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it's that time again

2009-07-20T15:24:05Z

If you can believe it, it's time once again for Karsa. You may have no idea what that means, which is why I'm writing here today. Below is the entry I wrote explaining Karsa two years ago. Rather than just link to it, I decided to repost an edited...

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best music of 2008

2008-12-11T23:19:57Z

Welcome again to my most consistent blog feature: my favorite music of 2008. As ever, I offer the following disclaimer: this list has absolutely nothing to do with "quality" -- whatever that is -- and reflects only the records that I enjoyed mos...

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ahoy there

2008-12-11T23:13:12Z

I know I've been absent, and to those six of you who ever read this, please know that I do feel embarrassed. Sometime in the next week or so, I'm going to be posting my annual top albums list, and I didn't want that to be the first post in however...

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self-congratulatory roundup, 29 june 2008

2008-06-30T02:46:27Z

from a weekend in New York City: "It's empty, like my heart." -Katie, on her locket "WALL-E was so good! It reminded me of... a good movie." -Schubin "Lou and I have ingested a truly formidible amount of food at two different restaurants i...

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i'm a huge dork

2008-06-17T16:57:17Z

...who's five minutes away from the release of Firefox 3.0. Don't forget to download the new release TODAY; they deserve to get the World Record so much!

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humongous

2008-06-12T14:06:11Z

For any Albany resident that has ever been irritated by a commercial for Huck Finn's Warehouse (all of us), good news: so is Conan O'Brien. Seriously, I already live in Albany. Why do I want to enter this contest?

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the international phone purchase crisis: update

2008-06-09T19:34:34Z

For those of you who cared (apparently, a fair few of you did -- thank you to everyone for their advice), I wanted to let you know that, while I was on the road to making the same decision myself, Steve Jobs went ahead and pulled the trigger for m...

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self-congratulatory roundup, 9 june 2008

2008-06-09T12:40:27Z

"We should see Indiana Jones! Indiana Jones! Doot doo doot doo, doot doo doo, doot doo doot doo, doot doo doo doo doo, doot doo doot doo, doot doo doo, dananana da na da da na da da na da na na! That's the theme song." -Schubin, on the phone with...

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series of tubes roundup, 5 june 2008

2008-06-05T14:37:45Z

Jesus fucking christ you are the goddamn PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GET A GRIP ON YOURSELF. Or hire better handlers! CHRIST! I hate myself so much for thinking this sounds awesome. I do not think this sounds awesome. I think it sounds like ...

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i also rarely notice when i rhyme

2008-06-04T19:49:41Z

I swear to god, I was going to write that I had a "new development," until it struck me that that was a pun. Anyway, I set up a new blog for my photography. I'm not sure what it is yet, what I'm going to do with it, or why I set it up. Suffice it...

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