Ben Rasmusen
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arg… About to play battle of the sexes. I don’t play group games well.
Jun 1st
waiting for the guests of honor to arrive to the surprise party. getting tired of huddling together.
Jun 1st
about to head to dinner with friend before the retirement party… ftw!
Jun 1st
every weekend i wish for a hammock. i’m going to listen to radio lab and the sunny 70 degree...
May 31st
back to work on blueswarm.com… going to a retirement party tonight…
May 31st
just installed git on our dreamhost account
May 31st
heading out to grab some lunch… ftw!
May 31st
feeding Noah some turkey and yogurt for lunch and trying to decide what to feed myself for lunch
May 31st
geez, is it just me or is everyone getting a ton more spam in their gmail account? i get at least...
May 31st
waiting for a git push on blueswarm.com from @ryanwaggoner… andale amigo
May 31st
saturday morning dev time… personal projects of course
May 31st
I’ve been programming all night in my dreams. I guess I even explained my coding issue to my...
May 31st
just gave Noah his 4am nebulizer
May 31st
1 Battlestar Galactica. LOST lost me in season two
May 31st
gearing up for another long night. hopefully we can sleep more tonight. still have 12am and 4am...
May 31st
nap = successful… awake again, wishing for something good to drink…
May 30th
feeding Noah some lunch… then it’s nap time for all of us… midday naps ftw!
May 30th
just got back from the doctors office, in and out today, but noah is on the oxygen through the...
May 30th
getting ready to take Noah to the doctors office again to check his blood oxygen level to see if we...
May 30th
Noah on oxygen dragging his 50foot line around
May 30th
A lollipop as consolation for a shot, nebulizer and oxygen.
May 30th
Noah getting a nebulizer treatment at the doctors office
May 30th
At our 3hour doctors appointment.
May 30th
Last night was brutal! I think Amber and I slept about 2hrs total. I’m beat… wondering...
May 30th
geez FINALLY we have the oxygen setup for noah… took 3hrs and 5-6 phone calls. time for bed,...
May 30th
attempting to get information on our insurance coverage, but alas, aetna.com = fail:...
May 30th
unorganized doctors + insurance companies + 3rd party medical equipment providers = FTL
May 30th
getting ready for a long night of nebulizer treatments every four hours. Its like having a newborn...
May 30th
looks like Noah has to go on oxygen, steroid treatment, nebulizer treatment and allergy medicine. I...
May 30th
Going with Amber to Noah’s doctors appointment.
May 29th
Beautiful sunny day here in Colorado Springs, but super windy.
May 29th
Home working after a delicious lunch with Amber.
May 29th
I love Vampire Weekend! I really wish they would come out with another album…
May 29th
Retweeting @SnowBear: @jlouderb: Want to know the real story behind the Revision3 outage last...
May 29th
wishing svn had local commits ala-git…
May 29th
Retweeting: @palam Save the developers! Chuck IE, and have fun while at it!...
May 29th
excited about having discovered that the iphone has a built in rss reader in mobile safari. (just...
May 29th
at the coffee shop catching up on the tech world via feeds…
May 29th
up before 5am. Feeling like crap through. Lame.
May 29th
FTWeet.com - Your FTW vs FTL Ratio on Twitter
May 29th
[blog] FTWeet.com - Your FTW vs FTL Ratio on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/5xxy4q
May 29th
FTWeet.com - Your FTW vs FTL Ratio on Twitter
May 29th
catching up on techcrunch stories… dang this blog is prolific… slow down so i can keep...
May 29th
feeling super beat. Its going to be an early bedtime.
May 29th
heading home… dinner time!
May 29th
Cookbook :: 1.2 Collection :: The Manual ::...
May 29th
lunch with @ryanwaggoner
May 28th
thanks to @n0s0ap for the new http://ftweet.com/ design! http://ftweet.com/benrasmusen FTW!
May 28th
wishing errors would fix themselves…
May 28th
now at the office… time to do some client work for a change this week ;)
May 28th
taking a break from blueswarm.com to work on friendfeedback.com… simple app shouldn’t...
