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Entries from August 2005

links for 2005-08-19

August 19th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Can a Place Be Too Perfect?
(tags: pdx portland budget travel)

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Tags: General

links for 2005-08-18

August 18th, 2005 ·

romanlily.com
For those who know her on Flickr, her blog is as good as her photos
(tags: blog flickr female)

Old Church I on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Booya! I am the Guess Where Assassin! Picked another hard one off, yo!
(tags: flickr guesswhereatl)

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Tags: General

Fortune 100 Technology Architects Solve Data Retention Bottlenecks

August 18th, 2005 · 1 Comment

After careful study and a long engagment, one of my counterparts at our trusted partner (a giant in the outsourced technology business) and I have come up with what we believe to be a very elegant and thorough solution to bottlenecks encountered when backing up massive amounts of data to tape drives or other storage [...]

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Tags: Geek

links for 2005-08-17

August 17th, 2005 ·

joe’s nyc • brooklyn and manhattan from one hanson place, 29th floor
so effin cool! (via Mason
(tags: nyc photos)

CNN.com – Panic ensues in rush for cheap laptops – Aug 16, 2005
disgusting
(tags: apple news peoplearegross)

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Tags: General

links for 2005-08-16

August 16th, 2005 ·

Napster Signs Music Deal with BellSouth
“Service for the iPod Generation” except it doesn’t work on iPods!
(tags: heh geek mp3)

Tunnel of… on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
best-ever shot of the famous Krog Street tunnel
(tags: atlanta cabbagetown photos flickr)

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Halfass Family Band Live (repost with “Multimedia” content)

August 16th, 2005 · 2 Comments

The Halfass Family Band, a product of Halfass & Halfass West with a long history and various monikers, plays live at the Yukon Tavern in Portland, OR this Saturday, August 20th. Please call the venue for exact times and dress code:
Yukon Tavern
(503) 235-6352 5819 SE Milwaukie Ave
And as an added bonus to the Halfass [...]

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Tags: Atlanta · MP3 and Digital Music · Music · Portland

links for 2005-08-15

August 15th, 2005 ·

Kung Fu Monkey: I Miss Republicans.
Great take on the missile defense program, a more well-phrased version what I and many other rational beings been saying since before Sep. 11
(tags: politics war military)

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Tags: General

I Mean, Seriously, My Baby Really Likes to Wash Her Hands

August 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Maple washes her hands .Mac Video
Observe the whiplash as she turns from her toy in order to sprint for the sink.

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Tags: Children, The

links for 2005-08-14

August 14th, 2005 ·

bowling2 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
(tags: bowling)

It’s a professional sport on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
it’s all about bowling these days
(tags: bowling)

Fun at Planet Bowl on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
more bowling today
(tags: bowling)

The Shot on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
(tags: bowling maple baby atlanta)

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Tags: General

links for 2005-08-13

August 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Metro Bits – mic-ro.co(s)m
Awesome collection of subway (metro) related items (via Metafilter)
(tags: subways publictransit)

dooce: I prefer “blobber” thank you very much
“You know how when someone barfs and they can’t believe that the green peppers they ate in a burrito last night just came up whole, completely undigested up through the esophagus and back out their [...]

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Tags: General

links for 2005-08-11

August 11th, 2005 ·

DTV beta for Mac is live
Here we go: the future of television is now. Instead of channels, we’ll build our own stations using tags and feeds.
(tags: geek rss feeds video broadcast podcast)

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Tags: General

Mi Barrio

August 10th, 2005 · 5 Comments

One of my favorite restaurants in Atlanta, Mi Barrio, seems to be on the verge of getting its beer and wine license:

Application of Mi-Barrio Restaurant, Inc., d/b/a Mi-Barrio Mexican Restaurant, Jesus Lopez, Agent. License requested to operate a restaurant liquor beer and wine consumed at 571 Memorial Drive. (new app/new loc) NPU-W CD#1 [...]

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Tags: Atlanta · Food and Cooking · General

Del.icio.us For: tag

August 10th, 2005 ·

I hadn’t taken advantage of the “for:” tagging feature in del.icio.us yet, but Fred Wilson shipped me my first for:scottpartee tag the other day and gave me a heads up via e-mail. It was a link to a band he thought I’d like. I did. I liked that band! (can you tell I’ve been reading [...]

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Tags: Geek · Links

links for 2005-08-10

August 10th, 2005 ·

The Murder Burger
Saw this in the Bronx and decided to find out WTF is up with that. God, I love Google
(tags: burger nyc bronx murderburger)

Microsoft in $7m spam settlement
booo-ya!
(tags: spam microsoft legal)

A Picture of My Brother-in-Law
Rockin’ out for real!
(tags: chapstik band music leighton)

A Picture of my Brother-in-Law
Rockin’ out for real with his fur-covered Marshal cabinet [...]

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Tags: General

What’s Fresh?

August 9th, 2005 ·

I’ve been remiss in alerting Halfasses to my Metblog posts
Besides Flickr, this is where I tend to do most of my blogging these days.

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Tags: Food and Cooking