Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

• This morning’s coding feet was updating all my shell scripts and writing some new ones. #
• Test driving my new Apple keyboard and bluetooth mouse. #
• Rock Band 2 guitar is out for the PS3. Happened to see it in store; didn’t think it was out yet w/o the bundle. It rocks your socks off! #
• CD Blog Post: It’s In the Cards http://cli.gs/6gDHU4 #

New blog post on the Collective Detective site: “It’s In the Cards.”

• Cleaning up the office; reorganizing my desk. Downside of a glass-top desk: smudge-tastic! Upside: cool glowing effects from gadget lights. #
• Ran into a interesting quirk with Git and merging branches. Easily solved but the Git docs should be better about version-specific commands. #
• Damn I spent a lot of time in the code today! It’s been awhile. Knocked out a whole page of tasks; a page to go. Geekery continues tomorrow. #

• @AdamChlan http://www.monoprice.com for great, cheap cables. I swear by them. #
• Making “Josh Chicken” tonight; my own recipe. One of the 4 non heat-n-eat things I know how to make. #
• @traceym75 Given my limited cuisine skills, the name stuck since it’s my only chicken dish. “My Bitchin’ Chicken” has a nice ring though. in reply to traceym75 #
• @traceym75 Welcome back BTW. I assume the trip was rockin’? in reply to traceym75 #
• New software! @Brightkite 1.1.1 for iPhone and @culturedcode has Things RC1 out http://cli.gs/T14aX8 (Mac Task Management) Go get ‘em! #
• Espresso text editor public beta out. Working on code tomorrow; will test drive. Can it displace my TextMate? http://macrabbit.com/espresso/ #

• @LancasterHomes cute film. working our way through the pile of dvds we got. next: kung fu panda me thinks.
• How many people had a hanging plant fall and land in their lap during dinner today? Oh. Just me? Tough being tall in a short world.

Recent links posted to Delicious:

• Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator
• Sirius + StarLightXM + Airport Express + Airfoil = Streaming satellite radio anywhere in your house – (37signals)
• Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester Rubular is a Ruby-based regular expression editor. It's a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them.
• [:Mana Energy Potion:] | 500RPM Chaingun Crank up a Nerf dart blaster to 500 rounds per minute and add a round counter
• has_many :through – Agile git and the story branch pattern
• Audiko audiko is a simple service which helps you to make a ringtone of your favorite song!

• yeah, yeah it was an earthquake — been there, done that before.
• @gotwalt granted, not an everyday occurance around these parts. @tracibabe thought it was just a large truck barreling past at first.
• So if you’re west coast this is so “whatever;” in these parts, earthquakes are quite rare: http://tinyurl.com/8wtvo4
• @TRezendes Congrats on the successful procreation! yeah the inaccurate avatar is becoming a problem already. priorities dude!
• put off the holiday family road show long enough; at the ‘rents doing the Festivus thing. – http://bkite.com/03gab
• just watched “horton hears a who!”

• We successfully made a drinking game out of Hungry, Hungry Hippos and Cranium yesterday, who knows what we can accomplish today!

• @lilitroy You’ll have to send @antthelimey and I your PS user info. We’ll play online sometime!
• Happy Festivus! So did you get that Red Ryder BB Gun or not?

• just helped @antthelimey get the final stars needed to unlock “The Endless Setlist 2″ 84 songs in a row or something — good luck with that!
• All is quiet about the office… too quiet. – http://bkite.com/03c2Q
• FedEx has a funny interpretation of what “next day delivery is.” Package shipped on the 22nd; latest update: Indiana @ 9 last night. Fail!
• Amazon.com “Talk By Phone” customer service is freaky fast to call you. On hold while they call FedEx. Run around in progress.
• @tnats I really don’t think the meaning is “hidden.”
• @lfaren Same boat here. FedEx with the big delivery fail. Next day != two days later. Now they think they can get it here by 5! Umm… no.
• @walterg2 How many are you trying to load? Consider grouping or other methods to better organize POI data, like this: http://cli.gs/qyU8uJ
• @icelander That explains SO much! (kidding) Closest story I have to that is that I once run over my brother with a riding lawn mower.
• @larrymyers Shazam is magic!
• a capuchin monkey throwing darts. our quest to get him into MapQuest marketing materials continues… – Photo: http://bkite.com/03cef
• A Festivus miracle? Leaving work I spotted the FedEx truck down the block at another office and chased her down. Package acquired!
• Presents ☑ Wrapped ☑. Off of work ’til next year (but working on projects at home) ☑. Spending Festivus Eve home w/ @tracibabe relaxing ☑