I had the last two weeks of July off and here's what I was up to:

Friday, July 17, 2009: VNV Nation concert at the 'dise in Boston. Great show as always. They opened with Joy, which is one of my favorites, but they didn't play Praise the Fallen. Someone shouted for them to play Joy in the middle of the show so Ronin mocked them. I would have ( Read more... )

Sad? Ironic?  You decide.  I'm a little late in posting this but this little flag was stuck in my sandwich at work last week to celebrate Independence Day.  It's essentially just a paper flag on a toothpick.  This could be made anywhere, including at home on an inkjet printer.  But it was made on the other side of the world by a country that ( Read more... )

I was back in NY yesterday and my uncle asked me to translate Boston to English in this Avis commercial that airs frequently on the YES network.  Forget about it.

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My mom really likes the Fourth of July.


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   Many moons ago I signed up for a Chase Freedom card.  It's a pretty good $0 annual fee cash back rewards card, which unlike some others I've seen doesn't start earning cash back only after you've spent thousands of dollars.  They offer 3% cash back rewards on your top 3 spending categories from a list of about a dozen.  They automatically ( Read more... )

This informative video is like a window into the kind of crap Tracey and I end up talking about during dinner.  It points out the absurdity of my favorite genre of music being based around a 6 second sample from 1969 and then closes with a 5 minute look at the impact of copyright law on creative growth, raising the question of whether this ( Read more... )

I got 8 hours of sleep this weekend, not too bad.  The results of this year's Team 47 creation for the Boston 48 Hour Film Project will premiere tomorrow evening May 5, 9:30 PM at the Kendell Square Cinema in Cambridge, MA.

Title:  Fair Warning
Genre: Surprise Ending
Required Elements:
Character:Marty or Mary Quinzani, Second-in-CommandProp:a magnet ( Read more... )

Oh wow.  Should I submit this to FARK's "Photoshop This" series?


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I just had a 4.11% APY CD with BoA mature and I'm not finding many good options for where to put this particular pile of coin. My banks keep dropping my savings rates weekly and no one seems to have any CD offerings greater than about 2.75 ( Read more... )

"Times is tough," or so the country songs would say. I'm not really programmed to look at getting no raise and a decrease in our allowed employee stock plan participation as "lucky," but since most in my industry are looking at several weeks forced time off without pay this year I suppose I won't complain (much). But one nice thing going for me ( Read more... )