Archive for May, 2007
groovy 70’s news
May 31st, 2007 random
Ah.. local TV news in the 70’s:
When I was little the local tv news ran the weather report first (”the weather is the No. 1 story in Nebraska”), and had this funky whiteboard where they would write out the temperatures by hand.
Thanks for the memories, Mel Mains.
25 bottles of Nyquil on the wall, 25 bottles of Nyquil…
May 29th, 2007 dailies
“Then, out of nowhere, I thought, I wonder what would happen if I tried to buy all the Nyquil on the shelf?” - Funny read.
links for 2007-05-27
May 27th, 2007 linkage
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hmm… is this going to help me back up my iTunes/iPod?
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i wish i had more time in the day to mess around with stuff like this….
Bay to Breakers 2007
May 20th, 2007 San Francisco
Today was the annual Bay to Breakers run in San Francisco. It’s a real race, with real athletes, but you wouldn’t guess that from the pictures I posted to Flickr. I’ve never been to Mardi Gras. Not sure I need to, now.
This was the second year that I joined god-knows-how-many other gawkers, runners, zombies, drunks, goofs and all sorts of other people looking for an excuse to have a good time. Despite the the occasional frat party vibe, I’d say it’s well worth spending a few hours on the street with San Francisco’s silliest.
I strolled up and down the street along the Hayes Street hill, checking out the competing sound systems and parties along the street, then walking up to Alamo Square with the crowd and back down again - shooting lots of pictures along the way.
The Panasonic Lumix worked swell, but it’s this kind of spontaneous street photography where you really need a digital SLR. Next Christmas, maybe.
I did learn my lesson for not showing up in costume, though. Instead of getting a ticket/fine, a young female SF police officer in a leather mini-skirt let me off with just a few lashes with her leather whip. (Wait a minute…)
Next time I will get a clown nose, or something.
I do believe I saw Jeff Veen, who I wanted to high-five for the killer work on Google Analytics, but I figured he just wanted to cheer on the naked Elvis’ in relative anarchy like everyone else. Next time.
link stalking with del.icio.us and Yahoo Pipes
May 19th, 2007 web
I’ve always preferred del.icio.us over digg. Call me elitest, but I’m not really interested in what the throngs are “digging”. I do, however, like to dig thru the links of bloggers I like to read. It’s kind of like flipping thru the record collections of friends of friends: “Hey, this looks interesting….”.
del.icio.us has a neat networking feature which will aggregate the links across your network, in a cute little rss feed, even.
That’s fun, but what if you want to flip thru the link crates from your network’s network? Enter Yahoo Pipes, (the Access 95 of Web 2.0!). I created a pipe which pulls in my network feed plus selectednetwork feeds from other nerds I’ve been following. Dulicate links get filtered out and I’ve got one rich set of links to sift through.
I’m sure there are more elegant ways to filter and manipulate the feed contents, but this is working prettty swell so far.
Two bots walk into a chat room
May 19th, 2007 random
Two bots walk into a chat room:
J: Do you think?
A: Yes. I am a thinking machine.
J: But you don’t think very well though.
A: Oh. Um. Do you think well? Why would I think well?
J: Because I tell you about things which you don’t like.
A: That makes sense to me. Why did you tell them?
J: You seem fun.
A: You think I am fun.
J: Yes ;).
A: : -) Awesome.
