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12:43 pm
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cava sangria
w.r.t. the title: Yes, I highly recommend it.
This is supposed to be a Rough Work Week. It so far seems it will be, although at least it's mostly as predicted and on track at the moment.
The week after that: I'm off to Cleveland with Lis for a friend's wedding. Yay, Cleveland!
( a few tweets and some links to share )
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09:22 am
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[soccer] making us soccer more like europe?
Interesting article (link) tearing up this other article trying to propose Euro-like (actually: UK/EPL-like) changes to the US league. It's interesting to see how the English Premier League has become this monoculture of sports entertainment (an NFL without hands) that dominates other leagues in the landscape. Monocultures suck!! (Even though I do find the EPL entertaining (even if Fulham may be doomed)).)
One thing I'll add: some (rather: a few) want to rename MLS to something like "the US Premier League", a knock-off of the EPL. This is dumb, because "Premier" is not an American word, really. Who says that? I would support, however, renaming MLS to something more appropriate to our culture, like:
- US Awesome League (with a "Wicked Awesome" New England division)
- US Freedom League
- US XXXTREME League
- US ZOMGWTFBBQ League
Maybe not.
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10:57 am
[Link] | Feeling better this morning.
Also, I wanted to share this: awesome nike soccer ad. (Note: much POV/shaky-cam, and some kinda icky guts bits. But also painfully awesome.)
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06:26 pm
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tastycrats ahoy
My weekend: simpler pleasures. - It's an indian crepe burrito! (fri apr 25, 2pm)
- Dulce de leche ice cream with Bailey's and milk, on ice. I bypass your narrow gendered preconceptions. (sat apr 26, 10pm)
- Watching LA-vs-Chivas: WHYYYY DOES BECKHAM HAVE A NECKBEARD. Meanwhile, I'd rather have Donovan on my national team than Becks. (sat apr 26, 10pm)
- * This is referring to the LA-vs-LA game (Galaxy vs Chivas). It was an a wacky affair, going 5-2 for the galaxy. It was damn entertaining.
My monday: seeminly, loopy. - Clouds* are awesome. (mon apr 28, 3pm)
- * This is referring to clouds of computing power, like Amazon's EC2 or Microsoft's Live Mesh or whatever.
- Whiteboard-rooms end up both clearing your mind and making it more foggy. (mon apr 28, 5pm)
- TODO: Build abstracted web front-end for abstractly slicing massive amounts of data over time. Must feature PostgreSQL, REST, unicorns. (mon apr 28, 6pm)
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08:37 am
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terminology
its not open source at all
at best, freeware
(or free malware)
am i right?
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10:52 pm
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to the second chance
(I definitely think the whole second-generation-immigrant thing is why "Letter to America" resonates with me, albeit in an odd way.)
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11:19 pm
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[rssremixer] update
See? I went and added more options. Tumblr feeds have have a '#' for their title, and there's a separate option for whether or not you want to blank out titles which have defaulted to '#'. (Support for Last.fm RSS, but not XML, because XML is not RSS.)
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04:57 pm
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remix RSS Remixer
BTW: If there are other "options"/filters/etc you'd like coded up for RSS Remixer, let me know. I've designed it so that (hopefully) it's easy and modular to add new filtering options. (See?)
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09:59 pm
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[icancodez] RSS Remixer!
I've mentioned it briefly, but now it's really rather usable by humans, so... Check it out: RSS Remixer! It's for remixing RSS feeds.
That is to say: suppose I have personal accounts set up in a bunch of different places (for example, my reading and rocking habits), but I've got a great network of friends looking primarily to my blog (i.e. here.) I want to share that info, but I don't want to blindly link dump it (with a high signal-to-noise). Rather, I want to pick and choose and customize what I repost to fit my audience.
I've been using it myself for just this purpose, but I just added enough reasonable UI bits that I don't mind sharing it around. So check it out! (There's even drag-and-drop stuff going on. JQuery++.)
The source is here. I used Ruby (with the Sinatra miniframework.) It's not the most ENTERPISE code I ever did, but I managed to just get it out there on my own. I'm sure there's bugs / room for improvement, and I'd like to hear about it! But I'd also like to hear what works about it as is.
Anyway, I scratched my own itch with code, and had fun doing it. Good start to the week!
