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A test post to see if Bridgy is working properly

Glances around.

Huh.

Okay… so, this blog has been totally neglected for two whole years.

Ok, a little late on this (again).

Five years ago, one of my college roommates was getting married in Miami, and with my grandparents (at the time) living just a bit north of there, it became an opportunity to visit them and (more importantly) to introduce them to Sunnia for the first time.

Well over a year ago, I wrote about just how useful Twitter can be, and over time that’s only increased.

So, last year I tried doing two separate ska/reggae podcasts that I posted to this blog… and I’d been meaning to do another one, but really wanted to try one with a co-host, because I think it sounds a lot better.

So… I actually wrote most of this post in July of 2008, while I was traveling somewhere on a plane.

My presentation at MidemNet last month in Cannes has received more attention than I ever imagined (nearly 17,000 views on YouTube at this time!).

Long time readers of this blog (all three of you) may remember my post in 2007 about how Bob, my boss at Super Bagel — where I worked throughout my high school years — had just killed his wife, Ann, with whom I also worked.

I’m usually not a big fan of these sorts of things, but eh, haven’t had time to write up any actual posts, so via Dennis we get a silly high school style musical meme test that reveals a bit of what’s in my music collection… Here’s how it works: Put Your…

Been catching up some random podcasts lately, and there were two totally unrelated ones that both caught my attention and seemed worth mention.

I’d been meaning to work on this over the holidays and didn’t, but now that Dennis (from whom I got the idea) put up his annual post of cities where he spent the night, it seemed like I finally ought to get around to it as well… So, here they are: cities…

Two posts in one night… and both music posts.

In a bit of a followup to my recent post on great ska performers like the Scofflaws and Skapara, I finally had a chance to see the Aggrolites live a week and a half ago.

Another quickie post.

So, Dennis posted about how he almost almost almost bought some night vision goggles on Woot recently, but was talked out of it via instant messenger by his brother.

As some of you know, my wife’s been away traveling for the past 5 weeks, though she’s currently driving (my car) back across the country, and I’ll be flying out to meet her shortly, after which we’ll drive around a bit, checking out the southwest.

To BART Customer Service, This morning, October 4th, 2008, my wife and I tried to take BART to the San Francisco Airport.

I first met Sugar, our golden retriever, over ten years ago, when she was just a little puppy, days after my future wife had adopted her.

Okay, so I still (yes, yes, I know) have a bunch of other posts I’m planning to put up, but here’s a quick one.

Yeah, ok, so this blog has been totally neglected lately, but I’ve been sorta crazy busy.

So it’s been one full year since the wedding, and for our anniversary I could write up a long post about how wonderful married life is and how awesome my wife is, but since me sitting at the computer rather than spending time with her isn’t the most effec…

Last Friday evening, I had mentioned on Twitter that we were preparing to dogsit for two rowdy dogs for a week — joking that I wasn’t worried how our dog would handle it (seeing as she’s incredibly lazy and prone to ignoring other dogs), but more about how

On my mother’s side, I have 5 cousins, making a total of six of us.

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” — Kurt Vonnegut I went to a fun gathering last weekend, put on for Jonathan Zittrain, the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harv…

Ok, so remember that last post about the old photo of an Atari 800 on a desk from 1983?

Boingboing has a post today including a photo from one of Pesco’s friends, Jennifer Brown, of a computer desk showing an Atari 800.

Thanks to RSS, just noticed that Amazon is now taking pre-orders on the latest Slackers album, Self Medication which will be out in a month.

Mentioned this over on Techdirt last week, but might as well mention it here as well, since all sorts of folks are emailing/texting/calling to say they heard the show.

I’ll admit that I was pretty skeptical about Twitter for a long time.

This is a crazy long post, so if you actually decide to read it, might as well hit the play button on this playlist, since it’s equally as long.

Ok, I’ll admit that I was a bit unsure of the actual usefulness of Twitter, but a couple months ago I figured I’d give it another shot, and it’s been growing on me.

So said the guy renting me the kilt.

So my hotel room in Edinburgh is tiny, but decent enough.

Man.

It’s funny that in all the time I’ve lived in California, I’ve barely known any of my neighbors.

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So, we’re finishing up dinner tonight, and just as I stand up to pick up the dishes, the whole house starts shaking along with a low rumble.

When I lived in Foster City, every year at Halloween the house would be mobbed by kids trick-or-treating.

Well, my last request for help from all two of my readers didn’t work out so well, but I can’t resist trying again.

I recognize this sounds like a Steven Wright bit or something, but… uh… how do you throw out a garbage can?

One of the things I enjoyed most back when I lived in Foster City was that I was like a block away from the Foster City Bay Trail and could bike along the Bay up to the airport and back.

Two months ago, I got a new laptop.

So I really do plan to write more about our wedding, but time is seriously lacking.

So last week, I got to stop by and get lunch with Wall Street Journal star reporter Kara Swisher (and her son, who required some practice pitches from me while he worked on his baseball swing).

I’ve got like 3 or 4 other wedding-related posts I want to write up, but don’t have the time right now, so here’s a totally unrelated post about a movie we saw last weekend.