Sci-Fi Hi-Fi

Now that I’m finally spending a quiet night at home, and working hard to get through the 500 odd unread items I have in NetNewsWire (to say nothing of my unanswered email!), it’s becoming painfully apparent to me just how out of the weblog loop I am. People I once considered “light” posters are now producing three or four posts in the time it takes me to do one, and the Mac developer blogging torch seems to have been passed to a new generation of people like Daniel Jalkut, Jonathan Wight, and Blake Seely. Sigh.

The other thing about my absence from the blogosphere is that I haven’t really kept up with what all webloggers fundamentally care about: what people are saying about me! Because of this I failed to notice that Aaron Feaver tagged me with a dreaded meme! Since I’m no longer the type of blogger who has, you know, delusions of importance, I’ve decided embrace a little blog candy and run with it. And awaaaay we go!

Four Jobs I’ve Had

1. Fashion model for a fancy, Denver-based country club lifestyle magazine (see below–I’m the little kid on the right).



2. Paperboy
3. Computer sales dork at Best Buy (in high school).
4. Intern in the collections department of a bank (also in high school).

Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over

1. Adaptation
2. Ghost World
3. Three Kings
4. Requiem for a Dream

Four Places I Have Lived

1. Denver, Colorado
2. Lakewood, Colorado
3. Cupertino, California
4. Haight Ashbury, San Francisco, California

Four TV Shows I Love to Watch

1. Curb Your Enthusiasm
2. Seinfeld
3. Fawlty Towers
4. The Simpsons

Four of My Favorite Dishes

1. Carnitas, or, really, just about any Mexican pork dish
2. The red beans & rice with andouille from Memphis Minnie’s
3. The truffle cheese burger at Oola (pictured below)



4. The sikh kebab at Rotee

Four Websites I Visit Daily

1. My Flickr contacts page
2. My Del.icio.us inbox
3. Upcoming.org (maybe not daily, but pretty often)
4. My Last.fm friends page (gotta keep up with what my hipster friends are listening to!)

Four Places I Would Rather Be

1. California’s Central Coast



2. Austin, Texas



3. Mount Evans, Colorado



4. Paris

If you’ve been reading Dan Wood’s weblog or my del.icio.us links recently, you may have noticed that I’ve become something of a Javascript Object Notation enthusiast. Though JSON, an object serialization technology for Javascript, has languished in relative obscurity for awhile, I think there’s a lot of evidence that it’s about to assume a new prominence in the coming post-XML age.

Awhile ago it dawned on me that JSON bears more than a passing resemblance to old-school NeXT plists, and that it would be pretty natural to write an NSDictionary category that could deserialize a JSON string into a Cocoa object graph. I set about working on it whenever I could find the time (on the plane to NAMM last month, for example), but, sadly, my spare coding time just isn’t what it used to be these days (blame it on my daytime coding job and an increasingly busy social schedule).

Fortunately, it appears my LazyWeb influence is now strong enough that I no longer need to code my own ideas. I happened to mention my idea to Blake Seely during dinner at MacWorld, and he ran with it. Then, not to be outdone, Jonathan Wight revealed that he too had been working on a Cocoa JSON implementation. I haven’t had the time to look at either implementation yet, but at the very least I think the fact that we have not one but two really confirms JSON’s status as the web services technology of the moment.