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…without having to burn it to CD
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“…hes famously bad at designing software for end users.”
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I wouldn’t touch this with a stick
Monthly Archive for February, 2005
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 KÀ 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…
“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”:http://flickr.com/photos/nedward/5339593/ or lose our life’s savings… No, instead we made due with “$2 forty-ounce lagers”:http://flickr.com/photos/nedward/5324660/in/set-134364/ 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”:http://flickr.com/photos/mrpants/, 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”:http://www.redrockcanyon.blm.gov/… we saw red rocks, and happily rode the “scenic drive” on our one day of sunshine.
* My Flickr photoset: “Vegas Scooter Rally 2005″:http://flickr.com/photos/nedward/sets/134364/
* Presley’s Flickr photoset: “Highrollers Rally 2005″:http://www.flickr.com/photos/presley/sets/138212/
* Mr. Pant’s Flickr photoset: “Las Vegas High Roller Weekend”:http://flickr.com/photos/mrpants/sets/135876/
* More photos on “Scoot.net”:http://scoot.net/gallery/2005/02/vegas/
“del.icio.us Inbox”:http://del.icio.us/inbox/nedward/ seems to be down again… has anybody heard anything about its status?
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I’m surprised the NYTimes picked this up…
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April 11, with Jeter and A-Rod looking on…
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try not to cry about it too much…
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“Because he’s basically saying: my name is my brand… That’s it. Blammo. No business model, no theme, no hint of what kind of content might be planned, other than the possibility that, like Seinfeld, it may very well be about nothing.”(categories: weblogs)
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rumors to make my pulse quicken
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hell hath frozen over…
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i’m also struggling to make this work… though I’m sticking with Del.icio.us for now, I hope someone comes up with a better way to fold links into the main content area… lazyweb anyone?(categories: weblogs del.icio.us)
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if you’ve ever seen my fashion sense, you’d buy this for me.
Just 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”:http://www.kottke.org/05/02/kottke-micropatron to blog full-time, so I “sent a few bucks”:http://www.kottke.org/about/patron/ 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…
Presley and I are off to Vegas for nearly a week, to go to the “High Rollers Weekend”:http://lvscooterrally.com/, AKA, the Las Vegas Scooter Rally. “Morgan”:http://flickr.com/people/mrpants/ 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”:http://www.weather.com/activities/travel/businesstraveler/weather/tenday.html?locid=USNV0049 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.
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i don’t quite like the “dashboard” page… seems to be a bit untidy.
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Farkers won the naming rights of Boston’s FleetCenter for 1 day
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graffiti asks the question we all want to ask…
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“quicksilver” should be at the top of the list…
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an excellent new photo gallery component for Flash MX 2004… and it can plug into the Flickr API
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was Sonny Crockett Irish? I hope they go with the same hip mid-80s wardrobe… and soundtrack!(categories: movies)
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guess what? it should only have cost them around $5.3 million…
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he’s right – it’s not “blogging” that will get you fired… it’s poor judgment.
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wish i had captured this one… must - remember - to - bring - digicam - everywhere - i - go
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”:http://suckahs.org subdomain to the real deal: “nedward.org”:http://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”:http://ned.suckahs.org (and the 500+ archive pages) should still function properly, though I recommend you update your bookmarks!
I just noticed that Boston now has it’s very own “bostonist.com”:http://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”, posted by nedward
I was browsing around the “Gorillaz”:http://www.gorillaz.com/ site today, kind of looking forward to the new record, and I stumbled across a link to a Birmingham UK art collective, “Beat13″:http://www.beat13.co.uk/. I really liked the illustrations done by “Lucy Mclauchlan”:http://www.beat13.co.uk/About_us/Artists/Lucy_Mclauchlan.aspx, so I ordered a screenprint… only £53.00, limited edition of 200.
