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yournewfavorite: 03/08/10 4:48 PM Through the spunweb.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:13:34 -0600

03/08/10 4:48 PM

Through the spunweb.

Dear Tumblr, I slept through the night last night thanks to some 5-year old melatonin pills Katie...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:03:00 -0600

Dear Tumblr,

I slept through the night last night thanks to some 5-year old melatonin pills Katie gave me, and I woke up feeling 98.7% better. And a whopping 4.5 pounds lighter! Thanks, throat crabs!

And thanks to you, Tumblrs, for all your support and pity during my convalescence. I am a pathetic and whingey sick person, and I truly appreciate that you stuck by me through my pathetic whinging.

Now, I am going to eat 15 kolaches.

Fuck yeah, army ants!

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:32:01 -0600

Fuck yeah, army ants!

Fahrvergnügen

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:46:13 -0600

For the last six months or so, only one of the speakers in our car has been working. Today, I finally relented and took it in to the car stereo shop in our neighborhood to have it repaired. I explained the problem, and took the technician out to the car to demonstrate. When I turned on the car, all 8 speakers leapt to life in perfect harmony.

Thanks for making me look like an asshole, Volkswagen.

Good news, Tumblr! I am starting to feel better! Last night, I only woke up like 10 times with...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:38:51 -0600

Good news, Tumblr!

I am starting to feel better! Last night, I only woke up like 10 times with crazy feverish thoughts about how the only way I was going to be comfortable was if I squeezed my hands together really hard. This is way down from the previous nights tally.

And even better news! This little bout of illness has caused me to lose 2 pounds! If I can just stay sick for another 4 or 5 days, I will be at my fighting weight for SXSW!

Still sick, Tumblr. Determined to get some work done today, but I can only sit upright for a few...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:57:00 -0600

Still sick, Tumblr.

Determined to get some work done today, but I can only sit upright for a few minutes at a time.

Still, managed to push out a release of bug fixes to a site I’m building.

Katie is treating me like a big baby, which is exactly what I need.

Yesterday, I watched the first two seasons of Primeval, a BBC show about monsters from the past and future invading modern day London. It is awesome!

Today, I will watch season 3!

I just wish...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:44:49 -0600

I could take a day off every now and then and NOT be sick.

Ick!

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:26:08 -0600

Hi Tumblr,

I am sick! It sucks a whole lot. My head feels like it is stuffed with cheese and I have a painful cough, and I can’t figure out how to get anything done.

I feel especially bad because I have a ton of work to do. Being self-employed makes it extra hard to take a sick day. Here I am, sitting in front of a computer, but I just can’t make my fingers write the code they need to write.

As a result of my intense work schedule and this new ickyness in my brain, I spent last night tossing and turning with visions of failed form validation taunting me! It was horrible. I hate dreaming about technology. It makes me feel like a super loser.

I can barely get this post written, my brain aches so much.

I don’t know how I’m going to make it through SXSW.

PITY ME, TUMBLR.

There is a rip in TIMESPACE behind our house! (via Katie Spence)

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:05:12 -0600

There is a rip in TIMESPACE behind our house!

(via Katie Spence)

yournewfavorite: 03/01/10 10:13 AM

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:31:49 -0600

yournewfavorite:

03/01/10 10:13 AM

We had an unusually social and nerd themed weekend. On Saturday,...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:37:00 -0600

We had an unusually social and nerd themed weekend.

On Saturday, we went to see Neiliyo sing songs about games at Club Deville. The proof that we were actually out of the house and at a party is above, a photo taken by a real live party photographer. I even wore pants!

And then, on Sunday, we went to Dr. Bleeps Hand Made Music event and built electronic doodads. We were soldering til midnight, like Chinese slave labor. It was great fun.

Lesson learned: Austin is filled with cultural activities laser targeted at me - it is only a matter of time before someone invites me to a minimalist techno concert during which we will be taught how to build an army of remote controlled attack helicopters.

(Photo via ThePeenScene)

Katie puts the finishing touches on her hand made digital delay,...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:50:02 -0600

Katie puts the finishing touches on her hand made digital delay, the “space baby.” She took to the soldering iron like a pro!

I am so pleased that Neiliyo is making music that makes nerds go...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:29:32 -0600

I am so pleased that Neiliyo is making music that makes nerds go crazy on the dance floor, and makes cute girls bop to 8-bit tunes.

Photo

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0600

A few days ago, we launched Twitter and Facebook connect on...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:48:00 -0600

A few days ago, we launched Twitter and Facebook connect on NeighborGoods. The site will now automatically show you people you follow on other sites. Neat!

Try it out below - you can create a NG account automatically if you don’t already ahve one:

neighborgoods.net/facebook

neighborgoods.net/twitter

Waiting for the Google Buzz Privacy Outcry

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:51:40 -0600

I hope that the same people who went all paranoid about Facebook’s recent privacy changes get up in arms about Google Buzz.

It will only be a matter of time now before my mother calls me to ask why I keep emailing her to tell her all about my late night bowel movements/software releases. ”I’m not emailing you, mom! Google decided it was a good thing to crap everything I say into your email inbox so that you won’t miss out on the exciting world of social media.”

I miss the days when I could post something on the internet for only a few friends, and not have it automatically rebroadcast in an uglier format to everyone I’ve ever met. I miss the days when you could choose who you were having the conversation with. Facebook’s privacy change opened the doors to people interested enough to go snoop around in other people’s internet postings: so now your mom can stalk you if she really wants to and goes out of her way to do so. Google’s technique is almost the opposite - they’ll collect everything you say and send it, like a report card, to all your judging relatives and coworkers. Personally, the “people I email the most” are the people from whom I most jealously guard my privacy.

To make matters worse, Google Buzz is going use some sort of magic algorithm to sort and rank the content that comes off the wire to supplement my already bursting inbox full of nonsense. I feel they are trying to force feed me the worst parts of social media - ie, the most popular stuff - via an interface that I’ve been trained means HIGH PRIORITY ALWAYS ON RESPOND NOW.

I pity the inbox zero people the most.

Send A Semi-Well-Known Humor Writer To Yoga School! — Kickstarter

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:14:39 -0600

Send A Semi-Well-Known Humor Writer To Yoga School! — Kickstarter:

schlomo:

Neal Pollack is one of my favorite writers and has started a Kickstarter project about sending him to Yoga Teacher Training.

THIS IS THE GOOD PART OF THE INTERNET.

Some people sort their records. I sort my old comic...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:09:30 -0600

Some people sort their records. I sort my old comic books.

yournewfavorite:

02/06/10 10:22 PM

"The complexity of what we’ve discovered in the last century has overwhelmed people in lots of..."

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:04:18 -0600

“The complexity of what we’ve discovered in the last century has overwhelmed people in lots of lines of work, no matter how expert they are.”

- Atul Gawande on last night’s Daily Show.

The alleyways in the Mission are filled with murderous yetis...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:47:28 -0600

The alleyways in the Mission are filled with murderous yetis that will stab you.