Muppethouse

Shush!

Ryan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:59:09 +0000

Shush! Ring restorer is my new best friend.� When I silence my phone I often forget to turn the sound back on when the meeting is over. This app ties into the phone’s normal silence functionality, prompting you with a timer dialog.� Set it for the time of your meeting and it will turn the ringer back on automatically.

What a View.

Ryan — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:19:09 +0000

Although it looks like a postcard, this is the view of the bay I had from the couch I was working from in the SF Google office on Friday – not too shabby.

X-Rays

Ryan — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:55:15 +0000

I had some fun playing around with the fancy x-ray imaging data the radiologist gave me on convenient compact disk, check it out.

There are a couple areas to point out. First, the damaged ligament (anterior tibiotalar ligament) is between my tibia and fibula in my ankle, and there is a pin going through both bones pulling them together. The separation would have led to a loose ankle and ultimately arthritis, and the “after” picture shows everything in the ankle pulled together more tightly. Second, in the side view note how far the break travels up the back of my fibula beyond the support area of the plate, wow.

Ewww, Gross

Ryan — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:39:37 +0000

Had a visit with the orthopedic surgeon today and unveiled the monstrosity underneath all that gauze and ace bandage.

Eleven staples
Five screws
One pin
One three-inch steel plate

Four more weeks and I hope to be out of this evil evil boot, I will not miss it.

Ryan is temporarily out of service

Ryan — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:57:46 +0000

Day one of sitting around incapacitated and I have not quite figured out how to make the best of it. My arm bruise is ripening nicely and I’ll find out how long this pesky broken leg will take to heal. Being a fairly avid walker I am hoping to find some other sort of outlet, sitting is not so fun.

Longboards

Ryan — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:51:01 +0000

I do not understand the spike in popularity of longboards. They are large, inconvenient, silly looking, and expensive to boot. My guess is that kids buy them so they have an excuse to not learn tricks.

D.C. Area Skate Spots

Ryan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:48:04 +0000

Finding skate spots can be difficult. A smattering of sites attempting to be go-to sources of skate spot information exist, but they’re all horribly out of date or only serve specific areas. Some dude pulled together a Google map of all the skate spots in the area, shared for editing so anyone can add their personal favorites.

View All spots in a larger map

Silverlight

Ryan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:24:49 +0000

Oh Microsoft – you so craaaazy! Trying to install Silverlight 3 on an Intel Mac I am told that Silverlight 2 cannot be installed on a PPC Mac, now that’s quality assurance.

Silverlight 3 install attempt on an Intel Mac.