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New (old) Archives March 2, 2008

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Thanks to the Internet Archive, I was able to retrieve several of the first blogs I ever wrote back in 2002/2003. Some stuff is indicative of what I write about now - quotes, mostly. Other posts appear to be direct re-postings of something I saw on the web or was sent via AIM. I used to edit a static page and maintain a PHP guestbook, also suggest folks email me with comments.

I also have lots of posts archived on LiveJournal - I just hope they never delete old accounts. I’ll have to look into that. I also had a Blurty for a while, but I migrated those to LJ when they took down the paywall.

Here are the Old-school blogs. If you’re squeamish and intolerant of even the slightest bit of 20-year-old emo whining, I don’t recommend these:

Facebook, the Devil, and Me (historic) November 30, 2007

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Think back to two years ago - had you heard of the Facebook? If you were in college, you most certainly had. When I returned home on a trip from Michigan for a fraternity convention, all of my friends asked “are you on facebook?” and seemed shocked that I was only on LiveJournal and MySpace… they were ALL on facebook, and they were all friends from the first time they’d met. It was the “real” Second Life. After lots of “no, I don’t have a school e-mail“, I found that Nathan had two school emails, so he let me use one. It was a great community back then, before the feed, before the apps, before the statuses, even before YouTube! ::gasp!:: “Was there life before YouTube?” It doesn’t feel like it sometimes.

Yes, I really used to terminate all of my LiveJournal posts with a line from Tron.

I have crossed over to the dark side.

Facebook me!

End of Line.

Nice website, but not very “community” COME ON! November 26, 2007

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Let me start off by saying that it is so utterly amazing that Central Florida has groups with funding who can do stuff like this, and we wouldn’t be where we are now without CFACA and UA. Love ya, mean it.

Jim Morris of the Central Florida Arts & Cultural Alliance (they changed their name from Performing Arts Alliance) posted an article called “I get the change, but how are you different than United Arts?“. He then tries to describe it. I think I get it, but it’s hard to keep tabs…

Who works for UA? Who’s in charge of the Red Chair Project? How do I get Florida Creatives Happy Hour listed there? How can I blog for them?

Why isn’t there an official RCP blog, and why do Jim and Jessica have their blogs hosted on Google’s server instead of their own?

Where are the graphics for the Red Chair Project I can post an official link on my website? (see the Miro logo, for example) Get Miro

Where’s the iCal/gCal/RSS of upcoming events? Where are the comments on events? Why use a proprietary system? If you didn’t use a proprietary system, where are the dang comments and RSS feeds? GO OPEN SOURCE, guys, you’ll never regret it! EVER.

Give me a call 407-484-8528. If you don’t see this post, I’m sure I’ll see Jessica around town.

Edit: This is a re-post from May 21, as Mark Baratelli pointed out.

Why did I post this twice? I just haven’t seen a move towards anything like this in the last 5 months, and Jim and I haven’t really gotten in constant contact. They have this great opportunity in that they are at the center of public attention with this stuff. Me, as a lowly developer, can hardly make waves as big as United Arts and the Arts & Cultural Alliance.

First post ever (from Blurty) - 4 year blogging anniversary September 21, 2007

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Today is the 4th anniversary of the day I wrote using blogging software (as opposed to flat HTML files). Blurty was (and is) the “free” alternative to “paid” and “invite only” LiveJournal. My friend Amanda was on Blurty too, and I wanted to keep up with her. In the end LJ won over, and I even transferred all my posts over. I stopped reading LJ altogether earlier this year after I got hard core about podcasting and “pro blogging” or whatever this is.

So, I have been talking about getting an actual blog on my page instead of just my static crap, but I got lazy. The old one will disappear into obscurity, but I will still have those files, and I reserve the right to revive them for posterity’s sake.

Last night, I became dilsexilc. I was writing out a pre-order for Scarface Special edition DVD, and there is a box where I am supposed to write the store name and number, and our phone number. I am happily writing, when I look down. I wrote “F43″ like one of those 1337 people. (i’m not a haxx0r) So, finally I get out FYE#438 after much concentrated thought.

Two seconds later I handed this woman the white copy instead of the yellow copy.

End of line.
Current Mood: dyslexic
Current Music: O, brother: Where art thou?

Welcome to Beer Blog (historic) September 9, 2007

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This was my first post to Wordpress over on RyanPrice.org exactly 2 years ago. 5 days later, I wrote my first post on RyanPriceMedia.com, interestingly enough about the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD debate. Who knew it would be 2 years, and there is still no end in sight. Check out my first post:

Welcome welcome welcome to the world of BEER! Beer Blog is a place to discuss and learn about beers both good and bad from around the world. If you are a friend of hops and barley, you have come to the right address!

My friends and I are part of a local beer enthusiast’s club, and we have this blog to share our beer experiences with you.

I’ll be doing a few more of these “historic” posts, as other blogging anniversaries come up. I consider two years ago to be my “public” blogging anniversary, even though I was writing long before then using static HTML. If I figure out when that was (start up my old clunker PC), I’ll be sure and post about it.

