I took this at Evergreen Valley High School at a food truck charity event. If the weather was better I was going to try to grab all 14 trucks in attendance, but the rain came down in buckets right at the beginning and once it stopped everybody hit the trucks or milled around, so a good shot was not so easy. Next time…
A while back, Fernando blogged this here on Tumblr about me.
Here’s what happened:
Lara is the bartender on Monday nights, she has the sorry duty of putting up with the awful, awful comedy of Fernando Soltero and his minions. Not to say that some aren’t hilarious… it happened now and then, but those comedians quickly moved on to other venues that were better-promoted and more hightly sought-after. Such is life.
In the final 10 seconds of Fernando’s sign-off from yet another awful, not-profitable comedy show at Fibbar’s, I played a cricket noise on my cell phone for a fellow-suffer of the not-comedy that was the offering of this unfunny clown.
For this I have been assaulted verbally not in person, not up front like a man, but by a coward, in blogs like this and on microphones at who knows which shows he’s managed to book. I am “the crickets guy” and other such references.
Fernando is not funny. I can leave that to you to decide
But he’s also a wimp. A coward. A pussy.
Tonight was his final night performing is lame workout room at Fibbar MaGees’s in Sunnyvale, and he chose to call me out with “he should die,” while I was 50 feet from him. Is this a man? No. Is this a coward? That’s being generous.
I hope I run into Fernando at some point, maybe we can sort out his differences with me. We’ll need to step outside, though. Man to man. If he can hold up his end up that bargain.
I hate to start the subject matter to such a vulgar subject title, but that is the best way I can describe this subject. We comics try to do new material as much as possible. Open Mic’s are a way of perfecting a bit before its ready to be released amongst a paid public. As a show that is free…
Got a Samsung Galaxy Tab a few days ago, so far so good. I’m putting it through its paces to get a feel for it as a tool overal.
So why not try tumblr.
The tumblr app could be better.
I’ve decided to try to make my own form of Tumblr, not out of commercial jealousy, but because I think they’ve falled just short of what I am looking for.
But for all the little nitpick things I don’t like, I do think Tumblr is really the other thing to look at nowadays. Twitter+Tumblr > Facebook, IMHO.
Since the Blackberry tumblr client doesn’t support rich text editing, it appears to send plain text.
When the plain text is edited in the web-browser-based rich text editor, the end-of-line markers are lost from the plain text so you lose all of your paragraphs as your work gets condensed into one big block of text.
Booo.
The blackberry client for tumblr is not good. Aside from the fact that my curve 8900 is showing its age and not behaving mechanically as well as I’d like, I live on it, so I would like to have decent functionality from apps written for it. If you’re going to make a BB app at all, how about a non-suck app? I’ll try to use tumblr more from my actual computers. At the moment, though, I’d kinda like to write my own activity stream thingie.
Tried to upload a photo to my tumblelog with the BB client… I get a file dialog, navigate to where my pictues are stored, and “Loading…”
And that’s it.
No joy, and no photo upload from my Blackberry.
I’m going to make a list of things that aren’t working for me with Tumblr… I know, I’m a fast complainer, but if people are thinking Tumblr is going to take on Facebook and Twitter, there are a few things they’re going to have to work on from my perspective.
Quickies:
I’ll rant some more later…
It would be cool if tumblr entries could have some metadata attached to them.
For example, if I’m telling you about an event, I should be able to include some geo and calendar info. Maybe an embedded microformat block, maybe some RDF, etc.
Right now, if I mention that I’m going to speak somewhere, or that I’m throwing a party, or I want to tell people about Pub Quiz night at Fibbar’s, I have to come up with a link or links to the location, the event description, etc, and that isn’t machine readable…
On first blush, why do I have to pick a content type to post? A few years ago maybe, but nowadays I would think we’ve arrived at a sort of file-or-link approach, where the file type can be decerned and the link type, well… Facebook does some interesting stuff with wall posts of links.
I might actually be disappointed that this is the approach, we’ll see. Just thinking outloud.
