My tweets

• Sat, 20:44: Ugh, and my computer chooses this time to go unresponsive and now applying updates.
• Sat, 21:24: git pull, pit bull. Very different creatures.
• Sat, 21:58: RT @0xabad1dea: there's a bird outside that sounds just like a hard drive suddenly cutting off and spinning down. This bird is not my friend
• Sat, 22:01: RT @jdub: 14 years later, Y2K bug hits 118 to 121 year old men with a warning to sign up for the draft. http://t.co/9VqRcpfH3G /ping @Colvi…
• Sat, 22:20: @PebbleBucks App crashed, push any button?
• Sun, 00:40: Me: "NOTIFICATIONS ARE A THING" Autocorrect: "NOT IF I CABBAGE ARE A THING" D: *doesn't realize this is autocorrect because me*
• Sun, 00:45: RT @eassumption: @azurelunatic as I said once, the difference is that usually, a pit bull gives you some warning before it fucks you up.
• Sun, 01:03: My fitbit #Fitstats for 7/12/2014: 2,333 steps and 1 miles traveled. http://t.co/gFMrr7qBz6
• Sun, 11:31: RT @thefourthvine: @twwings @j00j this explains why militaries all over the world choose spandex for their combat fatigues, though.
• Sun, 12:00: RT @zorkian: TIL that "privilege" literally means "private law". When you put it that way, it sounds a lot more sinister, doesn't it? Well:…

In which I attempt to recap my week, more or less:

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday all involved meeting-related shenanigans. Pro tip: when the co-worker who is on record as hating mornings attempts to reschedule your afternoon meeting, it's not helpful to attempt to reschedule it for the morning.

( Progression of a task )

So I had the insomnia Tuesday night.

Tuesday at lunch, I'm not sure what brought up the topic, but I mentioned how a keyboard kept randomly turning itself off, and how I eventually narrowed it down to interference from a small household appliance.

Purple: "The microwave?"

I kept talking as if he hadn't said anything. He persisted.

Eventually: "I plead the fifth."

Lennon Glasses Guy: *cracks up*

Purple: *dawning realization* *cracks up*

Therein followed speculation about how exactly one of those was causing something like that to happen.

( a week. )

Quotes database engines

One of the things I learned at Open Source Bridge was that the idea of having a private quotes database was a novel idea to many projects. Some people asked after the source for the one which Dreamwidth is using. sophie hasn't (yet?) put that up, but there are various open quotes database projects out there (note that I have not used any of these myself):

Open Source Quotes DataBase: http://sourceforge.net/projects/osqdb/ (et al)
miniqdb: https://code.google.com/p/miniqdb/ (uses .htaccess for authentication)
rash-qdb-fork: https://github.com/paxed/rash-qdb-fork (this seems to be the actively developed fork)
t3quotes: http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/t3quotes
QuoteBoat QDB: http://www.ohloh.net/p/quoteboatqdb
Chirpy!: http://chirpy.sourceforge.net/

If you're looking to get your project set up with a quotes database, check some of those out and see if they have what your project needs.

Post-OSB: What I Did On Vacation, by Azure Jane Lunatic, Age Old Enough To Drive By Myself

Before Dreamwidth had a website, it had a user group. Before Dreamwidth had a user group, it had a Diversity Statement. So misskat and I talked about parts of the process of watching the user group start from the concept of Hypothetical Journal and the Diversity Statement and the things we learned from that. It was great fun! I had stage fright, my computer kind of died a little, and I'm already planning the changes I'm going to make to the talk based on what I learned from giving it.

I was surprised by one thing I learned at Open Source Bridge. The open source world, or at least the bits of it attending Open Source Bridge, has a lot of people at a 101 level for community organization and culture. In addition to a world-class performance engineer (mark) and fu and karzilla and all the other lovely devs, Dreamwidth has people working on making the development community and other official areas pleasant and productive places to be.

Also, quotes databases aren't as well known as they might be, and #dreamwidth IRC's quotes database is one of the best (in my opinion, at least).

Other things I learned:

misskat and I got on famously in person. One surefire way to make your travel group laugh is to run slow-motion across the hotel restaurant lobby to embrace each other as violins play in the background. Or maybe it was dubstep. Nobody's quite sure.

Editing your presentation at the last minute is a time-honored conference hobby, but it helps if your laptop doesn't develop a weird probably-hardware problem which crashes Powerpoint five times in fifteen minutes.

Having at least one car at the conference makes a lot of things go more smoothly, including the spur of the moment laptop and soda run to Costco. (They didn't have diet coke with lime. In retrospect, maybe I should have found a bag of limes.)

Shortbread is more delicious when it's CAPTAIN AMERICA shortbread.

I need, NEED, a badge-maker of my own. As it is, my infamous hat may collapse from the number of buttons I'm going to put on it.

On denise and her wife, BPAL Hatta smells like spice and a comfortable leather jacket. On me? Doing the cinnamon challenge in Uncle Sketchy Galore's man-cave. Body chemistry, y0!

And last but certainly not least -- meeting up with Dreamwidth people in person is an amazing bonding experience, and I want to do it again. Next year in Portland! *raises a glass* and ... TO THE ROLEPLAYERS!