Month: October 2002
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Good luck to Jeff and Tricia, who will be running the Chicago Marathon today. I’m just in awe. These two are my new running inspiration. In honor of their feat, I pushed myself to an all new personal best (distance-wise) today: four miles! Along the way I managed to cut another half-minute off my 5K…
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Friday Five:I don’t like these questions so much. I’m too indecisive. 1. If you could only choose 1 cd to ever listen to again, what would it be?Ugh. There’s no way I could pick just one. It would have to be a mix CD that I burned myself of all my favorite songs. 2. If…
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you… Punk Kittens. That’s the funniest Flash I’ve seen in ages. Be sure your volume is cranked up LOUD so you can rock out. And be sure to watch for the little guy stage-diving on the left. And after that, check out this one for some surreal-ness. Say it with…
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The Chicago Sun-Times has a great online photo gallery. I particularly liked Richard Chapman’s series of pictures of primary colors he found in the Loop.
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I just fixed a tiny bug in my “Roll Your Own” PHP comment system. Basically I had a random “)” on line 45 of comments.php. If you’re trying to implement the code and that line’s giving you errors, that’s probably the culprit.
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Literary issues…I finally managed to track down the text to a very elusive and rare Roald Dahl short story entitled “In the Ruins”. I am absurdly proud of this. I like being an expert at something. Granted, it’s not in a very lucrative field, but I take some pride in the notion that (other than…
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The Snook and I had a visit from the Office Supply Fairy this morning. The new desk chairs we ordered last weekend have finally arrived! This is a view of my office work area right now. See the black chair over on the far right? That’s the crappy IKEA one we bought months ago. It’s…
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Slashdot recently linked to this Slate article that predicts the imminent demise of TiVo. As many folks pointed out in the comments, Slate is owned by Microsoft, who of course want to promote their own DVR technologies (assumed to be some sort of an X-Box add-on). So it’s the usual FUD. Personally, the comments from…
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Wow. It hasn’t been getting a lot of press – I assume that it’s getting lost among all the sniper and Iraq news – but apparently Australian police are close to arresting someone for the murder of Peter Falconio, the British backpacker that was ambushed with his girlfriend in the Outback over a year ago.…
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Apparently Russell Crowe’s Aussie girlfriend Danielle Spencer is just starting a month-long singing engagement at the Sandringham Hotel, which is about a block away from our house. Hmmm, maybe we’ll have to try to see her perform. Russ might show up!