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March 31, 2000
March 30, 2000
Sleep
Nap, Nap, Nap
Life is pretty unexciting here. Sleep, drink liquids. I'm waking up, though, will go and get the mail (can you believe that I've not gotten the mail since I got back from my trip?) and warm up some leftover Tom Ka Gai soup and get ready to do this Bryce Talk event in an hour and a half.
Tom Ka Gai soup is where it's at. Wonderful Stuff! (Thai food, in case you don't recognize it right off the bat)
Pike observations I'm writing this in Pike. Aha! I discovered, under the File Menu, the option to change the title.
One thing I've discovered so far is this: Netscape Communicator 4.6 supports drag and drop in its text entry areas. MSIE does not. Neither does Pike. I use drag and drop in my work all the time. I have a keyboard macro that will type out an empty href tag, like so:
I get that by typing this text: "hreftag" TypeIt4me then expands that text to an empty href anchor. Usually, the text that goes inside the tag is to one side. In Netscape I select it and drag it inside. Also, I usually have at least two browser windows open. The one that belongs to me, and the one I'm referring to. I just drag the little bookmark from the other window into the double quotes area.
So I'll do an update--This is a page that shows updates on the weblogs.com site Nope. I couldn't drag and drop it from the Browser to here. Had to copy and paste. Pretty Please: Add drag and drop capability!
Another Pike alpha-beta observation: If the cursor is in the middle of a line, and I want to start a new line from that point, typing return adds a new line, but doesn't move the text to the right of the cursor to the new line. Pretty Please!
Another observation: When I changed the title a little while ago, it turns out that all the stuff that was in this window so far was also saved to the page. I don't know that I mind or not--hey, it's a way to do a partial posting, which I think is kinda nice. But it was unexpected behavior: I just wanted to change the title.
All piking thus far has been done with straight text, double returns, no outlining at all. My brains and body are frying at little over 99 degrees, so you may take these comments with a grain of feverish salt. But include the "pretty please," too.
p.s. I know I lied to you yesterday about the pictures. Gawd, I'm such a tease. But I had a good excuse; someone cast a sleep spell on me! : )
BryceTalk Farewell Steve Lareau, the inventor of the Wheeee! chairspin, did one last chairspin for posterity's sake
March 29, 2000
March 28, 2000
March 27, 2000
San Francisco
If you followed the Scripting News link to here for the Manilapalooza sayings, you'll find them here.
I left my ankle in San Francisco.... well, not really, it's been sorta iffy before now, but after tromping all around town yesterday, without that support brace; it's aching more than I'd like.
We didn't go rollerblading in the park (Julie's fighting a cold and it was just too much to go skating), but went walking around in the Embarcadero/waterfront/Fort Mason area. That'd be a nice place to skate, too. Yes, I have pix. No, not going to post them now. Need to get some grub and move my car before I get a ticket.
We happened to find ourselves on the edge of the marina near that famous Safeway's yesterday... Turns out that my former next door neighbor lives very close. So I went and knocked on her door in the "I was in the neighborhood" manner, and she was in! Great to see her--and she and her husband are now proud parents of a 9 month old baby daughter.
Later today I go to Berkeley to meet with my co-author and publisher. Then, this evening, dinner with friends who are here in San Francisco for Flash Forward.
Update: 6pm Boy.... here I go having serious meetings with folks today and then I check the web and it turns out Dave W is taking polls on letting my mom's famous saying out! Hee! All the more funny when I already linked to Kate, who spilled the beans....it's a phrase that she's trying to get Bob to stop saying.
If you don't want to click the link, I'll tell ya what it is --sorry Mom-- now, you gotta pretend that there's someone there with a camera pointing at you, like so...
.....got that, now... you're thinking, am I smiling all right? Is it a real smile, or a fake, plasticky smile? When will she take the picture already?...then all of a sudden, the photographer blurts out: "Stick out your tits!" ...
Click!
March 26, 2000
And a Good Time was had by all
The place to go to see all my pictures is on my Manilapalooza page. (p.s. if you want to link to it, use this url: http://2020Hindsight.org.com/manilapalooza)
I just added pictures from last night's dinner to the pictures page, including arty things like red-lit glass highlights.
But you'll have to go there to see the rest of them.
best phrases heard at Manilapalooza and at La Fiesta Manilapalooza:
"Biermania!"
"a quiet house....fast food....and Blogger!"
"D.D.D.M.F." which stands for an epithet of endearment (!) that someone from the ISP uses to address to an employee of Pac Bell when Pac Bell's equipment is, um, not working.
...and, I suppose, other people, who heard a phrase of mine, have added it to their fave list o' phrases. But since I've heard it often from my mother when she's wielding her point-n-shoot camera, it's not worthy to be added to my list of new phrases. Kate wonders how she can get Bob to stop saying it. Kate, I don't know. I suppose that you just have to wait until the charm of it wears off.
Julie reminds me of how Bob "Biermania" Bierman, who was running the webcast, was asked this question by the other Susan, "So, Bob, did you finally manage to get it up?" Uh, context is everything, I suppose.
March 25, 2000
Manilapalooza
Dave Winer up front, discussing various and sundry and showing off Pike
Most of these pictures I took during the break.
here's Bob and Kate
Manila Grrls:
Julie, Susan, Sheila, Kate:
Here's Julie and Sheila, sharing a laugh over wacky and irreverent comments made by the photographer, and learned by the photographer from her mother:
And hey! you know who else was there? Dan Gillmor.. whom I met, and who consented to stand next to me while I poked my digital camera at us both:
Kate and I did the same thing.
