Category Archives: general

Just regular kinds of stuff that happened (that doesn’t fit in other categories).

$2.99

Posted on September 3, 2005 | 4 comments

It’s sad, but I was excited last night to only pay $2.99 for a gallon of gasoline.

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Tagged Detroit, gasoline price, Michigan

Get someone to do your “homework” and benefit hurricane relief

Posted on September 2, 2005 | Leave a comment

This is a great thought, in an effort to support Hurricane Relief, Dean says:

For a confirmed donation of $50 to the American Red Cross, I’ll write a 600 word essay on the subject of your choice, with a minimum of two references.

I say you’ll be getting a deal for fifty bucks and he’ll post it or e-mail it to you privately. If you don’t read Dean’s World check it out (he blogs from Michigan). He’s “Defending the liberal tradition in history, science, and philosophy” and he talks about normal stuff like TV shows and the like…

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The Tori Concert

Posted on September 2, 2005 | Leave a comment

So I never got around to saying much about the Tori Amos concert the other night. I ended up getting great tickets, they freed some up a few hours before the show, so I ended up getting in the orchestra section a little on the right (row 4) so it was great. Totally different concert from when she was here in the spring, she played lots of old stuff then and (unfortunately) very little old stuff here.

One of the cooler songs she played was a excellent mix of God and Running Up That Hill, the latter being a Kate Bush song. She also played Starry, Starry Night I have heard her play before and I like it. A few other covers too, but I didn’t know them (I suppose they could have been a new song that I didn’t recognize). (I’m back, I just googled a set list) So here’s what she played, I would have guessed there were more songs, I thought she played close to two hours (at least 90 min).

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I’m wearing….

Posted on August 28, 2005 | 2 comments

I’m wearing my brand new blogography.com t-shirt today. I just thought you should know…

Be sure to check out Dave’s excellent blog sometime. He’s got great cartoons that he draws and he talks about all sorts of stuff (it’s not always about underpants).

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Tagged blogging, blogography, t-shirts

Blind Video-Gamer

Posted on August 22, 2005 | 1 comment

Brice Mellen is on G4 TechTV (Attack of the Show) right now. He plays Mario World and Mortal Combat and he’s blind. And in a few he’s going to play another sightless gamer in “the world’s first Sightless Gamer Mortal Kombat Challenge!” Here’s a link but they don’t really do show notes like they used to…

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Tagged games, iPod, iTunes, news, people, technology, techtv, video games

The Perfect Score – Review

Posted on August 20, 2005 | 1 comment

So a few weeks ago I noticed I was getting Showtime, I assumed it was a free preview weekend or something so I TiVo’d (taped) a few shows. One of those shows happened to be The Perfect Score, about a group of kids who decide to steal the answers to the SAT, tonight I got around to watching this one. It wasn’t until I was watching it for a few that I realized I had done that post about the SAT gizmo earlier today (duh!).

So the movie was fun, if you saw the preview it’s pretty much what you’d expect with a few “dream/fantasy” sequences about the planned crime itself. They really ripped on the the whole standardization pigeonholing concept of the whole test and the scoring and how your whole life can be based on this number. The one line that I liked was something like, “They tell us to be individuals our whole life and then stick us all in the same room to take the same test to determine the rest of our lives” (that’s very paraphrased).

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Tagged movies, TiVo

SAT practice

Posted on August 20, 2005 | 3 comments

So I saw this Franklin Princeton Review Pocket Prep for the New SAT device, it’s some kind of interactive digital flashcards for the new SAT. It’s got timed exams, vocab lists, tutorials and feedback based on your practice exams. This would have been handy, especially the timing, I think the timing is one of the hardest parts for people to prep for on these kinds of exams…