Ataxia is the thing with feathers.

My Year in Cities, 2008

Boston, MA*
Watertown, MA
Westport, MA
Minneapolis, MN
La Farge, WI
Milwaukee, WI
Chicago, IL
Sutton, MA
Groton, CT
One or more nights were spent in each place. Those cities marked with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive days.
see also: Kottke.

Red Ball

Very nice piece about Penn & Teller and a red ball.

Color Test

I like the design and implementation of the FM 100 Hue test for color perception. I’m also a little bit surprised that I got a perfect score on it. I figured I would have done well, but I didn’t expect perfect.

Labor Day

Reading my RSS feeds on the Google Reader, I saw a post on Get Rich Slowly, “Every Job I’ve Ever Had“, posted on the occasion of Labor Day. I liked the idea of thinking up all the jobs I’ve ever had, so here’s all of the jobs I’ve ever had:

dishwasher at Ocean Edge Resort
dairy [...]

Rebates via Amazon.com

Thinking about buying something on amazon.com that has a rebate associated with it?
Don’t buy it and think you’re going to get the rebate.
I’ve been in customer support runaround for about 2 weeks because they’ve grossly botched even the process of providing the correct mail-in rebate form for the MacBook Pro I bought from them.
They now [...]

Blurb in the Phoenix

My band, The Woodrow Wilsons, got mentioned in today’s Boston Phoenix. We’re playing next week (monday to be specific) at Band in Boston’s residency at PA’s Lounge in Somerville, and we got a mention in association with that.
WHEE!

Tuesday Linkdome

Bennigan’s Restaurants Shut Down Nationwide
Corporate-owned locations closed as of today, franchise-owned locations still open. Which seems odd.
“Close for Remodelation”
Homey D. Clown, general contractor.

Ketchup

It’s been a little while, I know. I spent a weekend in Maine recording with my band, and I went on vacation in the Midwest to visit my family and knock four more Major League Baseball parks off my list, including Wrigley Field which it has been my dream to visit since I was [...]

Celtics.

It is difficult to express the awesomeness here, but I’m going to try.
I just watched the Celtics beat the Lakers by 39 points to clinch the NBA championship, alongside one of my best friends and by far my best basketball friend, Mr. Corey B., and we did it at the only bar in Allston that [...]

Carbonated Soft Drinks

I haven’t updated in a while. I guess I just haven’t been feeling (we)blogified, or verbose, or something.
Anyway, I decided yesterday to stop drinking pop.
I know, I’ve said about 6 different times that I was going to stop. Some instances have been more effective than others. Hopefully this will be the most [...]