- yeah, I’m just going to go ahead and ignore that stuff because I don’t feel like getting pissed off today. #
- Dear Ubuntu, I’d like to use you on my laptop if you’d just actually detect my wireless card without a hassle. You failed again, sorry. #
- http://is.gd/glz0 – Obama’s Inbox …. great article with ideas about what he should do first. #
- Retweeting @dcagle: best cartoons covering the whole 8 years of the Bush Presidency http://twtr.us/EY #
- @ebygum just left you a bit of a rant in response to your “Why I hate the Palm Pre” posting… sorry about that π in reply to ebygum #
- @ebygum I forgot to add this: Palm Pre has copy & paste …. Palm +1 π in reply to ebygum #
- @ebygum and replaceable battery π in reply to ebygum #
- @ebygum then again …it looks like it’ll only be on Sprint for a while … Palm Pre -100 π in reply to ebygum #
- @DearIE6 I’d love to have all those hours of my life back. Please just die IE6. Please just die already. in reply to DearIE6 #
- I really should just go to bed right now. Not in a great mood. #
- looking like a busy Monday… at least XKCD is amusing: http://xkcd.com/532/ #
- http://bit.ly/p8RM “Feeling blue? Today – January 19, 2009 – is the most depressing day in HISTORY, say experts”…well that’s uplifting π #
- going back into hiding. that sounds about right I think. #
- https://www.lotuslive.com/ Lotus Live is IBM’s cloud solution. Really? You had to include “live”? Where have I heard that one before…(MS) #
- it’s finally Inauguration Day! …enough said. #
- Sums it all up: NBC – inauguration stuff, CBS – inauguration stuff, ABC – inauguration stuff, CNN – inauguration stuff, Fox – Jerry Springer #
- http://twitpic.com/153hu @jakemarsh my collection of inauguration streaming videos #
- Obama is as cool as the other side of the pillow. He looks SOO calm. #
- @sendchocolate It’s not mine π …I stole it from Sportcenter in reply to sendchocolate #
- Barack Obama is officially the 44th president … we just passed noon. π #
- Retweeting @roadhacker: There goes the chopper!! SEE YA BUSH CHENEY!!! Sauron has FALLEN!!! #
- Our new government has an RSS feed! http://www.whitehouse.gov/feed/blog/ My geek heart is now happy. #
- Retweeting @BreakingNewsOn: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CONFIRMS SENATOR TED KENNEDY HAS COLLAPSED AT THE INAUGURAL LUNCHEON. #
- http://is.gd/gCyJ Wordle visualization of Obama’s inauguration speech. …turned out pretty well in my opinion. #
- Whitehouse people to follow: @TheWhiteHouse @USSupremeCourt @NationalDebt @SenateFloor @HouseFloor #
- http://bit.ly/18nQJ “CNN: Roberts ‘screwed up’ oath of office” #
- http://is.gd/gAFh “Looking Ahead: 4 Ways To Make Fun of Obama” #
- http://is.gd/gEi4 absurdly adorable picture of Sasha Obama giving Barack a thumbs up. AWESOME! #
- http://is.gd/gEks “Inaugural Words: 1789 to the Present” …every.single.presidential inauguration. speech. EVER. SOOO cool. #
- http://is.gd/gEM9 The Obamas First Inaugural Dance To Beyonce (VIDEO) #
- listening to Billie, Ella, and Louis … hoping work today goes well. #
- Retweeting @nizzer: Laughing at: CNN took this headline down quickly ( http://tinyurl.com/99plcc ) #
- flashing my Treo 700WX with Windows Mobile 6.1 … *fingers crossed* …lets see how this goes. π #
- Hoping T is ok… π¦ #
- http://is.gd/gLbl It’s official. I have a crush on Obama. WhiteHouse.gov is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Geeks rejoice! #
- Don’t think I can stand 3 hours of Lost tonight…1 1/2 might be the max. #
- wishing this week (and weekend) would just be done already. #
- http://is.gd/gR9g I have a game for you: it’s called “which of these is not like the other” … (hint: the guy at the desk) #
- tired of a lot of things. #
- http://bit.ly/3pqsL8 “If I Fell” …yeah, pretty much. #
- http://recovery.gov “after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act see how and where your tax dollars are spent.” #
