so, something i've been saying to myself a lot lately when thinking about technology, specifically interfaces, has been "could my mom use it?" that is - not only can she figure it out, but would it be intuitive enough that she would use it more than once. Now, my mom isn't exactly behind the curve, but her ability to change with new interfaces just is a lot less flexible than someone who has had less experience - basically her expectations are more hard coded than, say, a 12 year old's...

so it really pisses me off when I have a hard time with something, for example, adding a checking account to my list of accounts on Chase's website.

playing with U-verse now, can't say much more, but it's very cool, hehehehe

Matthews for Congress is on YouTube!

What would you do with 500GB?



update: it's actually only showing as 465GB... wonder where my other 35GB went...

in other news if you stink, they will ask you to leave the casino...

awesome, or sucky treatment? how about talking to the other guests?

you can't really tell here, because it's just a picture, but in a WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) I made a "glassy, animated button", so that when you mouse over it, it glows a bit, and then when you mouse off, it fades back.
my button:

and when you mouseover it:


Listen, this is a big deal for me... I generally am TERRIBLE at this kind of thing, and even these ugly examples are a big leap for me...

I just realized that the Idiot up the hill from my property near where I do zombie target practice hasn't been there all year and a tree damn near took out the place. Rear deck is crumbling. General disrepair. He bought it in 2005 for 685K. Its listed for 529K with some small time local realtor that does mostly foreclosure sales. I think I will offer them 75K. It will make a nice tol shed + the extra acre and a quarter could come in handy. Asshole took all his firewood though. Anybody want some copper?

As detailed on my blog I have decided to monetarily punish myself for not completing certain daily goals. So right now, if I don't go running in the morning for instance, I owe $5 to "the bin." At the end of the month, this money will be donated somewhere. I am writing here for recommendations on where to donate my money to. Here are my ideas so far, in no particular order:
Democracy Now!
Matthews for Congress
Debian
Wordpress
Apache
GNU
EFF
ACLU
San Francisco Food Bank
Iraq Veterans Against the War

So, what do ya'll think? One of these? Something else?

So far I am down $5. Hard to go running after a night of drinking.

that's freakin' awesome!

if you don't want to click, here's just the video:


Rock Band Rules Rush's Face

So I am now in posession of 11 of the 250,000 limited numbered copies of The Slip that are in existence on CD/DVD. Here they are in order, along with notes as to why the numbers are significant.

11,919	(lowest number I got)
22,191	(also a low number)
35,958	(yet another lowish number)
100,002	(SO close to exactly 100k)
155,123	(closest I have to a midpoint, ends with 123)
179,880	(sequential with next)
179,881	(sequential with previous)
186,230	(sequential with next)
186,231	(sequential with previous)
198,765	(98765)
209,700	(highest number I got)

I'm leaning toward opening number 155,123 but I'm open to input. I'm also open to the suggestion that I need to buy 16 more copies so that I have 27 in total because this is Halo 27. hehehe