http://firewallender.com Just another geeky Seattlelite. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:30:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ... but long from forgotten. I need a t-shirt that says, "I went to Gnomedex 8.0 and all I got was 7 t-shirts... and about 50 amazing experiences." Photo by Robert Scoble, I'm near the center in pink. Starting Wednesday night it was a mashup of meeting wonderful new people from all ... http://firewallender.com/2008/08/25/gnomedex-80-is-over/ I suppose I'm a sap, but I love this music video. Thanks to my friend Sam (via iLike) for passing this along. UPDATE: If you have iTunes, you can download this and one other Jack Conte song for free from Stanford's iTunesU page, as well as a bunch of other free tunes ... http://firewallender.com/2008/08/12/yeah-yeah-yeah-by-jack-conte/ Thanks to the awesome Mr. Chris Pirillo, who I had the pleasure of meeting at Seattle Startup Weekend, I'm going to the Gnomedex 8.0 conference here in rainy Seattle later this month. My roommate brought a shirt to my attention that I should wear to Gnomedex (mostly because she's convinced I'm ... http://firewallender.com/2008/08/09/phone-gnome-gnomedex-80/ Well, I can barely move... so that kind of keeps me from biking.  I've got some high-tech cyborg replacement skin over my knee, and I think I did twist my ankle.  My knee is periodically leaking... and I'm pretty sure that's not good. Luckily, I generally heal like Wolverine.  Harmony ... http://firewallender.com/2008/08/06/bike-o-rama-august-days-5-6/ I guess my own personal Bike-o-Rama August started on August 1st, but I didn't know it then.  That Friday, I took my Little bike riding.  I'm trying to emphasize non-consumer-focused activities, and bike riding is one of our favourites together. We biked from Sandpoint past Matthew's Beach and back.  It ... http://firewallender.com/2008/08/04/bike-o-rama-august-days-1-4/ Yes, loathe. I bought a roundtrip U.S. Airways ticket from Seattle to Phoenix over the Independence Day weekend. My roundtrip ticket was $235, and I was ecstatic to see my friend Connie who lives there. Sadly, I missed my SEA to PHX flight, but before I did I called U.S. ... http://firewallender.com/2008/07/18/on-why-i-loathe-us-airways/ I had an amazing weekend in Arizona with Connie, and she sums it up nicely at her new blog, which we worked on whilst I was down there (I have that effect on people).  We crammed so much into the weekend: we went to tour her work at the copper ... http://firewallender.com/2008/07/11/independence-day/ I had a truly crazy weekend and I'm still a little weak in the knees from it all.  A good chunk of the limping though is from getting kicked by a gal in sharp heels at the Century Ballroom on Sunday night.  Swing is definitely a contact sport, and Lindy ... http://firewallender.com/2008/06/24/a-surprizing-turn-of-events/ Because it's two hours from Seattle and twenty degrees hotter than Seattle was when you left. Because you drive down the street and see ginormous dot-com king companies lining the street, one after another. Because the party you throw in Atheron gets on ValleyWag. Because of all ... http://firewallender.com/2008/05/30/why-i-love-the-valley/ Wow... I had a simply amazing weekend. Usually I don't like to write "here's everything I did" type posts, but this deserves some documentation. Friday night, I hit up a bit of Camp Jitterbug (billed as "The Awesomest Lindy Hop Event Ever!") for some swing dancing with my ... http://firewallender.com/2008/05/29/memorial-day/