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sick, code, art

signal9 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:23:50 +0000

a missing piece

signal9 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:31:28 +0000

ramblings

signal9 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:06:10 +0000

It is an interesting problem being under constant flux, constantly changing, constantly learning.� It is an interesting problem knowing what I don’t know, and knowing that I don’t know enough to do what I’m doing.� There’s a strange tension in figuring it all out as you go along, and knowing that’s exactly what you’re doing.

It’s clear that so much of human behavior is motivated by fear, pain and misunderstanding.� Being aware of this doesn’t seem to help much.� How fragile the images we cling to.

Tags: living

Beer Dog

signal9 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:30:24 +0000

Forgive me, blogosphere, for I have sinned. It has been 9 months since my last blog post.Some things change, and some things don’t. The better part of the last nine months has seen regular brewing sessions at the Broomfield house. What better excuse for a bunch of guys to stand in the garage drinking beer for an entire day? Better yet, huddled around the steaming kettle when it’s 25 degrees outside?

And of course, the ever-present Abby is in the mix. Good dog.

Photo credit to Paul Kraus

papa was a frozen stone

signal9 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:58:49 +0000

Nathan and I found our way to the Frozen Boulder on Sunday. We almost decided to skip it, but I really wanted Nathan to see it, if only to introduce a little meaningless fun into his universe. I’d venture that meaningless fun in life is more important than any seriousness I could teach him. Here is the first online video I’ve found of the event:

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=LcpNT95ulNc]

Nathan felt like he wouldn’t be able to stand still for five whole minutes, being six and all, so he took my camera and shot video, which I haven’t reviewed but will put online sometime this week.

I’m told that the whole event came off quite well. It was very hard for me to tell, being so close to it. From my point of view the whole thing looked very contrived, but then I knew who was involved and what was going on. The reactions I could hear were pretty positive. I heard a couple of people say, “Wow! This is really neat!” I could also hear one middle-aged man grumbling while trying to navigate a giant baby stroller through the immobile crowd. It was hard not to look or laugh.

another lisp revival

signal9 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:09:31 +0000

real american heroes

signal9 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:45:41 +0000

At nearly 32 years of age, I have finally played a team sport. This is an historical first, the significance of which is not to be underestimated. The sport: Kickball, the time: Now, the place: Boulder Parks and Recreation, Boulder, Colorado.I got to bat once, out on the catch. Not bad. The game was a lot of fun, with much trash talking from the stands and the dugout. I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.

torches and pitchforks ready

signal9 — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:05:02 +0000

I was behind Grey Tuesday, and I’m behind this. A group of folks over at Bum Rush The Charts are working to take an independent artist to the #1 slot on iTunes store on Thursday, March 22, 2007. I think this is a brilliant move, and I’m interested in seeing the outcome.

If Black Lab even makes it to the top ten, then my hope for the internet community as a grass-roots movements will be that much stronger. That’s one-up for the niche market. One-up for independent media.

settling in

signal9 — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:35:07 +0000

I haven’t been doing much with this site.

What little I have been doing has been pretty easy, and I’m again impressed with the WordPress package. I mentioned in my previous post that I’ve been working on porting the theme from my old, home-grown blog over to WordPress with remarkable ease. Template Tags are remarkably straighforward and well documented.

That is not to say that I don’t have some minor complaints. I just added this sidebar to the site this evening. This is a feature which my old site does not have, but since folks tend to expect that kind of information in the sidebar, I thought I’d add one. All in all, the design WordPress uses is pretty good, but I’m not that excited about nested lists. Though I could easily leave the extra styling off of Category listing, Bookmarks listing requires more hoop-jumping to escape the nested-lists paradigm.

Next up is to add some custom pages to the site. My old site has my old Sparc Linux articles that still bring traffic, so it would be nice to haul them over. I’d also like to incorporate my handy-dandy del.icio.us page as well.

Does WordPress work well with Flickr? Maybe I’ll have to look into that, too. Maybe then, I can start doing actual blogging, rather than this, “Hey, I’ve got a blog” kind of blogging.

the new digs

signal9 — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:22:26 +0000

New house. (Fairly) new job. New website.

I had written my own blog package, which I’d been using for some years. After awhile, though, I realized that I didn’t want to maintain a blogging package anymore. Maybe it was because I wasn’t doing as much blogging. Maybe it was because of the relentless efforts of those damned spammers.

In any case, I’ve moved over to this shiny new Wordpress blog. I’m pleased with the result. For now, I’ve created a theme which looks nearly identical to my old site (still living at http://iratepublik.com for those who are interested). We’ll see how things pan out as I start messing with things.