bobthecow

anyone have a 22 inch 2x4 they don’t really need?

Jul 2nd

if every time you post to freecycle you say something like “WANTED: i just saw X on TV and...

Jul 2nd

http://tinyurl.com/3en4pt <- i work for these guys :)

Jul 2nd

“commuters give this city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but...

Jul 1st

Dropped my building key in grand central today. It’s gone. I need to pee, and my...

Jul 1st

http://tinyurl.com/59dy8u <- moving truck will get here in 7 days.

Jul 1st

http://tinyurl.com/6njtxl - only one more week :)

Jul 1st

we go years without a good SVN client for mac, and now two we have two? i <3 Versions, but...

Jul 1st

MBAir updated to 10.5.4, everything is functioning normally.

Jul 1st

Missed my train… Some day i’ll get the hang of this :-/

Jul 1st

Central market grill just sharpied out my full credit card number from my copy of the receipt (but...

Jul 1st

happy birthday, canadia.

Jul 1st

bummed that adsense referrals are going away. that was the only advertising i felt comfortable...

Jul 1st

on the phone at work for over four hours today FTL.

Jun 30th

somebody kill me please. actually, kill someone else for me, k?

Jun 30th

your proprietary XML based templating markup *isn’t* XHTML. not even close. please stop...

Jun 30th

I have a sneaking suspicion that my metrocard intentionally didn’t swipe the first time, just...

Jun 30th

“the number of days in all time is no greater than the number of years.”

Jun 30th

5 is one number. 2 and 3 are 5. Therefore 2 and 3 are one number. QED. (via...

Jun 30th

browsing the web in a 1920x1200 fullscreen window.

Jun 30th

inboxes, status updates, feed reader: all under control. still not sleepy :-/

Jun 30th

Somehow that last raindrop managed to sneak past my glasses and land in my eyeball.

Jun 29th

I seem to be the first BrightKite user in Woodside, Queens. Expect to see more of me here :) -...

Jun 29th

Little known fact: there’s a town called Farmington in 21 of the 50 states. Wisconsin went...

Jun 29th

dear twitter: one page isn’t enough. i’d like to read some tweets from this morning. can...

Jun 28th

It takes a lot to make me mad. But Enterprise car rentals is trying pretty hard right now.

Jun 28th

This just turned into a really expensive 15 minutes.

Jun 28th

quite irritated.

Jun 28th

I caught my train. I knew you guys were all worried…

Jun 27th

http://tinyurl.com/6pwjjn <- countdown.

Jun 27th

Collection: Search Patterns

Jun 27th

ARRRGH! we have an *excellent* tool in place to allow incremental review and collaborative editing....

Jun 27th

http://checkyesorno.info/labs <- the ice cream poll is kicking trash on checkyesorno: 3x more...

Jun 26th

computer nerds only: have you ever read the jargon files? http://checkyesorno.info/101

Jun 26th

http://flickr.com/photos/bon/232268289/ <- i heart this visualization

Jun 26th

when did linksys remove the reset button from their router config page?

Jun 26th

in other news, mint chip is currently winning -> http://tinyurl.com/5p8h23

Jun 26th

also: pandora has no idea what kind of music Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip is…

Jun 26th

data portability wishlist: pandora, please export song listens, favs, etc to last.fm. thanks.

Jun 26th

http://tinyurl.com/5ko6ra <- holy excess whitespace, batman! 48 lines of spaces, tabs and line...

Jun 26th

1337 h4X

Jun 26th

how long has it been since you played red light green light? how ‘bout red rover?

Jun 26th

http://tinyurl.com/4rma4p <- my new apartment is next to one of the guns

Jun 25th

building internal wiki pages with SKITCH!

Jun 25th

MoodBlast ninja mode on! stealth assassin status updates engaged.

Jun 25th

I’m feeling really good about this one. Might have found my next apartment…

Jun 25th

remind me to tell you about my new friend Hilario.

Jun 25th

I can get full cell signal in the tunnels leaving grand central, but lose calls standing on the hill...

Jun 25th

Packt up like sardines in a crush tin 7 train.

Jun 25th

there are 258 cell towers within 3 blocks of this building o_O - Photo: http://bkite.com/00IQn

Jun 24th

“by design” is the most aggravating reason to close an issue. please address user...

Jun 24th

http://tinyurl.com/6m6wtt <- state of the web: i’m seeing 50% firefox users updated to 3.0,...

Jun 24th

fire eagle beta invite FTW!

Jun 24th

forget the internets. someone is wrong IRL tonight. this sort of thing keeps me up at night …...

Jun 24th

forwarding from @rachijan: “Do me a favor and tweet how much of a moron i am. I just dropped...

Jun 23rd

i just received word that my shirt has been shipped. you don’t understand how stoked i am.

Jun 23rd

http://tinyurl.com/4ay8un <- i won!

