Entries for week beginning May 3, 2009
➠ May 9, 2009
Mum & Dad at Flickr Turns 5.25
We were wandering round SF with my parents, not quite sure what to do to pass the time until dinner, when I looked at my phone and saw Rev Dan Catt's tweet about the Flickr Turns 5.25 party.
Apart from the occasional concern that they were the oldest people there, they had a great time! A couple of free beers and some t-shirts later, and they were happy. (OK, it was mostly the free beer.)
Hurrah for the Good Ship Flickr! (And thanks to Cal for using his last Polaroid for this photo!)
➠ May 7, 2009
Manny Ramirez's positive drug test makes the Sports Guy confront his worst nightmare
Great piece by Bill Simmons on the Manny-being-juiced revelations today, and what it means for the Sox 2004 curse-bearing World Series win.
A Modest Proposal for How to Improve the Roomba
I'm sure Roombas would fly off the shelves if they just implemented one simple feature.
➠ May 6, 2009
Chewthing
Bacon has a bloody good roll around, ignoring his chew rope.
Old dog
Sometimes, when you look into Clyde's eyes, you can see his 77 dog years.
Trashing the Roomba
A test vid, filmed with my T1i. Sergio's new Roomba gets a trial run in the Slide office.
Not particularly well-lit, or in focus, or interesting even, but it's kind of cool to record with my DSLR!
300 Brannan
From the 6th floor windows of 301 Brannan. Test shot with my new camera.
➠ May 5, 2009
High-Tech Cellist Fuses Music, MacBook
Interview with Zoë Keating, and a clip of her performing one of her wonderful looped cello tracks.
➠ May 4, 2009
Plants vs. Zombies
"This help section brought to you by the Zombies"
(from Popcap's new game, Plants vs. Zombies)
➠ May 3, 2009
Where are you in the movie?
If your life was a classic movie, where would you currently be? Currently, I’m just before Walter Peck makes his first visit to the Ghostbusters.
Miro Adoption Center
Brilliant marketing of donating to an open source project: You get to “adopt” a line of code in the codebase.
Moray McLaren - We Got Time
Lovely music video. Make sure and watch the “making of” to understand how it was done without (much) trickery.
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