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Burgers

Jonathan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:31:14 +0000

My faith in humanity just decreased one unit. I saw a man so fat that he was confined to a wheelchair roll into Jack in the Box with his service dog, order a bag of food, barely reach the counter to grab napkins, and then leave. What an unfortunate state our nation’s health is in.

Two great clips

Jonathan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:24:48 +0000

Geek Toys

Jonathan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:20:00 +0000

I got a new geek toy today: a shiny new Roomba vacuuming robot. Woot.com had a good deal on it, and I’ve heard great things about them, so I went for it. As I was unboxing the device, I saw a sticker on the plastic bag containing the robot unit with this on it:

This robot contains an electronic and software interface that allows you to control or modify its behavior, and remotely monitor its sensors. For software programmers interested in giving Roomba new functionality, we encourage you to do so.

That just made my day.

Anyway, time to go search the web for cool Roomba hacks!

UPDATE: I just setup my Logitech Harmony remote to control the roomba…awesome.

Photography

Jonathan — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:14:09 +0000

Over the past month I’ve taken up a new hobby: photography. I bought a Canon 20D from my brother Kamran and started tooling around with it at every opportunity.

Yesterday, I went out to Capitol Hill in Seattle with Fred and Joe and took over 150 photos all around the neighborhood. We spent around two hours walking around and finding cool photos. Check out my favorite photos from the set on Flickr.

Also, you can always watch my Flickr photostream on the right side of my blog or at http://www.flickr.com/photos/decompiled.

It’s never done that before

Jonathan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:49:41 +0000

Year of Concerts

Jonathan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:10:40 +0000

I went to the local rock station’s holiday concert last night. It capped off quite a year of concerts…I’ve seen a lot of bands this year:

Queens of the Stone Age
Mindless Self Indulgence
Cake
Nine Inch Nails
Ashes Divide
Radiohead
El Ten Eleven
Pin Pon Dash (my sushi chef’s band)
Death Cab for Cutie (last night)
The Killers (last night)

I think that’s it for the year, unless someone knows about a cool show in SoCal between 12/19 and 1/4.

UPDATE: Oh shit, I forgot to list Radiohead…that was the best concert of the year, hands down.

\o/

Jonathan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:51:58 +0000

Something great just happened. I was on my way to work and stopped to grab some coffee. As soon as I pulled out of the starbucks drive-through, I turned on my radio. It was playing the local rock station, 107.7. From the time that I turned it on until I got to work, EVERY song was FANTASTIC. All of them were songs that I really like. This is a somewhat odd occurance, at least in my experience. They ususally put in something terrible by Modest Mouse or Plain White T’s, but not this time. I arrived to work feeling great.

Shiny Toy Guns – Ghost Town
Green Day – Good Riddance
Incubus – Pardon Me
Pearl Jam – Alive

The Pastrami Police

Jonathan — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:31:10 +0000

I’m eating a pastrami sandwich on sourdough in Portland. Some pastrami purists would argue that the only way to enjoy a pastrami sandwich is on rye. So, I could have the sandwich how it should be done, or I could have the sandwich that I’ll enjoy more. The pastrami police can come and get me.

Publicity

Jonathan — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:23:58 +0000

Last week, Microsoft showed off a bunch of stuff we’re working on at the Professional Developers Conference. Of course the first glimpse at Windows 7 was pretty awesome, but the thing that got me the most excited was the new Office web applications. Why? Because one of my features is in them! I’m one of 2 developers on the ribbon platform that they’re using.

Pretty cool eh?

Shameless Self-Promotion

Jonathan — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:28:57 +0000

Hey readers, go check out my new MSDN blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/inetpub. I’ll be posting about web development techniques and news in the web standards world.