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Man am I having Valley Apple user group meeting flashbacks or what.
go to cocoaheads.org and sign up for the mailing list for announcements.
Sandvox – dan wood… Wow, cool looking app. … Watson?
interesting stuff: cocoatech, greg hulands sftp framework, imediabrowser, epegwrapper, photoview, imageio
its freeeezing in here.
I need a obj-c/cocoa noob user group, this stuff is way cool, but this is way over my head :-
My brain feels like a melted-rehardened-baked-broiled-deepfried piece of mush thanks to Stephen Kochan and Aaron Hillegass’ objective-c and Cocoa programming bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch. I’m sitting at the chili’s at the atlanta airport terminal A, and I’m trying to imagine what it will be like to wake up in my own bed and not get a big drink from the firehose of obj-c/cocoa. The past week feels like 3 weeks to me. Every day was so jam packed with useful information that it’s going to take a few days of doing nothing but going through the books and example code just to come up with the right questions to ask the class alumni email list. I would absolutely recommend this class from Big Nerd Ranch. Both instructors are great, the material is useful, the accomodations are good, my classmates were insightful and interesting, and I think you’ll walk away a smarter person.
I by no means would call myself an expert cocoa programmer at this point. I have a good jump start, but a long road ahead. This instruction will help me get a better idea of what I can do, and has helped me understand the syntax and methods of programming in objective c and cocoa…. But omg, so… Much… Information….
As with the PHP Bootcamp at big nerd ranch, I would absolutle steer you to them. I feel like it’s extremely helpful to get guided demos from great instructors, and then have a full instructional book to take home to review. Big Nerd Ranch delived the goods again.
.. Just be ready for that firehose. 
Left this drawing at the museum. Be back for it later?
Subj: Rest in peace:canon powershot s45 Date: Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:27 pm Size: 232 bytes To: “Sjwl”
We bought you 3 years ago. We took ~10,000 photos with you. You had a death defying repair service last year. We loved you. We’ll never forget you. Why did you keep falling on hard surfaces this past month?? WHY???
Rest in pieces.
We’re almost halfway through our kitchen counter renovation… I gotta grout that side of the kitchen… tomorrow. Then, unexpectedly, the garbage disposal just died tonight. Water everywhere, lots of new smells upon cracking open the pipe connections. We’re having half the family over for xmas dinner in 3 days. Tomorrow’s going to be action-packed!
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Attention Austin, Texas:
If you were handed an OMGWTF patch recently, that was me. You can get a small sewing kit from the grocery store in the “gadget section”… usually next to lik, the shoe polish, combination locks, and lightbulbs. You don’t need to get real fancy, you just need to get it to stay on whatever you’re going to put it on. Your backpack is a pretty good place, or a purse, a shoe, or maybe at the hem of your jeans or something. Please send me a photo of your OMGWTF patch in action!
We just got back from 3 nights at Carpenteria state beach for some camping! it was a lot of fun, here’s the photos: Carpenteria Camping
check out my new profile photo for every internet thing I’m on, ever. 
Nice shot, honey.
On Jun 12, 2005, at 9:49 PM, deeje wrote:
So,What do you remember of Carpenteria as a kid? I had to see the pictures before I started remembering…
It looks windy…?
Peace
deeje
Not too much.. apparently it’s changed quite a bit since we were there.
If you’re going to camp at carpenteria, here’s some observations and tips:
It’s a pretty nice place, if a little windy. June’s probably not the best month to go in, maybe july-august or so would be better. We went mid-week, which made a big difference, I think. The place started really getting a little nuts on friday as we were leaving.
Trains run almost every hour. Even the rude hours. They’re close, too. It’s loud. I mean, LOUD. By the third night we stopped waking up for them.
Bugs were almost non existent.
Wind was almost constant, so, it was a little cold, and a little hard to keep the burners on the stove going at low heat. Cooking with gas is new for us, especially so freakin’ close to the burners. First breakfast: inedible burnt eggs, nicely toasted bagels. Third breakfast: buttery slow cooked eggs, nicely toasted bagels.
The beach is pretty nice. The sand is super fine, but there’s a lot of flotsam in the sand. Lots of driftwood and sticks and twigs, etc. They were grooming the beach with a big tractor on the day we were leaving, so maybe that helps.
