Ryan Berg
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I am a user experience designer in New York, NY. I also do freelance web design and development.
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@
cpknoxify
Pizzeria Pretzel Combos are a roadtrip staple of mine
June 5th 2008, 3:05 p.m.
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Experiencing technical difficulties
June 5th 2008, 1:20 a.m.
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Djangoing late into the night
June 5th 2008, 12:36 a.m.
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Calling it an early night
June 4th 2008, 12:35 a.m.
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@
patrickbeeson
So what was wrong with the GTI? Was it just jealous about all the time you've been spending with your bike?
June 3rd 2008, 10:34 a.m.
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I love overtime hockey. Currently Game 5, Stanley Cup Finals, 2OT. Every rush on the goal is a rush of excitement.
June 2nd 2008, 11:55 p.m.
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Finally ran into a bug I can't squash. Time to sleep on it.
June 2nd 2008, 1:52 a.m.
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Near the end of the most productive night I've had in weeks
June 2nd 2008, 12:25 a.m.
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Making my tumblelog code more efficient
June 1st 2008, 9:19 p.m.
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Trying to get my new site up and running TONIGHT
June 5th 2008, 11:32 p.m.
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Spinning beachball. Really hoping Photoshop doesn't crash on me.
June 11th 2008, 2:35 a.m.
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Putting my old math classes to good use. Even though I haven't been in one since high school.
June 10th 2008, 4:16 p.m.
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Calling it a night. I'm a tired developer.
June 9th 2008, 2:12 a.m.
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Doing a bit more work on the new site before calling it a night. Been a lovely weekend in Boulder / Denver.
June 9th 2008, 1:15 a.m.
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@
ryansholin
Try that, create a folder 'templates' in your project folder, and wherever you put that project it'll find the templates
June 8th 2008, 11:58 p.m.
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@
ryansholin
settings.py: import os / project_path = os.path.dirname(__file__) / TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(project_path, 'templates'))...
June 8th 2008, 11:57 p.m.
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I'm in Boulder, CO. My bag is not.
June 6th 2008, 5:53 p.m.
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Last-minute code restructure. Imma run out of time.
June 6th 2008, 1:56 a.m.
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Diving deeper into Python
June 12th 2008, 4:47 p.m.
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Brought my lunch to the office for the first time in months. Mmm turkey sandwiches
June 12th 2008, 12:08 p.m.
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Testing a cron job.
June 12th 2008, 11:01 p.m.
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Testing that cron job again.
June 12th 2008, 11:56 p.m.
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Ugly solution. Pretty result. Cron environments suck. (More likely, I suck at cron environments). Bedtime.
June 13th 2008, 2:08 a.m.
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Downside of Jackie living here now: She sparked the return of my Diet Dr Pepper addiction - which she started last year in the first place!
June 13th 2008, 1:35 p.m.
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@
ryansholin
that NW j-school grant was the first thing that ever made me consider heading back to school. Not that I have the grades for NW
June 13th 2008, 4:37 p.m.
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@
sketch22
would that reason be it's some of the worst pizza in a town that doesn't have too many great pizza places?
June 14th 2008, 1:31 a.m.
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Had some tasty seafood at Chesapeake's tonight, then some sweet mojitos at Sapphire with Jackie. Was a lovely evening in downtown Knoxville.
June 14th 2008, 1:51 a.m.
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Gonna stop sweating the details for tonight, and sleep in tomorrow.
June 14th 2008, 3:16 a.m.
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Off to the dollar (well, two dollar) movie theater!
June 14th 2008, 3:31 p.m.
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Wondering when the latest bug snuck into my code, and how I'm gonna fix it.
June 15th 2008, 2:16 p.m.
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Sweating the details. Literally. My air conditioner isn't working. Minor detail.
June 15th 2008, 6:58 p.m.
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Comcast HD compression making NBA Finals game look like shit.
June 15th 2008, 9:27 p.m.
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Finished designing new "About me" page. Will do the whole xhtml/css thing for it tomorrow.
June 16th 2008, 3:50 a.m.
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Brain freeze from early-morning Coolata
June 16th 2008, 8:51 a.m.
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New
http://ryanberg.net/
is alive, but not browser-tested. (Pending DNS propagation)
June 16th 2008, 10:24 a.m.
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@
patrickbeeson
Thanks! Clearly, nothing too new from what you've already seen except /about/ and maybe /projects/
June 16th 2008, 10:54 a.m.