May 28th
having coffee with tom before heading to the office to work
May 28th
wouldn’t disabling jabber and paging just increase server load, from people refreshing more...
May 28th
http://mobaganda.com on techcrunch… awesome! http://pequrl.com/techcrunch/129
May 28th
super foggy rainy day here in colorado springs… my kind of weather
May 28th
awake, but feeling pretty crummy, being sick and not having sick day pay, ftl.
May 28th
my apologies to http://megruth.blogspot.com/ for thinking: http://checkyesorno.info/77 was...
May 28th
super done with developing for today… being sick and chasing phantom bugs = major FTL.
May 28th
working on blueswarm.com… again… my updates are getting boring… my apologies ;)
May 27th
arg… noah being sick = ftl…
May 27th
working on blueswarm.com… again… my updates are getting boring… my apologies ;)
May 27th
First instance of spam? Did you get to this page by visiting megruth.blogspot.com?...
May 27th
added some styles to: http://ftweet.com hard refresh if you’ve been there previously ;)...
May 27th
working on blueswarm.com… dang i want to see this thing out in the wild…
May 26th
Amber & Aram: Bike ride
May 26th
Me & Amber: Bike ride.
May 26th
just purchased a luggage set. Its getting closer and closer!
May 26th
really wishing I had a hammock right now…
May 25th
$30 and 1 hour later, i’ve just prepared and consumed the best salad ever! thanks for the tips...
May 25th
heading home after the ride. Other than the bouts of nausea it was a good time. Need some food and a...
May 25th
on a bike ride with Amber and Aram on the Santa fe trail
May 25th
rentbits.com is an excellent place to find retals in kona… if anyone else is interested. ;)
May 25th
time to get ready for the day… lazy sunday.
May 25th
searching for places to live in kailua-kona, hi… hi needs some web design help…
May 25th
starving. Having a bowl of golden grahms before bed. G’night all.
May 25th
wow hahlo has been having some insane issues… any reccomendations for an iPhone safari twitter...
May 25th
time to feed noah some dinner. then were off to the skysox game.
May 25th
catching up on radio lab and relaxing on this fine Saturday afternoon
May 24th
hanging out with Amber after a productive morning of work on blueswarm.com with @ryanwaggoner
May 24th
super excited about blueswarm.com it’s coming along well…
May 24th
git local commits FTW!
May 24th
awake before 6am on a Saturday… Its for a good cause though. Time to bust some more work on...
May 24th
just got done watching indiana jones. Very good movie, light hearted, funny and action packed. Well...
May 24th
plans with friends fell through so its date night with Amber. Dinner and indiana jones. Ftw!
May 24th
getting pretty frustrated with cakephp 1.2… it’s a lot better than 1.1 but it’s...
May 23rd
back to work on blueswarm.com need some specific objectives
May 23rd
lunch time with my mom, my bro, and @ryanwaggoner
May 23rd
getting quite hungry… perhaps an early lunch is in order…
May 23rd
hanging out with my youngest brother bustin some sweet php awesomeness
May 23rd
correction on framework tweet: to be fair he gives them some credit, and does seem to like...
May 23rd
wtf? twitterpod just wigged out on me after an unknown series of unintentional keystrokes and sent...
May 23rd
Goodnight
May 23rd
i always wondered if a framework-hater existed: http://pequrl.com/snook/11d anyone have any thoughts...
May 23rd
not sure if i love or hate spending hours on a bug only to discover it’s an easy one line...
May 23rd
heading to the office… time to sock away some billable hours before continuing work on the...
May 23rd
i LOVE frameworks… who the heck writes anything from scratch? who want’s that kind of...
May 23rd
the idea of commissioning artwork and music is bizzare to me… someday i’d like to...
May 23rd
whoa! just chased a crazy online rabbit trail. why would a marketing/branding company have a credit...
May 23rd
up at 4:30am this morning… not feeling too tired. listening to ‘this american...
May 23rd
off to bed. Adiós twitter amigos.
May 23rd
putting Noah to bed and I’m headed there soon after. I’m not sure why I’m so beat.
