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Posts from February 2008

Resolution

E-mail every client or boss or party to whom I am professionally responsible every day.


Lassoed Links

I have a deeply significant matter to discuss but I have not yet decided how to do so, or if I should at all. To break my recent silence, resulting from the aforementioned hesitation, I would like to share a selection of recent links that I found interesting.
First, a new stick figure slideshow cleverly and [...]


Dunking Usher!

Sam, Matty and I headed to the Supersonics game last night. The Supes finished off the Grizzlies 108 - 101, despite the absence of Kevin Durant and a recurring comedy of errors masquerading as Seattle’s offense. Seriously, who doesn’t score in a 3 on 2? And, Durant, you missed your own bobble-head night because of [...]


Whirling Dervish

Emlyn sent me this beautiful and fanciful display of longboarding prowess:

This video inspires me to dig out my Original Hybrid but then I remember that one of the trucks is totally broken and that Seattle hills are not so friendly.


“A Beautiful Smudging”

Steven Poole describes wonderfully the reader experience upon first enjoying José Saramago, the Portuguese Nobel Laureate. Saramago was without doubt my favorite new (to me) author of 2007. I will certainly read “Death at Intervals” based on Poole’s recommendation.


A Musical Week

My concert attendance has been picking up in 2008. AC and I saw the Decemberists perform on January 31st and this week is even better.
On Sunday, Brooke, Birch and I headed to the Showbox for scratchy goodness. I arrived five minutes into Kid Koala’s opening set to find the crowd hooting and hopping, obviously pleased [...]


The Political Spectrum of Congress

While doing some GovTrack data mining at work today, I came upon this graph of statistical analysis of bill sponsorship in the recent sessions of the United States Congress. I am not certain of the data’s usefulness, but it’s way neat regardless. And I do think it’s interesting that GovTrack considers Hillary Clinton a “radical [...]


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