Category: Hobbies and Projects

Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s shameful. Seasoned Web developer-for-a-living like me should have automatically switched to FireFox sometime in the 14th century or so. That is to say, yeah, I’m late here. But the problem has been my multiplicity of Macintoshes. I regularly use three Macs: my MacBook Pro (work/primary), my dual G5 (fun/image processing) [...]

I don’t usually mention when I’m doing something to enhance my geekery or otherwise pump my work fu, but I will mention that I am attending Web Visions today and tomorrow here in PDX at the Convention Center. In case you were curious.

For those of you who access this site via lyza.com, or who email me, note that I’m moving lyza.com in the next few days. I hope that this won’t actually cause any noticeable effect, but if you are having trouble emailing me, please use my work address. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the [...]

For some reason, OSX’s icon for C Shell scripts (.csh files) is a bit whimsical. Ooooh, SHAPES.

I’m downright frustrated with the apparent inability to actually refresh feeds in Google Reader. For example, I’ll post a review on LibraryThing, then go to Google Reader to look at the RSS feed from it, and no amount of “refreshing” will cause the new items to show up. David has also reported this in respect [...]

I’ve been trying to solve this one for months, so if anyone has any ideas, let me know. When my MacBook Pro is idle for a few minutes, it generally pops up between one and three keychain dialogs that request me to unlock my keychain for various applications (usually DotMacTranslator and Safari but sometimes others). [...]

After my vitriolic spewing about how much I hate Nostrana and other non-reservation-taking restaurants and their snarky wait staff, I feel somewhat vindicated that Nostrana ran away with the “worst service at a good restaurant” vote on the awesome blog An Exploration of Portland Food and Drink. Link p.s. It’s too bad I live, like, [...]

My at-work music situation is going downhill. As I age and my concentration becomes more and more tenuous, I have been listening to more and more geriatric, soothing music. First it was a switch from progressive trance to more insidious dance-pop tracks, then to downtempo lounge, then to chillout, then to ambient, and, finally, the [...]

I realize I rarely, if ever, actually mention here what it is I do that occupies my time. You know: hobbies, parties, events, major catastrophes. Perhaps I will remedy that, but as warning: it could be boring. One thing my Sweet Mr. Pencil and I do a lot is cook. I learned a couple of [...]

Solaris Soundtrack, Cliff Martinez (reminds me a bit of the quieter music in the Battlestar Galactica score)Donnie Darko Soundtrack, Michael Andrews These are both quiet, meditative scores. I like.