http://brianfending.com Brian Fending is a musician, technologist, and otherist in Buffalo, NY. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:50:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay, so this is probably the funniest four minutes of "I got waaay too much time on my hands" I've seen in a long, long time. ShareThis http://brianfending.com/2008/08/26/130/ It's a little insane how cluttered my desk has become (at home) over the course of nine months. I say nine months because that's honestly the last time I chose to work into the evening from home at my desk, instead favoring the companionship of my wife who, you know, ... http://brianfending.com/2008/08/11/129/ "Wow, those pants make you look waaaay less fat." That, my friends, is a left-handed compliment. Similarly, there are other left-handed things in the world, like - as I discovered - the left-handed goodbye: "You know, I really get people. You've been really helpful - you remind me of my brother. We're ... http://brianfending.com/2008/08/05/128/ This was one action-packed weekend, with excitement ranging from geeky to terrified-parent and back to geekdom all before 12:30pm. Wireless NAS I picked up a network attached storage (NAS) device this week, and implemented it Friday night into Saturday morning. The revolutionary part (for me, anyway), is that it's only physically attached ... http://brianfending.com/2008/07/21/127/ I don't subscribe to many podcasts, but definitely give RailsEnvy a listen when I find the synopsis to be of interest. They recently did something quite interesting and set up a voicemail box to get feedback. Another of their listeners, frustrated that he only uses console to build applications (as ... http://brianfending.com/2008/07/17/126/ Rachel and I attended a wedding at bar this weekend. Not the usual kind of bar wedding we attend - no hogs parked outside or tequila drinking contests involving the bride - but a rather nice affair. There were cab rides home at the end of the night stemming from ... http://brianfending.com/2008/07/14/125/ One of my favorite parts of summer is sitting on the deck next to the lilly garden next to our deck that usually blooms on (but this year right before) my birthday. It's fantastic fun to dead-head them with a glass of hefeweizen or Fulkerson Vincent in hand all summer ... http://brianfending.com/2008/07/09/119/ I was at a PHP User Group meeting earlier this week where the presenter was extolling the virtues of the great Symfony MVC framework for PHP, which he started using last month. I've been experimenting with it for a few months longer and shared some of the same reactions when ... http://brianfending.com/2008/07/03/122/ For my birthday this week, Rachel upgraded my musical life in the form of an 80GB iPod Classic to replace my 4GB iPod Mini (which is now quite officially the "norahPod"). The brianPod2, as I titled it, is - how do I say this... &%$^$@#%^@#%@ AWEsome. For starters, I get ... http://brianfending.com/2008/06/26/117/ There are few things nicer, I would think, than coming downstairs to a fresh pot of coffee, right next to the surprise gift of a mug you admired at Target that weekend. Oh, my wife gets me. ShareThis http://brianfending.com/2008/06/24/115/