From the monthly archives:

November 2005

Birthday celebrationdoodle

November 30, 2005

Hey NYC folks…I will be in town this weekend for a birthday party for me, Josh, Cindy, and supposedly Tomo, although she’s not sure she’s gonna show up for the party :)
Date: Saturday, Dec 3
Time: 9PM until Josh passes out and Cindy gets arrested for indecent exposure.
Location: Maker’s Bar
405 3rd Avenue
Between 28th and 29th
Hope to [...]

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Confidential to Mr. Parks

November 30, 2005

Today’s Chicagoist includes an interview with Michelle “Toots” L’Amour, of Lavender Cabaret:

ML: I’m “the ass that goes pow!” (laughs) Have you seen the move?
C: I’ve seen a couple of the shows but I don’t know if I’ve seen that move.
ML: I could pull it out right here but I won’t. You could just tell people [...]

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Fun time waster with flickr

November 28, 2005

Here’s something neat I came accross today.

Name That Contact is an online game that uses the Flickr API to show you photos from your contacts. It shows you a photo and you guess which of three contacts it belongs to. Requires authentication with Flickr.
It’s fun. But only good if you have a decent number of [...]

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A Chanukah miracle …. of video encoding

November 28, 2005

Last night, I was finishing up a project I’ve been working on for Darlyn- it’s a DVD of her law school musical from earlier in the year.
I was worried about calculating the bitrate to fit the 2 hour and 10 minute video onto a DVD-R – which only holds 4.3 GB, and generally speaking, [...]

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Grandpa’s birthday

November 28, 2005

Got this email just now from my mom. Some of you may remember me talking about my grandpa during the Cubs playoff run in 2003 (that is, I talked about him them…he wasn’t alive at the time).
Dear Matt, Becky, Debbie, David, Daniel, Anya and Chaya,
Today would have been your grandfather’s 84th birthday, so if you [...]

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Birthday fun

November 27, 2005

Debbie Originally uploaded by mugsy1274.
Went to my mom’s house last night for a pre-birthday thingerdoodle (my birthday isn’t for another week and a half). Went shopping with my sister and mom (she got me a new coffee maker) and then had a nice Chinese dinner.
This is [...]

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