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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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
