October 2006

NaNoWriMo

October 30, 2006

So after hearing people like and talk about it all the time, I decided I would sign up for the National Novel Writing Month challenge. That’s right. In the month of November, I will be attempting to write a 50,000 word “novel”. I have no idea for a story. I have no ideas for characters. [...]

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Hot chicks and Colin

October 29, 2006

Hot chicks and Colin Originally uploaded by Matt Stratton. Just thought it was funny that on Flickr, my “Photos from Your Contacts” showed three hot girls in red and black… …and Colin.

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Yehoodi

October 28, 2006

If you’re having trouble getting to Yehoodi, here’s why -somehow, they got their domain name snaked out from underneath them by Russian spammers. I have already alerted Frankyboy – who, like me, wasn’t having any trouble getting to the site (since the snakeage happened this morning, systems like mine and Frank’s, which had accessed the [...]

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New Laptop

October 26, 2006

My new laptop for work is in the “approval” phase. Hopefully it will go through, although I’m sure it will take a LONG time (it has to go up about five levels above MY boss to get approved). Here’s what my boss ordered for me: Dell Latitude D620 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7200 (2.00GHz) 14.1 [...]

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Peekaboo?

October 26, 2006

So I just signed up for a gym membership with Crunch (found out my company has a pretty darn good discount deal with them), and was looking at the various locations in Chicago (I’ll be going to the one at Chicago and Orleans, incidentally). Well, a few of the locations (not the one I will [...]

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You can’t make this stuff up

October 25, 2006

Brian: we should come up with one for you and Carrie Matt: we could be MC Matt: like as if we were rappers Matt: that would be cool, because then we could “throw down” and “keep it real” and “hizzy the plozzy” Brian: how about catty catty gummat bubblecarrie matty fork

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Attention Old Sad Bastards

October 23, 2006

The Old Sad Bastards club will be meeting this Wednesday, 9 PM, at Green Dolphin Street. Put on your dance shoes and meet us so that Carrie can practice open tuck-turns.

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