Aaron Parecki

I do my best work when I'm procrastinating on other projects. Is there some way to capitalize on that?

@AirBnB is so frustrating sometimes! If you're going to provide a messaging system, be sure it shows all the messages sent and received!

This $10 wifi Arduino-compatible board by @DigiStump is giving me so many ideas for making home automation devices! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digistump/oak-by-digistump-wi-fi-for-all-things-arduino-comp

@digistump I was excited about the new Oak, but http://rootcloud.io is showing me a domain renewal message.

Configuring wifi on the raspberry pi:

Edit /etc/network/interfaces, and add:

wpa-ssid "network name"
wpa-psk "password"
auto wlan0

Then I had to `sudo service networking restart` and `sudo ifdown wlan0; sudo ifup wlan0` a couple times and it eventually worked.

Champagne cocktail experiment:

• 4oz champagne
• 3/4oz Benedictine
• 1/2oz elderflower
• grapefruit bitters

@waxpancake Is the HTML for http://belong.io open source? I'd love to add microformats to it so I can add it to my reader!

At this point I am pretty much convinced that HyperLogLog is a magic bean counting machine.

Well that was unsettling. Was harshly woken up by the sound of crackling and my lights flickering, then a pop and the apartment went dark. In a half-awake stupor I was confused why one of my lights was still working. Took me a while to realize it was only the circuit for my outlets that had tripped.

I tried to reset the breaker, but it snapped again immediately after I turned it back on. So my thought is something on the circuit has shorted, or I've just overloaded that circuit.

Either way, I can'e believe they built a brand new building and put all the plugs in this apartment on a single 15-amp circuit. Seems like it wouldn't have been that much harder to at least split it into two!

Champagne cocktail experiment:

• 4 oz champagne
• 1.5 oz campari
• grapefruit bitters

A slightly lighter version of http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2015/01/18/2/champagne

How is it possible to buy a 7" Android tablet for 2/3 the cost of the Philips Hue Tap switch? Both make good lightswitches.

http://www.amazon.com/Astro-Queo-A712-Certified-Pre-installed/dp/B00MYGT6A8

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HFV22VC/A/philips-hue-tap-switch

@PebbleDev What happened to releasing new Pebble app updates? The forum thread has been silent for months! http://forums.getpebble.com/discussion/12451/pebble-js-bundling-updates

OH: I also live in Portland so I'm not gonna blame the unipiper.

#cocktail experiment:

• 2 oz whiskey
• 1 oz elderflower
• 1 oz grand marnier
• grapefruit bitters

#cocktail experiment

• 1 oz gin
• 1/2 oz chartreuse
• 1/2 oz elderflower
• grapefruit bitters