Archive for January, 2009
look, somebody knows me!
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under general
so, eli tagged me in an internet meme. apparently I’m supposed to list seven things about myself that are interesting or obscure, then tag 7 other people to do the same. This should be interesting… as I’m barely introspective enough to think of seven things people might find interesting or obscure, and I’m not sure I know seven people that haven’t already been tagged.
Hilarious.
Ok, without further ado…
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I went to hardcore punk shows with my mom.
I used to be very involved in the punk scene in Philly, even though I am not musical in the least. I helped my mother research her doctoral dissertation about the sXe scene in Philly… that involved going to a bunch of hXc shows with my mom. Incidentally, to this day, I don’t own Minor Threat’s discography, but I have permanently borrowed my mother’s copy.
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I used to have really long hair that confused people
I married my high school sweetheart last year, about 10 1/2 years after we graduated from high school. That is neither obscure, nor interesting. However, knowing that when she first met me she didn’t know if I was a guy or a girl is both obscure and interesting. (I was chubby and had really long hair when I was 13… it wasn’t the only time people didn’t know, though it was decidedly the most hilarious.)
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I used to be an art nerd
When I applied to college I applied to two types of schools; those with excellent math programs (Princeton, MIT, UC Berkeley) and fine art schools (RISD). I chose math and went to UCB (for about three months then dropped out to be an options market maker on the PCX options exchange…). I stopped doing art for a couple years, and started again in 1999, at the time, I would sign all my paintings with “detour” and the year. That is where detour1999 came from. I don’t paint anymore, but the name stuck.
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I am French
I am a citizen of the United States (and also of France.. shhh, I’m not sure if dual citizenship is allowed in the US atm.)
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I read a lot of mysteries
I read a lot of mysteries. I generally go through about 1 a week. I like them because I don’t have to think at all. I have recently started [re]reading a bunch of Agatha Christie books. I generally read as my main source of relaxation rather than TV or video games.
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I am a Quaker
I am a mostly non-practicing Quaker. I was raised Quaker and still consider myself to be an atheistic Quaker. Basically this means that I try not to be a dick, I try to value all people, and I’m non-violent. It does not mean that I eat a lot of oatmeal, or that I worship Wilford Brimley (which people have thought was what Quakerism is all about, it’s not).
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I like old watercooled volkswagens
I am a very weird old watercooled volkswagen fanatic. I have a 1991 Jetta diesel that I bought about four years ago for $450 that I drove every day for about three years. It still runs awesome even with it’s 280K miles, even though I haven’t driven it in a while. I also have a 1981 Rabbit Pick-up (aka the caddy) that will be getting a turbo diesel motor that I am rebuilding that I tore out of my other ‘91 Jetta that I scrapped. I also rebuilt an ‘84 rabbit diesel for my parents… I could go on for hours about that…
so, on to the tagging some of these people aren’t currently blogging. those people are hopefully going to start:
joe curlee - is crazy
bryan knight - we do a lot of websites together.
aaron salmon- is a great friend and makes the internet pretty.
jake nickell - he made threadless, and makes me laugh all the time.
armelle richard - my sister is amazingly awesome.
atkins meyer - is both hilarious and crazy smart.
jeffrey kalmikoff- is amazing and makes things pretty.
The rules:
- Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
- Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
- Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
- Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.
damn, that only took me like 3 weeks…
weird people visit this site.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under google
I was just checking over some google analytics stuff, and checked the keywords that people who ended up on this blog used to search… here’s a quick selection:
- detour1999
- 1999.com
- first time in the ass
- google and friends and people
ok, ok, wat?, ok…
seriously wtf? hilarious.
-d.
the new version of PDT is awesome.
Posted by detour1999 | Filed under nerdly, tech-i-use
One thing that I should remember to do (in addition to my tech-i-use page) is get the RSS feed for releases… then I wouldn’t have been three days late to the PDT 2.0 party.
I’ve moved one of my dev machines to PDT 2.0 (eclipse 3.4) and so far it’s pretty cool (it fixed my issue that I had been having with PDT 1.0 (eclipse 3.1[?]).
I’ll report back when I’ve used it a little more, but my first impression is that it is as good as the old one, and Eclipse loads in almost no time, relative to how it used to be.
Also, I’m using the “press-this” tool for wordpress, it’s pretty nice.
excellent.
-d.