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Well, in the continuing search for an ever cooler desktop, I thought I would try to add Cruise Ships to the list of things that are now available for tracking. Well, there are a lot of cruise ships. Unless you zoom in, you really can’t make them out; the names all pile up. I might try later without the names, but it’s a lot more fun with the names. I… Read More »Cruising my desktop

I found this item on Woot today – I thought it was amusing news of the weird… “Put on your bib and get ready to chow down on my world-famous hot ‘n’ spicy honey-roasted hickory-smoked beer-infused St. Louis-style links: Even though I can’t name a single hair-metal band from Minneapolis, I was fascinated by Sex, Drugs, and Awesome Hair, a great retrospective article on that town’s early-80s metal scene. Whatever… Read More »Wired? No, Weird.

By this point, I have progressed the cool desktop project into, well, I don’t know what. It’s getting larger all the time. I feel like I did when we remodeled the house. Of course, we only started to remodel a couple of bathrooms, but then it just sort of kept on going. Anyway,… I’ve got a bunch of things working now – earthquakes, storms, volcanoes, satellites – all of these… Read More »The cool desktop continues to grow

Things I have to do before I die: Stand on all seven continents. I have 5 down, 2 to go. Australia should be easy but so far it is proving to be elusive. Antarctica will be really cool. I mean, where else can I see a 700 foot cliff of ice? Make love under the Northern Lights Things I have scratched off the list already: Eat at a Brazilian churrascuria… Read More »what’s on your list?

Celebrated Sandy’s birthday on Thursday. Took everyone to a fabulous meal at Foreign Cinema, in the market district of the city. I really like that place. A great concept: dinner and a movie. The guys at work were quizzing me about it and that started an expanded conversation that Foreign Cinema offers a brunch and that it’s really worth trying. I guess I’ll have to put that on on the… Read More »Happy Birthday