Things today that made me laugh until I snorted: Translating a boring work conversation into hula Faygo Rock n’ Rye soda exploding in a Last Stand sort of way inside Chuck’s motorcycle case Blurting out “stranger danger!” when surprise-hugged by my friend Rayne in the subway Getting my butt handed to me by the office [...]
Vote for me on the SXSW Panel Picker
I can’t be self-promotional all alone here, people. I need your help! Vote for meeeee! My proposal is up for voting right now on the South By Southwest Interactive Panel Picker. It’s a geek frenzy over there. Vote early and often. VOTE HERE (login required) Panel Proposal: Video Game Research: Failing Our Way to Victory [...]
Librarian Avengers Stomp of Approval – Shelf Discovery
Bad books aren’t worth talking about. Good books, however, should stand up and be recognized. To that end, I invented a new thing that I’m going to act like I’ve been doing for ages: The Librarian Avengers Stomp of Approval. As you know, Librarian Avengers stomp around quite a bit, railing against things and waving [...]
Me, bouncing around onstage at an O’Reilly Conference
Above is a photo of me undergoing a brief moment of Muppetface onstage. Last week I spoke at OSCON Ignite, the evening entertainment bit of the O’Reilly Open Source Conference and the Google Awards. Talks took the traditional Ignite format of five minutes, 20 slides. Slides auto-advance after 15 seconds, ready or not. Speakers were encouraged [...]
How to stop using paper towels
Chuck works on motorcycles, and I’m a kitchen clean freak. We used to go through a shameful amount of paper towels. Like, buy in bulk, hate-the-earth, bulldoze-Costa-Rica amounts. Then my friend Skud gave me a great idea. I cut up a cheap jersey sheet I had kicking around (those things pill up in about 5 [...]
Freebase Hack Day II: The Return of Hack Day
Librarian? Data junkie? Obsessive compulsive? Come to the Freebase hack day on July 11, 2009 here in SF. There’s food, drinks, an excellent network, plenty of powercords, and a nice room full of geeks to chat with. It’s a fun way to dive a bit deeper into making cool data mashups, relationally documenting your brain [...]
Happy Fathers Day
This is my dad, the best joker in the world. Who else would dance to “Re: Your Brains” (Jonathan Coulton’s Zombie song) at his daughter’s wedding? My dad, the legally blind man who taught me to drive a stick shift. This is the guy who plopped me in front of a VIC-20 when I was [...]
Alliterative morning
Today I Skimmed Schmaltz, and was Rawked at by a Raven. Raven with Sausages by quinet The schmaltz came from a mess of chicken soup I made. A thick layer of chicken fat rose to the top overnight and was skimmed off and used to season the cat’s breakfast. Chicken soup for the soul by [...]
Stupid girls, stupid pepper spray, stupid racist cab driver
A listing of grievances: Two stupid girls have a hair-tearing fight on the bus Liquid and curly fries fly everywhere The guy in front of me puts up his arm, so I do too The fighting high school girls roll out the door as it stops I continue listening to my podcast, because, meh, stupid [...]
The Offical White House Photostream on Flickr
The Official White House Photostream on Flickr is essentially Cute Overload for US Politics. There is a type of unabashed sincerity in the Obama administration that I’ve never seen before. I really love this photo of the President interacting with a young visitor. And then, of course, there is Bo, shown here visiting the Oval [...]