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We just finished our second week in New York City and have been enjoying every day more and more. I’ve got about a 25 minute door-to-door commute and look forward to it on both ends of the day. Usually I read while on the the train and when I’m lucky I can get a couple [ READ MORE ]
Get ready for the seventh installment of the Eightfivethree Classic. For those that aren’t familiar with the Classic, it’s the most competitive March Madness bracket you’ll ever participate in. I started the Classic back in college and it has grown into something of a phenomenon – we had over 10 people in last year’s Classic [ READ MORE ]
A lot has happened for Rachel and me over the last few months. The biggest change is that I no longer work at yahoo and now work for another web startup in New York City. Rather than work from Eugene this time, we are moving across the country very soon. Our house will finally go [ READ MORE ]
I gave my dad a USB record player for Christmas so he could transfer all his vinyl to mp3s and CDs. The player hasn’t seemed to work that well, but it got me thinking that I had everything I needed to transfer my vinyl to mp3, also. I’m using a Griffin iMic instead of a [ READ MORE ]
Rachel and I decided to order a pizza and salad from Mezza Luna this past Friday, like we do most every week. After giving my order and phone number on Friday, the girl on the other end told me she had something good to tell me when I came in to [ READ MORE ]
Bill O’Reilly was Jon Stewart’s guest on last night’s The Daily Show. He’s pretty hard to follow because you never really know what he’s talking about, but the last 30 seconds of the clip sum up Bill O’Reilly. Billo the Clown tries to call the bear he’s holding a panda bear. It’s clearly not a panda. [ READ MORE ]
Chelsea and Scott sent me a birthday gift and included in it was a button for Crusher. Crusher really likes Mr. Obama and is very happy wearing his new gift. [ READ MORE ]
I had a great birthday this year. It was so good I had two cakes! [ READ MORE ]
Rachel and I volunteered this afternoon with the Obama campaign for a couple hours. We met downtown, learned a few of the rules about canvassing door-to-door and we headed out to Springfield. We headed pretty deep into Springfield, actually. With all that’s been going on between the current Wall Street bailout and the election I’ve been [ READ MORE ]
When Buzz opened to all publishers last night I decided to throw together a Wordpress plugin to easily put Buzz badges on my blog. I then and put up a quick tweet announcing the plugin. Pat tried it out and put up a post about Buzz and the plugin. A few other blogs picked [ READ MORE ]