Building the Trick-or-Treat Hotline with Twilio
We’ve got a contest going over at Twilio for the best Halloween inspired app, so I thought it would be fun to build my own (although I’m not eligible to win the contest – darn it!)
If you call (206) 701-6291 you’ll be connected to my Halloween hotline, which is a very simple Twilio app I built using PHP in about 20 minutes while hanging out with my family leading up to Hallow’s Eve.
In all, the app is probably about 100 lines of code divided across several files – you can read all about it and get the sample code to build your own hotline here.
This Year’s Homemade Zombie Costume
After discovering that Bing is ranking me #2 for the terms “homemade zombie costume” I am very proud! Back in 2006 I was a zombie, and I’m bring it back this year with another Value Village creation. This one is a 90s dress that I slashed up, put some fake blood on, and gave myself a lovely head wound. More pics on Flickr.
Perfecting my Zombie Walk at the Bar
Good and Undead
Looking Good and Dead at the Taco Bell Drive Thru
They didn’t bat an eye!
What’s a Little Head Wound?
Tuesday Night with D’Laina
My best friend and housemate in Kirkland made me dinner tonight, I love her so much. Thank you Dee!
Twitter Shitlist Lottery – All this week!
Here’s how it works, as I was explaining to Kevin in the car (and he said I should turn this into a blog post). Basically I have followed too many people who I once found interesting, but over time have become social media douchebags.
- I open Twitter.com or Tweetdeck
- I read the most recent tweet from someone I’m following, and click the link no matter what
- If it sucks, I unfollow you
What is a social media douchebag, you ask?
Or this…
Vlog Update from Seattle Opera
I’m back, I’ve got the flipcam Marcelo gave me, and I’ll be blogging. I’ve missed you both online and offline friends, stay tuned!