Cryptomnesia

My bad.  Let me make up for that by telling you my cat, Cosmo, favorite number is 137.

Signed_Me_Francissson_who is going to take a break

Sometimes in my dreams I’m an tiny, old Asian man in an American fish market.  My chinos are pulled way to high and I’m wearing a flat cap.  I keep asking the clerk questions about every piece of fish in the display.

-signed-francissson-have-a-nice-cat-r-day

My wife is not down with this one so feel free to run with it…

Babies for hire.

Fact, there are a lot of folks who have babies or are shitty parents.

Fact number two, there are a lot of folks who are on the fence about having a baby.

See where I’m going with this.

People who think that they might want a child can test drive one.

Sign and evil man holding an olive branch. _Francissson

because I started on Feb 1st.  So the number of posts I have is equal to the day in February.  It is going to suck next month when I have to begin thinking about it.

Also, next month I’m going to start another tumblog - which I will try to post a doodle everyday.  We will see how that goes not 100% sure the most efficient way yet.  I may end up just snapping a photo of my notes with my iPhone and posting it up that way.  We’ll see.

Signed_Francissson((excited)).caffeinated

Funny *true* story.  Yesterday while on a conference call, another engineer on the line pings me via instant message.

“Dude! Do you hear that? Who is eating?”

Slightly, but not really at all embarassed I was off mute.  oops

“It sounds like they are eating yogurt with a plastic spoon.”  my comrade continues.

OK… that freaked me out.  I spun around looking for a camera, figuring it was a gag.

That is exactly what I was doing.  Eating a shitty Yoplait yogurt with a cheap plastic spoon from the breakroom.  How the flip was that possible that he knew exactly what that sounded like and was able to relay it to me??  Crazy.

Either way - eating yogurts and puddings has always pissed me off, because I can’t get it all out.  And I feel like I am being waistful… so

That is all —> signed smallerish _ffrraann

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Where or not any of this ever makes any sense doesn’t really matter.  It’s not the point.  The point is for me to do it everyday.  Which I have failed at.  But I’m actaully okay with ‘keeping up’ or have a single post for every calendar day.  Even if that means on Monday I have to write three.

The real miss has been not having an editor with a timer on it.  I recently switched 100% from XP to xubuntu.  (Which I am totally pleased with.)  But, have been without Q10 since then.  You should check that out.

The original plan was to sit down everyday, for five minutes, and just finger spew what ever came out at the time.  There has surely been lots of spewing, but not lots of five minutes.  I’m going to try and get back on track by using the stop watch on my iPhone, even though it won’t be the same.

Does anyone know of a text editor with a timer for Linux?

signed_confuzzeled_francissson kbye

I’m not being cheap, but I am trying to catch up from this drunkin’ weekend.  ~I was never drunk…

Just minutes earlier I post the following on Hacker News… we will see what comes.

Ask HN: Has Hacker News killed the stealth mode start up?

Certainly there are still stealth mode startups out there. But, why?

HN has become an awesome resource to test the waters. Whether just throwing out and idea or submitting a web app, the community here always responds honestly and thoughtfully.

To me it seems the feedback you can obtain from the HN community out weighs the risk of some one stealing your idea.

Link to the post.

signed _Francissson

Last night I had an idea about ideas while reading Seth Godin’s Small is the New Big.  And I think I am going to roll with it.  The idea is to get great thinkers and people of influence to dump all of the ideas they have floating around in there head, that they will never get to into a website.  For makers to then go on and do what ever with.

In my adult life, each time I have gotten injured I had a flat tire earlier in the day.

The first time was back in Kansas.  I got a flat tire less than a mile from my house on my way to my first marathon.  I hadn’t hardly allowed enough time that morning to jack with it then so I limped it back home, still flat and asked my wife to drive me to the race.

About 25 minutes into the marathon (trail) I slipped in some mud and sprained my ankle.  I still completed the race, in 4 hours and 42 minutes.  But was in a lot of pain.  The Dr said it was as bad of a sprain as he had every seen, and told me it was pretty dumb to have continued to run on it.

Then yesterday, I got a flat on the way into work.  Last night while taking*Ding*

Sign incompleted whatever_Frannie

Shiraz. Organic dill pickles. Gates BBQ sause. Steak fries. Cab sav. Italian sammiches. Waffle, two butters and syrup.

My fav color on the web is #278737.

c7u7e7

Signed nosssicnarF_

Sorry about that.  But at least I found an awesome photo.

Also, I attended Portland Lunch 2.0 hosted by AboutUs.org.  I didn’t know many folks when I arrived but it was a good time.  The food was great and the AboutUs.org office kicks ass.  Except for the parking… but may be not everyday is that bad.

Neat — Signed _Francissson

Squatters.  I hate them.

Yesterday a person (not worth linking to) claimed to have had his tumblr sub domain stolen from him.

As it turned out he hadn’t posted to it for months.  And only a total of five times prior to that.

Weak Sauce.

Pitchfork responded here pretty decent.  Pretty classy.  Good for them.  And it looks like they are keeping there domain.

Signed _Franny

This week I have been keeping track of all(143) of my RSS feeds. Mostly to get an idea of who is streaming the best content.

I’m not checking the feeds at set intervals just when I have time. But I’m tracking the number of items in my feed and going through all of them until it’s zero. Along the way I’m noting the number of titles that enticed me to read on, the number of articles and read in full, then number of items i thought were worth sharing. And the sources of the articles.

So far all is good. I had intended to carry this out all week - but am feeling 1. burnt out on it and 2. realize just how much junk I’m sifting through everyday. ((wasting time))*ding*

signed by me _Francissson

So this morning I asked her what she thought of Rope-a-dope Charlie?

To which she replied, “What is a Rope-a-dope?”

Seriously, I thought.  I told her that wasn’t the point.  And again asked her what she thought of Charlie.

“Who the fuck is Charlie?” she asked, obviously irritated.

You know - the little guys selling the pet hams, on the corner in front of the Olive Garden.

“I hate the Olive Garden, their salad is nasty.”

OMG.  This women is impossible to converse with.

((we stared ate each other for a long, awkward moment))

Listen sister - I know, that you know, who I’m talking about.  So - please just tell me what you think of him.

“I can’t answer you.  I don’t know why you keep calling him Rope-a-dope.”

*ding and decide*

Sorry about yesterday folks.  I thought I posted it but only put it in draft.  If you’re drinking it’s really more like stumblr.

Anyway on with it.

In my ~55 hour work week I spend about 20 hours in planned meetings and up to 10 in impromptu meetings.  WTF?  I’m a fucking engineer!  Not a manager.

Why do larger corporations do this?  Is it the norm?

I almost never have more than 30 min block to think or work.  This is jacked up.  *Ding*Shit*Rant*  More later then.

Signed_Francissson ranting about work on a Valentines Sunday cause I had to work

PS congrats Ohno!! Go USA!