Everybody’s all ga-ga over their vintage Members Only Jackets, but having grown up in Colorado, I get far hotter over the old school Powder Jackets that everybody had to sport with their Chippewas and 501’s.
For those who don’t know, a powder jacket was a nylon shell-type jacket with a zipper down the front about 1/3 [...]

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The upside of owning a car and driving it to work today is that I got to listen to Built to Spill’s “Keep It Like A Secret” album. Moments like that, and times during which I am with my wife, are the only reminders I get that I still have a soul, or [...]

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Spotted on Yahoo! News Today:

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Three years as husband and wife, and as cheesy and annoying as it sounds, I still get butterflies when we kiss.
To celebrate, Ben and Jerry’s are handing out free ice cream for everyone!

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Sometimes I like to ride the elevator facing the wrong direction, just to see what the people will do.
Usually they don’t do anything.

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The news is grim. A toddler, watching TV on the sofa in his apartmet suddenly lurches forward, accompanied by a loud thud. Blood poors from his head, and a perfectly round hole has been punched through the wall behind the sofa, wher the toddler’s head once was. The parents scoop him up [...]

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So my neighborhood coffee shop is okay, but the espresso there is not very good. That’s a problem.
To rectify, I’m thinking about entering the obscene world of home espresso machines. In all of my obsessive ways, I have researched the hell out of it and arrived at this beauty:

But I really, really like [...]

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OK. It’s official. I’m old. This just flashed on the annoying little banner at the bottom of CNN Headline News:
KOOL THING: rocker Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth turns 50 today.
Yowza! It’s hard to believe that Sonic Youth has been around that long. But it’s even harder to believe that they have [...]

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Today is Confederate Memorial Day. As I’ve mentioned here before, I had many, many relatives who fought in the Civil War, mostly on the Southern side. To me, I don’t see any reason for a special day to celebrate their service. Why not on Veterans’ Day or Memorial Day along with everybody [...]

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This is a test of Moveable Type Version 2.63.
If I see this, it means it’s working. Sort of like how they make cleaning products and insecticide smell certain ways so you believe that it is working, I’ll believe it when I smell it.

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Leave it to Jason Kottke to provide the best blog-based coverage of a conference I’ve seen yet. It’s not terribly in-depth, but is very insiteful and innovative in many ways.
Kottke always cuts to the core of the fluff, which is nice. With a keen eye on user experience, and the ability to see [...]

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Nothing like a thunderstorm (and accompanying dog in a state of panic), crappy new allergy medication and a dream about the World Trade Center in flames to ensure a wonderful night’s sleep.
I love it when Tivo has a brand new Trigger Happy TV.

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In the span of twenty four short hours, I have been utterly floored by two amazing things:

I saw a liter-sized tub of GRAVY in the grocery store.
Chris and I saw an Atlanta Police Department Mini, complete with siren and lights.

Sometimes the miracles of life keep piling up, while other times, the endless dull tube of [...]

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Is it a bad sign if I can’t feel my legs after sitting in my office chair for more than an hour?

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Exposing my lack of humanity with my reactions to Cheese Folds.

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