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Emily and I are heading out on Friday for a little vacation in my ancestral homeland (northern Illinois) to hang out, play games and drink like fish with my extended family. This is just a little post to say hi and check in on things me-related before we leave.
It’s worth mentioning that this blog was [...]

It’s supposed to be 84 degrees and sunny on Saturday. Fut the whuck? I suppose I’ll have to go outside or something now…

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I feel certain I’ve seen this before, but everyone on the interwebz is linking to it like it’s fresh — the [...]

I’m heading out for SXSW first thing tomorrow morning. This is the fourth time I’ve attended the film and interactive festival and conference and it’s always a logistical nightmare figuring out what panels and sessions I want to get to and what films I want to see, but this year is especially complicated and exciting [...]

Man, people on the interwebz are crazy about their top ten lists, especially when years, decades and centuries end. I’d just like to remind everyone reading that decades (that is, periods of ten years) are ending all the time. For example, the decade that began at 2:50 P.M. on December 21, 1999 just ended a [...]

What follows are my next-day thoughts on Avatar. Minor spoilers abound.
Somewhere near the middle of James Cameron’s three-hour long sci-fi spectacle, Avatar, I had to pee. The “medium” Diet Pepsi I’d been nursing was making its presence known in my bladder and the matter was just becoming too urgent to ignore. So I waited until [...]

…would we be like these parents (by which I mean: totally awesome)?

Via: Nerdcore

I have a lot of free time today… hours and hours in fact, so I’m going to try and sum up the noteworthy events of the lest several days of my trip in chronological order:
Wednesday 7/15:

Flew from BTV to PDX. Arrived at 1AM local time. Sat next to ACM sisters and brothers from Great Neck [...]

Here is a list of things I’m going to do next week on my trip to Portland, Oregon…

Attend the national Alliance for Community Media conference
Visit with new and old friends
See The Decemberists and Andrew Bird play an outdoor show
See the movie Moon
Attend a live theater-in-the-park performance of the classic Star Trek episode, Amok Time. Yes, [...]

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How to make your own Star Wars rings.

Who wouldn’t want their face to be lovingly cushioned by this plush Sarlacc pitlow?

When you lay your head down, you’ll certainly also want to be cuddling your felted Jabba the Hutt doll.

Apparently, the latest project from the team who created Ico and Shadow of [...]