The late night “I wonder whatever happened to …” adventure
Thursday night when I was supposed to be doing non-stop packing for my move to Medford I also sprinkled in a little web travel checking in/looking for people I haven't talked to in a while. This seems to happen with reasonable consistency anytime I'm online past 2am. I stopped by Maggy Donea's MIMOand ...
New Year for America House Parties
I survived my all-night-of-packing and even managed to pick up the pace and get more than one box per hour packed. It looks like I may have most everything moved in time to go to Halley's New Year for America House Party on December 30th. She's hosting one of the hundreds of similiar ...
The Packing Up Your Apartment Webcam
It's too bad my webcam died. If it were alive I would turn it on so that anyone else hanging out at home tonight (who happens upon this website) could partake in the excitement that is slowmotionsoozpacking. I think I need to increase my packing speed. One box per hour is probably ...
Firsts and Lasts and the Moments In Between
The last Christmas with Michael and his family. The first Christmas without my mom who passed away suddenly in March a few weeks before her 56th birthday. The first time packing and moving in five years. The last weekend in this apartment. The first page of a new chapter. But it's not the first and...
Photos from Sushi Fest #6 at Osushi in Boston
I'm belatedly posting Sushi Fest #6 photos (thanks in no small part to my upcoming move!). Osushi made a cool printed menu for us, too. I'll try to get that scanned once I'm settled into my new place. We had two sets of tables with twenty people in attendance. I had ...
New tunes added to Exploit Boston! Radio
My Exploit Boston! website has been a neglected stepchild the past six weeks but I'm working on some updates this weekend to make it easier to keep up-to-date. First up: Exploit Boston! Radio. I added a bunch of new Boston rock / pop / alternative / indie tunes to the stream including new ...
High-flying hack
MIT News 11/17/2003: "A replica of the Wright brother's biplane "Flyer" was erected on top of the Great Dome at MIT by student hackers, in honor of the 100th anniversary of human, powered flight." The best part? "The model will be dismantled Thursday morning by Barber and Cunha, the Institute’s hack evaluation and removal team,...
Useful and Cool : Jewelboxing Super Jewel Box Packaging System
Jewelboxing is the brainchild of Coudal Partners, a Chicago design firm. For $49 you get a jewel box kit to package twenty CDs/DVDs including the plastic cases, paper inserts and labels. And of course they have a weblog called "Start Me Up" chronically Jewelboxing's startup biz adventures. They're also beta testing PayPal's ...
Useful web tool : 4096 Color Wheel
Oooh! The 4096 Color Wheel is a very useful web tool that includes three columns for the web-safe, web-smart and "unsafe" versions of one of the 4,096 colors you select. [Via What's New at Digital Web Magazine.]
A new tool for RSS junkies : My Feedster
The cool humans at Feedster have launched my Feedster, a web-based news (RSS) aggregator. Very nice! It's free to create an account which allows you to save posts and searches, import OPML Urls, etc. It's so nice to be able to access the feeds/websites I read without having to be at ...
Life’s Soundtrack, Continued
"Goodbye (This is Not Goodbye)" - Over the Rhine help me tell the truth you see that's all i'm trying to do is tell the truth i'm not that shy this is not goodbye and later on i won't know how i don't know who else to be more and more i'm secretly just me...
