Monthly Archives: January 2008

Second Skin: Documentary About Gamers and MMORPGs

Second Skin looks to be a pretty interesting (and well-done) trailer about MMORPGs and the people who inhabit those imaginary/virtual worlds. Myself, I got into playing WoW a fair amount. But after a while, it began to become more work than game for me. Eventually, to actually feel like I accomplished something during gameplay, I’d

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Jury Duty Call #9: Final Call

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Jury Duty Call #8

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Baby Shower, Mike and Melissa

Post work, Deb organized a little babyshower for Mike and Melissa (they’re due sometime late March). It was fun seeing everyone at work gathered together to celebrate, gifts and drinks and all. After a very busy day, it felt nice to kick back with everyone, relax a bit, and to bask in the good vibes

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Wonderland: Children’s Drawings as Photographs

Artist Yeondoo Jung has a project entitled Wonderland, which takes drawings done by children and brings them very much to life. Going back and forth between the original drawing and photograph is just all sorts of delightful. I bet this whole translation process from drawing to real life was a blast. This reminds me a

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Jury Duty Call #7

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Jury Duty: The Selection Process

Listening to everyone talk, it was surprising how much personal information was given out on the public record. Watching everyone talk (each person held a mic while they spoke), it was like getting this brief little snapshot into their lives. During the process, we were told that if we preferred to reveal some information privately

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Jury Duty: Questions

Wayne Adams v. Oscar Szczerbinski, Carol Dougherty, Richard Lalowski, Jeffrey Rotkvich, Michael Holdman, Richard Roszuszka, James Prandini and the City of Des Plaines. Hon. Virginia M. Kendall, U.S. District Court Judge. 1) Your full name, spell the last name. 2) Your age. 3) City of residence for the last 5 years (not the address). If

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Jury Duty: Outside the Courtroom

Up in the building, we formed two lines in the hallway and waited outside our courtroom. It was about 24 of us in total, and we all stood against two sides of the hallway, sort of facing one another. We were waiting for what seemed like 5-10 minutes, in almost total silence. The entire hallway

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Jury Duty: The Jury Lounge

[IMAGE REMOVED DUE TO POSSIBLE CONTEMPT OF COURT CITATION] Room 250: the Jury Lounge. Inside here, I waited with about 100 other potential jurors. On walking in, I saw no one at the front desk… and was unsure what to do. Imagine walking into a large college lecture hall, and you find yourself suddely facing

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