Archive for August, 2008

Aug 18 2008

Man, time flies

Published by John under Easy Listening. Popularity: 1%

I’ve been meaning to post some really funny entries in the Building a Duck section, but my thespian ways have interupted my net activity. Jessica and I are in “The Miracle Worker” at The Local Hometown Theatre, and it has taken up about all of our time. For my part, I recorded and mixed down all the sound, designed and hung all the lights, and have a small bit part as Mr. Anagnos. It’s too much.

For one thing, I’ve found that I’m not an actor. That’s not to say I don’t do it well- everyone says that I do. What I mean is that it’s simply not as exciting (so far) as being backstage. I think I dig the energy and occasional chaos of backstage life more than life under the lights. Strange. I thought everyone would want to be “The Star,” but I think some people are better and making others look good.

Anyway, Next weekend is the next performance. Then it’s back to The Daily Grind of network building for Radio Tierra, updates for Positively Glorious! and The Metta’s NetStead, and much much work as a Secret Agent.

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Aug 05 2008

Mind your own business, Google!

Published by John under Building a Duck. Popularity: 1%

Evildoing cover blowers

A name change, millions of dollars in FBI funding, dozens of people working on Christmas, a special section of Britain’s MI6 created just for me.

Not to mention 10 whole bucks for the domain registration.

Now, after nearly a week of back-breaking work setting up my super secret website, Google has decided to blow my cover!

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John Metta

Greetings! I’m John Metta, writer, hydrologist, programmer, and a digger of all things tech nestled snugly in the Columbia River Gorge (i.e. Heaven). This blog started as a test bed for programming social media apps, but eventually became something that, for whatever reason, people actually read. In fact, people read it so much that I had to create a whole other blog called Mettaprogramming for the geeky stuff I write. Feel free to email me at or contact me on Twitter @mettadore.

A Glorious Day!

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