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The decision to flee came suddenly….

I’ve installed this new blog on my main server because I’ve been frustrated at the lack of flexibility with my blogger blog. Blogger’s been very good to me these past few years but it was time to move on and have a grown up blog. I’m planning on posting photos on this blog and telling [...]

My Generation

My generation was among the first to grow up with television and certainly the first to grow up with satellite and cable television, and lately I’ve been thinking of what an impact this has had on me and my peers. It’s made some of us very unique people but it’s spawned a generation of people [...]

Leaping from the Edge of Earth

My esteemed colleague Nick shared this Boards of Canada video with me earlier. Part of the footage used is from Joseph Kittinger‘s famous Project Excelsior flight. The more I think about it and the more I watch the footage, the more strikingly amazing this achievement is to me. From an open gondola 102,800 feet above [...]

Your Next Favourite Band

max thom stahl2:15 yeah…..2:16 One of only three or four really famous things to come out of UCSC.2:16 The others being David Huffman and the Human Genome Project.2:16 Oh shit. I think I just named my next band….. alex2:16 Hahahaha2:16 AWESOME max thom stahl2:16 holy shit.2:17 All our songs would be written in such a [...]

The Protomen Rock; That is All

Ok. So. The Protomen fucking ROCKED, but let me back up for a second here…. I went to view two apartments today. One of them I was pretty set on but the other one I was kinda so-so on. The second one got shown by this guy Kyle who’s just getting into the real estate [...]

i am the greatest!

Got this week’s #1 high score at Fairway to Hell, a flash game available on Adultswim.com Oh yes that’s right. Number one! Booyah!!

Ridin' the Fave Wave

Hi there space cadets! It’s a beautiful new season here in Chicago and it’s a brand new Fave website, too. The new design and new data set are both online right now. The new design is thanks to Steven Weber, one of our video folks, with the assistance of extensive cajoling, ridicule, and mostly constructive [...]

A question about climbing Everest

So . . . you’re climbing Mt Everest. It’s -4°F and really windy. You’re climbing. . . . What happens if you have to pee?

OMG CUTE

Okay. It’s finally happened. I have found the cutest picture in the whole internet. BEHOLD! moar funny pictures

On the Subject of Hot Librarians

Hot librarians the world over: we salute you. max thom stahl9:44 I’d say being a librarian and hot is pretty much a 99% guarantee that I will be all up onz. David9:44 and they help you navigate their dewey decimal system in the stacks… max thom stahl9:44 yeah dude.9:44 and I act like it confuses [...]