Sunday March 30, 2003
geek rocking
Whoo hoo! My book is here! And only a few more months until the sequel comes out.... Keep reading this entry »
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Archives from March 2003
Friday March 28, 2003
oregonasmic
Sir, we've got visuals. Some sand, some sky, some trees and a whole lotta moss and falling water.... Keep reading this entry »
Thursday March 27, 2003
brainside out update
Alright ladies and gentlemen, I believe you can now update your danesbored bookmarks to www.brainsideout.com without incident. It looks the same but it's new and better and promises stay in existence.... Keep reading this entry »
Thursday March 27, 2003
KILLER BLIZZARD UPDATE
The snow is now too deep for Converse All-Stars. Even Hightop Converse All-Stars. Unfortunately my choices for footwear are limited to All-Stars, Chacos, Birkenstocks or bowling shoes. My feet are ill-equipped for surviving my home state.... Keep reading this entry »
Thursday March 27, 2003
user error
"My computer stopped working so I just threw it in my closet and forgot about it." "You know, we could open it up and see what might be wrong." "Hey yeah, let's do that." "Well, this here is probably your... Keep reading this entry »
Thursday March 27, 2003
kettle-cide
I got a new teakettle because I melted the old one in a horrible Three Mile Island incident. I put it on the stove, forgot about it for a couple hours, went downstairs to grab a sandwich, and lo and... Keep reading this entry »
Wednesday March 26, 2003
Brainside Out
Happy Apple starts in four minutes, but this is so important I need to dash it off, right now. Thanks to endless domain-mongering and great verbal diligance, www.brainsideout.com has just been nursed into being. In all due time, everything at... Keep reading this entry »
Tuesday March 25, 2003
tar pits
I ran out of printer paper, so I filled my inkjet with looseleaf notebook paper. It works really well, though sometimes the printer gets excited while printing stuff out real fast in draft mode and crumples up all its finished... Keep reading this entry »
Tuesday March 25, 2003
kids don't run on apples
Over break I had lots of dreams. They were really neat, vivid dreams. It was almost as thought I took two week-long breaks; one of them I spent in Oregon and the other I spent in crazy dreamy-dream land, crashing... Keep reading this entry »
Monday March 24, 2003
blurm
New design. It's still got a few kinks, but it's what I've been able to muster during the last three hours of not studying and not writing and not doing homework. The design layout is still corralled by tables, as... Keep reading this entry »
Saturday March 22, 2003
free-range computin'
Now blogging from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. They're surprisingly liberal in what they allow you to do on their computers. We spent an hour stuck in the entry way, trying to figure out the little brain teaser... Keep reading this entry »
Saturday March 22, 2003
ready-to-eat eagle creek
Hood River is one groovy town. We are now out of the rainforest, where it rained on us for four days straight. Everything is soaked. We got to hike behind turquoise waterfalls and dine on deep woods forage. An animal... Keep reading this entry »
Saturday March 15, 2003
crazy moon state
In Praughtland, now. The air here smells green. There are mountains and pines and moss. There are sailboats and barges in the river. We flew over Mount Hood on the way in. I think I'm in love. Today we visted... Keep reading this entry »
Saturday March 15, 2003
ATTENTION
ATTENTION: Please do not leave children unattended. Unattended children will be confiscated and may be destroyed. Currently blogging from the Denver International Airport, the only airport with a terminal with a "day at the circus" theme. UPDATE: I gotta make... Keep reading this entry »
Friday March 14, 2003
simple patience & design
An abandoned resort, the Split Rock River and a puddle of oil. Have a glorious spring break, ya'll!... Keep reading this entry »
Thursday March 13, 2003
spotted causality
Every once in awhile I wonder if my entire experience working at camp last summer was just one long dream. I mean, there are all these great people milling about that I met at camp, but what if I just... Keep reading this entry »
Thursday March 13, 2003
5 feet tall & luminous
A few new published works have been added. Check out Cold Makes Crazy from a few weeks back, and this week's Superhero Training Program.... Keep reading this entry »
Thursday March 13, 2003
didn't sleep 'til dawn
I haven't ranted much about college this year, but that's probably because I hardly even consider it a legitimate opponent, anymore. It's not worth my time to systematically oppose it and tear it down. College is a quasi-reality. I feel... Keep reading this entry »
Wednesday March 12, 2003
definition of terms
Dave: Warblog! Dave: Sounds like what a cancerous songbird would do. Dave: "Dude, your canary sounds like shit." Dave: "Ahh, that would be the warblog."... Keep reading this entry »
Tuesday March 11, 2003
it's official
Today we finished the paperwork and brought UMD's newest student organization, The Coolest Club Ever, into being. The Coolest Club Ever is a creative think-tank dedicated to the discovery, analysis and dissemination of all things cool. What's cool, you ask?... Keep reading this entry »
Tuesday March 11, 2003
mutant marathon runner
Today must have been one of my international super-mutant training days. As I said, I got up at 4:45 to slide into my super ugly Geek suit, perform a semi-standard morning routine, pick up Sandy from the LSH Lobby, and... Keep reading this entry »
Monday March 10, 2003
famovs stvdies
The Geekquel Prequel TV spot was a rolicking success. We had the expert geek panel and the geek interviewers all set up in the fake living room in the Channel 3 studio. I got up and was all like: "One... Keep reading this entry »
Sunday March 9, 2003
lost
I just lost two spoons and my yogurt. ...they've got to be around here somewhere.... Keep reading this entry »
Sunday March 9, 2003
wanna be on tv?
