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Ever since Becky took my photo, these darned modeling agents just wont stop calling me.

Who needs exercise?

Why break a sweat when you can watch my friends and I do it online?

Nerdy Bike Video

Watch for me in this nerdy (as in totally sweet) bike video:

Sometimes When I’m Drunk and You’re Wearing My Favorite Shirt

So, my friend Bridget Kearney was one of the two winners chosen jazz category of the John Lennon songwriting contest. It’s a song that I recorded a while back with her band Lake Street Dive. The drums are kind of out of phase, which is embarrassing, but it was a very rushed session over spring break with no assistants.

So, y’all need to vote for Bridget’s tune over here:

http://www.jlsc.com/vote

The state of things

For those of you following along from home, here is where things currently stand:

1. Threads (the ol’ wwwboard) has been taken down temporarily.
   Threads has always been my favorite part of this site, mostly because it’s where all of you get to control the content. It’s a place where those of us from back in the day can keep in touch and joke about the yester years while keeping each other informed of what’s ahead (Ahhhhhhh). Some of the posts, while certainly very funny, involved unkind statements involving names of people from our past that really exist and have reputations and feelings that need to be considered. One of those people found the site, was deeply hurt by how their name was being used, and made a phone call to the of the author of this content. This author then contacted me and asked that I remove the offending posts. Rather than going through the arduous task of sorting out all the acceptable content from the possibly offensive (where do I draw the line?) I just decided to pull the whole thing offline for a bit to let things cool down. I don’t know what the future holds, but for now this part of the site will have to be missed. The good times…oh the good times…
2. Goodbye Boston >> Hello San Francisco
   My last few months in Boston were really something. I made some wonderful friends (what’s new?) and had some really great times…all while being totally stressed about where I was going to live, what I was going to do, who it was going to be with, and how I was going to hold it all together. I had my heart broken and hurt a few others in the process. Life is complicated. ~~~ Now I live in San Francisco and couldn’t be happier. What a wonderful city this is, it’s so much better than I realized before. And I made my decision about a week before I found a place to live. I am surrounded by great friends, and seem to make plenty of new ones each week.
3. I have an internship at a great recording studio
   I got completely hooked up, thanks to the lovely Sarah Cabell and her equally lovely mother, with a job at a pretty sweet recording studio.
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Camino + Apple Script + Cocoalicious = Caminolicious

Disclaimer: I don’t think most of my friends are really going to understand this, but I’m putting this out there anyway…for google.

I recently discovered del.icio.us, which is a great bookmarking tool. While playing around with that, I found some of the various toys that go along with it. The coolest one being Cocoalicious.

So, what’s the quickest way to add links to either del.icio.us or Cocoalicious? Well, there are bookmarklet’s: add to del.icio.us, add to Cocoalicious. Very nice, except I don’t like showing the “bookmark bar” in my browser window (it just feels cleaner without it there). Besides, why should I have to click a mouse button? I want to do this straight from the keyboard. Making matters more complicated, my default browser is Camino.

My solution: write an applescript! Unfortunately, Camino’s applescript support is not very hot. Fortunately, I am…and after much fooling around I present:

tell application "Camino"
	set myURL to «class curl» of window 1
	set myTitle to name of window 1
end tell

tell application "Cocoalicious"
	make new post with properties {description:myTitle, url:myURL, tag string:"caminolicious"}
end tell

Open in Script Editor window.

This script takes the webpage of front most window (or tab) from Camino, and inserts that page as a new post in Cocoalicious.

I saved this script in my ~/Library/Scripts folder, added it to my Quicksilver catalogue, and a gave it a trigger “⌥↑⌘D”. Now it’s as easy as touching the keyboard, and I’ve added a new bookmark.

My Dream Bike

So, for those not in the know, I’ve been patiently waiting since about October for this guy, Jonny Kendziera, to build a frame for my dream bike. Well, he’s finally done.

Jonny’s got two sets of photos up on his site, one that tracks the progress, and one that shows off the complete frame.

The other thing is, with my new job I can buy bike parts for this new old girl at wholesale prices.

MP320 Final: Don’t You Know…

So, I finished my MP320 project a couple of weeks ago. It’s just taken me a while to post the results on the page.

Don’t You Know - 5.08MB