Plus: a project that I've been working on won an award from the IABCMinus: my name's not on the award ( Read more... )

Rode a bike downtown yesterday morning to cheer for folks running the Pittsburgh marathon-nobody in particular, everyone in general-and right away discovered that my concept of the sheer scale of the event was way off. 30,000 runners is like everyone in my home town who could walk suddenly took off running through the streets of Pittsburgh. I felt ( Read more... )

I didn't get to go to NAB (well, unless I wanted to pay for it myself, which works out to essentially the same conclusion), but of course I have opinions and it seemed like a good time to check back into LJ. We'll see how long it lasts. Anyway, the video stuff ( Read more... )

My new favorite thing for my cold-addled brain: the NFL Red Zone television channel. It's a (mostly) real-time highlight program that runs Sundays when most of the US football happens—no commercials, not too many breaks, just one event after another, flipping from game to game to game to game. I'm sure this was initially conceived for the football ( Read more... )

Dodging the year-absent mark, a brain-dump ( Read more... )

The phone message waiting for me last night from my friends in Alabama: "We're okay, the house is totaled, the cats are missing. How are you?" Add another thing to my list of things I am not sure how to deal with. I think I'm going to sprain the reflexive problem-solving part of my brain.

The short version: took the motorcycle to Deadwood, stuff happened, I'm okay.

The much longer version: http://dantwowheels.blogspot.com/2010/08/great-big-deadwood-trip-recap.html

(Apologies in advance for the fucked up picture placement, but I'm too lazy to fix it right now.)

We're wrapping up a conference in Savannah; I've been here since mid-last-week. Haven't really clicked with the city, which is actually not a bad thing because it's meant evenings in the fitness center instead of some bar. (Running on a treadmill with a built-in television is weird but effective. Not as nice as running outside, but Savannah has ( Read more... )

With due respect to everyone who's had to live through days without power, or who need to get places Right Now (godspeed to my friends who are presently trying to get from Pgh to Erie before someone dies), and now I feel like I need to say this very quietly, but the snow's been pretty great for me. Work's been closed all week so far (and it's ( Read more... )

While I have a passing nerd interest in the maybe-upcoming Apple tablet, what I really want to hear this afternoon is that Apple is chopping the price of their Mac Pro desktops. Because that's what I need right now, not a new toy ( Read more... )