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sums it up…

… don’t wait for the good woman. She doesn’t exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts. The female loves to play man against man, and if she is in a position to do it there is not one who will not resist. The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal. and torture and damnation. Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

le sigh

Group Photo, originally uploaded by RabbiDavid.

Damn, my Pepe Le Pew streak is visible from a distance.

So I ducked out early from WordCamp, after all the scheduled talks occurred. A busy night ahead requires some R&R on my part.

I think I got out of it what I wanted. It was a shame that the two dev related talks (themes and plugins) were held at the same time.

More than any nugget of information I got during a talk, I think the most valuable thing I took away was a general sense of what is possible to accomplish with the framework in general. I purchsed a couple of new domain names today and hopefully some of these new ideas will surface there shortly.

tags: wordcampdx

Its time once again to mentally round up the shows that are coming up in the next few weeks here in the Portland area.

Saturday 9/27 - The Prids are the openers for A Place to Bury Strangers at The Doug Fir. I’m surprised that they are still listed given their near fatal accident earlier this year.

Monday 9/29 - Mission Of Burma at Doug Fir. Saw them here last time and it was a great show.

Tuesday 9/30 - Monotonix and Silver Jews at Wonder. People were raving about their MFNW show at Satyricon.

Thursday 10/02 - Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip at Doug Fir. They were awesome at Coachella this year. A must see show.

Sunday 10/05 - The Dandy Warhols and The Upsidedown at The Roseland. Have to go and say hi to the kids after they return from a national tour.

Monday 10/06 - Sigur Ros at The Schnitz. Heard tickets were going for outrageous prices. Might have to skip it.

Thursday 10/09 - Weezer! and Tokyo Police Club! at the Coliseum?

plus coming soon The Rumble Strips, Sisters of Mercy, and Ogre…

…doesn’t seem right to me.

Apparently, they are the mascots for Pennsylvania’s Quinto lottery. Are they trying to identify with their target market? Trying to increase female particpation? Just a bunch of dicks?

Another billion dollar idea here folks.

Currently, I am reading a hard cover book that is nearly 1000 pages long. Amazon pegs its weight at 2.8 pounds. Now that’s a hefty chunk of words to be throwing in my messenger bag and toting around all day to read on the MAX or at lunch.

So, here it is. Sliced Books. Allow me to purchase a volume where the binding is designed to cleanly separate into more manageable chunks - 100 pages or so. Then, I can just grab the volume that I am on, and am good to go.

As always, if you are a book publisher and you use this idea, I want my vig!

For those of you young’uns here on the interwebs, suck.com was the original daily snark. the archives are still online. check ‘em out.

No, not NerdCamp, although I’m sure there will be some similarities. This Saturday is WordCamp, a day long conference/seminar about all things WordPress. So why did I sign up for it last month?

True, this thing runs on WordPress, but thats not exactly a compelling reason to go. I guess it comes down to a couple of reasons. When I first started tackling custom themes, the whys and wherefores weren’t exactly obvious. I do have a better handle on the structure now. My reliance on a modded theme instead of using the custom one that is currently a collection of images and CSS snippets on my hard drive is, however, an indication that my handle is loosely gripped.

I also want to know more about the internal plug-in architecture. I have a couple of ideas for side projects that need more than blog functionality, but I am reluctant to build out a whole web site. When I do that, I tend to go overboard, overengineer, etc. If I can extend the WordPress platform for those bits of functionality I need, it would be a big win.

Finally, I guess its to network a bit. As a fairly well experienced software architect in this town, I tend to shy away from professional networking. Its all a bit cheesy and mostly chest puffing. Perhaps if I come at it a bit sideways, through my avocation instead of vocation, I can build up a more robust circle of acquaintances that, when it comes down to it, are still technical in nature.

So, thats where I’ll be Saturday. Cheers!

but do you have the right guy?

I just received in the mail an advance reading copy of a book - Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland. I wasn’t aware it was coming, so its like a birthday gift from someone I don’t know.

Unaware of who the author is, I looked her up on the wiki. Hmmm… winner of two Romance Writers of America awards? writes single-title paranormal suspense romance novels? romance is not normally my cup of tea. And those of you who know, know that I don’t even like tea.

The back cover does mention urban fantasy, psychics and demons, so maybe this is a departure.

I’m still deep into Anathem, but I’ll give this a read afterwards and let you know how it was.

For my birthday, my parents sent me a DVD of the family photos. Here are some that stood out.

Mom and Dad at Playboy Club

My “gang” in North Hollywood

Can I interest you in this little-used convertible?

Check out that afro!