how sweet it … wasn’t. spent about 4 hours walking around, looking for ppl, and chillin w/ some friends. things started to pick up around 2am, where i met a bunch of old faces. dissapointed w/ how much wandering was happening vs.musical enjoyment, but i was able to catch: junior sanchez, dj hype, dj dan, doc marten, derek carter, sniper, and a bit of mark farina (plus hearing thee-o scratch was awesome).

got back from austin. my computer’s cpu fan is buzzing so it looks like i need a new one.

the cue radio is a nifty wireless device for the visor.

ok, i lied, i still am slacking. i did overcome my laziness and actually post a little version of a photo of the tornado weather. i color corrected it to get it a bit closer to how it looked, but trust me when i say it was amazing. texas is a weird place. austin is particularly weird. it’s a city w/ less of a downtown than la and is oddly suburban. when i came down to texas i was expecting it to be a lot more … deserty, but instead it really reminds me of being back in the northeast.

hmm, looks like blogger is back online. i stopped by rc3, it mentioned a funny w2k / ie 5.0 bug – if you install it, you are fscked and can’t login. also while blogger was down, i took a go through of the demo/tour they offer. sounds like they have some good features they’re working on. wonder how hard spell checking would be w/o going down the road of microsoft (activex control for the office spellcheck engine would probably be the easiest way, but that’s evil).

looks like their gonna be burning the iridium satellites. lots of talk about it on /. – wish i heard some of the analysis before i bought iridium stock.

i’m looking seriously into getting a stowaway keyboard for my visor/palm. need to figure out which to get it for though (it’s out right now for the palm, but not for the visor until april. i’m carrying around my visor right now even though it’s bigger, primarily for the extra memory it has). it’s been months since i last stopped by the pda sites, so i’m making my rounds right now instead of doing work: visorcentral, the gadgeteer, pdadash, and palmstation. looks like there are some neat modules coming out for the visor soon.

i’m learning some interesting things about the visor’s cradle connectors…

i’d post some photos right now, but honestly, i’m just too lazy to ftp the stuff (need to bounce through one of my other servers because of funky port blocking by the fgsquared firewall. it’s really neat being on a multimonitor workstation though.

ok, now i’m gonna finish my nth reread of dune and program for the rest of the day (i mean it this time!)

tornado weather is pretty freaky (but in a good way). those clouds were totally unlike anything i’d seen before. glad i have my digital camera w/ me. incidentally, looks like i lost the cap again. really bad design. doesn’t help that nikon’s outlet store is constantly sold out of them.

looks like matt snuck a picture of me talking w/ steve and jason at the end of the conference. i met matt briefly on sunday, but don’t think i left much of an impression (the whole awkard introducing yourself and meeting people thing that i’m not horribly good at).

hmm, matt just quit his job to work at pyra yesterday. changing jobs and towns and well, your whole life can be pretty scary. i imagine it’s sort of like the choice i had to make about skipping my senior of high school and going to usc. i’m sort of contemplating something similarly big right now. definitely weighs a bit on the mind…

aol rules the online universe.

via cam: dave recommends reading the WebApps page.

/. posted a new item on released fbi files. among them is a file on einstein. now, i took a look last night, but knowing there’d be too much useless stuff, i trusted someone on to post anything interesting on /. and sure enough, wdk has posted some stuff:

You’ve got to read pages 22 and 23 of the first Einstein document. To get to page 22 you read 21 pages of wild, filed accusations, more or less to the effect that Einstein is sort of a super-Lenin who could conceivably destroy this Fair Republic should he ever step foot across the border, so no, NO, NO he must NEVER be permitted admission to these blessed United States. There’s a letter from a mad professor at Princeton which claims that Relativity has a (left-wing) “metaphysical factor and if that is the case it can have no physical validity whatsoever.” 21 pages thus far of 92 in document number one of twelve. Them’s a lot of pages, folks.

OK! On Page 22 the Sheriff of Ventura County California send a letter to J. Edgar Hoover, asking for reassurance:

Several of (Einstein’s) admirers in this County have approached me and asked me to establish if possible definitely whether or not there is any basis for these statements (that Einstein is a Communist). These particular people are very good Americans and do not care to allow their children to idolize him if he is of this character.”

To which the Director replied:

Dear Sheriff:

I am in receipt of your letter dated April 24, 1934, with reference to Communistic activities to this country on the part of Dr. Einstein.

There is no Federal legislation in effect at the present time under which so-called radical or Communistic activities are subject to investigation on the part of this Division, and the files of this Division, therefore, contain no information relative to the activities of Dr. Einstein in the United States in connection with the Communist Party.

I regret that I am unable to furnish you with the information desired. Inasmuch as Communist activities are handled by local law enforcement agencies, it is possible that the New York City Police Department may have some information concerning the subject matter about which you inquire.

Sincerely yours,

J. Edgar Hoover

Director

Now wasn’t that a lovely lie? God Bless America.

whoa, awesome – plasma shoe laces. now if only you could control the blinking.