Awesome on Justin Carmony

The Power of "You Are Awesome"

Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:10:52 +0000

I received a very nice email today from Elizabeth Naramore, someone who I’ve met through the PHP community. In it she made a simple statement:

“You are awesome.”

Now, I don’t know how much I deserved this email. The other people on the recipient list I’m guessing have had to go through many more trials than I have, but I’m very appreciative never the less. It got me thinking about the power this statement can have, and how this type of positive & sincere compliment can have a profound affect on people.

Tracking Your Data with StatsD, Graphite, and Graphene

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:04:23 +0000

Update: So I spelt ~~Neil~~ Neal’s name wrong. Sorry Neal! I also added some other links to the bottom that he mentioned to me.

Its been a little over 48 hours, and StatsD, Graphite, and Graphene have already paid off major dividends. While speaking at Tek12, Neal Anders was giving a talk on Graphite which I wanted to attend, but I was speaking at the same time I was speaking on Redis so I couldn’t. Then, a week or so after the conference, someone posted a link about StatsD on twitter (I can’t remember who), so I started poking around, loved what I saw, and within an hour I had it running on a server for Dating DNA friday night (I still do some contract work for them to help keep their infrastructure running well). I quickly added about a dozen metrics to track, and went to bed.

Awesome Animated XKCD

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:07:17 +0000

This comic is awesome. If you haven’t heard of xkcd then you are missing out. It is tied with another comic for my favorite comic on the internet. They did a funny comic on making a spoof of the Discovery Channel commercials. Now someone has made an animated version of the xkcd comic, and it is just awesome. Enjoy

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7151435&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.

Here is the original comic: