- 2008
- Dec31Week in Review“Everyone is writing "year in review" posts, but it has been a long enough time ...”262524Christmas From Aperture Labs3 commentsNot-so-Christmassy Christmas movies?5 comments21Ebenezer's Snow Failure“Ebenezer's previous day in the snow, back in 2005, was fun but uneventful. He went ...”
2 commentsIn which Norman is confused & annoyed by deep snow“Norman, our newish kitty--the stray one we adopted--is only about two years old. This means ...”20Waiting for slow busses in snow“Good evening! It's freakin' cold outside. We have had snow, off and on, ...”14Are Flickr Friends Electric?“I just realized that I had a huge number of people on Flickr marked as ...”Portland Snow1 comments04Star Trek iPhone Ringtone“I finally got a little tired of my You Look Nice Today Boop Boop Boop ...”
2 comments02LJ Cleaner Greasemonkey Script“If anyone is interested, I wrote a Greasemonkey script that removes Delicious and Twitter cross-posts ...” - Nov302308Coolest. Bottle. Ever.6 comments06Black Pepper Martinis!“I totally forgot to include in my last post, about the pig heart, the other ...”
2 commentsKetchup Post1 comments03 - Oct29DST Workaround“Quick and easy fix to the alarm clock time change issue I posted the other ...”28The Story of Mister Siamese1 commentsDr. Horrible and the disco Dementor!1 comments27DST one week warning!“This is your one week warning for the upcoming clock change! Do you know ...”242221The food chain in action“"There is a mouse-width trough through my loaf of bread. I think our cats are ...”20Ignite Portland 4“The list of talks for Ignite Portland 4 has been published. Mark your calendars ...”Heat map of election hackability2 comments1916Mow Town“This morning, I saw a gardening truck for a company named "Mow Town." It ...”1310Grind-N-Brew Suggestions?4 comments08Dr. Horrible's van remote2 comments06Inbox Zero again1 comments0504Financial Market Models“The other day, I heard about people who made some computer models of the financial ...”
2 commentsMy life, the bad sitcom“Kim: Did the timer go off? Me: I didn't hear it. Kim: You didn't hear it? Timer: *brrrrrring* Me: ...”02Don't forget the milk1 comments01(Not small) Change we can believe in!5 comments - Sep28Economies of Scale“A billion is a thousand million, or 1,000,000,000 or 1 x 109. Amount of money requested ...”
1 comments22Can't eat, clowns will sleep me.“Three little pill bottles, lined up like soldiers. One is used to treat anthrax. Two cause nausea. One ...”
5 comments19iPhone 3G USB power adapter recall“If you have an iPhone 3G, note that there is a recall on the ultracompact ...”15Reactor“Everybody knows that songs can trigger emotional reactions. Do you have any songs that ...”All of my hairs have been cut1 comments10Recent acquisitions“The Mac Mini hooked up to the TV: upgradinated! When did memory become so cheap? ...”06Working in the trenches“I just showered while wearing clothing. It was not delightful and invigorating. It ...”0201SE Portland Streetcar Survey“Anyone in Portland who would like to have a say in the future routes of ...”Google Chrome“I haven't read this on any of the geek news sites yet, but flipzagging posted ...” - Aug302926241209Twitter updates from near and far (but mostly near)“If we filter out all of the BrightKite checkins, replies, and things that are no ...”06
- Jul31Flugtag 2008“Remember Flugtag in 2004? There's one this year--Saturday, in fact. Details are on ...”30What's on *your* iPhone?2 comments2928iPhone location issues no longer an issue“Just to circle back to my post about field-testing the iPhone in Seattle last weekend, ...”2723Free as in Beer“It looks like Mozilla and company are offering up some free beer at the Jupiter ...”In which I start to ponder the effectiveness of homeowners insurance“"What's that smell? Is something on fire? It smells like something is burning. ...”22iPhone Geocaching“Something I wanted to mark for future reference (with "future" perhaps being as soon as ...”21Non-ARG, Bellydance Weekend!“As I've lamented in various other places, this weekend was not ARGfest for me (despite ...”17Ow“Today, I am in a world of pain -- and I do not mean that ...”161413i has a iPhone“Yesterday, I bussed it down to Pioneer Square and consulted multiple kiosks to locate the ...”08LCD demo video“People ask me what I do for a living. There are several answers to ...”What is old?“I thought I had a pretty good notion of who adults were and who kids ...”
1 commentsMy life in pictures1 comments05Recursive Ingredients1 comments02Frack That!“Oh, noes! They're closing the Star Trek Experience in Vegas? That sucks!” - Jun302524Evernote?“Do any of you folks use Evernote? What do you use it for? How ...”21Photoblogtastico!1 comments18Azureus replacement?2 comments17Spore!“I'm downloading the new demo of the Creator Creator right now. I have to ...”
1 comments15$500K south of the volcano“Every once in a while, it occurs to me that I live about a mile ...”14Ass burgers!“Without Kim around to keep me in check, I wonder if I am just a ...”
3 comments13Dreamhost "invites"“It increasingly seems like people enjoy bashing Dreamhost these days, but I haven't experienced any ...”12The geometry of butter“BrianEnigma: Oregon has crappy butter geometry. I tweeted that earlier tonight and expect some amount of ...”
3 commentsIn which I become a young adult for a week1 comments10090805Ghostly coffee maker“Every morning, the grind-n-brew coffee maker greets me with warm, delicious coffee. It has ...”03In which we learn the perils of a rimshot“vpisteve: sadtrombone.com has now been banned from the office BrianEnigma: @vpisteve I decompiled the Flash and ...”
3 comments02Weird Dream“Last night, I had dreams in which I was fighting robots. It was all ...”01 - May30Google's new icon2 comments29Beaker & Flask and "the miracle fruit"“I have seen several reference to several articles on those berries that do hallucinogenic things ...”
1 comments28My LOST Predictions1 comments27New Apps!“The new Delicious Library is out! This one includes pretty easy website publishing. ...”Flickr?2 comments25Four Years1 comments22Balance Board1 comments171413Dodgeball to Brightkite, take 2“Ignore the Dodgeball-to-Brightkite migration hint I posted the other day about checkin notifications. I ...”Scarlett Covering Tom“I guess the Scarlett-Johansson-covering-Tom-Waits album is available for listening, for those that enjoy aural pain.”Email Update #2“Back in September, I issued a warning about my email address. If you have ...”11LJ Comments“Dear LiveJournal peeps, There are many of you (I've specifically run into this with sakkaranoush and ...”Political Feature Matrix1 comments0807 - Apr30The floor is made of lava“Did you ever play the lava game as a kid? The subject came up ...”
3 comments292826LiveJournal and OpenID8 comments221817Photoshop Merit Badge6 comments16Salt. Lots of it.1 comments1307The neighborhood, then and now4 comments03One OLPC Laptop: For Sale“I forgot to mention it when it was first listed, but my OLPC Laptop is ...”
1 comments01April Fools!“Dear Internet, Your attempts at April Fools jokes in recent years have been increasingly sad and ...”
2 comments - Mar3028Signs of Change2 comments27Online Library Catalog Thingers [Updated x2]“A while back, I looked at some of the online library websites -- you know, ...”
3 comments26Micro Blogs?“Dear Internet, I am not certain that I understand why people have both a blog (e.g. ...”
6 comments24OS X VPN?1 comments20LJ Content Strike?“I keep hearing murmurings of a LiveJournal content strike. I understand the reasons behind ...”
4 comments16Interesting Twitter updates followed by a rant“A few interesting Twitter updates from the past month or two... * Someone needs to invent ...”
7 commentsJacuzzi is a go! I repeat, jacuzzi is a go!7 comments1513Absinthe Vodka“If you had an anise-flavored vodka (specifically Green Moon Vodka à Absinthe Essence), what drinks ...”
