Chris Brentano

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January
Woah, Serato scratch live is amazing. I’m sold.
Feb 1st
Whoops, forgot link: http://tinyurl.com/2ebtsn
Jan 31st
Great 4 hour dubstep radio session
Jan 31st
Excited about these forthcoming releases from Immerse Recs, http://tinyurl.com/yo4j3o and...
Jan 31st
Until Adobe AIR apps use less than 75MB of RAM to display freaking text, I’ll never use them....
Jan 31st
Sure enough, I decide to switch to IM/XMPP for Twitter, and it has gone offline.
Jan 31st
Switching to using XMPP for my Twitter addiction. One less app that I need to have open.
Jan 31st
A good free (beer) album from Beem, an artist in Sweden - http://beem.se - either VBR mp3s or Apple...
Jan 31st
Seems like a particularly crappy day out.
Jan 31st
R.I.P. Netscape Party this Friday at Backspace http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/420693/
Jan 30th
I really need to check Twitter through out the day before responding to already answered tweets.
Jan 30th
Impressed with how @turoczy is live-tweeting #demo08.
Jan 30th
One of them said ‘Firefox rules’, referring to my hat, heh.
Jan 30th
Their conversations are funny, like talking about how bugs taste.
Jan 30th
They’re going on a field trip to city hall.
Jan 30th
A huge group of grade schoolers just boarded the bus.
Jan 30th
Oooh, Autechre playing at the Doug Fir on April 6th! Not to be missed.
Jan 30th
Just spotted a TV commercial based on Cover Flow. Clever, but not very creative.
Jan 30th
Grunty Gus (Eloise) wasn’t sleeping well in her moses basket, but apparently my shoulder is...
Jan 30th
thinking about heading home after a productive day of killing helpdesk tickets. tomorrow planning to...
Jan 30th
err, Kemistry and Storm
Jan 30th
Jungle needs a comeback, so much DnB sucks so badly. Listening to Kemistry Storm on One in the...
Jan 30th
Twitter Storm Team - looks like a rain/snow mix outside in Downtown. Alas, it’s too warm to do...
Jan 29th
For f’s sake Thunderbird, if I compose the message in HTML then f’ing send it in HTML....
Jan 29th
Going through a lot of trouble to sample an Ennio Morricone song.
Jan 29th
Operation Let Mom Sleep so far a semi-success. Thank god for pumps.
Jan 29th
I love Asterisk. I’d have to be dragged kicking and screaming to administer any other phone...
Jan 28th
Entourage 2008’s HTML rendering is spotty — some messages are fine, some are all HTML...
Jan 28th
Gah, every time Mail.app reindexes my inbox, it screws up my blackberry and I get a flood of...
Jan 28th
Whoops, I’m a liar, there is a small sprinking of snow out on the ground, and the temp is...
Jan 28th
Twitter Storm Team: Snowless in NE. :(
Jan 28th
For years been an IPA stalwart, but losing ground lately to Scotch and Port. So many delicious...
Jan 27th
Got a fire going in the wood stove, Pop Pop is cooking dinner, Eloise is with Nanny and Mom,...
Jan 27th
Updating my old iBook to give to my mother-in-law.
Jan 26th
Not surprised that some controls in Mac Office 2008 look like old OS 9/Classic controls.
Jan 26th
Want to brew my own beer. Looking up resources to find out how to get started.
Jan 26th
Looking forward to @igniteportland 2 since I missed the first one. Couldn’t think of a better...
Jan 26th
Now transferring songs from her iPod into iTunes using senuTi.
Jan 26th
Went on a date earlier with Martha to Ciao Vita. Had mascarpone cheesecake and some Macallan. Yum.
Jan 26th
Worried that my father-in-law is going to try and “fix” the toilet while I’m at...
Jan 25th
Lazyweb, is there a good Gnome or KDE twitter client? I needs mah tweets yo.
Jan 24th
Evidently an error: NetNewsWire’s highlight...
Jan 24th
Failing to actively load or unload at the airport. Stupid ordinance.
Jan 24th
Headed home after drinks with IT and our hardware vendor Scott, where I ran into my good friend...
Jan 24th
Listening to Youngsta’s most recent show on Rinse FM podcast, on the 8 to work.
Jan 23rd
@kenefsky Dry air + cold temperatures = lots o static.
Jan 23rd
Eloise is out like a light, after trying a few different things to get her to sleep. Probably...
Jan 23rd
@spinnerin You can catch Performance Today on 89.9 now (you might know that already).
Jan 22nd
Fancy Pants Man, World 2 http://tinyurl.com/2ft9sg
Jan 22nd
Just cleaned up a minor rat infestation in the garage. Took all the precautions. Former infested...
Jan 22nd
On de bus home.
