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The Last Couple of Months of My Life in Music, Sort of

April 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Links, Music

Other than cleaning out my life this spring, I’ve also seen some concerts, watched some musician biopics, and generally spent some time on the music part of the internet.  Here’s kind of a roundup of my spring, music-wise. I apologize if it seems disjointed. I saw the Scissor Sisters in March at the Blue Note [...]

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Stuff I’ve Posted to Facebook

May 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Links

The 30 Best Summer Blockbusters Ever – Time Out New York Source: newyork.timeout.com TONY ranks the biggest fun machines of all time: the movies designed for maximum impact.

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Road Thoughts

February 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Links, Rants/Raves

After I wrote a post in January talking about how cheap the City of Columbia parking tickets are, and how they are a non-deterrent to me because of said cheapness, I got three parking tickets in one day last week, and I just paid them all.  I totally deserve them, because I just parked and [...]

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Dinner at My House

December 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Links

I went to Linens & Things the other day to see if they had something for a Christmas present (which they didn’t), and realized that I should probably take advantage of their going-out-of-business sales to stock up on the pots & pans for when Tracy goes to Kansas City next summer.  That is going to [...]

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Obama Victory Roundup

November 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Links, News

A roundup of Obama victory stories and videos: Link: Obama victory, by the numbers.  (He really did win.  He really did.  There’s no question about it.) Link: Reactions in Harlem After Obama Victory, by a Guardian UK writer Link: Celebrations and some skepticism by the world Video: Children in Indonesia, at the school that Obama [...]

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The ‘And Other Stories’

July 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Endless Blathering, Links

Damn caffeine.  You know I actually managed to quit caffeine for many months there?  But something snapped a few weeks ago, and I’m back on with a daily Diet Coke.  It just ups my productivity, really.  As long as I can keep it to just the one Diet Coke a day, anyway… Can’t believe I’m [...]

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Trees

July 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Links

I saw these on the exhibit floor at the American Library Association conference: http://www.naturemaker.com/index.php I’m not one to say things like, “Wow, if I had a billion dollars, I would totally buy one of those!” but this is one of those cases where I am going to say that. If I had a billion dollars, [...]

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California: Fourth Leg of the Trip

April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Links, Photography, Travel

This is part four of a four part report on my recent trip to California.  It’s been fun to relive the trip this way.  Part one is here, part two is here, and part three is here.  And you can see more pictures from this trip as I process and upload them on my Flickr [...]

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California: Third Leg of the Trip

April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Links, Photography, Travel

This is part three of a four part report on my recent trip to California.  Part one is here, part two is here, and I’ll write part four later. I made customized Google maps for each leg of this trip.  Here is the one for this part, which covers my return from Yosemite to the Bay Area, [...]

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California: Second Leg of the Trip

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Links, Photography, Travel

This is part two of a four part report on my recent vacation/work trip to San Francisco and Yosemite National Park.  Part one is here. I’ve created custom Google maps for each leg of the trip, and here is a link to the one for this part.  I spent a lot of time this past [...]

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