15 posts tagged “me”

Hayseed?
Originally uploaded by scot2342.

So, when we went out to Elwood's to watch the Derby, we got to play on some farm equipment. This is me being a jackass on a tractor.

Lots of stuff I do goes to tumblr.

Yeah, that's me.  Commentary by Laura and Kat.

I know some very twisted people.  We have a private irc server.  Some people keep logs of what is said on the server.  This is why I'll never be president.  Going through the logs looking for gems, this really stood out:

<@kucharo> "I AM THE LORD THY GOD! And this is my assistant Pat, he'll be taking some notes."

There's a lot more, but I thought this deserved it's own post.

I broke the 200k point barrier on a Guitar Hero song.  "I Wanna Be Sedated" on the "Hard" setting for those that must know.  Yes, the title is intentionally sarcastic.

Working the Crowd
Originally uploaded by pberry.

Damn, I look good in a tux...well, I did eight years ago.

It will be heavy with...well, something.  Guess at what creature I'm going to be.

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So this morning the dogs decided that they really needed to get up at 6:30am.  I convinced them they could wait until 7.  Still, 7am on a day off is pretty early.  Anyway, it was 7am and I was wide awake.  I'd been wanting to track views on my Flickr photostream for some time now.  I started keeping a Google spreadsheet, but there was no way I was going to keep that up.  This was clearly a task that needed automation and now was as good a time as any to start.

Step One: Check the API

The last time I checked the Flickr API didn't have a way to get this particular piece of information.  Turns out that it has been added to flickr.people.getInfo, but you only get it back if you are making a signed call on your own userid.  That's okay, because that's all I wanted to do.

Step Two: Decide on a language

I honestly haven't written much (any?) code at work lately.  Scott does the lion's share of that.  Perl?  Bleah.  I'm sick of perl.  PHP?  I wasn't looking to make a web application out of this.  Python?  Not a huge fan of the snake, but beej does have API kit for python.  Screw it...ruby with rflickr.

Step Three: Write code

Holy crap, how do I do this again?  Yes, it's been a while and I'm not in the rails environment...just straight up ruby.  I get all the auth/frob stuff out of the way and then what do I discover?  The rflickr package doesn't support getting photostream views.  Oh well, a quick hack to the source and we're on our way.

Okay, I have my views...now where do I put them?  I could just append them to a text file.  No, that sucks.  It's way too easy.  I decided I would take a crack at using ActiveRecord outside of rails.  Okay, I finally get that wired up and put an @hourly cron job in and I'm done.  Well, except that it does absolutely no error checking.  It's disgusting code that I wouldn't wish upon anybody.

158,883 as of 2006-11-24 16:00:11.  I'm sure you were just dying to know.

Me.  I'm the dork.  Ryan got me on a mileage run so I can make United Premiere.  Stamp the next 'L' on my forehead, I'm done.  Next I'll be reading FlyerTalk.com...