“Oh, God! Oh! OhhhHHHH!!! God!!!!! Ohhhhh” —anonymous neighbor who didn’t close her window last night Right before I fell asleep last night, I heard someone in my apartment complex shout this. My window was closed, but the voice penetrated it with uncompromising clarity. If a woman’s auditory systems is tuned to hearing a baby cry, … Continue reading A religious experience
See our open offices with free food, beer, and t-shirts at Lunch 2.0 today! Photos of my workstation are like photos of “What’s in my bag”—they seem to draw a voyeur-like fascination just short of a shot of a pretty girl. Well since we recently tore down the cubes, I finally set up my workstation. … Continue reading The open office
Oh cup o’ noodles, I love your salty goodness— It is all a lie. Cup Noodles, you will be the death of me. Cup Noodles Tagged, Financial District, San Francisco, California Nikon D200, Tokina 16-50mm AT-X PRO f/2.8 DX 1/25sec @ f/2.8, iso 800, 40mm (60mm) For true perfection, don’t forget to add a dab … Continue reading Ode to my breakfast
I love teasing Zend and right now their conference, the largest PHP conference in the world, is going on. As I mentioned earlier, I’ll be giving my talk on “The Internet is an Ogre” tomorrow at 10 AM. It’s a fun talk so you better go see it! (Besides, if everyone goes to this, I’ll … Continue reading At ZendCon tomorrow – see my talk, drink their drink
Received this a couple days ago. It involves a project of combining two codebases, updating the Ajax, and building out the scalability in each. Might be interesting to some of you: Abby is working with a client owned by one of the nation’s largest, innovative, billion dollar companies. My client provides an online product that … Continue reading Job: PHP Application Engineer
Text reads: Dear person-with-vaguely-Russian-sounding-name, Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union threw a beeping metal sphere into low earth orbit scaring the be-jesus out of every American and touching off the Space Race which gave us 100+ TV channels, GPS tracking, orbital mind control lasers, Google Earth, and Tang—all of which, by some coincidence, scare … Continue reading Happy Sputnik Day!
People are all in a huff about Ballmer being, as far as I can tell, Ballmer. “I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs, and yet there’s a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.” —Steve Ballmer, Times Online Now, I think Ballmer is an idiot … Continue reading Certain faddishness
Ever since Ed Finkler found out I use twitter a few months ago, he has been bugging me to install Spaz. Then, when Spaz became Spaz.AIR, he did it again. But so far I’ve been able to resist his sexy advances. Then one day, Adobe hosted a Lunch 2.0 with an Adobe AIR contest. I … Continue reading Adobe’s AIR MAX
CNET is hosting an open house on October 2nd (Tuesday). Given that every PHP Meetup in SF has been cancelled the night before, I suggest you go to this. 😀 GameSpot, TV.com, MP3.com and FilmSpot.com will be having a panel discussion on using PHP/MySQL framework to share code between multiple sites that support 49 million … Continue reading CNET Open House on Tuesday: Under the Hood
Twitter has all of the sleaziness of stalking with none of the messy work of having to actually leave my desk. But I found a dark underside to it: it makes stalking way too easy. Sometimes I get caught in my laziness: Out in the real world, a girl comes up to me. “Hey!” Me: … Continue reading Our real selves