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Monthly Archive for November, 2004

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Gravatars

“Comments” are one of the most neglected areas of this site, so I am happy to annouce that I finally got around to adding “Gravatars”:http://gravatar.com functionality to this site’s comment posting. If you have a Gravatar, I’d love to have you post a comment and show it off. If you don’t have one, get one… they’re a nice way to personalize your comments.

I’ve been admiring both “Casey’s”:http://nerdle.com/blog work on “Jess’s weblog”:http://www.frecklegirl.com/blog/archives/000258.php, and “John Oxton’s”:http://joshuaink.com/blog/68/get-a-gravatar implimentation, and campaign to “register”:http://joshuaink.com/blog/72/im-famous Gravatars… it’s kind of nice to see _comments_ get their due…

I would suspect that the “Six Apart”:http://sixapart.com/ people are thinking about adding something like this — it seems almost ready-made for “TypeKey”:https://www.typekey.com/. But, we’ll see.

*UPDATE*: I noticed today that “Waferbaby”:http://www.waferbaby.com/archives/2004/11/29/usericons also added user icons…

*UPDATE #2*: “Zooiblog”:http://zooibaai.nl/b/archives/2004/11/21/good-gracious/ too

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Giving Thanks

“roasted”, posted by nedward

We’ve started a Thanksgiving “tradition”:http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001839.php#001839 in our little family, choosing to forgo the exhausting trips to the ancestral Buffalo, in favor of cooking our own damn Turkey for our friends. Presley called it the “Orphan’s Thanksgiving”, and she certainly didn’t disappoint. _I’m going to be happily eating Turkey for the next 10 days_…

Thanks to “Presley”:http://presley.suckahs.org, “Macy”:http://macyme.suckahs.org, Lindsey, Toby, and everyone who called up to wish us well last night. And thanks for the 7 bottles of wine that we poured.

* “Photos”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/sets/43667/

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J. Crew iPod case

jcrew-ipod.jpgA friend at work came in today with a rather interesting iPod case — one that she got from J. Crew.

Available for $29.99, in yuppie-rific blue, green and pink.

Here is the description:

Made from the same pure Italian silk as our ties. With leather. Clear vinyl screen cover; removable neoprene-lined flap for extra protection. Leather-covered metal belt clip.

This strikes me as odd, since J. Crew is hardly in the business of crafting leather cases for consumer electronics. But, perhaps it just illustrates what a cultural icon the iPod has become.

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Say ‘no’ to MAX cat

max cat makes you vomitFYI: Our cat Katya started barfing after we switched canned cat food to MAX Cat Lite Chicken & Lamb, and now both cats won’t touch the stuff.

They weren’t raised dumb, you know…

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Pixies

“Pixies”, posted by nedward

I’m excited — in less than two weeks, I’ll finally get to see live one of my favorite bands — the “Pixies”:http://www.ilovepixies.com.

I’ve been “talking”:http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001699.php about it for more than a year now, and it _feels_ like we “ordered”:http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002456.php the tickets a year ago, on a morning where I woke up with gum stuck in my “hair”:http://presley.suckahs.org/archives/002455.php.

_Did you get tickets?_

We’ve got a couple of extra tickets for 2 of the Massachusetts Pixies shows:

* “Tue, Nov 30, 2004 07:30 PM”:http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01003923B2FC45D8?brand=&artistid=906179&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60
Mullins Center, Amherst, MA

* “Wed, Dec 1, 2004 08:00 PM”:http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/010039229DA92CC6?brand=&artistid=906179&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60
Tsongas Arena, Lowell, MA

If you’re interested, email me: ned [at] suckahs.org

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