June 2007

Goodbye, wedding presents…

June 27, 2007

Flood Originally uploaded by Matt Stratton. I fully realize that 6 inches of water in the basement does not constitute a crisis on the same level as many other people have experienced in their life, but it still sucks. Especially when you realize that your insurance does not cover flooding. Long story short, our basement [...]

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dSLR Tips Post

June 26, 2007

So since a couple of my friends have just recently gotten themselves some dope Rebel XTi cameras, I thought it would be fun to put a post in place (similar to my Firefox and Computer Security posts) that is a listing of tools, resources, and books that I have found useful in the foray into [...]

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Fizzle, mah nozzle…

June 26, 2007

So last night, Carrie and I went out to Fizz for a meeting of the Old Sad Bastards Club, to celebrate Mertz’s birthday. It was super duper PACKED at Fizz – in addition to the usual suspects of the OSBC, Mike and Dana were there and even Matt and Andy. And tavist   even showed [...]

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Doodle doodle do

June 22, 2007

It’s a slow Friday. I was super duper busy in the morning, but after lunch (which was a long one; we walked down to Millennium Park and had sandwiches while listening to an orchestra rehearse) I’ve had little to do. Everyone is out this afternoon (we don’t have official “summer hours” at the Bank, but [...]

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Boring old married couple

June 18, 2007

First of all, I’m sorry for STILL no blog post about the honeymoon. I swear, it is coming. We kept a paper journal and everything. But, um, we’re waiting until we get the pictures from our disposable camera developed. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Other things… Friday night, Carrie and I were considering going to Summerdance, [...]

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Need somewhere to back up your lolcats?

June 15, 2007

B&H has got a pretty good deal on the WD 1TB external drives. For under $400, you can have yerself a terabyte of storage. http://www.dealhack.com/archives/2007/06/wd_1tb_triple_interface_extern.html Enjoy!

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Confidential to Brian C

June 14, 2007

The 5 Worst Candies of All Time Out of everything on the list I’ve only had the displeasure of eating wax bottles and jawbreakers, probably because they came with goody bags from childhood parties and kids will eat anything artificially colored and borderline toxic as long as it’s sweet (me being one of these kids). [...]

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