eric’s extremeboredom

I’d like to extend huge thanks to the hundreds and hundreds of people who have showed interested in Synapse these first few weeks. This project is a huge undertaking, and all the support really means a lot.
I’ve read every tweet and nearly every comment on Reddit, Lifehacker, and other blogs, and the message is clear: [...]

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My roomba tried to commit suicide today.

It managed to line up the two shoes and box you see here trapping itself, then went around in circles until it’s battery died.
Sadly, this Roomba has hated life from the very beginning. The day after I got it, it forced it’s way under my couch scratching it’s self [...]

(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 downtown at [...]

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 [...]

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 attend.
Here’s the [...]

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, which was temporarily converted [...]

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 long [...]

Casey posted a link to this song in IRC today, I like it quite a bit:
 Jonathan Coulton – Code Monkey
The song is under a Creative Commons license which allows for redistribution with very few conditions, but if you like it, I ask that you seriously consider paypaling $1 to the artist. DRM-free music that makes [...]

Vote today.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin

UPDATE: It seems a few people everyone missed the point here. I was most certainly not suggesting that anyone should vote republican, I was trying to point out the foolishness of this advertisement. I [...]