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Andy Baio is an American entrepenaur, programmer and journalist living in Portland, Oregon. Andy is known for his sandbox / blog, Waxy.org and as the founder of Upcoming.org.

  • waxpancake: @cabel Not a googlewhack. http://www.google.com/search?q="poop+nunchucks"

    10:26:36 pm on April 8, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Gave my original Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and some games to my Nintendo-obsessed nephew. He just sent me this in return: http://bit.ly/d1NCjH

    10:24:37 pm on April 8, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Justin Russo's making real posters from his gorgeous minimalist videogame images: http://kck.st/c7FUra

    12:18:34 am on April 8, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Just backed R.U. Sirius' Kickstarter project, a collaboratively written history of MONDO 2000: http://kck.st/dslLSw (Love the $750 reward.)

    02:43:52 am on April 7, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: RT @kickstarter: The New York Times profiles how musicians are using Kickstarter http://nyti.ms/brPRq4

    05:23:55 pm on April 5, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Just got a demo of WarioWare D.I.Y.'s creation tools from my nephew. Impressively complex, all the game's levels were built with it.

    06:33:51 pm on April 3, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Figured out the cause of my Chrome for Mac slowness/hanging... AdBlock was conficting with Flash. Disabling it solved it completely.

    10:46:27 pm on April 2, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Congrats to Ted Rall for hitting his goal to do comics journalism in Afghanistan. Nieman Lab talked to him about it: http://bit.ly/avQJ1s

    06:25:46 pm on April 2, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Playing Adventure over Skype. Speaking commands and hearing the descriptions read back is just amazing. http://610dearben.com/

    07:58:04 am on April 2, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: I was wrong, reinstalling Flash didn't resolve the Chrome for Mac hanging/slowdown issues. If you have a fix, get in touch.

    05:18:26 pm on April 1, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Finally, @4chan adds Facebook Connect support. (Yes, it really works.) http://www.4chan.org/

    07:05:11 am on April 1, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Eliot and I finished Cave Story on the Wii last night. Highly recommended, the new music/art are lovely and he loved playing as Curly Brace.

    06:46:04 am on April 1, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: What year is this? In my inbox just now: "You're invited to join MySpace!" Are they resorting to generic spam to find new users now?

    06:08:57 am on April 1, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @mecredis Happy Internet Jackass Day! Giveaway: you're too savvy to use a public tracker.

    05:44:47 am on April 1, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @gavinpurcell I wasn't having problems with crashes, just hangs. Flash was definitely responsible.

    02:17:42 am on April 1, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @threeze I love both, but definitely prefer the NES sound.

    02:16:21 am on April 1, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Not in love with the Dark Side of the Moon chiptune remake, but using the Mario coin sound in "Money" was inspired. http://bit.ly/9CpLMk

    02:12:12 am on April 1, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Chrome dev for Mac became horribly slow for me, hanging often, and switching to beta didn't help. Flash was the culprit, reinstall fixed it.

    01:53:01 am on April 1, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: RT @kickstarter: We're looking for an amazing Rails developer to join Kickstarter. Please spread the word! http://bit.ly/c0y9wX

    10:58:40 pm on March 31, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: The pixel sky is falling in The Incident, @nevenmrgan's wonderful upcoming game for the iPhone: http://theincidentapp.com/

    09:15:25 pm on March 30, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: A new Kickstarter record, $40k raised in 20 minutes for this benefit concert with Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum: http://bit.ly/buFPgd

    09:03:58 pm on March 30, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Kickstarter was on G4's Attack of the Show last night: http://bit.ly/brBVmj (Thanks to @plasticbugs for the head's up.)

    04:43:33 pm on March 30, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Tonight, my five-year-old son told me he wants to "save money to buy an iPad." Did Apple start running ads during Phineas and Ferb?

    06:20:43 am on March 30, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: I made a speedrun for "Run, Jesus Run!", a mildly blasphemous minigame for the Experimental Gameplay Project: http://youtu.be/2_fneen2G2k

    02:30:28 am on March 28, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @cabel It's the New Math. (Err, no idea, I'll find out.)

    01:19:18 am on March 27, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @donpdonp Soon! When SXSW releases the audio, I'll make a screencast, honest.

    01:17:40 am on March 27, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Kill Screen's first issue just arrived (thx, @JaminBW) and it's a thing of beauty. Go subscribe! http://killscreenmagazine.com/

    06:34:24 pm on March 26, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Added a bonus track to my Pixeljam interview, James Kochalka singing the Glorkian Warrior theme: http://bit.ly/aH91Lt (I love that guy.)

    02:47:06 am on March 25, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @shaunchapman We're hiring, if you're willing to come to NYC. http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/466172121/kickstarter-is-hiring

    12:28:10 am on March 25, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Just accidentally typed kicksartre.com... Crowdfunding for existentialists?

    07:19:55 pm on March 24, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @dunstan Looks more like a list of 20 reasons why you should start your blog back up.

    09:22:54 pm on March 23, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @ph Congrats! Typekit badly needs vomiting pandas.

    06:01:47 pm on March 23, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Congrats to @jakedobkin on selling Gothamist to Kablevision, a fine and generous company. http://bit.ly/cODoW2

    10:29:45 pm on March 22, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Spread the word, we're looking for a talented Rails developer to join the Kickstarter team in NYC. Come work with us! http://bit.ly/buTYW4

    09:06:37 pm on March 22, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Interviewed Pixeljam & James Kochalka about Glorkian Warrior, their game fusing pixel and handdrawn art: http://bit.ly/bte5Gp 10 hours left!

    07:48:35 pm on March 22, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: RT @jack: just setting up my twttr

    08:31:29 pm on March 21, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: At his concert in Charlotte last night, Ben Folds turned on Chat Roulette for an ode to Merton: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LfamTmY5REw

    07:17:50 pm on March 21, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Hunch's Twitter predictor was dead accurate, including predicting I'd say I believe in free will. http://hunch.com/games/twitter-predictor

    05:19:25 am on March 21, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: "Facebook is so powerful that it's sucking everything in, warping the game industry around it." http://bit.ly/dmXobV

    07:31:39 am on March 20, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: To those at my SXSW talk, another example of Stack Overflow rebalancing points and the ensuing community reaction: http://bit.ly/ctPD6W

    01:19:18 am on March 20, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Reading a list of big announcements at GDC, I'm struck by how little was announced/released at SXSWi. I hope to help change that next year.

    02:26:00 am on March 19, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @jchris Congratulations!

    07:37:09 pm on March 18, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @femmebot Say hi next time!

    09:04:36 pm on March 17, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: Every year, I think it'll grow old, and every year, I leave exhausted and invigorated by thousands of people making wonderful things. #sxsw

    07:07:23 pm on March 17, 2010 |

     

  • waxpancake: @Gizmopunk I'm in Austin, not Portland!

    06:31:50 am on March 17, 2010 |

     
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