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Diane about 90 seconds after saying 'yes'
Diane about 90 seconds after saying 'yes'

We had an absolute blast in San Francisco this weekend. Our guide was none other than Rob Spectre from Dream Not of Today. He took us around the city and did a fantastic job of wearing us out. Daniel Austin, also from (d)N0t, took non-stop pictures the whole time. These guys treated us right and Diane and I can’t thank them enough.

Here’s a picture of Diane on Ocean Beach. She’s going to kill me for using this picture – she’d been crying  and it was 7 a.m. in the morning on the beach – but it’s the happiest I’ve ever seen her. We’ll have more pictures from the trip available as soon as we process them. You can view more details at the new www.dianetraffas.com.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18

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Senator Franken destroys attourney

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Al Franken was a comic and an author. I’ve enjoyed listening to every book of his I’ve had the opportunity to get as an audio book.

He’s a senator now, and a badass. This video is from dailykos.com and is worth the 10 minutes to watch Franken rip to shreds this attorney who is defending binding arbitration in the case of sexual assault.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kiZIlMFto[/youtube]

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Automatic helicopter

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MIT has developed an indoor helicopter that automatically navigates and maps the inside of buildings. It can fly through windows and double-back on itself when it reaches a dead-end. It’s quite worth watching.

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NAA Trustee and BOD joint session

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I returned today from a two-day sojourn to Kansas City. Yesterday was an all-day National Auctioneers Association Education Institute Board of Trustees meeting. Today was a joint session with us and the Board of Directors.

I’ve taken to announcing myself by saying ‘Hi’ in the style of Buzz Burbank, newsman from the old Mike O’Meara Show, which itself was formally the Don and Mike Show. In any case, yesterday during roll call I said ‘Hi’ which was mistaken by the rest of the trustees as ‘Aye’ said in the style of a pirate. It’s amazing how quickly my ‘Hi’ became ‘Arrrrrrrg’, the new way to take role in professional organizations. It may take me a while to live that down.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11

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Winter, Stargate, Dexter, Twitalytic

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What happened to fall? It seems as though winter has befallen us, without more than a week or so of temperate weather.

I’ve endured the freeze warning safe from the comfort of my desk, where I’ve been coding all day long in my underwear. I took a break for a few hours to watch Stargate, and I have no idea why I’d never seen it before. It is was a great work of science fiction, and seeing James Spader play a dorky hieroglyphs expert was an comical change from the poon-hound he’s been playing until recently as Alan Shore on Boston Legal. I’m looking forward to starting Stargate SG-1, though I’m nervous about a ten-season series.

After the movie, I started coding and watching Showtime‘s Dexter on Netflix. I had no idea what the series was about, so the subject matter came as somewhat of a shock. It’s a fascinating little series which I’ll probably use as something to watch while I work.

I’ve got Twitalytic installed, thanks to some recent updates which reduced the complexities to within my skillset. Now you view over a year’s worth of tweets on one page. It also has the benefit of caching not only my tweets, but also those of my friends, so that should something ever happen to the service, they’ll be safe and sound on my new server at Media Temple.

Tomorrow I’ll be off to Kansas City for a two-day meeting with the National Auctioneers Association Education Institute trustees.

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