Monthly Archives March 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-30

Recreating my favorite breakfast as a teen: toast with cheese, bacon, and salsa. Still wonderful! (And oh, so healthy!) #fb # http://twitpic.com/1bbl96 – Today's project: build picnic table from deck scrap. # http://twitpic.com/1bd87m – Liam lends a hand. # http://twitpic.com/1bddgc – Mission accomplished! It's no beauty but it keeps things off the ground! # Cigarettes [...]

A Few More Thoughts on GURPS

About a week and a half ago, Abigail, Liam and I got together with their friends Ryan and Eleen, my cohort Jason Young, and my brother Chris for another round of GURPS, the tabletop roleplaying game we’ve been enjoying lately. I had been planning to run an adventure in a Science Fiction setting this time [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-23

Oooh, a new TRON trailer with some actual plot points! Quite excited about this one! http://www.program-glitch-esc.net/ #fb # I used to be an amateurcrastinator, but I've recently gone pro. #fb # http://twitpic.com/19catd – Hiking the Austin Greenbelt for the first time with Ben. # http://twitpic.com/19cgsr – More of the greenbelt. Lovely! # http://twitpic.com/19co3c – Another [...]

The Long Broccoli Con

When I was  12 years old, I was not a vegetable eater. This was a problem, because my dad and his wife were on the Pritikin diet at the time. For those of you not familiar with this diet, it allows you to eat anything at all, as long as it doesn’t taste good. Thus, [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-16

O'Malarkey, the Irish band with which I play, performs tonight at the San Marcos public library at 7:00pm. #fb # http://twitpic.com/17s6zy – Great day to skip work and play at the river with the kids! # Thanks to all the marvelous people who sent birthday wishes. It was, in a variety of ways, my most [...]

Thoughts on Titanium

A couple months back, my team at work started working with Appcelerator’s Titanium, an open-source system for developing iPhone applications that, instead of requiring one to learn Objective C, wrapped up the iPhone APIs so that they could be accessed from familiar web languages. The version that was current at that time made it very [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-09

The guy who helped us at Home Depot today had an impressive (and slightly alarming) amount of expertise in building cannons. #fb # At the Long Center to see PDQ Bach. Squeeeee! #fb # http://twitpic.com/16l9p9 – Lunch w/Kathy at the river. Nibbling on grapefruit while minnows nibble on us. # You know you're in a [...]

Tweeku Launches

Congratulations to my friend Greg Pierce, who launched Tweeku today, a super-nifty iPhone app he wrote for composing Twitter messages and other short-form texts (including haiku)! I’ve been testing it off and on for a few weeks, and am really impressed with what he’s done with it. Here’s the company line: Tweeku is a twitter [...]

My Favorite 40th Birthday Party Ever

Over the weekend I celebrated my 40th birthday along with a pile of family and friends. The party was terrific — everything I had hoped that it would be and more. Thanks to all who attended and helped to make it such a delightful, memorable time! I had a magnificent surprise shortly after the party [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-02

http://twitpic.com/14zqm8 – Dad throwing the newly-minted MC(mains) gang sign. Yo. # Dad: Surgery on both legs scheduled for today at 10:00am. Local anaesthesia, so should be lucid soon after. #fb # We neutered the cat yesterday and will neuter the dog tomorrow. Were I dad, I'd be nervous about having surgery today. #fb # Dad's [...]