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July 1, 2004

Dinner at Justin's

En route. Dave and I talked a bit about his process, and how he goes about recording/manipulating sound. I asked a lot of questions, and hoped for some kind of tutorial at some future point. I mentioned wanting to do some projects akin to my pi10k experiment. I forget [read more...]

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The Arrival

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Morning News

So check this out. Last night on the news, I happened to see a reporter talking "live at the Merchandise Mart," the building where I work. Apparently, there's a fundamental disagreement between the higher ups at the Chicago Teacher's Union. There was an election for the presidency a while [read more...]

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July 2, 2004

Congratulations Elizabeth and Craig

... whoever you are. :) [read more...]

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Suicide Girls: Burlesque

I don't know how many of you readers are already familiar with NSFW, but to be super safe... here we go. NSFW is an acronym for "Not Safe For Work." And while this is a fairly benign link, I'm still gonna throw out NSFW, just to be safe. Justin and [read more...]

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Newsworthy!

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Iberico

Today, Deb took all of us out to lunch at Cafe Iberico (one of my favorite places to eat). Spanish Tapas! Mmmmmm. [read more...]

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July 3, 2004

Apologies

I'm now severely behind on days. Sorry about that, but I haven't felt like posting too much lately. Work's been a bit busy, and I've spent a good part of today doing work stuff. So I still need to catch up. Heading off to a birthday party here in a [read more...]

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Happy Birthday: The Mandy

Ahh, Exit. Hanging out tonight to celebrate Mandy's birthday. Exit's undergone some renovations since the last time I was here. Twelvestone folk will be sad to learn that the infamous dancing pole is no more. Let me pause here to discuss names. For reasons that were once explained to [read more...]

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July 4, 2004

Fourth of July

Spotted this while waiting for a ride out to Ben and Laura's house. Hanging out in their backyard, we stole some of the kids toys and started playing catch. Chris retrieves a foul ball. Hehehehe. More catch. I'm getting fascinated by antennae, it seems. Ben, cooking up the goods. [read more...]

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July 5, 2004

Slowly but surely

Today was a lazy sort of day. Did some cleaning, bills, the usual stuff. I got the blog updated slightly. Instead of being four days behind, I'm now only two days behind. I've got some fun pics from Mandy's birthday, as well as some 4th of July stuff hanging out [read more...]

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July 6, 2004

Updates: Updated

I think I'm finally caught up on past days. Check out the start of the month if you haven't seen the new images and video. [read more...]

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On the way to work

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During Work

The news people are back again. [read more...]

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On the way home

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Up and down

I ended up not going to a birthday party for Kristen tonight. I feel bad for not going, but I really wasn't in a good mindframe to be around people. I know I wouldn't have been very much fun to be around, but still... I'm a jerk for not going. [read more...]

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July 7, 2004

Ten Best Days

July 4, 2003: Kent and Christine's wedding. Road trip to Saugatuck, for a great wedding and a reception on the lake (Fourth of July fireworks to boot!). August 7, 2003: Q101 Intern Party. I was a bit hesitant to go at first, but totally glad I did afterwards. A [read more...]

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And for the nostalgic...

Check out last year's top ten days. [read more...]

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2:23 AM

Got the audioplayer (located in the right modules) updated some. Instead of having all the songs hard-wired into the .swf, I switched it so it's feeding in the playlist off of an XML file. Not huge, since it's only like three songs, but it saves me from having to open [read more...]

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It's In The Water

Of course, getting into bed I decide that since it's like 2:30AM, I should probably read a little bit. *shakes head slowly* Today, I found out that all my coworkers also seemed to have their own unusually late nights. Some were up partying, dancing, etc. Everyone was yawning and struggling [read more...]

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After Work

Walked down Milwaukee, which is a different route than I normally take. Happened to see this taped alongside a newspaper stand. Alright, what's up with these guys? Is it a dealership somewhere that gives them away? Or is this some larger family of antenna-heads that I'm only just now [read more...]

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Belated Birthday!

Happy Birthday blog. Welcome to being two years old. [read more...]

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July 8, 2004

Justin Doodles

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Birthday Ben, Karaoke Master

Ben, Justin and I stayed late at work. Well, they stayed late and worked... I had some things to attend to, but mainly I hung out and waited for them to finish. I noodled around some, surfed, and tried to start a new idea I had for a right module [read more...]

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Karaoke: Tash Sings

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Karaoke: Ben Sings

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The Sad Song

I saw a link to Fredo Viola earlier tonight, on K10K. I'm quite taken by the song, and I really dig the video. Check out The Sad Song (34MB) [read more...]

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Such Great Heights

The text on the bottom right says: Inspired Heights. [read more...]

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Perspicacity

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Mike Retains His Employed Status

This morning, Rey challenged Mike to a game of Xbox. He pretended that Mike's job was on the line, and that Mike had to win to remain employed (and he did win, btw). I should mention why we have an XBox in the office. We're creating some custom pages [read more...]

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Rey Does Nothing But Play Xbox All Day

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July 9, 2004

Flamingo Girl

This girl was standing across from me at the Damen stop. The whole time she was waiting for her train to arrive, she was standing on one leg and sort of doing these stretches with her arms. I can only guess that she was a dancer. The whole time, [read more...]

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Bonsai!

persist made a really cool bonsai tree in Flash, that generates anew each time. If you're interested in seeing his code, or finding out more about it, check out this thead on twelvestone. [read more...]

Posted by avoision on July 9, 2004 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)

A Momentary Bout of Patriotism

I grabbed this shot through Deb's window, a bit before a huge storm blew through downtown. For some reason, the flag caught my eye all day at work today. Walking through the office, I'd see it flapping in the wind and I really enjoyed seeing it unfurled, waving. I [read more...]

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July 10, 2004

I'm Whitney Houston

I have nothing. Actually, I spent most of the day cleaning and playing around with a new right module for the blog. Might have something to show you tomorrow. Slow weekend. Doing the hermit thing again. [read more...]

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July 11, 2004

Three Flowers

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Filter

I ran some errands this morning, and cleaned some more during the day. Around 3:30PM, I gathered some books, some paper, and headed over to Filter to do some writing. All told, I only really revised a rough draft of a poem. On looking over what I did today, it's [read more...]

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Random Photo. Sorta.

I had this idea to have a random photo for the right module. But technically, it's not really truly random. I made an XML file of some random days, and the flash sort of cycles through them all and lands on one. You can click to view the day associated [read more...]

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July 12, 2004

More Patriotism

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Someone explain this

I thought briefly, yesterday, that something was amiss with my car when I was running errands. But I didn't think too much on it, and I didn't really notice anything wrong until this morning. Driving in to work, I realized MY WINDSHIELD WIPERS WERE STOLEN. Not just the blades, [read more...]

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Garbage Symmetry

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Decemberween In July

Does the package have a troll in it? Or maybe a troll? This bit from Strong Bad was cracking my shit up tonight. Thanks to writingguy for the link. [read more...]

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July 13, 2004

More Strong Bad

Amanda happened across the blog today, and passed along a Strong Bad collage she had made for some friends a while back. I recognize the Theme Park episode, but I'm not as familiar with Dangeresque. Although, I think that... Mmmmmmm... Reesy cup milkshake. [read more...]

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