tagged: tweet

I cannot say just how lovely the new @FirstAidKitBand record “The Lion’s Roar” is. | Tagged: tweet

Reminds me of year one with @laurennroth ♫ Galaxies – Laura Veirs #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

The Cardigans may be remembered for “Lovefool” but their “Gran Turismo” quite nearly perfect. ♫ Perfect Things | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Kim Lenz | September 28 | Tagged: music

Oktoberfest | Tagged: tweet

The awesome Kim Lenz at the Verdi Club. | Tagged: tweet

Inspiring Though from Bertrand Russell | September 29 | Tagged: inspiration philosophy

October

Just completed a 13.43 mi run - Half marathon distance. #RunKeeper | Tagged: tweet

Off to relive the 90s. We are going to see garbage tonight at the Warfield | Tagged: tweet

@stevenharms hah, no I live in the neighborhood. Like within a block. | Tagged: tweet

If this doesn’t make you glad to be alive… ♫ Exactly Like You – Django Reinhardt #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

Made it to hardly strictly bluegrass. Dwight yokam and then later del mccoury. | Tagged: tweet

Anniversary of "The Princess Bride" | October 7 | Tagged: movies

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. | Tagged: tweet

At the city target. 1 block from home. cc/@MissMauriss | Tagged: tweet

I stepped outside this morning and it was Fall in San Francisco. | Tagged: tweet

#NowPlaying Sister Lost Soul by Alejandro Escovedo on #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

Today represents the kind of challenging day where only a double-shot of espresso and “Red Barchetta” can help. #rushfanforever | Tagged: tweet

In fog-bound Pacifica, CA, where one might expect insulation from many Texan horrors, there was man in an OU cap at the bakery. | Tagged: tweet

Just completed a 8.03 mi run - Night run through the park. Need a personal illumination tool. . #RunKeeper | Tagged: tweet

Just had to tweet it: THANK YOU git reflog! | Tagged: tweet

“@The picture of the day in Texas: Big Tex burning. Here’s the front page: / @nanostalgic UT alumna LDF in byline? | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: The nicest Taco Bell in the world | October 21 | Tagged: mobile photography

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. | Tagged: tweet

Next month Gheorghiu will be performing “Tosca” in SF. #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

How we know whether the dishes are direrrty or clean @shopittome | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Lauren scouts the best pumpkins. | October 23 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: If there's a bustle in the corn maze, don't be alarmed at it. | October 23 | Tagged: mobile photography

Mobile Upload: Corn Maze | October 23 | Tagged: mobile photography

Listened to this most of today. Pretty good. ♫ Stubborn Love – The Lumineers #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

@dddagradi the worst part if vim usage is how insufferable it makes all other means of text entry. Looking at you iPhone. | Tagged: tweet

Sooooo proud of my #SFGiants! Come back home for the party. | Tagged: tweet

Just completed a 2.91 mi run - Ran with Lauren to trader joes north beach. #RunKeeper | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Photo: Noir del Muertos | October 30 | Tagged: mobile photography sports

November

#NowPlaying Five Seconds by Twin Shadow on #Spotify 80s synth | Tagged: tweet

“Wreck it Ralph”. There are many small humans here. | Tagged: tweet

Chris Rock for Obama | November 4 | Tagged: comedy politics

Revisiting LatinVerb and LatinIRB | November 4 | Tagged:

Screw the swing states, we’re going swig dancing. Lindy Hop and Balboa 2012! | Tagged: tweet

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. | Tagged: tweet

I so hope @fivethirtyeight makes stats sexy to the kids, they study math, and innovate me into a stunned senescence. | Tagged: tweet

I never really got opera until recently. But this is amazing even if you’ve not crossed that threshold. #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

Sandi Metz Live | November 7 | Tagged: programming

At the rockabilly show dancers and greasers collide and the bass string abuse line is called. | Tagged: tweet

Why is it OK to threaten Presidents?! | November 12 | Tagged: politics

Colleges include Hot Girl Factor ::eyeroll:: | November 12 | Tagged: modern_times