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Back from having the GTI in for its 10k service. Harper VW has great service prices considering there are no other VW dealers in the area
June 16th 2008, 1:39 p.m.
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@
patrickbeeson
Those summer tires of yours going to last much longer, then?
June 16th 2008, 1:46 p.m.
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@
mattheisig
when you have the headphones in, and you lower the volume, the next time you put them it in the MBP should use that same volume.
June 16th 2008, 1:58 p.m.
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Didn't accomplish nearly enough tonight on new
http://ryanberg.net
. Still no new entry for it.
June 17th 2008, 12:15 a.m.
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Original link at
http://tinyurl.com/5vuoe4
June 17th 2008, 10:29 a.m.
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New, impromptu blog entry: New foundation for Django
http://tinyurl.com/5nwf2v
June 17th 2008, 10:28 a.m.
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Hungry. Very, very hungry.
June 17th 2008, 11:13 a.m.
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@
boltron5k
I ate a chimi!
June 17th 2008, 1:43 p.m.
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@
mattheisig
Thanks! Georgia started off just being used in select parts of the site, then crept into, um the entire site.
June 17th 2008, 1:46 p.m.
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It's too nice out to not be playing basketball right now
June 17th 2008, 5:48 p.m.
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Catching my breath. At least attempting to.
June 17th 2008, 10:07 p.m.
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Just fixed my blog feeds to not include HTML tags
June 17th 2008, 11:43 p.m.
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Doin' some writing before bed
June 18th 2008, 12:31 a.m.
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Ah, nothing like a force-quit to knock some sense into Firefox 2. I'm looking forward to not force-quitting my browser every couple hours...
June 18th 2008, 1:58 p.m.
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Wondering why Firefox 2 won't let me download Firefox 3. Sibling rivalry issues?
June 18th 2008, 1:56 p.m.
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Firefox 3 didn't make twitter any faster. That's for sure.
June 18th 2008, 2:26 p.m.
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@
skatterbean
can I keep Safari 3 on my system for browser testing?
June 18th 2008, 2:26 p.m.
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With all the hype, I'm surprised no one made Firefox4IsYourNewBicycle dot com
June 18th 2008, 3:06 p.m.
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@
skatterbean
You've just sparked fond memories of the Bubble Bobble + Game Genie combo
June 18th 2008, 5:16 p.m.
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Back from playing basketball in the early evening heat. I'm feelin' good.
June 18th 2008, 8:05 p.m.
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@
ubernostrum
Maybe you'd enjoy hitting the down arrow more?
June 18th 2008, 11:22 p.m.
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In love with comment-utils spam filtering. Thank you @
ubernostrum
!
June 19th 2008, 12:30 a.m.
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Blog entry introducing my new site!
http://tinyurl.com/6qgga2
June 19th 2008, 8:53 a.m.
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@
mattheisig
And that's the same transmission tech that's in my GTI :-)
June 19th 2008, 11:14 a.m.
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@
mattheisig
Same dual-clutch tech. More expensive because it's a 7-speed, and if it cost less, no Porsche owner would want to buy it ;-)
June 19th 2008, 11:46 a.m.
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@
danrubin
AIM has been going up and down for me the last two days. Glad (but not glad) it's not just me.
June 19th 2008, 1:16 p.m.
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@
rootclip
thanks for the pizza!
June 20th 2008, 2:22 p.m.
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Writing Javascript again. This time unobtrusively. I'm scared.
June 20th 2008, 3:28 p.m.
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On that note, I have 14 tabs open relevant to what I'm doing...
June 20th 2008, 4:19 p.m.
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@
lindsaydurango
No problem. Anything to avoid thinking about what I should be doing :-)
June 20th 2008, 4:19 p.m.
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Unwinding from a long week shrimp, pasta, wine, Mario Kart, and @
jlsisme
June 20th 2008, 7:21 p.m.
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...and apparently too much wine too remember the word "with"
June 20th 2008, 9:59 p.m.
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@
skabber
I wanted to see the inside of Coors (walked around outside) when I was in denver 2 wks ago. Hopefully I'll have time during the DNC
June 21st 2008, 12:22 a.m.
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Off to see Get Smart and devour some popcorn
June 21st 2008, 9:24 p.m.
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Resuming work on the blog, and watching the White Sox play the cubs. Sadly, the latter is a losing battle.
June 22nd 2008, 10:02 p.m.
