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Twitter Posts [Feb. 9th, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 11:13 @artistictech no, I jammed with Jonathan Mendoza. I only saw @jonathancoulton in concert. #
  • 20:09 Playing some Carcassone #
  • 22:15 I have bought some new mp3s: Jonathan Coulton's 'Joco Looks Back', They Might Be Giants's 'Flood', and some random Paul and Storm songs. #
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Twitter Posts [Feb. 8th, 2010|04:01 am]
  • 16:40 Another new shelf for the library flic.kr/p/7BnevZ #
  • 16:40 I spent this afternoon getting some new shelves for the library flic.kr/p/7Br3au #
  • 19:36 Jamin with Trav tonight. (Also with Steve and Jonathan) #
  • 22:30 My fingers got quite a workout tonight. Jonathan showed me lots of fun chord progressions. #
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Twitter Posts [Feb. 7th, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 14:11 I'm going to a Sulzer music session tonight, and I've only practiced twice since the last one. Perhaps I should practice this afternoon? #
  • 15:10 I have made a cleaned up the pics from last night, added comments and made them into a set. bit.ly/9E0z7O #
  • 17:39 I have done my first yardwork of the year - raking. #
  • 18:23 I have added some photos to the photo wall in my living room. flic.kr/p/7Bbtjh #
  • 18:58 I have arrived at tonight's sulzer music session. #
  • 18:59 @calcnerd256 arguing on the internet in general is a pretty lose-lose situation. #
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Qoop.com is awesome [Feb. 6th, 2010|03:23 pm]
I want to take a bit of time to tell everyone how awesome the customer service at Qoop.com is. I ordered a photobook from them about a month ago, and it never arrived. FedEx said they never received it, so I contacted Qoop, and they did a reprint of my order and sent it again. I received the reprint a while ago, and yesterday I received the original, proving that it was FedEx's mistake.

Qoop reprinted my $137 order for free with no delays or fingerpointing, even though it wasn't their fault at all. So, yay them! I'll be doing lots more business with them in the future.

Please consider them for your own photo-printing needs. They print everything from posters to hard-bound books (and mugs and stickers) using photos that you upload or import from Flickr.


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Twitter Posts [Feb. 6th, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 18:37 Dinner at India Palace on Far West #
  • 19:36 At Antones to see Jonathan Coultan. Doors open in half an hour, and we (me,A,S&j) are in a long line. #
  • 20:27 We have been seated. The nice thing about antones is that there's basically no such thing as a bad seat. #
  • 20:32 The opening band has received a gift of cookies from the audience. #
  • 21:38 The opening band, Paul and Storm, sang a song called "Opening Band". It was hilarious! flic.kr/p/7AZg4J #
  • 21:42 They also sang songs abour pirates, frogger, mad scientists, December 23rd, and boxing nuns (live on pay-per-view!) #
  • 21:43 They made a joke about Occam's razor, and the whole audience laughed. Its that kind of audience tonight. #
  • 22:01 Jonathan Coultan takes the stage! flic.kr/p/7AZrcE #
  • 22:20 J sang Code Monkey and much of the audience sang along to the *whole song*. #
  • 22:26 The two bands combine! flic.kr/p/7AVNPZ #
  • 23:01 The Coultran 2000 with a zen drum. flic.kr/p/7AZSm5 #
  • 23:21 Still Alive! flic.kr/p/7B11z3 #
  • 23:24 And now a song about math! #
  • 23:49 Jon sings "Better", a song about cyborgs flic.kr/p/7AWooT #
  • 23:49 "Its about beginnings and endings and also the moon is there." flic.kr/p/7B1cGU #
  • 23:49 The encore introduces some new instruments flic.kr/p/7B1cRo #
  • 23:59 There were a lot of NI faces in the audience tonight. Awesome show, btw. #
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Twitter Posts [Feb. 5th, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 20:54 60 minute guitar practice. First, I ran through my usual songs, then started working on Rocking in the Free World. #
  • 21:46 6.2 miles of exerbiking #
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Twitter Posts [Feb. 4th, 2010|04:00 am]

  • 21:02 Videochatting with my parents, now on my TV! #iliveinthefuture flic.kr/p/7AzvqE #