Jun 23rd

pandora’s on song 6: i felt like listening to scroobius pip, so i started a new station. so...

Jun 23rd

settling in. getting things done. woot.

Jun 23rd

welcome @thing2 :)

Jun 23rd

It takes special dedication and years of intense training to work ‘um’ into the same...

Jun 22nd

Guess who just lost the game…

Jun 22nd

Listening to everyone making fun of guys who wear girl jeans. I’m wearing girl jeans.

Jun 22nd

OMG BBQ FTW!

Jun 22nd

Walking down a sidewalk that apparently leads to nowhere. I can’t help but feel betrayed.

Jun 21st

my back aches, i’m not the least bit stoked about it.

Jun 21st

finally made it through two weeks of rss feed debt. it’s good to be free.

Jun 21st

54% of my blog’s visitors today are using Firefox 3. another 13% use Firefox 2. thanks for...

Jun 21st

anyone want to find me an apartment in manhattan? i’m tired of looking.

Jun 21st

http://tinyurl.com/69ujhr <- @tygerland wins the internet today.

Jun 20th

apartment shopping, via the web. how did we live before al gore invented all this?

Jun 20th

doing laundry. this washing machine is a robot.

Jun 20th

verdict: mint (http://haveamint.com) is a keeper. license purchased, mint installed, tracking...

Jun 20th

lazyweb: anyone using Mint (http://haveamint.com) ? thoughts?

Jun 20th

tired of being tired.

Jun 19th

please be done soon…

Jun 19th

Kickin’ it at a vintage Chanel sale. Kill me.

Jun 19th

Headache, need a restroom… I’m about done for the day.

Jun 18th

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Jun 18th

twitter’s all backward today. let’s get things in order, k?

Jun 18th

note to self: if you send a D, and it’s long enough to overflow onto a second txt, the last...

Jun 18th

in new york. well, not *in* new york. in fact, not even in the state of new york. but *near* new...

Jun 18th

it’s a beautiful night. i’m sleeping with the windows open.

Jun 18th

Lazyweb: anyone know who is responsible for the UI on the in-flight entertainment for Delta’s...

Jun 18th

Somehow i don’t trust brightkite when it claims to check me in at ‘JFK airport,...

Jun 18th

To all worried twitterati: I made it.

Jun 17th

Holy balls the security line is long today. I’ma miss my flight…

Jun 17th

dear red dot: my phone number isn’t invalid. it has the requisite number of digits. if you...

Jun 17th

trying to spread firefox… but the website’s down. how are we supposed to set a record...

Jun 17th

turning in for the night, i’ve got a long day tomorrow.

Jun 17th

[blogged] del.icio.us, chapter 3 - wherein his bookmarks offer a peek into his head....

Jun 17th

del.icio.us, chapter 3 - wherein his...

Jun 17th

ConvertIcon

Jun 17th

12 Examples of Paragraph Typography — Jon Tan...

Jun 17th

sleep in, late lunch. time for a lazy afternoon.

Jun 16th

eight wireless networks in range, all secured. what is this world coming to?

Jun 16th

running late but the ethiopian food was worth it. - http://bkite.com/00AKO

Jun 16th

Stoked to eat. I’m starving. - http://bkite.com/00AHd

Jun 16th

Overheard: dude, there’s like four kinds of herpes on that glass.

Jun 16th

sleep in until 2pm FTW.

Jun 15th

my phone internet’s been sketchy recently. mebbe it’s about time to make some cell...

Jun 15th

Overheard: It was an opportune time. Him and a boob. I couldn’t pass it up.

Jun 15th

Drive to Seattle just got 113 bucks more expensive.

Jun 15th

My favorite brand that @zappos sells is Onitsuka Tiger (by Asics) :)

Jun 14th

looks like yahoo thinks of del.icio.us as “yahoo bookmarks”… at least according to...

Jun 14th

dear @socialthing: all the new features are rad. is it too much to ask for one more? no more...

Jun 14th

more than a little impressed with the direction Socialthing! 2.0 is heading… Fluid.app and...

Jun 14th

Just saw a license plate that said ‘HITHERE’ … Is that ‘hi there’ or...

Jun 14th

hot pockets are getting pretty high tech. look at this magical paper sleeve.

Jun 13th

[blogged] download firefox 3 on tuesday http://tinyurl.com/469qkj

Jun 13th

ooh. i hadn’t heard from a headhunter for a week or two. i thought maybe i was losing my...

Jun 13th

the fact that you just emailed my password to me in plaintext only justifies my use of a disposable,...

Jun 13th

apparently i can upgrade my alamo car rental by adding not one, but *two* GPS units. two?

Jun 13th

So many cool new services (?) for twitter. This is coming from twitterfone. Awesome!...

Jun 13th

download firefox 3 on tuesday

Jun 13th

hanging out with the family.

