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SRV brings the Chile.
Aug 31st
Seeing Red @ The Escapist
Aug 30th
No fear. Only a deliciously light and flakey crust.
Aug 30th
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Taj Mahal’s Fishin’ Blues.
Aug 30th
Tony Kakko's Dreams
Four months after its May release, I’m still listening to cuts from Sonata Arctica’s...
Aug 30th
Busy season at work — the period of September through February where we can put in extra hours to...
Aug 29th
I am making something. Or taking a careful inventory.
Aug 28th
Feed the Head
Aug 28th
Saturday Night Catchphrasin'
Here’s a clip of Anthony and Jill versus Joe, Paul (who delivers the “CRACK IT!”...
Aug 27th
RIP, Stevie Ray.
In case you don’t read the blog, I’ve written up a larger eulogy at my other stoop.
Aug 27th
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Brothers Vaughan, Stevie and Jimmie, playing the same two-neck guitar. Songs played: Rude Mood, with...
Aug 26th
‘Twas a lovely morning at Jill and Anthony’s...
Aug 26th
Gave up the Civil War Muster to see the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup at the Michigan Theater with...
Aug 26th
House of Leaves’ Wikipedia entry mentions that the Shalebridge Cradle, the creepy and entirely...
Aug 24th
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The New Pornographer’s video for Use It, from the Twin Cinema album.
Aug 24th
Water lamp.
Aug 24th
Someone here at work is slow-cooking a big pot of chili about twenty yards from my cube, and the...
Aug 23rd
“BioShock is the ultimate rarity: not only does it live up to...”
— From the EuroGamer review. I...
— From the EuroGamer review. I...
Aug 22nd
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DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO if:
you don’t want the ending of Kurosawa’s Sanjuro spoiled
...
Aug 21st
My mind is in such a happy fervor over the undeniable critical success of BioShock that I’m...
Aug 21st
Beginning today, we live in BioShock’s world.
Fortunately, it is a good world (changed link...
Aug 21st
The colors of Buddhism
Aug 20th
Waiting for the BioShock demo
Swede: have I disappeared again?Seaspire: He's back!
Seaspire: hehe, no :]
Swede: hehe...it's just disconcerting, cuz I'm talking with another person too and they're all quiet, haha
Swede: oy...now I'm all paranoid, heh
Seaspire: feel free to ping me whenever
Swede: hey
Swede: do you say that to everyone?
Swede: *wink*
Seaspire: only to the "ladies" at the "dockside"
Swede: well
Swede: very nice
Seaspire: THAT THEY ARE
Swede: BAM!
Aug 20th
Ten regular grocery store purchases
King Arthur bread flour Lil’ walnut pieces Tomatoes on the vine Fakey Monterey Jack...
Aug 20th
The Andus at the ABC.
Aug 20th
For whatever indiscernible reason, this rainy Monday is an...
Aug 20th
Shooting star
Aug 19th
My front yard on this lovely, gloomy day. The weather this...
Aug 19th
The best part about making soup, besides eating it, is adding the spices or spicing packet.
Aug 18th
Another gamer discovers the magnificent composition that is Planescape: Torment. The game really is...
Aug 18th
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Also, and this one too. Unfortunately this little guy, whose name is “Keepon,”...
Aug 17th
How would the House of Leaves audiobook sound, particularly through the really oddly-formatted,...
Aug 16th
List of US state foods
Aug 15th
Totipotency
Aug 15th
Dennis is more hip than that neon marquee behind ‘im.
Aug 14th
Out of the sizable array of cooking skills I wield on a daily basis, my most practiced and...
Aug 14th
Too bad Steve Jobs’ middle name isn’t “Ray” instead of “Paul.”
...
Aug 14th
People.
California. I get it. Thank you very much.
Aug 13th
Maur.
Aug 13th
I am strangely and very surprisingly lucid for a Monday; this may indicate that I will be...
Aug 13th
Dilemma
I love Lolcats, but thoroughly despise the “O RLY?” meme. At the same time, as part...
