SF Skyline shown with permission by photographer Lane Hartwell 

Archive for January, 2007


Shralp on your Mobi

Schralp is a weekly internet video program dedicated to tearing it up on and off slope.
I love it because it’s skier/snowboarder-positive no matter what your level and they have a great global mindset.
Now I love them more because they made a mobile site to easily watch the latest episodes on your handheld.
Shralp and go!
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20,000 More Troops Simply Means Delaying Cut and Running 2-3 Years

New York Times 1/8/06
Adding 20,000 more troops to the currently-run war in Iraq only means more soldiers will die and a push back the inevitable day helicopters are ferrying civilians out of the green zone as we flee the country.
Honestly, if I somehow became president of the United States overnight, I would bring more [...]

My Father’s First Wikipedia Entry

A couple years ago my father learned of Billy B. Van, a forgotten vaudville and Hollywood actor from the 20’s and 30’s. Upon realizing there was no Wikipedia entry he wanted to write one. You can read it now, however it looks like he’ll need to find another photo.
As it does for anyone first using [...]

Have Firefox2 Spell Check *ALL* text fields

Oh my dear reader. You know I’m a big fan of Firefox2’s built in spell checker and my writing about it is not the only reason you know why. I’m a non-touch typer who pretends he is and ya’ll suffer for it.
By default Firefox2’s spell check is only active in HTML text areas, (the big [...]

Just Ignore This One

Nothing to see here ;>
brizzziliant
ridiculousinferno
hyzzzterical

Oh brother, so much to say and so little news

I really should be writing about AT&T agreeing to give up their push for a two-tiered internet as part of the FCC blessing on their $86B acquisition of BellSouth.
Cody, I’m sorry to say I have no idea if this precedence will put the anti-Net Neutrality movement on ice by the other big telcos. Heck, now [...]

Code Monkey Not Crazy, Just Proud

My partner (and old friend!) Johnnie “Rock Star” Vars just sent me an indie rock anthem for the cubicle set.
It’s a classic already.
It rules.
Listen to Jonathan Coulton’s Code Monkey now.
The more I check out Jonathan’s site I realize it’s the kind of modern cottage industry muscian site I’ve always envisioned. You can hear all [...]

Word of the Day: Hypebeast

Hypebeast
1. “A hypebeast is a person who only buys into the hype. He doesn’t pay attention to what he’s buying and just follows the crowd.” Kevin Ma
2. The tongue-in-sneaker name for a superdope website covering street wear news and rumors.
(n1s IMed to say skip hypebeast.com and get it from the source at [...]

Hau’oli Makahiki Hou from da Big Island

Spent Xmas and New Years on Hawaii’s Big Island with the family this year. It was a real swell time.
I took a bunch of photos which gives many insights to something I should probably pay a therapist to explain to me.
My brother, however, took many excellent photos, devoid of any family complications.

All photos © [...]

Pickybit.ch

Molly, Timmmii and I we’re having a cocktailly dinner when Molly said, I’m such a picky bitch. I thought it would be a great name for a chick band. She thought it would be great for a website. Assuming pickybitch.com would be taken (it is) Molly quickly said “get the .ch” and we did, and [...]