Monkinetic Weblog

Pre-going-indie: "hon get away from the computer"; post-going-indie: "hon, better get back to the computer".

@adactio @diveintomark That's because their party is actually 5 parties, with different participants, in different locations #html5whatnow

Son flashed me the I-love-you sign as I dropped him off at school today. I love being a dad.

@monkchips yeah, usually I can't get her out of bed without a fight.

Also daughter came in at 4 am saying she was ready for school. Sent her back bed. Now I see she already made her lunch #yesshesready

Making tea at 4:30am due to cough keeping me up. Bleagh.

End of the day http://instagr.am/p/BEipK/

@miyagawa Man, I totally wanted to see the Goupon guy reference that, and then perform it. I think it would have been awesome.

RT “@zeldman: ★ Rail against the corporate wrecking of our digital ecosystem... http://t.co/havsTL4 #ownyourdata #OYD

all... you... sad... and... lost... apostles #mikemills

RT “@diveintomark: Wait, Steve rejected his own liver? ... my app doesn't stand a chance.”

why are BareBones' editors the only Mac editors (including emacs) that can open large (hundred MB) files without asploding?

Boy and dad http://instagr.am/p/BDfO1/

Sick, and watching a Vin Diesel movie. The second may be a symptom of the first.

Helvetica documentary is making me love and hate a typeface #thatshowyouknowitsworking

finally watching Helvetica.

Finally added Helvetica and Objectified to my Netflix queue. Tonight: Long Kiss Goodnight.

When I started Gary Hustwit's documentary on the Helvetica typeface, I was all "damn you can reverse Helvetica Bold out of any photo and it will look awesome". By the end I was ready to throw up every time I saw it on screen.

There's been some talk lately in social software circles about how to take back ownership of your data: ie, how to make sure that the content and data you create and share cannot be lost or destroyed by a particular service shutting it's doors.

@aaronpk hm, that's an idea. I have a bottle of homemade Mead that may help with this code...