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Month: January 2006

Accidents and Emergence

I had barely started Steven Johnson‘s 2001 book Emergence last night – indeed I was still in the first two dozen or so pages – when the TV show my wife was watching caught my ear. The Screen Actors Guild awards show was showing clips from Crash and giving a short description of it’s premise. […]

Two Faces

Two photos from this weekend’s band fund-raiser, an all night Rock-A-Thon. click on either for a larger version Neither are the greatest portrait in the world, but it was somewhere around 2am in a high school cafeteria. More pictures can be seen here.

Two Abandoned Buildings

It’s been a few days since I made the time and effort to make sure I had the camera with me, but today I got a few shots. These two buildings were both about 20 meters off the road, the sort of thing your eyes might see but that you might not really notice as […]

Welcome, Fr3der1cK

Friday I had the good fortune of being asked to help build a new website/weblog, and so yesterday was a pretty darn productive day*. Please welcome Fr3der1cK to the world of blogging. As with so many sites, the design and coding aren’t 100% complete done for launch — the web is as “finished” on any […]

Every Three Seconds, a Person Dies

During the concert Bono also makes an empassioned plea for aid to help reduce poverty, asking everyone who’s concerned to send a text message. I don’t know if the number he gave is still a good one or not, but the organization’s there. Check out One.org, watch the video, read Bono’s Q&A [NY Times registration […]

What’d Bono Say?

I was watching the Vertigo concert DVD (thank you, Brennan) the other night, and at one point Bono puts on a bandana with some graffiti. As I transcribed his comments (yea, I do strange things sometimes), I wasn’t able to hear completely and missed one or more words – see the quote below. When I […]

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