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alien protocol

ABOUT ME:

This is the blog of alien protocol aka Brian Villanueva.

Founder and creator of Music Happening Now.

Fueled by fine coffee and speedy wi-fi.

Enjoys trail running.


MY WEB PROJECTS:

www.muzic.com


My New Favorite Website

Dang, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted.

I’ve been busy…

Here’s my first attempt at filtering the knowledge I’ve collected in the last few months.  Check the website. Please bear with me during this period of seeming inactivity.

I had the swine flu before it was cool to have the swine flu Me
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao-Tsu on my current daily mantra… eat, sleep, code… eat, sleep, code… eat, sleep, ….
Play is the exultation of the possible. Martin Buber
Nothing is worth more than this day. I’ve had this quote from Goethe next to my bathroom mirror for the past 3 years - it never ceases to center me. Day in, and day out.

This is way ahead of it’s time kind of stuff.

The Millenium give us “I Just Want To Be Your Friend (Alice in Acidland)” from way back in 1968.  Listen to those phat beats.

As for the video… well, what can one say? I don’t think Austin Powers can compete with this kind of madness.

This is what the future looked like to sci-fi Germans in or around 1966.

Coding While On the Go! Mozilla Labs Introduces Bespin

More excellent innovation from the folks at Mozilla, this time it is a sneak peek at the future of coding.  Bespin is a new code editor that lives in the cloud, and allows for realtime collaboration on software projects.  

What a cool concept!

Even cooler is that the code editor is accessible from anywhere… this means that you can take your dev environment with you without having to take your laptop with you.  Imagine being able to login on anywhere in the world and have your environment be right there at your fingertips!  

The best way out is always through. Robert Frost

Weekend Pictures

Berry Creek Falls – Big Basin, CA

Church – Davenport, CA

The Roadhouse – Davenport, CA

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. Carry out an action with complete attention and intensity, as if it were your last. Great words from Piero Ferrucci to begin another year.

Remnant of a Supernova

An amazing composite shot of the remnants of a supernova called SN 1006, travelling at about 6 million miles an hour, roughly 7,000 light years away from Earth.

From the Top 10 Space Photos of the week.  

Above a certain threshold, the more accomplished people are, the more humility they tend to have about their accomplishments. My friend Michael Troiano hits the nail on the head with this brilliant quote. 

An awesome video about an ant city that rivals the Great Wall of China in its sophistication and complexity.

I was always hallucinogenically optimistic. That’s the only reason I kept going. Not because I could take this suckiness for a long time, but that it’s going to be better tomorrow. I had all these big ideas, and I could never stop thinking about the product and the thing I was going to build next. That always being around the corner in my mind is basically what allowed me to go through all the bad stuff.

Evan Williams on why he kept going during his long struggle of trying to make something out of Blogger

He eventually sold Blogger to Google and later quit to start Twitter.