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Confidential to Mr. Parks

Today’s Chicagoist includes an interview with Michelle “Toots” L’Amour, of Lavender Cabaret:

ML: I’m “the ass that goes …

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Fun time waster with flickr

Here’s something neat I came accross today.

Name That Contact is an online game that uses the Flickr API to show you photos from your contacts. …

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A Chanukah miracle …. of video encoding

Last night, I was finishing up a project I’ve been working on for Darlyn- it’s a DVD of her law school musical from earlier in the year. …

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Grandpa’s birthday

Got this email just now from my mom. Some of you may remember me talking about my grandpa during the Cubs playoff run in 2003 (that is, I talked about …

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Birthday fun

Debbie
Originally uploaded by mugsy1274.

Went to my mom’s house last night for a pre-birthday thingerdoodle (my birthday isn’t …

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Thanksgiving

So I decided to (literally) stay home for Thanksgiving this weekend.

My folks and sisters are going to a family friend for the holiday tomorrow, and …

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Oh jeez

Apparently there was just a big train crash in Elmwood Park. A Metra train hit a bunch of cars, and 13 people are injured.

Which is sad. But …

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Thanks, Marcelo!

From The Field Guide to North American Hipsters, Vol. I

To refer to emo as an entire subculture centered on being vain, melodramatic, pathetic, …

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Jazzman

Jazzman
Originally uploaded by mugsy1274.

I was playing around a lot today, trying to understand my camera better. This is a picture I took …

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I think I need a new monitor

My monitor is pretty old; it’s a Samsun SyncMaster 700s, which I think I bought in, um…1997? It seems to work fine, except for when I try …

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mac.geek/information management questions

So I have information all over the place, and I really want to keep it in a smart way.

For background, here’s how I do things right now:

I use …

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My latest contribution to the webbernet

I’ve started a new blog detailing my lunchtime adventures. It started because we’d been talking about how we should start a review site …