Smelly Dog!!
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may
so beautiful! what time was it? did you camp out there?
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bobslobster
That was right before sunset. We didn’t camp, just hiked around a bit. We should go on a tiki camping trip!
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may
oh that’s beautiful! who is this from? (if you’re sending from an iphone, you have to add your caption below the photo or it won’t show up unfortunately)
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may
hehe, what street were you on? Also is this from mr. bob? mr. bob – you have to add an email signature to your iphone so we know these are from you!
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rajbot
Yup, this is from Bob… He says he typed up a description in the email, but it never made it into the post (peliom has the same problem). So adding a signature probably wouldn’t work…
Bob doesn’t actually *read* the blog, so I’ll ask him what street he took it on..
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bobslobster
its at the corner of pacific st. and lincoln in santa monica. its not tiki themed on the inside, but they do have organic coffee.
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may
awesome, a tiki fist of fury :)
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shag
needs blinkylights
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a magellanic penguin!
This little guy just woke up from a nap, crawled out of his hole, and flapped his wings/flippers a few times before waddling off to jump in the frigid straits of magellan. In punta arenas now. Will be home in a couple days.
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rajbot
Unreal…
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Glacier Grey
I’m in puerto natales now, back from an 8 day trek in torres del paine. Happy new year!!
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rajbot
Gorgeous! I love glaciers!
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Arena
Wow May!!! Awesome!!!! Happy New Year to you!!!!!!
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my baby nephew
my baby nephew, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.
Here’s my cutie pie nephew who was born last week and who I just met. Favorite activities include eating, napping, peeing, pooping, and sticking things in his mouth. Advanced skills include smiling and thumb-sucking! -may
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peliom
Happy Funny Caption….
I used the email gateway to upload the photo below but my email text didn’t end up on the blog :-( …. the smilely face is built out of my anti-depressants and I think that’s hilarious. I’m packing for Tokyo, leaving tomorrow AM, super super psyched!! :-)
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rajbot
Most people have a secret evil twin. We have an entire secret evil family. I’m not sure if that’s better or worse..
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rajbot
The problem with secret evil twins is that it’s very hard to determine which is the good one, and which is the evil one…. Usually once you find out, it is already too late.
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Mitch
it appears that the pair from jessandraj.net have already spawned . . . so if they are the evil ones, colonization might be just around the corner! Perhaps we should light some torches and march to their home babbling stuff angry mob like. Drinks and fire would be involved, no?
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peliom
Ship Traffic: How Super-Container Traffic at Sea is Killing Us At Home
No technology has transformed commerce and the way we live our lives as much as the 20th century shipping container. And compared to other technologies (e.g. internal combustion engine), it’s drop dead simple … it’s a just a metal box. I’ve always enjoyed watching ships roll under the Golden Gate Bridge. And on occasion I’ve enjoyed the Port of Oakland in some ways that involve loud music and the cover of night.So I was interested to read that the Port of Oakland is considering some of the biggest changes to the industry since deregulation in the 70s. At the center of debate is trucking, traditionally contracted out and held and arms length. But now the Port is owning up to the fact that each crappy truck driving through West Oakland dump 127,677 times as much toxic soot as a regular car does. As the trucking industry phrase goes, ports are where “the trucks go to die.” So-called “independent” truckers serving the port are almost exclusively poor immigrants making about $8/hour after expenses. Naturally they can only afford older used trucks, pollution spouts on eighteen wheels.
The Port is considering proposals as radical as granting employee status to all truckers, which is a breath of fresh air. Besides establishing a more reasonable wage and health benefits, the Port would take responsibility for cleaner vehicles. About 20% of west oakland residents have asthma, and the proportion is rising. The asthma is linked directly to the diesel pollution.
Here’s to the Port of Oakland for trying to make the right thing happen, a move that will force all the other West Coast Ports to follow, if not the entire US. And while we’re at it, let’s open up the port to the public so they can see all the amazing stuff that happens there. Crazy container cranes moving huge loads, massive stacks of containers that form mazes the size of small cities …. it’s some crazy shit.
Link to Death In The Air at The Bay Guardian.
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danimal
Ian Wright from Wrightspeed (builders of electric supercars) was at Pixar on Friday for our annual “Motorama”. His biggest point that he got across was that even if we all had Prius-type hybrids (or better) we only make up a small fraction of the pollution output. It’s trucks and commercial vehicals that do most of the polluting. Of course, he’s built a high-dollar electric sports car and he says that’s the way to go. Get the rich to pay for the R&D and eventually it will roll down to the general public.
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Sent From My iPhone
“Sent from my iPhone” … That’s the somewhat snotty default signature that iPhone tacks onto your mail messages. So what’s it like?
