I had to say it.
5th in North America. 10th in the World. In 2v2 Diamond.
This cursed league lock couldn’t have come at a worst time.
I guess all I can hope for is top 8 for both 1v1 and 2v2.
SC2 and Rails, followed by lifting and music. This is all I do. And it’s awesome.
Stephen Fry, you are the man.
Not sure why I didn’t think of this, but I’m sure I can write a zsh script that does this and run it every time I have pictures or take screenshots.
Looks like I have my weekend project set aside for me.
Floating up and away into the atmos, moving away from the traditional computing paradigm. Except for when I have to dev, and even then… VMs FTW.
Maybe it was accidentally thinking that I deleted my entire music “collection. It’s probably more because of finding about how awesome Rdio is. Netflix only added to this desire of transitioning more and more into a cloud-centric lifestyle. (Heck, Hulu Plus might have pushed me into it, too, if the terms were just a little bit better.)
My Dropbox usage only grew with time. Recently, I’ve been using it heavily to share tabs for my band, adding and removing songs as we close in our Halloween (10.30.10) gig. (Yes, I know something else important happens that day, but you can take a flight here after it, right?) More or less, my entire reference library is on there, as with my important pdfs and docs.
// Which reminds me, I have to transfer all my Omni* files to a more open format. I wasn’t thinking in college when I started using OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle for things, and not exporting them to more durable formats like .txt or .pdf/.png.
Notational Velocity. Only after I used Simplenote on the iPad did I find this gem, and have never let go of it. For now, though, my MarsEdit drafts have been moved into NV, and will stay up in the Simplenote Cloud for the time being, while it’s also being backed up into the Dropbox Cloud just in case.
The “Mac Applications” category is going to start looking empty from now on, since my full-time job is heavily a Windows shop (with a healthy scoop of VMs running all over the place) I’m going to have to become even more one with the Clouds.
Dotfiles. So important. Github and Dropbox is where they will reside, until I can pull them down using Homesick. I haven’t gotten around to implementing this, but it will have to happen soon enough.
And I’m going to love it that way.
In some way or another, my stuff is backed up at least twice. And that makes me all the warm inside.
// Please read the title as a reference to Archer. I’m looking forward to the return of this awesome FX show.
I’m going to be working as an Application Programmer Analyst II at the South Nevada Health District come Monday. Plenty of Ruby in my future, which makes me all the more happy. Looks like a new MacBook Pro 15″ is forthcoming as well. Good thing, because I was getting tired of… my own MBP 15″.
This new job means that I’ll be in Vegas a bit longer. Good thing, too, because I wanted to keep playing in my band, Bears Say Rawr.
This new job also means that I can go out and get some serious guitar gear. Just in time for the Halloween gig, it seems. Getting very excited for it.
I was also goaded by one of my roommates, Amir, to get the GTX 460 and StarCraft 2. Needless to say, looks like gaming is back in full swing.
And that’s when I realized: It’s Projamming, Gaming, and Guitaring from here on out.
And that’s my unfortunately boring update. It’s all about me these days, and that’s got to change on this blog.
It’s finally happening.
My life is getting so busy that I cannot just sit around and think and write about it. So many drafts have gone unfinished and unposted because of living life.
And this is where FeedSt is going to take off, because my desire to keep on top of things will be going head to head against all these awesome things happening in my life.
Getting laid off was awesome.
Maybe even greater changes are ahead. And maybe at that point, I’ll be able to share some things.
Yeah, so I uploaded the pics, finally.
I really should have made this into a Myst type click-through adventure, now that I think about it.
Oh, and for those of you out of the loop, yeah, I’m in Vegas.
Just do it.
Stop making a list.
I realize now that I’ve been doing this secretly, without actually realizing that things are getting done because I’ve not made a list in a long while.
If the task is waving a red flag, stopping all others, freaking do it and get it over with. Then move on and see what happens next.
Easy as pie. As long as your stockpile of self-control isn’t exhausted, I guess.
Then again, there are those tasks that cannot be done in that sliver of time to have until whatever pulls you away from your groove… in which case, a note to self or a list must be made.
And with that interruption, back to the doing.
It’s costly. And it’s happening all too often.
Just this morning, I’ve been wading through content and commentary, and finally, after about two hours of wandering, I’m back to this fresh new white piece of real-estate on my LCD.
Maybe it’s the pain I’m feeling in my eyes and wrists/forearms, but reality is really hitting hard: that I’m not an infinite resource. Time is also another one of things.
// Yet another context switch into emails, tumblogs, tweets…
Not only is multitasking detrimental to getting any real work done, I keep thinking of new projects I can try out with every single context switch. Just now, I realized how much control I’ve given up by using Tumblr as my hosted blog provider, and am wanting to return to rolling my own or using WordPress. Earlier today, an awesome HTML5 game site, Akihabara, has been brought to my attention. That at least needs a blog post or a look-through. This then made me think about how I want to keep progressing with IndieGamer.org, and…
All the while, I’m supposed to be working on TWNBT. Such stress cannot be good.
In order to focus my attention, I’m going to have to do the extreme.
I won’t make a public todo list like I used to years ago. Maybe later when the choices I’ve made pay off, then I’ll let you guys know what I did. But for now, I’m keeping that paper journal, with the steps to becoming awesome private.
My goal to become an awesome developer must be priority number one. Using this month’s Wired cover as a way to get mad at myself for not being one currently, I’m going to push forward.
// It’s the cover with Gates and Zuckerberg, with “GEEK POWER” in large caps, subtitled “How Hacker Culture Conquered The World”.
For many, April 20th holds a different meaning. To me personally, it held no meaning at all until I forcibly made it a one-year anniversary of going “indie”. Today has been one year since the Monday after I quit my full time job a year ago.
Of course, if I decided to write this blog post on the 17th, I would have said that it was the anniversary of the last of day of full-time employment, and if it was written two weeks and three days before, then I would have said that was when I gave my letter of resignation.
I do this all the time, trying to make it seem like it was a defining moment in my life. From declaring launch dates that have repeating set of digits to making an ungodly number of annotations (no longer on this blog, thankfully) for that memoir I’m going to write one day, they all lead to this character flaw of trying to justify my existence, rather than just being awesome instead and create awesome things.
But, as with most flaws I recognize, I try to use it to improve myself. And that’s really what this post is about.
I’d like to take this opportunity to start a new wave of posts. There are a number of reasons as to why I haven’t posted, but I think it comes down to being very perfectionist about many things.
I really started using Tumblr as a place to clear my head. I think that helped me lower my impossibly high standards a bit, just enough to let the really good posts pass through the all-too-high high-pass filter.
But this doesn’t just apply to my posts, but also to my projects. At this point, people are probably expecting web gold to be launched at a certain date, or they’ve just forgotten. I really hope is the latter, because my efforts going forward aren’t going to be polished at all. As long as they make it out the door, I think I’ll be happy.
But since yet another one of my character flaws is taking things to the extremes, I hope I don’t just put up crap in the meanwhile.
“If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn. At the Churchill Club.
Here’s to being embarrassed. Like, really really embarrassed.