RunAmuck 5K photos

a few photos from the RunAMuck festival 5k run last Saturday:

I had a BLAST. The whole set on flickr is here.

posted at 11:19 AM

defcon bound

Hey, everybody...

I figured I'd update this blog for the first time in a long time (my blogs have been usurped by lazy twitter habits) ... just in case anyone reading this will be in Vegas this weekend (Jul 31-Aug 3, 2009) for DefCon, please look me up!

(this also serves to let anyone I tell "I'm out of business cards... just google 'ryan nelson'" ... you've found the right place)

If you're looking for me, I'm a volunteer in the hardware hacking village all three days of the con, so try there first. I look exactly like the guy on the front page of www.ryan.net.

posted at 03:43 PM

did you hear a pop just now?

my new desktop wallpaper:

I strained a tendon in my right palm (ha ha, but I'm left-handed smarty pants) ... and now the swelling (which has continued over 9 days) is pressing on the nerves in the carpal tunnel, so I'm all numb and tingly on my mouse-hand.

So now I've got a cool brace and a new desktop pattern, and if it's still like this next week, a shot of 'roids in the hand.

posted at 02:12 PM

MLB.tv on appletv

What this is is MLB.tv streaming to my AppleTV (specifically, the China/Korea game from the World Baseball Classic)

Looks pretty good, actually, for a 600KB stream.

The purpose of this experiment (other than to drive some folks nuts on twitter ... heh.) was to see if the network stack and 1ghz chip in my appletv had enough juice to handle it. It does. (although it buffers for a healthy amount of time first)

I'll leave the "how to do it, and not get sued" to the Boxee/XBMC developer-types, or to the guys on the 5th floor at work. The platform is *really* viable, though! Just not at all user-friendly. I've got some ideas for the Boxee people that I hope to bounce off them at the meetup march 24th.

posted at 07:16 PM