Kathy and I attended the Pat Metheny show in Austin last night. We’d never gotten to see him before, and were familiar with very little of his music, but I was crazy to see this show once Barry Brake brought it to our attention. Why? The Orchestrion!
What is the Orchestrion? It’s a huge assemblage of [...]
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Posted 15 April 2010
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My good friend Daniel Priest recently posted the following to his Facebook profile:
Daniel Priest is a tree climbing fool
I thought that it was important that the conversation that ensued be available for posterity outside of Facebook’s domain, so here it is. When the undead rise up, you’ll thank me.
Matthew Christopher Davidson, May 8
Fanny, apparently [...]
Over on Facebook, there’s a rash of “25 Things About Me” posts going around. While I’m usually reluctant to wax that narcissistic, I do secretly love to pollute the air with self-centered ramblings as much as the next guy. (Plus, several people have now tagged me in their 25 Things lists.) So, if you’ll indulge [...]
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Posted 28 January 2009
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Several months ago, I noticed that one of the nearby offices was using a whiteboard mounted outside their office door to keep people informed of their comings and goings. “That’s good communication!” I thought to myself, “but my team is made up of geeks. Surely we can do something nerdier!”
Thus was born an experiment with [...]
Last night I posted to Twitter:
Watching a Nova show on string theory. (It was a requirement to maintain my supernerd certification this month.)
This morning, my friend Jeff presented me this, created in cooperation with his wife Fazia:
This of course immediately became one of my new favorite things. Be sure to appreciate the seal and the [...]
Jason Young mocked me recently for not having updated for a while, which, of course, hurt my feelings deeply. (Oh, wait, that’s right — I’m a guy, and therefore don’t have feelings. Sweet!) I’ve not been in a writing frame of mind lately, but do want to keep up with our family happenings. Some recent [...]
And it’s not just my wife who says so.
When I’m going to take a day off from work, I email our team to let them know I’ll be out. Here’s a recent missive:
Hey y’all,
I’m planning to take Friday off as a sanity day and to strip down, don the
headdress of the fabled jackelope, and beat [...]
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Posted 21 October 2008
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Hey, Mouseketeers! Sorry for not writing more lately. While school’s in session, our weeks tend to be busy but homogeneous, and our weekends totally unpredictable, neither of which is much good for the discipline of getting things down on paper (or electrons). Here’s the latest:
After returning from the conference in Springfield (where I had a [...]
Today’s brilliant idea: novelty sonograms for expectant mothers.
For a little extra, your sonogram technician can do a “Glamour Shots” version, use a little photo editing to have your developing baby riding a surfboard, add in amusing word balloons, or (my personal favorite) make a sepia-tinted “Old West Sonogram.”
I hereby release this idea into the public [...]
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Posted 21 October 2008
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Back when dinosaurs roamed the Internet and you could get a cup of coffee and a shoeshine for a nickel, before the kids all had their newfangled “Mybook” and “Facespaces” and the blink tag still seemed a pretty nifty idea, there was Brain Sausage.
Brain Sausage was an early proto-weblog, created before such things actually existed. [...]
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