Near the meeting room where we were, there was a fountain on the campus of De Anza College:
It's looking like the beginning buds of spring are showing up on some of the trees on campus
Back inside the meeting room, Matt Neuberg showed off his very own Frontier tee shirt
All the above pictures I processed in Photoshop during the second half. So, when things came to an end, I hopped it down to the front of the room to see if there was a spare ethernet connection I could use to upload them.
Andre restarted his powerbook again so that he could give me the IP number he'd used.
Next, time to go from De Anza to a place called La Fiesta in Mountain View. It so happened to be the gorgeous twilight time of day. Here we are, driving toward the sunset.
Once in the restaurant, drinking, eating, storytelling and picture-taking ensued.
We were so many in number that we ended up forming a second table.
During dinner, I came to learn a bit of what Dave referrs to as "Biermania"!
I imagine that he's got a similar picture of me, camera in hand. Bob, please post it! : ) (Later: he did!)
More pictures. Here I am with Dave Winer.
And here is Sheila, Bob "Biermania" Bierman, Moi, Dave
We later adjourned outside, where more margaritas were consumed, thanks to Ken Dow and his continual pitcher-pouring.
The area was lit by red floodlights....
Here's Brent, the birthday boy! Happy Birthday, Brent!
Dave and Andre:
Andre and Brent:
Check out the interesting highlights on Brent's glass. Here's a detail view:
Sheila, lit in red:
The two of us:
Finally, the whole group of us, standing around, reluctant to leave one another's fine company....
A lovely time! Let's do a gathering in L.A.! :D
Oh, and if you want to link to this page, you can use this URL:
http://2020Hindsight.org/manilapalooza
En Route to Manilapalooza!
I'm here at De Anza and they say I have one minute to go till they cut off my access. So I'm posting THE MOST important foto.
sheila, julie, susan, kate... don't know which order, tho. I'm all in a rush.
much later.... Manilapalooza: here's a page of some pictures.... there will be even more. But not before sleep.
Morning: Well, that damn spoiler's been hanging off on the right side, and the hole for the bolt in the spoiler's been ripped through. The hell with it! Off it goes! (thanks to neighbor Roger for taking da pic!)
Okay.... now the car is washed, and the top is off... north to the Santa Barbara area to rendezvous with friends. It's been sooooo long since I drove the car as a convertible. Love it, love it, love it!!!
Once I got to Julie's, we had another go round of packing the car, including making sure that Raster, the iguana, knew what was going on. Alas, Vector got left behind. It's breeding season and they need to be kept separate till she gets "in the mood." So only Raster came along...
Raster was all hot to leave....
"Iguanapalooza! YEEHA! Let's get a move on!"
"Uh, Raster... it's not IGUANApalooza... We're going to MANILApalooza"
"What?! I thought we were going to IguanaPalooza!"
That seemed to put a whole different light on the situation:
So he tried to dart out of Julie's car. But we put him back in and he ended up riding in the back, looking out the window the whole time.
Okay! We're off!
But ya know, a little while later, during one of those quick, one last errand at the office before we go stops, he looked at me in the open car with the basking spot in the back, and I swear he had a jealous look on his face.
One more stop in Santa Barbara before heading on the road, and we got to see the typical Santa Barbara twilight...
many a time Julie and Susan have rollerbladed along that bikepath there...
looking up, the eucalyptus tree has interesting branching patterns.
and so we drove.. into the twilight, as stars came out, up U.S. 101 to San Francisco.
So.. coffee, breakfast, check email, recharge digital camera batteries, then head down the peninsula to Cupertino to meet all the Manilapaloozans.
Sorry, Raster's being sulky about the fact that it's Manilapalooza, so he's not coming.
March 24, 2000
March 23, 2000
Whew!
Back in action again. Glad the network is fixed! Clicked the link for the page, just to see, and just in case...
Just came back from seeing Erin Brockovich--great flick.
Thursday Daytime
More on this network outage... Surreal... felt disconnected. Then I thought about the March 25 event... how strange to have a network outage days before it transpires. Made me wonder if the meeting would have a strange "what's going on?" dreamlike quality. Would we have to show up to Cupertino to find out why our sites aren't accessible?
Whee! According to Oliver, the connection to editthispage is faster now than it was before. Splendid!!!
Speaking of March 25....The car's in the shop, getting serviced for tomorrow's road trip. After that, washing and waxing.... Then a ceremonial removal of the hardtop for California driving. It'll be nice to have a convertible again. : )
...and I've been itching for a road trip in a big way.
How fun to surf again to others' sites once again! I tried out the acronym finder that Kate recommended. My initials aren't as interesting as hers, tho I find "Suomen Ammattiliittojen Keskusjarjesto (Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions)" rather amusing.
Traffic Jam Discoveries -- The Oldest Operating McDonald's
Monday, while driving, I got in a horrible traffic jam, got off the freeway, and took surface streets to get around the clog on the 605 freeway. Driving down Lakewood Blvd, I saw an ancient McDonald's sign. Having brought my digital camera with me on a lark, I pulled in to shoot a picture of the sign.
Speedy McDonald atop a single golden arch. Wow--this is a relic of a McDonald's! The place is an older Hamburger Stand, with the golden arches.
A little further over, there's a smaller, more ancient building, which turns out to be the Speedy McDonald Museum. The guys sitting at that table were looking at me, some tourist with camera in hand. Little did they know that I had a 2020Hindsight site to feed with interesting memorabilia, and was taking a little respite from that damn traffic jam.
Inside, a sign shows the prices for the original McDonald's... check that out... Fifteen cents!!
There also was a sign that told the history of the original McDonalds.
There it is... the humble beginnings of what, some 50 years later, became a member of the Dow 30.
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