Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2007 at 5:00:46 PM
is scanning newly-shot negatives from a 40 year old Instamatic camera he hadn't used in 20 years before last week
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 30, 2007 at 4:04:08 PM
successfully deflected some work to a more appropriate person
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 29, 2007 at 3:52:24 PM
solved a problem involving IIS and ASP despite having no experience with IIS or ASP
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 29, 2007 at 3:39:10 PM
has received over 1200 e-mail bounce messages in the past two hours; good thing 1100+ were caught by the filters. &*(#ing spammers....
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 29, 2007 at 9:45:13 AM
just went looking for a turtle that his wife called to say was in the middle of the street, but didn't find it
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 27, 2007 at 1:10:35 PM
just applied the first glossy coat of finish to the bookcase
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 27, 2007 at 10:39:15 AM
has successfully (?) performed surgery on his broken Diana with a Stanley knife
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 26, 2007 at 10:36:19 PM
just lost a bid for another Diana on ePay....
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 26, 2007 at 9:56:34 PM
is bummed that the lens fell off his Diana today.... :-(
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 25, 2007 at 7:54:05 AM
is trying to make a Polaroid transfer print for the first time
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 24, 2007 at 10:54:29 AM
is downloading volumes 1 & 2 of the Shemp Meditation Tape from the WFMU blog
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 23, 2007 at 8:36:52 PM
has finally started finishing the "bookcase" he built for the thousands of LPs still in boxes
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 23, 2007 at 3:39:32 PM
@alunr Wo0t!! Congratulations!!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 23, 2007 at 1:23:13 PM
just got back from shooting some photos with his Polaroid Land 250
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 23, 2007 at 12:02:10 PM
@surlyshirley I think you'll see them by default on the web, but not on phone, IRC, or Twitteriffic
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 22, 2007 at 6:55:24 PM
@steph yeah, I'm looking forward to trying it all out
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 22, 2007 at 6:52:43 PM
@steph Polaroid 667, 600 & Spectra, HP5, FP4, Efke 50, and some rebranded Agfa, Foma, and Forte B&W films from Freestyle Photo
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 22, 2007 at 4:49:33 PM
just put a few dozen rolls of film into the fridge for safe keeping
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 22, 2007 at 1:28:05 PM
@cindyli http://www.flickr.com/photos/thereisnocat/509637591/
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 22, 2007 at 1:18:49 PM
@cindyli I'll be happy to scan you a copy of the page
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 22, 2007 at 12:51:01 PM
is happy to see that FlatHicks made it into the post-SXSW issue of SXSWorld magazine
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 22, 2007 at 8:53:22 AM
@lachlanhardy two //s VMs
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 21, 2007 at 11:36:06 PM
is figuring out how to convert a PAL DVD to NTSC
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 18, 2007 at 6:31:54 PM
is ready to throw the *(&^ing phone into the creek, along with his laptop
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 18, 2007 at 4:24:30 PM
is listening to the near-silent whine of a conference call filled with people waiting for something to happen
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 18, 2007 at 12:19:53 PM
is revisiting troubleshooting work he did yesterday because the boss has thrown someone new at the problem who asks same questions we did :p
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 18, 2007 at 12:31:28 AM
probably shouldn't have had that diet Coke with dinner tonight.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 17, 2007 at 5:48:59 PM
is less and less impressed with offshoring every day
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 16, 2007 at 8:25:32 PM
is quite pleased with the way the first roll he shot with his dad's 50+ year old Kodak Retina turned out. Good thing he didn't use the Holga
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 16, 2007 at 3:52:06 PM
turned on the air conditioner for the first time this season
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 15, 2007 at 8:06:22 PM
is reading about the brush fire that caused his wife's aunt & uncle to have to be evacuated from the house they closed on yesterday
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 15, 2007 at 7:25:45 PM
has finally gotten his digital shortwave receiver software running under Mac OS X
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 15, 2007 at 5:37:55 PM
just deleted his account on JPG magazine's web site.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 15, 2007 at 1:04:20 PM
is reading the annotated lyrics to "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3": http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1012483
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 15, 2007 at 11:00:39 AM
is learning more about Xcode than he ever expected to
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 11, 2007 at 9:20:47 PM
just finished developing a second roll of film from last weekend's trip to Boston
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 10, 2007 at 12:07:10 PM
is exploring a treasure trove of old cameras his mom sent him, including his dad's old Polaroid 250 Land Camera. Whee!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 10, 2007 at 11:32:29 AM
is discussing SEO with a client and actually being listened to
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 10, 2007 at 8:25:18 AM
is laughing at my wife's comment about Twitter: "Show us your twits!"
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 9, 2007 at 11:07:29 PM
@surlyshirley wise move
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 9, 2007 at 7:06:52 PM
can see! I can see! (My monitor works....)
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 9, 2007 at 7:06:27 PM
@ksbrandi I feel your pain; Oracle Portal was the bain of my existence in a previous life....
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 9, 2007 at 4:23:44 PM
is delighted that the replacement power supply for his new monitor arrived today at the Apple Store
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 9, 2007 at 3:31:03 PM
now has five different operating systems loaded on his new Mac Pro, the Rosetta Stone of computing
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 8, 2007 at 7:22:07 PM
@lachlanhardy because NisusWriter's new beta doesn't work with a macro I use and Framemaker was discontinued by Adobe on the Mac
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 8, 2007 at 5:25:28 PM
has got Mac OS 9.0.4 running on his new Mac Pro and feels like he's seeing an old friend
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 8, 2007 at 3:07:39 AM
just ordered some 126 film for the Kodak Instamatic camera he's had since he was three years old
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 7, 2007 at 8:11:18 PM
is back from the Apple store bearing a loaner power supply; sadly, it's the wrong one, underpowered, and the monitor is still not usable
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 7, 2007 at 5:23:16 PM
is off to the Apple store, defective monitor in hand
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 7, 2007 at 3:53:00 PM
thinks that working on a Mac Pro with a 13 year old CRT monitor is like watching a 70mm print of Star Wars through a peephole
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 7, 2007 at 1:09:35 PM
is frustrated with his new, dead Apple monitor
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 6, 2007 at 5:05:18 PM
had a good time in Boston this weekend visiting old friends, but is happy to be home.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 4, 2007 at 4:32:53 PM
is ready to hit the road as soon as the work day is done.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 4, 2007 at 1:01:49 PM
is explaining to his boss for the fourth time that no, the source code file he's looking for does not exist on the server.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 3, 2007 at 12:04:00 PM
is watching a hysterical Soviet-era rendition of Winnie the Pooh: http://tinyurl.com/2aqody
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat May 1, 2007 at 3:23:18 PM
hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates hates windows xp