Archive for December, 2004

Uncle Felix

Change of plans for New Year’s, as I found out that I’m now officially an uncle! My sister gave birth yesterday, and so I’m heading to Indianapolis for a few days to hang out with the family. And to get introduced to my new niece, Jasmine. :)

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Drinks. Clubfoot. Pool

After getting my ass stomped losing at poker, Justin and I headed to a nearby bar for a drink. I forget the name of it, but it’s a small one on the corner of Damen and Thomas, and it’s numerical or something? Anyhow… Justin talked me in to a quick drink. And we hung out here for a bit (Breakin’…

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Poker

After work, Chris and Justin and I swung by Piece for some pizza (no karaoke this time). After we got done, we kicked around the idea of playing some poker, and headed over to Chris’ house to see if we could round up a few folks. This, I thought, was worth noting. On the kitchen table, I saw these two…

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Guess How Much?

Over some time, Matt has been dumping all his spare change into the same pot. Today, he brought (read: lugged) it all in to the office. It was so heavy, he ended up having to use two pillowcases, and set them inside one of those portable beer cooler things. Too heavy to lift, he had to wheel the thing from…

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Returning to Writing

Dug through my poems today, and looked over my rather shoddy tracking system for submissions. I’m still unsure about the poems I sent to Many Mountains Moving and the Antioch Review. And this shit has been out there since April of this year. I sent off an inquiry email to those two places, hoping I’d hear something back. Tonight, I…

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10 x 10

This is a great utilization of Flash, providing us a snapshot of the world. I first saw this a few weeks back on the FWA site, but was reminded of it tonight thanks to a post by The_Spectre. This project was also made by the same folks who made Wordcount.

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FYI

There are two different types of UPS mailboxes you can purchase: personal and business. They differ only in size and in the number of names you can associate with them. Personal UPS mailboxes are approximately $25/month (although you get something like 15 months if you buy a year upfront); business UPS mailboxes are approciatemyl $35/month (with a similar benefit for…

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= != ==

One equal sign means you’re assigning a value.Two equal signs mean you’re testing for equivalency. Gaaaaaaaaaah. I know this. I’ve been burned BADLY by this in the past. And I just lost 30 minutes thismorning, mucking around with my code only to realize I used = when I should have used ==. Stupid stupid stupid stupid.

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The Elegant Universe

Caught the first episode of The Elegant Universe tonight. I was talking with Juliet on IM at the time, and got sucked in to the show (I don’t watch much TV, but NOVA ranks high up on my list). Wow. Also realized just now that I had mentioned this documentary over a year ago. It’s been out for a while,…

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Assassinate Your Hunger

Remember my entry a few days ago about Kung-Fu Ramen? And how the only thing that could top it would be something along the lines of Ninja Tacos? Well guess fucking what? HO. LEE. CRAP. Thanks to the inestimable Juliet, who provided the very thing that surpasses Kung-Fu Ramen! And to top things off? As though it weren’t enough that…

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