Finally, after all this time, we got our first new set of chairs and table for our kitchen. Unfortunately, I dont live in Tennessee to enjoy it. So…if you are looking at this photo, there is a very good chance that you know as much about this table as I do….because this is the only time I have seen it too.
This Photo taken by theFerf
Working at PodShow is killing me. Im so poor I cant afford anything but cereal and I eat it out of a plastic cup. Ok, not really….I just do not have anything in San Francisco yet. No furniture (other than my trusty air mattress), no dishes or pots and pans, no cable, no internet….Im a sad story.
Amy, if you are reading this, I need help.
This Photo taken by theFerf
In another outing, proving once again I need to start carrying my portable recorder with me every place, I had another meet up with a bum…which was the intention of the walk any way. I took my usual route down Stockton Street to Union Square here in San Francisco and had only just entered the square when approached by my first bum trying to sell me a handful of marijuana out of his giant sweaty hand. But back to the point.
After convincing him of the fact that I didnt want to buy anything from him, he decided to tell me his life story. His name was Osiris and he carries with him a few notebooks full of hundreds of signatures and personal notes from people walking the street. Turns out he is a poet. We sat around for about 30 minutes and he performed his scat poems for me while injecting his comedy into the verses as well. From time to time, when others would walk by, he would make very nice comments to them and make them smile as well.
At one point in his sales pitch (this time to solicite a donation for a hotel room for the night) he emptied the contents of his pockets into my hands, a bold move for a stranger. The contents of his pockets were this:
I know, not real exciting, but there I stand with everything this guy has to his name in my hands. Why would someone do that? When he started asking if I had any donations for his poetic performances again I told him I didnt have any money…which was kinda true. I had a $20 that I had taken out of my wallet and put into my pocket (this isnt my first time talking to bums). I pulled my wallet out and showed him the contents, and he was satisfied. We are now friends I think.
At the end of the night, after many poems, scats and cigarettes, we parted ways. He was off into the night to make other people smile and to earn some cash for his hotel (or drug habit, whatever). Immediately after that, I watched some cops pull over a car on Powell Street for smoking pot in the car. The driver got a ticket for letting it happen and the guy smoking got a ticket for doing it. What an interesting world.
Alright, for the sake of my family and friends, I made a crappy recording of my new apartment as it is now. Im happy to have this little digital camera but wish the video was a little better.
Alrighty folks…here they are. This photo set on the flickr website contains pictures of my old and my new apartments. Oh yeah, and the ones that are furnished…those are of my old place. It was a furnished apartment for my first 6 weeks in San Francisco. The photos of the empty apartment…thats my new place. All I have now is an air matress and a plastic spoon. Not sure when I will have a chance to buy furniture or other needed accessories, so lets hope that my spoon doesn’t break.
All this time I thought it was just the PodcastAlley.com Website that went down for no reason. Turns out, MySpace.com has the same problem! I very rarely go to that website, but like to visit it from time to time to see if anything has changed. 99% of the time, the answer is no. I keep hoping that something new or cool will show up on the site that may convince me that I need to sign up and play. But back to the point. It was just kinda funny to see the error on the site when i tried to visit (click the image to see if full size).
I started using this on the PodcastAlley.com blog awhile back but decided to start tagging my own blog now as well. If you are interested in an easy solution to add tags with links to technorati as well, thien I suggest this plugin. If anyone knows of something better, please let me know.
Bunny’s Technorati Tags provides you with template function to easily display Technorati tags for your posts. The tags are stored in a Custom Field, so this plugin does not require any modifications of the database structure. The plugin adds a text input for that custom field in the appropriate admin pages.
I found this photo today and thought I would post it. It was taken last winter by me and was the first snow of the season. I dont think they get snow here in San Francisco, so I will probably have to back to Indiana (like I wasnt going to anyway) to see and play in the snow. Maybe Dave needs to organize a winter wonderland adventure party sometime in December?
Dear Dave.
If you are reading this, I need a winter party at your house.
Sincerely,
theFerf.
This Photo taken by theFerf
After a year of running the PodcastAlley.com website I decided it was finally time to post my picture to it. I know, Im crazy. In any case, thought I would post it here just for the record.
thats nice.
Ok, this one is not that new, and it is not that revolutionary, but it does make my life easier. In Mac OS 10.3 and higher, this app runs on your computer. It allows you to drag and drop images from your desktop or iPhoto alike. On import, it will ask you if you would like to resize the images, batch convert them, add names descriptions and tags and after you are done uploading…it will even tell you how much bandwidth you have used (in accordance with your limit) for the month.
Get it (and others for PC and MAC) at the Flickr Website. It saves you tons of time from manually uploading the images through the browser upload tool.
