bithead redux

• @dlpasco you kicked ass today, dude #
• oh, West Seattle Bridge, why do you hate me so? #
• @SenorDanimal I think you may be on to something sir. You mean we’re geting 3G iPhones at WWDC? here did you hear that? #
• yup, pretty sure I horked my iphone. #

• what? all devs at wwdc get a 3g iphone? #
• @SenorDanimal Yes, yes I do. #

• @dlpasco you must be a man to safely eat Safeway steam tray chinese. You have failed. #
• @SenorDanimal I"d hire you… #

WWDC08. I’m going, finally. Woohoo!

rsync. I’m trying to get close to a terabyte of assorted data under control.

Nickel Creek. It started small — I heard “The Smoothie Song” on the radio and bought their Greatest Hits album. I have now succumbed to the inevitable and purchased all three of their regular releases. Oh, and the iTunes exclusive session.

Tempest. I’m still obsessing about it — perhaps I will finally bring the machine into work.

MAME. The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator is something that I keep coming back to, over and over. I won’t tell you where I got the ROMs, though.

Mac Development in general. Yeah, still in love.

Git. Of the new source control systems out there, I seem to like it the best.

Bakery Nouveau. I didn’t think I cared if the croissants were flaky and delicate, but now I do. You heard it here first, the best cinnamon rolls in the world can be found in this little bakery in the West Seattle junction.

30 Rock. While I watched data fly across my network as I tried to get things back to normal, I watched all of season 2 of 30 Rock on Hulu. I already have a crush on Tina Fey, this just made it worse. 30 Rock manages to be incredibly funny, and yet not mean. I didn’t need more television to watch, dammit.

How I Met Your Mother. I love pretty much everyone in this show.

Back to work now.

• I’m getting a little annoyed at how unstable my bluetooth keyboard has become. #
• small apps I use all the time: iPulse DTerm LaunchBar Twitterrific Hazel LittleSnitch #
• pondering consumer hardware storage arrays like the drobo vs. using something like zfs to do the magic. talk amongst yourselves. #
• storing and managing all of the terabytes of data we’re interested in seems to be the real challenge these days. how do you find anything? #

• Argh. Catch bus, forget phone. Return to get phone, miss backup bus. Crap. #
• okay, I need to stop playing TypeRacer. #

• capistrano is useful and interesting, and I am able to read the source and figure out the bits that are not yet documented #
• but I cannot help but think that more people would use capistrano if all that stuff was documented. #
• yeah, I know, it’s open source and I should contribute what I know #
• but I have realized that the difference between a technical writer and I is that they are a technical writer, and I am NOT. #

• I got a complaint from someone who is aggregating my blog feed that people don’t want to read my twitter musings. #
• I gave them a twitter-free feed. But I also thought — hey, it is in fact, my blog. I do what I want with it. #
• @lyzadanger woohoo, I got 100% too. But only because I guessed well. #
• @nuin send email to the maintainer… #
• @nuin of course, there’s also the tiny matter of not doing much python writing lately #
• I am embarrassed that The Discovery Institute is based in Seattle. #

• I’m not sure what the final step is, I think I’ll gradually copy back over sensible things, and work my way through the original disk stuff. #
• so. data damage minimized. backup situation squared away. number of anticipated storage purchases this weekend: 2 #
• @davidbro *unanticipated* is the correct wording. #
• @bilm I had a drive issue that required reformatting. I did not have any other drives big enough to contain the rescued data. #

• it takes a long time to move big data. #
• almost … there … #
• almost … … there … #
• diskwarrior is my friend. #
• @dlpasco that sounds like something from xkcd #
• I am having a bit of a data disaster. I am currently picking out the children that I like the best. #
• halfway through the emergency backup. How did I accumulate this pile of data? How the heck will I figure out what I need to keep? #
• There is a potentially huge market in helping people figure out how to mine for their own gems buried in their piles of data. #
• I wish I had the finances right now for a drobo + 4 drives. It really sounds like where I need to be. #
• @nuin yeah, it’s actually #2 for me now — #1 is a new iMac for the wife. #