I spent the last week finalizing design elements for the first annual Gotham Ruby Conference 2007 in New York on April 21, 2007. The conference is being held at Google and will host a hand full of leading edge Rails developers explaining their favorite topics, tricks and tecniques.
On Saturday, 200 of us descended on the #6 train at Foley Sq and started taking off our pants one by one, leaving the train at the next stop and then getting on the next train. The end result was that, because new people entered the train pantless at each stop, the whole thing looked unorchestrated. And to top it off, everyone made an effort not to laugh or let on that anything was different about their day. We rode the train up to Harlem and then back. The elderly woman next to me actually fell asleep with her head on my shoulder - she had clearly seen crazier things.
The happening was organized by Improv Everywhere. Check out their site, they seem to do a lot of fun things.
On Saturday we rode our cruisers to Coney Island. We followed a bike path that wound down along the East River and down through the Verrazano Narrows underneath the Verrazano Bridge (the bike path is probably called something like “The East River Bike Path” or “Verrazano Narrows Bike Path”). It was amazing. For a boy from Maine who has always love the outdoors and was hesitant to move to an urban area, I realized that there is no shortage of breathtaking scenery around here. Once in Coney Island, we were greeted by a spectacle that truly owned up to its reputation as a natural marvel and… a bit of a freak show. The ride home along Ocean PKWY was great as well, viewing yet another one of Brooklyn’s finest assets: its cultural diversity.
Ahhhh. It feels good to be settled in my new apartment in Brooklyn, NY. And it’s also nice to have some new furniture to make the place feel homey. The bed I made from red oak is a sturdy platform bed that knocks apart in a matter of seconds (no tools needed). It appears to …
more »Over the past couple weeks I’ve been helping to put together all the print materials and web advertisements for this year’s Portland Human Rights Watch International Traveling Film Festival at SPACE Gallery. This is the fifth year I’ve volunteered to produce the collateral for the film festival and it’s exciting to see that its attendance …
more »This is the 25th year that D.L. Geary Brewing Co. has brought us such satisfying flavors at their flagship Pale Ale, Autumn Ale, Winter Ale, and Hampshire Ale. Thanks for the great work you’re doing with your brewing - an amazing product season after season.
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