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Video Blog #2 – Introducing… Krista
Click to Download Meet Krista… my parent’s golden retriever. I shot this when we first got her, when she was probably 10 weeks old. Most parents record and cherish their childs first words, their first steps, first day at school. … Continue reading
Video Blog #1 – Vanilla Coop
Click to download To kick off my new video blog, I bring you…. Vanilla Coop. In college, a buddy of mine, Cooper, made a career out of gettin’ funky to Ice, Ice, Baby whenever it happened to be played at … Continue reading
A day of video blog hunting…
Gearing up to start posting my own videos, so figured I’d spend some time checking out all the vlogs out there. Here was a good one about “The worlds youngest vlogger” Turns out there is a new kid in town, … Continue reading
Group seeks ban of 20th Century from Kansas school textbooks
As a resident of Kansas, I find this hilarious. Group seeks ban of 20th Century from Kansas school textbooks
This is what makes the internet so great
Via BoingBoing: Source “This is a video that apppears to be castmembers from Walt Disney World horsing around in character costumes — Belle performing a striptease, Tweedledee and Tweedledum administering a beatdown to Pooh, and so forth. Pretty mild stuff, … Continue reading
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Mobile Bash.org
Now that I realized how useful it is to code pages for cell phone use, another idea popped into my head. I constantly visit AvantSlash on my cell phone because http://slashdot.org/palm sucks. So why not make another geek favorite site … Continue reading
First AJAX script
Well, I finally got around to giving Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) a whirl. I wasn’t trying to do anything spectacular, just something functional to wet my appetite. I started out just wanting to allow people to send me text … Continue reading
Elephant
Having just finished watching the controversial film, Elephant, I’ll have to say that it was a very good, and also a rather haunting movie in which people will either love or hate. Some say this movie was Gus Van Sant … Continue reading
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How not to handle Hollywood success
I just finished watching the documentary Overnight, featuring Troy Duffy’s overnight rise and fall in Hollywood. If you don’t recognize the name, he was writer and director of the cult hit The Boondock Saints. TBS really was an entertaining movie … Continue reading
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