At the state beach, you’re literally 5 minutes walk from a super nice cute downtown area. There’s a market with 95 bad beers and 5 local ones. Bring your own, and if you need more, go local, stay away from the 2004 special edition. There’s only one beer brand they carry that isn’t like the others, you’ll know it.
Don’t bother buying and bringing firewood, they have it locally for a reasonable price. We bought it in campbell and trekked it down. I wouldn’t do that again.
bring quarters for hot showers, 2-3 bucks a pop. Wash your dishes at the sink near the bathrooms, not at the faucets on your camp site. The bathrooms and showers were clean on the tuesday we got there, and they don’t get cleaned again until friday… they get kind of icky by then.
There _are_ racoons at night. Store your food in your car. Plan on emptying your trash after breakfast if you’re leaving camp, and after dinner. Seagulls tried eating through our trash bag to get to our trash one time.
Safeway marshmellows aren’t very good. Stick to Kraft or whatever sta-puft are.
Wear lots of sunscreen, constantly.
Don’t hang out around a convulsing seal on the beach, unless you plan on helping the marine mammal guy wrassel it into a giant dog kennel carrier and _carry_ that sucker all the way down the beach and up two flights of stairs.
Watch out for tar on the beach.
Later, you asked me if I’d go back, yes, we’re thinking maybe next year.
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ripoff artist – not too convenient…
note to self… find this track
I’m having this flashback just now… I feel like I’ve written about this before, maybe in a physical journal somewhere. Maybe I’ll be able to reconcile my stories someday… a little fact-checking on myself.
Anyway, as I recall, sometime around 1988 or so, I got to go to a, what.. 70th? 80th? birthday party for one of my dad’s dad’s friends from the biz, so it was a california country western shindig. I was there with my dad and mom, and my grandma. She was the connection here. Everyone knew her.
It was at this really nice house in the san fernando valley that you’d never guess had this capacity to entertain a couple hundred people, but there we all were. This was an old-timer’s party. A few geriatric official famous people, or spouses of, but mostly children and grandchildren of the stars from the 1950′s era local television and radio stations.
Anyway, Iron Eyes Cody was there apparently, because someone walked over to the mixing board, cut in on the music, got on the PA and announced “Iron Eyes Cody has lost his battery for his camcorder. If you find it, well, he’s lookin’ fer it.”
The irony blindsided me. Iron Eyes Cody. Lost the battery to his camcorder? It was like one of those Jim-Morrison-peyote-trance moments where I’d been let in on a secret about hollywood. I’d seen the wiring under the floorboards. This was the native American who cried on TV because of litter. I ain’t frontin’, I’m at least a 2/8ths native myself. It was just a nugget, a slip. It was one of those things that probably didn’t stick out for anyone as unusual… but for me, well.. the power of those ad-council commercials on me was real.
Don’t litter, think of the native guy crying. Dude, that sucks, couldn’t you just throw your shit in the trash instead of being inconsiderate and littering? Check out my homeboy here, he’s hurt because of your litter. Fucking asshole, stop littering. Jesus!
alright, maybe I’m overstating it a bit for effect, but, that’s what those public service announcements did for me. They made me sensitive to litter. I try hard not to litter. It’s not because of Iron Eyes Cody anymore, it’s just the right thing to do. Maybe it is because of Iron Eyes Cody… Hmmmm.
Flash back to the party… He’s missing the battery for his camcorder… and all my imagery in my head about this guy comes smashing perpendicularly across reality.
You mean he doesn’t just wander around living off the land, teaching kids to be considerate about the environment? Having a camcorder is an adjunct to having a TV, which generally means he’s got a house somewhere. Gah, which means he’s just an actor being paid to cry to guilt me into not littering??
*reality crumbling*
the truth about Iron Eyes Cody turns out to be a shocker, btw.
Just so you know, I’m not that Steve Cooley. I’m not the District Attorney of Los Angeles.
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The Joy of Tech has a great panel on Jef Raskin. Thank you Jef.
we want to thank everyone who came to our little art party and birthday shindig in Los Gatos! We had a fantastic time! The few photos I got are here… although, I don’t know how we didn’t get more photos, oh well. Thank you again!
