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November 1, 2006

Updates!

2006/10/2031 [read more...]

November 2, 2006

This made my day

To: blog From: Russ SUbj: Sweet Flash When ever I give a presentation (KeyNote etc.) I show/demo some of your flash items beforehand, as people are coming in. Seems to get people ready, rather than just reading their email via their WiFi connections. Russ [read more...]

Work Kicking In Again

Might not be able to get much updating done in the next few days, as it looks to be a working weekend. It's a big push until Monday, so maybe after that... things will settle down some. [read more...]

November 3, 2006

Adrienne Shelley, RIP

Adrienne Shelley was the actress in one of my favorite films of all time: a movie called Trust by writer/director Hal Hartley. She was found dead at her office a few days ago. Sad news. I lost track of her after Hartley's films, but it seemed like things were [read more...]

November 4, 2006

Working Weekend

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November 5, 2006

Working Weekend

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November 6, 2006

Saddest door in all of chicago

Seems like I'm making a list, since I've already found the saddest window. [read more...]

Work...

continues to kick my ass. Almost done now. [read more...]

All the World's a Stage

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November 7, 2006

Celebration!

Today marks the official soft launch of our division's website. This has been the project that Chris and I have been working at, for some time now. It's not quite ready for public viewing yet, but we did an internal launch today. Chris and I were both headed out around [read more...]

Control of the blog is wagered

Hanging out with Liz tonight, we decided to break out the Yahtzee! once more, for a few games. Our standard pattern seems to be that, whenever we play, we always wager something on the game - be it big or small. For our bet this game: if I won, I [read more...]

On the importance of spelling

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November 8, 2006

The Vino Rides Again!

Today... today has been a long time in the making. The backstory: Liz's first scooter was a Vino, which ended up getting stolen. After that scooter got lifted, she bought herself a Vespa. A month later, the police recovered the Vino and it was pretty much still intact, albeit [read more...]

November 9, 2006

Dogeaters

My coworker and friend Bryan is having another show this Friday, November 10th. Great art, free booze AND 50% off clothing. How better to spend a Friday evening in Chicago? Dogeaters: a collection of new wors by joey d. and peabe Time: 9PM - Midnight Location: Clothes Optional, 2918 [read more...]

It just gets sadder and sadder

It looks like Adrienne Shelly was murdered. [read more...]

Updates!

11/07/2006 11/08/2006 [read more...]

November 10, 2006

Packing...

Getting ready for a trip. Whirlwind keeps on a-going. More later. [read more...]

Bryan, preparing for his show

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November 11, 2006

Richard and Katherine, San Francisco Wedding

Flew in to San Francisco today with Liz, and it's been pretty nonstop since the AM. We took the Blue Line to Clark/Lake, hopped on the Orange to Midway, boarded a plane to Oakland, hopped on a bus that took us to a BART station, hopped on BART, got into [read more...]

November 12, 2006

San Francisco: Fisherman's Wharf

The next day, a bunch of the family were invited out by my uncle Charles for an early lunch. A ton of folks set out from the hotel down to Fisherman's Wharf - we expected a brief walk, but ended up walking a good thirty minutes or more, before we [read more...]

November 13, 2006

Old Trees, Old Friends

Quick view of the courtyard area, from my hotel room window. Today, on our "free day," Liz and I signed up to go on a tour of Muir Woods. Liz was keen on seeing the Redwoods and it sounded like a great thing to do. The only bummer was [read more...]

November 14, 2006

Heading Back Home

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Updates!

11/11/2006 11/12/2006 11/13/2006 [read more...]

November 15, 2006

Mr. Twiggles

This is a pretty insular joke, but my coworkers have named Chris' beard "Mr. Twiggles." A while ago, Chris decided to just let his beard grow and grow for the winter. Soon after that, Matt set up a poll (using one of the polling apps we built for the radio [read more...]

Pandora Podcast: The Basics of Vocal Harmony

When I was in San Francisco and met up with my friend Kevin, he told me about the upcoming podcast that Pandora was launching. Not only were they about to launch, but he was the host! How cool is that? Well they just went live yesterday, and I was [read more...]

November 16, 2006

Audioplayer Updated!

Been a while since I've updated the songs. About two weeks ago, I was stuck on a cover of Outkast's "Hey Ya," as done by Mat Weddle. I played the CRAP out of that song, and found myself digging through my library for other covers (slower, more mellow versions of [read more...]

whew

Back from vacation, back to work. Another late-ish work night, but hopefully this will be the last big push for a while. [read more...]

November 17, 2006

New Chairs

Liz got a hold of some fabric a while back, and found a guy in Frankfort who basically re-upholstered her kitchen chairs. Pretty slick. :) [read more...]

November 18, 2006

Liz Takes over the blog

Updates coming. [read more...]

November 19, 2006

Binge

Around noon, Liz and I walked across the street to Milk and Honey. Finding the wait way too long, we decided to get some breakfast to go. Back at her apartment, we sat down to some Orange Brioche French Toast, coffee, and an episode of West Wing (Season 7). [read more...]

November 20, 2006

After the previous post, I can't help but think of this Family Guy moment

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Voices

Keynesian economics BLOWS, man! (Felix) Damn straight, brother! (Chris) John Kenneth Galbraith was a poser! (Ben) I'll never spend again! (Jane) Why does it always seem the great ones get old and die? (Chris) We love you Milton! (Chris) [read more...]

References

Milton Friedman Milton Friedman (MetaFilter) John Kenneth Galbraith Benjamin Disraeli [read more...]

Dave on Chicago Public Radio

Just got an email from Dave about an upcoming radio story that will be airing tomorrow (Tuesday, November 21) on Chicago Public Radio. It's slated to take place sometime between 9-10 AM, and was created by Jennifer Brandel. The radio bit follows Dave's process, and reveals how he puts [read more...]

Aside

Man, have I mentioned lately how amazingly talented all my friends are? It's mind-boggling sometimes, when I stop to think about it. Seriously. I'm surrounded by all manner of artists, musicians, photographers, painters. I count myself lucky to be in the midst of all this good energy. [read more...]

Behind the Economics

Last week, Ned came in to our area and asked for some volunteers to do voice work. Normally, I shy away at such a thing, but I wanted to help out since Ned's been helping *us* out so much (with sound effects and the like). So, me, Jane, Chris and [read more...]

November 21, 2006

Liz's Books

Liz has been doing book stuff the past two days, and been working up a storm. I got to see a few of her more recent creations, and wound up asking her to put out all the books she's made so far, so I could photograph them. Here's a glimpse [read more...]

The Crawl: Chicago Public Radio

The piece on Dave aired today on Chicago Public Radio. It was great to hear about the creation process, and how Dave went about "building" his songs, layering elements one on top of the other. What I like best about hearing Dave is how often he laughs. Even when [read more...]

November 22, 2006

Portraits

Today, Laura (Rey's daughter) came in to the office. She was playing around on Rey's computer part of the time, and hanging out with us on the floor the other half. During her visit, Allison was keeping her pretty entertained. After doing some coloring on the group mural, they started [read more...]

November 23, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving!

Back home with the fam. [read more...]

November 24, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving!

Back home with the fam. [read more...]

November 25, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving!

Back home with the fam. [read more...]

November 26, 2006