I'm a big nerd now. Well, BIGGER nerd.

I just got a few answers to an email query I'd sent out, giggled with excitement, and plugged in my newfound code (which worked!) -- and then realized that if this had been two months ago, I wouldn't have even been able to understand the subject line. Things have changed mighty quicly.

Walking through the pComp lab (to put my beloved glue gun away), I took stock of the people around me. People waving their hands over homespun projects, creating strange squawks of sound, others testing choke sensors or simply cursing at lines of code or that one LED that just wouldn't light up properly.

I am now a creature fueled by falafel, black coffee and whatever beer's cheapest. I babble about programming, soldering and the "future" of ... stuff. Today I helped someone patch holes in their code (strings and arrays). Um, who am I? I don't know anything about these things, I'm a writer, damnit!

If Corporate Mike of two years ago passed Gleefully Nerdy Mike on the street, would the two even recognize each other?

...do I care?

[this is a copy of the post I'd put up at ITPd!, which is pretty much the only place I have time to post anything at these days. Soon, I'll move all of Genius Lessons over to DxM, but for now... well, so that's about it]

Flaming Lips

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Originally uploaded by nicole s.

This is what being in the audience at a Flaming Lips show looks like.

Jesus, I swear I'll blog more soon, once I present on Tuesday? What am I presenting, you ask? Why, HelpTank.org (currently hosted at www.doryexmachina.com/helptank until I can resolve the URL issue).

Back to work...

LactoseTolerance.Org

LactoseTolerance.Org
Originally uploaded by doryexmachina.

Dear LactoseTolerance.org,

I hate you.
I hate your slogan.
I hate your damned posters all-the-fuck-over everything.
I hate your hatred of lactose intolerance.
...and your product sucks.

Kisses,
Mike.

School is schooling me.

The ITP Blog has become the primary focus of my attention these days. Well, more the concepts behind it, but that's beside the point.

Back here to write funny things soon. Really.

Gray's Papaya raises prices!

Gray's Papaya raises prices!
Originally uploaded by doryexmachina.

WTF?!?

CoverFlow - now in iTunes 7.0!

Those pigeffers included it into the latest build of iTunes! Like, 2 days after the latest release! Cool idea to include it, but apparently it won't full-screen, which is one of the coolest features of the newest stand-alone version. Good news though.

Rest of the Apple updates were rather meh, although the new shuffle is tiny and cool-looking.

CoverFlow

CoverFlow
Originally uploaded by doryexmachina.

A screenshot of CoverFlow in action. I realize I'm a little late to the party here, but lord this interface is gorgeous. And it gets back to cover art, which I'm such, such a fan of. Bring on the jukeboxness!

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Sweet Priscilla
Originally uploaded by doryexmachina.

Camped out at Sweet Priscilla for the third day in a row (if I'm here any more often I'll have to start paying rent!), still doing classwork. Actually, mostly, I'm doing things that will make classwork easier and more logicial, but I think I've also wasted a good deal of time on random crap. Today has been spent trying to figure out how to install WordPress and get an active blog running... and I think I'm finally realizing I just don't know enough to do so, and should have just gone off and running with the Moveable Type interface that ITP provides. Aaaaargh. I won't give up yet!

Still trying to reconsile my desire to hide in the corner of a coffeeshop vs. the ITP way of hanging out on the floor 24/7 -- I'm sure I'll end up there more and more. It'll be like the newspaper days again, getting used to constant noise as I attempt to concentrate. Honestly, I miss that anyway.

Oh, and Sweet Priscilla has insanely good quiches. I just had a ham one, and it rocked my Chucks right off. And I want the mug featured in this shot, the We Are Happy To Serve You ceramic mug. So killer.

Btw, posting now at the ITPRadio Blog -- read! Listen! Comment!