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i thought MAYBE just maybe wordle would make sense of this. NOPE

framed, originally uploaded by robzand.

from the highline

there is good food in los angeles, originally uploaded by kateshanley.

i spent seven years 1/2 block away from the original joe’s. i was pretty surprised to find one in santa monica and of course i had to sample the goods. same pizza. more sunshine.

standard hotel, ny, originally uploaded by robzand.

we walked around the new standard hotel today. come to new york and spend moeny. kthnxbai

eastern state penn, originally uploaded by robzand.

i’ve posted some of my pics from the awesome eastern state pennitentiary

probably this is too arcane, too complex, or too unique to really matter to anyone. and yet because google will bring the 3 of you who are interested to this page, i wanted to quickly share some items that solved some minor annoyances on my new macbook, made desktop apps more cloudlike, and generally put a smile on my face. some day, and some day soon, everything will work like this, without all these hoops, without all the techno mumbo jumbo, and maybe more than 3 people will read this post with interest or better yet, this post won’t be necessary.

a long time ago, i put firefox in my dropbox and it worked. don’t know what dropbox is? it’s a brain dead easy way to share files between computers. in my case, putting firefox in dropbox meant my bookmarks, add-ons, and general hackery were the same everywhere, and life was pretty good. it wasn’t perfect, i had a mac box and windows laptop, so google gears protested, but i was happy. now, having replaced (finally) my windows laptop with a macbook, gears worked too, but more importantly, new things were possible.

contact management

i put address book in dropbox (it’s easy). contact additions and changes anywhere are reflected in all places immediately. and while my iphone won’t get over-the-air updates, every time i sync it i get the updated list there as well. itunes/isync enable syncing address book with gmail and yahoo mail, and while yahoo mail will create duplicate entries galore, you will now have a fairly ubiquitous set of contacts.

keystroke commands

like the 3 of you reading this post, i was a quicksilver fanatic until support stopped, os x was updated, and consequently it became unreliable. i’ve been using launchbar as a replacement, which works, yet i lament that between it and a change by delicious in how they store bookmarks locally (they now use sqlite), i could no longer index my delicious bookmarks and access them with a keyboard shortcut (as i could with quicksilver). last night i slayed this dragon and in a vain attempt to be brief i’ll say that the trick is:

1. use automator to open ybookmarks.sqlite
2. run sql against it and output the results to a textfileselect shortcut,url from bookmarks where shortcut != '' order by shortcut;
3. read that file with your preferred scripting language and create an html bookmarks file that launchbar can parse<dl> <dt><a href=[URL]>[SHORTCUT]</a></dt> … </dl&gt
4. set up a cron job or some such process to run this process frequently enough to keep it in sync with your delicious bookmarks stored online

some apple minutiae

the iphone headphones and line-in microphone work with your mac. this enables you to use skype rather painlessly anytime you have your laptop. skype and launchbar work fairly well together too, though i did have to find a script somewhere to initiate the call

more apple minutiae

to change your default instant messenger client you must open ichat and change preferences. why this wouldn’t be available from systems preferences i have no idea. i only found this because launchbar would open ichat when i tried to use it to invoke an IM window with a contact

before the superbowl, we headed to moma for Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out. today’s the last day so you’ll have to hustle if you’d like to see it. kate did a little better than me on the - photo front.

rob at the whitney, originally uploaded by kateshanley.

there was some trimming this week, but here’s the beard at it’s apogee

in front of the capital, originally uploaded by robzand.

even more here.

tulum, originally uploaded by robzand.

problems renewing my flickr pro account aside (it expired in the month i was gone), i’ve uploaded the best of the mexico photos to flickr. when and whether i post the remaining and more interesting photos is in question, but for now i have the on my iphone if you are interested.

photos tagged as honeymoon