dray lives in california again

Dilbert the soothsayer!

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:04:26 GMT

Dated 7/24/2002!

The united states might be on the fast-path to badness, but personally I'm doing well with my no debt, no stock market holdings, and fun job in sunny california. I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying being seduced by "the left coast", blaming america first, and hanging on obama's every inspiring and hope-laden word. Of course, I must vote for him as dictated by the intersection of my age, state of residence, and industry of occupation. I mean, that's just how it works, right!? Or maybe I must vote Democrat because it's the opposite of voting Republican? No, it's because I've voted democrat in the past... wait, no... it's because... I HONESTLY BELIEVE the statements of a politician, but only if it's a democrat? hmm...

Pardon my indignant french, but this is all bullshit. Personally, I don't expect a critical mass of people to realize the bullshit, given how stupid this country's population is. Yeah, maybe that makes me an elitist prick, but I won't apologize for it! Wake me up when half the nation realizes that the earth wasn't created in its current form 10,000 years ago by a god.

Seriously though... why does any thinking person trust any politician who doesn't legitimately earn that trust? Stockholm syndrome, anyone? I abstain!

In other news, these things are amazing!

Infinity!

Sun, 04 May 2008 19:02:38 GMT

"Screen Sharing" (aka VNC) between two Mac OS X machines, each connected to the other.

Heading to Austin in a couple hours; spending the week there on bidness.

more motion

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:45:52 GMT

Times of change are rapidly approaching! Again!

I'm expecting an offer for this job sometime this week. Heading to Austin next week to help host a beta run of an upcoming Apple training course for which I'm developing part of the courseware, under contract with Peachpit. By early June I should be living and working in Cupertino again (although I might try to live in SF this time; there's a new apple bus for commuters from there to cupertino).

One of Apple's contracted background checker people called me yesterday to inform me of a discrepancy between info I provided and info they got from my former high school. Apparently I specified an incorrect starting year for my time at bayshore high school. While it is laughable that I managed to get 1996 - 4 - 1 wrong, it feels weird to have to even approach it that way, instead of just knowing the exact dates. It doesn't feel like it should have been 17 years ago that I started high school.

I got an iPhone. It's pretty awesome, even though I really detest the cellular phone business in general. It would be easy to argue that using something as complex as Mac OS X as the platform for a cell phone (for which reliability is of utmost importance) is a pretty sketchy idea. This is not to say that Mac OS X isn't reliable relative to other desktop operating systems; but it is to say that desktop operating systems are probably less reliable than a much simpler OS that is purpose-built, speaking strictly from a complexity perspective. That's what I was thinking coming into it, having no experience with the device. Now that I've poked around a bit, I must say that I'm quite impressed with how robust the software is. Sure, I managed to hose it up once by doing unsupported things, but the restore process is super fast / easy, and by default all important data is synced with your computer(s), so data loss potential due to phone problems is about as low as it could be, I think. Mostly, I'm amazed at how good the 'unsupported' iPhone tools are. Anybody know a terminal emulator that supports landscape mode?

Back to work!

ascii art motd funs

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:26:04 GMT

Here's a small quicktime movie of my server's current message of the day (250 KB).

I'm headed to PA in a few hours to hang out with the fam for a week.

Unemployed for about 2 months now, and it's still pretty awesome :)

owwie

Fri, 18 May 2007 05:47:24 GMT

Seattle, WA has more elevation changes than Cupertino, CA. Last thursday, while riding my bike home from 15th (capitol hill), I hit a huge pot hole while going downhill, kinda fast. Front wheel went down in it - loud metallic BRRANG as the bike vibrated from the force of the impact with the road; I come to rest in a single moment of impact (no sliding); some lady who saw it yells "aow mai guawd aah you aowkaay?" in a nice bostonian. I managed a VERY strained "I think so", but it was several minutes before I could stand up, even with the moral support from several other passers by. Yadda. The right arm has been mostly out of commission for the last week; as it turns out, I use that one for a lot of stuff. Anyway, no breakages, just bruises and a bunch of swelling about the elbow and wrist areas. As of recently I can rotate my wrist enough to use a keyboard for shortish periods of time without too much discomfort. It'll probably be another couple of weeks at least before I regain full range of motion.