May 23rd
dealing with a craby disobedient 1 year old. Welcome home eh? :)
May 23rd
checking out twine.com so far it’s as nebulous as most startups…
May 23rd
heading home… i should get a better start on the day tomorrow…
May 23rd
back in he office about to bust some awesomeness.
May 22nd
Off to lunch with my brother. FTW!
May 22nd
Retweeting @BreakingNewsOn A “large” tornado has hit the ground just north of Denver,...
May 22nd
wrapped up an installer script on to more code clean up… poorly written procedural PHP, ftl.
May 22nd
Should I give facebook another shot? http://checkyesorno.info/70
May 22nd
I’m at Colorado Springs, CO, US (Colorado Springs, CO, USA) - http://bkite.com/00g7B
May 22nd
i had a lengthy discussion with @gordonbrander, @ryanwaggoner and @n0s0ap about facebook yesterday....
May 22nd
at the office, time to get down to business
May 22nd
Up late because of our late return last night from Denver. Hanging out with the fam and then off to...
May 22nd
I’m at Denver, CO, US (Denver, CO, USA) - http://bkite.com/00fV5
May 22nd
I love that http://istwitterdown.com now says “of course” when twitter is down instead...
May 22nd
at the brightkite presentation in Denver. Pretty interesting. Cool guys.
May 22nd
Heading to chipotle and the to pick up @n0s0ap on our way to Denver
May 22nd
I’m at Denver, CO, US (Denver, CO, USA) - http://bkite.com/00fQi
May 22nd
back in the office, it’s blazing hot in colorado springs today, relatively speaking…
May 22nd
eternally grateful for textmates regex search and replace functionality…
May 22nd
excited about heading up to ‘refresh denver’ this evening with @gordonbrander, @n0s0ap...
May 22nd
having lunch with Tom at El Taco Rey
May 21st
heading out to help a friend collect and install some tile…
May 21st
Retweeting» Reminder: Free Pike Place Roast from Starbucks all day today. Next Wednesday is the...
May 21st
Do you ever turn off scrobbling for music you’re ashamed of listening to?...
May 21st
twitter IM bot is acting all slow and shi.
May 21st
chasing a bug i can’t even describe to myself… it’s a weird one friends…
May 21st
at the office socking away some billable hours
May 21st
working on blueswarm.org version 4, unfortunately client work is calling… and bills need...
May 21st
seriously, do all web apps need to have a status updating mechanism? it’s the new tags...
May 21st
randomly my tab key stops working in firefox on mac… wtf?
May 21st
missed 4:15am but I got up at 4:45am instead. Breakfast and then off to the coffee shop.
May 21st
just startled a fox in our yard…
May 21st
time for bed. Any later and I don’t think I’ll be able to get up at 4:15am.
May 21st
stressing out about our upcoming move… yikes.
May 21st
getting ready for a lively game of raquetball with Amber.
May 21st
eating some sushi at A.I. With @ryanwaggoner.
May 21st
lunch
May 20th
weird day today… a hodgepodge of projects in progress…
May 20th
brealfast burritos for breakfast… again…
May 20th
having some issues getting git all squared away… not the best start to the morning
May 20th
i don’t like when i download the latest version of an app from the developers site and...
May 20th
installing FF3 RC1… blazing fast according to @ryanwaggoner on tiger. i hope leopard shares...
May 20th
iForgot my password for apple.com… classic apple… http://skitch.com/t/dk9
May 20th
up a lot earlier today. 4:30am ftw! Time to bust some awesomeness at work. W00t!
May 20th
any PHP developers here use Leopard? I’m trying to run the native setup but my can’t...
May 20th
at my parents house for a family dinner.
May 20th
just had some ice cream as a cycle busting act… so far so good
May 19th
can’t wait to wrap this day up. dinner with my parents/siblings/family tonight… they are...
May 19th
back to work after an excellent lunch at home
May 19th
Retweeting @ryanwaggoner: apple rumor on multi-touch keyboard for apple tv. sounds sweet, but I want...
May 19th
i’ve decided that cleaning up messy code is not my favorite kind of work…
May 19th
just realized i’ve been clenching my jaw for quite awhile… now it aches super bad…...
