Zombie Bird

Was working on the weekend and I found this strange bird that was just standing in front of this big vinyl banner that was left out in the hope that it would flatten. She stood there for a very long time… moving very little. Later on I went...

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Cornetto/Nutty Buddy review attempt

Somehow I got obsessed with picking up variations on my childhood favorite (called something different, depending on where you are – Nutty Buddy, Cornetto Classico, Crispina, Sundae Cone… basically Vanilla ice cream in a cornet (aka...

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FCC Listening Station

I was in Livermore, California a few years ago… and in the middle of a big empty field was a little shack surrounded by a metal fence, with a million antennas around it and a pickup truck parked on the side. There was a sign out front that...

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Rob and Lou and your whole damn crew

Back in October 1994 I went down to Austin, Texas to do a strange training gig in HTML at a long gone early eCom startup. While there I got to see my old Northampton, Mass neighbors Sebadoh. That night, after their show the lot of us (me, Lou...

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Yoda shills for the dark side

I was more than a little surprised to receive in the mail the following item… OK. you’ll have to excuse my collage of the key elements here… The previous tenant in my new house is still getting all kinds of crazy catalogs, and...

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neoloGISM

You figure it out… Although I really would not want to live with this as a driving goal in life; a goal it is… I’d like to enter more words into the english language than Shakespeare. For now, I’m pretty excited to be...

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iPhone Playlist

Got into the local Cingular store (complete with the the blue vinyl “now the new AT&T” banner flapping over it) just before 7pm (local time)… was asked with a chuckle by a sales dude what he could help me with, and then had...

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