It’s been a while, a little too while…

Sara got me a print of this Chad Hagen piece that had been making the rounds:

I get the general method of how he constructed it, even if I didn’t match it aesthetically:

I had fun constructing this, it was akin to playing with legos. Today on Reddit someone asked, “If your twelve year old self saw you today, what would he say?” He would probably say that that thing was pretty cool. Then hopefully he would get a realistic sense of perspective on his age and enjoy the hell out of being twelve.

Maybe being 25 isn’t that much different.

In supplement, here’s a shot of the print framed and lit:

I’m particularly proud of that lighting solution I’ve concocted. I’m sure it will make Ben proud.* Especially when it falls down in the middle of the night electrocuting my right foot.

*I believe this is one of Ben’s clamps, too.

These songs inspired me to fire up Live Writer. Commodore 64 + DubStep = Joker

Do It - Joker
Radiates (Joker Remix) - Primary 1 & Riton
Purple City - Joker and Ginz

Thanksgiving day. I bought a bottle of Sazerac Rye and drank it neat all day Thursday. Justin’s family may now think I’m an alcoholic. Especially because I brought it in, and took it back out. I’m not a whiskey fan but I know what I don’t like, and I don’t not like this:

Black Friday. I slept in and wiped and updated/jailbroke my iPhone to 3.1.2. What a colossal pain in the ass. I had to borrow Sam’s SIM card 4 times before I got a clean install and activation. Also I made this for my bootup and  lock screen:

Saturday. Migraine,but only a 4 on the Jake scale. Ask me what that means sometime. Also, watched Singing in the Rain:

Understatement of the week: Gene Kelly and Don O’Conner were talented. It’s on Netflix streaming if you’d like to watch.

Sunday. Farmer’s market. Out to Sea with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Not great, but funny enough for a Sunday. Makes me want to watch “The Odd Couple” and call everyone a moron.

Just received this email from Media Temple:

Recently we witnessed some malicious activity on our (gs) Grid-Service platform where a hacker redirected some customer websites to a 3rd-party advertising website. This attacker appears to have illegally obtained some older customer data, which included usernames and passwords stored in clear text. Our newer systems now have this same data encrypted. An investigation into this illegal activity is ongoing, with full details forthcoming.

My reaction upon reading? “THEY FESSED UP! NOT MY FAULT! ”

Except they’ve only sort of fessed up. It’s not referenced on their blog or their status page, which sucks. They do have a KB article which describes the same attack my sites and some client sites experienced. Also, there’s Twitter, I guess. There better be a sweet espionage book deal out of this, and I want my name in it. 4pt font is fine.

They’ve reset the admin passwords on a bunch of my client’s accounts, yet no where in the emails do they tell me which account they’re referencing. Let’s play “Try the login!”

At least now when someone asks what happened I can say with confidence, “Don’t worry, it wasn’t my fault, it was the fault of the hosting company I recommended. Your invoice is due on Friday.”

1. Good news! The Expression Engine HTACCESS nightmare was my own fault. I accidentally uploaded an htaccess file to the parent of all the domains on my shared hosting account. So it propogated down to every site unless that site had a specifically defined its own rules. Sorry everyone.
2. Our sites were hacked! Probably by some drive-by Wordpress exploit but still, it hosed nearly every site on our hosting account and embedded itself into our Wordpress database tables in case it wanted to come back for more.
3. I’ve setup Amazon S3 sync with Media Temple using this guide. It’s slightly intimidating but completely doable. Don’t get discouraged by terminal errors,double check your typing and that you’re in the proper directory for each command, (use ‘pwd’ to find out your current location.) I estimate that backing up this site and its database shouldn’t cost me more than a dollar a month. Allow me to explain using complex maths:
   
   2GB data uploaded @ $0.17/GB + 2GB stored @ $0.10/GB = 54 cents.
   
   I believe that’s called “worth it.”