This happened 6 miles away from my house on 35W. The bridge collapsed and cars entered the water. I was actually driving north on the same highway, about 3 miles south of this bridge. Since I live south of downtown I didn't cross it, thankfully. I got an e-mail on my phone about it only minutes after it happened. Also, a friend of mine who was ( Read more... )

Still no pictures up yet. Monday, I swear.

I've been looking forward to getting a new computer, and a notebook at that. I think I might be able to buy it in a month or two. Just waiting for it to fall on discount. I have waited very patiently for years. This is the time to buy one…

• Backlit-LED displays. Brighter, lighter, gives better battery life ( Read more... )

iPhone Day was amazing! I decided to go into work after I came in from Japan just because I knew it was going to be something special. It was incredible, everybody from work was in, and it was just awesome ( Read more... )

Hey! I got a promotion!

P.S. I leave for Japan on Thursday!

So I went on a date Friday. At least, I'm pretty sure it was. Went to the park, went out for milkshakes, followed by Perfect Stranger (we were going to see 300 but they closed it at the theater finally ( Read more... )

This is probably the most awesome I've been in quite a while. I'm up to so much, it's fantastic.

Things I'd like to do in the next week:

• Clean room inside and out
• Clean car
• Spend a day taking pictures of the city
• Walk around Lake Calhoun
• Walk around Lake Harriet

Wednesday night a group of us get together to play games, and this week we decided to put on a Japanese party. Sushi, dried squid jerky (hehe), Sapporo, sake and plum wine. And you can't forget about the Pocky. It was a good time.

No, I had a great time. I connected with a girl that night. She and I got a little drunk and we were a bit goofy. We ( Read more... )

Well, I found it.

Doves
The Last Broadcast
"Words"


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I hear this almost every day at work, playing in the background. Anyone know this song? (I recreated the melody using GarageBand.)

http://web.mac.com/martin.proud/whatisthissong.m4a

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