I’m a rambunctious, inquisitive, sometimes over-enthusiastic machine of awesome and non-sickening happiness.Tumblr (3.0; @readysetbrady)http://readysetbrady.com/<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7zjyp3bWh1qdvk91o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong><a href="http://bradyquest.tumblr.com/post/1026957545/team-money-shots-sees-blue-feet">Team Money$hot$</a> won BradyQUEST this year.</strong></p> <p>No thanks to this guy.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://bradyquest.tumblr.com/post/1038834676/img00271-20100829-2007-jpg">bradyquest</a>)</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/1042512984http://readysetbrady.com/post/1042512984Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:07:07 -0700<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13621353&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13621353&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13621353&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><strong>Graboids (AKA Landsharks)</strong></p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/1042488888http://readysetbrady.com/post/1042488888Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:00:53 -0700<a href="http://bradyquest.tumblr.com/">BradyQUEST</a>: <p>For this year’s BradyQUEST, I set up a tumblr account and had everybody take pictures of their answers as they found them.  This is the result: a chronological photo blog of our day, as seen by each team.</p> <p>Check it out, and if you weren’t at BradyQUEST this year… get yourself out here next year!</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/1033443731http://readysetbrady.com/post/1033443731Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:59:30 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7u56mXA351qzyxmho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>So this is what I did today.</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/1022176732http://readysetbrady.com/post/1022176732Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:56:36 -0700<object width="400" height="251"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tIQmlRzU4BA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tIQmlRzU4BA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="251" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><strong>Portal 2</strong></p> <p>“Okay, look.  We both said a lot of things that you’re going to regret.  But I think we can put our differences behind us.</p> <p>For science.</p> <p>You monster.”</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/1018182597http://readysetbrady.com/post/1018182597Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:06:22 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7s6xvlBFJ1qzyxmho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Welcome to Windows 7! Here’s some junk you need.</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/1016420278http://readysetbrady.com/post/1016420278Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:39:35 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7rt6dE1es1qzyxmho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://readysetbrady.com/post/1015169999http://readysetbrady.com/post/1015169999Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:42:12 -0700<a href="http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/performance-detail.cfm?id=4273">Oh. My. God.</a>: <p>I want to go see this <em><strong>so badly!</strong></em></p> <p>Who wants to go with me?</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/1011357236http://readysetbrady.com/post/1011357236Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:03:16 -0700<object width="400" height="251"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JWhaOFZbZcc&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JWhaOFZbZcc&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="251" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><strong>Dare I dream?</strong></p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/998171130http://readysetbrady.com/post/998171130Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:11:39 -0700<object width="400" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WyNa_NsMR_4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WyNa_NsMR_4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="325" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><strong>Phone Sex</strong></p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/975872414http://readysetbrady.com/post/975872414Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:52:00 -0700<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7b2bnyVxV1qzpzfmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>It looks like a great white, soars 12ft into the air then dives under waves.</strong></p> <p>This has to be the coolest boat/Submarine ever built.</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/969871996http://readysetbrady.com/post/969871996Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:39:00 -0700<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l79ua47IEE1qzyxmho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>No, deli meat. I will NOT be your facebook friend.</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/965244826http://readysetbrady.com/post/965244826Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:43:04 -0700<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="400" height="242" id="viddler"><param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/simple_on_site/b6868381" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="flashvars" value="fake=1" /><embed src="http://www.viddler.com/simple_on_site/b6868381" width="400" height="242" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="fake=1" name="viddler"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><strong>Star Tours II</strong></p> <p>I truly loved the original.  They had damn well better do it justice come 2011.  I do love the “safest planet in the galaxy” quip, though.