hi-larious quote of the day: In a few years, you’ll be driving your Google to the Google to buy some Google for your Google. (the wired 40) #
there’s nothing like packing up all my earthly belongings to trigger an internal debate on my (and by extension humanity’s) relationship with stuff. there’s a lovely scene in fight club that i feel is pretty representative. TYLER Do you know…
i brought together all the pottery i’ve collected over the last two years so i could bubble wrap and pack it. a number of came from my office, one a ben owen piece that i got as a gift from…
…is really my favorite part of this whole packing experience.
my favorite packing job so far, thanks to assistance and direction from jane. you may remember this chair from an earlier post. the blue stuff is this very handy mover’s stretch plastic wrap.
parked right in front of my apartment you could have a party in the back of this thing
…to hold most of my earthly possessions yesterday i started loading things into the trailer. today i took everything i’d put neatly along one side and started packing it as tightly as i could along the back, trying not to…
well, this is it. the abf trailer just got picked up. my car’s loaded up. got one more errand to run and i’m on my way to see melanie in clarksville, tn. and like all the moving guides say, “the…
imagine a reality tv show where someone traveled across the country and people could suggest things to do. and the person would do them. well, that’s pretty much what i’m up to. except via blog. i’ve got no hard and…
made it to melanie’s house around 7:20pm tonight, cst. took about 5 hours from asheville, and i crossed a time zone, which was kind of weird to do in a car. total miles traveled today: in the neighborhood of 560.…
took a rural route from clarksville back to i-40, my transcontinental highway. i quite liked it, reminded me of the time jane and i traded 85 and 95 for US-29 up to dc. arrived in memphis on schedule, just in…
at the end of day 2 i can say driving across the country is really quite easy, provided you have books on cd. total miles traveled so far: 1228. percent of trip complete: 34. after lunch i headed out of…
this leg was a little longer than originally planned, 293mi, because i stopped about 40 miles before oklahoma city. and i took advantage of the wireless access this morning to plan my next steps, so i left a little later,…
is this really only day 3? after crossing the mississippi i discovered that i’d inadvertently cleared the trip odometer that was going to record the total number of miles traveled from start to finish. or so i thought. it happened…
The view from my hotel You can see why I decided to spend a day in Santa Fe. However, I was beginning to worry this trip was becoming a litany of unlucky coincidences when the woman at the front desk…
the drive north of santa fe on us-85 was spectacular. i took more pictures of rock formations and distant snow capped mountains than you could shake a stick at. i love the red rocks. the drive across the top of…
as i drove back to the grand canyon from williams, i flipped on the radio for the first time this trip and eventually stumbled upon npr doing a piece about blind tibetan teenagers attempting to climb a himalayan peak. how…
once i climbed out of the grand canyon, i was done. given my failure to find hotels in tusayan the previous night, i decided to begin my journey towards zion, back out the way i had originally arrived and all…
zion came highly recommended. in fact at that communal dinner i had in santa fe, it was even recommended that i hike two trails specifically, one with three levels of waterfalls cascading off of steep walls, and one called angel’s…
on monday i coaxed my sore body back into the car for a cross-nevada adventure. i decided to take the road less traveled, rather than head northeast on i-15 to salt lake city. so i plunged into nevada, heading as…
wednesday was wet. santa rosa got record rainfall and i was supposed to be moving in. i got the keys to my apartment very early, and then did some chores before the abf truck was due to arrive. when it…
i hit up the target and bed bath and beyond big time yesterday. my favorite purchase i think was a little metal stand to hold some fingertip towels. and some fingertip towels to be held by the little metal stand.…
i’ve been listening to some of the this american life episodes that i downloaded for my road trip while i’ve been unpacking, and i’ve noticed two things. first, nearly every episode triggers a tight feeling in my throat like i’m…
monday was my first day as a senior web producer for the online publishing group at o’reilly. a producer is responsible for preparing an article for publication, which in the case of an online publication means preparing the content to…
a few days ago i walked around downtown santa rosa, which i have to say is really really nice. imagine my surprise when i stumble upon a texas barbecue joint called stim’s on 4th street. i couldn’t believe it. they…
In the spirit of windowseat photography, I bring you the much more dangerous, driver’s seat photography. I left Carrboro, NC and started driving towards Santa Rosa, California during nine days in May 2005. Though I had several intermediate destinations in…
My first exposure to guacamole was during college at a Mexican restaurant in Chapel Hill called Bandidos. I was and still am somewhat squeamish around creamy, gloppy dips and spreads, but slowly and occasionally I sampled this novel green substance…
One of the perks of working for O’Reilly is that we get any of the O’Reilly books for free. For anyone into technology (like me), that’s pretty cool. I admit I had to think twice as I packed my books…
We’re not Long Beach, but having our own hat would be pretty phat. Peace. This post first appeared on From the Belly of the Beasts, a weblog from some of the people who build O’Reilly websites.
