Southpaw Blog

Let me sum up the last 1.3 years as briefly as possible: Marathon no marathon job no job. My last day is June 30th. It’s been a good run, but it’s time. Whew, blogging is exhausting. See you in August 2009!

Here is the list you probably aren’t expecting. Igloo Beach Football Ultimate Frisbee Poker Night Large Mediterranean God of War Devil’s Punchbowl Rattlesnake Bear That Third Animal Chili’s To Go ASP Training Josephine Judy Biking In Corvallis Biking To Albany Spelling Bee Starcraft Cranium The Devil Went Down To Georgia The S.S. Taffy Sir Doculot [...]

Let’s see what Cranky Old Blogger has been up to lately. Why do you bother me with questions all the time? Fine, what do I have to say to get rid of you? These days, I don’t just tear through a good book the way I used to. It’s not because of lack of attention [...]

I don’t feel like I have to write something every day. It would be a good habit, but I try to sit down only when I’m feeling inspired. Even so, sometimes an entry in this blog just plain fails. Here are some of my recent favorite stinkers. Sometimes I’m only a little bit inspired, and [...]

I got hoodwinked into running 5 kilometers today (by hoodwinked, I mean agreed to do it, and by kilometers, I mean 0.62 miles). I had plenty of good notice (a week), and I actually did a fine job of getting off my ass and training a little for it (and I do mean a little). [...]

OSCON 2006 was fun. The ruby on rails jokers kept to themselves. I’m not ignoring python anymore. Next year, we own the show. Frisbee is more fun 7 days a week with the same 5 people than 1 day a week with 10 strangers. Not reading makes me dumb, it’s provable. Sitting by a lake [...]

Chainblogging, because I’m already enough of a jackass without fucking up the rotation. Three jobs I’ve had in my life: lawnmower boy shoveler of unprocessed grass seed CAD modeler of ecologically damaging industrial sites Three movies I can watch over and over: Fight Club The Big Lebowski Aliens Three places I have lived: Imbler, OR [...]

I finally got most of my photos for the last couple of years posted in a gallery. Looking over them, I can tell I’ve learned a fair amount about taking pictures – I really wish I had do-overs on some. There’s still a lot to learn, but I haven’t surpassed my old camera’s abilities.

Every once in a while I feel like I need a real desktop. Fluxbox has been nothing but good to me over the years; there was some debacle when taskbar icons were added in 0.9, but we figured out how to uncheck that option. Still, every once in a while I feel like I need [...]

So I finally got sick. This is normally something that happens during the uber-wet Willamette Valley winters, but I delayed for a couple of months this year. In fact I missed out on all the great local infections and had Dad bring over something special from the wastelands of Eastern Oregon, no doubt mutated beyond [...]