Pardon the Dust

Since Joyent decided to end-of-life my "lifetime hosting"​, I have gone completely bonkers and switched my site to Squarespace 6. (Yes, I fell for the Dan & Merlin sales pitch.)

Somewhere in the course of ​importing my old content this got confused and old posts ended up living at /oldstuff/oldstuff/numbers/and/things but the blog index page links to just /oldstuff/numbers/and/things (which is actually the correct format).

I'm working my way through fixing them, but it's going to take me a while.

Stop that lurking!

According to Andrew Hyde, today is "Delurker Day". That means the three of you who read this should stand up proud and post a comment so I know who you are. You know, if you feel like it...

Checking out Posterous

Because Shay said I should, I am trying out posterous.com. At first blush, it looks totally and insanely awesome. We'll see if I hold with that opinion over time... Or more importantly, whether it's worthwhile considering how automated I already have things.

Have you seen my crazy chest tattoo? It's finally finished!

Posted via email from Jake Sutton's posterous

Good to Go

Check it, yo! I can now post from my iPhone. Hot! ---

And then from the browser: Gotta say, the Wordpress app (iTunes) is the best remote blogging experience I've had yet. Wouldn't want to post many (any?) links with it though. Lack of copy & paste hurts here.

In the Weeds

I'm completely under water this week. More later, I promise.

Meanwhile, I do occasionally post to Twitter and/or Plurk, and I share junk on Google Reader.

Plans (and assorted junk)

This afternoon, I'll be trekking down to Shelf Road for a weekend of camping and rock climbing with my bossmen and a few others. This is rather exciting, as I've done neither of those activities in yonks. It's also a bit depressing as I realize just how many yonks it's been. Based on the evidence, I haven't touched a real rock while wearing a climbing harness in this century. In fact I've only climbed on the indoor fake stuff the once since I've moved to Colorado. Climbing was part of the "why" of moving to Colorado at the time of that decision. Funny how things work out, eh? A large part of it is having people with whom to actually do things. I suppose I didn't realize how lucky I was to have developed the network of like-minded and tolerable people I had back in Massachusetts. Thanks, gang!

Then there the camping. I unpacked my tent to make sure it hadn't dissolved completely over the years and found bits of bark and moss from a camping trip I took in New England with Miracle Ed and Hanh something like ten years ago. Good goddamn!

It's all a bit conflicting, to be honest, because I can't say I've missed it all as much as I would have expected. I've found other things to do at times. Mostly I'm just kind of lazy, I think. Or at least I tend to have a lot of inertia when I'm comfortable. That's a nice way of saying "lazy"...

Also, snakes. ;)

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Unrelated: Holy crap! I totally watched The Master back in the day!

Meta: I wanted to add my shared items from Google Reader to the new secondary sidebar, but it didn't work properly. I might keep trying.

Up to Date

Just updating the old blogging software real quick like. Pay no mind.

We might update the look & feel at some point. Or not. You know how it goes.

Welcome

This here is what you call "the new server."

Dust & Such

I've got to do a server move this weekend, so don't be surprised if stuff gets all brokerated. Hopefully nothing tragic will happen.

(The same also applies to Brozo, the Husson boys, and Vedvik, all of whom I give shelter in this wild internet world of ours.)

Trsly

Andre points to Trsly.com, which may be a lot of fun. At the very least it should give me a place to put quick links to all the *boggle* I find on the intarwebs but choose not to post here. I'll need to see about hacking it into my WordPress theme, but in the mean time you can subscribe to my quotes with that wild feed reading technology. (Or not. The user-level feed link is actually busted at the moment, which sucks balls.)

Quietude

We've got issues with our cable intarwebs at the house, so posting will be even more sparse than usual while I a) dick around with Comcast b) order DSL and wait for the modem to arrive. Update: And we're back! Whew!

Full Text

Just an FYI to let you all know that I've finally switched my feeds to full text. Enjoy.

Check Baby 1-2

How is it now, Holzie?

Har!

Thanks, Hugh!

coComments

Check out coComments. There's a FireFox extension and everything. I've done what I needed to do to integrate it all into the BlahStuff for you kids, so have at it. (There's even a sidebar box that should show comments I make elsewhere, too)

[Props to Andy]

KnuckleRockers.com Plan of Action

I've actually be having a lot of fun thinking about this and getting ready to move into planning and design. First and foremost, I'm going to use this as a learning exercise to teach myself some new technology, so don't expect a very rapid turn around. I figure I'll either build the site using Ruby on Rails or Django, so that'll be cool. I think I have the option of using PostreSQL on the backend, so I might do that, as well. (Not that I expect this to be a big test of a database...)

As for features, I think we want the following for submissions: tagging, commenting, searching, ranking, and maybe a "favorites" pool (favorites could work as a binary ranking system... the more a submission is "favorited", the more popular it is...). Ideally there would be an RSS/Atom feed for the latest submissions.

Users need profiles with optional links to blogs, Flickr accounts, MySpace pages, etc.. They could also have some semi-social functionality like "buddies", and so forth.

Hopefully we can run out some t-shirts/stickers/whatev from the best submissions. There's some vague potential for some actual goods, but that's nowhere near reality at this point.

What else do we want/need?

Best Post EVAR!!!

Currently the "Knuckle Rockers" post has just shy of 40 50 comments (mostly from Chris, Sean, and myself). That makes it twice a popular as the "How Autistic Are You?" post, which formerly held the lead here with 18 comments.

Best of all, some of the tattoo suggestions are really cool! And others are pure comedy gold.

Updaterating the Bloginator

Upgraded to WordPress 2.0 and all that jazz. Stuff seems to work OK. It'll take me a while to get everything up to snuff (depending on your definition of "snuff").