Ah, this is the life. I’m sitting in the living room of my parents’ house on Whidbey Island outside of Seattle, lounging in a comfortable leather chair in front of the fireplace, looking out the window at the trees and bay, typing away. Laptops are cool. And since I acquired an extra wireless hub and […]
Category: journal
Birdhouse Factory
After seeing the 7 fingers circus last year, I said that I would go to the annual holiday circus show by the Circus Center. This year’s show is called Birdhouse Factory. I only convinced Colin and Brad to go with me this year, but next year, I’m dragging more. If you live in the Bay […]
New laptop
So my laptop finally came yesterday. I had to make one more phone call this morning, because they only refunded the bogus shipping charges when it shipped, and forgot to refund me the $25 for the coupon that they first accepted, and then denied. But they agreed to do that after leaving me on hold […]
I’m not dead!
Yes, even though I haven’t updated in two weeks, I am not dead. Really. I’ve just been pretty busy. And distracted. What have I been doing? I bought a dining room table off of craigslist over Thanksgiving weekend, which I was able to move with Christy’s help. I had a games day, where we played […]
Writing more
In between all the craziness of AC2004 and BloggerCon and trying to meet a deadline at work and doing some consulting work for a friend, I’ve been thinking. Several different threads going on here: Going to these conferences and having to answer the question “What do you do?” and not having an interesting answer ready […]
BloggerCon writeup
Quick update. I went to the Accelerating Change conference this weekend. I also went to BloggerCon on Saturday. I’d been waitlisted at BloggerCon, but got in last week, and since the two conferences were a 5 minute walk apart at Stanford, I decided to try to cherry-pick the best of both worlds. I think I […]
Was it worth it?
A coworker of mine asked me today what it felt like to have worked for several days and have accomplished nothing. And I took issue with that. Sure, judged from a national perspective, it was a failure. But, if that’s the only metric of success, it’s hard to justify doing anything, because it’s very hard […]
Closing thoughts
Was it worth it? I think so. Yes, our guy didn’t win. But I feel like I did what I could for the cause. I was in the right state, the one it all came down to. I helped out with an effort that achieved a truly ridiculous voter turnout for a relatively small town. […]
Amusing anecdotes
There were a couple anecdotes that I wanted to record but didn’t really fit into the narrative elsewhere, so I’m recording them here. I already related this one over at LiveJournal, but it’s pretty funny, so I’m putting it in my official blog. Brian and I arrived in Cleveland at about 9pm Saturday evening. We […]
Election day
I got off to a late start on election day, after staying up until 2am the night before working on the database with Ken. But I got over to HQ by 10am, and immediately left with Ken and Brian. It had been decided that Brian and I, as the out-of-towner carpetbaggers, should be running tech […]
