“Seabass on the facebook. Oh how the mighty have fallen.”
“Holy s**t…Seabass, you have truly hit rock bottom.”
“facebook aye? thats so emo.”
“I feel like I don’t even know you anymore. What next- you like Romney for president?”
“A Facebook account? Is this a cry for help or something?”
So last night it finally happened; I joined the 50 million+ (200,000+ a day) network behemoth facebook (which, by the way Mom, you can join too). I can’t say it was my idea; it was mainly Mark (Hendrickson) and Kate’s, with the help of Rock (Mark M.). Beer played a part. But my real weak-willed-ness came from not from intoxication or peer cajoling, but from sheer curiosity. Facebook is the thing on the web right now, its hottest property, and now calling myself a startup dude, I’ve been feeling the need to check it out. Not only is facebook the hottest thing, but the buzz in the valley that developing for the network, aka creating a facebook ‘app’, is what’s lucrative and promising these days. I mean, 200 thousand people a day are joining facebook; why not join the craze?
Regardless, the transition has not come smoothly. Initially, I wanted to join with my still functioning bowdoin.edu address. Not that it’ll stay active for very long, but registering with my bowdoin address gives me full stalker access to every student, current and past, who once shared a room in one of the Bowdoin bricks. In other words, I can visit their ‘profiles’ without being their ‘friends’. Pretty fun.
Sadly, there is a hiccup. While I can still access my account, and all other email still forwards to me from bowdoin, for some reason the facebook emails will not go through. George, a nBiter who works at IT, says it has something to do with ‘UTF-7′ and gmail. And more unfortunately, when Bowdoin switched to a new email system, email forwarding no longer saves a local copy on Bowdoin’s servers; it just deletes it (wtf?).
In sum; I have facebook. I have no updated information (save what Mark put in for me), a few friends (NZ’ers mainly!), and I don’t even have a picture up yet. Once I get this bowdoin thing sorted, I’m fully ready to assimilate into the social network I should have joined three years ago. Such is the internet. You’re always finding things that everyone else found a long time ago. Just to think that somewhere out there someone is just discovering the star wars kid.
My definition of a nice night is to spend it on instantdomainsearch.com looking up domains that it would be cool to have. Here are some I found tonight:
swillr.com (as well as swilld.com)
boir.com (a four-letter domain name!)
ltimate.com (so you can do u.ltimate.com)
asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf.com (seriously, asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf.com is taken)
So, I finally have IMAP. And it’s on the iPhone. This is so huge. Pop through the iPhone sucked (apparently, according to Mark, just using the m.gmail site is the way to go).
Here’s the only rub: it’s not clear on the iPhone that some mail has been pre-filtered. So, I have to choose which folder I want a message to go into instead of just clicking ‘archive’. Plus, from the main inbox screen, I can’t archive — I have to look at the message (which takes long load time, sometimes on EDGE).
Still, good stuff.
Kate made a good point concerning the new billion-dollar rehab Disney is sinking into DCA: What will bring people to ‘Cars Land’ in fifty years?
In case anyone else has recently frozen up to the latest rails edge and gets this ‘config.breakpoint_server’ notice:
I actually found the solution to this at http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trun … v=7183#L56 if anyone else is interested. Just remove the ‘config.breakpoint_server = true’ on line 12 of environments\development.rb and the deprecated error is no longer displayed when you migrate, run WEBrick, etc.
This took me a while to figure out tonight, but it may be old hay for other Rails hackers, so here it is: if you want to find out the ‘last’ id in a table, use this:
Model.find(:first, 
rder => ‘id desc’)
Pretty easy. Too bad Model.find(:last) doesn’t work.
Main Bowdoin Website is Down as of 11:51 AM PDT. Most likely, due to the crushing weight of Homecoming Alumni pinging the site to find out where the beer tents are.
Fear not, friends, for the Northern Bites Blog is still afloat.
Apparently there are now Bowdoin-sponsored Varsity-ish hats that saw ‘Bowdoin Ultimate’ just like this one. I want two.