I have to thank my friend Nathan Kohlun of the Semi-Circle for getting me into writing online in the first place. Back in 2002 when I first had aspirations of starting a web design firm, I had Nathan and my friends Charley Cartee and Peter Brown gathered in a conference room at the UCF Student Union and pitched the idea to them of getting into small business web design. Peter would do photoshop, I would do HTML, Charley would do layout and Nathan would be the geek. I had such big dreams then, and now I see web pages as a means to an end. Funny how that works.

A few days ago, Charlie (Krueger) and I talked about setting ourselves up with a revenue stream that will let us pursue some of our more hairbrained schemes, and we just might have something. This blog will certainly be the first place you hear any new announcements, so stay tuned.

I am a Polyliason June 24, 2003

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You are 39% geek
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.

Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.

You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You’ll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!

Geek [to You]: I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!

You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

New Content April 27, 2003

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Hey all, I know it’s been a while, but just some updates:

* I am dating a girl named Erin from Gainesville (she’s Mady’s friend and an APO brother).
* I am starting my own business called Mortar Interactive. We will do web design and internet software. I am going this week to open the bank account. I’ll post once I have the site up!
* I am going to Sweden this summer with the Marching Knights for the Tatoo Festival in Eskjo.
* My summer started on Friday - hooray!

If you want more info than this, there are many ways of contacting me buried in this site. Drop me a line!

Yet another quote February 5, 2003

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All I need is “Hi , honey! How was your day?”
(with tongue)
Thanks Steph.
(meaning Steph said this)

Although I don’t have cool posting service, feel free to respond to these postings via email or AIM (kerm52), and I just might post your response and make it look all pretty.
Later!

Remember 15 things… November 10, 2002

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This is a list of stuff I would love to believe all the time, but can’t see all the time…

1. At least 5 people in this world love you so much they would die for you.
2. At least 15 people in this world love you, in some way.
3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you, is because they want to be just like you.
4. A smile from you, can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don’t like you.
5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
6. You mean the world to someone.
7. Without you, someone may not be living.
8. You are special and unique, in your own way.
9. Someone that you don’t know even exists, loves you.
10. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.
11. When you think the world has turned it’s back on you, take a look, you most likely turned your back on the world.
12. When you think you have no chance at getting what you want, you probably won’t get it, but if you believe in yourself, you probably sooner or later will get it.
13. Always remember compliments you received, forget about the rude remarks.
14. Always tell someone how you feel about them, you will feel much better when they know.
15. If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they’re great.

SEX! November 4, 2002

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According to a recent poll, guys with messy sock drawers have sex three times more per month than those who organize their socks. I never knew there was such a direct connection between socks and sex. Maybe soon, schools will be offering courses in socks education.

The poll was conducted by IKEA, the home furnishings people. It was part of their “You Can’t Be Too Organized” survey. I guess this “more sex” result was not something that the pro-organized people at IKEA predicted. And those who are disorganized don’t just have more sex. According to the poll, their relationships might be better in other ways, too. Those couples that don’t have closet organizers argue three times less per month than those who do. (I don’t know what a “closet organizer” is, so I guess we don’t have one. I could ask my wife if she thinks we should get one, but that might just cause an argument.)

Also, men who don’t own Palm Pilots are more likely to remember their wives’ birthdays than men who do own them.

These results are not all that surprising. If you spend all your time organizing your socks or entering data in your Palm Pilot, you will have little time for anything else. Also, if you are compulsive, and must do things like make sure all the dishes are clean before going to bed, or check to see that all the doors are locked several times before you can relax, your spouse will probably be asleep before you’re ready to settle in for the night.

Being organized seems almost by definition to be un-sexy. How many people fantasize about a romantic stranger who makes lists? How many people dream about a sexy somebody who has a calendar on his watch? How turned on would you be if you heard, “I’ll be right with you. I just have to color-code my shirts?”

On the other hand, while a disregard for order might be sexy in the beginning, what about a long-term relationship? According to the survey, married men were four times more likely to leave their pajamas on the floor in the morning than single men. I wonder what percentage of wives find that sexy.

There are other curious results of the poll. Registered Republicans were three times more likely to color-code their T-shirt drawers and organize their closets than registered Democrats. However, Democrats were five times as likely to color-code their files at work than Republicans. What conclusions should we draw from this data? That Republicans are less likely to have sex at home and Democrats are less likely to have sex at work? I don’t think recent history supports this.

Despite the messy socks-good sex connection, the people at IKEA maintain that being organized is a good thing. They believe that you can gain a great deal of quality time by reducing all the minutes and hours you spend looking for keys, glasses, or the remote control. (By the way, according to the survey, men spend an average of 80 minutes per week looking for the remote control. Women spend 7 minutes.)

I’m not so sure about this quality time benefit. Almost daily, while I’m looking frantically for my keys, glasses, or the remote control, I’ll come across something that I lost a week or two ago. I might never have found that thing if I had a regular place for my keys, glasses, or the remote control.

Let’s put this whole survey in perspective. It was conducted by a home furnishings company. Is this really where we should be getting our information about sex and relationships? Traditionally we learn about these things on the playground or from daytime TV. Besides, how unbiased can a company that sells organizers be about organization?

And this isn’t just any furniture company. It’s IKEA. That’s the place that sells you furniture in a million pieces that you put together after you get home, working from directions that always seem upside down. I’m not sure that this company should be considered experts in sex. If I bought a bed from IKEA, I’d probably spend more time trying to assemble it than I would using it.