kindohm: after 5 yrs I was finally able to get the word "alpaca" in my computer name and have it joined to the domain without protest from an admin
kindohm: acquired a spare laptop (same model) and am back in business with a fresh win7 pave + dev tools
kindohm: @kirstinj I had a grievance filed against me once for emptying a bucket of water
kindohm: http://twitpic.com/n34nr - Robot walk
kindohm: I just PBR'd myself ASAP http://bit.ly/JGcDH #delicious
kindohm: web app dev + LiveID auth + Azure hosting = world of hurt - unless you are wearing the secret Ring of Code Trickery (+3 agility,+1 charisma)
kindohm: got some data up in the SQL Azure cloud
kindohm: About to grind through a really big HR machine
kindohm: got a dynamic, multi-voice synthesizer working in #silverlight. doesn't require a pre-set number of pitches to be set to control max output
kindohm: @Pete_Brown thanks, and thanks for the examples and inspiration!
kindohm: hoping to spend more quality time with the mind-bending #silverlight synthesizer this weekend.
kindohm: /connect irc.freenode.net /join #silverlight
kindohm: ♫ Andrew W. Cake - Secret Mommy http://lala.com/zF5k
kindohm: http://twitpic.com/a6rqc - lettuce hat
kindohm: I swear I had a new pack of guitar strings somewhere... #lost
kindohm: went swimming. thanks to the chlorine content in community pools I will now be germ free for the next week.
kindohm: new 311 out today. can't beat a 311 slow jam.
kindohm: x.zip http://drop.io/kindohm/asset/x-zip
kindohm: shimmy shimmy shimmy to the break of dawn yeawwwwwh
kindohm: http://twitpic.com/3065i - Bought a gong
kindohm: ambient aphex twin. ooontz. ooontz. ooontz. ooontz.
kindohm: worked on my stand-up comedy I mean presentation for @TCCodeCamp last night. needs more #lolcats #tccc
kindohm: anyone interested in Farseer Physics + #silverlight for @tccodecamp? What do you want to hear on saturday? #tccc
kindohm: regardless of whether IE8 is "the most" strict to HTML and CSS specs - it still renders stuff differently than all else. Ah, web dev life.
kindohm: witnessed @haacked do his 5000th tweet. congratulations. #mix09
kindohm: overused word of the day at #mix09 yesterday was "gratuitous". Bad evals for speakers that use it today.
kindohm: all the morning caffeine and B vitamins are setting the stage for a big time afternoon crash
kindohm: sitting and looking at @TweetDeck is like watching life pass you by
kindohm: #Silverlight, WCF and I are in a bitter love triangle
kindohm: Driving to Waseca. it is an awesome time
kindohm: went on a personalized tour of the XCel Energy Center last night. Saw a ridiculous amount of IT infrastructure.
kindohm: Chaska wind turbine site will be near my house: http://bit.ly/3XLD
kindohm: How the heck do you begin a software architecture document? "It was a dark and stormy business problem..."
kindohm: at the eden prairie center mall of america
kindohm: Customer liked the demo. We are who they thought we were.
kindohm: absolutely fed up with developing for WSS on a VPC. WSS on Vista, here we go....
kindohm: Spaghetti Code podcast published with me talking about the TANKS game: http://bit.ly/3wu6et
kindohm: need some left-brain activity for about the next month
kindohm: WPF's UI Thread and I are enemies. I've bound its hands with duct tape and stolen its permissions.
kindohm: planning features and must-have polish for TANKS 2
kindohm: My #MIX09 10k challenge app has been accepted and published: http://bit.ly/11SBZ
kindohm: presenting my TANKS app to the Twin Cities #Silverlight User Group on 1/20. Just a brief 15-min talk.
kindohm: throwing my hat into the ring for the MIX09 10k challenge
kindohm: going on a cruise in march. hello aruba, I'm mike.
kindohm: 3D orbits in WPF: http://bit.ly/LecF
kindohm: @txaggie94 oh do tell where my dues have gone :) direct msg if you like
kindohm: dear former high school I will not accept your FB friend request because we've never talked. ever.
kindohm: Why ruin a good piece of fudge by putting nuts in it?
kindohm: game development has now been put on hold indefinitely after becoming the proud owner of a Wii
kindohm: So much salt on the ground it smells like the ocean. For real.