Couldn't have happened at a better time, though. Seriously. I'm self-unemployed, with no real responsibilities to speak of. It's nice :) My roommates have been graciously helping out with some two-handed manual functions, such as opening food or drink items, or tying my shoes.

Other things:

* Checking out Command and Conquer 3; it's cool. Mostly I'm doing this because:
* I haven't played WoW since I left CA. It itches, but I kinda wanted a break, if not a complete ceasing of play. I may get back into it if I can keep it to a reasonable time commitment. It's not really the game itself I miss as much as my guild. I imagine it's the social hooks that keep a lot of people playing more than any other single factor.
* I'm not looking for work yet, though I have been occasionally thinking about what I might do. No firm ideas yet.
* My brother is kinda going nuts on the local music scene, championing a newish (sub?) genre called dubstep. Check it .

Now accepting applications

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:30:39 GMT

http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=5997&CurrentPage=1

If you know any hot to trot mac server geeks, this would be a good job. Though I'm intentionally vacating it for reasons including "I don't want to do it anymore", I would still recommend it as a good way to skill up, meet interesting people, or even just to bank a few greenbacks. Drawbacks include: running into bugs all the time and wearing a pager. If interested, act quickly.

Me? I'm drawing ever closer to my impending exit. With significant anticipation :)

Thomas Dolby

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:35:03 GMT

Saw Thomas Dolby last night at the Little Fox Theater in Redwood city. First set was solo, and included a bit of storytelling along with the tunes. Second set included the Jazz Mafia Horns, which worked out surprisingly well. Lots of fun! Highly recommended!

He's touring for another couple weeks; go see the show if you're into it! Here is the current tour schedule.

the rushbot

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:22:16 GMT

On the 10/30 Colbert Report, there was a segment about Rush Limbaugh who was recently claiming that Michael J Fox was exaggerating his Parkinson's disease and 'shilling for a Democrat politician' in a series of TV ads for stem cell research. Roight, well anyway, after that segment, just before the commercial, they rolled this little gem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8DEe_etng8&eurl=

... which inspired me to clean up the audio and make a few creative extensions. iMovie ftw.

http://www.dreness.com/bits/funny/rushbot.mov

I don't know if this is really that funny, but I sure had a blast making it. Enjoy :)

This seems important enough.

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:54:37 GMT

If Clinton can get impeached for a blowjob, I would think that Bush can get nailed for illegal wiretapping. Oh fancy that, you mean congress is trying to slide through a vote to pardon the president!?! How could THAT happen?!?!?! </sarcasm>

http://pol.moveon.org/dontpardon/

Get this

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:32:59 GMT

This one right here. $30. it's a blast :) don't get the jet, it's too fast. biplane = a nice leasurely flight. you probably won't, for example, get it lost very high in a tree next to the parking lot you were supposed to be flying in.

This one is sort of a biplane situation; the box should contain the text 'backwards flyer'. Another thing that isn't made abundantly clear, but should be: variable throttle control on this one. That is, more than just 'on' or 'off'. I find that it's pretty easy to fly very close to the ground with this unit, though not at all with the jet.

I found some at Target.

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:26:48 GMT

Allow me to formally introduce yet another new blog on the Internet: The Bits is just a stupidly generic name for a place where I can put all my borish geeky stuff. From the about page:

In this blog, you may find little niblets and scripts, things about Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server. Maybe some deployment issues or interesting workarounds. Maybe some neat little hacks or tricks. Perhaps the occasional higher level commentary about The State Of Things, or whatever.

It's using wordpress, so all the new hotness is there. You know, microformats, metadata tags, rss feeds, AJAX, xml validators, XML / RPC reacharounds (aka trackbacks), blingtastic click-me-toos, and other things that are TOTALLY AWESOME and which cannot be described without the use of wild all-inclusive gesticulation.

WWDC and whatnot

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:47:34 GMT

WWDC '06. Yep.

Of course the content is all confidential, but you may have already seen the keynote.

I worked the Enterprise IT lab for a few sessions this year, as I did last year. This year I also managed the configuration of some of the machines and prepared some demo / tutorial content for a bunch of Open Directory clients and servers. There was also the requisite fire extinguishing for others who were less prepared...