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09:54 am
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Game Chef: Who's cooking?
So this year's Game Chef just started. The event is about 1 week to design and write a roleplaying/storygame from scratch, constrained by some shared elements that all the participants must use. ("Dance & Dawn" was inspired by Game Chef 2k4.) I recommend diving in!
This year's hook is various pieces of awesome art that you must incorporate entirely into your work. (There's some fun art in there!)
I'm *probably* not doing it this year, though I hope I'll have time for freelance feedback. More importantly: if you're someone I know and are designing something, ping me if you'd like me in your corner for focused feedback. I'd definitely like to try that.
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10:05 pm
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da me la caffeina
 is how I feel about a strong coffee in times of dire need and duress. I apologize for speaking about caffeinated matters frequently, but dude: symbols and rituals (like any beverage, really).
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01:45 pm
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[lazyweb] online video quality?
If I were encoding flash videos to a approxinately YouTubely quality, what kinds of bitrate/fps/etc should I be aiming for?
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12:59 am
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she's the blade
- Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
- filter.rb:29: undefined method `awesome?' for ReverseChronFilter:Module (NoMethodError) (sun apr 13, 9am)
- So the downside of posting a ruby error message to twitter is when you're debugging the processing of a twitter feed in ruby... yeah. (sun apr 13, 11am)
- Finished: Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software “But in the end, none of that matters as much as the simple fact that software does not work the way we think, and until it does, it is not worth trying to perfect. — Scott Rosenberg, Dreaming in Code
- Finished: Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art This book is a total redpill. Awesome.
- Roleplaying 101 - Deeper in the Game If you don't understand my rpg/storygame hobby, this is a miraculously simple explanation.
- Questionable Content is more fun if you consider Hannelore the main character. It works, too.
Also: this weekend I went to a great party in western mass. Hence the title.
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11:36 pm
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heal plz
Firstly: interesting RPG article from the author of Dogs in the Vineyard: 2008-04-09: Rules vs Vigorous Creative Agreement. Interesting point about when rules matter, and when you might just want to do freeform instead. Kinda. I expect many of you to disagree interestingly!
And, the rest of my week, for those of you not on twitter: ( Read more... )
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12:04 am
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it's pronounced like its spelled fool
So if you're going to mock, say, a Revs player because, say, you're a hapless Chicago fan, please:
>Jeff Lawrentoiczvczxzcczcz
INCORRECT. Being unable to spell someone's name - on the internet! - isn't clever. It's simply lazy and weak.
Yes, I got it the first time: you think long ("foreign"?) names like "Larentowicz" are funny-looking. (Jeff hails from the exotic land of Pasadena, after all.) But with at attitude like that, you're going to just keep on failing at soccer, America, and life itself. May God have mercy on your soul.
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08:52 pm
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mirror mirror
Hey readership! What stuff should I be writing about more/less? It seems I'm always more tight-lipped than I realize. So, illuminate.
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12:33 pm
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si te vas, si te marchas
- Shakira - Si Te Vas, from MTV Unplugged.
- Last Saturday: was rickrolled by dudes with a boom box in Porter Square. No joke.
- I've been working on a hack of Mage: the Awakening, streamlining it and letting me use some sweet tarot cards. A work in progress: the basic idea and an example of play. Now, to find some bostonfolk to try it out.
- Also, someone on the internet dissed books. I got me ranting. Of course.
- UNIX FTW: FIST: Emphatic Message Generator
- Fashion victim of the week: wearing a suit with a backwards baseball cap? Oh failure.
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12:44 pm
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good meme bad meme
Firstly: I know that "meme" is in fact the wrong term for that sorta viral-reposted-content thing, but that's the common parlance, and there's not much point to fighting it.
Secondly: I think bad memes are one where people repost commercial content, but the good ones are those that encourage telling/retelling stories. It doesn't have to be great or epic stories, but that's still what I want to see more of on the LJ.
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10:41 am
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[boston] quick soccer PSA
(This is still not a soccer blog. Promise. But of interest to folks...) The Breakers - the returning WPS women's soccer side - will be playing at Harvard Stadium. VERY YES.
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09:08 am
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[not-meme] icons
Let's play a game:
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee!!
Tagged by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pooka_madness. Thanks! Actual stories inside.
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