Note archive: December, 2014

Finished my last cup of tea of the year.

Now drinking my last champagne cocktail of the year.*

*(Okay, yes, the only one of the year.)

Watching this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures—it’s hardware hacking all the way.

@Seb_ly would approve! http://richannel.org

Heading out to The Roaring Donkey for a pint.

Sincerest thanks to the team at @24Ways for putting together yet another fantastic collection of articles on this—their tenth—year. Cheers!

All of my friends who have young children seem to be undergoing some kind of shared post-Frozen traumatic stress disorder this Christmas.

A good night out drinking with childhood friends, gently chiding me for turning out to be a complete fracking nerd.

Off to Ireland.

Watched “Youth In Revolt” again …the only film to feature an acting appearance by my favourite astronaut, Michael Collins.

True story.

A @SalterCane Christmas card, courtesy of @ChrisTT:

http://instagram.com/p/wye9QmKUBN

The @Clearleft office temporarily empties while we step outside to wave at the people in space.

The next ISS flyover is in 90 minutes.

Immigrant Song just came on the office stereo, so I felt I had to share @SalterCane’s take:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjpbPY-TE2M

Thank you so much to @ChrisTT for inviting @SalterCane to be part of his midnight campfire Christmas concert this evening. It was great!

To the untrained eye, the fact that I spent the afternoon sitting at my desk making a paper robot could easily be mistaken for time-wasting.

Back in @DukeOfYorks to watch Interstellar again, this time in glorious 35mm.

Watching the Geminids.

Watched the International Space Station fly by over to the west.

Now I’m wondering how @AstroSamantha’s espresso machine is working out.

Filing bugs on taco buttons (is a sentence that I just wrote).

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27545

It was an honour and a pleasure to be part of the recording of the 200th edition of the @WorkingDraft podcast this evening.

Vielen Dank!

The term “webinar” is a “shitiword”.

The Berocca must flow.

Writing a technical blog post right before going to bed ensured a night filled with mundane dreams of web components.

“Got you on television, babe.”

http://apollo13.spacelog.org/05:22:50:15/#log-line-514215

Watching Apollo 13 and following along on Spacelog:

http://apollo13.spacelog.org/02:09:36:12/#log-line-207372

Meanwhile… @NewHorizons2

Feeling somewhat lurgysome, so giving @GlennJones’s Hapi.js workshop a miss, alas.

I have an overwhelming urge to re-watch Gravity now.

SPLASHDOWN!

Beautiful, Orion, beautiful.

Another day, another beautiful @Clearleft site designed by @MhjAllan and built by @Gablaxian launches:

http://2015.uxlondon.com/

Deskbeers have been delivered to @Clearleft towers, which means they should be perfectly chilled for the 4:20pm Orion descent.

That. Was. AWESOME!

It’s back! Yay! Go #NASA_Orion!

Noooo …five minutes to go and @NASA’s @Ustream channel has crapped out. :-(

All systems are go and weather remains green.

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

Resetting the clock.

L minus 60 minutes.

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

Watching @ChrisMessina on Newsnight on BBC 2.

Because of hashtags.

This reality is weird. I would like a new one please.

Going to the Hop Poles for a mulled cider to celebrate the launch of @WellcomeTrust’s Mindcraft:

https://adactio.com/journal/7943

Scrubbed. :-(

Cutting it close! 2014-12-04T14:44:00Z

Ggggnnnnuuuunnnhhh!

New launch time: 2014-12-04T13:26:00Z

Thanks to @TheAvangelist for graciously offering to pick up some lunch for me so I don’t miss this.

The dawning realisation that I’m going to have to choose between lunch and launch.

Holding.

New launch time: 2014-12-04T12:55:00Z

Waiting for a new Orion launch time so that I can queue up the music from Sunshine accordingly.

Status: Green — cleared.

All holds removed.

“Race condition with the underscore S parameter…”

Sounds like launching a website.

Actually launching a rocket. #NASA_Orion

Hold! Hold! Hold!

Goosebumps: Go.

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

#NASA_Orion

All systems: Go.

Weather: Go.

T-10 minutes.

Watching Florida from afar.

Counting down… http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

New launch time: 12:17

Listening to a great interview with my hero, @Brewster_Kahle.

https://huffduffer.com/adactio/194141

He’s the Bruce Wayne of the web.

Tried out @TypedApp for writing my most recent blog post. It’s nice.

(the app, not my blog post)

Clicked on two different links to two different articles. Presented with two different popover ads.

Never did read those articles.

People who didn’t care when Yahoo deleted terabytes of content are now upset that Yahoo is making use of content people licensed for resale.

I’ve had this song stuck in my head ever since seeing Fahrenheit 451 the other night…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM

It worked!

Demonstrating IndieAuth + Micropub to Jon and Charlotte.

A reign of shoe fascism has descended on the @Clearleft office.

Fa-shoe-ism, if you will.