There were lots of interesting sessions, but I still enjoyed it more from the social angle. In addition to all the cool folks I met while working the labs, there were two somewhat separate irc meetups... #macdev and #opendarwin, both on freenode.

The #opendarwin meetup was really more of a wake, considering that they finally threw in the towel. Anyway, that was at Zeitgeist Sunday night, and it was a blast. I drank a lot. The keynote was rough the next morning, but I pulled it off somehow!

#macdev was on Wednesday night, at the usual location - Gordon Biersch. It was the biggest ever; almost 50 people showed up! A big chunk of people parted ways after dinner, those who remained then went on to O'Something's pub and kept drinking. Good times :) Between the two irc groups, I caught up with several friends from afar, and also got to know some other folks.

Thursday night was the Apple campus bash. They bussed us all to Cupertino from the Moscone center. BT played. I was mostly into it for the fact that a bunch of people seemed to be into it. Maybe one of these years we'll get an act that I can dig on directly.

Friday night there was a large collective trip to the Castro theater to see 2001 in 70mm goodness. It was an interesting collection of friends of mine who had never before met. They got started with a big organ playing a full-on Also sprach Zarathustra, complete with the sinking into the stage at the end - very awesome. I just happen to have some video (though I missed the first phrase). The movie was... well, I don't need to tell you. I saw things in it I really don't remember having seen before, specifically a bunch of freak-out stuff towards the end. Maybe that means I never made it that far, maybe it was a special cut... not sure. Also lots of laughs from the crowd during some of the HAL interactions; it was fun.

Spent the night @ nick's, and most of Saturday, then came back to tha coup.

Yesterday and today was mostly spent catching up with things @ work. I'm finally unburied and ready to work on some projects that really need attention. Hopefully servers don't explode, diverting my time once again towards janitorial duties.

Otherwise, things are good. The weather is great, I bought a bike, and oh yes, the Nintendo DS Lite rocks the house. My friend code is 287839 004114; currently I'm doing mostly mario kart, and also some of the new mario bros'. Metroid DS is all funky and first-person, but I think it'll be worthwhile, just takes getting used to.

vacation notes

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:15:39 GMT

I recently went to PA for a family gathering; mom came up from FL, my brother came out from Seattle, and all the people who live out that way. Impossible to get *everybody*, but we did ok.

Flew out on a Friday, way early... flight left at like 6:20 or something. Connection through Dallas, on to Philly. Mom and AJ arrived many hours later, so I took a shuttle to within a few minutes of my Aunt Marian's place, then she scooped me up. The party was at their new (very sweet) house (with a bigass barn / stables), which they had only started living in the day before.... so things were a little hectic for them... moving is always crazy. There was lots of food, outdoor activity, a birthday celebration, and several rounds of chess. My cousin Kyle is into it (and seemed pretty decent for an 8 year old), so we played a bunch on their swanky chess set, which caused a couple others to get in on the action as well.

Pictures!

Sunday we went over to a cousin's place for an afternoon, also fun times, got to hang out a bit more with their kids whom I hadn't met before Friday (and others; a total of 4 'new' second cousins).

On Monday, myself, my mom and grandparents headed back to their place in Slippery Rock, PA. It's about a 7 hour drive or so, not too bad, but only two days after the flights to get out here, so I was getting a little antsy toward the end.

The place in Slippery Rock is about the same as I remember it being since I started going up there at like age 5 or something... though it does now have certain modern conveniences such as wireless internet access (granddad is way into it, grandmom is quick to change the subject :). One difference is that this time, for various reasons, a bunch of our (me, AJ, mom, Bob) stuff was in storage under a lean-to behind granddad's shed. Mom wanted to get that all sorted, so we drug it all out. It was all packed in cardboard boxes, and they were stored outside - though I must note that granddad took every possible precaution to keep them well stored, including digging a ditch around the entire top half of the shed to keep the ground dry. Some of them were still kinda nasty, though, and some groundhog had some fun in there, but overall, only a small amount of stuff was lost or otherwise funktified beyond repair.

One thing I definitely nabbed was my trombone (I played it all through middle / high school); got it all cleaned and whatnot. I played for a short while outside, and my chops are predictably shot. I could build 'em back, but there's not much motivation unless I start hanging with people who need horns, heh. Also grabbed a few old t-shirts, some CDs, and a couple other very small odds and ends.

