Cafe Bucky

Contract wound up.  Looking for a new web/sl gig.  SF/NYC/Remote.  I’d rather fly to the east coast than drive to the damn South Bay.

Opened up "Women Who Rock" with my co-curator Abbey at the MuMu.  Off to a good start!  I got some video of Joan Jett at the Marin County Fair on the 2nd.  Doing some editing in Final Cut Express, and will add my own videos to the show.

Speaking of Final Cut Express — it feels good to learn something that is complex and challenging that is not programming for a change.  I am digging it.  My 2ghz/2gb iMac feels slow, but hey, I’ll make the best of it.

Did a DIY camera mount for my bike — too much frikken shake for my Flip Mino.  May work great for my Nikon digital cameras though.. (reflector mount drilled out for a 3/8" bolt + Manfrotto 3009 swivel head)

I am in the midst of getting my Second Life Portfolio together.

After 2 years, I have quite a bit of scripting, building, and management experience with in-world projects.  It seems like a good complement to the resume.

Although it is in the process of being written, I’ll put some pressure on myself to finish it by pointing at it now!

Pictures will come soon.  If you want a tour of some of my work, contact me and I will take ya in-world and show you around :)

Many folks know me from Second Life.  I’ve been in that wonderful Virtual World since March 2006, and have done many projects and have met many great folks.

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“put the wax on the table / let the dj spin it” -BBoys

I am back y’all! Rusty and shakin it off … It’s been a long while since February 2007.

Resurrected the blog from a noisy 1U rack server that I used to have hosted at sonic.net. Got all of my postings (March 2003 onward) here for your amusement.

Looking back, some of them are not what I would write now. It would have been cinchy to just start from scratch. On the other hand, it’s more fun to have the history (almost 4 years!) and show some evolution.

Evolution — I’ve made it out of the newbie blogging waters and am up on the warm beach dunes. Off in the distance is a shiny plastic city of one-track blogs on multilevel marketing. Over to the left is experimental artsville, rickety blog tents that amaze for a moment and then blow over from the wind of ISP overage charges.

I see a couple of other destinations — one of them is rural, with a beautiful barn studio full of computers, musical paraphernalia, and a video / lights set. It’s the blog of creative and tech that is the grounded contrast between nature and tech overload.

The other view from the dunes, of course, is the city loft in the midst of graffiti sprayed subway signed watch out for that speeding taxi high volume pedestrian hubbub. Get into the freight elevator, go up, stream some dub reggae, and write.

Back to the hot sand on the beach burning my paws … I dont head for country or city just yet (although I can certainly indulge both in Second Life). I have my for-pay work (3D Web), an amicable divorce to go through, a house to sell, and lots of connections to refresh. Time to get out of so much hermit mode!

Feels good to be back into it. I had flitted with tumblr and some Pownce, but this is really my home.

Unlocks the door, steps in, opens the double hungs to air out the blog room. Brews coffee and ponders the updating and tweaks to make.

[a quick note for those new to my blog.. this post is from over a year ago .. yep I am interested in gigs that span web 2.0 / SL / and other virtual worlds  -- dls, June 11, 2008]

Need a Web Dev? 2L Dev? I’m available!

Time to touch base — I wound up my contract with LimeLife.com recently (no more web site work to do). I’m proud of the work I did there — chiefly an implementation of Zones & Modules to make the site much easier to maintain..

Time for a new contract! One great thing about working from home over the last 6 months is that I didn’t need to spend 2-3 hours a day commuting. The time was much better spent coming up to speed on LSL and other SecondLife tech. I’m now in a great position to bridge web and SecondLife development projects.

Time to list some current Projects! The two major avenues are Web and SecondLife.

Web

• Update FlexiPhoto - work on a much more dynamic/Ajax front end. Give it an RSS feed capability.
• Update this blog - and incorporate work from the MultArg Demo
• Continue to develop RSS bridge for use by SecondLife Apps (using Magpie, about to try SimplePie parser)

SecondLife

• Give away demo/1st version of my QuickTime-based RSS reader (LSL + PHP)
• Start distributing my RSS browser (llDialog version), web browser, texture chooser, and object giver apps

I am at resume.daniel.org

So I recently received a notice to renew one of my domains. As anyone with a domain knows, the longer you renew for, the bigger your discount is …

However! This notice had an option to renew for 100 Years! I can see renewing for 10, but 100? Imagine the year is 1907, and you have to renew for a license to use a telegraph. Would you spring for 100 years? Believe me, I love the internet. I even left Autodesk in 1995 to go work with it full-time, because I could see where it was going, and they couldn’t. But that doesn’t mean I think it will be around for 100 years. What do you think?

Anyone that knows me will know my love for my ‘97 ///M3. Once in a while, that love is put to the test …

Last night I was heading home from Silicon Valley - about an 85 mile trip. 5:45 pm… I was on 280 North, just approaching where 380 joins from the airport … It was dark …

Kaflump! Kablump blump! pssst!!!!

I was in the left lane, and *felt* something passing under the car. For a moment I thought I had hit something. Then the battery light went on. That’s bad … bad bad bad. Surrounded by rush hour cars doing 50 in the left lane.. ewww .. I wrestled the car over to the right (no power steering), and managed to stop in a nice clear spot next to a callbox. Lots of smoke (turned out to be steam) .. Towing was ~$300 (to be reimbursed …)

So what Happened????

• Water Pump exploded …
• which threw that belt off
• which got entwined with the other belt …
• which then shredded up the fan blades…
• .. and then a fan blade pierced the radiator…

In other words, a pretty impressive laundry list of damage from a chain reaction …

I’m thankful to have some track training which helped me stay calm. Feeling a car start to come unglued under you can be disconcerting :-)