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Sunday, November 27, 2005
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After a month,we're back [posted by Troy]
It looks like our technical troubles are behind us. I basically rebuilt the blog, and now, we are up and going again. Several of you have asked if we were ill or if Kim ditched me or something. Sorry, nothing that exciting. Just some technical issues that, to be honest, I don't really get. So, we've got some catching up to do. Thus, I've thrown up a bunch of posts. While we were gone some friends traveled the world, others came to visit us, Wrigley Field lost its walls, and we learned that our friends don't know Alan Arkin. Thus, I've tried to play catch up a little bit. Enjoy...
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...she is a very, very understanding and supportive wife. [Josh Fan Club]
How many of you know that Josh has been traveling around the world, in an MTV show (see this one, or this site), and starting a business? Well, thanks to our friends at QC Online, the entire Internet knows about Josh's life. It is only right that I reprint this article, since it is passworded on the QC Online site.-----------------------
Entrepreneur spends career playing games
By Darla M. Wiese, dmwiese@qconline.com To many, Josh Carlson, 29, is living the dream-life. Mr. Carlson used to spend a lot of time playing computer games at home. Now he spends lots of time playing computer games at work. He also spent most of October traveling around Europe, Asia and South America ... all for his job... "She shares no enthusiasm for my interests at all, none...
Click here to read the entire article.
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Rent [posted by Troy]
525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes
how do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
In 525,600 minutes - how do you
measure a year in the life?
How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love. Seasons of love.Kim and I went the film adaptation of the movie Rent on Wednesday. I have to say that this is one of the greatest modern musicals. It has so much to say, and anyone engaged in arts, worried about AIDS, or likes good music, will enjoy this musical. Interestingly enough, this is one movie that I don't agree with Ebert's review of the film. He gives it a mediocre thumb up, and I think that this work deserves so much more. If you have a chance to see it, you should.
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Tear Down This Wall! [posted by Troy]
Well, they are expanding the Wrigley Field bleachers. Kim and I drove by and snagged these photos:
You can see more photos on the Cubs' Web site.
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Future of TV, Radio, Media? [posted by Troy]
Did you see AP Article about TiVo and IPod putting content on IPods? This is clearly a step to the future: decentralized content in your hand any time you want. Log in, take what you want, watch it when you want. Very cool. Personalized. Ready to watch. I like it.
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Oh, how quickly we forget [posted by Troy]
I have done an informal survey of friends and family. It seems that we have forgotten Alan Arkin who was a founding member of the 2nd City. Kim and I particularly enjoyed Alan Arkin at the police captain in the film So I Married an Ax Murderer.
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Google Print [posted by Troy]
You may have heard that Google Print is causing quite a stir. Actually, now that I think about it, you probably haven't heard about it, but it is causing all of us nerdy academics-types to pay attention. Google is offering public domain books for free, and it is to scan in book collections. Writers are suing Google over the program. We are all keeping on eye on the program, because it will have serious implications for how information is distributed in the future. Since most of human kind's information is still in print form, there is a benefit to moving it to online form. However, many of us are worried about giving this much information to a for-profit corporation (even one as good as Google). For a good debate, check this out. Copyright expert, Siva Vaidanathan was interviewed about this. Check it out: -------
BOB GARFIELD: If not Google now, then who? And when? Who should be in charge of deciding which books get scanned?
SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN: Well, I actually think that this is the job of libraries. I think libraries should be doing this first and foremost. The Library of Congress should have identified this as a major public need and goal and pursued this sort of project years ago. Instead, they've outsourced it to a private corporation, and this corporation, as good as they like to make us think they are, is still operating by keeping us blind. Their technology is proprietary. Their algorithms for search are completely secret. We don't actually know what's going to generate a certain list of search results. They don't work for us.
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Conversations with DeLeon [posted by Troy]
During the time that we crashed, DeLeon made a move to a new Web site. Wanted to make sure you saw this.
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Eeyore Feeding Nathan
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