Cold Robot Logic

Perhaps the greatest photo ever of our cats. on Flickr.

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:18:33 -0400

Perhaps the greatest photo ever of our cats. on Flickr.

luckyshirt: Ice on the fringe, so damn frosty. People like,...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:50:54 -0400

luckyshirt:

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.

Grumpy Caturday

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:49:15 -0400

Grumpy Caturday

Kitchen Inspector! on Flickr.

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:39:26 -0500

Kitchen Inspector! on Flickr.

A New Desk: Desktime is Fulltime

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:42:57 -0500

A New Desk: Desktime is Fulltime:

desktime:

[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.

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.

This is my job now!

A New Desk: New Features: Bookings, Resources, Inviting a Member & More!

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:43:56 -0500

A New Desk: New Features: Bookings, Resources, Inviting a Member & More!:

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!

I turned this into a computerish drawing with my new drawing...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:54:38 -0500

I turned this into a computerish drawing with my new drawing tablet.

Drawing is hard, you guys, on paper or electrons.

Amanda’s idea, my sketch.

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:50:02 -0500

Amanda’s idea, my sketch.

They could take a big stride toward reducing the harshness of...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:14:42 -0400

They could take a big stride toward reducing the harshness of the environment by just banning lumberjacks from the playing field.

Never forget.

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:31:09 -0400

Never forget.

Star, Queen of Box Turtles (Taken with Instagram at Tenafly...

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:31:43 -0400

Star, Queen of Box Turtles (Taken with Instagram at Tenafly Nature Center)

You get what you pay for.

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:04:40 -0400

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's Summer Vacation

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:40:18 -0400

Eli: The finest Chicago-based canine I’ve ever met.

coopblog:

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...

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:18:46 -0400

LCD Soundsystem - Jump Into The Fire

Turn the volume way up and play this song and your Monday will get better JUST LIKE MAGIC.

"The Whisky Rule is pretty simple. If you cancel a meeting less than 10 minutes notice, or if you..."

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:42:54 -0400

“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.

Ned Dwyer » Blog Archive » The Whisky Rule

"The Mets are wonderful when they do this. The Mets do this often enough so you actually recognize it..."

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:28:57 -0400

“The Mets are wonderful when they do this. The Mets do this often enough so you actually recognize it when you see it developing. The Mets are Mets enough — and you are Mets fan enough — so that you don’t count on it happening, but you never, ever count them out. Not against a herd of Hamelses, not against a pack of Papelbons, not against any Fucking Phillie or anybody else.”

- That’s What You Get When You Fall In Love « Faith and Fear in Flushing

Last night was one of the best ballgames I’ve been to in years. Let’s go Mets!

Just a bee. Music by NIN.

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:11:30 -0400

Just a bee.

Music by NIN.

RUN-DMC - Ghostbusters

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:20:42 -0400

RUN-DMC - Ghostbusters

maelstromantic: This…is why I love this man. Because he’s a...

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:09:01 -0400

maelstromantic:

This…is why I love this man.

Because he’s a magical silver ~~goalie~~ scorpion who does not give a fuck about your wide open scoring chance. Or physical impossibilities. Those too.

Hell, just the fact that he’s forty and can still fold himself in half like a twelve year old circus performer is enough to win my eternal respect.

Marty! Marty! Marty! Marty!

(chanted in the this-man-is-amazing way, not the crybaby Ranger fan way)

The Courtyard from our Paris Apartment. I sure would like to go...

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:10:53 -0400

The Courtyard from our Paris Apartment.

I sure would like to go back here.