Aug 13th
Four-day weekend, four separate visits to the Arbor Brewing...
Aug 12th
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For the widows in paradise, for the fatherless in ypsilanti.
Aug 12th
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Video of the new Nightwish single, Amaranth. The video is based on “The Wounded Angel,”...
Aug 12th
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SRV and his mentor, Albert King.
King’s Flying V was one classy-looking instrument.
Aug 11th
“Our collective predications are as sharp as the razor in my...”
— Pedestrian Wolves, by Boingo....
— Pedestrian Wolves, by Boingo....
Aug 11th
A proof of "Conway's Soldiers"
Aug 11th
This evening’s — or, more appropriately, this...
Aug 11th
The New York Times couldn’t get away with this...
Aug 10th
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Insightful, but presenting in Second Life is just barely passable.
Aug 10th
Note to myself.
Aug 10th
Dennis and I at the bar — Paul took the picture. The little...
Aug 10th
The jukebox at the local bar played three Stevie Ray Vaughan tunes at my command tonight....
Aug 10th
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Best RSS primer I’ve seen (literally). I certainly don’t miss my evenings of combing 30+...
Aug 9th
The noun “raw milk” is strangely enjoyable when spoken in the inner voice. Inexplicably,...
Aug 8th
Notable and recent cases of self-immolation
Aug 8th
Work whine #2 for today: I have twenty-one separate items in my “TODO” Outlook folder,...
Aug 8th
Long Gone Away
I know three close folks who are moving this month, all within the same week. That’s pretty...
Aug 8th
“Complex notes inside the chords On every wall inflections...”
— My Rights Versus Yours, by The...
— My Rights Versus Yours, by The...
Aug 8th
Just had a meeting here at work. The news: busy season comes a month early this year. T-minus three...
Aug 8th
int Num = RoundToNearest(0.000001 * 1000000.0); //just to be sure.
A snippet of code from work...
Aug 7th
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Boot to the head!
Aug 6th
Cooking with Owen
As evidenced by an experiment I ran about one minute ago, if you beat an egg inside of a mug and...
Aug 6th
The Bourne Ultimatum review
The Bourne Identity, directed by Doug Liman, was decent action flick, but not great by any means....
Aug 6th
Cool Hand Luke review
Good actors, a good script, a simple focus and great direction can be a real cool hand.
Aug 6th
Jason and the Argonauts review
Ray Harryhausen’s special effects are still fantastic, but Judas Priest, the director and...
Aug 6th
“I sure hope it doesn’t get hot!”
— Crow T. Robot, speaking for an...
— Crow T. Robot, speaking for an...
Aug 6th
Yani leaves Sonata Arctica
Aug 6th
I think the “crop circle” paradigm has been...
Aug 5th
Cannabis and Schizophrenia?
Aug 5th
Heeled Footwear and Schizophrenia
Aug 5th
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SRV. Massive adoration for the phrase at 2:24 through 2:36 (or 1:09 through 0:57 in terms of time...
Aug 5th
Circadian rhythm has taken over
Apparently my brain, not content with my fluid and deficient sleeping hours of the past several...
Aug 5th
More post-midnight long-exposure photography. The lemony lit...
Aug 5th
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This looks, um, difficult. That viking axeman is pretty frickin’ sweet, too.
Aug 5th
Intermission at the Shakespeare Festival’s Henry V.
Aug 4th
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Flecktones.
Aug 3rd
Capsaicinoids
Aug 3rd
“I’m bowling, the old nine pin A sign unwanted Now...”
— The incomprehensible monitions...
— The incomprehensible monitions...
Aug 3rd
The vaguest of shrugs.
Aug 2nd
Help
I have almost 800 articles to catch up on in my Google Reader feed list, even after a dozen or so...
Aug 2nd
Via. The site also has 2048x2048 images.
Aug 1st
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My favorite song of all time has a very silly video. The guitar solo is significantly different...
Aug 1st
For anyone else who’s wondered where the famous lyrics “You take the high road, and...
Aug 1st
Powerless productivity. During the power outage at work...
Aug 1st