I’m typing this post using the I screen keyboard I safari in horizontal mode. Making a blog post on my sidekick caused me convulsions, on my iPhone it’s slightly less painful. Punctuation is a pain. You will note there is no picture for this post: the file upload button is disabled I safari despite the fact that this is an 8GB iphone. And the is no select/copy/paste in the text system, so I can’t even paste in a URL from google images. But I’ve successfully reached the end of this paragraph. I would guess I could have typed this in about 5% of the time on my macbook. I don’t thing mobile devices are ever going to he better than a computer.
the biggest annoyance is the lack of a system-wide on screen “back” button. Clicking a link in your email takes you to safari. The only way to get back is to go the the main screen and then mail. And getting to the main screen involves pressing the only mechanical button on the front of the iPhone which for some reason requires about a million pounds of force. Dancing your fingers on the multitouch screen and then havinf to slam the home button is literally painful.
so does the iPhone live up to the hype? In a word, hell yes. Antialiased fonts. Animations everywhere. Nifty one finger scrolling with auto-dampened deceleration. This is a phone that makes it *fun* for me to scroll through my contacts. For those of us that were wondering what the heck was the point of LayerKit (CoreAnimation) last year, iPhone is the answer.
Even rickety old QuickTime gets an iPhone makeover. Much fuss is made over the lack of flash support. And yet there is YouTube right on the home screen. And the YouTube videos are somehow higher quality on my iPhone than on my $2000 MacBook. How do they do it? Apple is taking their classic walled garden approach here. The message couldn’t be louder: dear web 2.0, you will not get jack on the iPhone unless you partner with us and re-encode all you video. Oh and you have to use QuickTime. Not a bad strategy. With 99% penetration on the web, flash appeared to be the hands down winner of the web multimedia race. Now with Microsoft and Apple entering the consumer electronics arena, we can expect to see a genuine rematch between Flash,Silverlight, and QuickTime.
unfortunately this also means i won’t be able to make a decent blog post without custom iphone apps for wordpress. This post took me about an hour.
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Q
I just had to post this link. It reminds me of Real Ultimate Power.
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at risk veggies
I am tired, but I want to share. Very little verbiage is made up for by quite of bit of foliage.
Not quite so satisfying as the [Lorelei edited] classic Oedipus, but still very moving.
You can find this here. Squeeze it. Mix it with vodka?
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rajbot
Wow… who knew that vegitables led such sordid lives???
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may
poor little orange…maybe he should take up with the nectarine. ooooh, they could make nect-orange babies – yummy!
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TikiWikiFormatting
There are two things that I find cumbersome about writing WordPress posts by hand:
- Making HTML links
- Making lists
Before we had this blog, we had a UseMod wiki, and the wiki syntax for typing these things was really easy. I made a WordPress plugin that lets you use UseMod syntax in your blog posts.The plugin is free and licensed under the GPL. Download it here! You can also view the source code here.
To install, just copy the tikiwikiformatting.php file into your wp/wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Here is how to use it:
To make an HTML link, type this:
[nocode]
The TikiRobot Blog!
[/nocode]
It will look like this: The TikiRobot Blog!To make an unordered list, type this:
[nocode]
- item A
- item B
- subitem
- subitem
- item C
It will look like this:
- item A
- item B
- subitem
- subitem
- item C
To make an ordered list, type this:
[nocode]
- one
- onePointOne
- onePointTwo
- two
- three
It will look like this:
- one
- onePointOne
- onePointTwo
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emre
Nice! I hope you will add a richer feature set over time.
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Reuben
How do I escape a “#”? I tried \#, but that showed up as “\#”.
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rajbot
If a # occurs in the middle of a line, you don’t need to escape it.
If a # occurs at the start of a line, precede it with a space. Typing ” #” will make it show up as just “#” in your browser.
Preceded by a space:
# x
# yNot preceded by a space:
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rajbot
Well, I upgraded WordPress and now everything is broken.
I changed the filter priority for this plugin to 2, and changed the filter priority of ig::Syntax_Hilite to 1, and now things work, but wptexturize seems to be putting in extra linebreaks. ugh.
I’ll deal with this later.
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rajbot
err.. it’s wpautp(), not wptexturize(), that is causing the problem with the wacky newlines..
bobslobster, and 
shag, and 
Arena, and 
Mitch, and 
danimal is discussing. 
mitch
Education-acracy
A quick look at their site says a lot.
Imagine yourself put in charge of coordinating a schoolwide process directed by this man
Starting yesterday, when I was sitting in a long training on this process, I am the WASC coordinator for my school. Basically an accreditation process that cannot be avoided. A huge morass of meetings and reports that have to be coordinated through a very opinionated faculty and staff. Seriously, there are faculty members here (remember it’s an art school) who will literally weep and wail when I assign focus groups, tasks, and the like. Much drama.
I’m pushing for a sizeable stipend for this extra role. Maybe enough to pay for Prism’s day care!
may 10:58 am on March 7, 2008 Permalink |
mahalo! :-)