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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Wendy Spitzer-Gumout

Wendy took some more test photos for the Graveyard Fields photoshoot. Here’s the keeper:

the Bulls hit a homer

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

What an arc. Between Amanda’s funeral and an uplifting Heypenny show there was a large range of emotions for Jon and I. The night ended with a “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” sing-along: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Billy Sugarfux at the Cave

Last Sentence rule of Wikipedia

I’ve seen this enough that I feel like announcing this general rule of thumb: The last sentence of a section of a Wikipedia article is the most likely to be the least useful. This arises from contributors not thoroughly reading an article (or not reading it at all) and thinking, “oh, I have something to [...]

Panoramic photo with Pano

A nice, drizzly day walk to the park.

Rob and Diana at Duke Gardens

We are Graveyard Fields

Graveyard Fields: a favorite of the Blueridge Parkway. Kind of a magical spot with wide, open spaces in an area normally packed with trees. There is not much dirt between the sky and solid rock and this depth is cut right to the quick by a stream running through the park which rolls into waterfalls [...]

My iTunes star ratings

No stars: Brian, listen to this song and rate it already! One star: Delete this song later. You wish to hear it never again! Two stars: Reserved for songs that wouldn’t make sense if played for a party. This includes comedy sketches, novelty songs, holiday songs, weird inner tracks, etc. Three stars: This is a [...]

iTunes adopts Taco Bell pricing: .69, .99, $1.29

I’m going to quickly address the game last night: What the hell? I mainly watched Mad Men episodes and occasionally flipped to the score. So long, ’05. On to the real news: iTunes tiered pricing! Jobs fought this for so long. I forget his reasoning but he hated the idea of different prices for different [...]