Ryan Martinsen

A few misc items

Posted by Ryan  March 27, 2008

In my constant struggle to have a balance life, I usually don’t have a balanced life. It usually goes something like this: read the books I want to read, read all the blog feeds I want to read, post on my blog a few times, realize that I haven’t worked in a few weeks days. Work. Repeat. After I’ve repeated that a few times I stop reading just about everything (I can never completely stop) and work a lot. After a few weeks I realize that I’m really far behind on everything I want to read so I catch up and it starts all over. And that’s why I haven’t blogged much recently (and you know I usually blog so much).

I do, for the record (whatever that means… who’s record?), believe I have improved in the whole balanced life thing this year. At least it feels that way (so it’s probably true).

A few other things:

My iPod nano locked up (all I did was push the play button on an audiobook). Wouldn’t respond. Reset procedures did nothing. I took it to the Apple store and they gave me a brand new one. No more little dents in the side!

I went to Sacramento a few weeks ago for the Sacramento lindy exchange. For the past 4 years I’ve said “I’m not driving there again!” and every year I do it again. This time I mean it: I’m not driving there again next year! The dancing was fun though. Also, we went to the Sacramento Temple! That was sweet. The weather was beautiful.

I saw Horton Hears a Who! and liked it (overall).

(I used a lot of parentheses in this post.)

Maybe I’ll post again tomorrow (don’t count on it, but you never really know).

I just had a really weird thought that will probably make everyone’s brains explode. You know how in math (and programming) you’re supposed to calculate the innermost parentheses first? Well, if a sentence were structured that way it’d be really hard to read: (I did, however, buy chips and salsa! (I haven’t bought shoes in a really long time. (except I didn’t really because (and bought some shoes (I went to the store (The other day)))))).

Yeah, I’m going to bed now. Sorry about that.

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Twitter Stats

Posted by Ryan  January 7, 2008

Justin posted his twitter stats last week and I was insanely jealous. Okay, maybe not jealous, but insane? Totally. No really, I thought “hey, that’s cool.” The script he linked to was for OS X, which I don’t use so I waited. Today I found a site that did it online. The stats are far uglier than Justin’s so I’m still jealous (at least still insane), but they work.

Tweets Per Hour:

Tweets Per Day:

Tweets Per Month:

Top @replies:

Oh. What is twitter? It’s a grand time wasting scheme, micro-blogging it is often called. Read about it on wikipedia or go right to my profile and read my tweets. One of these days I’ll add my twitter feed somewhere on this site.

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Catching up on my drafts

Posted by Ryan  May 9, 2005

Every once and a while I will add some URLs or whatever to a wordpress post and just save it as a draft. I have a tendency to forget about most of them. So I’m cleaning out my drafts. I’ve discared most of the junk, but am posting a few items for your pleasure, or something. I didn’t actually go to any of the links (except the blog map thing). I just guessed on the titles. :-D

Dude Study – doh! I checked this after posting and it’s no longer to be found. Oh well. The other two I’m leaving intact.
National Wildlife Photography contest
Mystery link – I don’t know what this is just by looking at the URL and am not going to bother finding out. So uh, enjoy!

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