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#1: The early morning:

#2: My desk at work:

#3: Lunchtime at the park:

Nearly always with my iPod. Two weeks ago I thought I had lost my iPod for a night and it absolutely terrified me to think that I would not have it and would need to spend valuable cash to get a new one. Luckily, it was found where it should not have been. And my sanity was preserved, slightly.

Additionally, I'm 39 years old and I have not emotionally and physically felt my age more than this year. I'm undergoing a radical health transformation right now which is to the good, but also somewhat troubling. Our home scale seems to have a margin of error of 30 pounds, but notwithstanding that I believe I've lost about 45 pounds in the past 2 months. This defies all logic and I find it somewhat worrisome, but I'll take it for now. On the tax tip, we've made it halfway through the year with taxes taken out of most of our income, so our daunting tax bills that have nearly killed us the past two years probably will not recur next year. One step at a time, all things change and improve.

I'm learning at the new dayjob -- working in a continuous deployment environment can be terrifying -- but in some ways it's like working at the hospital again. I'm working in the intensive care unit for a rather monstrous, difficult patient. Sometimes it's fun. I could do without the cynicism it creates in others (and me) but I'm learning what it takes to keep a large web application running 24/7 to customers using it in the thousands, all the time. I'm still a newbie but am surviving.

And that's it from me for now. Hey, onward kids.

Is anyone reading this? If so, why?

Originally published at ArtLung Blog. You can comment here or there.

• 16:10 Death marching. tr.im/dthmrch #

• 14:49 Reports of death of Michael Jackson remind me I once interviewed for Respiratory Therapist job @ UCLA Medical Center. Big hospital. Sad day. #

• 09:32 Seeing @chews show up in my podcasts giving a TED Talk nice surprise! tr.im/chewsAR Awesome talker at BarCampLA 's I've attended. #
• 15:01 I just got an email inquiry about a 10 year old mailing list post. #

• 13:03 RT @chews 70% of folks want a #singlepayer system. Last summer I spent 3 days in the ER (with PPO coverage) and I've personally spent 50K+ #

• 10:58 Bringing the database connection pool to a halt is not a great way to start Monday. #

• 09:35 I can tell I've lost weight but my scale's margin of error is +-30 lbs or so. So I've lost either 10 or 40 lbs. #
• 09:41 @kriskowal I think your new project codi.sh is a nice programming glossary! Looking forward to further evolution. #
• 09:47 @voidmstr I was quite happy to find you on twitter. I simply guessed that you might have an account - G-d bless consistent handles. :-) #

• 10:57 Another hero of mine: Ze Frank; RT @zefrank a rather long video of a talk i gave at webstock :: vimeo.com/4837290 #
• 16:46 Databases are disturbingly different when they have 4.5 million rows. #

• 14:19 @leahpeah brought me homemade lunch at work. I am blessed. #
• 14:45 The internet needs equivalent of anon.penet.fi for microblogging. Twitter first. #

• 09:17 The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. #
• 09:44 You can't start it like a car, you can't stop it with a gun. #zevon #
• 10:39 Firefox extensions I use during web development: tr.im/ffextlung #
• 11:09 RT @kriskowal I believe that 3GSes just formalizes its colloquial name when pronounced "3Jesus" #
• 16:16 RT @cshirky My May TED talk at the State Dept about global social media is now up. tinyurl.com/luorcw (((Prescient wrt Iran))) #

• 10:34 "Both franchises are set in outer space, both titles feature 'Star' at the beginning" ... NEEDS IMPROVEMENT tr.im/trekvwars #

• 12:49 @BrandonAriel False. "Higher power" need not be an omnipotent deity. Agnostics and atheists can 12-step. tr.im/athiest12step #

• 09:09 My one non-twittering (step)child graduated High School yesterday. VERY proud of her. She sang and I *enjoyed* it. Go Alex! #
• 11:30 Appalling Tech presentation on Flash at #flashbelt: bit.ly/vFVXE What a jerk. #
• 11:49 @oso That was @cshirky: Napster Speech 2: tr.im/shirkynapster2 #
• 12:00 @oso Shiky is a wonderful thinker and speaker. Hard to overquote him. #

• 10:39 @stilltron Happy Birthday!!! =:-H ...that was an ASCII fantasy football player for you! #
• 18:48 But what if I don't want to listen to Wind Beneath My Wings? I shoulda thought of that before attending this Commencement. #

• 11:12 Why avoid increment ("++") and decrement ("--") operators in JavaScript? tr.im/plusplusdisc #

• 15:02 Original lyrics in Warren Zevon's 1974 demo of Carmelita have "Smith & Wesson" and not "Smith Corona" as object pawned by junk addict. #
• 15:03 If junkie needs a heroin fix he'd be more likely to use his gun than pawn it. A typewriter is more apt to be pawned. Verisimilitude. #
• 19:20 Kuehner #

• 18:42 "I put the robot exclusion protocol on my door. Didn't you see it?" tr.im/robotstxt tr.im/googkeys (w/apologies 2 @ftrain) #

White Man by The Michael Gungor Band

via alliefab

Four Chords by Axis of Awesome [note: some salty language]

via kill ugly radio

Originally published at ArtLung Blog. You can comment here or there.

I prefer Chank.

Originally published at ArtLung Blog. You can comment here or there.

• 18:06 @BrandonAriel Recursion in AS is fine, /presuming/ you know how to stop the recursion. Infinite loops make baby Flash cry. #