Archive for February, 2006

And Now, More California

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

We had a nice time in San Francisco, even though I was troubled by my certainty that I was walking around inefficiently due to my lack of an appropriate algorithm. We had some drinks after the Book Passage thing (I know at least one person who went to the one in San Francisco because that’s [...]

Thing a Week 20 - Curl

Friday, February 10th, 2006

As some of you know, I’ve lately been feeling a bit under the weather. I saw a doctor recently, and I was diagnosed with - Olympic Fever! This week’s thing is about the US curling team, who will be competing in events next week. Those of us not intimately familiar with the sport would probably [...]

San the Fran

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Day one on the latest leg of the Hodgman tour, and boy are my legs tired. Why so many hills San Francisco? The flight was fine, except for the fact that we were delayed for two hours on the runway while they fixed a broken part on the plane. A blessing in disguise though, because [...]

Shop Vac Video

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Garrick Van Buren has taken a 1950’s promotional film for suburban life called “In the Suburbs” and edited together a nice video to go along with Shop Vac - another great example of Creative Commons-enabled collaboration. The video is public domain and available on archive.org, which is a pretty amazing resource for all sorts of [...]

Thing a Week 19 - So Far So Good

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

There is no funny here, so don’t bother looking. This is a breakup song, or maybe just something about the end of an old thing and the beginning of a new thing. Pretty sparse arrangement, but I’m digging the heck out of the guitar part in the left ear - minor 9th! Also, watch out [...]