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November 29th, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 09:22 .@LASTFM really needs a better way to handle artists that share a name, e.g. www.last.fm/music/Felt #
  • 11:22 Bout to visit Esther's grandma in Winchester and then drive home to Northampton. Thank Jesus. #
  • 11:23 Well, not literally. #
  • 11:49 It's might gusty here in Eastern Massachusetts. #
  • 15:52 Picking through CDs and LPs and choosing stuff to toss out/give away/sell. #
  • 15:59 I've accumulated a lot of reading in the time I've been away from home: www.instapaper.com/u/akahn #
  • 16:00 Oops, that's not a public URL. Anyhow, it's a lot of articles. #
  • 16:36 Listing stuff on FreecycleNoho. Thanks for taking my junk, strangers! #
  • 17:11 High Places is really good. Thanks, @lucytrainor. #
  • 18:06 I'm helping Esther with her pumpkin soup. The tamari-sesame oil seeds were great. #fb #
  • 18:08 The Belgian-style cider is ready to bottle/drink. The British is a bit harsh and I think I'll sweeten it with honey. #
  • 21:13 I think I'll spend some time this evening backing up and installing Snow Leopard. #
  • 21:37 Cluttering my desk needlessly with a second display, a keyboard, and a mouse. #
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November 28th, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 11:43 Was there some new, hot code generation library for Ruby that isn't rubigen? #
  • 16:35 Esther's dad gave me two books on LaTeX. Whatta guy. #
  • 16:55 Been away from home for about a week now. Kinda getting sick of it. #
  • 17:31 OH: IT'S THANKSGIVING PART 2!!!! --@estiebesti' #
  • 20:57 Heading to the Lord Hobo. #
  • 22:55 The Lord Hobo is the Dirty Truth of the East. Fucking awesome beer list. And they're playing Fugazi. #fb #
  • 23:25 By the way, the Fugazi album was The Argument. A less
    abrasive one but good nonetheless. #fb #
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November 27th, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 07:55 Waffles but no syrup. :( #
  • 09:39 I wonder if there's a liquor store in Cambridge that's open today. #
  • 10:27 Installing the OS X dev tools on my dad's MacBook Pro. Why does my n00b dad have a better computer than I? #
  • 10:38 Whoa, my parents' wireless network is fucked. #
  • 11:27 Why does command-line Vim have an error when the 'autochdir' option is set? #
  • 11:36 Hey, @mattwynne, ssh-forever is great. #
  • 12:25 Switched my parents' router to use WPA and it's better now. But why are the MacBook Pro's speedtest results worse than the shitty Vaio's? #
  • 13:13 Now to make the printer get on the newly set-up wireless network. And to get the shitty Vaio to print to it. #
  • 14:16 What do Terminal.app users do when they want a meta key and they also want an option key for special characters? #
  • 15:38 Esther's dad got Julius Echter dunkel-weizen! He done good. #
  • 16:41 Feeling festive. I was worried this wouldn't happen. #
  • 19:05 Hanging out in the quiet room with two dogs and a cat. #
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November 26th, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 10:21 Gonna take the dogs up Savin Hill, help with some Thanksgiving preparations, then go to my parents' house and do some work and relax. #
  • 12:21 Making vegetable stock. #
  • 12:26 Zevi seems to be saving his appetite for Thankgiving turkey. #
  • 13:00 Sautéing mushrooms in red wine. #
  • 19:46 I've got beef with shitty printer drivers and flaky wireless printing. #
  • 21:43 Watching Die Hard with the fam + @jessearg. Life is good. #
  • 22:39 Hans pretending to be an American when he runs into John McClane is the best. #fb #
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November 25th, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 12:42 Heading to O'Hare to fly back to Boston. Short but awesome stay in Chicago. #
  • 13:13 I'm an old man. My feet and hips hurt from walking so much yesterday. Maybe I need better tourism shoes. #fb #
  • 13:45 This looks like it'll be a great book. propython.com #
  • 14:15 They put us on a plane with Esther-sized seats. #
  • 16:30 I guess they're stricter at O'Hare. They made me remove the blade from my razor. But they overlooked all the spare blades in the case. #
  • 16:31 Thank you, jetstream, for getting me home faster. #
  • 17:58 Zevi makes me so happy to be home. <3 <3 <3 gdzl.la/7i9YAw #
  • 21:09 Esther's dad just handed me a copy of "Mac OS X Internals". Holy shit. gdzl.la/7ibS5d #
  • 22:39 I can't get a single point in Wii Tennis. #
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November 24th, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 15:28 Bummed that the Museum of Contemporary Art is closed and that we may not have time to go tomorrow before our flight. #
  • 15:46 Liking Chicago a lot. #fb #
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November 23rd, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 11:08 Brunch buffet at the Briar Ridge country club. #
  • 12:10 I think we're going to go to the movies with Grandma Betta. What should we see? #
  • 12:28 2012 it is. Hope you like movies about the apocalypse, granny. #
  • 13:07 It's easier to be patient with someone else's grandma. #
  • 19:46 Riding Chicago's Blue Line. #
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November 22nd, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 00:49 Tea with Grandma Betta. Fox News on mute in the corner. #
  • 11:15 They're talking universal broadband on Fox News. Whoa. #
  • 12:42 Getting bored on Esther's grandma's couch. Wish I had a Unix shell, a text editor and git on hand. #
  • 15:57 Five Star Thai Restaurant in Schererville, Indiana is really good. #
  • 18:37 Every time I email my Edward Jones financial guy he ends up leaving me a voicemail. Fucking stone-age. #
  • 18:40 #1stworldproblems #
  • 19:05 Epic Mac training sesh with Esther's aunt Pam. #
  • 22:36 I like how Grandma Betta calls her walker her 'wheels.' #
  • 23:55 Turns out Three Floyds Brewing Company is the next town over. Maybe northwest Indiana isn't as boring as I thought. #
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November 21st, 2009


