Jason, Neil and I were invited to speak at the PHP track for the Tulsa Tech Fest It made for a fun road trip as well as a really good lesson learned for trying to code while presenting. In short: Don’t.
Too many things can go wrong and the unexpected will always happen.
The presentation I gave on MySQL Scaling and Growth can be found here.
Thanks to everyone for the support and feedback provided.
Do we get special presents for palindrome years?
32 was a good year. Got married, went to Jamaica, moved into a kickass position inside Yahoo!, duckiehunt.com has taken off.
I’m not sure what 33 will hold, but if the amount of facebook notifications I got wishing me a Happy Birthday, then it will probably be one of much celebration and appreciation with friends.
P.S. My B-day gift from Kathy is helicopter lessons. Bad Ass.
Yesterday, I did something I do only about 2-3 times a year, but would like to do more. I lead a Tech Talk which went very well.
It was a discussion on how to scale MySQL so that you can support 10-100x your current traffic load. Adding more webservers is a non-trivial task, but I tell ya, you’ve got to know your stuff to make sure that your Databases are able to handle a huge traffic onslaught.
I also have to thank Dave Stokes and Jason Ragsdale for their support throughout the talk.
Here’s the link to the talk I presented.
–Snoopykiss feels geeky. And proud.
I don’t have anything special to say.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I attended a friend’s Anniv. of the Repeal of Prohibition party on Friday. It was awesome with all of the costumes, libations, and even a secret password which you had to give though a sliding peephole to boot.
We were reminicing about the Food and Spirits party when a friend told me that if I were to open a restaurant it would need to be named ‘Nom nom nom yarr!’.
This would of course be hugely successful and need to be followed up with other specialities, similar to the Papa’s brand.
We would have the French: Tres nom and it’s sister Qui est ton nom?
The Mexican: Los Nomos
The Asian: Om Nom Nom
The Indian: Om Om Om
–Snoopykiss might be onto something here.
6 years is a long time to keep anything going. Especially an annual event. True, by the time the next year rolls around, you’ve forgotten how much work it was, but when you’ve got something like the Food & Spirits, it becomes with it each time.
I learned some interesting things this time around:
Congrats to the winners! This year, we settled ties by having a “Duck Off”. (Pick random duck with a number on it. Highest number wins. Pure awesome.)
This is the point where I would say that I can’t wait till next year. But I’m hoping to have a new floor by then. That way I’m not embarrassed by statements like, “New Rule: If you make a stain. You have to sign it.”
Till next year!
–Snoopykiss
On Monday, for the first time ever, I bought a flash drive. Considering that I also still don’t have a DVD burner, many of my friends could consider this as being “behind the times”. Instead, I think of this as being far ahead of the times. I’ve never needed one.
Anything small enough to fit on one could be emailed and anything bigger than that could be found on a torrent. I found that people usually used them to share Word Docs, MP3’s and/or pr0n. If you were on a computer that had those, you were probably already close enough to email them.
The reason I finally caved and got one was for more of my “ahead of the curve” obsession. Boxee (boxee.tv) is my new toy. I’ve been able to convert an Apple TV from a crippled iTunes box to an internet multimedia playhouse. Hulu, last.fm, Comedy Central and soon Netflix will all be available from one box.
The plan is to also rip our movies to disk so that we no longer have to deal with disks anymore. The world is moving to streaming video. And I like it.
–Snoopykiss is an early adapter. It can be expensive. But it sure is fun.
Yes. I’m married. It happened.
It’s become obvious to me that a number of people still relate to me as my old party/bachelor-esque lifestyle.
“I thought you’d never marry.”
“Last chance. I’ve got the car running if you want to bolt.”
“I was starting to wonder about you.” — My Dad.
“Wha-wha-what? Can you back up 3 sentences?”
I don’t think of it as much as no longer having the wild and crazy parties. I think of it as having found someone whose company I enjoy in between the “New and (Mostly) Family Friendly Soirees”.
She’s quite a gal. Anyone who’s met her can attest to it. Anyone who hasn’t can probably imagine since she’s putting up with me.
— Snoopykiss now has a ring. But keeps forgetting it.
P.S. When we came back from the honeymoon, some friends invaded our house with ~1000 duckies. It was awesome. Except for the one under the pillow. I’ll get you back, Neil.
PICS!
Honeymoon
Duckie Invasion
Wedding
I truly have some of the most amazing friends. I don’t know really know what I would have done without them.
And now that I’ve discovered what they’ve done to the house while I was gone, I’m really not sure what to do with them!
Duckies. Duckies EVERYWHERE! 300 of them on the bed, about another 100-200 at work. Inside the cabinets, underneath pillows, in the shoe cubby, etc. There’s supposed to be ~1000 total, I figure that I’ll still be finding them till 2012.
Pics forthcoming.
For Kathy’s Birthday, we went to see Eddie Izzard. I was concerned since I heard that he wasn’t as funny outside of his original attire (read: In a dress), but it was a sold-out show and those can only mean good things, right?
J.F.K.
Charles Darwin
Ducks
Wikipedia
No warm-up comedian. No break. Just laughing till the jam hit the roof. Fantastic.