Our Product Release | November 12 | Tagged: modern_times programming

RT @ShopItToMe: A note from our CEO @imcharliegraham on Shop It To Me Threads: A New Way to Shop, YOUR Way! > | Tagged: tweet

What Happened to Videos? | November 13 | Tagged: modern_times art

Such a great track ♫ Galaxies – Laura Veirs #Spotify | Tagged: tweet

Our product just got a shout out from @sfgate: | Tagged: tweet

OH: on Oahu they call that wind. On Maui we call that a light breeze. | Tagged: tweet

I’m thankful for the spirit of aloha here on Maui. | Tagged: tweet

@nanostalgic I feel the same when I wake up to the sound of pouring rain. | Tagged: tweet

Apple maps thinks Keawala’i church is a church of The Drowned God apparently. | Tagged: tweet

RT @tamrafeldman: in case you didn’t catch @shopittome on the TODAY show this morning as the #1 cyber monday tip: | Tagged: tweet

Seeing “Tosca.” I’m so excited to ear year voices. | Tagged: tweet

December

Blog: Helen Keller meets Martha Graham: | Tagged: tweet

Blog: I appear on the Ruby Rogues podcast: | Tagged: tweet

@nuclearsandwich I note many tourists in SF don’t use their knees to walk but wobble foot to foot. Is walking become so rare? | Tagged: tweet

@garannm Sequence diagrams have upped my OO game dramatically. Where’s book: “UML: The Good Parts?” | Tagged: tweet

Actually seriously is there a uml book for the 21st century? | Tagged: tweet

Talking and Listening With Our Bodies | December 1 | Tagged: art communication

Appearance on Ruby Rogues Podcast | December 1 | Tagged: ruby programming

Seeing 'Tosca' in San Francisco | December 1 | Tagged: art san_francisco opera

Blog: On seeing “Tosca” in San Francisco: Seeing ‘Tosca’ in San Francisco | Tagged: tweet

Contributing to jQuery: 70% core-team formatting review, 20% breaking up pages of chained calls, 5% fix, 5% github line comments | Tagged: tweet

Started “21st century C.” I got all the way to chapter TWO before being hamstrung by library dependency failure on sample code. Amazing! | Tagged: tweet

@laurennroth and I are going to see @sandimetz tonight. So excite | Tagged: tweet

stuck in a florence and the machine loop. must get away. can’t get away. must get away. | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Modus rerum malorum | December 15 | Tagged: mobile photography

My New Development Laptop: Samsung Chromebook | December 16 | Tagged: computers

Blog: My New Development Machine: Samsung Chromebook: | Tagged: tweet

Cold at Work | December 19 | Tagged: mobile photography

Understanding the DCI Paradigm: Super Mario Brothers Demo | December 19 | Tagged: ruby programming

I feel like I just ascended in Javascript. I intentionally used hoisting instead of avoiding it breaking my program. #xmasmiracle | Tagged: tweet

Everyone smugly laughing at the Mayan non-event: if you believe in an unprovable, eschatological tradition, you forfeit your laughing rights | Tagged: tweet

Mobile Upload: Look what I can home to! Potatoes au gratin and salad! | December 21 | Tagged: mobile photography

Harsh Truths From Cracked | December 21 | Tagged: modern_times programming

A moody Ventura county vista. | Tagged: tweet

Orange tree laden with rain and oranges. #orangecountystyle | Tagged: tweet

Rode a fixie today. Not moving to the mission. | Tagged: tweet

My favorite Xmas baritone. | Tagged: tweet

Thanks to car trouble I’ll be spending another night in Orange County. There are far worse things. | Tagged: tweet

Like all good geek SF households, we inaugurate all new TV’s with Khaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn! | Tagged: tweet

@kurt_loder tweeting is to this generation what @adamcurry buying was to mine. | Tagged: tweet

@kurt_loder @adamcurry perhaps overvague: two voices i respect getting out their message in a way that’s enlightening and entertaining. | Tagged: tweet