The chant worked; the mail came! Unfortunately my letter wasn’t in it. Fear not though, things can still go as planned. The party is on! I leave… soon. Really.
Category Archives: Personal
Mr Mailman
To the tune of Mr Sandman
Mr Mailman
Where could you be?
I’ve got to leave
Way before three
Your lousy schedule
While isn’t suprising
Is gonna make my blood pressure be rising
Mr Mailman
Give me a clue
I’ve based my day
Around the things that you do
Please get in your little Jeeeeep
Mr Mailman
Bring my mail to meeeee
Smarty
As SxSWi rapidly approaches, and my spring break zooms by faster than I could have imagined, I find myself knee-deep in Smarty, which I feel is the most pleasant engine/enviroment/platform/whatever I’ve used in a very long time. Everything is so elegant, extensible, and well thought out. It is simple at its core, but brims with power. Plus it absolutely flies with PHP Accelerator. It looks like I’m going to use this for everything from now on.
Spring Broken
On this delightfully dreary day I’ve decided to bundle up for a spell with some hot tea and get some serious coding done. In fact that’s much how my day has been so far: code, code, code, surf blogs, (4 hours later) code. We’ll see how this goes…
Four Keys Gone
Ode To Becca
My email was once fast
Your 16MB attachments
Make me contemplate…
Open Keys Update
If you remember the plan was to distribute keys to my car to as many people as possible. Today I got started, giving keys to my parents, Sarah, Sarah, Josh, and Iram. Tomorrow (I guess today, dang it’s early/late) I’m going to mail out ones to Yale (Rachel), Berklee (Rene), NYU (Julie), and my favorite artist-whose-show-I-haven’t-seen-yet-but-will-ASAP (Elissa).
I personally test all the keys before sending them out, and I squeeze some writing onto them. If you want one I’m still taking requests.
Email Encoding
The Hiveware Email Encoder is quite nice, and it seems like it’s been updated to encode the email in a very strange way, but it works. What would be nice is to have a PHP function that would allow you to do this conversion on the fly, like <?php echo email_encode('email@example.com'); ?> and it would echo out all that cool stuff. Someday…
No Longer Blue
I have a wonderful new black ink cartridge for my printer, so I no longer have to print things out in a dark blue and hope no one says anything. Ahhhh. Life is good, and today has been a very good day.
Just A Little More Volume
Blatant Rip
Well they say imitation is the highest form of flattery, so why do I feel so violated?
One Down
And so it begins. Look for another one tomorrow.
House of Pies Quest
Last night Josh and I started our mission to try every single item on the House of Pies menu. Two down, a lot to go. It just occured to me that some sort of mini-review of each item might be worthwhile, a thought that occured to me as I’m about halfway through the menu at Get Wired.
Battle of the Hayeks
Selma vs. Friedrich, you can all guess who’d I choose. Hat tip: Lazy Pundit.
Curly Quotes Almost There
I was trying to use preg_match_all when I should have been using preg_split, but now that I’ve wrapped my mind around that problem the rest should be easy. I turn in my last paper today, so I should be able to finally have some real time to work on it.
Girl Scout Cookie Observations
I’ve decided that nothing disappears quite as fast as Carmel deLite Girl Scout Cookies. Here’s a little tidbit: according to Interbake, Carmel deLite cookies make up half of their total cookie volume and are also the hardest to make. According to the site linked above, the cookies should be $3.50 a box, yet when I bought mine the other day I swear they were just $3 a box, because I bought three boxes for $9. Is there some sort of vast Girl Scout conspiracy behind this? Is it because I was in a small town?
So Much To Do
Put up the awesome photos taken this weekend. Combine autop and the curly quotes and make them both work perfectly, dangit. Write a paper on Aristophanes, and another and the Euthypro dilemma. Can I finish it all tonight? Doubtful. But I’ll fall asleep trying…
Open Keys
I could write about many things, but instead I think I will relate the fact that for the second consecutive day, I locked my keys in the car. The details are inconsequential, and it’s a story everyone has heard before, so let’s start discussing solutions. In computing the key [pun] to failsafe systems is redundancy, so I have decided to take the same approach with the entry system to my car.
I’m going to allow anyone who thinks they would be willing to hold on to a key to my car to apply by email to receive a copy free in the mail. Only requirements are a name, phone number, and meeting my secret requirement which I will not disclose here.
Now I’m sure many of you are concerned with the security model of having numerous copies of my car keys floating around, but the manufacturer (Chevy) of my vehicle already thought of this, separating the entry and ignition functions into two separate keys. This has its advantages and disadvantages, as evidenced by the Saturday lockout when I had my ignition key but not the entry key. Access to my vehicle is something I’m willing to allow because trustees of the keys will be people I trust not to steal something from my car in the first place.
I have a number of people “pre-approved” for keys, including my parents, Grandmother, sister Charleen, Josh, Sarah, Sarah, Rachel, Rene, Rebbecca, Elissa, Iram, Mat, Chris, extended family, and selected staff at Kaveh Kanes, Tropioca, and Get Wired, but like I said before anyone is eligible. These people have been carefully selected for proximity and accessibility—at any given point in my life, I am never more than 5 minutes from at least one of these people. So there you have it! A trade-off of security versus accessibility in real life. We’ll see how this goes…
These limited edition PhotoMatt keys will be accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and will be available in several styles to complement any key ring. They will also be hand tested by yours truly to verify that they truly work. Get yours while they’re hot. (Limit one per person.)
Stop Screaming
I think I’m going to send some money to one of those Nigerian scam people so they can fix the caps-lock key on their keyboard.
Hypothetical Question
What happens when three friends are very bored one night and decide to reenact fight scenes from various movies in stop time in a public park? Good question.