Note to self: the turbo in the car works much better when the air conditioner is off.

As in, waaaaaay better.

I wanted to post on rec.sport.disc, but Kris told me I shouldn't. The people of rec.sport.disc have a knack for picking apart posts and shredding even the most innocent phrases.

So, here's what I wanted to post in response to this post which I believe was made by someone who clearly was not as resourceful as he should have been.

> Technology obviously failed since people could not generate ids
> in time to be added to the roster  (which again was midnight on
> Wednesday, not days before for 'slackers' and not 6 pm when the upa
> is no longer there to help when there are problems).

On the days leading up to each Wednesday deadline, IDs were generated
every two hours from 8 am until about 10pm Colorado time.

Email support for the online rostering system was also available until
past midnight each day, Pacific time.

All players who were listed as "Not Found" on a roster were reviewed
to determine if the team organizer tried in good faith to add the 
players to the roster (an ID number was close, or the player's name
was only a little off).  The UPA added such players to the rosters.

Yes, the technology and processes are new, but the UPA made every 
attempt to minimize any negative impact.  I'm not convinced the 
technology was a failure. 

But, I am, of course, biased.

Kitt.

I'm biased, because I wrote the system. I'm biased because I was doing the email support. I'm biased because I never received any help requests from the person who made the post.

shrug

I have no idea if it'll actually launch in December, but I'm ready if it does:

I'm bummed I missed Eris' presentation at Webzine today, which talked about "Doing Information Architecture On the Cheap," or, "IA or internet architecture is the backbone of any easy to navigate web site. Let Ryan and Eris guide you down the road of DIY IA." I would very much liked to have heard her presentation.

Off to Webzine 2005 today, and looking forward to it. I hadn't quite realized how disconnected my work life and interests are from my circle of friends until I offered two tickets to Webzine to everyone I knew, and no one was interested. I couldn't even get Kris interested in going.

I stayed at Kate's last night and managed, for the first time in a long, long time, to fall asleep before 2 am. Well, after wrastling with the cats to get them outside the room and not inside all the crap I brought. I had been in the City earlier to drop Cal off at home and invite myself to dinner with him and his girlfriend (whose name I guarantee I will misspell and will therefore wait for him to read this and let me know the correct spelling).

Since I managed to find a really good parking spot, and Webzine is fairly close to Kate's place, Kate suggested I take the bus to the workshop/conference/party.

Um...

Okaaaaay...

I've never been on a bus in San Francisco before. Never needed to. Never considered it. Not used to thinking of public transportation beyond maybe taking the train to a Giants game. Oh wait, haven't gone to a Giants game this season, and it's nearly over. Hooray! Oops, I mean, "Wow."

So, breakfast with Kate this morning, catch up on team gossip (whoo-ee, there is dramm-ma on the team, and I've been missing it!), and a bus ride to Webzine 2005.

I missed my stop (the numbers increase making 15th before 16th, not after - d'oh!), and had to walk back from 17th and Market, along Market, which was awesome. Talk about a great place to people watch. The weather was beautiful, the overhead conversations entertaining, and the walk enjoyable. I'm glad I missed my stop.

Now, off to hear Messina, Matt and Andy talk about Flock, Open Source and Wordpress.

So, one of the disadvantages of staying up late and using the television as background noise when working is that you have to find quality, non-distracting shows in the "vast wasteland."

Woe is the second night in a row when looking for said "quality" television and find not one, but two bad movies you worked on in a previous life, showing at 1:15.

In the morning.

While you're wrastling cross browser CSS.

Tonight's bad movie is Turbulence. Also known as my first screen credit.

Or was it my second?

Third?

Ah, hell if I remember. It was one of those better off forgotten. It was a bad movie with crappy acting. But very very good special effects. You can trust me on that one.

You think I'm kidding.

Mike says I'm the only person he knows on IMDB. He's wrong, there are a lot of us. We just normally don't announce it.

Last night's movie was Broken Arrow. Oh, joy on that one, too.

Why can't they just show Shrek? At least that one I can cry out, "Layers!"

"Ogres have layers! Onions have layers!"

"Parfait! Everybody loves parfait! Parfaits have layers."