Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

• @tracibabe keeps getting BSoD on her Windows machine at work. She called me up for tech support, I told her to throw it out, use her MacTop.
• @aprilrox if you need some centrum, I know a guy here in the office who can hook you up.
• Had two meetings today involving lawyers and contracts. That’s two to many.

• Fahrenheit: A coaster with a 97-degree drop! Guess I need to take a trip to Hershey. Wheeeee! http://icanhaz.com/97degreedrop
• Idea & Ask for today: Please recommend one person you follow that I don’t. Repeat for 4 others. Let’s expand some spheres of influence!
• @zappos: @tracibabe is a great spokesmodel! Takes zappos minipack everywhere, was a poncho ad @ chesney show: http://icanhaz.com/zappos_girl
• Just had some tasty Peruvian dinner. My brother thought that the interior of El Serrano “looks evil.”

Recent links for http://del.icio.us/quixado:

• Lighthead - Caffeine Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.
• Fluid CSS TextMate Bundle at Meta | ateM Helpful bundle for EM based designs.
• Download YouTube & Google Video clips via bookmarklets
• Stacks Power Tweaks: Power Tweak Your Mac’s Stacks

• good morning pittsburgh! Now take my to your nummiest breakfast spot
• survived first country concert. Rimes and Chesney put on good shows; keith urban brought rock star A-game though.
• Observation: country artists seem to appreciate their fans and work harder onstage than a lot of rock acts I’ve seen.
• new coldplay title track “viva la vida” rocks! In car volume crank guarantee!
• dear Sirius, coldplay nation promo would be more effective if I didn’t have to turn volume to 50 to hear segments. kthxbai!
• I just had to look-up “how to grill a baked potato” online. Huzzah for the Internet; big FAIL for my grill skills.

• Post-it pile gone. Still don’t feel like I’m making as much progress as I’d like to.
• “What kind of music you play here?” “Oh we got both kinds: Country and Western!” Taking @tracibabe to see K. Chesney. I’m not a country fan!
• penthouse view from hotel overlooks stadium for concert. @tracibabe doesn’t like idea of opening window and listening from here.

• drew many diagrams in omnigraffle tonight, then stole some cars. productive evening all around.
• No. None of us know where that chalk outline of a body out in front of the building came from. Why do you ask?
• Some of the MQ crew are going to take @icelander down the street for a beer on his last day.
• Debating whether to take all the post-its/scraps of paper on my desk and move them into my user stories yet tonight.
• I write stuff down as I think of it then throw it on a pile to organize later. I’m pretty sure there’s a glasstop desk under here somewhere.

• it seems @ryancarson has had a lot of ice cream today.
• @aprilrox he’s not there anymore. Bought another place across town. Wings were nummy though tonight!
• @leahdemilio get job with Mahalo Daily so far.
• Observation: as my iphone hits just over 11 months, the battery is suddenly at half-charge in a day; used to take 3.
• @ryancarson It’ll be further out than you think, ad networks & systems are still ill-equipped to adequately geotarget and return quality ads
• Did some networking this morning! Helping to make connections feels great!
• @tlberglund That was the best “see ya” email I’ve ever read. The WFH wiki page was a nice touch. Shame we never expensed a beer. Now Run!
• @tracibabe is bringing me lunch. I hope she hurries, I’m starving!
• Week of aggravation continues. Going home to ride bike before settling in to work on fun project.

• Today’s trick: All my meetings on the Exchange server have disappeared. Now do I try to remember them or just stay meeting free?
• After another long meeting-filled day, beers on my deck w/ @antthelimey then off for wings at 915.

• Just realized I’ve been so freakin’ busy today I have yet to tweet. Check!
• General consensus is that today was a bad day and it needed to be beaten back with beer. Now back to a monster to-do list.

• @xebu Let me know if you have any questions on the MapQuest AS3 API for your article. Thanks to @umAndy for the plug.
• I’m with @hicksdesign, an AppleTV PVR would be awesome. Love to be kick my Comcast HD-DVR box to the curb. http://icanhaz.com/appletvpvr
• AT&T is down here in central PA. Guess they’re waited ’til the last minute to upgrade the network for the new iPhones.
• Irony: Twitter going down during the WWDC because of all the tweets speculating if Twitter will go down during the WWDC.
• I really like the fact that our team has worked “spew” into the powerpoint we’ll be using in our meeting this afternoon.
• @tlberglund We’ve tied a carrot to ours and have named it the “product whip.”
• @tlberglund Yeah we bought 3 of them. @antthelimey and I have the one, two went to Denver and one of those is about to go to Dulles. Trendy!
• @mhusson You’re not trying hard enough. I hate balancing playlists, photos and the number of Dr. Who episodes I can load up on the iPhone.