12:03 am - Today's Tweets
  • 08:50 Boo, FasterCSV doesn't want to parse my file. Something more descriptive than MalformedCSVError would help. I suspect a character enc issue. #
  • 09:04 Enjoying @chacon's critical commentary on #pdfeu. #
  • 09:46 Looks like @sunlightlabsapi doesn't know of John Garamendi, U.S. Rep for California's 10th congressional district. Who do I report that to? #
  • 11:09 An excellent post on how and why AT&T's 3G network sucks: is.gd/4ZIeg #
  • 17:33 Heading to Logan Airport. #
  • 19:01 Security at Logan took forever but at least they let my razors through. #
  • 19:17 Looking forward to O'Hare and its magical rotating sani-seats. #
  • 22:11 Landed at ORD. Now to drive to Dyer, IN to Esther's grandma's place. #
  • 22:33 There's Hertz and there's not exactly. Currently experiencing not exactly. #
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November 20th, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 08:29 Giving up on caps-lock as control key. Just not 1337 enough. #
  • 11:00 Whoa, RedCloth's Textile testing console is way better than the official Textile one. redcloth.org/ #
  • 14:04 I wish iPhone app's web sites said up front how much they cost rather than making me click through to the store. #
  • 17:41 Gonna go buy some Morning Star nuggets for @estiebestie. #
  • 20:20 Want to play Braid (www.braid-game.com/) but the $200 Xbox seems shitty. No hard drive and no wireless?? #
  • 20:55 I wonder if anyone on Freecycle wants a broken microwave. #
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November 19th, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 09:39 Having some fun with each_with_object (is.gd/4XZRI). #
  • 12:22 More fun with each_with_index. And my fun I mean confusing myself a lot. #
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November 18th, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 11:21 I wish mkdir had an option to automatically cd to the directory being created. #
  • 18:32 Seitan en croûte for dinner. Doesn't that sound fancy? #
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November 17th, 2009


12:03 am - Today's Tweets
  • 12:42 Swapping the ⌃ and ⇪ keys. This earns me lots of Unix nerd points, right? #
  • 12:56 Listening to Hawkwind for basically the first time. #
  • 13:33 Just helped a guy who's now working on a website project I did in college. Want to be helpful but not get sucked in... #
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November 16th, 2009


12:03 am - Today's Tweets

  • 19:48 Watching Style Wars. This movie rules. #fb #

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November 15th, 2009


12:03 am - Today's Tweets
  • 15:20 Rainy and shitty out. Slightly cabin fevered. Want to eat something delicious but I'm SO LAZY. #
  • 18:07 Made a spinach-feta dip, but it's not a oily mess unlike most. #
  • 18:23 A friend crashed the software on our microwave and cycling its power isn't fixing it! #
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November 14th, 2009


12:04 am - Today's Tweets
  • 14:14 If the police hold a protest, who will there be to beat them up? is.gd/4UpqU #
  • 14:31 Is this .js.erb technique the best way to do jQuery Ajax with Rails? railscasts.com/episodes/136 #
  • 16:14 Anyone know of a weather API that has data on yesterday's temperatures? #
  • 17:04 Tea, snack, book. Perfect Friday after work. Friends from out of town arriving shortly to go see @estiebestie's art. Dog snoring underfoot. #
  • 23:17 This reminds me of high school. #
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November 13th, 2009


12:03 am - Today's Tweets
  • 08:55 My mom is an awesome mom. #
  • 12:58 Updating my Xcode so I can install `port install ghci` (Haskell). Mainly choosing Haskell due this pretty book: is.gd/4TvEU #
  • 17:33 Having a snack attack. #
  • 17:34 Seeking a walnut oil vinaigrette recipe. #
  • 17:38 You know what? Fuck it, I'm making it up. #
  • 18:32 Enjoying what must be the last lettuce of the season. #
  • 20:01 Restless. #
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November 12th, 2009


12:02 am - Today's Tweets
  • 08:38 The Pomodoro technique has way more to it than tomatoi.st or Pomodoro Desktop would have you believe. #
  • 10:13 Maybe Lärm - Extreme Noise will help me focus. #
  • 11:41 Fractals are cool. bit.ly/xBmP5 /via @paul_irish #
  • 14:52 learnyourdamnhomophones.com
    /via @janl #
  • 16:38 What's the word for how some adjectives either are or aren't and some are quantifiable? #
  • 19:25 I think I made tartar sauce. #
  • 21:34 Sierra Nevada is making helles bock, hell yeah! tweetphoto.com/fovhaezh /via @BeerAdvocate #
  • 22:10 Tuned in to the smooth tones of @jeresig in the live @jquery podcast. is.gd/4T33l #
  • 22:12 Preparing for my performance evaluation meeting tomorrow morning. #
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November 11th, 2009


12:04 am - Today's Tweets
  • 11:49 How did I go for so long without using git stash? Stash the dirty working dir, pull, stash pop. Sweet! #
  • 14:54 Blech, this coffee tastes like tar. #
  • 15:03 Nice one, @fcc: fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/upload/process #
  • 17:20 Make a difference!! Support the scene!! This is Generic Hardcore Song!! is.gd/4S4Rv #fb #
  • 22:49 Ate homemade calzones tonight. #
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November 10th, 2009


12:03 am - Today's Tweets
  • 17:01 Saw a huge black bear on the walk home from work. #fb #
  • 17:51 Yay, found my supersencha that had been missing. gdzl.la/7esiic #
  • 18:00 And here it is in the cup gdzl.la/7esqp2 #
  • 18:33 "Yummy." Esther and I have such sophisticated palates when it comes to wine. #
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