I’ve been going (and will be going) to quite a few concerts recently - Coldplay, Ben Lee, Belle and Sebastian/New Pornographers, Sigur Ros, Snow Patrol, etc (not the Arctic Monkeys, though, sadly). The one thing each show has in common is that I p...
Stodgy Seattle corporate law firm, Perkins Coie, is defending Osama Bin Laden’s former bodyguard and chauffeur. The rationale: Yes, they’re helping a suspected terrorist. But it’s not an example of “you’re with us or you’re with them.” It’s what m...
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serv...
The following is a list of things I still want to acquire for my apartment. This list exists for me, in order to allow me to easily track this stuff: Mirrors for behind couch Espresso-finished ottoman Media cabinet TV stand Speaker sta...
Whoa bitch, get out the way
i’ll be running circles round you sooner than you know.
Elize got married yesterday in a very-sudden fashion. It was a small ceremony; not more than 15-20 people. I hadn’t seen a few of the people there in years, literally. It was great to see Elize’s parents again, along with NJ and Melissa. I posted...
I hit an issue with OCUnit the other day when I was trying to get a project of mine working correctly with it. The issue was that using the macro STAssertEqualObjects anywhere would cause the following build error: error: parse error before ‘type...
So, first off, I just wanted to say that I’m incredibly psyched about the Origami Project, whatever it turns out to be ;-) I sent mail to Scoble earlier today after he hyped it on his blog to tell him how psyched I was. As the subject promised, t...
“We would make people literally throw up if they had to listen to us.” You know you’ve crossed that certain irritating cuteness factor when…