Archives for the 'travel' Category

Scotland on Rails videos are up

Here’s mine, from my talk “Who Needs Photoshop? Creative Image Manipulation in Ruby.” This was my first time speaking at a conference. Do I look as nervous as I felt?

Who Needs Photoshop? at Scotland on Rails from bantic on Vimeo.
Engineyard is hosting the rest of the Scotland on Rails videos.

3 June 2009 | ruby, travel, video | Comments

Three is a trend

I’m speaking at Euruko 2009 tomorrow, giving an updated version of the “Who Needs Photoshop?” talk that I gave at Scotland On Rails in March. This will be the third talk I’ve given this year. The first was when I talked about the Popularity Dialer at Ignite NYC in February. I submitted a [...]

8 May 2009 | projects, travel | Comments

My talk at Scotland On Rails

I had the opportunity to speak at Scotland on Rails last weekend. My talk was called “Who Needs Photoshop? Creative Image Manipulation using Ruby.” It was my first time giving a talk at a serious conference and I really enjoyed myself although I was pretty nervous leading up to it. The conference [...]

1 April 2009 | general, ruby, travel, video | Comments

tripit, my favorite startup

I twittered about tripit after using their service the other day but 140 characters wasn’t quite enough for me to write out the reasons I like them. They’re my favorite startup right now because they do a really great job of solving a particular pain that I have had.
Tripit is an online tool [...]

26 January 2009 | travel, web20 | Comments

1.20.2009 part 1: 5:30am-7:30am

Our day began painfully early, especially considering that we had been up until after 2 getting home from a Frightened Rabbit concert the night before. Jenna woke me up at about 5:30, and we got the crew together and ready to go by a few minutes after 6. I could tell the metro [...]

21 January 2009 | politics, travel | Comments

2008’s year in Cities

Every year I make a list of all the cities I spent at least one night in. Here’s the list, by month. Cities I spent multiple non-consecutive nights in are marked with an asterisk. Here are the lists for 2007 and 2006.

January

Logan, UT*
Brooklyn, NY*

February

Saint Louis, MO (to visit my friend Patrick at med [...]

2 January 2009 | travel | Comments

the czech beast

In August I went hiking for 5 days in the hinterlands of the Czech Republic and Poland, and we made this video afterwards:
the czech beast from bantic on Vimeo.

16 December 2008 | travel, video | Comments

Blue-Ringed Octopus

My sister is a TA for a Carleton study abroad program in Australia right now, and she just clued me in to their program blog. It’s full of gorgeous underwater pictures, like the blue-ringed octopus:

Or, as I like to call it, the blue-ringed octopus of death. It uses a type of neurotoxin called [...]

25 January 2008 | travel | Comments

Melbourne, Distilled

When I was studying abroad in Melb’n I remember walking down Lonsdale street once when a passing, slightly drunk-looking Melburnian greeted with me an effusive, “G’day mate.” I wanly said, “Hi,” and he confidently replied, “Yeah, not bad,” as he strode past me. That experience has always seemed uniquely Australian to me, and [...]

16 January 2008 | travel, video | Comments

List of Places Slept, 2007

At the end of every year I publish a list of all the places I spent at least one night in during that year. Here’s the list for 2007. The ones marked with asterisks are places where I spent multiple, non-consecutive nights. Here’s the 2006 list and the 2005 list.
*Brooklyn, NY
*Logan, UT (Jan, [...]

1 January 2008 | general, photos, projects, travel | Comments

About Me

I work at outside.in during the day. On nights and weekends I do stuff and work on side projects, which you can read about here.

    Meta