May 19th
getting hungry, already… one of the few downsides of getting up early and eating breakfast...
May 19th
early morning billable hours FTW!
May 19th
picking up @ryanwaggoner on my way to the office.
May 19th
I’m awake and ready to take on the day. This week we build blueswarm version 4. Its going to...
May 19th
excited about the burgers and brats currently on the grill. And we decided to go to see prince...
May 19th
deciding wether to go watch prince caspian tonight and preparing dinner.
May 19th
planning the day… looks like more sorting and getting rid of stuff… perhaps lunch with...
May 18th
heading out to have lunch with @ryanwaggoner and my family…
May 18th
Woke up to Noah screaming his head off. So much for sleeping in… Where is the coffee.
May 18th
I’m at Colorado Springs, CO, US (Colorado Springs, CO, USA) - http://bkite.com/00cRG
May 18th
Hanging out with @slant. W00t!
May 18th
heading out to stop by a friends garage sale before going to dinner with @slant and the fam.
May 18th
Enough board games for today. Time to do some young couple sounding things. (how’s that...
May 17th
attempting to explan to amber how I only play games to win. Not for fun. :)
May 17th
scrabble time. “FOX” with the ‘F’ and the ‘X’ on double letter...
May 17th
hanging out with Amber playing some “phase 10” and eating lunch.
May 17th
showered and ready for the day after a morning game of raquet ball with Amber… excited about...
May 17th
my old 30gb iPod video is beyond dead. I’m hoping I can restore it to its former awesomeness.
May 17th
anyone want to invite me into yayhooray.com? :)
May 17th
heading out… time for a pipe and some alcohol at 15c… snake!
May 17th
time for lunch… what to eat?
May 16th
just upgraded to 2.5.1 and removed all excess plugins/themes from my wp install on benrasmusen.com
May 16th
time to get some billable hours behind me
May 16th
Retweeting @lemieuxster: Are you pissed off at Andy Bernard? http://checkyesorno.info/65
May 16th
back in the office, completed css markup of my office-mate’s desk… geeky i know…...
May 16th
to clarify: http://pequrl.com/twitter/f9 see: http://pequrl.com/cakephp/f8 i know some of the syntax...
May 16th
worked with @ryanwaggoner for an hour on a super geeky office joke… sweet
May 16th
heading out to procure some breakfast and batteries, the latter not to be consumed by myself.
May 16th
ahhhh only 20min left on my battery! and so much work left to do! heading to the office to plugin.
May 16th
at the coffee shop, setting up akismet on a comment spam ridden blog…aaahhh!
May 16th
Awake at 5am. I’m starving and need some coffee.
May 16th
and the last half of the office sucked. Lame.
May 16th
the first half of the office blew my mind.
May 16th
whoa time to head for the tv. Dang I’m such a slave to this freakin’ show.
May 16th
just bathed Noah. We had a good game of raquet ball and the one hour office finale. A good evening...
May 16th
whoa! crazy busy… lost of really sweet procedural php code to work through… /sarcarsm
May 16th
oh man! New death cab for cutie album? And no one told me!?!
May 15th
holy crap my mbp is blazing hot! i know this is an issue… anyone had any problems with heat...
May 15th
Waiting in the temp parking lot for @ryanwaggoner. Wish I had asked what airline he was coming in...
May 14th
flash load screen = strike one… still loading, heading over to vimeo. ;)...
May 14th
oddly enough i’m feeling the monday blues two days late… or maybe it’s just...
May 14th
off to denver to pick up @ryanwaggoner
May 14th
1 yes it is
May 14th
oh man, strawpoll just blew checkyesorno.info out of the water with their new app…...
May 14th
Big day today! Meeting with a friend this morning and the picking up @ryanwaggoner from the airport...
May 14th
struggling through simple rails issues. Arg… Dang learning curve.
May 14th
enough is enough, i’m off to bed… perhaps i shall resolve all my woes in a dream. :)
May 14th
restored my iphone… again… lets see how long i last this time…
May 14th
oops, untrack rather than untack… turns out ‘track OH:’ turns into ‘track...