Jun 13th

Bliss ID = EDGE network fail.

Jun 13th

Thought i saw a window sticker of la virgen peeing on the Chevy logo… Turns out i was wrong.

Jun 13th

There’s a Brightkite user in Burley Idaho? What are the odds? - http://bkite.com/00xBF

Jun 13th

Now the big question. Does Jott let me spell things out like Twitter user names? We shall see....

Jun 12th

Just played the alphabet game while driving via text message with at(?) sign(?) rachijan....

Jun 12th

I just saw a homeland Security officer and police written down the side of his truck is huge...

Jun 12th

Disclaimer, the following Twitts are sent via Jott, risk(?) it at your own risk....

Jun 12th

leaving for a while… - http://bkite.com/00xnS

Jun 12th

http://tinyurl.com/4vjyp4 <- off to washington… yeah, i know i’m a day or two late...

Jun 12th

Yeah, moron. There’s a cop up there. That’s why we’re all going the speed limit....

Jun 12th

I should not be in first year on the freeway at 3:30 PM. http://tinyurl.com/5c5eyf

Jun 12th

50 twitter api requests per hour FTW.

Jun 12th

hey everyone, say hi to my mom, @tehmom

Jun 12th

i’m famous: http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/68813 (or maybe just two sentences of mine are...

Jun 11th

songs about cartography

Jun 11th

haHA! that was an elusive bug :)

Jun 11th

[blogged] songs about cartography http://tinyurl.com/6httmd

Jun 11th

jott trial by fire: add 15 rtm tasks, back to back, only 2 failed. but they failed spectacularly :)

Jun 11th

songs about cartography

Jun 11th

listening to a cover of my favorite song about cartography… artist is Ada, i kinda dig it.

Jun 11th

night, all. see you far too early on the morrow.

Jun 10th

hooking myself up with killer grilled cheese.

Jun 10th

i have ~1300 contacts in gmail. when will google learn that i don’t actually want to talk with...

Jun 10th

“Over and over she burns my circuits / I feel fire rushing through my wires / I can feel all...

Jun 9th

http://tinyurl.com/6ch8tc <— see you in a minute, iphone.

Jun 9th

cssedit is way cooler than i thought at first glance.

Jun 9th

best part about having both an inbox and a bacnbox: even if i can’t keep the inbox under...

Jun 8th

“you don’t want *everybody* to write to the central repository, because most people are...

Jun 8th

kicking back, catching up on blogs. also, bourne.

Jun 8th

“Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose because Wilde is on mine.”

Jun 8th

TRACKING IS BACK! FTW!

Jun 8th

page caching is still goofy, but at least we have tracking again (for now)

Jun 8th

“There’s not even a phone line between us, in a proper sense, just two thousand miles of...

Jun 7th

it’s been a long week.

Jun 7th

finally getting around to fixing months-old bugs.

Jun 7th

objective-j could be the hottest thing i’ve heard of all year.

Jun 7th

if you’re always “experiencing higher than normal call volume” maybe the current...

Jun 7th

“please continue to hold. all representatives are currently assisting other customers”...

Jun 7th

not the least bit excited about spilling boiling chicken noodle soup on my hand.

Jun 6th

wrand(); // a php weighted randomization...

Jun 6th

didn’t get everything done today == late night for bobthecow.

Jun 6th

akismet i’ve found someone else. mollom lets 0 spam through on a site with 10x the traffic...

Jun 5th

[blogged] wrand(); // a php weighted randomization function http://tinyurl.com/4d8j5j

Jun 5th

wrand(); // a php weighted randomization...

Jun 5th

irony on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Jun 5th

Insurance adjuster claims that my hood hitting my windshield makes it a collision, not covered by...

Jun 4th

[link] I need this shirt. http://tinyurl.com/499g4q

Jun 4th

dear apple address book: it makes much more sense to merge contacts on email address match than on...

Jun 4th

while (today == dreary) { me == unmotivated; me.stay_in_bed(); }

Jun 4th

sneaky. who puts an asterisk on the *optional* email address field to indicate that you don’t...

Jun 4th

I need this shirt.

Jun 4th

dear randall munroe: please consider daily xkcd comics. i would love you forever. http://xkcd.com

Jun 4th

Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern...

Jun 4th

the past couple of days have been eventful. and by eventful i mean crappy.

Jun 2nd

My DebugBar | IETester / HomePage

Jun 2nd

free tip: your two search types should not be called “expert” and...

Jun 2nd

who needs cookie crisp when you can have a bowl full of cookies and milk?

Jun 2nd

i just called my webhost to cancel my ISP account… all that waiting on hold for nothing.

Jun 2nd

The hood just got ripped off of my car and run over. Twice. I think it’s okay though.

Jun 2nd

Overheard: “alright, let’s get our gay on.”

Jun 2nd