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Closing the laptop for the night.
June 23rd 2008, 12:17 a.m.
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Back to the Rootclip grind
June 23rd 2008, 9:44 a.m.
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@
mattheisig
I really like Twitterific - I just hate that it always gives bad request errors.
June 23rd 2008, 12:01 p.m.
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@
Rootclip
I have it set to check 4 times an hour. And
http://ryanberg.net
checks 12 times per hour. Twitterific still gives errors.
June 23rd 2008, 12:44 p.m.
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holy shit it's after 5:00. I'm gonna be here for a while.
June 23rd 2008, 5:18 p.m.
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I stayed up too late.
June 24th 2008, 3:37 a.m.
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Wondering when I'll find my glasses. They disappeared three weeks ago. It's getting a bit strenuous to see.
June 24th 2008, 10:26 a.m.
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@
mattheisig
No wonder despite my lack of glasses, you've been looking so sharp
June 24th 2008, 10:39 a.m.
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I see cupcakes. Very, very tasty-looking cupcakes. I love this office.
June 24th 2008, 1:48 p.m.
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Wow, that was an incredible cupcake. Chocolate with peanut butter frosting. Mmm
June 24th 2008, 2:13 p.m.
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Off to dinner with @
rootclip
June 24th 2008, 5:30 p.m.
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First night in a long time there's nothing I feel the need to accomplish. Gonna go to bed 'early'
June 24th 2008, 11 p.m.
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Completely not able to focus this morning
June 25th 2008, 10:56 a.m.
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Eating not very tasty nilla cakesters because it's the only way to get them off my desk short of throwing them out.
June 25th 2008, 3:42 p.m.
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My eyes hurt. So does my brain. I'm goin' home.
June 25th 2008, 5:11 p.m.
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Was greeted in the office by my external display showing 23" of darkness and despair. Gonna be a long day hunched over the built-in 15"er
June 26th 2008, 10:37 a.m.
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@
cpknoxify
So was the '09 as bad as you (and TTAC) expected?
June 26th 2008, 10:35 a.m.
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Really missing my glasses today.
June 26th 2008, 2:17 p.m.
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Even without my glasses, thanks to Twitter I'm seeing whales.
June 26th 2008, 2:38 p.m.
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@
cmm1869
I'm actually from Buffalo Grove, in the northwest burbs. It's just easier to say I'm from Chicago in most cases :-)
June 26th 2008, 3:49 p.m.
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cmm1869
My father raised me properly - I'm a lifelong White Sox fan.
June 26th 2008, 4:18 p.m.
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Ready for @
mattheisig
and his verbal "@"tacks from one cube over.
June 26th 2008, 4:30 p.m.
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Oh well. As much as it woulda hurt, I was hoping to root for Michael Beasley. I hope the Bulls do well with Derrick Rose.
June 26th 2008, 7:38 p.m.
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So glad Darrell FINALLY got drafted. Now he gets to go to a really good situation in New Orleans and play with Julian Wright. and CP3.
June 26th 2008, 10:10 p.m.
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J.R. Giddens in the first round over Chalmers? Wow. Just, wow. Wow. Had I been drinking something just now, it'd be all over this keyboard.
June 26th 2008, 10:32 p.m.
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Pleasantly surprised to find my MacBook Pro's DVI port working again this morning.
June 27th 2008, 10:57 a.m.
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2/3 of the way there on code for new uploader coming soon to
http://rootclip.com
June 27th 2008, 3:55 p.m.
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Weekend time.
June 27th 2008, 5:19 p.m.
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Waiting in line for wall-e
June 27th 2008, 9:02 p.m.
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Doing some research for a trip to Cinci
June 29th 2008, 5:44 p.m.
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Just booked tickets for Kanye / N.E.R.D. / Lupe Fiasco in Cinci
June 29th 2008, 9:23 p.m.
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Relieved that the Cubs won't have bragging rights for the season over the Sox. Thanks for the sweep!
June 29th 2008, 10:43 p.m.
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Wondering what else I can do to fight comment spam. Akismet doesn't get enough in my current config.
June 30th 2008, 1:38 a.m.
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Thanks to rapidly-approaching deadline for new
http://rootclip.com
, every day is now a Django day!
June 30th 2008, 3:07 p.m.
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Hm. Repeatedly refreshing the page doesn't seem to make the python error go away. I don't get it.
June 30th 2008, 5:33 p.m.
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