2 comments05Toilet Repair5 commentsGhosts analysis“$750,000 in three days and it only took 10 weeks to produce? I'd say ...”
1 comments03Ghosts3 comments0201 - Feb29Two Words“Two words: bacon cups”
1 comments28Downtown Uwajimaya?“We may be getting a Uwajimaya downtown! Yeay! I love Uwajimaya but hate having ...”272422WAlKWAY -->“Holy cow! It's a blog devoted to handwritten signs with letters in all-caps, except ...”20MacBook Pro, Dead on Arrival“I took my MacBook Pro in to the Apple Store today. For some reason, I ...”
4 comments19Laptop Woes“My laptop currently seems to be f'ed in the a. It has been behaving a ...”
1 comments16Belated Update #1“It is time for my belated post about Ignite Portland 2. I did not ...”1514That thing?“That thing? On the television and internets tonight? Was that an episode of ...”
1 comments13Updates Forthcoming“I've been meaning to write a blog entry for a couple of weeks now. ...”06Terminator annoyance“So I have been watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and something has been bugging ...”
4 comments05Superbowl commericals podcast feed?“Does anyone know of an RSS (video podcast) feed for this year's Superbowl commercials? ...”
3 comments02Staple Gun“I just tried to treat a staple gun like a real gun. "Okay, I've ...”
1 comments01Links“Please take warning: this post will consist almost entirely of other people's content and links ...” - Jan29I want my babyback, babyback, babyback ribs4 comments28iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak, Attempt 2“It turns out that the 1.1.3 jailbreak instructions from iPhone Atlas is pretty much the ...”
2 comments26The little things“Little things that feel good: * Performing a lane change on a freeway with those nubbily ...”
2 commentsA real-life ARG“This story of the search for the owner of a digital camera left in a ...”You suck at Photoshop 42 comments25iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak, Attempt 1“My first attempt at the iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak: FAIL. I previously installed 1.1.3 in preparation for ...”
4 commentsUpdate“For those that only look at new posts and new feed items, never going back ...”24Thanksgiving in January“I feel like I've been a complain-o-tron on the blog recently. This bugs me ...”
1 commentsUpcoming Issues“It seems that Upcoming.org is about as dead to me as Dodgeball was. The ...”
3 comments23Online Backup Redux“In response to my online backup question, I have narrowed things down to two finalists: 1. ...”Ignite Portland #2“I'll probably be going to the Ignite Portland event in February. Anyone else interested? "If ...”
1 commentsIn which I comment upon Heath Ledger's untimely demise“It seems that every person with a blog, in the last 24-ish hours, has parroted ...”
5 comments21Online Backup?“Dear Lazyweb, Recently, I have been scanning and shredding financial documents dating back to 2000. ...”
9 comments19Notes from the overground2 commentsYou Suck At Photardshop, Volume 32 comments16jPod, the series?“It is either going to be outrageously good or outrageously horrible, but those wacky Canadians ...”15Macworld Thoughts“Of the things announced by El Steveo, I have to say that I'm thrilled by ...”
10 comments14These are the people in your neighborhood, in your neigh-bor-hood...“The car has a new clutch! Well, not technically the clutch, but the master ...”
1 commentsMoving pictures with synchronized sound“A few TV/Movie thoughts while I'm waiting on replacement clutch cylinders... To use a quote/show-title from ...”13Macworld Predictions“Macworld is around the corner, and that always means new products will be announced and ...”
1 comments11Red and Black“The Red and Black is back, now at their new location!”
1 commentsAlbum Cover1 comments10Taken out of context“I have lube for my yo-yo.”09The Post-Apocalyptic Workout“The Post-Apocalyptic Workout looks interesting. It's all about surviving "at the end of the ...”
2 comments08Minor Update1 comments0604David Lynch hates the iPhone1 comments02It's a tarp!2 commentsItems!“Clothes! The other day, Substitute twittered "Internet + consistent sizing = jeans by mail. Yay." ...”01Find8151 comments