Couple Grammes of Soma

I learned how to knit! (you can learn to knit). It’s pretty neat. I’ve taken apart my scarf three times or so but now I think it’s good to keep going. There are few different knitting techniques and I was trying them out in quick succession. This got a little confusing so I am just going to stick with the basic garter knit for now, which you knit both sides instead of alternating between purling and knitting.

I also went to the store and got some bamboo knitting needles and I like them. I think I may switch to using the circle knitting needles but I’ve yet to figure that out yet.

Oh and if you didn’t know, they even have luxury yarns! Cashmere even! But I’m waiting to invest in that till I can knit something worth it.

There are also extreme knitters these days. One group of them plays a game, the name of which I can’t remember, but it sort of like this: People register on some website or something, and they put their address and sock size. Then they pick someone to “kill” that is also a player in the game. The way you “kill” someone is to knit them a pair of socks in their size and mail them to them. When they receive the socks, they are “dead”. So the fastest knitters can “kill off” everyone else, last one alive wins. Your socks are in the mail!

Yesterday the 1st BarCampOrlando was held. It went extremely well.

I am honestly very impressed that they were able to have as many talks, just about non-stop from 1 PM - 8:30 PM. My biggest regret is not doing a demo.

Talks I enjoyed

• Introduction to Facebook
• Introduction to Agile
• Cow orking

I’m a bit frustrated I was stuck trying to get the live Flickr feed to work and missed Elliot’s talk.

I recently joined the Ubuntu Florida LoCo team and it was cool to meet a few people from the team there. Also the install fest was cool, not a ton of participants but those who did try it out booted up fine. Especially impressive is that it booted up on a Macbook Pro.

So I designed my own skateboard today.

I know I’m going, looking forward to my 1st conference of this type. Especially I think I will enjoy the DIY attitude of it. What’s going to be talked about? I’ve heard so far in discussion that Ruby, .Net, PHP, Ubuntu (and Linux in general), Launchpad, MySQL, and a host of other topics are all possible. Oh and it’s FREE! But you better watch the website since registration starts soon.

When is this thing? On Sunday, September 23rd, from 1 PM to 10 PM at Taste in the College Park area of Olrando FL.

What is it all about? Watch the video to learn more, also check out the BarCampOrlando website for more info.

So The Collective graciously invited me to photograph their live performance on WPRK 91.5 Rollins College Radio. The station is housed on the basement of the Mills building, whatever that means. It was a really cool experience. Pictures turned out OK. I am not the best judge of what pictures other people will like. I think some of them are pretty nice though. Unfortunately Scary Mary, a previous DJ was not there. Still fun though.

There is something about the way Dostoevsky says stuff that cracks me up. I love the way his characters rant on and on at the brink of madness.

Web strategy, from none to one.

Went to GA for the weekend. Had a wonderful time. Really pleasant. It’s so fun to meet people. Good people. Nice people. It’s just a good time. Sure there is stress, for them, for me. Always. But it’s still fun. I mean with no stress everything would be mash potatoes. And that’s just kind of bland.

You were laying on the carpet
like you’re satin in a coffin.
You said, “Do you believe what you’re sayin’?”
Yeah right now, but not that often. ((Modest Mouse))

I had a 60% increase in the progress of Thomasmooremusic.net. Have to try and finish that up ASAP. I finally got a design I like, it’s just a matter of tying a few area’s of it together better and actually slicing the thing up in a decent fashion. Right now it doesn’t even show up in IE 7 or Opera. Oooppssss….

I took some pictures in this great coffee shop in Dublin, GA. Really nice place. One day I hope to open an office/shared workspace just like it. It had this awesome front area. Lots of room. Two front window nook areas. In the back it had these large floor to ceiling partitions made from welded steel beams, hollow ones, about 4×4. Then about two feet off the floor they had nice finish plywood bolted in. They stopped about 3 feet off the ceiling with the plywood. I really liked how that managed to make that area really private, but at the same time not close the place off. The partitions were on both walls and made a hallway in the middle. After you went through the hallway it opened back up into a little prep/storage area. It had big windows in the back also and a door that you could go outside to the back patio area. Nice big brick patio behind other buildings. Felt much bigger city than the town in general was. Cozy hanging lights. You could also come into the porch area from an ally. Which is awesome! Hopefully I’ll remember to get those pictures back from Violette.

“If I say anything mean in the next 5 hours I’m sorry.” ((Nina)) Haha, road trips are great.

Ada don’t talk about reasons why you don’t want to talk about reasons
why you don’t wanna talk ((The National-Ada Lyrics)) ((The National-Website))

A funny comment to make in a room full of people when something personal between some of them comes up is, “Aww, that’s a moment. Ya’ll are having a moment.” In a southern accent. Great stuff.

You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery Citibank lights
arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
oh you wouldn’t want an angel watching over
surprise, surprise they wouldn’t wannna watch
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults ((The National-Mistaken for Strangers Lyrics))

From black to white in a week.

I love photography. I hate not being a good photographer. Love will prevail. Pictures will be good. (Got any EF/AF SLR lenses you’d like to sell?)

Seems to be the time of moving.

Went and saw The Collective on Saturday night. Almost skipped it. I’m glad I went. Nice photo op. Plus a good show.

On the way way home I some how managed to rip the plastic guard off the underside of Vi’s car. I tried to rip it off by hand but no dice. I then tried to reverse over it a few times to rip it off. No dice. I decided I couldn’t do anything about it and just kept driving home. A few minutes later I got pulled over because the car was, “throwing sparks out behind it”. oops… So I then spent the next 45-60 minutes in front of a church off Mills in downtown Orlando trying to rip off incredibly strong plastic with one hand while my face was rubbing on the concrete and trying to keep an eye out for anyone sneaking up on me to bash me. Ripped most of it off and successfully got caked in grease in the process. Cut the rest off with tin-snips when I got home. Sorry. I’ll to try and get a new one of those I guess.

Power steering went out on my car on Friday. NICE!

So I played some ultimate last night. Pretty awesome. That game is so stinking fun. I often feel like I’m dying when I play. But I think that means I’m trying hard so it’s a good feeling.

I still don’t dive for the disc. I almost dove. Close. I can tell you that watching highlights from the nationals right before I played would of made me dive for it. Those guys are super good. We’ve got at least one full team. Gotta recruit about 7 more regulars and we will be able to really get serious.

Here’s what some people who know how to play look like doing it. Highlights from Nationals