Category: Personal

Fun little toy I made: a Reddit dubstep application

Check it out: http://dubstepp.com/. Basically, it scrapes reddit.com/r/dubstep for YouTube links (tracks) and aggregates them all in one place.

I particularly like the search function. It’s actually quite useful.

Posted on Dec 07, 2009 - 06:41 PM

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Freelance Invoice Templates

A friend of mine just asked me to send him the invoice template I use for my freelance web development work. I did that, and decided that I might as well share my invoice templates with everyone else, too!

I’ve cleaned them up a bit, and they’re available in .odt and .doc format. This template is in portrait format - I have the same template in landscape format that I can put up later if you’d like.

These templates are free for you to use in any way you see fit, with or without attribution, and for private, non-profit and personal use.

Download here

.ODT invoice template
.doc invoice template
.PDF invoice template (not editable)

Edit 10/29/09: User sharkd from Reddit turned my template into an editable PDF. A download link is available here

If that download link doesn’t work, I’ve made a copy of it here:

Editable invoice .pdf

Posted on Oct 28, 2009 - 10:18 PM

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Sacramento Dubstep

After a long time, I found a Sacramento dubstep artist - 303 Sumatra. He plays down at the Image VIP Lounge once a month - I’m going to check him out in November.

The best source for dubstep in Sacramento I’ve found are the “Boom” events. I usually find out about them from 303sumatra’s MySpace page.

Also, shameless plug time: I made dubstepp.com a little while ago. It’s a great dubstep music aggregator/listening channel - it scrapes http://reddit.com/r/dubstep/ for tracks and puts them all in one place. dubstepp.com makes it really easy to find new artists and songs. Check it out - I think you’ll like it!

Posted on Oct 19, 2009 - 07:05 PM

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I’ve Been Loving This Song Recently

Gorgeous - possibly a better song than the original, even. The song is called “Archangel”, and it’s on Burial‘s Untrue album. This is Phaseone‘s remix.

Posted on Jul 23, 2009 - 05:28 PM

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Grand Rapids/Sacramento Differences, Part 1

Three interesting groups of people that I saw today that I probably wouldn’t have seen in Grand Rapids:

1. Four Mexican roofers/painters walking in to a Starbucks at 8:30 in the morning and all ordering vente vanilla non-fat mochaccinos.
2. Three attractive female construction workers, employed by the state, digging a big hole in downtown Sac.
3. A group of three very gay office workers, all talking quietly in Spanish to each other in a suburban Del Taco.

I had always suspected this, but now I can confirm it: the Spanish Spanish accent really does sound gay.

Posted on Jun 25, 2009 - 07:14 PM

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We’re in California!

So we’re in California now! Here are a couple photos I took on the way and while I was packing.

In more or less chronological order:

Here’s my old, old bike. Once I got a new one, I left the old one outside the back porch, leaning against the house. Nature soon hopped on top of it, perhaps wanting to go for a ride…

Here’s our cat in our empty living room. She looks a little sad.

I took this in Iowa. It’s the sign for the world’s largest truck stop, Iowa 80. It is indeed quite large. It has a barbershop, even.

Finally, here’s a shot I took out the back window of snow on the Sierra Nevadas, on I-80 before Truckee. It’s good to see the Sierras again.

Posted on Jun 18, 2009 - 12:45 PM

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The Guy Who Runs Look Who’s Been Busted Is Kindof a Dick

Since I wrote about the new newspaper in town, Look Who’s Been Busted, I’ve gotten a lot of comments and e-mails from people who think that I publish the newspaper, both positive and negative. (For the record, I don’t publish Busted - a guy in Ocala, Florida named Dan Oakley does.) While I think the idea behind the newspaper is kinda scummy - people who get arrested usually have enough problems without being profiled in a local newspaper - I think it’s entirely legal. That’s what the 1st Amendment is for - it’s protecting this guy’s right to say what he wants, which is as it should be.

That said, this guy’s still a dick. Bear with me here…

I got an e-mail the other day from a woman in Oregon who was arrested for possession. It was a wake-up call for her: she started going to rehab, and started getting her life back together. Then, a distant relative of hers calls her up to tell her that her mugshot is on the cover of one of the Clackamas County, Oregon Busted newspaper. Her children found out, her family knew about it, it was a big mess.

So, this woman e-mails me, complaining about it. I tell her I don’t publish Busted, etc, and give her the newspaper’s e-mail address. She e-mails Busted; the text of her e-mail is below:

Do u have anything to do with publishing peoples mugshots who have been arrested? Not even convicted, but only arrested? If so, read on please…....The sickest part of what u do is that u claim to do it for the welfare of the public, when in fact u do it 2 fatten up ur bank account. You don’t know people on a personal level. You are no better than a rapist or a murderer. If you are even indirectly related to the publication of these magazines, u were sent here by the devil and I hope one day one of your children make a mistake that someone else feels they have the right to profit from and make a mockery of. I am a victim of ur publication - I was arrested for possession, and being arrested saved my life, it saved my family.  Know this - in our lifetimes, I guarantee you will hurt, even destroy more people than I ever will. DO NOT respond to my email, u post your email address and ask that people write to you so that’s what I’m doing, but DO NOT write to me. No matter what you have to say, I know what you are, I know for a fact you have evil inside you and I believe that ur time in hell will come for caring about NO ONE but yourself!

And here’s the response from the guy who runs Busted:

Wasn’t that response just completely unnecessary? The thing that really sells it to me is the signature, though: “Sent from my iPhone”. How appropriate.

Posted on Jun 05, 2009 - 12:28 PM

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