Monthly Archives: August 2005

BBQ Pictures

One of the gifts I received for my birthday was a Lomography fisheye camera. It’s quite cool. It has a built in flash, fisheye lens, and takes 35mm film. For most of the day we left the camera around for people to take pictures with. You can see the results here Now that I have [...]
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28 and life to go

For those of you who have not seen me in the past year or two, this what I looked like a day into my 28th year on Earth. Thanks Phil for the photo
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Farewell Riff and Melissa

This weekend Riff and Melissa leave for NYC. So I went last night to say farewell to them and Riff’s band at the Funhouse. In usual form they rocked so hard my face melted. With that I will leave you my favorite Riffisims: Ken: “How was work today Riff? Riff: “Stupid” (emphasis on the “stu”) [...]
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Writebacks are hosed, I know

For some reason, in the past couple of months my comments/writebacks have become all sorts of screwed up. Sometimes when people post comments, proper line endings are not always put into the file that tracks comments for that post, so it ends up hosing the parser and the end result is that sometimes if you [...]
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Chez Ken, Gastronomique @ Burning Man

So here is my tentative menu for our week out in the playa. Figuring out what to eat for a week without a fridge or freezer, and limited cooking surface is a lot harder than I thought. If you have ever seen me suffer through my “not enough food” paranoia when preparing food for a [...]
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Salty Burnt Pizza

Is a possible racial slur that could be used to describe me (Cuban, Dark Complexion Italian), according to the Racial Slur Database.
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Blood, Bullets, Bombs and Bandwith

A tale of two California cipherpunks who went to Baghdad to seek their fortune, and bring the Internet to Iraq.
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Heading to the Playa

This Saturday I leave for Burning Man for the first time. I am pretty damn excited and rushing around to tie up all the last minutes loose ends. I am camping with one other person, although we will probably camp on in a spot with some of his friends. But we will be self sufficent [...]
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Google Talk

Well if you have not heard already Google Talk is accepting login requests. Someone discovered earlier the that boxes resolving to talk.google.com were in fact running a Jabber server and of now they have figured out that you can login with your Gmail username and password. While the last thing I need is another IM [...]
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Nerds?

Are we not nerds? We are just aging Devo fans.
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