SolarHot

Here’s a small world moment. In this quarter’s Georgia Tech alumni magazine Tech Topics is a little blurb about how Dan and Jeanette Gretsch are the founders of a company called SolarHot (there is a cute little subscript “2″ between the H and O for a little visual pun.) The significance of this is that [...]

More Rollergirl Action in the Grand Strand

This Sunday September 2nd, we’ve got more rollergirl action in Conway SC. The bout starts at 6:30 PM at the DreamLand Skate Arena. There will be four, count them, four teams there for all the action you can possibly stand. Be there or your wheels be square.

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“Blog Like A Guy Week”

So this was originally posted during my crazy week of too much work so it is no longer that timely, but still worth note. Comedian and thinker Heather Gold has a post where she discusses the differences between the way men and women approach blogging specifically, but creativity in general.
I do think it is [...]

Rev. Magdalen Achieves Victory (But at a Price)

It looks like the custody case for the oppressed Subgenius young mother Reverend Magdalen has finally been resolved in her favor. That’s the good news, and very good news it is. The bad news is that this has racked up $140,000 in legal bills in the process. I’ve given in several rounds of the fundraisers, [...]

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Anthony Bourdain/Harvey Pekar Crossover

Boy, I wish I had found out about Harvey Pekar appearing on Anthony Bourdain’s TV show before it aired, rather than after. It showed last night, and while the Travel Channel replays the living hell out of most programs, they don’t seem to be repeating the episode in the next week. I’ll have to keep [...]

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Michael Butler on a Tear

I listened to all three of Michael Butler recent interviews with geezer rockers. I tally them as going two for three. I loved the interview with Howard Kaylan of the Turtles and Flo and Eddie fame, and I loved the interview with Tommy James. Both of those guys were really nice to Mike, very candid [...]

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Life in Normal Gear

The frenzy of last week has reduced from a crushing to a merely high workload. We are able to actually have a weekend, which is good. I was reaching a burnout breaking point where I’d be doing something at my desk and in the middle of it, forget what I was doing, why and for [...]

Garrick on Podcast Advertising

Garrick van Buren posts a musing on podcast advertising and references this here clambake in it. I sort of agree with his basic points and don’t know what to do about it. I could have an index of every firm that has ever sponsored the show. Would that be value add or just noise?
Update: Dave [...]

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GTD in Tatters

I haven’t wanted to blog about this because in a lot of ways, it is just downright embarrassing to have to say but it is the truth. Over a year after my first push into using GTD to get my life together, it is not together. It has all fallen apart, my GTD system is [...]

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It Never Ends

My life is still insane. That is all.

How to Have a Big Day

Step 1: Go in to work at 7:30 AM on a Saturday.
Step 2: Have your team do a big software upgrade that requires a frenetic attention to detail for a long time.
Step 3: Keep at it until 12:45 AM.
Bonus step: Go back in on Sunday and do it some more.
More blogging and podcasting soon. But [...]

Chicken Bog and Hummus

That title is no fooling, that’s what I had for dinner – hummus and chicken bog left over from the big party a few weeks ago. It’s a good thing this food is still edible, because we still have eight or ten quart bags of chicken bog, barbecue and coleslaw in our freezer.
If there is [...]

Social Networks and Phishing

At my day job, phishing is a big deal because we are sometimes involved in the identification and takedowns. Bruce Schneier has an interesting post pointing to two studies of phishing when you spoof headers to make it appear to originate with a friend or present the first 4 digits of a credit card (which [...]

Anatomy of a Joke Gone Wrong

Chuck Olsen dissects the timeline of him making a joke that was then taken seriously by people (including me.) I saw Andrew Baron’s original post, and made a post that basically said “WTF?” About an hour later I reread Drew’s post and noticed that it originated from a Twitter, at which point I posted an [...]

Weekend Recap

So, despite my best efforts we actually did go to the grocery store and do a few productive things (me the least in the household.) We watched a little TV and I farted around some. I played a 90 man sit-n-go on Full Tilt Poker and moneyed for the first time in a month. I [...]

Lazy Day

This is the first weekend in months without something urgent happening – painting or party preparation or work or something. My response is to get lazy. Real lazy. I don’t even feel like going to the grocery store like we need to. I just want to lie on the couch and do nothing.
Yesterday, the [...]

Need Fortran Help

I have a lazy web request. Can anyone point me to an example Makefile for the Lahey LF95 compiler? I’m helping someone out with a Fortran project but I know nothing about it. I can’t figure out what bits to flip to have GNU make build the objects and link them together and for the [...]

The Back is Back

After several days of pain, I woke up Friday and my back felt OK. It wasn’t great, but it didn’t hurt. It just felt generally sore and tired, but not excruciating when I moved at most angles. At this point, I’m ready to take that as a step up. For the time being, I am [...]

EGC Clambake for August 11, 2007 – “Friends, Parties, and Shared Experience”

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 11, 2007.
I play some submitted music from Rob Szabo; I discuss the dog and the summer and work and the party and why it has taken so much out of me and left me doing few podcasts lately; I play [...]

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Today’s High Concept Idea

I want to form a klezmer band that does hebraicized versions of classic country and western songs, and bill ourselves as David Allan Cohen.

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