After a long hiatus, George made an appearance at Mike’s 35th bday bbq!

Saz made George back in 2003 to preside over the TikiCrawler. Max made the tronix for the fire, and foo did the welding for the frame.

The TikiCrawler was an awesome group project.. We need a new project this year! Also, I need a TikiCrawler to drive around the city. Even hammocks are faster than muni :)

Photo credits: mike and catweasel!

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Check out this sunset timelapse that Mike shot using CHDK. Paragliders streak across the sky like lasers!

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Check out this gorgeous timelapse that Mike made:

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Check out this gorgeous timelapse Mike shot from the Haleakala summit in Maui using CHDK.

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For Mike’s b-day we went to Little Baobab for dinner and then Bissap Baobab for drinks. I know, we got it backwards, but it was great! Here are some pics:

There were some awesome musicians at Little Baobab who were playing a cajón, a Peruvian drum that looks like a box. Somehow I’d never seen or heard one before!

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Over at 43 Folders today there is fantastic post about how to prioritize all the crap going on in your life without getting stressed out. This is the core of the GTD philosphy and if you don’t feel like reading the book, at least read this post. Dig on this quote ….

Let’s look at a few challenges that, over the past six months, have faced a notional Worker Bee, leading him to generate high-priority tasks.

• You learn you got a citation from those choads in the Homeowner’s Association, and they declare that if you don’t remove that El Camino from your front yard today, they’ll start fining you $200 a day.
• Your favorite client emailed you a freakin’ week ago, and you still haven’t responded. You fear that your relationship will be permanently damaged if you don’t respond this morning.
• Your bank account is overdrawn and you have to make a deposit or else the late fees and penalties will go up and up and up.
• Your sister leaves a voicemail saying that if you don’t pick up the crap you left in her garage, she’s throwing it out tomorrow. Your Boba Fett action figure and Dungeon Master’s Guide are in that garage, and you can’t bear the thought of losing them.

What to do? What to do?

Link to “Priorities Don’t Exist In a Vacuum”

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Mike explored an abandoned warehouse full of beautiful graffiti and took lots of pictures:

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Link to stunning 1280×720 version (30MB).
Link to various smaller versions.

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Mike made this great timelapse of the sunrise in the Alabama Hills:

Larry made a bunch of pretty timelapses of San Francisco. I like the Kite Hill sunset one..

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A current project of mine involves some JavaScript hacking. Every time I deal with JavaScript I lament its lack of distribution as a programming language platform. A listing of debian packages for keyword “lisp” (yes, lisp!!!) gets 283 hits on debian/intel, and 22 hits on fink. A listing of debian pages for keyword “javascript” gets 58 hits on debian/intel and 4 on fink (and none of the fink hits appear to be programming packages).

Is everyone just using js.jar now from the rhino project? I wish spidermonkey was more popular in it’s own right. But for years now the spidermonkey page has said the same thing: “The core SpiderMonkey engine can be found in mozilla/js/src. The stand alone interpreter can be built using Makefile.ref”.

Hey guys, make a debian package already!

Link to SpiderMonkey project page.

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Mike made this pretty timelapse of the sunset in Hawaii!

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