Archive for November, 2008

Heavenly bound, earthly good

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Quote from the comments on an article on pro-Gay backlash on Proposition 8:
“Some people are so heavenly bound, they’re no earthly good.”
Quotes on Sanctimony.

Poladroid

Friday, November 14th, 2008

On Josh Spear’s suggestion, I decided to try out Poladroid. In a nutshell, it turns your digital images into crappy Polaroids.

A photo I took last night of Hubert of übergizmo and Brian of Gizmodo at the uber10 party

At first I thought, What’s the big deal? John already has a polaroid framer and the uber-insane Hockneyizer. [...]

Love is a fallacy

Friday, November 7th, 2008

One of my favorite short stories.

Terry the bully

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Am I an intellectual bully?

The two faces of PHP
District Bar, South of Market, San Francisco, California
Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G
f/2.8 at 1/50 sec, iso 12800, 45mm (45mm)

Certainly some of the comments expand on that by attributing all manner of atrocities to me,

Defining Design Patterns

Friday, November 7th, 2008

My friend and colleague, Paul M. Jones, calls me out as a bully. Apparently from the way interviewees complain to their headhunter about me, I am.
Like W after 2004, and fully intend to use this new capital accumulated by my just-annointed bully-mandate to tell him (and the interviewees) off as being sore losers who can’t [...]

Challenges and Choices (Making Frameworks Suck Less Part 2)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

As promised, as the election is over, I will get back to blogging non-political things.
And hey, I haven’t posted a continuation of my web frameworks presentation yet!
Good thing too because, if you don’t know, I’m giving a talk on that tonight at CBS Interactive (CNET) in San Francisco. Come see it or watch online at [...]

Elane Photography

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

A friend of mine, a colleague and excellent photographer who happens to be a defense-of-marriage person posted a status update that erupted into a firestorm of comments on Facebook. His claim was that people like me are “intolerant” of his beliefs.
To those people, I might say disagreement is not intolerance. I’m not asking you to [...]

Voting in America

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

California is the swingiest of swing states. In recent memory, two Republican presidents were governors here. Now it is bluer than the balls of all those fratboys voting for Sarah Palin. Even though the Presidential election in this state is a foreground conclusion, you still get a lot of mail

Election mailers
North Beach, San Francisco, California
Nikon [...]