Ry4an's Unblog

Some friends and I have been playing poker a couple of times a month for the last year or so.

Last November while sitting in the Atlanta airport with not much to do I saw a bank of six different trash cans.

I live in a sleep deprived state.

GPSDrive (http://www.gpsdrive.de/) is nifty software for Linux that turns a laptop and a cheap GPS receiver into a vehicle navigation system.

...or your own silly Condo board.

For the last five or so years I've been trying to imagine what it would have been like growing up with easy computing, and I don't think it would have been good for me.

For the last three years Cari, Bridget, Joe and I have co-hosted a Halloween party at Cari's and my place.

Three days ago I posted a rather lengthy entry wherein I decried the current state of open, collaborative calendaring.

I'm happy with my email client, text editor, compilers, IRC client, news reader, web browser, and just about every other tool I use in the process of my daily computing.

Being a telecommuter, the closest thing I have to an office is an IRC channel.

On Thursday, October 23rd, 2003 I'm hosting another PGP key signing event.

There's a program on freshmeat called email2sms (http://freshmeat.net/projects/email2sms/) that runs emails through a series of filters until they're short enough to be sent to a cell phone as a SMS message -- which typically have a maximum length of 150…

I try to lead a very uncluttered life whether one's talking about hard drive layout, personal responsibilities, or physical clutter in my condo.

This weekend I had a great time canoeing with six friends.

I get and send a lot of email.

A chump bot (http://www.w3.org/2001/09/chump/) sits in an IRC (Chat) channel and remembers any URL (web addresses) that people say.

Some friends and I just threw a huge party with a Dystopian future theme.

I run a lot of mailing lists on mailman, http://www.list.org/, servers.

I got permission from Derek Tonn at tonnhaus design to use his map on the site, and I got the new site fully setup at http://mpls-watched.org.

It took most of a weekend to do it, but there's now a nice website for the Minneapolis Surveillance Camera Project at http://sarinity.com .

I got the surveillance camera location reporting stuff working tonight.

Target Corporation is donating a quarter million dollars to the city of Minneapolis, which city council rapidly accepted, to install 30+ police monitored security cameras.

At Onion Networks our CVS repository has a lot of symlinks that need to exist within it for builds to work.

Road Rage Races are an idea I came up with a few years back that I'm trying to resurrect.

I'm trying not to have all the projects and ideas posted to this list be computer related, but I guess that's where I expend most of my creative energy.

Amphetadesk (http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/) is a great RSS feed reader.

Half Bakery (http://halfbakery.com) is a website where people can post poorly thought out ideas so they can be commented on, criticized, and (occasionally) praised by total (and generally snarky) strangers.

I was eating outside a few weeks ago and saw a sign for the 2nd Annual Cabanna Boy Contest at a local bar.

Text to speech programs do okay on words they know, but on longer words not in their 'dictionary' they have to sound them out phonetically which seems to be a really hit or miss operation.

My good friends Luke (http://justlooking.recursion.org/) and Gabe (http://twol.dopp.net/) are working on a project that archives mailings lists to blogging software.