Local Unmentionables: Notes on YOUR corner of the world
tomierna
(Admin)
– December 07, 2007 08:50PM
Hell, it was a popular icebreaker on the ancien boards ...
Get up close and personal with excruciating details of your quotidien
existence!
How's your dirty laundry?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/2007 09:44PM by tomierna.
Robert Taylor
– May 21, 2012 08:57PM
I got hired on at the House of Mud (after 30 months as a contractor from 2005-2012, and going back to the Lazy M Ranch in Redmond).
John Willoughby
– May 21, 2012 09:11PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Congratulations, Mr. Taylor. I look forward to amazing and astonishing products and improvements to products. I hope that this corresponds with an upward trend in your standard of living as well.
ddt
– May 22, 2012 05:49AM
So say we all, indeed.
On a smaller scale, the team I worked with at Datafest Stanford over the weekend (http://www.computationalreporting.com/wiki/index.php?title=Team_Most_Excellent) won one of the top three prizes for our project. It was hilarious how all our fried brains were flummoxed by how to split $500 of iTunes gift cards (two $100, six $50) seven ways.
If anyone has tips on how to fix the interactive map size -- needs to be maybe 70% smaller -- and the hover placements, feel free!
ddt
James DeBenedetti
– May 22, 2012 02:48PM
Congratulations, Robert!
Jeff Cooper
– May 23, 2012 06:55AM
Congratulations, RT!
El Jeffe
– May 26, 2012 06:03AM
What a journey.
Cooper - Gumball in town today/tomorrow.
With The Hoff!
http://www.gumball3000.com
Lambos/Ferraris/Bugattis?
Cloudscout
– June 01, 2012 05:39AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Obama is supposed to be at the Honeywell office a few blocks from my house in an hour or so. I'm thinking I should leave for work now or I may have a hard time dealing with traffic.
John Willoughby
– June 01, 2012 07:16AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
It may already be too late. The Secret Service shows up early to places where the President will visit. The press, too, for that matter. Also, Columbian hookers.
Cloudscout
– June 01, 2012 09:59AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
The streets were lined with police but they didn't have anything blocked off yet so it was fine.
El Jeffe
– June 03, 2012 03:42PM
What a journey.
well, you know, there are those that complain Obama's security is far too light...
John Willoughby
– June 05, 2012 07:33AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
The powerful anti-Twine lobby.
johnny k
– June 06, 2012 02:33AM
The rate of record-breaking projects has accelerated since January. Whatever. We're going to be in the next issues of InStyle and Wired. Print isn't dead until I say it is!
We arrived in Austin last evening, where we'll live and die. Seems like a nice place so far. After four years in New England, I appreciate that there is a Southwestern culture, and that I'm back in it.
ddt
– June 06, 2012 08:11AM
Congrats on all that and Austin, too. Adaptive Path has an office there, and look up Buds Design Kitchen.
(You know, I had awesome cactus burritos near Porter Sq -- in Cambridge.)
ddt
johnny k
– June 06, 2012 08:26AM
What? Where in Porter? That's where we lived. Never found any Mexican food there.
Think I can pig out at a different taqueria within walking distance every day this week.
ddt
– June 06, 2012 08:54AM
Of course, it's no Austin. And it was ages (literally over a decade) ago. Hm, I can't find it on Yelp -- there was a place that was half-bar, half-restaurant, on the left side of Mass Ave as you headed towards Porter, away from Harvard. There was a neon sign in the window that said, "Mexican Food", so that's what we always called it.
And I think the verb you're looking for is "waddle". Sounds fun!
ddt
johnny k
– June 06, 2012 09:49AM
Oh, sounds like Forest Cafe. I ate there once and then it closed (unrelated).
ddt
– June 06, 2012 01:12PM
Did it have an iguana in the window? Again, sorry for the vagueness and old information. Hope it was good! And maybe in my memory it was like the case of the talking dog -- it wasn't that the dog spoke well, but that it spoke at all.
Again, if you ever want a design connection, an old friend teaches design at UT Austin (that's the Buds connection).
ddt
johnny k
– June 06, 2012 07:51PM
Can't remember... just went there once years ago. It was promising, I remember.
When I need some designers or just ready to network, I'll bug you on that. For now, the pressing need is still Python/web developers.
ddt
– June 06, 2012 08:08PM
Did you ever email me a one- or two-paragraph listing of what you need for that? I can forward it to the I School email list and see who's available.
ddt
