March 2010
1 post
I forgot Sunday
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
February 2010
27 posts
Dreamer
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
Business idea
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....
Tracking my posts has been easy...
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...
Why I hate yogurt and pudding
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...
Purple Music for MJ Day
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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...
Value
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....
Idea about
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.
Flat
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...
Well that happened
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_
No control over my time today.
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
On Squatters
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
The best stuff gets copied
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...
NSFWish
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...
Meetings
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...
Late show
Sorry a little lot late today tonight. Don’t give a shit though. I’ve been doing really good with this. Talk to you tomorrow am. That’s all.*ding*dong* Signed _thescribbler
Anger
Anger
Why do people get so angry when nothing bad has happened?
Yesterday on my drive home I thought a car was going to cut me off. They weren’t slowing down fast enough and looked like they might go. So I slowed down. This really pissed the driver behind me off!
He was going nuts. Honking, yelling, and shaking his fist.
Of course, as soon as he got the chance he got to the side...
iPhone
I went all day yesterday without my iPhone. I had neglected to keep it charged.
Two things happened.
One, I realized how dependent I had become on constantly checking email, rss, feeds, twitter, evernote, last.fm, etc.
Two, I was really productive. I had all sorts of time to think. Waiting in lines, getting gas, going to the bathroom.
Holy shit - the iPhone has really changed the way I...
Information Diet
I need to go on a diet. I have grown to follow to many feeds (RSS). And I have some suspicions… Not so much the trends that I can see in the Google Reader. But on the sources of quality links I recieve. Starting next week (Monday) I’m going to go about my normal web and RSS routine, except that I’m going to mark the source of every single page I visit and if it was good or...
Fear
Do you live your life fear a tommy-gun toting monkey? Seriously! That fucker is just waiting for you to make a mistake. And as soon as you do, bang-bang-bang!
That monkey is holding you back. Why? Because your fear of that monkey prevents you from taking any risk. That monkey doesn’t allow you to create. He make it easy for you to do absolutely nothing, because not doing anything is...
Mooch
What is up with phony people? Do you know anyone like this? …talking about a different thing they are into or doing every time you see them. Even if you see them everyday. One day it is a blog they are going to start writing about fashion, then its about sex. Then next it is there photography, then its law school - which they are so all about until they tank the LSAT (that they never...
This is NOT an Advertisment
Cosmo or the black sea of fuzzy love, my cat, asked me “Will the mormons have to TIVO the Superbowl?” Wow I thought. That would stink to miss all those great ads. How will mormons know what kind of crap to buy come Monday? And I don’t really know the answer to Cosmo’s question. It’s an interesting thought though. Going even one step further, would they have...
White Celica
I keep having this dream where I’m being chased by a white early 90’s Toyota Celica. An ST I think - for some reason??! It keeps following me through the streets Trinidad and Tobago, not unlike “Karma Police”. It seems so strange because I’ve never been there before. But it also seems so familiar - my grandfather was there during the second Great War. I do...
Open Letter to Google
Dear Google: You can have my first born son, just don’t fuck this ChromeOS thing up. You see I need a need a really nice bicycle. So far I have tried the OLPC, a Linux netbook and an XP netbook. They all sucked and I no longer own any of them. Lets be honest here. The whole point of Chrome is to get bewbies pulled up on the internet as fast as possible. Which is cool, I get that -...
Orange Drinks
I don’t believe Jim Jarmusch would fancy living in the Pacific Northwest. Atleast not if he is still into riding his bicycle indoors. I do however wonder if he ever fond of orange drinks. Yesterday I came across a blogger who claimed he didn’t like orange drinks, maybe that he even feared them - I don’t actually remember. I think that is weird. I’m rather fond of...
Boston Marathon and World Peace
I think that world peace is within our reach. I find personally that I am much less violent towards others when I exercise regularly. Therefore I propose that everyone who can run begin to train to qualify for the Boston Marathon. Why Boston? Well unlike other marathons the Boston Marathon requires a certain time to be meet depending on your age. For most common folks getting to such a fast...
Got Ripped
Well I didn’t exactly do this any early in the day. It’s almost 1pm here now. Whatever.
I did however write a piece on a different blog where I discuss web stuff. I also posted this item on Y-Combinator and kind of got ripped. The folks on that site are great, but very literal. Perhaps next time I will do better on the quality of my content or state very clearly that I’m...
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Five Minutes
I thought about getting a site setup one evening that would allow me to output a lot of my crap thoughts and ideas. Knowing good and well that most of what is running in my head is unoriginal junk.
But, even getting five minutes unplanned writing done each day has proven to be to much. As soon as I think about doing it I feel like it has been ruined. Also, once I have begun writing to a...