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The Night Before Christmas, by John Cleese (Monday, 24 December 2007 11:37 AM ): John Cleese has updated the classic holiday poem: For a reading of the original text in an original manner, please also enjoy Henry Rollins's interpretation of "The Night Before Christmas."...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-eight, Strip malls and worldwide connectedness (Wednesday, 28 November 2007 11:58 PM ): It is a quarter to midnight on a Wednesday night at the end of November. I'm sitting in my car, parked outside a strip mall on McKnight Road, a shopping district in the suburbs north of Pittsburgh. I'm parked here...

Somebody's day off (Monday, 12 November 2007 03:39 PM ): Separated at birth? Sergey Brin of Google (from the Android SDK promo video -- which amusingly is on YouTube) .... ... and Ferris Bueller. I think that means this guy must be Cameron: (Video spotted on Engadget)...

BlogFest 12 Wrapup: You say it's our birthday.... (Friday, 09 November 2007 03:47 PM ): Such a fine time we had at last night's Pittsburgh BlogFest. Click the image to see the sign-in sheet and find links to those who signed it -- that's a pretty good representation of the crowd that was present. A...

Fantasy football 2007: Week 2 wrap (Sunday, 23 September 2007 12:25 AM ): Football and fantasy football are back in session, much to my glee. In past years as a fantasy football manager, I spent many, many hours pouring over player and NFL team stats, adding and dropping players, changing my lineup several...

My brother nearly died choking on his Earl Grey tea when he saw this video (Thursday, 06 September 2007 12:13 PM ): To help promote the Bob Dylan biopic coming out, there's a website gadget that lets you replace the written lyrics on the cue cards in the Pennebaker video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" with words of your own choosing. At least...

What drives me to you is what drives me insane (Wednesday, 22 August 2007 09:09 AM ): Weeks (months?) ago, Caroline of Pinky's Paperhaus tagged me for a list-meme thing, and it's well past time I responded. Here are the rules: We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. Players start with eight...

Use your words (Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:50 PM ): Here's a time waster that's educational: How many of these 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know do you *not* know? I can give a pretty good definition for maybe a dozen of them, and could probably get within...

You talkin' to me? (Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:26 AM ): Major media outlets like the New York Times haven't been covering the story of blogger Kathy Sierra, the death threats she has (purportedly) received, the sympathetic blog shut downs, the resulting backlash, and so on. So it's maybe not so...

My day with the Human Baton (Wednesday, 27 December 2006 01:58 PM ): Things have been so crazybusy that I haven't had the chance to udpate you on my Human Baton experience last week. Here's the lowdown: I met up with Luke (aka the Human Baton) and his transporters from Baltimore very late...

You may call me "Cynthia the Winsome" (Wednesday, 27 December 2006 01:14 PM ): My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Royal Highness Cynthia the Winsome of Frogging over Womble Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title If Bono is disappointed at not gaining a title when he is knighted, he could get one online. And...

What a fool believes (Thursday, 21 December 2006 01:04 PM ): UPDATED: Just got a call -- it's on! Tonight I'm scheduled to rendezvous with Luke Vaughn -- the Running Fool, the Human Baton -- and his Baltimore-to-Hidden-Valley driver, some time around 11pm. I last heard from him on 12/8, and...

Gonna make you sweat (Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:25 AM ): You wouldn't guess it to look at me, but I enjoy exercising. No, honest, it's true. Especially weight training or heading out for a little jog at the end of the day. I can still get bored though, so I...

Sazarac (Saturday, 18 November 2006 09:59 PM ): Saturday night in Boston, and I'm too tuckered to take advantage of it. Between late night discussions the last two nights and early morning start times each day (OK, 9am, but it felt early), I'm worn thin. So I've...

Immersed in the environment (Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:53 PM ): Continuing my Cambridge/Boston nostalgia trip: I ate lunch at Legal Seafoods. When I was an undergrad, my parents were apparently concerned that I would not eat properly. So my dad gave me a credit card, and instructed me to eat...

Futures of entertainment (Friday, 17 November 2006 05:23 PM ): UPDATE: I rarely use the "extended entry" feature of my very old version of MovableType, so I didn't realize it was broken. The extended part of this post was out of reach because of the error, so I've pulled it...

A picture every day (Thursday, 19 October 2006 10:54 AM ): In lieu of creative content from me, please enjoy this burst of inspired video from someone else. (Link via Valleywag.)...

Oh, such grace! Such beauty! (Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:05 AM ): Sport imitates viral marketing: Olympic-caliber skaters adapt the OK Go "A Million Ways" video. My favorite bits: the male skater flapping his arms like a chicken while skating backwards and kicking, and the slo-mo karate chop. Also, the announcers seem...

Here it goes again (Monday, 31 July 2006 11:40 PM ): I have raved in the past about OK Go, and I've linked to their videos and shown you photos of me being a blatant fangirl around them. I don't see any reason for that to change now. Please enjoy their...

Blogariffic (Sunday, 02 July 2006 11:37 PM ): Notes from the first Pittsburgh BlogIN. UPDATED with additional links to other sites and comments.

Space is the breath of art (Monday, 26 June 2006 11:39 AM ): I set up a profile on MySpace. I don't plan to use it much: I already get email announcements from bands and musicians I like, and I'm not looking to meet anyone. But I find the online social networking phenomenon...

Bloggers (Silent) Poetry Reading Item: "Nuclear" (Thursday, 02 February 2006 11:58 PM ): There are still a few minutes left in February 2, 2006, and so I post here a poem for the Bloggers' (Silent) Poetry Reading. This poem is by Terrance Hayes, who teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and whom I've had...

BlogFest 5 party recap (Tuesday, 24 January 2006 12:35 PM ): Thanks again to everyone who attended BlogFest 5 last week. It was a swell time. More people attended than ever before, and from what I could tell everyone had a rolicking good time. I had made terrific signs for...

Happy Birthday to We (Friday, 04 November 2005 08:21 PM ): You say it's your birthday! It's my birthday too, yeah!

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. (Saturday, 29 October 2005 01:01 PM ): Whether you're participating in NaNoWriMo this year or not, please know that November 4, next Saturday, is NaDruWriNi, National Drunken Writing Night. In other words, it's your yearly chance to crack open your favorite beverage, type away madly and lushly,...

Tommy, can you hear me? (Monday, 03 October 2005 02:55 PM ): Pete Townsend has created a blog to release a novella in serial form. He's named it The Boy Who Heard Music, and he's up to chapter three so far. So far it has a strong stream-of-consciousness element, sort of like...

Lingering aftereffects (Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:58 PM ): By now you've seen all the posts and articles about BlogFest 3: When Bloggers Appear in Public! Here's one final artifact for everyone: an online copy of the "sign-in sheet" from the event. I know there were at least...

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