It was two days of work getting it all sorted... there was a garage sale pile, a free library donation pile, a keep pile, a garbage pile, and of course the burn pile. Around the half-way point, I heard some sort of music box - just a single tone - from a box that mom was working on, and immediately stopped what I was doing and just stood there, somewhat involuntarily. She started to say what it was, but I already knew it was my first little wind-up music box toy. This probably sounds kinda cheesy, but I was (still am) amazed at how the sound of it affects me, it's pretty surreal... definitely an intense emotional swell of some sort. Every nuance is familiar.

We also spent some time looking through some old photos... like really old. The grandparents know most of the history; a rather startling amount of it, I thought. Anyway, they'd go though the photos and just weave the story to go along with the pictures. I was thinking how much more valuable that is than just pictures alone... We started plotting ways to capture it all, but it'll have to wait for next time.

My third day there was also the last; they brought me to the Pittsburg airport to fly out a bit after 7 in the evening. The flights back kinda sucked... we were delayed over an hour getting out, which brought my Chicago connection window down to about 8 minutes. I arrived with a few minutes to spare (rather out of breath) only to find that the connection was also delayed. The second flight seemed comically and then infuriatingly long, and I realized that my expectations had been set by the trip out, which had two more equal legs. After all the recent travel, I was really going nuts on this airplane - plus it was late, and I was worn out and sunburned.

Anyhow, great times were had, and we'll probably do it again next year!

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:55:22 GMT

I just learned that my friend Michael Bartosh died this weekend. His death was accidental; he fell from a balcony in Tokyo. He was a pretty well known guy in the mac enterprise consulting sphere; definitely one of the very best at his craft, constantly jetting all over the Earth, doing his thing. His last IM status line that I remember was "3 continents in 3 days".

I first met him 3 or 4 years ago on the Apple certified training circuit; I was just getting started, and he was an old hand. We were at Apple in cupertino, having been invited by the courseware developers to alpha test some new curriculum, provide feedback, and tighten things up for the release. I was surprised to hear that his feedback was pretty harsh at times; not necessarily directed at the courseware, but at Mac OS X Server in general. He was very honest about the shortcomings of the OS, which was kind of a breath of fresh air... many hard-core mac guys tend to gloss over the faults.

We shared an apartment for a week at a time on several occasions in the course of doing the training stuff for Apple. In 2004, he asked me to contribute the firewall chapter for his O'Reilly book; I was and still am proud to be associated with his work. Once I started working at Apple, I'd always try to hook up with him for beers / dinner when he was in town.

It was always good times, as Michael was very much a fun loving guy, and really smart. Lots of great stories. He was one of those people who does everything to the max... worked real hard, played real hard.

Real hard. I don't know the details of his death, but anyone who knew him decently well knows that he was not afraid to push limits.

This is the first time a friend of mine has died, and it feels weird. I read mailing list posts from him last week, exchanged IMs... now he's gone. He was 28 years old, same as me.

He'll be missed.

Pirates vs Cowboys / Bay to Breakers

Fri, 26 May 2006 04:48:22 GMT

I spent most of the weekend in SF hangin' with Nick and Kori. First was the party at the old office of the puzzlepirates crew Saturday night. The theme was pirates vs cowboys; I decided to go cowboy. I spent a good amount of time saturday walking around Cupertino picking up pieces of a costume... nice hat / coat, little american flag to stick in the hat, white t-shirt with GUNS scrawled on the front with a fat sharpie. I also found some kind of faux wicker Miller High Life hat - baseball cap style, very ghetto - that I would have used had the larger cowboy hat become tedious (though it never did). Then I had a serious leather holster that was just big enough to securely hold a bottle of beer; that worked out well.

During the travels that day, I happened upon a small children's toy called "PopUp Pirate", which included a small plastic pirate lookin' dude, and a bunch of tiny plastic pirate swords. I used that to make an ornamental necklace of the skulls and swords of pirates I had defeated in duels, ya know. I had what I thought was a very good cowboy gait, some kind of saddle-sore legs-first affair. I discovered that playing cowboy is kinda fun, especially in today's political climate.

Kori has some photos of all that.

