Funk Babblings

Today's little updates

2009-07-10T03:00:07Z

Thu 2:45pm starts Monday! #

Today's little updates

2009-07-09T03:00:06Z

Wed 2:51pm sitting at Easton Cup O Joe listening to them play good early-80s music. A day that makes me tempted to find the nearest swimming pool. #

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2009-07-08T03:00:10Z

Tue 6:53pm always slightly disconcerted when the interstate traffic next to our garage is at a standstill. #
Tue 8:46pm Bet the people stuck on I-70 would enjoy an ice cream truck. Or an engine coolant truck. #

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2009-07-06T03:00:07Z

Sat 11:50pm Decided that a fire on the ground with friends in the country beats fireworks in the sky. #
Sat 11:55pm Got an entire wedding/honeymoon trip reserved without knowing on exactly which of those days we'll get married. Gotta keep SOME spontaneity! #
Sun 2:42pm So Clintonville wants a roundabout on High Street? Ugh. Obviously they haven't tried to drive in NW Dublin lately. #
Sun 6:41pm Nevermind on the roundabout. Apparently Columbus killed it recently. Yay. (Guess N Broadway people didn't get the memo.) is.gd/1ohkF #

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2009-07-05T03:00:10Z

Sat 1:16pm looking into airplane schedules/costs for the first time in about 5 years or so. Amazed at how many airlines are still in business. #
Sat 1:53pm ... or we could take a train, but that'd require leaving Cleveland (not Columbus!) at 3 or 4 in the morning. #
Sat 2:41pm has plane reservation. Also has car reservation. No trains. #
Sat 4:12pm staying 5 nights in a yurt in a park near Golden CO; probably 1 night in Boulder before that. Need to decide where to spend the last night. #

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2009-07-04T11:56:07Z

Tue 9:53am slightly overwhelmed by my email this morning. Must be time to get off a mailing list. #
Tue 1:12pm finally managed to fix one of the minor problems contributing to my recent flood of email. #
Wed 11:09pm Had an exhausting afternoon/evening. First unexpected (though not entirely surprising) cat trauma, then dad's (expected) birthday dinner. #
Thu 4:03pm helped friends move some furniture four blocks. Hanging out at UA library until it's time to pick up a cat from the vet. #
Thu 5:17pm sitting in library noticing that Ohio citizens are clamoring not to have services cut, while state leg & governor just argue over gambling. #
Thu 7:39pm Failed my "pill a cat" roll. Need to buy the skill with some experience points. #
Fri 8:41am Stepped on a sewing needle on the bedroom floor. It'd been lost in the living room. No wonder we couldn't find it before. #
Fri 2:19pm just noticed that LoudTwitter is down and maybe dead. Possibly good news to people on Facebook seeing my daily updates again every day. #
Fri 5:18pm wrote a Perl script, to run on my own server, to sorta replace LoudTwitter. (I won't try to set up my own replacement service though.) #
Fri 6:52pm After MJ's death, Palin decided she needed to restore the world's level of bizarreness. #
Sat 7:22am Wide awake a bit too early for a Saturday. I blame that bright yellow thing in the east. Making tea for Sydney so she can be wide awake too! #

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2009-06-30T03:06:05Z

09:47 twitpic.com/8r6zm - I think the cats missed us this weekend. #
22:04 had a great afternoon hanging out with an old friend. Then made spicy tacos.... maybe get the 4oz can of chipotles instead of 7oz next time. #

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2009-06-29T03:05:43Z

13:30 not going to Comfest today. Worn out from two full days there. Though the crowd won't be as dense as yesterday. #
21:24 love watching summer sunsets out here. #

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2009-06-28T03:05:30Z

11:55 Comfest day 2. Made it to the gazebo in time for The Vague. #
12:36 How many bands would close their set with the pair of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" followed by Led Zeppelin's "Communication Breakdown"? #
14:26 Karate Coyote attracting quite a crowd to Comfest's offramp stage. Too bad that stage's sound quality sucks. #
16:13 Can't escape the Comfest smokers. #
18:38 Only managed to catch the last couple songs of Colin Gawel & The Lonely Bones, but they sounded great. Closed with Born To Run. #
22:21 Left Comfest before dark, tired and worn out and sweaty. Saturday is always so packed, but there's good people-watching and good music. #

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2009-06-27T03:06:04Z

10:01 guessing that Gov Sanford is happy to be pushed out of the headlines. #
11:19 Listening to local music and picking Comfest bands. Too bad Hope Vitellas isn't playing this year; wow her CD is good. #
11:39 Phone repairman finally showed up, but now there's nothing wrong. #
22:55 had a most excellent and surprising comfest friday, though little of that related to the bands. #

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2009-06-26T03:08:22Z

12:26 may have a fixed phone/DSL line, or maybe it's just a fluke that things work. No sign of expected repair people though. #
14:07 still looking for Comfest band recommendations. #
19:03 Would like to see The Vague at Comfest, but they're on at noon Saturday. Not sure about getting there that early, on the most crowded day. #

