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This is the personal blog of Nathan Colgate Clark. I work at Brand New Box. I play with lasers. I developed a content management system for churches.

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Jun
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nathancolgate: just arrived in Minnesota! can't wait to see sarah!
Jun
12th
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Konami Code

Matt told me about the Konami Code in Google Reader.

Pure awesome.

Jun
10th
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Nice BackgroundRb.yml Config File

Here is a handy configuration to easily run BackgroundRb in both development and production environments without having to worry about multiple backgroundrb.yml files:

:backgroundrb:
  :ip: 0.0.0.0
  :port: 11111     # use port 11111

:production:
  :backgroundrb:
    :port: 22222      # use port 22222
    :lazy_load: true  # do not load models eagerly
		:debug_log: false # disable log workers and other logging
    :environment: production # use rails production environment

Then in development:

ruby script/backgroundrb start

and in production:

ruby script/backgroundrb start -e production

The backgroundrb environment variable loads all of the production variables from the config.yml file (including the rails environment), this isn’t obvious from the documentation and kind of confusing with the double environments.  Hope this helps.

Jun
5th
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Seeing Triple - This is what happens when you start sharing google calendars with your business partner and your girlfriend.
Seeing Triple - This is what happens when you start sharing google calendars with your business partner and your girlfriend.
Jun
4th
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Pirates DVD Menu
Pirates DVD Menu from Nathan Colgate on Vimeo.

Nothing too fancy. The scene selections are broken down by each song.

Cast: Nathan Colgate
May
30th
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Happy Birthday! You have lyme disease.
— My Doctor, upon inspecting the tick bite on my leg from last weekend.
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The Unlucky Witch
The Unlucky Witch from Nathan Colgate on Vimeo.

A Cooper Movie!

Cast: Nathan Colgate
May
29th
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Pat Pat
This past weekend we went to Kansas to celebrate Pat and Kristin’s wedding. If you have not me Pat, you are missing out. Here are some memories from the last 5 or so years.
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Doug and Nate Blow Stuff Up
Doug and Nate Blow Stuff Up from Nathan Colgate on Vimeo.

From the archives. I wish I had this at higher resolution, but you get the idea just the same.

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May
28th
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Pirates of Penzance is now a DVD. I’ve been trying to get my hands on a copy of my highschool theater presentation of Pirates of Penzance for months (literally months), but to no avail. Last weekend, while in Topeka for a wedding, I finally got my hands on THE last copy at Cair Paravel. It was given to me with an understanding that if I lost it, my ‘mortal career would be cut short’. So in an effort to remedy this tragic shortage, I’ve transferred the VHS to a nice, archive quality DVD. It is great to watch this again. Sarah watched the whole thing with me last night and we laughed all the way through (she is so good to me). Watch a teaser of part of the show. Anyway, if anyone realizes that they too are missing their copy of the VHS and would like to relive possibly the best CPLS musical ever, let me know and I’ll make you a copy of the DVD. They’ll probably cost about $20 for the duplication service and shipping. I’ll post a photo of the finished product soon. Don’t swim. Take the dinghy. update: The DVD is available for purchase!

Pirates of Penzance is now a DVD.

I’ve been trying to get my hands on a copy of my highschool theater presentation of Pirates of Penzance for months (literally months), but to no avail. Last weekend, while in Topeka for a wedding, I finally got my hands on THE last copy at Cair Paravel. It was given to me with an understanding that if I lost it, my ‘mortal career would be cut short’.

So in an effort to remedy this tragic shortage, I’ve transferred the VHS to a nice, archive quality DVD. It is great to watch this again. Sarah watched the whole thing with me last night and we laughed all the way through (she is so good to me).

Watch a teaser of part of the show.

Anyway, if anyone realizes that they too are missing their copy of the VHS and would like to relive possibly the best CPLS musical ever, let me know and I’ll make you a copy of the DVD. They’ll probably cost about $20 for the duplication service and shipping. I’ll post a photo of the finished product soon.

Don’t swim. Take the dinghy.

update: The DVD is available for purchase!