May 2008
just so you all know, i work on top of an old building. earthquakes are all day here. thrilling. did anyone catch my dogs’ reactions?
ZOMG, it knocked the dog cam offline!
April 2008
everyone, hurry up and check out what my dogs are doing, OMGLOL: http://jerz.servebeer.com/
Terri Patraw: the update →
If you’re new to what’s been happening to me, here is everything that I have so far. I posted a tongue-in-cheek comment on a news story and added my own bit of fact to it. What started with threats…
Anonymity Because →
In 2004, a bunch of newspapers (including the New York Times) instituted a new policy requiring that articles, when possible, should explain the reasons why the paper granted a source anonymity. The…
update on the patraw situation. please spread this, blog it, email it, whatever. it needs to get out: http://tinyurl.com/5tda4j
test2 →
test
Rally set to support fired UNR professor →
A rally is scheduled May 10 near the University of Nevada, Reno to show support for recently fired professor Hussein S. Hussein.
uploading. nightmare of the weekend might almost be over
Did Michael Lewis' book unduly influence ... →
Did Michael Lewis’ book unduly influence the NFL Draft? [CNBC]
everyone send good thoughts to Joyent. let’s hope they grow a pair and don’t dump me
Ideas for Making Baseball More Interesting →
When I was a kid, I loved baseball more than anything, and I’m afraid I mean that literally — more than my family, my friends, even more than my dog. If given the opportunity, I would have played…
damn, forgot to launch the webcam app this morning. the dogcam is OFFLINE. anyone have a key to my house they can use?
too much smoke to go out and run. yeah, that’s why. it has nothing to do with the beer in the fridge.
new jerz dogcam will be available m-f from 815a to 215p. check it out and refresh like a mofo: http://jerz.servebeer.com/dogs/dogcam.html
OS X’s server function giving me fits. can’t enable .htaccess. wish i was a command line nerd
Defining quality in journalism →
Some Norwegian journalists who visited CUNY on Friday emailed me to ask about definitions of quality in journalism today for a white paper they are writing. Here’s what I said. I’d like to hear what…
still awake. rossi sangria flowing, laundry room linoleum free. saturday!
chatting about the law while drinking rossi sangria and watching two ladies scrape linoleum off the laundry room floor. i rule
Seismologist urges public to prepare for the worst →
RENO (AP) — Scientists urged Reno residents to prepare for a bigger event as the city kept rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long sequence of temblors.
the boy: baseball practice 9-1030a, be at field to warm up 11a, game at 1p. who says our saturdays are for us?
lord have mercy - russell martin with a sac fly in the bottom of the 13th and the dodgers win. that’s better than @jkenzer’s thing, right?
4.9 from the channel 2 newsflash
quake site not loading well, all hell is breaking loose, dogs and cats living together, marshmallow guys walking around outside
YES, First!
map of coordinates: http://tinyurl.com/6yecsj,-119.964008&spn=0.008093,0.013583&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr
at least twitter handles long ass google map urls well
dodgers and rockies in the bottom of the 12th. crazy that they’re in LA and I’m the one feeling the earth move. wtf?
holy shit i felt that one
backing up all my sites for a possible move. new post up at mrjerz.org. please go vote in my boy domingo’s poll!
back from my forest-marsh-mt. rose loop run. one raccoon, 12 teenagers spotted along the way. warm weather brings out all the varmints
my web host is about to take down mrjerz.org. any guesses why?
i’m with Joyent right now…small and don’t want to pay lawyers. they got hit with a DCMA claim…this is sooo ridiculous
this is at the DNS level. that’s how they found them and they have until the 28th do respond…guy was way cool but honest
did the barfly kill everyone?
hey, so, is anything fun going on tonight in reno?
there go my almost every fifteen minutes updates during the day: @jolynlaney is now following me.
Rules for journalists/bloggers/witnesses? A... →
Here’s a debate that just went up at CommentIsFree (please go comment there; the discussion’s already underway): me vs. Michael Tomasky, the Guardian’s man in Washington, over whether, as he…
does anyone hear my dog barking? the little one is probably going nuckin futs right now
do any of you have blogs that you follow through twitter as opposed to rss?
Nevada ranks 11th for driving while stoned →
According to a government survey, 11 percent of Nevadans admit to driving under the influence of illicit drugs in the past year.
Heller Calls Pelosi’s Bluff →
According to a congressional resolution offered by our own Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nevada), then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Mars) said on April 18, 2006, “Democrats have a plan to lower gas taxes.”…
Ex-UNR whistleblower in contempt of court, fined... →
A Nevada professor who claims he was fired earlier this month in retaliation for blowing the whistle on animal abuse at campus research farms has been found in contempt of federal court and ordered…
Council OKs Evans Ranch →
Evans Ranch, a proposed community in Cold Springs for up to 5,556 homes, was approved Wednesday by the Reno City Council as a planned unit development.
answers 2.02 →
Today’s first questions are from local “blogger” (I put that term in quotes just to bug him) Ryan Jerz:
1. I just had a meeting with Ed Adkins. What’s his problem? (*Editor’s Note: Ed is another…
Coding Horror: ‘Behold WordPress, Destroyer of... →
Jeff Atwood on the out-of-the-box performance of WordPress: I’m not alone; just do a web search on [WordPress CPU usage][1] or [WordPress Digg Effect][2] and you’ll find page after page of horror…
off to a day full of meetings. argh! is there a twitter macro for what i just typed? someone develop that, please.
was greeted with 10 emails about wild horse deportation today. funny thing, all the emails were EXCATLY the same. that’s kinda tired
I am the face of post-graduate degrees at UNR. http://tinyurl.com/67ucz7
anyone here use yousendit.com for ftp transfers? what a lifesaver that just was.