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The Aggregated Lifestream of That Darrin Guy You See Everywhere

The real-time, inane ramblings of a socially inept, 40-something, IT equivalent of a swiss army knife, blogger, podcaster, gamer, musician, wannabe novelist, movie nut, scifi fanboy, comic book afficionado, fledgling day trader, new media champion, and general cranky geek. Now updated hourly -- or better -- for your convenience and not intended to be interesting to anyone who doesn't know me personally (so don't bother pointing that out).

Last Seen: 2/4/2012 10:47:06 PM @ Claddagh Irish Pub - Chris Oaks on stage ... and.soon on Show #109.

Contact / Network

If you're a long lost (or brand new) friend, feel free to link up and network with me at the following hangouts. If we've never met, you can try, but some (not all) of these I keep for R/L friends only.





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Currently Reading


Wiegers, Karl
Software Requirements

Thacker, Eugene
Hard_Code
 

Hoyle, Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle
( Warboys 02)
Into Deepest Space

Adzic, Gojko
Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software
 

Wynne, Matt and Aslak Hellesoy
The Cucumber Book

Current Task List

View My Full Kanban Here
(Because the way my schedule works these days, I'll never get anything done unless I publicly put myself on the hook for it.)

Indy In-Tune Podcast:
Edit/Publish Indy In-Tune Show #026 (Blue Moon Revue)
534 days overdue.
Tags: Podcasting

Indy In-Tune Podcast:
Edit/Publish Indy In-Tune Show #029 (Henderson)
533 days overdue.
Tags: Podcasting

Indy In-Tune Podcast:
Edit/Publish Indy In-Tune Show #070 (Battle Wrapup #1)
525 days overdue.
Tags: Podcasting

BOA Development Platform:
Site Analytics Engine 3.0
525 days overdue.
Tags: Corporate/Internal

BOA Development Platform:
Integrated Profile Platform
514 days overdue.
Tags: Personal Project (For Fun)

BOA Development Platform:
Message Board 2.0
507 days overdue.
Tags: Personal Project (For Fun)

BOA Development Platform:
BOA-Driven Indypodcasters.com Site
500 days overdue.
Tags: Personal Project (For Fun)

BOA Development Platform:
Web-Powered Remote Jukebox
491 days overdue.
Tags: Personal Project (For Fun)

Indyjobseekers.com:
Indyjobseekers.com Knockout Site
491 days overdue.
Tags: Personal Project (For Profit)

Indymoonlighters.com:
Indymoonlighters.com 2.0
477 days overdue.
Tags: Personal Project (For Profit)

Goliathon:
Contact MAF about Interview
467 days overdue.
Tags: Side Gig (Gratis)


My latest project: Game-modeling languages as light security systems. This is to say, sure, a coder/hacker could get in, but anybody else who gets through this little challenge either knows me pretty well, and hence "belongs," or has already passed the basic determination (and intelligence) test that makes them interesting enough to "belong." Either way, it's a damned site more fun to chum out stuff like this than it is to worry about hashing algorithms and AES256/3DES stuff.
Nothing if not ambitious, I also run a couple-dozen other sites in addition to this one. Some for fun, some for money, some for my own devious purposes. If you have an interest in taking over, contributing to, or maybe starting up something in collaboration with any of these, drop me a line ... I think we can work something out.

My Lists

I have a strange OCD thing about being a completist. If I hear a band, I must buy all of their CD's, then all of the CD's the members of the band have appeared on, etc. If I read a book, I must read the entire series -- even if they suck. Hubbard's "Mission: Earth" was bad enough, to say the least, but I will no doubt slit my wrists if Robert Jordan doesn't stop writing "Wheel of Cheese" books (or at least put his overly-foreshadowed cardboard cutout characters in some sort of believable peril soon). Oh, and it almost bankrupted me to discover comics. Some of the old ones are expensive, and I don't think I'll ever own all of them.