This could be big: AdSense for feeds is a program that enables publishers to place relevant ads in the feeds they syndicate. Google technology understands the nuances of language, and places ads that are closely matched (or “targeted”) to the…
With the help of Simple RSS Customizations, I’ve now updated Beasts to have fulltext RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom 0.3 feeds, with HTML. Though honestly I’d like to settle on one feed eventually, preferably Atom 1.0. I’ve just got…
Matt Haughey makes a case against Adsense for Feeds: You can be fairly sure that every single person subscribed to your feed is a daily reader and it’s not likely random searchers would add your feed. The people reading your…
hi-larious quote of the day: In a few years, you’ll be driving your Google to the Google to buy some Google for your Google. (the wired 40) #
this might come in handy again: SeriAll.Com – Serials, Keys, Keygen, Cracks (codes for software registration) #
what does it mean to “own” a “copy”: Listening to streaming audio, in a sense, is like listening to a story on the radio; you can hear the thing, but you don’t own your own copy. #
been listening to: indie pop rocks on SomaFM (it’s like discovering where radio went after clearchannel pushed it off) #
for the baconophile in your life: Bacon Strips Bandages #
image of the day: pimped out ups truck #
strange times are these in which it’s necessary to support the countries that stand up to the united states: Brazil yesterday became the first country to take a public stand against the Bush administration’s massive Aids programme which is seen by many as seeking increasingly to press its anti-abortion, pro-abstinence sexual agenda on poorer countries. #
terrific article in smithsonian about coal fires that burn underground for decades: Forty-three years ago, a vast honeycomb of coal mines at the edge of Centralia, Pennsylvania, caught fire. An underground inferno has been spreading there ever since: the town’s residents were evacuated in the 1980s; today, only a handful of holdouts remain. #
blogging friends from chapel hill, ruby and brian, have open sourced their wedding #
quote of the day: We’re going to catch the world in the headlights of my justice. (update: this sounds like a quote from get your war on) #
ok, this is funnier than i thought it would be and the picture is hilarious #
how wretched and awful: FDA wants sperm banks to bar donors who’ve had gay sex #
url spotted on handpainted sign along i-40 in tennessee: bucksnort.com #
a name i’ve seen on more than one occasion in tennessee: Austin Peay, starting with the state university in clarksville (melanie shared that one of their cheers is “GO PEAY!” peay is pronounced /pee/) #
just realized my itinerary brings me to several states i’ve never visited before: tennessee, arkansas, oklahoma, new mexico, arizona, utah, and nevada #
i’m sure this crazy interchange i discovered must have a name (probably celtic knot) #
how to mod a barbie for menstration (frighteningly misogynistic photo though) #
cool: graph paper PDFs #
elect me: a tough judge, a strong conservative, three hot daughters #
oh dear: kensington lock foiled by TP tube #
who is this Luther Burbank fellow? #
to listen to: Bill Moyers’ speech to the National Conference for Media Reform #
ha. haha. Grocery Store Wars (darth tater, snicker snicker) #
if the clock was digital, i’d get it (i worry that it ticks): Tivoli Audio AM/FM Clock Radio (can anyone recommend a well-designed, good looking, digital alarm clock?) #
google labs release a customizable interface 3 weeks after i come up with pure google (which someone on metafilter recognizes) and all i have to say is “ack! google is becoming yahoo.” #