kindohm: everything I learned in college wasn't relevant until I started programming games
kindohm: everything I know about programming, I learned from programming games
kindohm: conquering the world, one #WPF 3D experiment at a time. WPF 3D + physics > llamas
kindohm: dreading a post-work, cross-town commute to my concert in a snowfall
kindohm: hacking #silverlight with Farseer physics. thx @romangeeko
kindohm: nothing like a family gathering around guitar hero
kindohm: if only the rest of the world could be a timer job. then I'd disable the timer service.
kindohm: eating a burrito while the left half of my face and mouth are numb
kindohm: I hart teh dentist. Love getting fillings replaced.
kindohm: wondering when to write the epic vacation blog post
kindohm: Waking up at 4:00 AM is awesomer!
kindohm: Getting up at 445 AM is awesome!
kindohm: biggest nugget coming out of #devconnections: WinForms is now a legacy platform
kindohm: Watching Erik Mau present at #devconnections
kindohm: at #devconnections. Dragonforce is playing at the House of Blues downstairs tomorrow night! I need to convince my conference brethren to go.
kindohm: downloading an abundance of music for the upcoming plane ride(s)
kindohm: 15 creepiest old album covers: http://www.oddee.com/item_96497.aspx
kindohm: bloomington mn smells like a farm right now
kindohm: jquery, ajax, and json have come so far... but they have so far to go
kindohm: vs2k8 sp1 install taking an eon
kindohm: doing some #silverlight development today
kindohm: completely offline with #pdc2008 this year
kindohm: bummed that he thought Tasty Nectar would be free
kindohm: made pancakes with Eva. Heavy dose of coffee too (for me).
kindohm: Overheard: 'do you speak asian?'
kindohm: The robots....are coming: http://ping.fm/CDwoa
kindohm: Thinking about taking hodnick.com out of the attic.
kindohm: wishing docs would write themselves. all the information is already in my head. fingers are such an inefficient means of transfering data
kindohm: @daveonkels no problem. I'm really eager to see the Nectar stuff
kindohm: yes, customer, you have to pay us IN ADDITION to the design agency to build your website
kindohm: with lala.com around now I might cancel my Rhapsody subscription
kindohm: I'm not using rounded corners just to be cool I swear
kindohm: oh yeah and the new face of kindohm.com: http://www.kindohm.com/
kindohm: @jasonbock I also just found out that the client is run by robots
kindohm: unplugging and going on the no-content-blocked client wireless is like taking a big breath of fresh air
kindohm: getting a robot fix from Kraftwerk
kindohm: @jasonbock http://flickr.com/photos/kindohm/2909846486/
kindohm: Eden prairie center mall has a foos table
kindohm: did not get a new phone. Verizon clerks took me for a dumb customer. I'll have to do some more of my own research.
kindohm: Maybe just maybe going to get a new phone today
kindohm: placed 8th in the Halo 3 Charity tournament
kindohm: ...lacking IM apps at the moment. bear with me folks :)
kindohm: @jasonbock are you going to start wearing clogs too?
kindohm: Inhaled crisp cool september air
kindohm: ... is the point of protesting to protest or to get arrested?
kindohm: on this date in 1998, I started my first job at UPS
kindohm: blogged: do-it-yourself acoustic panels http://tinyurl.com/6hnvhg
kindohm: finished editing a 7-minute video. I'll finish my video/picture documentary tomorrow.
kindohm: ...figuring out how to word my Tweets so that they display grammatically correct on Facebook
kindohm: @danmork Montana: the Mobius State
kindohm: going to the MN state fair today
kindohm: finished one acoustic panel last night. Five more to go.
kindohm: @txaggie94 maybe it's a sign that school is ready to begin :)
kindohm: ... I think I lost my mp3/wma player
kindohm: Grilled burgers. Dinner on teh deck
kindohm: Silverlight Radial Graph source code posted: http://tinyurl.com/57jxv8
kindohm: my mp3/wma player should update last.fm for me
kindohm: Hrm... Twitter seems to work fine in antarctica
kindohm: fark. now meebo.com is blocked at the client. I'm becoming completely disconnected.
kindohm: thankful that the contractor's estimate was reasonable and less than what we were planning for
kindohm: booked for Dev Connections Fall 2008
kindohm: freetime focus has shifted from Spore Creature Creator to ASP .NET MVC
kindohm: becoming extremely disappointed with Silverlight's WPF shortcomings
kindohm: Painted some doors. More coats later. I hate painting
