Month: August 2002

  • Wow, this Baby Name-O-Meter is pretty cool. Enter your name and you can see its popularity graphed over the last century. Kristine seems to have appeared out of nowhere in the 1940s, peaked in the ’70s (when it landed on me), and it’s now in decline. Now I’m totally curious about its origins. Was there…

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  • Go vote for your favorite Dum Dum flavor. I think the poll is pretty much academic, though, since everybody knows that Cream Soda is far and away the best. Sour Apple is pretty good too, though. (Link courtesy of fellow Cream Soda-lover Max.)

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  • Lance in Space

    Lance in Space!At long last, I present to you my magnum opus. Twenty-two space age songs with a heap of surprise sound effects. I even threw in a robot! The artwork and complete track listing are now online for your perusal. (If you’re one of my swappees, you might want to wait so as not…

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  • Shell shock.Did I mention that I’m trying out all the classes at my gym? Well, I am. I got inspired last week and took in a session of Body Pump, which nearly killed me. It’s basically synchronized weight lifting to music, and even though I used the least amount of weight possible I still couldn’t…

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  • Wisdom Springs is an interesting site where real people post about the city they live in – what they like about it, what they don’t, and what visitors should know. I’ve added an entry for Sydney. You should add one too, especially if you live somewhere interesting!

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  • I just saw the weirdest thing. I was walking into Newtown to get my “Lance in Space” CD booklets printed (more on that later), when I passed this guy wearing a tuxedo jacket with tails. “That’s odd,” I thought. Then I realized he was also wearing a black T-shirt, red three-quarter length pants and bright…

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  • How Jedi Are You? Of course I can’t pass up a quiz like this. Check me out; I’m a Jedi Knight. Of course, I think that’s sorta the default if you’re not A) evil or B) trying to get into Padme’s pants. (Link courtesy of one scruffy looking nerf herder.)

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  • My friend Martin went to Cornwall recently and took some pictures worth checking out. My favorites are the ones from the Eden Project, where giant domes have been built in a crater to create different climates (a “Living Theatre of Plants & People”). The scale of the place is just astonishing. It looks so tomorrow.…

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  • Happy birthday to Brigita! I imagine she’s hitting some Seattle bars right about now…

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  • Friday Five: 1. Do you have a car? If so, what kind of car is it?Nope. I haven’t had one in years. Luckily you don’t need one in London or Sydney. The last couple times I went home I rented one to make the trip to Indiana from Chicago. 2. Do you drive very often?Nope.…

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