Month: January 2009

Volume 63

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  1. Cassettes Won’t Listen – Paper Float
  2. Walter Egan – Magnet And Steel
  3. Nico – I’m Not Saying
  4. Canned Heat – Bullfrog Blues
  5. Daft Punk – Something About Us
  6. The Oranges Band – When Your Mask Is Your Revealing Feature 
  7. The Make-Up  – Save Yourself
  8. AM – Old Song
  9. Noah and the Whale – 2 Bodies 1 Heart
  10. David Byrne –  Ex Guru
  11. Blitzen Trapper – Furr 
  12. The Homophones – Everyone’s Dead 
  13. The Welcome Wagon – Half A Person
  14. Orange Juice – Rip It Up
  15. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention – I’m Not Satisfied
  16. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Sea Of Madness
  17. Paul McCartney – Hope Of Deliverance
  18. Various Artists (Wings-esque) – Love Take Me Down (To The Streets)
  19. Elvis Perkins In Dearland – Shampoo
  20. Graham Nash – Better Days

Damascus to Deposit

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This is the closes point where the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers meet. This only 16 minute drive connects you to two of the largest rivers in the Eastern U.S. (which do not intersect or become tributaries of another major river).


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Locations for Boudoir Photography

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“Here is a list of suggestions for locations where you can take your boudoir photography. It is likely that you will not have access to every location, but it should help to give you some ideas and get those creative juices flowing.” from John G. Blair’s Digital Boudoir Photography

These are all in the book. Honest.

Some seem pretty reasonable: backyard, back porch, bathroom, bathtub, beach (private), deck, on a bedspread on the floor, hotel room, family room, fireplace, home office, home library, home spa, hot tub, mountains, sand dunes, stairs, shower, stone wall, swimming pool, and tree.

Some seem questionable: car, dining room, front porch, guest room, motel, garage, log, trailer, and wooden fence.

Some seem unhygienic: kitchen, laundry room, and pantry.

Some seem impractical: 18 wheeler cab, 18 wheeler truck, bed and breakfast inn, brick wall, camper, chain-link fence, desert, field of wildflowers, private airplane, private elevator, and RV.

Some seem creepy-pervy: attic, basement, swing-set, tire swing, tree house, and tree swing.

Where do the miles go?

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Since buying my 1 year old Subaru Outback in February of 2006, I decided to keep track of how I put my miles on it. I don’t know how I have managed to be on the verge of putting 56,000 miles in 3 years. This averages approximately 50 miles per day. The significant increase from 07-08 lines up with graduate school. The car has also only taken 3 significant trips: Maine, Toronto, and The Outer Banks.

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For the Birds

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Birders rejoice, as there is at least a 50% chance of seeing a bird team win the Superbowl. Go Eagles!

Football

Bird teams in the NFC: 4 (Eagles, Falcons, Seahawks, Cardinals)
Bird teams in the AFC: 1 (Ravens)

Baseball

Bird teams in the AL: 2 (Orioles, Blue Jays)
Bird teams in the NL: 1 (Cardinals)

Hockey

Bird teams in the Eastern: 2 (Penguins, Thrashers)
Bird teams in the Western: 1 (Ducks)
Other teams with bird sounding names; 2 (Red Wings, Blackhawks)

Basketball

Bird teams in the Eastern: 1* (Hawks)
Bird teams in the Western: 0

* does not include the Raptors, even though they are diapsids

Why don’t people use Last.fm?

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I’ve been using Last.fm for almost 4 years now. I don’t understand why more people are obsessed with it like I am. It’s not complicated: create account, download and install plug-in, start enjoying trending your musical preferences, listen to very good streaming radio based on what your like to listen, add friends (real and virtual) and find new music to drown out the boredom of life.

They’ve also added features to help maintain tour dates of bands, cities, or venues… which can be read in .ical format.

Turning off the Twitter plugin

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TwitterTools plug-in is just not that helpful if you need some differentiation of tweets vs posts. 

TwitterTools needs:

• a way to distinguish tweets from a typical blog post

• needs ability to have a fixed title or at least a flexible title which is not just an abbreviated form of the content

• also would be nice if a WordPress theme could distinguish them and format them differently

Biomet Uniflex Femoral Nail

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A few days from now will mark the 16th anniversary of my first time skiing. It also marks the 16th anniversary of me breaking my right femur. In honor of that glorious month of 7th grade I missed, I decided to see if the surgery I had to repair the bone  is still being performed.

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The answer: yes. Pretty much nothing has changed if you break your femur in the same manner: Intramedullary Fixation for non-comminuted mid shaft fractures. It’s a pretty straightforward procedure: knock me out, cut hip open, drill a hole into the head of the femur, ream out the center marrow-y part, drive in 13.4 inches titanium nail, insert two proximal screws at the top end to hold the rod in place (keep it from moving up and down in the bone), put the end cap in place, and stitch and staple shut.

Read the brochure, and note the odd choice of text/graphics ala Ralph Steadman.

Being a thirteen year old, and having expectation to continue to grow for 5 more years,  I had the femoral nail removed after a year. I have it next to me as I type this.

2008 Highlight Reel

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• saw Leonard Cohen perform in Toronto

• saw Jonathan Richman perform in Philadelphia

• finished my masters degree

• Phillies win the World Series

• saw Stella live in Glenside

• visited Chicago and Toronto for the first time

• went to the beach twice

• Rudy Giuliani stakes it all on Florida

• Mitt Romney let the dogs out

• Hillary recalls being shot at by terrorists

• Obama keeps his mouth shout

(these are not in any particular order)