Note archive: June, 2014

Listening to @Wittertainment’s pre-recorded (but live-streamed) podcast this week reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCSRnJCbmDo

Spent a lovely afternoon celebrating @Julieanne and @Rem’s anniversary.

@decadecity Thank you (as always) for your in-depth notes from Responsive Day Out 2—much appreciated.

Playing a jig on the bouzouki.

https://thesession.org/tunes/894

I had a thoroughly splendid time at http://responsiveconf.com/ today.

Thanks to everyone who came, and huge thanks to the great speakers.

I thought that the Swiss were supposed to be good at timekeeping, @Reichenstein. ;-)

In Brighton for Responsive Day Out 2?

There are plenty of events going on around it: http://adactio.com/journal/6921/

It’s so nice to have lovely people showing up in Brighton today; @ThatEmil, @RachelAndrew, @StephenHay, and many more. Welcome one and all!

Adding a device to http://clearleft.com/test …the Nexus 7 that @wordidden won by filling in a survey for @British_Airway High Life magazine.

Welcoming Dan and Yvette from @TeamUpMacmillan to the @Clearleft HQ to test with the device lab.

http://instagram.com/p/poTWaNwUuq/

Getting very excited for http://responsiveconf.com …just a few more sleeps to go.

Back in Blighty, just in time for a dinner date with @beep and @drinkerthinker at @Chef64degrees.

The Latvian equivalent of turning swords into ploughshares is turning Zeppelin hangars into food markets. Nice!

Your move, @textfiles, your move…

https://twitter.com/Blicsons/status/479996848833572865

Here I am in Latvia on the weekend of the midsummer celebrations.

I feel like Edward Woodward showing up on Summerisle.

Phew! Made it to @MillRiga. Just in time.

Experiencing Riga’s traffic in a taxi from the airport … right at the time when I should be giving a talk.

Public transport has become teeth-grindingly irritating, thanks to the default SMS alert whistle on Samsung phones.

Going to Latvia. brb

@KarenMcGrane Here’s that typo I mentioned when we were discussing Hyperion back in Cleveland:

http://instagram.com/p/pZPMPpwUtd/

Waving goodbye to @JMcNally and adding him to the bedroll on http://adactio.com/journal

Finding a typo on this page:

http://la-cascade.ghost.io/continuum/

It’s this bit: “All content copyright La Cascade © 2014”

OH: “I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.”

Ooh, another two tickets just became available for http://responsiveconf.com — grab ’em quick:

https://ti.to/clearleft/responsiveconf2

Here’s the (subject-to-change) schedule for next Friday’s Responsive Day Out 2: Responsive Boogaloo

http://adactio.com/journal/6893/

“That guy looks just like Noah Taylor”, says @JMcNally in The Albert.

“Yeah, he lives round here.”

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852965/

Thoroughly enjoyed seeing @Girls_Names in the company of @JMcNally this evening at The Albert.

Shame about the too-cool-for-school crowd.

Coincidence: I recorded two podcast episodes on Friday. Both of them were episodes 73

http://5by5.tv/webahead/73 http://unfinished.bz/73

Hey @Malarkey, let me know if/whenever you want me back on @Unfinishedbz. This was fun!

http://unfinished.bz/73

Well, http://responsiveconf.com/ is now sold out …but there are still tickets available for http://2014.dconstruct.org/

Going to Bark In The Park.

Cicciolina, Cicciolina, cic, cic, cic, Cicciolina Cicciolina, Cicciolina for Italia, Italia!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNWu7Ejm_TM

Did anyone else see that other LEO satellite going perpendicular to the ISS, almost intersecting its orbit?

The eyes of the nation turn to the television.

My eyes turn to the sky …ISS flypast in five minutes.

#NationalMovieQA Genuine question: Do you have to be somewhat of an asshole to be a tour manager?

Feeling bad for ducking out of @HackCircus, but looking forward to Mistaken For Strangers at @DukeOfYorks (+remote Q&A with the Berningers).