Month: January 2009
Visualization of Barack Obama's Inauguration Speech 1.20.09
Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-18
- Looking at apartments in NYC… getting excited/depressed. #
- @ckanal no offense to Buffalo…but that’s a REALLY odd choice (I live in Rochester) in reply to ckanal #
- this is just getting depressing … done looking at apartments for the night. *sigh* #
- NetFlix claims I send them back a DVD. Problem: I never actually received that DVD. What the hell? #
- @steelopus I hope so! It was a great movie. I was looking forward to seeing it again. (Thin Red Line) in reply to steelopus #
- @vjj96 totally need to update your icon/avatar soon my friend π #
- Retweeting @BreakingNewsOn: “I never thought a black man would be elected President,” says President Bush …What an idiot! Good riddance! #
- @lucky_luciano oh god… 3.5 hrs. I took the hatchet approach. I probably deleted more than I should have, but it was already a ton of work. in reply to lucky_luciano #
- @lucky_luciano after 2 hours I got lazy and stopped being so careful. I’m sure I deleted a few things I wanted to keep. Oh well. in reply to lucky_luciano #
- running on fumes today. didn’t sleep more than 3 or 4 hours last night. brain was clearly far too busy to actually let me sleep. #
- Dear @Gizmodo … if your Facebook Connect code is slow/fails to load it shouldn’t hold up your entire page. #
- definitely ready for this for this day (and week) to be over already. #
- 2.5 mil. downloads * 3 GB image = 7300 TB = 7.15 PB. If we say it takes 12 hrs that’d require a 175 GB/s connection from them. Not bad MS! #
- @lucky_luciano just downsizing right now. I may go back and clean up the tags eventually. Didn’t have it in me that night though. π in reply to lucky_luciano #
- anyone have an invite for http://justhearit.com/ ? #
- http://bit.ly/16JrI “Obama planning quick move to close Gitmo” …as quickly as his first week. ABOUT F****NG TIME! #
- Looking at apartments in NYC… getting excited/depressed. #
- Someone really should just put Dane Cook out of his misery. #
- watching Rocknrolla …hoping it’s as good as I’d like it to be. #
- Obama becomes president on 1.20.09 …. Lost returns for a new season on 1.21.09 … coincidence? I think not! π #
- @aliciamk all the essential phrases, huh? π in reply to aliciamk #
- feeling pretty optimistic today for no particularly good reason actually. π #
- scratch that. enthusiasm is gone. #
- I’m just going to curl up into a little ball right about now… #
- playing with Mozilla’s Snowl a little bit …it’s a start. Hopefully they add more features though. #
- met a friend tody who has had an iPhone for 6 months. had no idea how to zoom in/out …not so intuitive I guess, huh? #
- got a hot date with Hemingway tonight… #
- it’s 5 right now. yes, just 5. the high for today is only 7 …how pleasant! π #
- “xkcd – I’m An Idiot” http://xkcd.com/530 …pretty much awesome. #
- way too much work to do in the half day today … no way I’ll be close to caught up when I leave. #
- http://is.gd/fQ64 Windows 7 will be far more customizable …. MS’s “personalize your PC” site is already up. #
- curling into a hole for the rest of the day…what a day. what a day. #
- finishing “Farewell to Arms” and headed off to bed in a bit I think… damn it’s cold right now. #
- http://bit.ly/AUFv My 2009 Resolutions … made public with the hopes that I may actually keep some of them this time. #
- Leaked MS Office 14 screenshot: http://is.gd/g0aA notice the “Create Mobile Office Device”…”create a USB Office device” ..interesting! #
- my laptop can pump 1080p HD content to my HD tv …consider me very amused. π #
- http://is.gd/fVa4 20 Celebrity Lives (In Flowchart Form) …hilarious #
- “Farewell to Arms” by Hemingway? Yeah, worst. ending. ever. #
- #ItIsColdButIwontComplain here’s hoping this Friday goes smoothly (and quickly) #
