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  • the god-awful heyday of Geocities…

    StumbleUpon found this site for me today, and there’s a particular reason why this gadget resonates with me… the Geocities-izer the tagline for the Geocities-izer by the aptly-named Wonder-Tonic (who brought us ShadyURL, a URL shortener/renamer that will make any URL look like it’s trying to scam you out of all your money and infect your computer…

  • Review: Black Pepper Sea – Charcoal Essex Park

    RPM is a couple months gone and I still haven’t gotten to listen to nearly as much of what came out of it as I would have liked.  However, one album that was recommended on the RPM forums was Charcoal Essex Park by Black Pepper Sea.  Working in the yard today, I loaded up my…

  • muscle memory

    it’s interesting how muscle memory works. or, if not muscle memory (a term i just grabbed because it seemed appropriate without knowing anything about the actual scientific usage of said phrase) then the way your body remembers things that, intellectually, you probably couldn’t possibly keep straight. very close to nightly i quietly enter and exit…

  • if the tallest had a website instead of an intergalactic armada of impending doom

    this came to my attention today. there is a website that reviews…wait for it… snacks. apparently there are over 4,500 snacks reviewed for your, um, snacking pleasure with information on where to get them.  from pizza balls to octopus-flavored chips, and everything in between. so.  i’m thinking…if the Almighty Tallest (pictured above) from Invader Zim had…

  • Is Piracy Really Killing The Music Industry? No!

    Is Piracy Really Killing The Music Industry? No! | TorrentFreak. via @isohunt blah blah blah…still more evidence to support the idea that declining music sales and music piracy are not related.  and more of the same RIAA whining about how they are, despite all data to the contrary. when can we just be done with…

  • the lost art of the mix cd

    coming back from a long road trip — for which i threw together several mp3 cds for the car in under a half hour — got me thinking about something i will call “the lost art of the mix cd.” i use the term “cd” fairly loosely because, before the mix cd, there was the…

  • cute kids

    gavin and lilah have been playing a lot more together for longer periods of time.  i snapped these pics when they were being particularly cute together one evening during dinner.

  • Free Earth Day Blogger Template: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

    Concern about the environment is a value that is very important to us.  So, amidst our series of holiday-themed Blogger templates, we didn’t want to forget Earth Day, a day in which we celebrate our planet and educate ourselves on how best to be its caretakers. The rugged burlap coffee bag and aged map background…

  • trip to moscow

    we took a long road trip with g-ma & g-pa to moscow, idaho to see the kids’ great-grandparents there.  it was a two-day drive and the kids were wiped but we were glad we split the drive up rather than try the 11-12 hour trek in one go.  the kids had a good time hanging…

  • Easter

    i took a lot of pics on easter.  here are some of our favorites…