Monthly Archive for February, 2005

links for 2005-02-28

Per­haps my favorite night of our time in Vegas was Monday, when we escaped to the Strip for a bit of cul­ture… ear­lier this month, Cirque de Soleil opened at the MGM Grand, so we fig­ured, why not check it out?

We “splurged” for the cheap seats at $100 a pop. Steep, to be sure, but that still got us a decent view, cup-​holders and speak­ers that were inte­grated into the head­rests. Pretty cool…

This show was unlike any the­atri­cal expe­ri­ence I’ve ever had — to start, there is no stage… or rather, the stage rises ver­ti­cally, spins, floats and dis­ap­pears, (made pos­si­ble by hydraulics). The actors work above a mas­sive empty “pit”, (an abyss into which count­less actors fall), per­form­ing an aston­ish­ing com­bi­na­tion of martial-​arts, the famil­iar Cirque acro­bat­ics, and even an amaz­ing baton-​twirling number.

This was all incred­i­bly exe­cuted, but what tied all of this together into a truly mag­i­cal illu­sion, were the light­ing and visual pro­jec­tions… absolutely un-​real.

$200 mil­lion can buy you an eye-full…

links for 2005-02-27

  • Evan Williams is up to some­thing new - help­ing users find pod­casts, and synch them to their iPods
    (cat­e­gories: iPod music web business)

Let the Sin begin

“Let the Sin begin”, posted by nedward

Got back from Nevada on Wednes­day morn­ing, having fled the pour­ing rain, bright neon, and the sound of slot machines. We spent about a week in Nevada, which is far too long, con­sid­er­ing we didn’t get mar­ried or lose our life’s savings… No, instead we made due with $2 forty-​ounce lagers and the right to smoke any­where we please.

“Lammy”, posted by nedward

It was good to be amongst scooter­ists again, though the rain kept us from riding except on Sunday… (when you think of desert, a con­stant soak­ing is not what pops to mind!). Morgan, aka Mr. Pants, is da’ man for hook­ing us up with his vin­tage Vespa GT to ride, (even though we swapped it for his Lammy, out of comfort).

“riding”, posted by nedward

The big Ride that we went on was Sunday, out to Red Rock Canyon… we saw red rocks, and hap­pily rode the “scenic drive” on our one day of sunshine.

del.icio.us Inbox

del.icio.us Inbox seems to be down again… has any­body heard any­thing about its status?

links for 2005-02-25

links for 2005-02-24

I am a kottke.org micropatron

I am a kottke.org micropatronJust arrived back from Vegas, and still catch­ing up on the web goings-​ons, having been unplugged for nearly a week… that is a long time with­out a fix.

Mr. Kottke quit his job to blog full-​time, so I sent a few bucks his way. You should, too.

This is where weblog­ging starts to get inter­est­ing — when you can make a living doing it, with your read­ers as your only shareholders…

links for 2005-02-17

Vegas, baby…

Presley and I are off to Vegas for nearly a week, to go to the High Rollers Week­end, AKA, the Las Vegas Scooter Rally. Morgan is the man, as he’s going to let us ride his gor­geous vin­tage Vespa GT while we’re there.

I’ve never actu­ally been west of Chicago, so I’m excited.

The weather, how­ever might not coop­er­ate. A quick glance at the 10-day fore­cast doesn’t make me hopeful.

Anyway, I’ll have photos and all the details when we get back. The funny thing is, my par­ents called to say that they would be there at the same time… which seems just not right.

links for 2005-02-16

links for 2005-02-15

dot org

If the site looks a little goofy right now, (ok, stop laugh­ing if you think it always looks goofy), hit refresh.

I’ve made some changes to the mast/logo, widened the con­tent area to hope­fully make the con­tent column more read­able, and finally switched every­thing from a suckahs.org sub­do­main to the real deal: nedward.org.

I’ve been putting off moving the domain for some time now, but through the mir­a­cle of .htac­cess files, I’ve hope­fully man­aged to make the move as pain­less as pos­si­ble — ned.suckahs.org (and the 500+ archive pages) should still func­tion prop­erly, though I rec­om­mend you update your bookmarks!

bostonist

bostonist

I just noticed that Boston now has it’s very own bostonist.com… look­ing for­ward to check­ing it out.

Though, I can’t imag­ine what could be posted about this town that would be worth reading.

Peepers

“Peepers”, posted by nedward

I was brows­ing around the Goril­laz site today, kind of look­ing for­ward to the new record, and I stum­bled across a link to a Birm­ing­ham UK art col­lec­tive, Beat13. I really liked the illus­tra­tions done by Lucy Mclauch­lan, so I ordered a screenprint… only £53.00, lim­ited edi­tion of 200.