This morning I was listening to the Minnesota Public Radio Midmorning podcast. In particular, I was listening to a discussion of the topic “New polls indicates a dim view of U.S. scientific achievement” (listen to it here). The short of it is, there is a new poll that found (surprise!) the vast majority [...]
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Spanish Fly
OK, so apparently the term “spanish fly” refers to an actual beetle that people crush up and use as an aphrodisiac. I did not know this. I just learned it and I went and googled the term to see what this beetle looked like.
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The Last 42 Things I Listened To On My iPod
The last 42 things I listened to on my iPod:
Dance Fever Revisited – Melodious Owl, Oscillator EP
One For John Gee – Jethro Tull , This Was
Lightning Strikes Twice – Saint Etienne, Tales from the Turnpike House
Discipline – King Crimson, Discipline
Grow Old With Me – John Lennon, Milk and Honey
Waited Forever – Sebadoh, The Freed [...]
iMovie ’09
Tonight was my first experience playing around with iMovie ’09. Here are a few thoughts…
First, the new iMovie is staggeringly difficult to wrap your brain around if you’re used to the old one. I’ve used iMovie since version 1.0 (which, for those of you keeping score at home, was in 1999… about 10 years ago). [...]
The Week In Tweets
Almost physically ran into Norm Coleman at the Mall of America. I hate that guy. #
@PastryPrncss Dude!!!! You suck!!! I would love to see Lily Allen…. in reply to PastryPrncss #
Just bought Merriweather Post Pavilion, giving it a first listen. #
@dvander Hey man, you never called Sunday. You want to swing by [...]
Twitter Updates for 2009-02-12
misread a headline as “Twitter kills 8 people in Oklahoma, others injured.” Actual: “Twisters”. Misread was funny, real one is not #
@sulrich I decided last week to give up khaki when I realized that every dev guy in the room (including me) had the same damn pants on. in reply to sulrich #
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Bi-Partisanship… Why?
It seems to me that Obama has expended an awful lot of energy over his first few days in office attempting to reach out to the Republican party. He has had a cocktail party with them, has made unnecessary concessions to them, and has even upset some on the progressive side in the process of [...]
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sincerely hoping he didn’t pick up the stomach flu that went through the house this weekend #
Loves the phrase “ambient intimacy” #
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