OMSI is a great place to spend a few hours on a rainy day, which is what the kids and I did this weekend. My Dad was in town, so we knew we’d have to go somewhere and do something. As we headed back downstairs from the Scien…
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25 October 2006
Songbird
“Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.” Kind…
20 October 2006
NW Barista competition
(photo from CoffeeGeek.com) This weekend features some of the best baristas in the Northwest competing for a spot at the United States Barista Championships. What could be better than combining art and caffeine? Of course I’m…
18 October 2006
Free Hugs
Why? Because maybe, just maybe, communication with words just doesn’t mean quite as much as communication with emotion. ps. If you can turn your sound off, I’d recommend it. For me, the music ruins the message.
16 October 2006
Tanner Springs Park
This weekend’s family field trip took us first to REI for some quality outdoor gear, then to Tanner Springs Park on the way home. A bit of information about the park… “A series of community workshops were held b…
12 October 2006
Second Life, perfect hair
Iain Tait had this clip from YouTube on his blog that gives an overview about Second Life… (This video was apparently put together by “the first PR agency in Second Life,” which makes sense for them to put out a …
9 October 2006
Columbus Day
Not wanting to get into a big political debate about Columbus “discovering” the New World, this effect on the Native American population, etc., Seth Godin has a nice post about “Lessons Learned About Columbus.…
6 October 2006
The unintended experience
An “unintended experience” is pretty much impossible, as anything you do results in some kind of experience, but that’s what it felt like when the family and I visited the “Dahlia Capital of America,” …
Pi music
Math rock? Use this nifty interface to put pi to music. I can’t remember from music theory what kind of scale I used, but its some kind of blues scale. Rocked out to 500 digits of pi… only 9,500 left using this thing. O…
4 October 2006
One apartment and six drummers
I’m sure this will be all over the place by the time I post it, but parts of it made me chuckle out loud. For the next time you have five friends over… (mixing it up from YouTube for a change…)
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