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Archive for November, 2006

November 19, 2006

Your Name on Toast

Doh! The next million pixels web site? A purple cow? Oddly misshapen burnt toast? Whatever it is, it’s a neat idea. Pay a few bucks, they write your name on a piece of toast, then link to a web site. YourNameOnToast.com Do they eat the toast? Is sharpie ink edible?

November 13, 2006

The New Battlestar Galactica

One of my friends (hey Brad!) asked me a while ago if I had seen the Battlestar Galactica. We don’t have cable TV, so no I haven’t. But I just watched the first two seasons in 43 minutes. I downloaded Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far into iTunes. It’s a 465MB file, but it looks [...]

November 11, 2006

Contest Entry

Futurosity is doing something I have often thought of doing, giving away a cool prize in exchange for a link. What should I give away? hmmm….

November 6, 2006

Vote Democratic Tomorrow

Boy, the brainiacs at the Prince William County Republican Party aren’t too swift. If you recall, two weeks ago, they decided to put their garbage under my doormat, since I didn’t explicitly tell them not to do that, I only told them to not stick stuff on my door. My notice is posted here. I [...]

November 5, 2006

Two Years Ago

Two years ago something happened to me and my wife that will probably be a part of us for the rest of our lives. I know it will probably define our relationship for a good while to come. It still hurts to talk about it, but we don’t talk about it often. It is amazing [...]

November 5, 2006

Re: Minds like complexity

Susan Crawford shares the story of complexity in music and shares the theory that people like complexity. I think that is a little too broad a statement. Otherwise, how can we explain the iPod’s popularity; and the mantra of Steve Jobs/Apple to “keep it simple?”

November 1, 2006

I met Rep. Tom Davis this morning

This morning I was standing at the slug line in Woodbridge, and as I got to the front of the line I saw walking down the sidewalk several people carrying political flyers and wearing nametags. It turns out the first person was my U.S. Representative, Tom Davis. We shook hands, he worked the whole line, [...]