About the Longbored Surfer (Pedro)
Online, I go by Pedro (though I respond to it offline as well). By day I'm a SQL Server geek. By night I'm a husband, father, mac geek, and I do web design and development. 'Why longbored?' you say? I was very bored with a previous job, and I came up with this site one dark evening. I have cured/treated my boredom with the following things in my life:
- My wonderful wife and two daughters, Cecilia & Becky.
- I do web design and coding for people
- I enjoy watching and keep decent tabs on the San Antonio Spurs (basketball) and Liverpool FC (football/soccer).
- I enjoy music (Billboard, G2, Soundtrack, etc)
- I love food, both making and eating it (just not cleaning the dishes).
- I love taking photos of nouns, and occasionally verbs… but usually nouns.
Update: The name of my site has apparently inspired a kindred bored surfer to name his site in a similar fashion. Find Paul Seys at the ShortBored Surfer.
About the site
I love my Mac, and have done everything for the site on it. My preferences are with:
- Fireworks - graphics
- TextMate - text editor
- CSSEdit - CSS editor
- Transmit - FTP
- MarsEdit - blog entry editor
For the actual web side of things, my grandmother, mother, and dead dog have no clue, but I use:
- Movable Type - my base CMS
- Flickr - handles all my photos
- Mint - handles all my site stats
- DreamHost - runs this site (and others) and does a freakin' awesome job at it (Want to help pay for my hosting? Gee, that'd be real nice of you!
Additionally, some people (see: hardly anyone) might care to know I use:
- Twitter - ensures I don't write blog entries shorter than 140 characters
- A handful of other socially-oriented sites that handle a bunch of random things for me… but those are of even less interest to even fewer people.
My Fever Feeds
I love Fever. You should too. Ask me why. I am currently subscribed to the following 130 Feeds (with their current count of unread items).
- $0.99 Movie of the Week on iTunes
- 24 ways
- A List Apart
- Airbag Industries
- Ashes App - Blog
- Authentic Boredom (9)
- Awkward Yearbook Signatures
- BibliOdyssey
- BittBox
- Brand New (1)
- Brandon Sanderson Blog
- cabel.name
- Charlie Allen's Blog
- Clifton.im
- Coudal Partners Blended Feed (1212)
- CreativeTechs Tips
- Daily Drop Cap (5)
- Dan Benjamin
- Daring Fireball (11)
- DarkGate Comic Slurper (9)
- David Friedman Photography: Blog
- Definr Word of the Day
- Derp (3)
- Design*Sponge (7)
- DesignNotes by Michael Surtees (2)
- Discovery News (11)
- Dragonmount News
- Dribbble Blog
- Etsy shop for benben
- Evaluation Baron
- Flickr - Jerrod Murayama (3)
- Flickr - Library of Congress
- Flickr - White House (1)
- Flickr Blog (2)
- Food Connections
- FPO: For Print Only (1)
- furbo.org
- garfield minus garfield (1)
- H*R
- Homestar Runner
- House Industries Show and Tell
- Huffington Post - Tim Siedell
- i love typography
- IconShoppe
- Indexed (1)
- Ironic Sans
- Jason Santa Maria: Articles
- Jason Santa Maria: Oddities & Diversions
- Jessica Hische
- Jules Vernacular
- kindra is here
- Klocki - LEGO Bricks for Adults
- Layer Tennis Blog
- Ma.gnolia Blog
- MacRabbit Blog
- MacUpdate Promo (1)
- Macworld (28)
- MAKE Magazine (17)
- McSweeney's (2)
- Melody (MT) - Blog
- Mimeoverse Blog
- Ministry of Type
- Monoscope
- Montygog's Art-O-Rama!
- Movable Tips (1)
- MovableType.org
- MSNBC Photo Blog (7)
- Musings From the Software Underground
- MY MILK TOOF
- NBA.com: Spurs News
- Neatorama (18)
- No Ideas But In Things
- NorthTemple.com
- NOTCOT.ORG (33)
- Official Gmail Blog
- Official Google Blog (1)
- Official Google Mac Blog
- Old Picture of the Day (1)
- OMG Posters! (4)
- Panic News Channel
- Patterns for Colouring
- PeepCode Products
- People Who Deserve It
- PostSecret
- Probably Bad News
- Quick Musings
- Rands In Repose
- rands tumbles
- Realmac Software
- Record Envelope
- Red Sweater Blog
- Rocketboom Weblog
- SaraJoy Pond
- ShaunInman.com - Links
- Shipment of Fail (1)
- Signal vs. Noise (3)
- SimpleBits
- Slashdot (30)
- Sleevage
- Smashing Magazine (2)
- Smitten Kitchen (1)
- Spanish Word of the Day (1)
- Stopdesign
- Studiobenben News
- Subtraction (2)
- swissmiss (12)
- Terrible Yellow Eyes
- TextMate Blog
- Textmate SIGPIPE Blog
- That Will Buff Out (5)
- The Big Picture
- The Brothers Brick (4)
- The FAIL Blog (16)
- The Iconfactory
- The Sneeze
- The Superest
- TheDieline.com (6)
- There, I fixed it. (4)
- things to look at
- Threadless Weekly (1)
- Today's Inspiration (1)
- Totally Looks Like... (4)
- TUAW (19)
- Typographica
- Veer Wallpapers
- Veerle's blog: full articles
- VeloNews (9)
- Waxy.org (& Links) (10)
- Where is Bob?
- ~stevenf
Contact Me
If you're going to ask about the recipes, they've been removed. You can read about that here.