links for 2006-12-20
Brain Murmurs » Blog Archive » Band-Aids and Broken Arms I was just talking with a friend about the way we take consulting jobs, and how much we charge. Adobe Labs – kuler Help picking colors for web sites. Very cool.
Bob Plankers
Only emacs can make me feel like an idiot
Emacs, an editor I never use, seems to have a knack for making me feel like a complete and total idiot every single time I run it. I started it and I am not even sure why, my fingers typing those letters, apparently manifesting some type of subconscious masochism. Sixty seconds later I reveal the depths of my shame and frustration to Google:
links for 2006-12-19
Do Enterprise Management Systems Dream Of Electric Sheep? (tags: Security) Bad Lingo: Blog-Media Clichés – Gawker I often write the way I speak but the trick is to know what works on a page and what doesn’t. Lussumo “…back with fewer features than ever.” I really like Vanilla. Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!? (by Jeremy Zawodny) Google is going to have a tough time with their “Don’t Be Evil” slogan as they get bigger, if only because of moronic behaviour. WordPress Tiger Administration // Ordered List by Steve Smith Holy crap, this is a nice WP admin interface.
NOLA, SF, MN, OMFG
I don’t know why I do it, but I always volunteer to help friends move cross-country. After a day of rest & laundry from the SF trip I took off for New Orleans. We stopped in Memphis for a night to drink on Beale Street, which wasn’t very busy but decent nonetheless. 2100 miles later I’ve seen roller derbies and mind erasers, my Jeep needs an oil change, a new throttle position sensor, and a new window motor (it finally died… wide open, of course), and I know what the destruction looks and feels like, thanks to my friend Maitri’s tour of the decimation of Lakeview and the lower 9th ward. It’s a ghost town in those parts, and odd …
links for 2006-12-14
Yahoo! Search blog: Enterprise search made easy – and free – from IBM and Yahoo!
Some People Just Don't Understand
“Who is Estella?” she says calmly, sitting back down on the couch after pouring two more glasses of wine for us. Oh shit. “My computer?” “Yeah, the one I checked my email with. The icon on the desktop says ‘Estella.’” “That’s what I named the computer.” “You named it after a woman?” Surface calm dissipating, trouble in 5… 4… “She isn’t a real woman. Have you read Great Expectations?” “Dickens? A long time ago. You named it after a fantasy woman?” “I wouldn’t call Dickens a fantasy writer. Estella was the girl who broke Pip’s heart. I always build my own home PCs, and they always find a way to break my heart. Seemed fitting.” See, I’m not a psychopath. …
Basted in Blood
My brain is fried from all the flying I’ve done in the last 24 hours, so I will stall by sharing with you this old SNL clip a friend sent me. I hadn’t seen it before.
Days 3, 4, and 5, San Francisco
These last three days seem like a blur. I haven’t checked my email, I haven’t checked the comments here, I haven’t even had my cell phone on. It’s been nice. Having just walked around the northern half of San Francisco, though, I think it’s time to let my feet rest and see what the world is up to. I see I mis-marked one of my posts for automatic posting… going… going… gone. As for my trip so far, my comments on Day 3: – The Pork Store was busy, like an hour line, so we went over to All You Knead. Good breakfast, polite service. – Amoeba Music still rivals Cheapo Records in Minneapolis. I found a number of CDs …
Day 2, San Francisco
Day 2 out here was rainy. Mainly rainy when we were outside, and not rainy when we were inside. Hmmm. – A stop at SFMOMA to see what was new. I don’t really like a lot of modern art, and it seems SFMOMA has just the right amount for me. Some of it, like “paintings” that are completely blank or a single solid color, just annoy me. How do things like that get into museum collections? – After SFMOMA we walked down to the Bay. It started raining so we ducked into Gordon Biersch to have a beer, killing time until another friend made it into town and met us for dinner. The “Cupid’s Span” sculpture is pretty cool, and …
Day 1, San Francisco
Having flown into SFO at 4:45 PM PST food and drink were foremost on our minds. 🙂 – Jack’s Cannery Bar, as suggested by Mike G., is awesome. 65 taps and a wonderful barkeep named Tula. – San Francisco Brewing Company is awesome, too. If you visit make sure you read about Joshua Norton, the first emperor of the United States. They have several menu items dedicated to him, served up by the wonderfully friendly Molly. – The King George Hotel is great. It doesn’t look like anything special, just a hotel, but they’ve done everything right. The shower head is up high so I, being six feet tall, can shower. The pillows are perfectly dense. There are extra blankets …