If you’re in Boston, go for a walk along the Charles River, where you’ll see a more-than-usual number of hotties, and more-than-usual number of guys wearing spandex. One guy was even wearing a compression top and tights and, of course, nothing else. Compared to where I come from, it seems as if this attire is not at all unusual.

It’s also colder up there, which might have something to do with it.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a meetup of lycra enthusiasts? If you happen to be going to SXSW this year, or you are in Austin regardless, it would be fun to get to know each other as real people.

If you wanna get in touch, email me at {nameofthisblog} at gmail.com.

I will be there during the Interactive portion of the conference, March 9-13, staying at a hotel downtown. I will bring a little bit of lycra just in case I need it.

For one glorious week it seems like Texas is the center of the world. The big shots and wanna-be big shots of Music and Technology congregate in Austin for South-By-Southwest (SXSW). It’s nice to have people from the coasts make this pilgrimage to Texas.

To save you the trouble of transferring the URL, here is a QR code:

For now you get the feeds of a few blogs transformed into a convenient format and piped into a browser window. This is just the beginning of things. As I have hinted before, Node.js offers tremendous opportunity to make some interesting things.

This new thing I made is called The Junk Suit. It took way too long to get this to you guys, especially considering that nothing was done to it for the last two weeks or so. I’m reading stuff about the “lean startup” idea which says to make something as soon as possible so that people can use it as soon as possible.

Right now The Junk Suit features Wetsuitlads, a fairly prolific anchor of the nice-and-tight community with lots of original content. I like that level of quality and I’ll be rather picky when it comes to adding new feeds.

I’m working on some real-time interactive capabilities for the very same mobile web app. Wish me luck!

Maybe I had a lapse of judgment when I decided that Spandy Andy wasn’t blog-worthy. Now his fame is catching up with me. Here is his well-received IAmA on Reddit.

First it was zentai at sporting events and now this. Who would’ve thought we were going mainstream. Maybe the codpiece will make a comeback.

I’m just doing some finishing touches on this very first phase of the project. For now it’s nothing worth bragging about, really. However, the process of setting things up exposed the choices and priorities involved in development.

For example, I chose to have everything piped through the browser on your phone, rather than having the bother of native apps. (Feel free to disagree.) This is because I can be quite lazy I’m betting on the merits of the open platform, namely the sphere of things we call “HTML5″. Besides making something that is open and portable, it is also much less risky when it comes to privacy and security since both developers and users better understand what’s going on. The browser will continue to deliver some mind-blowing advances, enhanced by hardware improvements and special tools like Node.js. If you know what that is, you have some idea about how magical the possibilities can be.

Is this turning into a geek blog? I’m not ashamed if it does. I’ll take a hot nerd in spandex.

This squirming you see is enjoyment. He is getting to wear what he always wanted to wear.

It’s still nice to look at though. While it lasted the fantasy of a wrestler cumming in the ring gave me a week’s worth of boners, plus bonus motivation to write slash fiction of my own. I was thinking about how teammates would try to get each other to cream in a witch-hunt to root out naughty thoughts, and of course no one is immune at that age. Anyway …

It’s on this Chinese Flickr-clone site here.

Every day I put some time into the project. It’s competing for my energy against work and exercise (so I continue to look good in spandex). Knowing the constraints faced with any project, especially one that’s purely a hobby, I intend for things to start out simple, so that I get something in your hands as soon as possible. (It turns out that the only answer that was a clear winner was “yes I want an app now!”.) There are two features I’m working on — one that’s a fairly conventional delivery-of-content and the other a really novel use of technology.

Also, this project might be open to contributors. If any of you tight guys are interested, email me: {thisblogname} at gmail.com . There are two areas of work — tech development and content curating.