May 13th
untack oh
May 13th
Can you solve a rubik’s cube? http://checkyesorno.info/53
May 13th
our first listing on google (that we know of) for checkyesorno.info, #3 w00t!...
May 13th
Retweeting @kkphoto: How much time did THIS take to make? http://www.vimeo.com/993998 = crazy...
May 13th
catching up on theonion podcasts, hilarious: http://pequrl.com/theonion/d7
May 13th
early morning raquet ball game and now at the coffee shop for some writing and work… i love...
May 13th
Raquet ball was awesome. Were going tomorrow morning at 5am to throw down again.
May 13th
preparing for racket ball with amber and my father-in-law tonight… i shouldn’t have had...
May 13th
Spoke too soon. They are here. Time to conduct a transaction!
May 13th
hmmm, both of our prospective buyers are late… this may not have been as painless as i was...
May 13th
it sold! one car down… one to go. :)
May 13th
uh oh, amber’s having a hard time with it… it’s crazy how emotionally attached we...
May 13th
irritated that it always takes freakin’ hours for the gems to update whenever i want to...
May 13th
my mbp is running so hot i can’t keep it on my lap, it’s literally burning my skin...
May 13th
using commands like ./configure and ‘make install’, make me feel like a hacker or...
May 13th
heading home to sell my jetta…
May 12th
i got a heroku invite! it took a total of like 3hrs, awesome! now to get ‘git’ running...
May 12th
anyone have a http://heroku.com/ invite they care to share with me? ;) thanks!
May 12th
Heading to lunch with @n0s0ap, and @gordonbrander is coming along. I hope that’s cool @n0s0ap....
May 12th
no dice on selling the truck… ah well, at least i can still drive to work for awhile longer :)
May 12th
someone is coming to look at my truck. if i had know it would be this easy to sell our cars i would...
May 12th
in the office, productivity at an all time high… w00t!
May 12th
I love informal marketing language… http://skitch.com/t/dbc
May 12th
checking out coda again since i spend so much time working off the server for clients with no/bad...
May 12th
i love getting 600kB/s bursts on transfers… gives me chills… i’m too used to slow...
May 12th
relocating to my office, too much coffee makes me jumpy and no more productive…
May 12th
Up at 5am this morning. Just got to the coffee shop. Time to get working.
May 12th
Dang I’m tired. Can’t wait to head to bed. I need to get up early and get billable hours...
May 12th
The torture has finally ended. We’re home, waiting on a lady to come look at our dining room...
May 12th
Surrounded by lots of people I don’t know and have no desire to know, but am linked to via a...
May 11th
heading to my sister-in-laws for a lunch mothers day potluck…
May 11th
just finished up some more twitter integration for checkyesorno.info it’s going to be...
May 11th
Hanging out with Noah enjoying this excellent weather. http://snipurl.com/28cyv
May 11th
i hope i’m not the only one that’s experience over half of these…...
May 11th
curious idea… http://tinydb.org/
May 11th
whoa! sold our jetta after only 5hrs on craiglist! crazy!
May 11th
back at home… already got a call on our jetta, it was listed just 4hrs ago, we’ll see if...
May 11th
Eating some “good times” before we continue our quest for mothers day gifts. I hate...
May 10th
<super sarcasm>I LOVE when I write a craigslist posting and then I hit continue and it dumps...
May 10th
yuck, describing, photographing, pricing and posting things on craigslist.org… anyone in...
May 10th
Dang I overslept! Today we start listing all of our belongings on craigslist.org.
May 10th
Whoa noah is busting a move to the format. I’m doing my best to raise him with a good musical...
May 10th
dinner with the family after a good time on rails with @slant
May 10th
it’s nearing the time when i will leave my office and go chill with @slant and do some rails...
May 9th
i actually witnessed @gordonbrander moving web design forward, it blew my mind
May 9th
interesting, bot or human? http://www.wiseox.com/
May 9th
lunch time, reheating pizza from last night and further catching up on my backlog of news items
May 9th
twitter issues… again: http://skitch.com/t/n77
May 9th
2000 lines of procedural code with display and logic intertwined makes my head instantly hurt…...
