fuzzyraygun

I was posting a while back about people in their mid twenties and I was talkin smack about not really seeing roll models that age. Well I think Matt Mullenweg from Wordpress is a great roll model, and not just because I am writing this using wordpress. He is a smart, driven, articulate person and I appreciate that. Alanna and I went to an early Wordpress meetup in SF a long time ago and he practically chased us out the door so that he could talk to us. Alanna was already using Wordpress but I was using Movable Type. He immediately said I should try Wordpress, and you know what… I did.

The weird thing is, is that he is more of a roll model to geeks and older people rather than people his own age. More younger people know who Mark Zuckerberg is than Matt Mullenweg. Hell, more people know who washes Britney’s car than know who Matt is.

I have asked myself why I don’t really like Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook and I have a weird time with that. I don’t really like Facebook as a product I think it is a time waster and just another set of training wheels for the web. I have also heard Zuckerberg speak and I didn’t really think he was that great. He talked like a much older CEO talking about strategic vision rather than someone focused on the product and the people who us it. I think he is a great story and I think he smart enough to know that stories get investment capital in the valley not products and not innovation. The silicon valley is littered with great products and companies that couldn’t get themselves arrested because they had no story. Mark is playing the game. Matt is changing it.

I mistyped my URL this morning, and I realized that someone bought my country code domain name CM or Cameroon. I thought my domain name was weird enough so that nobody would come looking for it.

My brothers email address is walris@somedomain.com… Oh my god, he has been the walris this whole time and I didn’t have a clue.

I am the eggman
they are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g’ joob

Beatles Lyrics

Matt over at WordPress posted that he uses Adobe Dreamweaver and he has had problems with the newer release. Somehow I was kinda surprised at this. I have heard so many coders (maybe this is just the Linux and Unix guys) ripping Dreamweaver since it came out that I thought it was sort of the bastard step child of text editors. I use CS3 at work and have never had a problem with it. In fact I would say that it is the most stable creative suite that my company has used. I still don’t like the Dreamweaver for CSS editing. I prefer TopStyle.

At home I use BBEdit and Transmit because I have a MAC, but I do have CS3 installed on my machine. Alanna is strictly a BBEdit person. I have never seen someone kick so much ass with a text editor on a MAC.

Panic came out with Coda a while back and I tried it. I was not doing that much project work on home on my MAC so I didn’t really get to run it through its paces on a project. It did have a cool feature of built in terminal access which I thought was something no one had really thought about. I wonder how the product is doing? It sure looks super cool and has a really nice website.

Alanna and I had a nice dinner saturday at Jardiniere in SF. I liked it, but I thought it a bit overpriced, and while I liked the service there were so many people flying by our table all the time I felt like I was in Grand Central Station. It calmed down later on when all the people who had theater tickers were gone.

While we were there I noticed a strange thing about the couple who were seated next to us. The woman got up to use the restroom and the man paid the bill and got up and left before the woman had come back from the restroom. He just left her stuff at the table. How would you like to come back from the bathroom and find the people you were eating with gone? When the woman came back and got her stuff she looked pissed.

You wake up before me and shuffle around in the semi dark for clothes
I don’t think you know I watch you from the covers
I stretch out into your side of the bed that is still warm from your body
The heavy feel of the blankets is like a warm ocean that we sleep in
and we are like small children that don’t want to leave the water.

You are all wrapped in jackets and cameras and bags of art supplies
and remember that I am there half asleep, hair all messed looking at you.
You climb up and plant kisses on me until I smile and giggle a little bit.
Then you are gone, out the door, to begin your day
while I am left to burrow into the covers until the radio wakes me into my day.

When we meet again its as if we have been apart for days even
though we have sent little notes to each other all day.
We hug and I crouch down to hold your smaller body just a little longer
until your whole frame gives into me and I press me nose into your neck.
It seems like we could stay this way forever.

Sleep find us willing recipients and our night rituals begin.
The window open a little bit, the fan turned on
to drown out the nights little city noises,
the blankets tossed over us, we curl around each other
and we fall gently into our warm ocean once again.

We wish it could stay like this but it wont. There will be different mornings
Dogs and kids and homes to keep us up or wake us unexpectedly
There will be new night rituals as we grow old
and we will get used to the small metal bands around our fingers.

“People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.”
Jeanne-Marie Roland

It has been over a year since my first operation on my arm and I am glad to say that it is still attached. After the second surgery last July there was a time when I thought it would be painful and actually worse, but it healed pretty well, and now I don’t even think about it. I’m sure I won’t be lifting huge bar bells or hanging from a wire like a James Bond movie anytime soon, but hey it still works.

I was doing some reading up on Valentines day, on Wikipedia and ran across these cool things called Sailors Valentines. Sailors while at sea would make these octagon wooden boxes and decorate them with shells to bring back to their wives and girlfriends.

Some of them like this current one made by lynda susan hennigan are very intricate and beautiful.

I have been reading the Simple Dollar site pretty regularly and while some of the advice are things that I already do, I like the consistent tone and advice.

The biggest thing that he doesn’t really go into is one of the first things that I learned.

When at all possible “Buy in Bulk”.

Bathroom tissue, toothpaste, olive oil. Anything that you use regularly, will not go bad and you have the room for, you should buy in bulk.

Another good one is that its not one time purchases that kill you, its the monthly bills that add up. $75 a month for cable doesn’t seem like that much but that is $900 a year. 5 years of saving that money instead of spending it on cable and you could afford a used car or a really kick ass vacation.

Save, Save, Save, so you can blow all your money on nice things for your fiancee.