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Ah, it’s that time again. Time to plan for summer concerts. A quick review of all the craptastic concert calendar sites shows me too many artists coming to town this summer. Who should I see?

• ColoradoInfo.com which is pretty disorganized…but seems decent.
• Westwords Concert Search which is just plain overwhelming
• DenverPost.com Summer Concert Calendar
• Boulder Daily Camera less complete, easier to digest, not Boulder focused (odd, that last bit)
• Denver Botanic Gardens Concerts which are, at least somewhat, already sold out!
• KBCO Concert List which should be awesome but, is kind of hard to navigate. What’s up with the website, guys, 3 clicks to get to the concert list?

About Green the Ghetto

A few years ago I watched a movie of Majora Carter presenting at the TED conference. She talked about her work in New York and was generally really inspiring. I suggest you watch it too:

The organization behind this movie is Sustainable South Bronx while the presentation itself was given at TED.

Find something on this site you really liked? Do you appreciate, perhaps, some of the Drupal Modules that Greg works on? Do you just think Nikki is cute and want to give her a token of appreciation? Here are some things we’d like:

1. a new theme for knaddison.com
2. a new theme for wanderlusting.org
3. some education from amazon wish list
4. basic, universal human freedom

I went on a month long backpacking trip when I was 16 with an organization called NOLS. It was good fun and I learned quite a bit

My trip leader was Laura Ordway and she had this great phrase:

Boje the sequence

When you “boje the sequence” you messed up. You did something in the wrong order, or didn’t do a step, and it has effects on other steps in a process. I’m not sure whether part of the definition includes that it’s friendly, or if that was just Laura’s way, but it’s something you can say to a friend who has messed up and it has an undertone of “It’s OK, I’ll help make it right”. I looked around and didn’t see that on the internet, so I thought I’d include the knowledge here in case anyone else needs a good phrase like this.

Yay WRW61394!

I’m currently traveling the Spanish speaking world but I’m still working. So…there are lots of things that I read about, or work on, and I wish that I had a place to talk with people about them. Those places exist locally, and I’m taking advantage of them but nothing beats face time with my favorite local user groups in the Denver/Boulder area.

So…I don’t want to forget these things and am therefore creating this list:

• Presentation from the Amazon AWS evangelists and suggest a startup project event (also suggest that Amazon get a real CMS that can do pretty urls)
• CLUE Session on actually using EC2
• Drupal bugday with dbug - aka “how to work the issue queue”
• Create an Open Coffee Denver a la the boulder one which might help benefit or spark a coworking facility
• Drupal working session to create an ec2 management panel inside Drupal (which of course morphs into a “turn on more servers under load” module
• more to come…

On a slightly more personal note:

• Shop at IKEA in California/Utah - consider new bad
• camp in yosemite? zion? joshua tree? grand teton?

So, I showed my mom the RainSkirt photos I took and she hated them. Not hated them, but hated the fact that they were untouched. I like things in their “natural state” and generally don’t touch up my photos, but now that I see her work I might be swayed.

comparing these two photos of Nikki in her skirt on that lone rainy day this spring:

the photoshopped RainSkirt photo

the original RainSkirt photo

I just can’t complain with those results.

And yes, my mom is much better at photoshop than I am. And yes, you can get your RainSkirt at their website.