May 9th
billable hours are coming slow today… need to get ‘un-distracted’ ;)
May 9th
retweeting @n0s0ap: Did the Scrubs finale suck? http://checkyesorno.info/40
May 9th
chasing vague and likely non-existent bugs on a client site…
May 9th
Retweeting @ryanwaggoner: new post on MightyBrand.com about the line between spam and building your...
May 9th
trying to knock out a backlog of news items in newfire…
May 9th
Im up a bit earlier than yesterday. That means another hour for side projects before billable hours.
May 9th
Super stoked about comedy Thursday. Had a good meeting with Ian Gold today. That was pretty nuts.
May 9th
Heading to south Denver to meet with a potential client.
May 8th
interesting question asked by someone else… what do you think? Will Barack beat Hillary?...
May 8th
suddently my mouse clicking noise seems super loud… and it’s annoying me a bit…...
May 8th
another interesting twitter application… i love this community: http://wiiizzz.com/ thanks...
May 8th
still writing this crazy drupal proposal… and now i’m locked out of my local...
May 8th
heading to the office. i have a meeting today with a client in south denver… that will be a...
May 8th
currently purchasing our one way tickets to hawaii…. YIKES!
May 8th
play by play: just clicked ‘purchase’!
May 8th
it’s done, tickets purchased… 9.5hrs travel time and 3449miles… yikes!...
May 8th
Interesting question for office fans, The Office: Will Pam marry Jim? http://checkyesorno.info/33
May 8th
up later than i’d like to be… missed some side project dev time… ah well :(
May 8th
Skipped the theater and decided on a movie at home after a good dinner out.
May 8th
Reteweeting: http://mightybrand.com is live. We’ve got a lot of post in waiting so subscribe...
May 8th
to clarify, view a poll and at the bottom there is a link to ‘send to twitter’
May 8th
new feature on checkyesor no.info: send to twitter: Do you like the new send to twitter feature?...
May 8th
I’m signing off twitter to spend time with Amber. See you all later on.
May 8th
stoked about date night with my wife tonight… movie? or bowling? hmmm
May 7th
anyone know of any neo-office/open office alternatives for mac? no crazy features just a good text...
May 7th
the coffee shop has become too crowded and noisy for proposal writing… heading to the office
May 7th
reading rfp and writing proposals… a break from development… we’ll see how welcome...
May 7th
at the office time to kick some proposal writing butt!
May 7th
oh wow, it’s raining! a crazy old man wearing sunglasses a the coffee shop just ran outside...
May 7th
working on a new side project: friendfeedback.com… the site is quite bare at the moment, but...
May 7th
Up at 5am. Wow its still dark at this hour… Havent seen 5am in while.
May 7th
wrapping things up, it’s nearly time for me to head on home.
May 7th
my eyes are starting to lose focus… must be getting late in the work day…
May 7th
CheckYesOrNo.info - Quick yes or no polls
May 7th
skipped lunch to work on checkyesorno.info… my stomach is making me regret that decision....
May 6th
anyone know of a twitter client lets you login to multiple twitter accounts?
May 6th
too many things to do, not enough time to do them… to be completely cliched.
May 6th
[blog] CheckYesOrNo.info - Quick yes or no polls http://tinyurl.com/3kovfj
May 6th
CheckYesOrNo.info - Quick yes or no polls
May 6th
there is something awesome about walking into a coffee shop, having a couple cups of coffee and...
May 6th
ok, enough caffeine, heading back to the office…
May 6th
i love how many twitter data representations there are… awesome community effort… yet...
May 6th
this coffee shop doesn’t allow me to connect to gtalk via adium… it’s the only...
May 6th
At the coffee shop. Hopefully this will lead to a productivity boost. http://snipurl.com/27dzp
May 6th
can’t take it any more i’m going to get some caffeine in the form of coffee…
May 6th
haha, that’s awesome! retweet from @n0s0ap:...
May 6th
wishing i was working on my own projects… and along those lines, wishing my side projects paid...
May 6th
wishing for some tea… kicking myself for not buying some yesterday…
May 6th
i’m sorry to do this, but i have to get this off my chest… i HATE snapshots!...
May 6th