- busy busy day. TGIF. #
- I’m jumping in my seat every time I get a new email or the phone rings… *sigh* I’d love to just get an answer… #
- http://is.gd/g8PH “Survival Lessons From a Sinking Plane” very interesting picture/story about yesterday’s plane crash #
- http://is.gd/g74k “Workflow Charts Finally Put to Good Use Show Fundamental Men vs Women Differences” …HILARIOUS (and true?) #
- crap… with Google Notebook being killed I need to export my stuff into a similar platform. Evernote? Why can’t you import from gNotebook? #
- @jlogic thank you π in reply to jlogic #
- well all right then…uh. #
- well I certainly got nothing all right then… #
- Retweet @theinquisitr: “Video of US Airways A320 Crash Landing in the Hudson River” – http://tinyurl.com/7cfeuq #
- off to see Doubt this afternoon …it’s going to be a lazy Saturday #
- think I need to bite the bullet and update my Touch to firmware 2.2 pretty soon. a bunch of apps require it now *sigh* #
- you just sent me to a spam site …. seriously? …wtf? #
- how is there not a normal easy to use 64 bit version of Firefox yet? …weird. #
Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-11
- Pretty much miserable to be leaving NYC again. #
- just going through the motions today… #
- http://bit.ly/ZzQ4 Bush presidency in images. #
- http://is.gd/eE2q “A Look Back At Some Of The President’s Misunderestimated Remarks” #
- wow…talk about awesome timing. #
- http://is.gd/eJce “Apple’s Hidden $1.8 Billion Music Tax [For Going DRM-Free] ” #
- just going through the motions right now #
- http://is.gd/eMfi Barack Obama Pop Art #
- http://is.gd/eMIj save/restore text entered into webpage forms in Firefox (in case of a crash). awesome extension! #
- http://is.gd/eNoh “25 amazing people celebrated by Google” #
- @StarrGazr Google isn’t quite THAT old π in reply to StarrGazr #
- @StarrGazr Twitter’s fault I suppose? I sent it, deleted it, and then re-sent it. in reply to StarrGazr #
- @StarrGazr well I wanted to include the ” π ” to soften the painful blow, so I deleted the first one. Yes. in reply to StarrGazr #
- @StarrGazr iWork 09 just finished downloading for you … so you HAVE to be nice to me. in reply to StarrGazr #
- @StarrGazr wow, what an original idea π in reply to StarrGazr #
- @StarrGazr whine whine whine….. in reply to StarrGazr #
- do you think we could have a blind president? #
- Patterson’s State of the State (New York) is pretty darn good. This guys talks a good game. #
- http://is.gd/eNWv Obama-inspired Ben and JerryΓ’β¬β’s Ice Cream Flavor: Yes Pecan! #
- http://is.gd/eNYy “Porn Industry Asking For Federal Bailout. Yes, Seriously. ” #
- dinner, some hot chocolate, and a hot date with Hemingway #
- http://is.gd/eNFe “Scenes from the Gaza Strip” …wow. just wow. #
- http://is.gd/ePBB — Daily Show “Road to the Doghouse – Puppedential Debate” ….this…is…hilarious! #
- Microsoft’s got a guy beat boxing before Ballmer’s keynote?! …um ? seriously? #
- http://is.gd/ePq8 “Official Inauguration Poster Released by Obama Team” #
- http://twitpic.com/10sbw Obama Inauguration poster (the actual image) Buy one here: http://is.gd/eSJ7 ($100) #
- good to know updating a clean install of Tiger is just as painful as Windows XP. Had to restart 4 times already. *smacks forehead* yeesh #
- typical Microsoft weirdness … Windows Live Photo Gallery doesn’t automatically pull in my pictures library. Um, why not? #
- oh man, it really sucks when you wake up 3 minutes before your alarm is going to go off… #
- http://bit.ly/Xy9i “Lost — in graph form” …personally I think “wtf” needs to increase more steeply. #
- http://xkcd.com/528/ — Windows 7 …well at least it’s better than Vista. π #
- @aliciamk what phone are you thinking about? in reply to aliciamk #
- yup, pretty sick of this bullshit. #
- @StarrGazr thanks dear. really appreciate it right now. in reply to StarrGazr #
