saturn return to sender

I was just text messaged my Bolder Boulder times. This is the first year they’ve used little RFID tags to time runners.

mile 1: 9m 19s
mile 2: 9m 5s
mile 3: 10m 17s (< — had to make a pit stop )
mile 4: 9m 21s
mile 5: 9m 14s
mile 6: 0m 10s

finish: 2h 17m 51s

Um. I think they have some glitches to work out. The “finish” number might be the total race time, not my total time, and I started in a late wave. But I’m pretty sure I did not cover the 6th mile in 10 seconds.

So, for the perennial three of you who read this blog: in case it was missed, I am now working with Alex King and his custom web development business. Yay!

Wait, what? I thought you were programming some kind of … something. Wasn’t there, like, something about architecture in there?

It’s true: I have been in the Master of Architecture program at CU for the past 4 years. Prior to that I was a software engineer in San Francisco. But I apparently like building software more than designing buildings, so my thesis project is a Mac application. That’s not done yet. Unsurprisingly.

In the meantime, while busy being unsatisfied with designing buildings, I built a php templating/rendering framework, primarily to run my friend Vienna’s website*. And to procrastinate. It also runs my portfolio site. Someday, I’ll clean up its messy bits and open source it.

So, I am not going to be an architect. I am going to be a … um, I dunno. But! Alex has some big plans for his web development business, and invited me to be a part of that, and I couldn’t really turn that down. So stay tuned to Alex’s blog.

As for this blog, as I mentioned, a re-branding of sorts is in order. Hmmm. Still pondering that one.

Mitt Romney:

… enhanced interrogation techniques have to be used. Not “torture.” But “enhanced interrogation techniques,” yes.

(via C&L post with video from the Colbert Report)

That a presidential contender can so blatantly engage in newspeak and it’s sort of taken as par for the course is so absurd and sad I don’t even know how to make fun of it.

Having graduated (mostly) and now embarking on the Next Thing, I sense a blog reboot/redesign coming. Maybe just a redesign and re-naming. Don’t yet know what it will be, however.