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Twitter Posts [Feb. 3rd, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 21:54 7.1 miles of exerbiking, watching The Tudors. #tudortuesday #
  • 23:29 I just asked my handheld computer, with my voice, if there are porcupines in china, while sitting in bed. And it knew. #iliveinthefuture #
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Twitter Posts [Feb. 2nd, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 18:11 The cake was very popular. Right after I took this pic, someone finished it. flic.kr/p/7A693b #
  • 18:14 4 layer cake to celebrate 4 years at NI. flic.kr/p/7A2pEX #
  • 22:17 Demetri Martin is my favorite comedian. #
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Twitter Posts [Feb. 1st, 2010|04:01 am]
  • 12:18 Lunch at Alborz again, this time with the wife. #
  • 17:48 5.3 miles of exerbiking watching Top Gear, season 2, episode 1, where James May is introduced and the show gets good. #
  • 21:28 At the drafthouse to see Terminator 2, presented by The Action Pack, with live, in-theater explosions. #
  • 21:32 I heard a rumor that the last time they did this show, they used over a pound of gunpowder. #
  • 22:09 There is a lot of equipment on stage for T2 flic.kr/p/7zSb39 #
  • 00:29 Terminated. twitpic.com/10tj4r (via @theactionpack) #
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Twitter Posts [Jan. 31st, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 13:25 I have aquired a vcr from a pawn shop. Actually, it is a dvd/vcr combo, since that's the only kind you can find anymore. #
  • 15:28 I have successfully tested my vhs->dvd conversion system using a tape of the Timon and Pumbaa cartoon show, taped off tv over a decade ago. #
  • 15:31 The equipment involved: a vcr, a windows laptop with a usb 'EasyCap' device, an ubuntu desktop with a dvd burner, and a terabyte external HD #
  • 17:27 I have ripped some old tapes of A's: a stop motion movie she made in high school and some stop motion Czech cartoons from the 60's. #
  • 17:48 Watching 'Ninotchka', which is playing at the drafthouse, but we are watching it on our DVR, from TCM. #
  • 19:45 Next on my agenda is Company of Heroes, a critically acclaimed game I got for cheap on Steam recently. #
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Twitter Posts [Jan. 30th, 2010|04:01 am]
  • 09:55 I have built a stand for my phone out of legos, to hold it upright on my desk. flic.kr/p/7zdRMm #
  • 17:59 I have now worked at NI full time for exactly four years. #
  • 18:40 My 2009 photo album has finally arrived. Fedex lost the first copy, so it had to be reprinted. flic.kr/p/7zf194 #
  • 22:08 60 minute guitar practice #
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Twitter Posts [Jan. 28th, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 18:28 At the drafthouse to see Aliens. It is one of my favorite movies, and I've never seen it on the big screen, so I'm excited! #
  • 18:49 Just found out that the drafthouse has a mobile site, very handy! www.originalalamo.com/iphone/ #
  • 22:09 That was an awesome show! The special effects have aged well, and it still looks great. #
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Twitter Posts [Jan. 27th, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 12:27 We are having a team lunch at Alborz Persian Cuisine, because our Berkley coworkers are in town. #
  • 15:15 I just got some great news: our full salaries at NI are being reinstated Feb 1st. (They were temporarily cut 5% last March to avoid layoffs) #
  • 19:05 I have aquired a wireless keyboard and mouse that will reach from my couch to my tv/computer. #
  • 20:53 5.9 miles of exerbiking while watching The Tudors. I have completed season 1. #
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Twitter Posts [Jan. 26th, 2010|04:00 am]

  • 18:33 At the alamo drafthouse to see 'Super Happy Fun Monkey Bash', a collection of wacky clips from Japanese TV. #

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Twitter Posts [Jan. 25th, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 16:40 I have spent the afternoon watching some episodes from the first season of Top Gear. #
  • 17:20 Watching Death Note 2: The Last Name. #
  • 23:23 I have set up EasyCap on my laptop so I can digitize my family's vhs home videos when I visit in march. #
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Twitter Posts [Jan. 24th, 2010|04:01 am]
  • 16:24 Dinner at Buco di Beppo. We've never been here before. Hopefully it won't suck. #
  • 17:03 Buca di Beppo did not dissapoint! #
  • 17:04 @msaulters just me and amanda #
  • 18:38 Heading to a Sulzer music session tonight. I have improved my guitar travel kit since the last one. #
  • 00:37 Music session concluded. It was lots of fun, and included some freeform jamming as well as songs. It was just me, steve, and amanda tonight. #
  • 00:39 We also got some Austin's Pizza delivered, which was a rare treat for me, since they don't deliver to my house. #
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Twitter Posts [Jan. 23rd, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 11:02 Saw this crazy cop scooter in the scooter store last night. flic.kr/p/7xtxjP #
  • 11:29 Cake for everyone to celebrate being one of the 100 best places to work. flic.kr/p/7xBviN #
  • 11:37 @msaulters that is what we saw last night. #
  • 21:28 60 minute guitar practice. #
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Twitter Posts [Jan. 22nd, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 14:41 @raayat a netbook would do it (and be pretty neat), but I'm going to try the cheaper route first, using my TV and putting a mic by my couch. #
  • 16:47 NI is having a deck party/talent expo today as part of employee appreciation week. With kegs. flic.kr/p/7xp1QD #
  • 16:47 Here is an employee who makes wooden swords and axes. What fun! flic.kr/p/7xp26n #
  • 16:47 Here is a cake maker, and someone with a loom. flic.kr/p/7xsPzG #
  • 17:42 Antonio sings about robots and calibration. flic.kr/p/7xtjWA #
  • 17:43 The final act involves fire flic.kr/p/7xpxdM #
  • 17:45 Eva does a classical indian dance flic.kr/p/7xpywV #
  • 18:25 Video of a very low limbo at the deck party www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm0huHyc8jM #
  • 18:26 Beatboxing video from the deck party www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Gv7A45b38 #
  • 18:30 btw, National Instruments Honored for 11th Consecutive Year as One of FORTUNE’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ bit.ly/8EUXas #
  • 19:07 Fiddle playing at NI Live 2010 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv833iBR7PU #
  • 19:16 I have added some explanatory annotations to the NI Beatboxing video I posted earlier www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Gv7A45b38 #
  • 22:03 Playing some skiiball at The Highball while we wait for our midnight movie. #
  • 22:35 My skiiball high score for the night is 300, a personal best! #
  • 22:45 Killing some more time at Mondo Tees. I'm getting a custom KISS tshirt. #
  • 23:07 Btw, the movie we are seeing tonight is A Town Called Panic. flic.kr/p/7xsqRt #
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Twitter Posts [Jan. 21st, 2010|04:00 am]
  • 21:23 Just had a nearly 2 hour videochat with the family. I need to figure out how to do it from the couch instead of my desk. #
  • 21:35 Playing some Carcassonne and drinking some Port. #
  • 22:19 @msaulters awesome! #
  • 22:21 I have discovered that Ghirardelli dark chocolate squares are exactly the same size as Carcassonne tiles. #
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