The place was set up nicely, and well primed for a last hurrah what with the no furniture and open bar. There were a couple of big silhouette panels with lights behind them... pretty cool party element, especially with all the interesting costumes. The party itself was a slow start, but got cookin' pretty well eventually. We ended up leaving fairly early... maybe 1:30 or so. The idea was to rest up, since the next morning was the Bay To Breakers race / parade / moving block party which gets started pretty early.

As we left the party, I saw a most amazing sight. I guess we were right along the race route, and there were tow trucks stretching off into the distance in either direction, towing EVERYTHING. The street was full of tow trucks arriving and departing, the sidewalks were full of people sprinting after their cars. It was a scene. We crashed at Nick's apartment after a short cab ride.

At about 8 I got up and went outside to chill on the stoop; the apartment was right on the route. It was fast runners for a little while, then loooots of joggers. There were a bunch of people on the corner to the left of us that had been partying all night, who were also pumping music into the street... Their music was good. The people doing the grilling to our right were also pumping music, but their music sucked - mostly because they played the same two songs for about an hour and a half.

I had never seen the Bay To Breakers thing before; it's definitely a scene. It's a combination of serious runners, casual runners, people just out to walk, groups who show up with a theme of some sort, and hard-core party people. Lots and lots of kegs were in that parade.

Race / parade pictures from me, and Kori's set.

It was a real fun time :) As a bonus, I've now started looking at the new game from the puzzlepirates people, Bang Howdy. I find it to be a lot of fun; sort of a semi turn-based rts, simple to learn, but I think the strategy can get pretty deep. It's also the most amazing java anything I've ever seen, with really nice OpenGL gameplay to compliment the tons of great 2d artwork for the non-action parts of the game.

On the larger scale, I'm still grinding away in Cupertino. Kinda just doin the routine, trying to get through this project... I signed up to staff WWDC again in August - I'll be an Enterprise IT Lab llama again this year. Maybe some day I'll start reading friend's blogs again; sorry I'm so out of touch.

Quake4 macbook benchmarks

Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:36:47 GMT

I recorded a short multiplayer demo (recordnetdemo demo1 / stopnetdemo) on a public server - there were 5 or 6 other players (quake4 performance falls off pretty quick as you add players). The demo was recorded on my slowest-performing machine, so it's really clusmy, so I won't be posting it. It's still useful as a standard for comparison.

I tested three configurations: powermac g5 running os x, macbook running os x, macbook running xp sp 2

The machine specs are:

Model	CPU	RAM	Video Card	VRAM
Powermac G5	Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5	2.5 GB	ATI Radeon 9650	256 MB
Macbook Pro	Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz	2 GB	ATI X1600	256 MB

Each machine used low quality settings and was running at 640 x 480.

To do the benchmark, 'playnettimedemo demo1' on each of the configurations. The result shown in the console is the average number of frames per second drawn throughout the demo. Higher numbers are better.

Model	OS	Timedemo FPS
Powermac	Mac OS X 10.4.6	23.69 fps
Macbook Pro	Mac OS X 10.4.6	30.35 fps
Macbook Pro	Windows XP SP 2	34.31 fps

I expected the windows number to be a bit higher, but it's still enough of a difference that it's worth maintaining a windows partition on the macbook. In 1v1 matches, the performance on the macbook is good enough to keep the fps pegged at 60 (which is the target in quake4 - there is not a magic framerate that lets you jump further like in quake3. info).

hi

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:22:26 GMT

I'm pretty much the same, with one notable exception. Went ahead and got myself one of those newfangled macbooks, and I must say it's rather nice. My previous laptop is a g3 ibook from 2001. Almost 5 years old = basically useless, except for the simplest of tasks.

The dual core 2 GHz macbook runs quake4 better than my dual cpu 2.3 GHz g5 tower. With a desktop display, mouse, and keyboard plugged in, it feels as fast as the G5 in other ways. Certainly, the g5 will win handily when it comes to anything with very hot altivec code in it (altivec is sort of a speciality of the 'old' apple cpu architecture that is unequaled in x86 land)... but for every day use, I would say that this would be a suitable desktop replacement, regarding performance. The big problem with that idea of course is storage... I have two 240 GB drives in my g5, and that's enough... stepping down to 100 GB in the laptop would be rough, but I could eek a bit more out of it with a bigger drive... (gotta be 7200 rpm though). The final test of desktop replacement potential comes when I install and use Final Cut Studio, which should be soon.

