Archive for February, 2003

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle : Excerpt

The water was up to my throat. Now it was wrapped around my neck like a noose. In anticipation, I was beginning to find it difficult to breathe. My heart, now underwater, was working hard to tick off the time it had remaining. At this rate, I would have another five minutes or so before…

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Definitely check this book out if you have a chance. I’m puzzled by it, still not entirely sure what happened even though I’ve finished it… but it’s mesmerizing and wholly different than any other book I’ve read. Thanks, Justin, for giving me this book. Can’t wait to talk about it.

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Assisting Romance Is Better Than No Romance

All of us got into this interesting conversation about Valentine’s day, and the likelihood of pleasing the "significant other." Ben had planned on spending the evening making dinner with his wife… and joked that the only way they could go "out" to eat was if they found a sitter. Or if I volunteered. To his…

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Valentine’s Day Suckers

On our way out to lunch, we walked by one of the shops inside the mall where we work (Ben ran into the scene and stood in line). A crappy shot with low light, but it gets the point across. I’m sorry – true, I’m a bit down on Valentine’s this year since I don’t…

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Chinatown = Lunchtown

We (our little Emmis Interactive group) have been talking about going to Chinatown for a while. Well, truth be told, Ben and I have been talking about it for a while. And today, we took an extended lunch. Me, Ben, Matt and Jill all hopped a cab (Justin took the day off), and went to…

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:violin:

Well, for those of you who know me more from an Internet/tech background, I used to play violin. I mean, a lot. I started when I was in third grade, kept on playing through high school. The show that Paul’s referring to, I believe, was at the Civic Theater, where it was a small production…

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A Note From My Past

Felix – This is Paul. Do you remember me from a show at the Civic Theatre? I’m looking for a violinist to play for a show that opens the first week of March at Theatre on The Square in Indianapolis. I thought I’d try to look you up on the internet, but if I’m reading…

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Dunphy’s

I stayed a bit (7:00 PM) and finished up a few things. Justin and I went down to Dunphy’s afterwards for a few beers. We watched some god awful television version of "Am I Hot or Not," which was as bad as you’re imagining it to be. Next to us, there were these guys who…

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A Brief, Puzzling Converastion with Mofo

Session Start (ICQ – a3dmofo): Thu Feb 13 22:06:04 2003 a3dmofo: dude…. Portnoy: :D *** Error while sending IM: This user is currently not logged on Portnoy: invisible? *** Error while sending IM: This user is currently not logged on Portnoy: hello? *** Error while sending IM: This user is currently not logged on Portnoy:…

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Fun Day At Work

Some long meetings in the morning, and another one of those days where I didn’t get close to a keyboard until 1:00, 2:00 PM. But the day was good, I got a fair amount done, and I’m happy with my job. How much better can you get? Ok, this made my day. I got a…

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! It turns out that only 4 percent of the universe is made up of atoms with known forces such as electromagnetism and gravity, the ordinary stuff that makes people, potatoes, porcelain and everything else that humans know.

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