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January 1, 2007

New Year's Day

by Ted Kooser Each thing in the clean morning light is a promise. I start the day by building a feeding place for the birds, stacking up castaway crates in the snow. How they come! Sparrows and blue jays dropping like leaves from the elms, which though burned with disease [read more...]

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Happy New Year!

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January 2, 2007

Twenty from 2006

My friend and coworker Ben has put together his Top 20 Songs from 2006. While I'm not one who keeps pace with music all that well, I invariably get turned on to new stuff through my coworkers (Ben in particular). He's got a good summary of all the songs, [read more...]

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Non-Work Work Day

Had the day off from work today and... yeah, you guessed it: I spent most of it in front my own computer, doing computer work. Felt pretty good, to be honest with you. I've had a nice, productive day - getting the ball rolling on some older projects that have [read more...]

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January 3, 2007

Everybody, Meet Mulu

Our newest hire on the deveolopment side, Mulu joined us for the first day today. [read more...]

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A few quick google searches later...

From: Felix To: Guy Subj: RE: Need Your Help First guy is Messier "The people close to me know how much I think of Brian," Messier said. "For him to turn the captaincy over tome me and for me to accept it is a real honor."http://www.newyorkrangers.com/tradition/Messier/11days.asp?Article=day7 Second guy is Tony [read more...]

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Reward

Incidentally... Guy happens to be the same guy who threw caution to the wind and battled some Sumo Wrestlers who were in the office, a while back. [read more...]

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Question

From: Guy To: Q101/Loop Subj: Need Your Help Hey everybody- My name is Guy Bauer, I work here. We need to know who these guys are on the .mp3 attached. If you know without a doubt please email me the names. The first person to get me the correct names [read more...]

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January 4, 2007

Dangling

I saw on Gapers Block that there was some kind of ad at the Marina City Towers (an Allstate campaign), where a car was suspended over the side of the building. I was over there during lunch today, and shot a quick picture from the street. Well, at least [read more...]

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January 5, 2007

Laughter is Contagious

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Watch this one until at least 1:30

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January 6, 2007

Adam Fulara, you are a badass

Sorry for the blatant YouTubery, but I haven't been around a computer to do many updates. Below are a few videos of Adam Fulura, who is pretty spectacular with the guitar tapping. Some of you might recognize the music in the first video (I did an experiment a few years [read more...]

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January 7, 2007

Photos Updated!

Tonight, I went through a ton of photos from the past year or so... and updated my photo gallery. Feel free to take a peek. Like all the photos in the gallery, each one links back to a specific blog entry. [read more...]

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January 8, 2007

Three Legged Legs: Samurai

This was a great little piece that I saw posted on MetaFilter. Done by the folks at Three Legged Legs, it's quirky, funny, and has a strong fairytale-like feel throughout. You can view the embedded clip, but I strongly recommend the highres version if you've got the time/bandwidth. [read more...]

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On the way home

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Work Mural

There was a nice burst of sunlight this afternoon, and I decided to break out the camera for a few shots of the work mural. In hindsight, I wish I had been taking some time lapse of this thing, but work on it is fairly erratic. Folks usually just wander [read more...]

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January 9, 2007

Tower Defence

Tower Defence is a fun little game where you try to kill all the creatures before they exit the maze. The gameplay might not be all that intuitive, so make sure to read over some of the rules on the page (buried between all the Google ads). This one's [read more...]

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January 10, 2007

New Poetry Project: Looking for Participants

I'm working on a new poetry project, and right now... I'm looking for folks who might be interested in participating. Here's the skinny: The project is about "fathers," and centers around Robert Hayden's excellent poem, Those Winter Sundays. I'm planning on recording a lot of people, reading Hayden's poem. Then, [read more...]

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Those Winter Sundays

by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the [read more...]

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January 11, 2007

Just Like Pong, But With More Whammy Bars

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Looking Up, Looking Down

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Check, Check

I bought a microphone (Sony ECMMS907) to go along with the minidisc player that Liz gave to me (gotta love Amazon Prime and next day shipping). Thanks to Chelsea and Hillary, who both helped me with my "what mic should I get" questions. While I didn't go with anything [read more...]

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January 12, 2007

Slow News Day

Yikes. Haven't had one of these in a while. Not much going on, but a lot of planning for stuff in the interim. [read more...]

