brad's life

My Daily Tweets

2008-05-16T06:36:13Z

06:35 Bike to work day! Sf to mtv with ~50 people. #
17:00 Loving the heat! #

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My Daily Tweets

2008-05-15T06:32:51Z

18:00 Yay dolores park and good weather and alcohol and friends and scantily clad girls! #

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Walk of Shame

2008-05-10T23:43:15Z

This is great....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rBLNRgT3YQ

My Daily Tweets

2008-05-07T06:36:58Z

19:10 There's a fine line between a crepe and a burrito, bu... Wait, no there's not! Does not look like crepe! #

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My Daily Tweets

2008-05-03T06:34:25Z

19:10 "yes, I'm issuing an RFP for fun." #

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Das deutsches Wort des Tages

2008-05-01T08:03:52Z

Geschlechtsverkehr

Aw, German compounds, how I love thee.

(learned from watching The Lives of Others, with Dan. good movie.)

C++

2008-04-30T06:50:19Z

I've been writing a bunch of C++ lately, both inside and outside of work. Really, once you learn what the gcc error messages actually mean, then it's smooth sailing. My mean time between bugging evan continues to drop ... a little.

I regularly bounce now between C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl, and Sawzall. I wish I could say something more profound than that they all suck in their own special ways. (I suppose the cheery angle is that they're all beautiful snowflakes too, but...)

Actually JavaScript is almost the least annoying, from a language perspective. JavaScript with the whole DOM and browser crap is a whole different story ... but embedded JavaScript is great.

I wrote something in plain C the other day and besides being kinda nostalgically quaint, it kinda blew. I eagerly await rewriting it in C++.

Back to C++ fun....

I remember back when gas was only a nickel...

2008-04-29T16:41:26Z

Fortunately I don't really drive often, having the 3x better gas mileage with the motorcycle.

That was the first time I ever typed nickel, too, and I misspelled it as "nickle". Who knew?

My Daily Tweets

2008-04-28T06:35:14Z

13:46 Chillin' in dolores park. #

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My Daily Tweets

2008-04-26T06:36:10Z

19:39 On the roof of a building downtown with a bunch of drunk Russians. #

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Scaling

2008-04-26T05:42:46Z

I'm going to scale my foot up your ass. Hah.

My Daily Tweets

2008-04-24T06:37:50Z

09:38 Is a laptop that runs more than 30 mins too much to f'ing ask for? #

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GMail Spam

2008-04-22T15:53:15Z

GMail's anti-spam seems completely ineffective. This is what I woke up to this morning, after 8 hours of sleep:

7 messages I care about (only 1, really, but 6 I'll glance at), and 18 spams.

I was doing better when I was running my own mail server. :( If I look at the headers of these emails, a good number come from home DHCP users. My rule on my mail server, with a few false positives, was that sending email from IPs that reversed as home ISPs just wasn't allowed. Spam went to almost zero.

Also lols on how many of these messages have headers like:

X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true

Good job. I hope that header was faked and not actually IronPort's bragging.

What to do? I really hate mail.

Learning Russian grammar from spam

2008-04-21T07:22:11Z

Aw, spam...

DNA Sequencing

2008-04-17T22:02:31Z

A tweet from earlier today:

DNA fedexed to Iceland. Genetic predispositions forthcoming. Friend me on decodeme to share genes! :P

(Seriously, they're a social networking site?!)

I can't wait to actually add my foaf:dnaChecksum field to my FOAF. I might need to flesh out that spec a bit more, though, clarifying how to specify the digest function and the input fileformat.

Weekends

2008-04-16T04:20:47Z

The last three weekends have been:

Seattle
Scuba diving
Skiing

What can I do this weekend that starts with an S?

Taxes

2008-04-16T04:19:27Z

After lots of frantic emails, calls, faxes, and motorcycle trips to the bank and post offices, a lot of my money is now gone, safely in the hands of the government.

I fortunately found a postal truck parked near a post office on my second attempt at finding a post office at 5:40 pm, and the postman took my (and 3 other people's) envelopes. Hopefully it gets postmarked or whatever.

My Daily Tweets

2008-04-13T06:32:11Z

12:53 At alpine's ice bar, having a beer between runs. Weather gorgeous. One guy has no shirt. #

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My Daily Tweets

2008-04-12T06:32:36Z

19:38 Almost to Tahoe for a weekend of skiing, drinking, and hottubbing... #

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My Daily Tweets

2008-04-09T06:37:47Z

20:27 Went clothes shopping on my own. So proud of myself. Must stop destroying jeans. #

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My Daily Tweets

2008-04-06T06:33:09Z

14:21 Off to Monterey! #

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Tonight

2008-04-05T08:42:10Z

I had two options for this Friday evening:

go to Tahoe & ski
go to Monterey & dive

I did neither.

Skiing would've required both days, I'd already committed to diving when my friends did their certification check-out dives, and I kinda hurt my knee the other day playing Ultimate.

But scuba: I couldn't find a scuba partner for tomorrow morning, and everybody else will be in classes, sitting on the bottom of the ocean tossing their regulators and finding them back.

So I sat at home, cleaned up music collection more, and did this hack: smart MP3-aware file chunking for Brackup. Now I can retag music at will and iterative backups in the future won't re-backup the music bytes, just the ID3 tags. MP3 files, when smart chunking is enabled, now have 1, 2, or 3 chunks, depending on number/type of ID3 tags.

As for fun stuff: I'll drive to Monterey tomorrow and just pay for one night's hotel, party it up in the hotel bar/pool, then dive Sunday morning with Erin, Whitaker, Tessa, Dan, Julie, and not Ojan.

Update: (oh, I also got iSCSI working from OS X to Linux. what a frickin' eventful evening, apparently.)

My Daily Tweets

2008-04-05T06:33:10Z

19:09 Lame. Want to go to Monterey tonight to dive tomorrow but no dive buddies. All busy. #

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My Daily Tweets

2008-04-02T06:31:35Z

09:28 Heading back to San Francisco #

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My Daily Tweets

2008-04-01T06:36:35Z

08:40 at ICWSM about to do a talk. so early! #
11:01 done with ICWSM talk. where's the afterparty? oh, it's monday morning. #

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