Good news! It says I’m close. Okay I better get back to driving. The light is about to change to green.
I Once Was Lost
I’m in Austin! The bad news is I’m kinda lost :). I’ve been wandering around aimlessly looking for a wireless signal and I’ve just found a good one. Now it’s time to get on Mapquest and find how the hell to get where I’m going. Of course first I have to figure out where I am…
Heading out!
And so it begins. I’m showered, the car is washed, everything I need (I hope) is in the car, and I’m ready to roll. It’s not a short drive though, so it’s a good thing I love driving! See everyone in Austin.
Yes! No!
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.
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
Getting Started
Well I slept a little late but now that I’m awake I’m going to get the last few things ready before I head up to Austin. I’m planning to blog everything this weekend so this should be a good opportunity to start. Most of the major stuff is done, I’m just waiting on an important letter (read: check) in the mail before I leave. I can’t dawdle for too long though, as tonight at 6 I “Break Bread with Brad“. But for now I’m running late, and need to get my rear in gear.
Launder Money
Yes it’s true, this evening I laundered about $22. And my wallet. I had a washing mishap not all that long ago, and you’d think I would have learned my lesson by now. The only thing I was terribly worried about in the wallet was my Free Software Foundation membership card/CD. It’s actually a bootable distribution in the shape of a business card and was quite cool. (I’m member #246.) It looks like everything is going to be fine though, even the Sudanese dinars and the “One Free Kiss” card from the Renaissance Festival seemed to have not gotten too mangled.
Gallery: 3-7-2003
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Palm OS!
This is so funny, and certainly ironic in that this Saturday I will be missing my first HPUG meeting ever since I founded it about two years ago. Go for it and let me know what you get in the comments. I got this via the lovely Rachel, who will have a site soon. (I promise!)
Prepare
Just getting things ready to head up to Austin. Laundry and money. What else do you need? (Besides this cool bag of course.)
Valenti Morality
I want you to learn morality from Hollywood. *applause*
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.
Try To Take Over the World
Josh: So what are we doing tomorrow night?
Matt: The same thing we do every night, Pinky…
The other highlight was when Josh decided going to hell would be like the end of the Wizard of Oz. Pshaw. Everyone knows the Wizard of Oz is an allegory of William Jennings Bryan and the free silver movement.
Gallery: 3-4-2003
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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…
Search Updated
I’ve cleaned up the ht://dig search engine quite a bit, though I still have to hack it to be XHTML 1.1 compliant and fit better with the site, but after updating the index I got these interesting stats:
./htstat
htstat: Total documents: 11490
htstat: Total words: 1933258
htstat: Total unique words: 17660
The bulk of those pages are from the photolog, which is currently 5200 photos, but before the index was huge because my URLs weren’t very tidy and sometimes the same thing would have 10 different ways to access it. That’s still true a bit, but I’m working on it. Also I’ve been working very hard on a new project, but I’m not sure if I’m supposed to talk about it yet.
SxSW Interactive
So, is anyone else going to South by Southwest Interactive next week? This will be my first time and I’m incredibly excited, but also a little bit anxious since I have no idea what it’s going to be like. I’m going to be staying in Pflugerville with my wonderful sister but I suspect I’m going to spend most of my time in town.
If you’ve been before, I’d love to hear whatever tidbits of advice you have. If you’re going, definitely let me know and hopefully we can meet up. I’d love to start putting some non-Houston faces with the domain names :).
Four Keys Gone
Recovering
Last night was grand, and the pictures will be up shortly. I’m also catching up on some other backlog stuff around here. There have been several requests for some vintage content, so I’m digging back through my computers grabbing some old pictures and such. I’ll post when I put them up because the reverse chronological nature of my photolog which just started last summer means that anything from earlier times is going to wind up in the back.
Oh, and while I’m thinking about it, I want to mention that there’s a new requirement if you get a a key you have to take a picture with it and email it to me. If I give you the key personally I can take the picture but for the key receivers around the country you’ll have to help me out here.
Ode To Becca
My email was once fast
Your 16MB attachments
Make me contemplate…