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January 13, 2007

Quality Time at Jo-Ann Fabrics

Liz is working on a fun project for her laptop, and needed to gather some supplies today. So... the two of us spent a bit of time roaming the aisles over at the local Jo-Ann Fabrics. Thankfully, this time I didn't lose my wallet. [read more...]

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Abstractor

A few day back, I saw a great post on Ektopia. This is as cool as it is simple: Abstractor. I've seen other, similar TV-based projects on Ektopia before (Groovetube and TV-Filter), but this one is as cheap and as simple as it gets. Tonight, Liz and I decided to [read more...]

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January 14, 2007

Monster Bag!

So - all that fabric Liz bought yesterday? She liked the bag mentioned on BoingBoing a few weeks back, but decided she could spend less money by making it herself. So... she took her supplies and we headed down to Frankfort (where I hung out with her family, and she [read more...]

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January 15, 2007

Tom Stone: Portraits of the Homeless

These are some haunting photographs/stories of the homeless, by Tom Stone. Take some time out of your day, and look/read through these portraits. These stories will linger with you the rest of the day. [read more...]

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Updates!

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Shed a Little Light

Ever since I saw it in an episode of West Wing (College Kids), I've been looking around for Aimee Man's cover of James Taylor's "Shed a Little Light." So, it seems, have a lot of other people, with no success. What can I say? I'm a sucker for West Wing [read more...]

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January 16, 2007

March of the Emperor

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January 17, 2007

Starcade!

Billed as TV's frst video arcade game show, Starcade had its contestants battling each other on video game trivia, as well as actual gameplay. Originally aired in the early 1980's, the show featured games like Zaxxon, Congo Bongo, Star Trek and Journey, to name a few. Ten full episodes [read more...]

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Gopher Broke

This animation is hysterical! I've taken a screen cap of one of my favorite moments, and the look on this guy's face is priceless. A bit of a download, but well worth the wait. Thanks to mclarkson, over at Twelvestone for the link. [read more...]

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Oh. My. God.

Hold on to your jaws when you watch this video. I can't tell if I'm crying because the technology is so beautiful, or if I'm crying because it'll be years until it makes its way into the general population. Amazing stuff from Perceptive Pixel. [read more...]

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January 18, 2007

Stein Game

We had an after-work poker game today: and it was a Stein Game to boot! Allison was the last winner of the coveted Lord and Master™ stein, and put it up for grabs on tonight's game. In addition to the buy-in ($10 each), the winner also got to keep [read more...]

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January 19, 2007

Darryl's Birthday

After work today, Liz and I hopped in my car and headed out to Indiana (to Katie and Dan's house), where a bunch of her family were gathering to celebrate Darryl's birthday. After battling the regular outbound Friday traffic, we arrived after about an hour of traffic or so. On [read more...]

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January 20, 2007

Good. Better. Best. Bested.

I finally bought a copy of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? today, one of my favorite movies ever. I can't remember when I first stumbled across the film - college sometime, possibly when I was working at the Monroe County Public Library. I always used to wonder why everyone [read more...]

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January 21, 2007

Super Bowl, Baby!

Whew, what a game! Reggie Wayne's ball toggle in the 4th made my heart jump in my throat. Although, I guess it wouldn't have mattered since there was a penalty for NE on roughing the passer. Still - scary moment. Crazy game, coming back after being down 21-3. Honestly? [read more...]

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January 22, 2007

I am the king of Social Graces

Yesterday, my neighbor Lee (who's blind) was coming down the walkway. Our building has a front yard that's lower than the public sidewalk, so there's a set of stairs leading down. It had just started snowing earlier in the day, and an inch or two was already on the ground. [read more...]

Posted by avoision on January 22, 2007 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)

Sasuke

Sasuke is a Japanese show that features a super crazy obstacle course, comprised of four parts (each more difficult that the last). Stage One: Balance and Speed are the two key qualities needed to pass this stage, strength coming in at a close third. This stage is designed to weed [read more...]

Posted by avoision on January 22, 2007 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)

ClikClak

clikclak is an amazingly well-done animation, and a touching one to boot. Rube Goldberg lovers, this is your film. [read more...]

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January 23, 2007

On the way to work

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