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Thankfulness
November 26, 2009 – 8:10 am
Happy Black Friday Eve!I understand we used to be thankful for things other than low low prices and artificial scarcity, but hey, lookit those deals!Off spending time with family. See you on the flip side.
We’ll Be Back
August 2, 2009 – 10:38 pm
But not for a few more days. We snuck away from the Internet to have some family time, which so far has involved very little blood and only one boating accident. You’ll just have to imagine the fun we had, at least until we get back and share it with the entire world.
Information Overload, Kids’ Book Edition
March 31, 2009 – 8:51 am
I’ve mentioned the video to Röyksopp’s “Remind Me” before, with its deliberate beat and hypnotic infographic style. In case you haven’t seen it, take a look:
Now Tomas Nilsson has done the same thing for “Little Red Riding Hood”.
(seen at Anil Dash’s place)
Emogency!
December 17, 2008 – 8:05 am
Today’s neologism: emogency. When you’re so overwhelmed that only listening to Dashboard Confessional on repeat will make you feel better.
I went googling to see who else used the word, and I discovered an emogency on deviantART and one on MySpace. The MySpace Emogency is Canadian. His two songs are him singing while he plays his [...]
Another Wii Christmas
November 17, 2008 – 10:17 pm
Last Christmas, through a series of unlikely events, we got a Wii. The house rejoiced over a new gaming system.
Over the past year, we’ve played Mario Kart, Lego Indiana Jones and about a million games of bowling and tennis. We weren’t letting it collect dust by any means but I had no idea we [...]
What Would George W. “Lame Duck” Bush Nickname You?
November 4, 2008 – 10:39 am
We were gone last week to Arkansas to hear my brother Andrew perform at Ouachita Baptist University, our alma mater, where he played John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano and taught a class about Cage. Cage’s prepared piano pieces: where artsy music meets Home Depot’s hardware aisle.
Andrew was nice enough to let me [...]
Death to Zima
October 20, 2008 – 4:45 pm
I had a friend in grad school who eventually left physics behind to become a brewmaster. He was a fan of beer, which put him in the same league as, oh, say, Wrigley Field spectators, but he backed that up with a lot of knowledge about beer. He also hated Zima, with a passion and [...]