Cakes

Posted by banane on January 30th, 2008 — in about writing

“Jack, is your ventilator working?” Ahmad asks from behind his mask. He’s preparing to get up. He can barely move his legs in gravity controlled moon boots. Jack nods- their radio’d together through the helmets. He wants to head to the translucent green goo waterfall and then survey some damage done to their van after [...]

Creativity

Posted by banane on January 27th, 2008 — in about writing, technology

Chatting with a bunch of folks on the SF WoW mailing list on creativity- via programming, or crafts- and it led me to think in general that there are two buckets of creativity. On one hand- creating something whole, by yourself, from beginning to end, and on the other- group projects that have feedback. When [...]

dejunking & the flow of stuff

Posted by banane on January 20th, 2008 — in Uncategorized

Ah, the joys of dejunking. I’m sitting here and it’s so peaceful and organized, and I can see surfaces of counters and tables, and there aren’t a million little reminders of projects and things to get done. The backstory is that I drove down to San Jose on Friday to have my very first set [...]

South Bay Nostalgia: Software Meet-ups

Posted by banane on January 16th, 2008 — in local color, nostalgia, south bay, technology

I have a huge fat soft spot for the South Bay. I drove down last night- 1:10 h:m from Emeryville! – to meet up with some developers who are doing the same kind of work I’m doing for my Business Idea. So many things threw me back to being 16 again. – That it is [...]

Music

Posted by banane on January 12th, 2008 — in technology

Just invested in some iTunes/Amazon MP3 songs- last two albums by John Legend & Anthony Hamilton, Bill Withers, and random songs from Charlie Parker, Damien Rice, Dave Brubeck… it’s the symptom of looking into other recommendation engines, and sitting in your living room doing a lot of work, and really enjoying good working music. Pandora [...]

Knowing What You Don’t Know

Posted by banane on January 11th, 2008 — in technology

I was waiting for my friend to get out of a meeting, and was sitting at Mario’s Cigar Shop nursing a beer, and reading about Ruby on Rails (RoR) vs. PHP. I’ve done object oriented programming, and server scripting, and I’m lazy and end up doing server scripting for any quick project. My haiku database [...]

What Not to Blog

Posted by banane on January 9th, 2008 — in about writing, technology

I know, you shouldn’t tell the world you drank a lot, but hey, there were a lot of other people, well at least 5, and it was New Year’s Eve. In a rash of weirdness I asked the psychic that my friend hired for the party questions about my business idea. Now I know why [...]