“groovy mother” :: Entries for week beginning June 29, 2008

➠ July 5, 2008

Stuffed to near bursting, after a amazingly delicious dinner at Alfredo’s of Rome. They invented Fettucini Alfredo, ‘parrently.

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Posted to Twitter at 9:48 p.m.

Yay! Fireworks!

Photo essay on the insanity of fireworks packaging, courtesy of Cabel Sasser. When I was a kid in the UK, home fireworks were crappy little cheap boxes of wussy rockets and barely-spinny Catherine Wheels. These are huge, expensive and bizarre in comparison.

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Filed under : cabel sasser : fireworks : U! S! A! U! S! A!

Sox win it! Ace! - Photo: http://bkite.com/00RaU

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Posted to Twitter at 3:28 p.m.

Queue everything and delight everyone

Good thoughts from Les Orchard — Your webapps don’t have to do all your work the second a user clicks the button on a form. Queue up tasks and respond quickly, and everyone wins.

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Filed under : l.m.orchard : programming : queues

➠ July 4, 2008

Boston Red Sox - Balance ball

Bizarre event at today’s Sox/Yankees game. Johnny Damon caught a hit before colliding with the wall and losing the ball… which balanced atop the wall for a good second or two. The photos are worth it for the gobsmacked Sox fan in the background.

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Filed under : baseball : johnny damon : new york : redsox : yankees

In Joy’s and my usual crazy stylee, back at the hotel at 9:30 on a Friday night. Probly gonna watch the Boston fireworks on TV. ROCK-N-ROLL!

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Posted to Twitter at 9:27 p.m.

Yankees Suck - Photo: http://bkite.com/00QHz

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Posted to Twitter at 5:31 p.m.

Rain Delay - Photo: http://bkite.com/00QGm

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Posted to Twitter at 5:03 p.m.

Rain Delay

The game gets halted for 90 minutes. Thankfully, the tarp came off and the Sox won 6-4.

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Filed under : cameraphone : moblog : new york : rain delay : redsox : yankees : yankee stadium

Gonna wait out the rain delay. Got nowhere else to be, and if they don’t call it, we can nab some primo seats!

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Posted to Twitter at 4:28 p.m.

Nice bonus: these cheap-ass seats may be a mile above the park, but we are sheltered from the rain.

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Posted to Twitter at 3:58 p.m.

Judging by the reaction to Lowell’s homer, I’d guess about 30% of the crowd here are Sox fans.

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Posted to Twitter at 3 p.m.

Full House that Ruth built

Sold-out Sox/Yankees match at Yankee Stadium. Joy & I wanted to visit here at least once before the Yanks move next door to... Yankee Stadium

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Filed under : cameraphone : moblog : redsox : yankees : yankee stadium

Infiltrating enemy territory. - http://bkite.com/00Qs6

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Posted to Twitter at 12:26 p.m.

➠ July 3, 2008

Awesome — War Games is available as a $0.99 rental from the iTunes store this weekend. http://rdbgb.us/falken.

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Posted to Twitter at 7:16 p.m.

Made it to New York. Hotel wi-fi is payfiltering HTTP, but all other ports work. Hooray for ssh tunneling for saving me $13 a day.

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Posted to Twitter at 4:02 p.m.

On the BoltBus for a weekend in New York. Including a trip to the Evil Empire for tomorrow’s Sox/Yankees game. Hurrah!

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Posted to Twitter at 10:32 a.m.

Posted because too few people have heard it: The *original* version of Tainted Love, later covered by Soft Cell: http://rdbgb.us/8X4

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Posted to Twitter at 12:49 a.m.

➠ July 2, 2008

Today on Twitter, I was followed by @wholefoods and @cocazero. Unrelated: Today I blocked @wholefoods and @cocazero. Spamming fucks.

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Posted to Twitter at 8:42 p.m.

The bassets are leaving 5 Berkeley forever. Staying with Joy’s mum for the next week, then one flies and the other gets driven to California

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Posted to Twitter at 3:37 p.m.

Having fun sshing to Joy’s MacBook and “open ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/Rick\ Astley/Unknown\ Album/Never\ Gonna\ Give\ You\ Up.m4a”

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Posted to Twitter at 3:34 p.m.

➠ July 1, 2008

Trying to dispose of all the crap within our house. There is A LOT of it. Need more trash bags, and perhaps a WALL•E.

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Posted to Twitter at 7:25 p.m.

➠ June 30, 2008

Watching Joy have masses of fun with the Spore creature creator. Resigning myself to losing her, and my MacBookPro, when the game’s released

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Posted to Twitter at 10:55 p.m.

Visualizing 4.5 years of Flickr development

Flickr’s codebase-over-time visualized.

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Filed under : code : flickr : svn : visualization

GLaGPS - Genetic Lifeform and Global Positioning System

Tweak your Garmin GPS to speak like Portal’s GLaDOS. Be wary if it instructs you to stop for cake.

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Filed under : garmin : GLaDOS : gps : portal : the cake is a lie

➠ June 29, 2008

3D Failwhale: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiritsdancing/2619299461/

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Posted to Twitter at 3:36 p.m.

What I’ve been listening to

My last three months worth of listening. Generated with last.fm data and Wordle.

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Filed under : last.fm : music : Skitch : visualization : wordle

Fail Whale sculpture - a set on Flickr

Quality! A 3D-sculpture of Twitter’s almost-ever present beacon of FAIL!