Getting lots of ideas from @AaronPk’s post on auto-embedding.

http://aaron.pk/a4Pu1

Note to self: the recent change to Flickr’s API requiring that requests are made to https URLs also applies to its oEmbed endpoint.

Time for my second podcast recording of the day. @Malarkey in the morning; @JenSimmons in the afternoon.

Tune in to @Unfinishedbz on Monday, when I’ll basically be doing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

Taking delivery of a bottle of Killepitsch, courtesty of @derSchepp. Vielen Dank!

Going outside to watch the ISS fly overhead.

It feels somehow fitting—and at the same time, entirely inadequate—to offer support to Eric using CSS.

https://dribbble.com/shots/1594586

Thinking of @Meyerweb and his Little Spark. #663399Becca

https://www.stbaldricks.org/donate https://philarmh.thankyou4caring.org/GiveNow

Back in the UK.

At Philadelphia airport (again), availing of the opportunity to grab a cheesesteak before heading home. The only cheesesteak of this trip!

Today I will mostly be in nascent spaceports.

Penn State to Philadelphia, and thence to Heathrow.

Watching many men rush to Reddit’s defence on Twitter.

“Not all subreddits…”

Listening to @AlexisOhanian, unleasher of some of my least-favourite things on the internet: Reddit, Secret, YCombinator.

Feeling inspired after listening to @Nethermind’s talk at @PSUwebconf—lots of food for thought.

For this morning’s @PSUwebconf, the part of @GlobalMoxie will be played by @adactio.

Hey, I was using that!

https://findings.com/

Landed at the airport for State College, Pennsylvania.

There is a single taxi driver here who looks (and acts) exactly like Gomer Pyle.

Back in Philadelphia’s nascent space port for the fourth—and not the last—time in one week.

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A beautiful sunny day. A beautiful neighbourhood. A beautiful house. A beautiful family going through the unimaginable.

Saw my dear friend going through the worst thing. All I could do was hug him and pass on the love, sympathy, and sorrow of everyone I know.

Thank you, @RustbeltRefresh, for indulging my rantiness.

Preparing to give the closing talk at Rustbelt Refresh.

Must resist the urge to open with “Hello, Cleveland!”

In the Cleveland public library being interviewed for “What Comes Next Is The Future.”

http://www.futureisnext.com/

Cleveland,* I am in you.

*Ohio

Going to Cleveland.* brb

*Yes, Cleveland, Ohio. Is the qualifier really necessary?

Philadelphia, I am in you.

Waiting to board an airplane.

Some people think of airports as glorified bus stations.

I like to think of them as nascent spaceports.

Resignedly awaiting the inevitable Apple apologism.

“It’s good that you wished URLs into the cornfield, Safari.”

This 3-part @AdamRutherford radio series is great science reporting:

https://huffduffer.com/adactio/tags/bbc,book:author=adam%20rutherford

Going to Philadelphia. brb

Listening to this story of ham radio contact with Mir blew my mind:

https://huffduffer.com/adactio/159705

cc. @ArielWaldman, @NeilTyson

People of Brighton: do NOT miss Hack Circus: Access All Areas on the evening of June 14th:

http://www.hackcircus.com/aaa/

Apple Kaiju Operating Systems.

OS X Knifehead, OS X Leatherback, OS X Mutavore, OS X Slattern.

Apple Jaeger Operating Systems.

OS X Cherno Alpha, OS X Gipsy Danger, OS X Brawler Yukon, OS X Lucky Seven.

The naming of Apple OSs and the naming of Culture ships are rapidly converging.

GSV Mavericks.

GCU Yosemite.

OS X Sleeper Service.

Thoroughly enjoying this new album by The War On Drugs.

Trying to work from a Photoshop file after working with Sketch feels like such a step backward. Layers of obfuscation (literally).

It blows my mind that there is a @ScienceHackDay happening in Medellín and New York at the same time—wish I could’ve made it to one of them.

Enemy Mine is on the telly. I remember thoroughly enjoying Barry B. Longyear’s “Manifest Destiny” and “Circus World”.