So far, the only serious complaint I have about the macbook is the noise associated with the second CPU core. The rapid transitions between power states that occur when the cpu is almost completely idle cause it to make a bit of noise. This is audible in a quiet-ish room towards the top left of the keyboard, but it's at a frequency that allows you to keep hearing it even when there is some background noise. It is also audible out of the headphone port, unfortunately. A quick workaround is to disable the second cpu core if you want it to be totally quiet - I tend to run this way by default anyway, because I assume it uses less power... Installing apple's CHUD tools provides a "Processor" prefpane, which lets you turn on a menu extra to easily enable / disable the second core.

Another thing is that it gets pretty warm. This is not a new criticism of laptops, but it's kind of startling to compare a 500 g3 ibook to one of these macbooks in terms of heat output. I have one of those iCurve stands that I use when I'm at a desk, and that's great for airflow... but at night when I'm reclining in bed, it's basically sitting on a blanket. If I lift it up and feel the bottom of the laptop with my hand, it feels pretty damn hot for a few seconds until enough heat is transfered away... Still, this it more of an observation than a problem / complaint.

All in all, a pretty fine computer. I am pleased :)

screenshot

X11 application mobility funs

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:30:11 GMT

Ever wanted to have an X11 application's GUI follow you around between various machines while the app continues to run? Believe it or not, I have wanted this. Recently I found a little app that lets you do this called xmove. It's rather old, but... new to me, and cool enough to document; including a narrated video walkthrough [QuickTime 7, 56 MB] of xmove in action.

Now if we could just do this with OS X apps, that'd be fly...

Firefly season 2?!?

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:54:22 GMT

http://www.FireflySeason2.com/

If you elect to watch it on your computer, be sure to let them know via the comments that you would prefer to download and store a copy, instead of a one-time viewing or some such.

lolz

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:35:49 GMT

This is hillarious stupid: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303119

Public Service Announcement

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:29:47 GMT

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/11/itunes_update_spies_.html

Read all the comments, too. Sad :/ All it would have taken is a little tiny dialog explaining the new behavior to make people *excited* about it, instead of pissing off people who REALLY don't want that behavior by trying to slip it past them.

*UPDATE 1/18/06*

They fixed it. The text describes exactly what's happening, shows very clearly how to disable the mini store, and most importantly, requires positive action on the part of the user to enable the feature. Good job, Apple. Just keep this in mind for next time, OK? ;)

warm it up

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 08:37:39 GMT

Saturday, I went to a housewarming at Nick and Kori's new place in south SF. The trip out was somewhat adventurous. I tried to be all efficient and walk a straight line from the Bayshore Caltrain to their place... well, that took me back and forth behind what appeared to be a junkyard in nearly complete darkness (enough to actually get me to take my headphones off!) looking for a clean path. There wasn't one, so I stumbled across an uneven vacant lot, hopped a fence...

... and then walked through quasi-ghetto for about a mile. I arrived without incident, but it definitely wasn't boring.

Fun times and good conversation were had at the party. Geeks, scientists, and seamstresses were well represented. Never thought I'd have the chance to quiz two post-docs about what they hope to gain by studying A1 supernovas. There were also some tasty Irish Car Bombs, and we even made it to 'silly hats'. I got Canada (not that Canada is silly, but me wearing a Canada hat is... especially when the picture is lined up just right so it looks like there's an umbrella sprouting out the top...)

Spent the night, and thanks to the water fairy, wasn't totally wrecked this morning. Chillin / coffee / music / SouthPark / pizza and salad --> taxi --> (two minutes late to the) Caltrain. All in all, this weekend provided good encouragement to visit SF more often (this was only my 4th trip in the 9 months I've been here).

woot!

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:55:21 GMT

I leave for Amsterdam in like 15 minutes! Flying out of SFO @ 3:40, but will be at the airport plenty early.

boo

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 20:20:15 GMT

First I saw this in the itunes music store...

... thought about it for a moment, and then checked archive.org for the show. It was in their db, and even had reviews over a year old, then I saw

bastards!

New BOC

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:09:07 GMT

New Boards Of Canada release. It's good.