“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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Filed under : baseball : johnny damon : new york : red sox : 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!

Posted to Twitter at 9:27 p.m.

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

Posted to Twitter at 5:31 p.m.

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

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.

Filed under : cameraphone : moblog : new york : rain delay : red sox : 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!

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.

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.

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

Filed under : cameraphone : moblog : red sox : yankees : yankee stadium

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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”

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.

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

Posted to Twitter at 10:55 p.m.

Visualizing 4.5 years of Flickr development

Flickr’s codebase-over-time visualized.

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/

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.

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!