i’m also looking for a new shaver, and i found this description hi-larious! Floating triple heads and 30° angle inner blade trim your face so smooth, so clean that the softest of kisses are destined to land on your tender cheek. #
i love this song: Game ft. 50 Cent – Hate It Or Love It #
i would consider my style a combination of blink and the paradox of choice: i quickly scan the menu and mentally cross off items or whole categories and then make a decision based on what accompanies an entree #
guilty pleasure: i’m such a sucker for the voice of the lead singer of Lifehouse (new radio song: you and me) #
constantly blows my mind: Resizeable Textarea #
neat: Enda O’Donoghue paints interesting images he finds on the web #
frequently turning up in books and songs: bougainvillea (passing afternoon by iron and wine, poisionwood bible) #
new definition for a word: Appellation (and totally cool sounding class!) #
i find this, amusing: “Falling dominoes” in Half-Life #
this is crazy cool: Abusing Amazon images #
wtf? Three large crosses were burned in separate incidents across Durham Wednesday night #
old news, i know, but interesting: IBM backs Firefox in-house #
to listen to, again: radio interview with Chuck Pahlaniuk (strangely i’ve never read his books, and yet i love fight club, the movie) #
@, aka about; ampersat or asperand; amphora; ape; arobase; atgry; cabbage; cat; cinnabun or cinnamon bun; commercial symbol; cyclone; each; mercantile symbol; rose; schnable; scroll or scroll-a; snail; strudel; these; vortex; whirlpool; or whorl #
a post from the road from the parents, currently in buffalo, ny #
rubik’s cube: NCSA Mosaic logo #
happy hour discovery: coworker jay’s blog #
whoa: tape sculpture (i love the first picture) #
weirdass quote of the day: After you have cut an insicion into the base of the can you should have something that looks roughly like a robots metallic flange receptical #
love reading joel’s articles: Making Wrong Code Look Wrong #
maybe to play with later: Piggy Bank #
i couldn’t believe it really existed when i first heard about it: Chicken and Waffles (note to self: check out “donuts and water” in sebastopol) #
keeping up with the lingo: trustafarian #
burning up the hip hop station in santa rosa: Daddy Yankee – Like you (an example of reggaeton) #
the new york times is complimenting itself: All this underscores how the Internet is beginning to play the watchdog role in China that the press plays in the West #
whoa, check it! look what i just stumbled upon: The Rap Dictionary, powered by mediawiki #
one of the perks of o’reilly: Free Books #
i might need this book: Curious George Gets a Medal (someone described it in a kottke post and i have the strongest memories of reading or having it read to me) #
something i’ve never heard of: Purple (the tool, not the concept) #
this could be the beginning of something big: opendocument #
crack me up! The emacs reference place setting for twelve is not yet available. #
sam ruby on manufactured serendipity (i’m really liking his blog tonight) #
painful quote of the day: The main problem is that Microsoft is good at competing but not good at caring for customers #
ha! found coworker tony’s stubbleblog #
ok, yeah i need to pick up a decemberists cd (frequently played on somafm, and good) #
this is so cool! a pint lock from ben and jerrys #
quote of the day (from my dad): MaryLib [my grandmother] is considering talking to the administration concerning this issue since she too is a graduate and has “connections”. #
a look at the future of gecko and firefox #
katie asks, what prompts my mother to consider boyfriends “outdoorsy” hobbies? (i should add: not my sister) #
to keep in mind as i begin to abandon the email account i’ve had for the last 7 years: Gmail Loader (GML) #
holy toaster batman, 1300-Watt Infrared #
