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  • I’ve Been Noticed?

    A few friends of mine have been getting trackback spam for a while now and I still didn’t quite believe it really existed. Until today. The spammers have finally discovered that I can be pinged. Luckily mt-blacklist seems to be catching at least a bit of it. It still annoys me though.

  • My Hometown

    I posted a bunch more pics to flickr tonight. My mom had asked me to pick up some apples so she could make some apple pies. I took the opportunity to play around with my new camera some more and try out some of the things I’d learned about it. I took a bunch of pictures of this one brook (complete with squirrel), and pictures of the first two houses I lived in.

  • Full Metal Alchemist and Ghost in the Shell: SAC

    Excuse the ad, but I’m just doing my part to help promote Full Metal Alchemist and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Crisis start on Cartoon Network tonight. In general Cartoon Network has done a pretty crappy job with promoting anime, so I thought I’d help out a little. Yes, I’m a geek.

    To folks that are just sitting around tonight doing nothing, I highly recommend checking these out, even though they come on a bit late. They are two of the better shows that Cartoon Network has picked up as far as anime goes. Also, don’t be mislead by the beginning of Full Metal Alchemist, it gets pretty intense at times.

    Here’s some info on both Full Metal Alchemist and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

  • Finally


    A picture of me that I don’t completely hate. My friend Brian took this while playing with my new camera.


  • More Hope For IPF Patients

    More hopeful news in the fight against IPF:

    Anticancer Drug to Fight Fatal Lung Disease,…
    Anticancer Drug to Fight Fatal Lung Disease, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis [via Blogdigger Search: Pulmonary Fibrosis]

    I’m really glad to see more coverage of IPF online and in the news. IPF is one of those conditions that so many people have never heard of, and is a pretty hellish thing to have.

  • What a Day

    I just wanted to put out a big public thanks to some of my friends online. Thanks to MWF for succumbing to my blog begging for the Looney Tunes collection. To Ellen for the gift certificate, and to Izumi for the stuff soon to be received. Also, a big thanks to my parents for the Peanuts book.

  • Holy Heck

    Has it really been 36 years?

    I am so full of sushi. Must nap.

  • The Birthday Wishlist

    A friend of mine asked me what I wanted for my birthday, and I really wasn’t sure. I mean, I want the new Looney Tunes collection coming out on my birthday. In fact, I’d say the first three things on my Amazon wish list are the big items.

    If money wasn’t an issue I’d want something like the new Think Outside bluetooth mouse or a iPod Photo (60GB of course) (only partly care about the photo part, I want most of it for music).

    Oh, and I just signed up with that freeipods.com thing, so if you want to help me out, sign up for something using http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=10659946. I’m actually opting for the $250 gift certificate for the iTunes music store. Since that will be handy for impulse puchases.

  • Porn w/out the Porn

    Last night I was at a birthday party for a neighbor that was held at Real Art Ways in Hartford. I’d never been there before and it’s a neat little place (and their movie theatre has some interesting sounding things coming up). One of the exhibits there was by Laura Carton and featured pictures that were originally porn that had been downloaded from the net, and then had the people in them removed with the help of photoshop. It definitely changes one views them once you find that out.

    Carton

    The thing is, the concept sounded so damn familiar. I knew I’d heard about it before, and had a feeling it was from BoingBoing. So, this morning I did a bit of searching about and discovered it had been on BoingBoing. And not only on BoingBoing, but by a posted by guestblogger there: the amazing Susannah Breslin.

  • Me as a Kid

    Greg
    I’ve been scanning in more pictures for my mom. Both of their trip to New Mexico, which was stunning, and a bunch of old family pictures she had (like ones her father took during World War II), and ran across this old school picture of me from what must have been 2nd or 3rd grade. So I figured I’d post it here.

    And on the subject of scanning, I’m still amazed at how much detail the scanner pulls out of those old black and white photos. When you look at the picture itself you think there’s just not much there, and then after scanning. WOW. I’ll post some more as I get to them.