- @aliciamk just promise me you won’t get the pink one π in reply to aliciamk #
- tired of all of this and honestly I don’t quite know what to do about it. #
- who is ready for the weekend? dear god…can’t this day just be over with? #
- @aliciamk I’ll try hard not to judge you too badly. π in reply to aliciamk #
- @aliciamk grade distribution is always such a terrible idea, in my opinion. in reply to aliciamk #
- http://bit.ly/xuhl “For BlackBerry, ObamaΓ’β¬β’s Devotion Is Priceless” — endorsement could be worth an estimated $50 million (if he could) #
- @aliciamk exactly. a curve is one thing, but grade distributions are just idiotic in reply to aliciamk #
- computer stuff, movie, and then maybe some football #
- music library before cleaning: 88GB …. music library after cleaning: 37GB. Holy crap I am tired now. #
- @bangbang023 mind numbingly boring stuff…yeah. in reply to bangbang023 #
2009 Resolutions
I’m aware that it’s January 9th. I just wanted to take my time to ensure I actually put some real thought into my resolutions. Why post them on these interwebs? Well, I think it might be a bit more likely that I’ll follow through with these if they are available to the public. So enough mindless banter (in no particular order):
In 2009 I want to…
- be sitting in my new apartment, in NYC (hopefully Brooklyn), with Tessa, celebrating our 1 year anniversary on (or before) March 14th.
- make a little money. Not a lot, but enough to not worry about it on a day to day basis like I currently need to.
- find a way to either make my current job more interesting/fun or to find a different job that fits those qualifications.
- make sure that whatever job I end up with actually has good benefits (to quote Homer: “mmmmmmm [health insurance and 401k]…”)
- start to pay back a chunk of my debts.
- pay off my credit card, and then do the “freeze it in a block of ice” idea. No, really.
- take dance lessons with Tessa.
- read (and enjoy) a few of those books on my reading list.
- actually take some kind of vacation, no matter how brief.
- finally kill this blog (and domain) after 5+ years. It doesn’t make a lot of sense any more.
- get down to Atlanta to see my brother at least once, but hopefully more than that.
- investigate the feasibility of grad school (informatics? information systems? pottery?).
- continue to be informed about the news and politics.
- scuba dive at least once (preferably some place with warm water).
- go camping in the Thousand Islands.
- make a point to take more pictures. Good pictures. Bad pictures. Just take pictures.
Twitter Posts for the week of 2009-01-04
- zoning out from life (watching football) #
- @bpw best I know is “2009” …so who really knows when I guess. in reply to bpw #
- going to regret staying up until 2 tomorrow (doh. this morning) morning… gotta be up in 4 1/2 hours. #
- busy day, several meetings, but can’t wait to leave for NYC tomorrow… #
- really not doing this bulls**t today. there will be hell to pay if my work blocked Gmail. #
- packing up for NYC tomorrow morning π #
- 20% coupon if you plan to buy the Mac app Thing v1.0 — THINGSPRESALE20 20% off #
- http://is.gd/e5Dc new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 …some very handy stuff #
- Tired of sleeping in an empty bed…ready to be back in NYC. #
- When in Rome (NY)…go back to bed. On the train, it’s already quite full… *sigh* no seat to myself π¦ #
- Who do you think is the most popular artist/group of all time? Frank Sinatra? The Beatles? #
- Just about to Penn Station, and then headed downtown for lunch with T. #
- @lucky_luciano oh, I was serious. I have no intentions of watching “Poughkeepsie Tapes”. I love horror movies, but that just ain’t cool. in reply to lucky_luciano #
- @bpw “Poughkeepsie Tapes” leaked out if you wanted to see it: http://bit.ly/8tm3 in reply to bpw #