Liz and I went out to eat at Lula’s a few days ago, where we happened to serendiptiously run into Chris and Leslie. I think the run of warm weather has everyone out and about a little more. True with bunnies as it is with humans. On the walk home, we stopped by a house…
Yesterday I mentioned the Free Verse Photo Competition, a pretty great project that was started to help celebrate the upcoming National Poetry Month. I decided to join in the fun, and took a picture of poop. The line is from Maxine Kumin’s The Excrement Poem – and definitely one of my favorite poems. If you’ve…
Several times a week, at the Jackson Blue Line stop downtown, there are performers singing or playing instruments, entertaining the crowds to and from their way to work. I’ve seen Morris (found out his name today) many times, and even mentioned him here once before. While I have heard him sing before, I’ve also heard…
This photo by Flickr member ebrisson is one of the many submitted to the Free Verse Project, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. April is National Poetry Month – and to play off of the new 2009 National Poetry Month Poster design, the Free Verse Project encourages people to take photographs of their favorite…
Holi (also known as the Festival of Colors) is an annual, Hindu spring festival. Participants in the festival throw colored water and powder on one another, and make for some incredibly rich images. Check out these amazing images of the event. I first heard of this festival from Justin, as he was preparing for his…
Ever since I first saw it mentioned on Coudal, I’ve been a little mesmerized with this Flaming Lips cover of Madonna’s Borderline. Wish I could embed the video directly, and no luck tracking it down on YouTube. Related:Listening to the Flaming Lips’ album “Zaireeka”Zaireeka, RevisitedJim’s Birthday + Flaming Lips in Concert
Several years back, I posted an enry about Robert Sapolksy and raved about his lectures on stress. Before I get to his lecture on primate sexuality, I want to re-emphasize how wowed I was at his stress lectures, and how they drastically changed the way I look at my day to day. If you’ve not…
Death vs. Monsters is a fast-paced, addictive little Flash game. This morning, I kept thinking I’d just play a little while… but eventually sank in a good amount of time, progressing through the “To-Do List.” The controls are intuitive (although I have to confess I just dove in and figured out the controls a few…
While it’s not quite Pi Day yet (3/14), I figured a reminder is still in order. Since this year’s Pi Day falls on a Saturday, my guess is most people will be passing around links and such today (Friday). For those who may not have seen it, or for those who want a jumpstart getting…
Bicycle Built for 2,000 is a great project by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey and the voice recordings of 2,088 strangers. Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (a fascinating service that deserves its own blog entry), they were able to get people to record themselves singing bits of the song Daisy Bell – the first song sung…
I’ve known my friend Jay for many years now. We first met each other maybe 8 years or so ago, back in the days of an old (now-defunct) Flash forum called We’re Here. This was WAY back in the day, circa 2001 or so, when there were really only a handful of Flash forums: were-here.com…
Woohoo! On a whim, I sent in a link to the birthday balloon surprise, and got it picked up at BoingBoing. My day was already awesome as is. And seeing the link on the home page of BB was icing on the proverbial cake. With the upcoming Pi Day (3/14) and all the traffic that…
Today is my birthday. I turned 35. At work, we have a great policy where you can take a “birthday day” off, and it doesn’t count against your vacation days. I was figuring on taking Friday off, as Mondays are usually busy with meetings and whatnot. This morning, on the way in, Liz wanted to…
On the drive back from Indianapolis, we spotted this tow truck. It reminded me of the “Reapers Towing” business card I received, back when Liz’s car was stolen… and then found again. Towing guys, it appears, have a bit more of a funnybone than I originally imagined. There were a few patches of heavy rain…
Liz and I travelled back to Indy this weekend, to celebrate my mom’s birthday. We all met up at Ruth’s Chris Steak House for a pretty lengthy (and quite indulgent) meal together. Technically it was for my mom, but the timing worked out so that it was sort of my birthday dinner too. Her birthday…