Jan 22nd
@michaelsigler If you’re gonna brag, you gotta share!
Jan 22nd
Sipping coffee, checking news before heading to work. Damn it looks cold and windy out.
Jan 21st
@les Have you tried titantv.com? It’s not bad.
Jan 20th
Interesting story, http://tinyurl.com/yrqqmd
Jan 20th
@geekygirldawn Yeah, I’m surprised that Jive doesn’t acknowledge MLK Jr Day as a...
Jan 20th
Setting up my own OpenArena server. I am a sucker for a good open source FPS.
Jan 20th
Pardon my language, Bush is a fucking asshole, http://tinyurl.com/37m3e2
Jan 19th
Hmm, NewsGator syncing between two instances of NNW is resulting in a huge mess.
Jan 19th
@PdxPipeline I’ve had more than my fair share of Schnitzelwiches, and they’re great. On...
Jan 18th
Wish that Toonlet had the old characters from Microsoft Chat. But very fun.
Jan 18th
Not so crazy about the MacBook Air http://tinyurl.com/299e8p
Jan 18th
It always cracks me up when I see job listings like “IT Mgr/CAD Tech” or “Asst Biz...
Jan 18th
@ravenzachary Hehe, I’ll look forward to it!
Jan 18th
Twitter Storm Team Update: Light snow in Northeast. Very light.
Jan 18th
Any business that provides text information via a PDF on their site versus HTML text deserves to be...
Jan 17th
Wishing Amazon, eBay and PayPal supported OpenID. Sigh.
Jan 17th
@spinnerin Do they then deliver, or do you just pull-up and pick-up? I’ve been curious to try...
Jan 16th
Wish you could browse only movies that you could rent in the iTS.
Jan 16th
Yay! EyeTV 3!
Jan 16th
Not so crazy about the MacBook Air http://tinyurl.com/299e8p
Jan 16th
@kyanring You eat hippies?
Jan 16th
Updating my HTMM to EyeTV 3.
Jan 15th
Wow, those MBA renderings that popped up on Wired were pretty accurate.
Jan 15th
@tlockney Yeah, with TV series rentals (Arrested Development) it can take us a full week.
Jan 15th
@geekygirldawn Over the phone, yet they’re just down on Loy 4? Oh my.
Jan 15th
Secretly hoping that there isn’t a ‘MacBook Air’ tomorrow, but something else...
Jan 15th
@dear8ball Will there be a MacBook Air tomorrow?
Jan 15th
Chunky. Bacon.
Jan 15th
@ravenzachary Yeah, but it’s just so much more fun when the big announcement catches everyone...
Jan 15th
I feel like I consume more media than ever between RSS, video (miro/yt/hulu), trad. media...
Jan 15th
Haha, “Iranophobia”, what a great political meme. Practically genius.
Jan 14th
Looking forward to another week of no work and all Eloise.
Jan 14th
Eloise and Martha are asleep, and Grandma Jeanne is watching Masterpiece Theatre. Think I’ll...
Jan 14th
wtf lame Martin Sargent ads after episodes of GETV on blip.tv.
Jan 13th
I secretly (well not so much) really enjoy “Still Alive” from Portal.
Jan 13th
Listening to Saul Williams’ new album.
Jan 13th
Concocting a crazy plan that involves Twitter.
Jan 13th
Liking Planet PDX. It’s so convenient to subscribe to one aggregate feed.
Jan 12th
@chartier Ahh, I just did an Archive + Install a few days ago and have not yet run SU. Thanks!
Jan 11th
Annoyed that my MB keyboard randomly stops working. Seems like it’s software related. Using an...
Jan 11th
Thanks @marshallk for japanesebugfight.com
Jan 11th
Apparently missing a Jive company meeting at a movie theatre while out on leave. I prefer hanging...
Jan 11th
@linuxaid I wonder the same thing. Outlook is the source of all evil.
Jan 11th
Researching external hard drives - @lazyweb any suggestions for a 1TB drive with FireWire + USB2?
Jan 11th
Think I’m getting the knack of rocking Eloise to sleep. Famous last words.
Jan 11th
Dad and Eloise: Just before bed the other night.
Jan 11th
Zonked
Jan 11th
Asleep in the nest: Martha and I have this little baby nest,...
Jan 11th
Proud papas: My Dad, Eloise and I
Jan 11th
Proud papas: My Dad and I with Eloise. He makes her look...
Jan 11th
All dressed up: This is one baby that likes to stay warm....
Jan 11th
Sleeping
Jan 11th
Naked and asleep: Yep, more sleeping. More good...
Jan 11th
Baby’s room: Things are slowly coming together in...
Jan 11th
Baby tomato: We love putting this hat on her. She looks like...
