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AJ Schuster is a software developer building Desktime. He likes Ruby on Rails and iOS development. He has a kickass wife and two fantastic cats. He posts photos to Flickr and you're welcome to follow him on Twitter if you like.
Perhaps the greatest photo ever of our cats. on Flickr.
Ice on the fringe, so damn frosty.
People like, “Damn, that’s a cold ass monkey.”
This made me laugh so hard I started crying.
Kitchen Inspector! on Flickr.
[T]oday, many years later, I’m equally as excited to share the good news: Desktime is no longer an experiment. It’s our full-time passion. This is my job now!

For the first time since this trial run begun, we’re full-speed ahead, and we’ve been able to focus an incredibly passionate and experienced team exclusively on Desktime.
We’re excited to announce some major updates to Desktime. We’ve simplified the way Bookings work and improved the Invitation workflow to make it easier than ever to create Booking Packages, and bill Members. I helped build a bunch of these new features!
Star, Queen of Box Turtles (Taken with Instagram at Tenafly Nature Center)
I got an email today from my hosting provider, Joyent, informing me that my service will end on October 31. I have about 70 days to find a new place to host things like my old blog and my email. I shouldn’t be too upset, I suppose, because I haven’t paid a cent for my hosting there since February, 2005.
But the thing that I bought over seven years ago was billed as hosting “for as long as TextDrive exists.” TextDrive, while no longer a company itself, was bought by Joyent, and Joyent certainly still exists.
I was really excited when I joined TextDrive. Just read the forum thread where Dean Allen announced the deal, and where he counted down the available slots. It was a good, communal feeling, and everyone there (myself included) felt like we were getting a great deal and helping out a company take a big step toward … something.
Joyent’s email today is pretty tortured:
We’ve been analyzing customer usage of Joyent’s systems and noticed that you are one of the few customers that are still on our early products and have not migrated to our new platform, the Joyent Cloud.
For many business reasons, including infrastructure performance, service quality and manageability, these early products are nearing their End of Life. We plan to sunset these services on October 31, 2012 and we’d like to walk you through a few options.[…]
We appreciate and value you as one of Joyent’s lifetime Shared Hosting customers. As this service is one of our earliest offerings, and has now run its course, your lifetime service will end on October 31, 2012.
The message comes with an offer for a “free 512MB SmartMachine on the Joyent Cloud for one year.” But I don’t really want a “SmartMachine” (a term which, even though there’s a whole page dedicated to it on Joyent’s site, I still don’t understand at all). I just want the shared hosting I paid for. Unfortunately, the page with the details of the offer doesn’t seem to be available anywhere, but it’s quoted here.
Ultimately, this is more of an annoyance than anything else, because I got pretty good value out of my $399. A very large part of my decision to buy in the first place, though, was that I wouldn’t have to migrate my blog or email ever again. So much for that.
Back in that thread where he announced the deal, Dean Allen called the offer “an investment (with attendant risks, though still a ludicrously good deal, and for life)” (emphasis his).
We’ve all learned this lesson over and over again, but this is just another reminder that something that seems too good to be true certainly is.
Eli: The finest Chicago-based canine I’ve ever met.
If you’ve been to The Coop lately you’ve probably noticed Eli hasn’t been around much. He’s been spending the summer out of the office enjoying the weather, the dog beach, joy riding around in the car and soaking up time with the family. Since most of us have been missing him we put together this compilation of Eli’s summer so far. Images courtesy of David Rosen.
LCD Soundsystem - Jump Into The Fire
Turn the volume way up and play this song and your Monday will get better JUST LIKE MAGIC.
(Source: Spotify)
"The Whisky Rule is pretty simple. If you cancel a meeting less than 10 minutes notice, or if you miss it completely then you owe your counterpart a bottle of whisky."
I will happily participate in this.