Analog by Night

Sometimes it takes Dr. Dre to find the right words to express my feelings on complex situations.

“Y’all gonna keep fuckin around with me and turn me back to the old me.”

Thanks for that, it saved us all a thousand extraneous words.

For all of you who’ve toiled at food service, you’ll know it’s not the labor, it’s the people that suck. This guy does exactly what you should do. It’s your new favorite blog:

http://waiterrant.blogspot.com/

Sorry kids, but that whole spanking thing, as hot as it is, doesn’t hold a candle to this one. This one MAKES brilliant, shining, tender movies. Somebody introduce me to her, or I might do it myself. wow.

The rest of you primadonna Madonna’s can all go home.
go, and do not come back here without something to say: miranda july

So last night after work I squirreled on over to the Ross playing field to try and join up with “The Runs” for some kickball. Yes kickball, that would be the first coordinated athletic activity I’ve done in years. I did get there in time despite getting hung up at a Shell station digging around for the one accessory childish sporting events require; something to choke on while running. On time, actually a little early I got a bit of a debriefing and reminder of the rules, the procedure, and a good look at the scrappy young crew of brown-shirts that I would be depending on. Shit-brown that is.

The Runs is headed up by Jason Pollientier and John Panzar, partners in the collective household cutely monikered “The Hive.” I am now part of the Hive, and I like these people, and I love the idea of some who-gives-a-shit sport, so I’ve been very excited to play.

The game only lasted around an hour, but was so much poop-flavored fun. I made two nice catches around first base, one of which took my knee to the ground. I had three goals last night. 1. play the game and not be a complete jackass 2. win the game, 3. get injured. I did not intend to win player of the game, but I guess those plays were more impressive than I thought. Thanks John!

A little scrape on the knee, a victory for the runs and winning Player of the Game, was the hook I needed to commit to this every Tuesday.

More info on Underdog Kickball

What I need is for a Cron driven script to hit a php/perl script that will a traverse all the subdirectories in a given filesystem/directory and not just create a simple site map, but create content sections and categories based on those folder names, and then writes meta data into a database for each object it finds ie:

- if an object is nested four folders deep, then the names of those folders and the filename of the object become metadata
- The top level folders are sections, the second level folders are categories, and the n-level folders become subcategories right down to the last folder which is an entry , an entry which simply contains thumbnails of the different files.
- recognization of a significant variety of file formats: image, document, pdf, pages, office docs, fonts, etc.
- a media player.
- thumbnail and list views.
- statistical reporting (number to files total, per category, per file type, new
-versioning (how will this work?)

I need to gather components that will make this happen

- the script that will crawl directories
- identify file types and write a database table with filename/filetype
- traverse each known filetype and associate it with either and icon or a thumbnail
- read direcotry names and assign new tables and relationships.
- write metadata to object database

ugh, this could go on. I’ve got a good idea of what I want, and I just need to start writing it, piecemeal, over time. Ruby? Perl? I have a fondness in my heart for the speed, power and efficiency of perl, but I like the easy of dev with ruby.

I think it should maybe be able to write, XML, RSS and XHTML.

more later.