Jan 11th
Baby in a basket: My sister Deanna lent us her big moses...
Jan 11th
Proud Grandmas: Jeanne and Christine looking very pleased...
Jan 11th
Deanna and Keira: Auntie Deanna and cousin Keira
Jan 11th
Hannah, Eloise and Robert
Jan 11th
Cousins
Jan 11th
Cousins: Deanna holding Eloise and Martha holding Keira.
Jan 11th
Robert and Eloise: Our friend Robert holding Eloise
Jan 11th
Asleep
Jan 11th
Asleep: Newborns do this a lot. Use it to your advantage.
Jan 11th
Big yawn: I love it when she yawns, it’s really cute.
Jan 11th
Hopeful that the sun & clear sky will stick around a little bit so that we can take Eloise for a...
Jan 10th
Obama seems to have changed his speech delivery style. Dare I say it’s slightly more MLK Jr....
Jan 10th
So glad that NNW is free now.
Jan 10th
@marshallk The old RealBasic version was pretty fugly.
Jan 10th
Clinton spawn: Wikipedia vandalism during primary season. +1...
Jan 10th
Out n about with Eloise, Martha, and Nanny Jeanne.
Jan 9th
Bush is a threat to world peace.
Jan 9th
Funny wikipedia vandalism, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctb/2181842908/
Jan 9th
@geekygirldawn What about Jing?
Jan 9th
Bill Clinton is looking old these days. Kind of looks like a skinny Ted Kennedy.
Jan 9th
Yes! http://www.stanleyfubar.com — the videos are funny.
Jan 9th
Wondering what all this storm team business is about. Here’s an update: Craptacular in...
Jan 9th
Existing isolated social networks will die, much like Prodigy/CompuServe/Old-school-AOL, to be...
Jan 9th
Very excited about the DataPortability news. Any smart company should embrace DP if they are...
Jan 9th
I love my mother-in-law. Without her, we wouldn’t have gotten any sleep last night.
Jan 8th
Stupid IKEA bureau is missing a key piece, but instead another is duplicated. Arrgh.
Jan 8th
@Stammy Hahaha, that is awesome.
Jan 8th
Setting up a WP blog so that Martha and I can post Eloise happenings for family abroad.
Jan 8th
Beco baby carrier FTW. My arms are free and Eloise is out cold on my chest. I love her little grunts...
Jan 7th
Thinking about switching to Vonage from CallVantage. Sick of the constant “for 911...
Jan 7th
Reading up on all the Portland on Fire interviews.
Jan 7th
Thanks @everyone for the congrats. :) Will need to post photos of Eloise tomorow.
Jan 7th
@stammy chmod your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (or authorized_keys2) file to 600.
Jan 7th
Martha and Eloise are both discharged, it’s time to go home!
Jan 7th
@messychestnut That would require closed social networks to open up their data though wouldn’t...
Jan 7th
Apparently spelling Eloise wrong (there’s no ‘u’), whoops. :)
Jan 6th
Hanging out with our new daughter Elouise Helen, who joined us this morning at 1:17am. 6lbs 6oz,...
Jan 6th
Doing a Leopard archive install while Martha tries to get some rest.
Jan 5th
Microsoft Outlook is the source of all evil.
Jan 4th
Iowa caucus map - http://tinyurl.com/34twur
Jan 4th
I think it’s funny that Scoble got kicked off of Facebook. Talk about a company that has...
Jan 4th
And seriously, Emanuel needs to install frickin’ CD players with optional line-in for crying...
Jan 4th
Back after a ‘trial run’ at the hospital last night. Martha is sleeping. I’m...
Jan 4th
Looking at a Leopard reinstall. Ugh.
Jan 3rd
Compiling PHP 5.2.5 on Leopard.
Jan 3rd
@Stammy That looks like the same Flash player that Hulu uses.
Jan 3rd
Wondering if I want this form to post to Brewspace using XML-RPC, or just to email the contents....
Jan 3rd
@linuxaid nano!
Jan 3rd
Just ran in to @ravenzachary at Thai Noon when picking up some lunch for Martha and I. Go NE!
Jan 3rd
Form building
Jan 2nd
Snitter is great, I think I almost like it more than Twitterrific, but boy howdy does it use a lot...
Jan 2nd
Like drum + bass there’s a lot of terrible dubstep out there, but there’s lots of good...
Jan 2nd
Making presidential candidate Miis
Jan 2nd
Wow FF3 is crashy tonight.
Jan 2nd
Great quote, “The RIAA is like typhoid. It keeps killing the organisms it needs to...
Jan 2nd
Quickly testing out Pwytter, seems a little buggy on Mac OS X, but think I’ll use it on my...
Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
Happy New Year!
Jan 1st