Goals for Twenty-Twelve

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Jan 082012
 

After spewing out twelve posts in about 4 days to catch up on my Top 10 Songs of 2011, I thought a bit about what I’d like to get out of my site over the next year.

It’s been an interesting year for me, as my site actually went through a period where it got real traffic (that’s what you get when you write about a new Apple technology). My post on iTunes Match got the most traffic I’ve ever gotten, something like 1200 uniques to this point, which is a couple of orders of magnitude more than I normally do. 1200 uniques isn’t a lot, but it is when you’re used to only getting read by friends and family (hi guys!). I kind of enjoyed it, so I think one of my goals is to write a bit more about techie/Apple stuff this year, see if I can keep up that momentum.

I think it’d probably also be smart to write a bit more about music. With Spotify and MOG and Rdio, there’s sort of no excuse to not be able to at least try out music, so I’ll pass more of that along as I come across it.

Finally, I think it’s time for ryantoohil.com to get a makeover. That’s on the todo list for this year, and I’ll try to post bits and pieces about my makeover as I go.

 Posted by Ryan Toohil at 6:59 pm

The Amazing Serendipity of the Interwebs

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May 152011
 

I think, by far, my favorite thing about the interwebs is the ability to randomly stumble across an incredible story you didn’t even know you were interested in. Today, while just doing my normal web reading—hitting a handful of pages, RSS feeds, Twitter, etc.—I stumble across someone mentioning the John 3:16 guy.

You know, this guy:

He’s the guy who any sports-loving kid who grew up in the early 80s knows as the random rainbow wig dude who showed up every major sporting event and managed to get on TV. I’m guessing, like me, pretty much everyone assumed he was a well-intentioned goofball, just trying to get on TV.

I think we all just assumed he was a precursor to the modern day Jumbotron morons who get wear stupid outfits, do stupid dances, or hold up stupid signs, all in the name of getting on the in-arena Jumbotron (not even getting on real TV).

Except, turns out, he was a grade-A certifiable nutjob. And that’s the amazingness of the interwebs. You can start your day reading about technology, sports, the weather, whatever, and end up seeing the John 3:16 guy, finding him on Wikipedia, reading some of the articles about him, and then adding the documentary about him to your Netflix queue. Learning about how he went from wearing a rainbow wig to attempting to buy a gun to shoot then candidate Bill Clinton.

So yeah, he’s not just a cuddly crazy guy, he’s a legit crazy guy. It’s worth the read. A guy who, in a different era, would have been likely exiled to the dustbin of history, only remembered in microfiche, has his story told in a documentary, written into Wikipedia, and available to everyone at the end of a hyperlink or search query.

Ah, the interwebs.

 Posted by Ryan Toohil at 8:45 pm

Stupid DNS

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Mar 152011
 

I’m beginning to despise DNS, despise massive tables, and despise MySQL.

Eff you, dns. Seriously.

 Posted by Ryan Toohil at 8:57 pm

Don’t Eat a Laxative Before Getting on a Plane

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Dec 112010
 

I flew out west for work. Before getting on a 6 hour flight back, I figured “hey, now that airlines suck and don’t give you even a snack, why don’t I grab a snack for the flight.” I walked into one of the newstandy places in the airport, looking for some chips or candy.

I’m a sucker for Jelly Bellies, so when I saw a bag, I figured “hurrah, my snack.”

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I wasn’t super pleased that they were sugar-free, but how bad could it be?

Pretty bad, it turns out. Mostly because I didn’t notice the little warning in the lower left hand side of the bag:

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You can imagine the rest. Thankfully, the plane was pretty empty and I was sitting maybe 3 rows from the back, so I did not make a spectacle of myself on the 3 or 4 trips to the lavatory.

 Posted by Ryan Toohil at 1:40 pm

An *Amazing* Week

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Oct 092010
 

Warning: There will be some gross-ass pictures in this post.

As I mentioned last week, I had a bit of an incident with my left big toe. A big slice in it, four stitches, etc.

Here’s how it looked at various points during the week:

Warning: Again, last chance to bail out.

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 Posted by Ryan Toohil at 3:02 pm
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