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A year from today, I’ll be 35.
That’ll make me eligible to be the President of the United States. I had planned on announcing my web2.0 candidacy, and do a Ze Frank-esque 1-year internship of running for president. I even registered a domain, “designed” a logo, and planned on doing a write-in campaign to [...]

Went out for a Venti(tm) dirty chai tea latte, and decided to scope out the Cingular/AT&T store that will be carrying iPhones tomorrow. Asheville is not a very large town, so we don’t expect many phones to come in.
But these two guys will definitely get one.

The lucky First Guy In Line is Greg Mayer [...]

To be honest, I’m not that much of a Smashing Pumpkins fan, but I think it’s cool that they’re breaking out of the normal box, and doing a rather odd tour this year. They’ve picked 2 cities to have a “residency” at. One of them is my town, Asheville, North Carolina.
9 shows between [...]

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This evening, sitting around with my wife and our friend Jeff, he mentioned seeing a crapload of emo kids outside a local music venue. I immediately asked what an emo kid looked like. My wife suggested the kids from The OC. Jeff described what sounded to me like followers of The [...]

I struggled reading Shakespeare in high-school. We’d have to read a few scenes a day, completing a work in maybe 2 to 3 weeks.
At university, though, a professor noted that a group of 20 people can somehow manage to perform something like King Lear in under 3 hours, including costume changes, dramatic emoting, and [...]

It seems the debate about links between brain cancer and cellphones goes back and forth. It seems like last year, they were declared safe. Now that is once again being called into question.
But are folks missing half of the equation? Sure, the phone is next to our head, but it’s also being [...]

For a variety of reasons, I’ve come to the decision that I should learn how to speak Polish. I know a crapload of computer languages, of course: Perl, Java, Ruby, Bash, Tcl, Logo. But English is the only thing I can speak, even after 3 years of floudering in highschool French and a [...]

Well, the “5 things” meme has made the rounds.
Last night, what started as a lark has now made it to the far other side of the world. I present the Mouthful of Mouse meme. About as useful and intelligent as the “5 things” meme.
Just photograph yourself with a mouse in your mouth. That’s it.
Do it! [...]

I was tagged by Paul.

I love bluegrass music
I think SoBe No Fear energy drink tastes like grapefruit. It contains no grapefruit.
I can’t stand wikis
I have a fixation about female Australian pop stars, except Kylie Minogue. I’m not totally insane. She sucks.
I had 11 toes for a short while. Corrected by surgery. [...]

Over thanksgiving, my brother loaned me a Nikon D100. This is my first foray into digital photography beyond using my shoephone’s camera to take blurry snapshots of strange supermarket items.
Sending photos to Flickr, I’m finding I’m going to exceed the limits of their free-ride accounts. My first thought was “oh, I should go [...]