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Not the side you usually see
I've followed John Mayer's twitter account for a while (along with about a million other people) and he has a quirky, fun, unabashed, slightly snarky style that I find amusing. His tweet on Sunday threw me for a loop: "Thank You Toronto....
Posted: 02-17-2010 14:56 by Chris | with no comments
Where there is a will...
Somehow, I hadn't heard of this before, but this is a little bit of the story of a very neat individual... http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/29/the-boy-who-harnesse.html
Posted: 09-30-2009 17:19 by Chris | with no comments
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Go ahead and dance, the others will join...
This makes me smile a lot. Just what I needed.
I say again, the ukulele is the instrument of happy...
851 ukuleles and their owners rocking together. Now *THAT* is a jam session!
ukes = happy
The Last Lecture
The late Dr. Randy Pausch gave this great lecture back in 2007. Take the hour and 15 minutes to watch it or go out and get the book and read it. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ji5_MqicxSo http://www.thelastlecture.com/
Science 'rocks'!
A rock song about mitochondria? Okay. At least it is fairly accurate... http://scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/2009/05/quite_possibly_the_only_song_d.php
Neat.
A friend just forwarded this to me. Very cool. "Stand by Me" performed by musicians around the world from SKAT on Vimeo .
Posted: 04-22-2009 14:50 by Chris | with no comments
mmmm. bacon.
http://www.popsci.com/bacon
A little late for Christmas but...
Right up my alley....
Interesting...
I always think of people being basically good, until proven otherwise. Perhaps that's naive, foolish, or worse, but I find that it works for me, even if I get a little bit bruised occasionally for giving someone the benefit of the doubt. More often...
Handy...
http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html Easy way to tell if you're possibly/probably affected by the conficker virus.
Posted: 04-02-2009 18:34 by Chris | with no comments
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My new favorite website
Still waiting on an egregiously slow compact process on a virtual hard drive, catching up on news feeds... Came across the Museum of Bad Art website: http://www.museumofbadart.org/ You *must* check out the collections. Timeless, priceless works of incredibly...
Posted: 04-01-2009 15:15 by Chris | with no comments
Oww, I think someone just got ripped.
http://noise.typepad.com/hey_joe/2009/04/filizzobuster.html Tom Izzo finally kind of let fly at his presser this week, and Joe Rexrode (Hey, Joe!) of the LSJ shared the entire transcript with us. Needless to say, without getting trite or petty, I think...
Posted: 04-01-2009 10:36 by Chris | with no comments
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Douglas Adams had it right...
(If you don't understand the title of this post, even after watching the video, check out the works of Douglas Adams. Read all of them. You will laugh. A lot. If not, seek medical attention.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuVgXJ55G6Y Dolphins blowing...
Posted: 03-30-2009 13:38 by Chris | with no comments
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