February 2006

1000 WordsPhotos. Zoom!

Today I'm moving for the 25th time in 29 years. 2nd floor, 2nd loft, 1st place with concrete floors, 4th house I've lived alone, 1st in San Francisco, 1st in SOMA, 4 blocks from the office, 4 blocks from the Bay, braced by I-80, Folsom, Harrison, First and an off-ramp. Pretty flash view at night--look up to see the closest thing SF has to a Tokyoesque skyline, look down to see tranny hookers urinating in front of the Mexican Consulate.

Best feature: a few doors down a neighbor in a lonely remaining victorian crowded by a pair of massive concrete condo buildings with a well-worn stuffed dog permanently on watch in the front window.

New additions to my music library for 2006 (links to follow):

• Audio Bullys: Generation
• Bloc Party: Silent Alarm Remixed [1]
• Gang of Four: Return the Gift + Remixes
• The Heavenly States: Black Comet [1]
• Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas: Songs to No One 1991-1992 [vinyl]
• Kool Keith feat. Kutmaster Kurt: Deisel Truckers
• Martinez: Audiomatique Volume 1.0
• Miho Hatori: Ecdysis
• Mylo: Destroy Rock & Roll
• Sufjan Stevens: Illinois [1]
• Thee Michelle Gun Elephant: Gear Blues
• Various: DJ Cam Revisited
• The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan

[1] Thanks Krissy!

This is a bastardization of this meme, also seen here, here and here.

Four Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up

1. Architect
2. Archaeologist
3. Steve Jobs
4. Cargo Pilot

Four Things I've Lost

1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Purchased: February 1, 2006, 5:45PM. Lost: February 2, 2006, 12:30 AM.
2. 1 pair Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses. First donned: July 3, 2004, 6:23 PM. Left on bar: July 4, 2004, 1:50 AM.
3. Pile of CMGI stock. Exercised: November 1999. Sold: uh.
4. A star-shaped patch of hair on the crown of my head, due to Really Stupid King of the Hill game. Date scalped: June 18, 1989.

Four Episodes of The Wire I Could Watch Over and Over

1. Season 1, episode 1: The Target
2. Season 1, episode 3: The Buys
3. Season 2, episode 1: Ebb Tide
4. Season 3, episode 11: Middle Ground

Four Links to Anil

1. Anil
2. Anil
3. Anil
4. Anil

There are things you know, things you know you don't know, but it's the things you don't know you don't know that are probably the most interesting. You know?

Senator Russ Feingold finally came out and said it. 2008? Bueller?

Closure is an elusive quarry, maddeningly taunting you just far enough out of reach. Fuck, some days are hard.

Nick asked me today if there was a way to just reload the stylesheets without having to reload the whole page, which can be frustrating for AJAX development. I hacked at it for a bit and stuck it on our development environment, then cleaned it up into a bookmarklet. Drag the following link to your toolbar for CSS reloading happiness & superior quality.

Reload CSS

Update: Fixed it to work in Internet Explorer.^* Turns out the original code was doing too much work, adding/removing link elements. The new code simply replaces the href attribute with a randomized value.

javascript:(function() {
    var e = document.getElementsByTagName( "link" );
    for( var i = 0; i < e.length; i++ )
        if( e[ i ].rel.match( /stylesheet/ ) )
            e[ i ].setAttribute( "href", e[ i ].getAttribute( "href" ).replace( /\?_r\=[^&]+|$/, "?_r=" + Math.random() ) );
})();

^* Once. It crashes on the 2nd time, at least in IE6 SP2.