Thus spake kelp

Well, at least my self. All my stuff is still in Seattle.

I'm really quite busy, and I keep getting sick over and over, but it's going very well here. I'm very glad I did this, but it's a lot of fucking work.

I still have to find a permanent place to live. I'm about ready to start ramping that up because I'm going to need some normalcy before too long.

Ok I'm so staying in next week. (Until Friday)

Way too much crazy shit I've been doing the last few weeks, and 2 nights in a row of drinking was way too much.

It's time to go back to my boring self, staying home, playing video games.

Ohh yeah and actually packing to move to SF in 2 weeks.

I'm still trying to break the habit of unscrewing the brush from my Sonicare after I use it.

I'm flying to San Francisco Thursday evening for a job interview Friday. I'm pretty excited, but it's all a bit scary. I may end up actually leaving Seattle, finally, but we'll see. The job has to work out, and I have another offer here.

The other place took me out to dinner tonight, trying to sell me on staying here and working for them.
I like the guys, but it's a much larger company (150 vs 10) and it's in Seattle.

Moving to San Francisco will be difficult because I'll have to rent my condo at a loss, and obviously move all my stuff and find a new place to live, which would be renting...

But it's more sun and it's new.

The guys at dinner tonight made the good point that I'd be giving up a big professional network I've built, which could be be pretty helpful if I ever wanted to start my own thing.

But, on the other hand, I've been here for 10 years now, and I feel like a change. I've been talking about leaving for years. I want more sun and something new.

Of course this could all be moot if they don't offer me the job. Then I have to decide if I stay at the place here, or stay where I am while I look for more sunny places.

I don't know if anyone cares, but yeah, my twitter posts here quit working a long time ago. Sad. I just found out it's because I let my paid account lapse. I'm not really interested in paying LiveJournal anymore, especially given recent events....

So if you give half a shit about what I say on twitter, which is most of what I say online these days, just follow me there, and I won't burden you with the crap being mirrored here.

http://twitter.com/kelp

I'm not even sure how much longer I'll pay attention to livejournal. If I start writing more long form stuff, I may do it elsewhere. Maybe Vox, or Blogger, or my own blog. Or I'll get lazy and come back here. Who knows.

Make sure you vote tomorrow if you haven't already.

It's really fucking important. Don't think you can just stay home because the polls look good.

• 11:26 @lyzadanger Awesome! it looks great! #
• 11:43 Official Obama 08 iPhone app released today: my.barackobama.com/page/content/iphone it's quite nice, good job @lyzadanger ! #
• 19:01 This debate is a lot more polite, and the moderator has much more control. #
• 19:08 You know someone's saying "dammit we didn't tell her how to say nuclear!" #
• 19:25 @tmonk42 Blue please! #

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• 14:54 @tmonk42 I have a bunch of servers where eth0 on CentOS 4.x becomes eth2 on Ubuntu hardy. #

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• 13:08 It's very unfortunate that Paulson and Bernanke chose their words so poorly when selling their rescue plan. #
• 13:36 @_wac Seems bad to me, but I haven't read the plan that failed. Regardless, the public is very against *any* "bail out". #
• 22:02 @damienjoldersma Because Paulson and Bernanke called it a "Bail Out", instead of a rescue/investment, the public assumed evil intentions. #

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• 10:18 @damienjoldersma irc.freenode.net, still fairly active #
• 10:26 So if McCain suspended his campaign, and stopped running ads... Why were there still ads on CNN yesterday? I'd be shocked if he was lying. #
• 10:59 @climbingchrispy Hahah, yeah sure is a straight talker! Good thing he's running an honest and honorable campaign! #
• 18:42 Dear geniuses confused about why Obama said Jim, the moderator is Jim Lehrer... #

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• 13:54 bit.ly/1Z7xmt McCain has to suspend his campaign to help with the financial crisis.... But he hasn't even read the 3 page plan... #
• 14:25 bit.ly/2dzSl9 Studies suggest correcting miss-conceptions often just reinforces them... This explains many of McCain's strategies. #
• 14:33 SORRY EVERYONE! It's spelled misconceptions. #
• 15:56 RT @timoreilly Another view of the bailout. Andy Kessler's right wing, but very smart. I'm not an expert. YMMV. bit.ly/1GGyGX #
• 17:32 twitpic.com/d6l9 - CNN Flash. Fail. #

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• 11:01 Back to My Mac magically started working this week! WTF?! #
• 14:00 bit.ly/3qrxNj Sweden's bailout plan looks very good. #
• 14:47 bit.ly/19pk3v Via @sherah, McCain was one of the Keating Five. #
• 14:52 tr.im/2td Obama lays the smack down on the McCain for "suspending" his campaign. #
• 15:05 bit.ly/AovJy Resending my last tweet with a bit.ly link. tr.im is having issues with that URL. #
• 15:07 bit.ly/1U3ix1 This is actually a better account, written after Obama's statement. #

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• 16:55 bit.ly/4geWIl Rep Marcy Kaptur calls bullshit on on the wall street bail out... Worth watching. Worth calling your reps now. #
• 17:57 bit.ly/1O5sVB I'm not sure if this is hilarious or frightening. #

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• 14:14 bit.ly/8F1Kp is super a supper interesting perspective on how we got to into this financial mess. #

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• 14:06 Dear Twitterfic, why do you keep showing me direct messages from 6 months ago? #
• 14:17 New Thievery Corporation album pre-released on iLike today: www.iLike.com/thieverycorp #

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• 15:06 @lyzadanger I use it. #

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• 20:38 First gen iPhone survived drowning and a battery transplant! Not the easiest way to refresh my soldering skills. #

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• 17:24 Head hurty. #
• 18:34 @lyzadanger It can't compete with the shit I pulled on Thursday. 250 hosed... #
• 18:38 250 servers that is #

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• 11:20 @adamhjk You think a pay service like that would do well? #
• 11:42 @adamhjk split-horizon for things like private ec2 networks? #
• 11:47 @adamhjk or perhaps GeoDNS... #
• 13:04 @sidspencer no #
• 15:05 Today's lesson: "Don't ever strace the production LDAP server' #
• 19:42 @znepms you're finally on Twitter! #

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• 10:53 @lyzadanger iPhone OS 2.1 supposedly fixes the long syncs. #
• 13:39 The Washington Post on the McCain campaign's blatant lies bit.ly/478Im6 #
• 13:41 A fair share of lies about Palin too. #
• 13:45 And yeah, the Obama camp has it's fair share of lies... Not sure I can keep reading about this crap. #
• 14:26 @lyzadanger Hopefully they're too busy *not* blowing up the plant to make a decent web site. #

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