A friend invited me to Giordano Bros in North Beach the other nigth for some food and drinks. The sandwiches consist of cole slaw, you’re choice of meet or cheese, and FRENCH FRIES!! This is definitely my kind of sandwich.

Yay! pre-orders for the Pleo has begun,  I ordered twins!

http://store.ugobe.com/store/

Orders should ship early to mid October, and it sounds like the specifications should be pretty open from what I’ve heard so I can’t wait to hack in all kinds of stuff.  I hope this really takes off, I think this is really a great robotics company.  I had a chance to play with one at RoboGames in SF this past weekend, and while I can see some room for inprovement it’s definitely a great looking product and really responds well to human interaction.

The “pearl” on my blackberry pearl hasn’t been working so great lately. Because it’s such a core part of the phone this is really disabling, and I really only want my phone to last until the iPhone comes out. I decided to take it apart and do some cleaning, to my dismay it’s a very good lint (and who knows what else) magnet. After some cleaning (and breaking a couple plastic parts that aren’t really necessary), the pearl works like new!

One of the “benefits” of dating a bioengineer is that he brings home cool green stuff in glass bottles. He says it’s just liposomes, but I’m sure I’ll turn into some super-(hero|villian) if I ingest it.

Last night was Yuri’s Night 2007, and it was pretty cool. It was held at a hanger in the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. Ihave some pictures here, but for actually good pictures go checkoutLaughing Squid’s post on the night. The tour of Ames Research Centerwas very cool it included the ArcJet, Columbia super comptuer, and Future Flight Central.

This year was my first time at the PHP Québec conference, and I was really impressed with the location and organization. As usual though, the wireless was a huge let down. It’s always such a challenge to get a couple hundred PHP nerds online at a hotel and I just don’t know why. The organizers presented speakers with a summary of feedback from listeners at each talk, very cool.

My favorite talks that I saw where Andrei’s VIM talk which actually gave me some more useful tips than the talk I saw at google. I also thought that John’s Top Pecl Pics was a good.

The flight back wasn’t so great, seeing as a lot of east coast flights where being canceled. I ended up trying to get out of flying out via Washington DC, but apparently that’s a difficult thing to change because Air Canada doesn’t like to talk to United, and United doesn’t pick up the god damned phone. So after standing in a very long line in DC, I spent the night and got on a flight to San Diego the next morning. Had a 1 hour delay in San Diego, and someone decided they should have a medical emergency mid flight, which actually let us land 7 minutes early, good to remember in the future. I had to come back 5 hours later to get my bags, as they apparently didn’t land before me as promised. It’s nice to be back in nice, medium temperature cali. I missed my Japanese test on Saturday by about 4 hours, so I’ll be taking it tonight and I’m not sure it’s going to go too well. On the good side I wasn’t stuck in Montreal with the Flu like my cohort, Lucas.

Next destination, PHP Tek in Chicago…

This was a lot of fun! Thanks to Yelp and Cyan for a good recommendation on where to have it done (Body Manipulations, SF), and David for holding my hand.

I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend on my statistics lately. Specifically search engine keyword searches that lead people to my site.

I’m not sure where “guy tied” or “american pie” came from. Really I don’t know. But it seems like I should start to focus my blog on more information about cute gay boys than anything technical, although dirvish and the facebook book seem to score pretty high as well. Perhaps it’s time for a new theme “gay boy tech”. Makes it sound like borg porn, but whatever sells.