eric’s extremeboredom

(All photos credit whoever they link to, I don’t have a working camera right now, sadly.) Yesterday was opening day for the new South Lake Union Streetcar line in Seattle, WA. This is not to be confused with the first stretch of light rail, scheduled to arrive late 2009. I met a group of friends [...]

I’ve been to a lot of conferences over the past few months, here’s a short summary of them: May ’07: Toorcon Seattle (BETA) I wrote a separate post about this, see here. July ’07: Ubuntu Live I took the train down to Portland with Andy, which is so much more enjoyable than flying, I don’t [...]

I’ve been working with a few other people to resurrect GSLUG, the Greater Seattle Linux User’s group. The next meeting is this Saturday (September 1st, 2007) at 12:00pm, here’s the announcement that Ian sent out on the list: The September 2007, inaugural meeting of the Greater Seattle Linux Users Group (GSLUG) will be held on [...]

I’ll be heading down to Portland tomorrow afternoon for Ubuntu Live! and OSCON. I’m really looking forward to meeting up with Chris and Steve, both of whom I haven’t seen in over a year. Hacking BoF I’ve organized a “hacking session” BoF at Ubuntu Live, anyone interested in improving Ubuntu and GNOME is invited to [...]

I have a Xen VM set up on my server that I give accounts to friends on, and I thought it would be nice to set up filesystem quotas, so one user couldn’t take down the server for everyone else by filling up the disk. Enabling quotas is easy, just add usrquota and grpquota to [...]

This past weekend was ToorCon Seattle (Beta), a weekend long free & invite-only get together of around 100 security professionals and hackers. It was a lot of fun! Talks were on Saturday at the Last Supper Club. A list including slides are up on the website. Saturday night’s party was at the Public N3rd Area, [...]

Two weeks ago (Monday, March 5th, 2007 – I am obviously a bit late in posting this) Galan, Ben, and I went down to the new Sound Transit Operations & Maintenance Facility for the official dedication and the first public tour. Seattle has been in great need of a good public transportation system for a [...]

Due to intense fog at the launch site, we weren’t able to launch as planned. After a lot of consideration, we decided to do a tethered launch to test everything out. This was a huge success, and proved very valuable. The balloon got to around 250 feet and took lots of pictures. All of our [...]

Over this past week, I’ve been involved in an amazing project to build a weather balloon carrying a bunch of cameras and launch it into the edge of space. We’re just finishing up some last minute details right now, and plan to head out to middle of nowhere eastern washington very soon. We’re going to [...]

Earlier this month I had the great opportunity to become the first person to join the growing team at BillMonk.com! BillMonk is a free service that makes it easy to track expenses between friends, and to settle them up instantly online. Particularly popular with roommates, young professionals, and college students, it has been used for [...]