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2009-06-24T03:06:18Z

09:55 Had trouble sleeping, now having trouble waking. Trying to avoid caffeine this time though. #
18:50 now must wait until Thurs to get DSL/phone line looked at. Wondering how much it'd cost to go all-wireless. #

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2009-06-23T03:06:22Z

13:49 Unreliable DSL led me to take a skills test at Panera. Learned that someone still cares about HTML frames. Wha, DSL repair not till Friday? #
18:51 DSL/phone repairman had called in sick. Managed (through a noisy connection) to get it rescheduled for Tuesday instead of Friday. #

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2009-06-21T03:05:24Z

22:42 enjoyed the late light in the western sky, perfect evening air, and a Greek dinner with Sydney. #

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2009-06-20T03:05:40Z

18:10 RT @pandagon: I would appreciate a Trojan horse for a single-payer health care system, President Obama. #
19:59 topping off two days of ironic techfail with the realization that Ubuntu (well, en_US) broke my update-podcast-cd script. #

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2009-06-19T03:05:51Z

09:22 don't quite see the point of green overlays, but pondering whether I can reasonably set up a proxy for Iran.... #
09:42 is.gd/15lbY Obama "always a step or two behind where his supporters want him to be" - talking about Iran, but may apply to LGBT too. #
13:43 got my hands on a Comfest program, but I hardly know any of the bands anymore. Anyone have recommendations? #
17:13 seem to have been in a somewhat contrary mood today. Er, sorry all. #

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2009-06-18T03:09:08Z

08:38 ate dinner at a good Chinese restaurant, but felt bad all night afterward. #
09:51 fascinated with Andrew Sullivan's ongoing Iran coverage. andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/ #
22:10 Made a mess cooking & eating Indian food, but now feeling much better than this morning. #

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2009-06-16T03:07:40Z

18:39 apparently had a nest of spiders hatch in my study recently. Tiny spiders dropping in fairly often today. #
19:10 on day 6-ish of a DSL low-speed problem that was promised to be fixed by today. As in Iran, Twitter seems the most dependable datastream. #

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2009-06-15T03:06:23Z

10:00 It's a beautiful morning, I think I'll open windows.... and dump a plant off the windowsill to the floor. #
20:09 May try harder to avoid comma-splices in the future. Maybe. #

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2009-06-14T03:06:43Z

10:19 damn, both "rfunk" and "robfunk" are already taken at facebook. So I got facebook.com/rmfunk #

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2009-06-13T03:06:23Z

12:28 attempting to get come to terms with KDE4 without losing my sanity. May even install it on Windows and Mac. #
12:33 still prefer Pidgin over Kopete for IM. Why can't Kopete get the contact list right? #

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2009-06-12T03:06:22Z

10:09 craving a cinnamon roll and coffee, but feeling oh-so-close to fixing this bug. #
10:16 .... or discovering that I already fixed the bug, and IE just didn't want to admit it yesterday. #
11:19 and of course with that bug fixed, done with work until further notice. #
12:00 at Stauf's: americano, pecan roll, wifi, and lunch on the way! #
16:48 Remembering when Cols had two good alt-weeklies. Now I hate both in different ways. Yet I keep grabbing them since there's good info there. #
16:52 Come to think of it, when there were two good ones the Guardian was still around. I've never liked Alive all that much. #
17:06 Listening to The Epicureans' 1994 CD "Little Man". Been too long since I last did. #

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2009-06-11T03:07:23Z

10:00 working again today, just to update/fix what I did last week. #
15:41 back to trying to work around weird browser bugs. Tired though; may be time for caffeine.... #
16:17 got caffeine. And chocolate. And sweet almond flavoring. Plus rebooted to MacOS X for more browser bugginess. (Safari Event wisdom welcome.) #
17:45 just may have resolved my buggy browser bafflement! I just had to think inside-out and backwards. #
18:30 well, almost resolved... it works everywhere except IE6. Now this is a world I'm all too familiar with. #

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2009-06-10T03:07:23Z

08:13 Went back to the car: brake releases now. Drove it to a shop, then got driven back home by my sweetie. Assume I'll get the car back tonight. #
14:05 car is done. (Under $100!) I could get it this evening, or I could try biking 13 miles... am I up for an hour of country-road biking today? #
18:28 Got the car back. It moves now! Didn't bike to it. #
18:51 Wondering just how long that brake has been stuck. I think the car now drives better than I ever remember. #

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2009-06-09T03:06:30Z

13:44 back to testing on OSX, then sidetracked by the lack of focus-follows-mouse. Re-reading Yegge's attempt at solving it: is.gd/Tqot #
16:12 OK, I can accept OSX not giving me focus-follows-mouse, but why can't I put the menu bar and the dock on different screens?? #
17:53 most likely without a job again tomorrow. #
19:10 Now my car's parking brake is stuck partway-on. I wonder if I'm anywhere near falling under Ohio's lemon law. I miss my Saturn. #
19:37 Seems like 1 wheel's brake is sticking (hot!). Brakes were new in October, so it's holding well. Will let cool, see if it's better tomorrow. #
21:46 Ha, lemon law applies within 1 year or 18K miles of factory. Not 9 years or 109K miles. I'm also nowhere near 30 days in the shop. #