June 2009
31 posts
jerrybrito:
I’m on the first episode of Inside...
The Shaving, Afterwards (or, I am my dad)
So, the other half of that “shaving for lymes disease” story is that when I went to the doctor to ask them about it she said that no, I almost certainly didn’t have lymes disease, but the soreness and dizziness on one side of the back of my throat sounded like I might have an ear infection. That was no surprise. I’ve had ear infections forever and ever.
True fact,...
Grim Registration
I’m updating a website right now and one of the email addresses that have been registered in the system is “bigboy69 - at - yahoo dot com”.
I’m guessing that user is the kind of guy that is either very popular, or not popular in the least. Either way, ugh…
Life Strategies
So I’ve been living in Boston for almost two months now and it has mainly been good. Class was interesting, there are lots of people hawking free energy drinks on the street, being by the ocean is nice, and there is just the general excitement of trying new things and being in a new place. But one downside is that I spend more evenings alone then with friends. I’m still working on it,...
Whoops! (or, a downside of unchecked worrying)
Has anyone else spent some time in the Northern WI woods, and then come home, and then started feeling a bit sick so they started checking their body for the target-looking rash that a deer tick causes that means you have lymes disease only to find nothing, and then, still convinced you must have been bitten by a deer tick, cut your head hair very short and your “down there” hair...
I’m Just Trying to Understand (or, a disastrous...
(I started writing this a couple of months ago but never finished it. I thought I’d power through it today, so the date references are off. It also explains why the first 1/3 or so is, to my mind, better written, and certainly better proofread than most of my blog posts. It also might be one of my few unique thoughts in a long item.)
Two days ago I was riding on the 22 downtown and made the...
CINDOR Search (or, interesting things from...
So, I’ve been living in Boston since the beginning of May. I’ve been taking a class in *information retrieval( at Northeastern University in Boston. Information retrieval basically means “search,” so the class has been about finding what you want from huge, web sized document collections. Its not a field of computer science that I’m particularly interested in, but...
Obama's Plan For Gay Rights →
annicka:
hoitycoity:
heh via mattpayton
The Hangover
I just saw The Hangover last Friday with Logan. It was pretty funny, but more importantly, its a bold step forward in making it equally acceptable to show penises in R-rated movies as boobs. If “The Watchmen” was this movement’s W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Hangover” is it’s Rosa Parks.
Shine On, Steve Reich
I don’t recommend music here very often for a couple of reasons. First, I expect most of my friends are already familiar with most of the songs, groups, and albums in my music collection, so most of the time I’d only be telling people what they already know. And second, I already know that most people don’t like the handful of bands I like that aren’t already massively...
CodeIgniter Conference
I’m thinking about going to the first CodeIgniter Confernece. Its in the Netherlands Oct 22-23. I’ve never been there before.
Serious question, does anyone want to come with and make a vacation out of it. You (all?) could have fun on the 22-23rd while I’m in the conference, and then before and after we could travel, drink beers, etc.
Seriously, how much fun would that...
Sonic Weapon Fence, Soon to Be Sued
So, this morning Sonic Weapon Fence was threatened with legal action by a Canadian Nu-Metal band, Sonic Weapon. They sent us this MySpace message this morning. As my law school friends already know, MySpace messages are quickly becoming the preferred medium for professional, formal, and above all, very serious legal work.
Legal Action to be Taken against stealing our name
Hello, I am writing...
Guest Post: Jerry Brito Tells How to Fix... →
jerrybrito:
I have a short piece today at PDF’s TechPresident site on efforts to revamp Regulations.gov.
Congrats Jerry!
“They have a device at Nintendo that tests love. Couples hold each other’s...”
– Ars Technica write up of Mario, Zelda, etc creator Shigeru Miyamoto talking about whats Nintendo is working on
This is all crazy, right? Nintendo love tester? Like this sort of thing that kids would play after seeing black and white movies for a nickel? WTF?
Re: Connecting Hate Mail to the Nice Web →
Here is a story about Dutch artist Tinkerbell / Katinka Simonse - van Bruggen who, among other things, once bought 60 chicks (I mean baby chickens, shes not a white slaver) and then said if no one adopted them by the end of the day she’d kill them herself. People got expectedly pissed off, shouted death threats and that sort of thing at her, and her response was basically (I’m...
Apps For Democrazy
This weekend I’ll be going to compete in Apps for Democracy, a competition being put on by the DC government to see who can come up with the most useful, interesting applications for their new open data. They’re providing all sorts of stuff (things like demographic info, crime stats, property values, etc.) and we’ll be trying to think of interesting ways to put them to use. And...
"Communities"
Oh, and, about the scare quotes around “communities” above and, uh, right here, just typing GLBT community makes me feel like I’m delving into the worst kind of identity politics. Sure, its better than saying “GLBT hordes” or “roving GLBT gangs,” but the idea that people have something in common because they’re attracted to people of the same sex...
You can read Obama's full proclamation here. →
librarianglasses:
librarianpirate:
subjecttomeg:
My Administration has partnered with the LGBT community to advance a wide range of initiatives. At the international level, I have joined efforts at the United Nations to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. Here at home, I continue to support measures to bring the full spectrum of equal rights to LGBT Americans. These measures...
“Canada’s governor-general, Michaëlle Jean, helped to butcher a seal and ate a...”
– This week’s Economist (about the hemisphere’s most-bad-ass politician)
Stop Me If You've Heard this One Before (or, The...
So, say you’ve gone on a late night run and you’re really please with how you did. You ran longer than you have in a long time, you think you could handle that next half marathon with relative-ease and you’re basically feeling like Michael Phelps if he’d swapped his gills for some running shoes. So, once you get back and shower off you do what you normally do: take an...
