http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog I don't mind if I'm incomprehensible Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:54:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So far: meh. Right now I'm in the MySQL Storage Engines talk by Peter Zaitsev of the MySQL Performance Blog. Should be interesting. zomg mindtouch win @ booth babe. Think a mix of Bridget Monahan and Morena Baccarin. http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog/2008/07/24/oscon-day-2/ I'm live blogging from OSCON, bitches.  Just gonna be some random notes updated throughout the day... I was working during the keynotes, so I didn't pay close attention, but O'Reilly was talking about the popularity of some languages and frameworks, CakePHP was not on the list.  This is A Good Thing. Yesterday ... http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog/2008/07/23/oscon-day-1/ I learned that this year's OSCON coincide with the brewfest.  So there might be a lot of nerds at the brewfest. Is this awesome? (Y/N) HINT: TOTALLY YES. Oh god, I just hope we won't start yelling memes after over 9000 beers... http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog/2008/07/13/sudo-beer-me/ Yep, that's over 9000!!!1 The ad is here.  And no, I am not looking for a job in Milwaukie, WI. http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog/2008/07/06/the-pay-is-a-tad-low-for-that-kind-of-experience/ Congratulations, you guys: you are on teh failblog.  5,000,000 Firefox Fans Can't Be Wrong!  (Almost 4,250,000 downloads at the time of writing.) http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog/2008/06/17/am-on-the-netz-ddosing-mozilla-serverz/ I hear some people apologize for their inability to express themselves, and pretend to have their heads full of good things which they cannot bring out through lack of eloquence.  This is a delusion.  Do you know what I think?  These are shadows cast upon their minds by some half-shaped ... http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog/2008/05/31/borrowed-words/ Heck yes, the magnificent bastard agrees with me: ballet flats are tops. And since it's springtime, a reminder.  Ladies: burn your capris.  I've disliked capri pants since I first noticed them back in high school.  They are possibly the first fashion item I worked up enough energy to actively dislike.  Not ... http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog/2008/05/29/magnificence/ I drove with a friend to Kent, WA to visit another friend last weekend.  Aside from getting high blood pressure when I found out my longtime friend is a Republican who voted for Bush and yet haven't even heard of Scooter Libby or Abu Ghraib, and getting a painfully annoying ... http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog/2008/05/27/unaware-and-dont-care/ Apparently a guy named Al Gore gave some kind of slide show presentation at TED's party. http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog/2008/04/10/12-billion-elephants-are-tons-of-fun/ E-mail, Forum, IRC, Facebook, Last.fm... so I might as well mention it here too: Justice will be performing at the Roseland Theater in Portland on March 26th.  (Yes, Wednesday night. :-/)  I already got my ticket and everything.  So FYI if you wanna meet up. http://thatsobscene.com/chenblog/2008/03/16/justice-326/