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Posts going back to 2003: technology, leadership, travel and food.

  • David Sedaris on the Stadium Pal

    DarrenBarefoot.com: “Continuing with an ongoing urination device theme (see also here and here), here’s David Sedaris reading an entertaining essay about the Stadium Pal, a portable urinal.”

  • Rockets and 50% Gravity = Fun!

    Bungie Halo 3 Humpday: “It was revealed that one of the Halo 3 gametypes that the EGM guys got to play had altered gravity. As it stands, gravity can be…

  • Five things you may not know about me

    Since I got tagged by Dwight, here’s my list of things you may not know about me: 1. I know what a Xenon decay constant is. I spent 4.5 years…

  • Anna Torfs – Glass Artist

    Veerle: “Like in any aspect of design the attention to details makes a good design perfect. So when all furniture is in place you’ll need some accents to finish it…

  • Almost done

    Here’s a shot of the bathroom–almost done…

  • Copacetic » Everything you needed to know about cycling in Dublin

    Copacetic » Blog Archive » Everything you needed to know about cycling in Dublin: “Yes, if you manage to negotiate the telegraph pole, that is a waste bin behind it.”

  • A Long, Long Time Ago…

    Darren Barefoot: “Now, of course, Star Wars borrows heavily from Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. All art is part theft–I just thought Eragon was a particularly egregious example. It’s a…

  • Mayor eliminates some red tape during the outage

    Usually the city requires a certified electrician to repair weatherheads–the place that your electrical line connects to your house or building–and that’s been a concern. Today, the mayor said that…

  • City of Springfield – Video Briefings Online

    http://www.ci.springfield.mo.us/community/tv23/index.html Get your news updates directly from the city. They’ve been digitizing the updates and posting them pretty quickly. I’m at work right now so I can download these for…

  • iPhone Ringer as a MIDI File

    Daring Fireball Linked List: “Did you notice the nice ring tone Steve Jobs demoed on the iPhone during the keynote? DF reader Andrew Neesley translated it and made it into…

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