March 2007

Sanjaya Anthem

March 31, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAT27LhkQ-4So I don’t really watch American Idol that much – I mostly know about the show from when Carrie watches it, or Best Week Ever. But even I know that this guy is annoying and talentless.

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Strangely prophetic

March 31, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7da3iwxMUjUThis video was posted to YouTube last November. Given the season 3 finale of this past Sunday, it’s strangely prophetic.

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My old office building is on fire

March 28, 2007

500 W Monroe (2) Originally uploaded by phule. There’s a big fire in downtown Chicago today – not a whole lot of information yet, but thanks to Flickr, I was able to see some pictures. I worked at 500 W. Monroe for several years, and my friend Jeff works there now. Our favorite diner, the [...]

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Stratton Family Blog

March 23, 2007

If you want to add our “family blog” to your LJ friends list, just add strattonfamily . (ps, the only reason this is friends-locked is so that it doesn’t show up in my RSS feeds, which would be annoying)

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I’ll tumble for ya…

March 22, 2007

Thanks to a tip from Lifehacker (and divajess  ), I decided to re-do mattstratton.com as a Tumblelog using the free Tumblr service. Of course, that doesn’t supersede my Livejournal, but extends it somewhat. Basically, it’s an aggregate of public LJ posts, Flickr pictures, YouTube videos, my del.icio.us links, and pretty much any other random crap [...]

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Getting married in the electronic age

March 21, 2007

So seriously, this whole getting hitched thing, in the age of the webbertubes is really difficult to manage. First problem – Carrie’s email address is firstnamelastname @ gmail. Well, her last name is going to change. Gmail won’t let you rename your email account, so that’s the first problem. Second problem is that firstnamenewlastname @ [...]

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New Username

March 21, 2007

For various reasons, I decided to change my username here on teh El Jay. No longer am I mugsy1274. Now I am mattstratton . Don’t worry. You don’t have to do anything. Friends lists are automatically updated, and all references to mugsy1274 now point here.

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