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Thanksgiving 2007

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

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Thanksgiving Leftovers (annotated), originally uploaded by sstrudeau.

We again decided to avoid the insane holiday travel madness and stay in NYC for Thanskgiving, Our friend Dave came over and we had a mini-feast.
At some point, […]

jQueryCamp07

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

1:20 - jQuery & Ruby Frameworks - Yehuda Katz
1:00 - Date picker/calendar success story - Marc Grabanski
12:00 - lunch — will be posting notes later and linking them here. Paul Bakaus has some really cool ideas for a service to provide, for example, cross-site cut & paste and cross-widget communication.
11:07 - jQuery UI […]

Local 743 Cleans House

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

My friend Joe has been working for years as a member of Teamsters Local 743 in Chicago to oust their corrupt and ineffectual leadership and elect leadership that actually represents the membership’s interests .  It’s not often you hear good news out of the US labor movement, but the reformers provide that, in a fair […]

Midwest to Southwest: “Move here”

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Murph writes about his schadenfreude watching the fires in California and droughts in the South from water-rich (and increasingly temperate) Michigan.
Michigan and other Rust Belt/Great Lakes states need to start planning now to respond in an organized fashion to any demands for water diversion from Great Lakes basin watersheds to the south and southwest. […]

Affordable Hipster Housing

Friday, October 5th, 2007

I subscribe to the NYC HPD email list to receive notices about various city-sponsored affordable housing programs. Usually these are for subsidized sales in less “desirable” (as dictated by real estate prices) neighborhoods (East New York, Rockaway, Mott Haven) and rentals with strict income limits in similar neighborhoods.
This evening in my box appeared a […]

Why you should give Noel $11.11. Right now.

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

As some of you may have heard, on 7/7/2007 my buddy noneck Noel embarked on an audacious (outlandish?) seven month trip to each of the seven contents (getting the theme?). Back when we suffering in a past job together, I encouraged Noel’s scheming about this trip, never thinking he’d actually do it. And […]

How to: A $2,000 New York City Wedding

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

So, as I mentioned before, Lizz and I got married on July 13th. We organized our wedding in less than 5 days for a budget of under $2,000 and managed to exceed our expectations in every way. So here’s our guide for how to do a wedding on the cheap in NYC:

Keep your party […]

Take My Books

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Following up on my free techie books post, wherein I realize I’m keeping a bunch of heavy atoms in my orbit I’d be more free without, I’ve finally decided to seriously break up with my books. This is really part of a much longer process that began the first time I had to move, […]

Hey, I know that guy! Baghdad art, BookTour.com, Benetech

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

I spent some time in the kitchen and yard today, being all domestic and catching up on podcasts that had piled up in my queue and had the experience of “running into” three different people I’ve met at various points.
Lastly was my friend Dave Enders’ piece on Studio 360 about Baghdad’s only art […]

Nerdy Sunday: Twisted Facebook IM with AIR in the Elastic Cloud?

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Today I stumbled into AirApps, an index of apps using the Adobe AIR platform, which reminded me of this TechQuila Shots post describing an idea for a desktop IM client based on the Facebook API (your Facebook friends are your “buddies” and the client is a Facebook app). Pretty simple, pretty brilliant. I […]