Paul got us a little spot tomorrow on the Channel 3 Morning News. He's going to need a big pack of geeks to ask geeky questions about the Geekquel Prequel. I'm going to be on TV. Would you like to... Keep reading this entry »
Sunday March 9, 2003
you got burned, dude
It's always a curious experience when we see our heroes shredded to pieces. Maybe it was when the Dell guy got busted for possession, or when Cher's wig was stolen, or when your He-Man action figure went horribly disfigured at... Keep reading this entry »
Sunday March 9, 2003
no more war (updates)
Some people in Duluth celebrated International Women's Day by standing up for a brutal dictatorship that oppresses women. Police say 500 protestors were present, while protestors say 1,400. Either way, it's still less than the last protest, which makes me... Keep reading this entry »
Saturday March 8, 2003
jazz festival update
T.S. Monk finally wraps his mind around the new Weber Music Hall: "Man, I've played a lot of venues, but damn. You guys have got some serious shit goin' on, here." That's right we do. Props to UMD.... Keep reading this entry »
Thursday March 6, 2003
coolerest things now
Alright peoples, here's everything cool you need to know for the next couple days: FRIDAY: Spontaneous Combustion (my rockin' jass quintet) at the Norshor Theatre for MPiRG's "Save the Spirit Mountain Rainforest" benefit concert, or something like that. We'll be... Keep reading this entry »
Thursday March 6, 2003
geekalator
I had to meet Paul at the Ripsaw office for some super-duper secret Geek Prom business. The Ripsaw office is in downtown Duluth in the Torrey Building, right next to the Building of Health and Vigor. Both buildings are old... Keep reading this entry »
Thursday March 6, 2003
binary digits
It's March. When I was in elementary school, March always meant it was time to break out the green, pink and yellow construction paper and make happy spring junk. I usually would do a rabbit devouring a flower that was... Keep reading this entry »
Wednesday March 5, 2003
and i'm spent
In this year's running for the coolest thing ever... It's called the SKIMBAT. It combines skiing and snowboarding with windsurfing and hanggliding. Yes Virginia, you can fly. Skip the words and go straight for the Quicktime videos. Mount Hood beckons.... Keep reading this entry »
Tuesday March 4, 2003
newsworthlessness
People keep telling me I was on the Duluth news. I went to that pro-war sign dispensary over the weekend, and apparently Channel 6 found my body so hot and irresistable that they used every excuse to run their footage... Keep reading this entry »
Monday March 3, 2003
genius
Oh crap. I just melted the tea kettle onto the stove.... Keep reading this entry »
Monday March 3, 2003
xanga acolytes
My weblog worldview just exploded. Traipsing about in Xanga.com I found blogger webrings, and hoo-boy, there's some stuff out there. Maybe not good stuff, but quite a lot of stuff. Just select your desired social acolyte. Extreme Tobogganer? last night... Keep reading this entry »
Monday March 3, 2003
roma phlarm
So I just picked up the program ZoneAlarm, which lets me choose when I want programs to connect to the Internet without my knowledge and upload all my personal information, and when I would rather they kept all my junk... Keep reading this entry »
Sunday March 2, 2003
the cool guy...
SHOW ME, SHOW YOU, KIKKOMAN, KIKKOMAN.... Keep reading this entry »
Sunday March 2, 2003
al gore rhythms
It was quite a nice weekend down in the Cities. Had some beautiful experiences reconciling my internal metaphysics and epistemological frameworks. In English? A hard weekend of wine, dine and women. I went to the pro-war rally/sign distribution out on... Keep reading this entry »