Omaha
Iz Izzy!
Enter the Nate
Jeremy Loves Mexican Juices
twtr is gud
This should save me some coding…
jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work $ gem install twtr Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Install required dependency highline? [Yn] y Successfully installed twtr-0.1.4 ... jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work $ twtr setting >> C:/Documents and Settings/jmcgavre/twtr/twtr.yml Edit twtr config? [y/N]:y Twitter username: jaymcgavren ... jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work $ twtr ft jaymcgavren: @kstaken You should have Twitter SMS your phone so that you can never escape from it. :) (I'm not reading much either.) joshknowles: Should I be using git pull --rebase & git push or should I doing my development on a branch and pulling/merging with master? ... jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work $ twtr rp chrismatthieu: @jaymcgavren you rock! The htmlentities ruby gem was *exactly* what I needed! Thank you. joshknowles: @jaymcgavren thanks! jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work $ twtr up -m "Testing twtr command line client (sudo gem install twtr)... Nice so far." jaymcgavren: Testing twtr command line client (sudo gem install twtr)... Nice so far. jaymcgavren: @kstaken You should have Twitter SMS your phone so that you can never escape from it. :) (I'm not reading much either.) ...
API available for all the above, too.
Read more...Here at Gangplank hack night, and in the first 60 minutes I participated in an unexpected podcast and met my first angel investor (didn’t have an elevator pitch for him, but I gave myself a good introduction).
Not bad for the space of an hour. I like this place!
Read more...It’s about 6 AM, the morning after Dad and Ruth’s wedding. It was very successful. Nice ceremony and a beautiful, beautiful reception, they rented out Lauritzen Gardens in Omaha, got a string quartet, DJ, all that good stuff.
We retired to Glen and April’s with John and Lacey and cousin Chuck, just sitting out by the fire pit and yakking away. A really nice time, but unfortunately now we have to be up in time to get to an 11:30 AM brunch and we’re probably gonna be tired as hell. Oh, well I had a nice time and it’s well worth it.
Read more...Lenny is a REALLY cool kid...
I absolutely love, love, adore Stendeck’s “Frozen Sun” because of its eardrum-crushing, distorted drums and wailing sirens in the background, but I figured Lenny would hate it for the same reasons. I mean, he’s barely graduated from nursery rhyme CDs.
So I had Frozen Sun on in the car, but turned way, way lower than I’d like to because Lenny was in the back seat. Suddenly I hear him beatboxing to it (a habit he picked up from me). When it faded to synth pads at the bridge, he stopped, and I asked him:
“So, do you want this on CD?”
“Nah, no thanks.”
“Oh. OK.”
Disappointed, I drove on in silence, until the percussion kicked back in on the song, and Lenny exclaimed,
“OK, yeah, I do want this song.”
I gave a huge grin. “You just didn’t like the part without any drums, huh?”
“Yeah.”
I set up MTV Music Generator 3 on the old XBox for him the other day, and he gleefully set about randomly filling the score with nothing but bass loops, which when played simultaneously double their volume: “duhduhDUHduhDUHduhduhDUH”… Well, whatever, he’s having fun. Finally got him to add some percussion, and maybe we’ll do a more structured tutorial when he’s ready.
Should I be getting him violin lessons or something? Maybe, and I will if he asks for them, but I couldn’t do that with as much enthusiasm. Besides, exposing your kids to the things you love is the greatest reward of being a parent (and gods know I need some rewards).
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