@bnpositive suggested that we all be Indiana blogging titan Douglas Karr’s friend. I wouldn’t mind, but he’s so tall… it kind of freaks me out.
He also needs to stop patting me on the head like that.
Edit: Doug has posted all of his friends: Thank Goodness for Friends!
It’s only a month until the Blog Indiana Conference, a blogging and social media conference. This conference is being held here in Indianapolis on August 16th and 17th. With a two day event covering three tracks, I think it will be a great conference at a low price ($49). I have heard some of the local blogger speak previously, and their sessions should be great.
I guess I should start blogging again 
I mentioned on Twitter that I had taken a power nap, but wasn’t sure if it was effective (I was a bit groggy afterward). footndale asked if I had followed the instructions on this excellent infographic on napping. I thought I would share.
- Saw Speed Racer. It’s like freebasing Skittles for two straight hours. #
- The Wife re: Speed Racer: I just spent $32 to see a monkey throw poo. #
- Prior to the early 1900s, social causes were championed by Christians. #
- Finally got around to getting donations for Shephard Community Center food pantry. I really want to make a habit of this. #
- Full RSS feeds should be required. Found a good blog to follow, but am considering deleting it already because of partial feeds. #
- $67.54 at the pump. Sad. #
- I must hang out with Twitterers and bloggers too much because I was the only person at the #IndyALT.NET meeting with a laptop (hosts excl.) #
- Live blog from #IndyALT.NET meeting re: EntitySpaces http://tinyurl.com/69kkhx #
- @Lestat I have no life here in #Indy. And an iPhone . #
- @Jaxidian Weird. Looking it up is fine, but posts don’t show the .net. May have to use #IndyAltDotNet instead. #
- @Hockeyskates There’s one already scheduled for Wed at Broad Ripple Brew Pub. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/612008/ #
- @rohdesign @axlconn suggested 3m scrapbooking tape or glue http://tinyurl.com/6pl7nm (still interested in others’ responses, though) #
- @Hockeyskates ? I won’t be able to get away two nights in a row, unfortunately. Perhaps next month? #
- Must be Friday. Everyone and their cousin is hanging out at the coffee shop today. That, plus construction next door making work impossible. #
- @Jaxidian Pried open a can of red paint with an axe when it got everywhere. Ran outside screaming bc it was in my eyes. Neighbors concerned. #
- @Jaxidian No, nothing both true *and* interesting. #
- @jeremycoenen Snippets? Snippets? We don’t need no stinking snippets! #
- @erwilleke 104th and Olio Road (ish) #
- @alxconn Heh. We have the same taste in free WP templates. http://christcentereddad.com/ #
- @alxconn Keep it if you want, I doubt there’ll be any crossover. Eventually I’ll redesign anyway. #
- @bnpositive Great. Now I have to go through with this and write some content since I have a reader. Thought of that after I tweeted the link #
- @alxconn Yeah I modified them to get rid of the fru-fru stuff. #
- @bnpositive An audience is good. Keeps one from wallowing in anonymous mediocrity. #
- Just noticed my Netflix return envelopes are addressed to #Indy. No wonder they have a 2-day turnaround. #
- @alxconn Check out http://subsonicproject.com/ It’s a very easy-to-use DAL that takes care of the CRUD plumbing for you. #
- @DeanWeber @Jaxidian @erwilleke … just remember, kids, that hanselman follows me… so that makes me important. Or egotistical. Whichever. #
- @bnpositive Not you and the britekite updates, too?! They are so annoying. All noise. #
- Everybody raves about Resharper but I think it’s a POS. Crashes on multiple computers and takes forever to startup. Wish I hadn’t bought it. #
- @DeanWeber Of course! Bring peeled grapes. #
- That was one unkempt lawn. I’m going to end up mowing it again in 2 days cause most of it just got pushed down by the weight of the mower. #
- @ellen5e It’s his brightkite account pinging twitter. Personally, I think it is overwhelmingly noise. #
- @noahwesley Whomever catches him first can tell him that britekite is irritating. #
- Got a Moleskine sketchbook. I think I have an addiction… that makes 3 notebooks, 1 pocket notebook, 3 cahiers and a pocket accordion. #
- @rohdesign I know you sketch, but any suggestions on glue for stuff I might want to permanently affix in it? Loose sketches, etc? #
- @alxconn Let me know if you have any asp.net questions. #
- @footndale AWESOME. Go Wings, of course. #
- RockScroll only works for code and not HTML? FAIL. #
