Archive for February, 2005

How you gonna stick it?

Gonna stick it to the man! Well, maybe not quite. Ben, who left href="http://www.microsoft.com/">the local scene for href="http://www.google.com/">less evil pastures is in town
recruiting and brought gifts! Knowing that I’m a champion of
unpopular positions, I’m now the lucky owner of a “Google” branded
toque. The revolution will start after next Thursday’s 10AM all-hands
meeting.

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For Sale

The house I grew up in. Listing

UPDATE 2006.01.18 Update

Sold

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level 5 geek

i have emacs appointment mode set up and tonight it told me when to go catch the bus. I’m writing now in emacs from my phone in pocket putty. i am at least level 5 geek.

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The “L” Word

Life on Mars!

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They don’t serve Hassenfeffer

But they do serve rabbit(s).

The Stranger is one of
Seattle’s weekly papers and sometimes it’s just brilliant. For
example, last night Tanya and I went to the href="http://www.chowfoods.com/5-Spot.asp">5 Spot for dinner. When
we got there we couldn’t help noticing 4 or so adults standing at the
bar all dressed in bunny costumes. Someplace in a recent Stranger I
guess there was a call to bunny-costume-owners of all shapes and sizes
to converge on upper Queen Anne on Valentine’s Day and to bring their
fluffiest tails. A fifth showed up while we were eating. So weird…

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Why is A9 so slow?

I had enough time to think -*- “god this is slow” switch over to
putty, and start blogging (up to the -*-) in the time between starting
an A9 query and my results coming back. I love the information
integration and realize that when you’re pulling information from a
bunch of separate sources but boy could it use a kick in the pants.

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Big week for shows!

  • Tomorrow night: Luna at Neumo’s, Interpol at the Paramount,
    Flogging Molly at El Corazon (I’ll catch Luna, miss Interpol)
  • Saturday: Flogging Molly (again) at El Corazon - I’ll miss this
    for the annual Seattle Women’s Hockey
    Club
    exhibition game
  • Sunday: Ted Leo with U.S.E.
    at Neumo’s - href="http://glenbo.com:8100/mp3/album/01itison.mp3">IT IS
    ON!
  • And this just in c/o Tanya: next Friday at the Showbox href="http://www.paulwesterberg.com/">Paul Westerberg! And I need
    a haircut so hopefully I
    can pick up tickets (funny story: the last time I got my haircut at
    Rudy’s my barber asked if it had been, what, like a year since my last
    haircut? I told her she was right! She may have a future at as a
    carnival “guess your last haircut” barker.)

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Profile of a music pirate

Music Industry Sues 83-Year-Old Dead Woman

Gertrude Walton was recently targeted by the recording industry in a
lawsuit that accused her of illegally trading music over the
Internet. But Walton died in December after a long illness, and
according to her daughter, the 83-year-old hated
computers.

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RSS2 on the way!

I have some kinks to work out but my href="http://www.psoul.com/index.cgi/index.rss20">rss20 flavor
blog ought to be ready soon. It’s valid, unlike my href="http://www.psoul.com/index.cgi/index.rss">rss flavor (which
is generally broken in other ways, too), so you can load it in an href="http://sharpreader.net/">aggregator.

UPDATE 2005.02.04 problems solved!

Blosxom was escaping some characters by default for XML content-type
flavors, but my story is now CDATA so I can skip that escaping. Now my
links work and clicktrack is fine in my aggregator. Woot!

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A Little Stinky

tanya says:

-so there was a woman with a duck on the bus this morning

tanya says:

a mallard

tanya says:

it was surreal

reserve slow driving for the slow lane says:

a real duck?

tanya says:

yep

tanya says:

it peed on the woman

reserve slow driving for the slow lane says:

oh my god.

reserve slow driving for the slow lane says:

would you please start blogging?

tanya says:

the woman got off around campus parkway and just started walking down the sidewalk holding the duck

reserve slow driving for the slow lane says:

did she freak out when the duck did that?

reserve slow driving for the slow lane says:

or did the people on the bus?

tanya says:

the people on the bus were just too dumbfounded to say anything

tanya says:

she was concerned much at all about the pee. apparently her duck does that all the time.

reserve slow driving for the slow lane says:

that is insane

tanya says:

she was slightly worried that a “little stinky” might come next

reserve slow driving for the slow lane says:

is that what she said??

tanya says:

yep - exact words

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