just got home from the Right Online conference in Pittsburgh, PA. My roadtrip partner, Joe Mansour, and I had good time, hung out with a lot of good folks from the internet politics community including Robert Bluey and Todd Thurman of Heritage, Erick Erickson of Redstate and many other.
Both Joe I spoke on panels this afternoon, solid performances all around. I had an interesting panelist speak opposite me in Ralph Benko. Definitely opiniated, and had some interesting thoughts. Both presentations evoked a lot of comments and thoughful questions.
All in all a good conference, but I’m still glad to be home and see the Mrs.
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Because Knowledge is Only Half
I need this…
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Eating a delicious turkey leg at last weekends DC BBQ Battle.
Epic.
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Sorry for the no-show blog: busy (no excuse).
Updates:
Wedding in 6 days, super excited. Talked to the Av’s yesterday and it sounds like everyone is excited about coming in.
I got LGs wedding ring a few days back, now all I have to do is not lose it.
In other news, I attended my very last CRNC event over this past weekend. I am officially free! Many congrats to Zach and his whole team, good people all.
On a less pleasant note: one of my good friends has recently received a lifetime shun from me. She decided to pick her scumbag boyfriend over Lindsey and I, so that relationship is now over.
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thats about right
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I havent posted in a bit, mainly because its been a pretty hectic few days.
Bad news first, the hotel where LG and I were supposed to be married is not going to finish construction on time. I have a small volume of four letter words that I could use to express my frustration with the owners/management of this place, but I’ll save them for later.
Now, after talking with all our guests and canceling, we have opted to just elope in Mexico. Obviously we will miss a lot of our friends who wont be able to join us, but at the end of the day LG and I are crazy in love and would get married on the court house steps as long as it meant we got to spend the rest of our lives together.
On the upside, the place were going in Mexico is beautiful, and the idea of spending some time on a beach with the girl of my dreams is about as appealing a thought as I can imagine.
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That’s what we call it in the biz.
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Last Fall, my buddy Ben ate froyo from Mr. Yogato for 30 days to win the privelidge of naming a flav and also raising a little dough for a local charity. While the contest ended some months ago, Ben (lovable character that he is) waited until yesterday to post it on the board.
Bengato posts his Flav
The final verdict, is a delicious, fruity blend known the world over as Bengato’s Berries.
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Banks know that everyone comes on Friday afternoon. They know this, yet still they are always understaffed.
Today the manager comes down and says “hello”, asking everyone how they’re doing; meanwhile there is a perfectly good window he could be working and moving the line ahead 25% faster.
He looked displeased when I informed him of this.
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I haven’t posted here in about a week which prompted an impatient and curious text from my Dad, so I knew i better come through some words up. Been a pretty busy week, trapsing back and forth across the U.S.
Was in Vegas this past weekend for a bit of R&R. Saw a couple shows, ate too much, gambled just enough (down $38). Then it was meetings all week, getting some details sorted out for the spring and working on a few new ideas.
But now I’m back, D.C. is warm and lively: people are coming out for Spring. I’m psyched for the weekend. Going to hang out with some friends and relax, should be nice.
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Messed up my iPhone something awful yesterday. After going the whole day without I have come to the conclusion that if AT&T just pulled the plug tomorrow on all iPhones society as we know it would come to a crashing halt.
Regardless, after a trip out to Pentagon City and 30 minutes drowning my sorrows at the Genius Bar, I am now plugged back in.
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I was reading Charlie’s post earlier on information seepage in human experience and later stumbled upon this little montage from our friends at Microsoft some people who make software I generally don’t use.
<![CDATA[<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&showPlaylist=true&from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>]]>
Seems they would largely agree.
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Tonight on the metro I heard a guy quote the movie Speed to his friends.
I immediately felt a deep sadness for him, then soon after felt sad for myself: for having heard him.
On the upside, it wasn’t Speed 2.
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So I kick ass. That is the distinct reality I have come to know after providing the best birthday ever for the ever burning light of my life LG.
The program:
1. Breakfast in bed, made from scratch with the one exception of a Venti extra Hot Chai from Starbucks, her favorite.
2. Off to the mall to exchange the gift I had bought for her for something she really wanted (Esther’s fault really, but it all worked out).
3. Not one–but two–estrogen pumped roller coasters at Regal in Gallery place: He’s Just Not That Into You and Confessions of a Shopoholic (If that doesn’t prove I’d do anything for this woman I don’t know what does).
4. A delicious dinner at Proof.
5. Drinks, shuffleboard and ski ball with friends at Rocket Bar
I’ll reiterate: I rule.
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Lindsey’s birthday (and her moms) are Sunday and Monday so I met her in Long Island to celebrate and then drive back to DC for the week together.
I cant say what I got her, but I can say i was an ordeal. I sent Esther in to do some recon: it went slightly better then the bay of pigs.
After multiple trips to the mall I finally got something that I think she’ll like, so that’s done. The plan is a double feature of chick-flicks shes been wanting to see–which I rarely do at theaters for the obvious reason that Kate Winslet’s monologues don’t really require a 50-foot digital screen and THX sound the way say, The Watchman do–followed by dinner at Proof in Chinatown, where we had a very memorable date during our early courtship.
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Just threw on the new Prodigy Album: in ten seconds I have already decided I like it.
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Yesterday I made dinner at home for a change. I am hoping to cook more, it seems like one of those things I should do. Save some money, eat healthier etc….
Anyhow, I made Spinach Fettuccine Arrabiata and Grilled Chicken: scrumptious.
Unfortunately it was only after I cooked that I found out our Dishwasher is on the fritz, so there is a large pile of unwashed dishes that will likely being going nowhere till my landlord Nam comes by to fix it.
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Made my way into the b’s on this morning’s ride in to work. Perks included:
Baba O’riley by The Who
Back in Black by AC/DC
and Beat It by the legendary Michael Jackson
Who knows how to rock a Friday morning? The Who, thats who.
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Today I started the long journey through all the music on my iPhone in alphabetical order. No real reason, just had never done it.
Highlights from this gray morning:
All Apologies by Nirvana
Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers
and All the Love in the World by Nine Inch Nails
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Not but an hour after I finish setting up my Apple TV to use Hulu (see previous post) I check out my Google reader page and find out the Hulu is pulling its content off Boxee, the terminal I used with my ATV. According to Hulu they are being forced into this by content providers. While this may be true, I am still pissed: not just because I took the time to set it up, but because it is such a painfully obvious example of big media not seeing whats happening in the world around them.
To my point, the blog post announcing the change has already earned itself 70+ comments–all negative–since this afternoon. The quote that seems to capture my contempt for this whole affair is from a commenter named Dan Peterson
Wow, do these content providers really want to drive people to pirate their shows? Sure seems like it to me. I watch shows on my TV with my AppleTV via Boxee. I don’t want to watch them on my computer screen through a browser on Hulu.com. If you can’t easily watch things legally the vast majority of people are just going to keep (or go back to) pirating. What possible reason is there for not wanting their content on Boxee? I can’t think of a single even half-way good reason for this.
Hopefully they will take head of the massive outcry online and make a change.
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For my Birthday last year LG got me a sweet new Apple TV. It’s been set up and rocking my entertainment world for some time, but today I decided to take it to the next level. Using a patchstick from Google Code i installed some new software, then had to SSH my way into the back end of the ATV to get around a bug created by the recent ATV firmware upgrade.
But the results are worth it. My ATV can now play Hulu and almost any other video codec around. W00t!
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just added some new pics on Flickr.
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