- I want to build my office in a treehouse. http://tinyurl.com/69qyl9 (see video) #
- @drthomasho Yeah, but it’s a TREE house. My treehouse as a kid had 3 levels, but no power and definitely not INTERNET ACCESS! #
- @hoosierplew Awesome. I did a tandem jump with an instructor… got to free fall that way. No static line for me. But that was in Minnesota. #
- @footndale lol. I upgraded my desktop to vs2008 yesterday and had to look that up again myself. #
- @footndale Sit in the back near the bathroom. Make sure there’s other "locals" there. Make sure its while the place isn’t busy. Go quickly. #
- @footndale Put the folder in the right place for the project. In solution explorer click "Show all Files". Right click folder to include. #
- @footndale I had to remember how to do that yesterday too. Mebbe another "OhYeah!" post coming, huh? #
- @footndale But dragging a folder from Explorer into the solution would be the most usable way to do this. #
- I’m starting a #moleskine journal/sketchbook. What adhesive should I use to glue stuff into it? Will need to be permanent over time. #
- @footndale Reboot? #
- @alxconn I’ve used rubber cement in the past (and love it), but I’m worried about its long-term adhesiveness and not sure if its acid free. #
- Crikey, I can’t even do a straight copy of a web page and get it to work. Somebody take away my software development license. #
- Ok, people, if you’re going to create a custom version of something, DON’T name it the same as original version. That’s just dumb. #
- Re-tweet @Jaxidian - Indy ALT.NET presenting Entity Spaces (an O/R Mapper) this evening! http://www.IndyALT.NET for details! #
- Anyone remember a computer game from the 80s called raster? #
- What the heck are these #Indy bugs? They look like ants but with big antennae and wings. #
- @hoosierplew I don’t think so, they have segmented bodies like ants. We didn’t have flying ants in Wisconsin, just earwigs. #
- @ScottWilder @alxconn I like it without the border too. #
- @footndale Yeah, that looks about right, but I’d never seen any in Appleton. I’ve seen about 30 of them in the last week. #
- Thinking about video blogging the #IndyAlt.NET meeting tonight. Dress nice, fellow nerds! #
- On my way to #indyAlt.net meeting. #
- About 20 people here for the first #IndyALT.NET meeting. Good turnout, I think. #
- Only a handful of the developers here have used EntitySpaces before. Oh, and I’m the only one that came with laptop in tow. #
- @footndale Thanks, good links. I’d seen the daily flip before, but not onlinevideotoolkit. #
- @erwilleke That’s ok, I’m sure it’d all be review for you anyway. #
- All of a sudden wondering why the Indy .NET user group won’t cover non-MS types of stuff. The Fox Valley .NET User Group did. #
- @erwilleke Have you used Subsonic or Rocky Lhotka’s CSLA? If so, how does EntitySpaces compare to those tools? #
- Am pleasantly amused by the dad and his daughter sitting at the table next to me. Makes me want to be a better dad. #
- Ack. Escaped to the coffee shop so I could focus and cut code. But I’ve been sitting here coming up with idea after idea for blog posts. #
- @Jaxidian I’ll pass… but you may want to know about the #IndyTweetup the following Wed: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/612008/ #
- Is there an unwritten code in coffee shops that says "I’ll watch your stuff while you’re in the restroom"? I’m doing it for others, you know #
- Great. DVD I burned of VS2008 is corrupt. Redownloading the whole thing. #
- @Jaxidian That’s what I’ll end up doing, but was able to install VS2008 onto my laptop from the DVD a month or two ago. #
- @Jaxidian I didn’t save the ISO… had the DVD, of course! #
- @footndale Got one. May need another. For whatever reason, I haven’t gotten my MSDN dvd of VS2008. Otherwise this would be a non-issue. #
- @footndale No, but I do have to SVN update to Passport via client laptop and then develop on my desktop. That’s the client’s policy, too. #
- Oops! Turns out I DID save the VS2008 ISO to HD. Good thing they charge me a flat fee for bandwidth. #
- Just goes to show you that with all this cheap memory and bandwidth, we don’t bother remembering if we already have something or not. #
- Why, why, why did I choose to install VS2008 as default. Dumbest decision I made an hour ago. #
- Bought some old magazines at an antique mall this weekend. Going to try to convert NC-17 creativity into PG humor. #
- @alxconn You can set options to only receive certain people’s tweets to your phone. #
- @pamslim I was running Twitterfox and once I uninstalled, firefox and gmail started working better. #