</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/961128285http://readysetbrady.com/post/961128285Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:17:00 -0700<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l77khpe12b1qzyxmho1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l77khpe12b1qzyxmho2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l77khpe12b1qzyxmho3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l77khpe12b1qzyxmho4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>Bayview Park, Coranado</strong></p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/958558403http://readysetbrady.com/post/958558403Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:31:00 -0700<span id="video_player_958542766">[<a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" target="_blank">Flash 10</a> is required to watch video.]</span><script type="text/javascript">renderVideo("video_player_958542766",'http://readysetbrady.com/video_file/958542766/tumblr_l77kbl7edM1qzyxmh',400,225,'poster=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l77kbl7edM1qzyxmh_r1_frame1.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l77kbl7edM1qzyxmh_r1_frame2.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l77kbl7edM1qzyxmh_r1_frame3.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l77kbl7edM1qzyxmh_r1_frame4.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_l77kbl7edM1qzyxmh_r1_frame5.jpg')</script><br/><br/>http://readysetbrady.com/post/958542766http://readysetbrady.com/post/958542766Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:31:00 -0700“‘R’ is among the most menacing of sounds. That’s why they call it murder and not mukduk.”<br/><br/> - <em>Dwight Schrute, <em>The Office</em> (via <a href="http://aclockworkorange.tumblr.com/">aclockworkorange</a>)</em>http://readysetbrady.com/post/940289676http://readysetbrady.com/post/940289676Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:32:57 -0700<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6uqvmwOLV1qz4rlzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Communities Erect: Thoughts on the Intrinsic Value of Saying When You’re Standing Near Something</strong></p> <p>Jesus Christ. Who do I have to blow to get some fucking badges on this shit?</p> <p>I mean, seriously. I’ve <strong>stood</strong> in several general areas on more than one occasion—and, <em>yes</em>, haters—I’ve been diligent about ALWAYS programmatically notifying the API of a web server as to a) where I’m standing, b) what I’m doing while I’m standing there, c) whether it involves eating (or waiting to eat) something, and d) whether the thing I’m eating (or waiting to eat) turns out to be more properly declaimed as “nom nom” or “fail.”</p> <p>Duh. Okay? I <em>get</em> the personal responsibility aspects of thorough and consistent self-reporting.</p> <p>But I guess I just feel like…what? I guess I just feel like why bother standing <em>anywhere</em> if programmatically notifying the API of a web server about it doesn’t inevitably lead to one of the computers <strong>eventually</strong> rewarding my careful standing-reportage by conferring the prestige, gratitude, and—yes—basic fucking human decency and respect that can only be accorded by triggering a ruby script that alters a small graphic on my phone.</p> <p>Candidly? It almost makes me question the value of bothering to report what I’m standing near at all. It really does.</p> <p>I’m sorry. I didn’t really mean that; that would be anti-social. And, I know that.</p> <p>But, whether receiving kudos via event-based scripts and slightly-altered phone graphics or otherwise, I owe it to the people I’ve never met who sometimes stand near places where I’ve stood near to <em>know</em> that I have also stood near there sometimes too. Sometimes more or less often, and on serendipitous occasions, the same number of times that they stood near there. But, yes: I did sometimes stand near where they stood near. And, yes, they and computers should know that.</p> <p>Sure, I do it for me. But I also do it for my community. And, the computers. It’s what? A cartographic social contract.</p> <p>And, yes, I will continue reporting the things I sometimes am standing near in the fervent hope that perhaps one day, in a more just and sane world, ALL of our achievements in standing near something sometimes will receive the overdue recognition that they deserve.</p> <p>Call me a dreamer, but I think this is, ultimately, what makes us human.</p> <p>Perhaps, one day it may even inspire the seated and the un-reporting alike to consider standing near things sometimes—and, yes, just as importantly: to proudly and with as little ambiguity as their extant GPS signal will permit, to share that information with people they don’t know. And computers.</p> <p>With peace, love, and sometimes standing near things other people may have stood near, I shall remain,</p> <p>A Registered User<br/> (via <a href="http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/923707966/the-community">merlin</a> at <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=19th+ave+and+taraval+sf+ca+94116">37.7431439, -122.4757534</a>)</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/930181324http://readysetbrady.com/post/930181324Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:10:42 -0700<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6umotNfpv1qzyxmho1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6umotNfpv1qzyxmho2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6umotNfpv1qzyxmho3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6umotNfpv1qzyxmho4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6umotNfpv1qzyxmho5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Pirates, pinocchio, small world, and AWESOME.</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/923388562http://readysetbrady.com/post/923388562Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:41:06 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6udxo7Fsi1qzyxmho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mr. Toad</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/922772337http://readysetbrady.com/post/922772337Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:32:03 -0700<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6ud1x5riz1qzyxmho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Pooh</p>http://readysetbrady.com/post/922717427http://readysetbrady.com/post/922717427Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:13:09 -0700