Archive for December, 2005
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
The creative brief in the first Gulf War had more to do with the
conflict of cultures and ideologies--it was the Islamic or Arabic
East versus the West, and so the conflict was set in those tones.
The second time it was more like they were trying to promote ...
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Monday, December 26th, 2005
Joanie brought us the destined-to-be-a-Christmas-classic Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (the non-MST3K version). We all managed to endure the entire movie, famous for being on many "worst movies" lists, via our own lesser brand of MST3K-style audience participation. Not much beyond the movie itself says it better than ...
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Sunday, December 25th, 2005
And your young shall be calmed by the loving warm glow of shiny new technology:
Thanks, Oma and Opa, for the cool new portable DVD player!
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Saturday, December 24th, 2005
The earlier diaper-related post had an interesting consequence with AdSense. The following ad came up at the top of the page tonight:
Dunno where they figured diapers were involved, but the link simply pointed to an eBay search for wreaths.
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005
Down the road from us is a house that looks like it could be straight out of rural West Virginia. Chickens in the yard, junk strewn about, little shacks, a chicken coop, etc. In true houseblinger style, the residents there have decked out their property with all sorts ...
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005
To do some Christmas shopping, I went to the ghetto-licious Toys-R-Us here in Roanoke recently (you know, the one where the shelves never have anything on them, and you feel like you're walking through an abandoned hospital instead of a toy store). On the way to the store, I ...
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Friday, December 16th, 2005
"What a wonderful world this is! I click a mouse somewhere, bits
fly through optics, go to some undisclosed place, money
electronically changes hands, and then atoms in useful
arrangement are flown in airplanes and hand-carried to my
doorstep. When you think about it, this is miraculous."
- ...
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Monday, December 12th, 2005
The Mandelbrot Set!
(via "Revenge of the Tattooed Nerds")
I was obsessed with the Mandelbrot set when I was a kid. A friend of mine (Wes) showed me a Mandelbrot set program on his Commodore 64 as well as the computer magazine article that posted the algorithm for it. Determined, ...
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
From Christina:
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
To celebrate our recent snow and ice days, Diana sends the awesome classic Calvin and Hobbes "Grotesque Snowmen" series:
Some of those were new to me!
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