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Time for a new appearance.  This theme is nice and clean, and eventually I’ll be popping in slices of photos into the header image rotation.  Enjoy!

January 15th, 2007 | Category: Webdorkerie, blah, blah, blahg | Leave a comment

Well, a little lesson in webhosting this week.  My old host — whom I’d mention but is now out of business so what’s the point, really? — failed to pay their bills to *their* host (they were a reseller, apparently), and were therfore shut right on down early this week.  Today, I managed to finally [...]

January 12th, 2007 | Category: blah, blah, blahg | Leave a comment

Heard the morning NHPR host blathering away on the way in to work about the great “break” in the weather coming up: a spell of sunny skies and 50 degrees plus!  Wow!  Great!
Except it’s frickin’ JANUARY.  It’s NEW HAMPSHIRE.  It’s supposed to be cold and snowy, with sun on non-snow days and the occasional crappy [...]

January 3rd, 2007 | Category: Stuff, blah, blah, blahg | Comments (1)

Different places have small bits and pieces about them that make them home.  In cities, you generally get keyed into funny/weird signage, especially the ones with glaring typos or new and inventive wordplay.  While we lived in Chicago, there were a few favorites, which some brilliant soul took pictures of and posted online. Sadly, the [...]

December 18th, 2006 | Category: Photos, blah, blah, blahg | Leave a comment

There are 5 of me:

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
5
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

There are 7 of Laura:

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
7
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

And none of Isaac:

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
0
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

(In 1990, that is, which makes a certain amount of sense.)

December 14th, 2006 | Category: Stuff, blah, blah, blahg | Leave a comment

A few months ago, this post, seen on Matt Haughey’s site, I believe, piqued my interest, having recently unloaded many hundreds of non-reimbursable dollars on glasses and prescription sunglasses.
Turns out there are many MANY folks whose interest was piqued, so now there\’s a devoted blog — Glassy Eyes — on how to get eyeglasses supercheap [...]

December 12th, 2006 | Category: Stuff, Webdorkerie, blah, blah, blahg | Leave a comment

On Saturday, we went out with went out with a few friends to cut Xmas trees. Previous to the actual chopping of trees, Alyssa and Colin hosted brunch at their place, where we were joined by Ellen (briefly), Emily, and Erik (and the dog, Tikka). This was our second year of following this path [...]

December 11th, 2006 | Category: Home Life, Local Interest, blah, blah, blahg | Leave a comment

Between us, Laura and I have been attending academic parties pretty much our entire lives, but never had we been to one in memory that featured a DJ, or that led off with the department head getting down to the Commodores’ “Brick House.”
And yet, that’s what happened last night.
Three cheers for the best academic department [...]

December 8th, 2006 | Category: Local Interest, blah, blah, blahg | Leave a comment

Running errands, listening to NPR PRI (Show: Here and Now), and … wait … that name sounds familiar …
Yep, Tom Zoellner, the interviewed author of The Heartless Stone turns out to be the same Tom Zoellner I went to college with. Of course, I didn’t really know him, although one of my closest friends was [...]

December 6th, 2006 | Category: Bookish, blah, blah, blahg | Leave a comment