Monthly Archives: July 2005

Softball World Series!

By | Published: July 22, 2005
We are currently on a 10 game winning streak that started towards the end of the regular season and has catapulted us through the playoffs. We sent every team we played in the playoffs down to the losers bracket and this weekend we have “best 2 out of 3″ series with the winner of the [...]
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16th & Union, Assault

By | Published: July 8, 2005
I am walking up to my house and a helicopter screams by. After some investigating I find that 16th and Union is completely blocked off with police and firetrucks. Thanks to the live 911 page, I find out that there was a 911 call reporting “Assault with weapon”. I have yet to see anything in the [...]
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A reason to go to Madison, WI

By | Published: July 7, 2005
Well yet another thing to add to my travel schedule next year, Brat Fest. Claiming to be the worlds largest festival of its kind. I really found the Brat stats to be the most impressive. 189,432 Brats consumed in 4 days, which would be 17.94 miles of brats stacked end to end. 98.7 BPM, no [...]
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Dischord Records gets Swooshed

By | Published: July 6, 2005
This is old news for most, but I just came across it this evening and feel compelled to post something about it. NikeSB (skateboarding) in a recent ad campaign for their east coast tour had some rather curious looking artwork: Looks a little like this: There has been tons of bantering online about this; legal aspects, wether or [...]
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Street Musician @ The "Food Hole"

By | Published: July 5, 2005
Quite a few people in our office make a lunch time pilgrimage to Whole Foods, aka “Food Hole”. We have had many encounters with the guy outside playing guitar. He frequently cracks jokes about a coworkers blue hair, sometimes using the word “freak”. Another coworker has decided in the past to fight fire w/fire and [...]
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Ok Cupid Lebowski Test Results

By | Published: July 5, 2005
Crap, I figured I would have scored 100%. I am not as much of an achiever as I thought. Urban Achiever You scored 95%! Shit yeah, the Achievers. Yes, the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers and proud we are of all of them. You are an Achiever, you know everything Lebowski, you probably [...]
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Need a Systems Engineer OLN?

By | Published: July 3, 2005
So I awake early this morning hoping to get some coverage of the Tour, free pay or otherwise. I figure someone must offer streaming coverage (haven’t found it yet). I attempt to visit OLN’s website and am greeted with this: Apparently someone OLN does not understand the concept of friendly application errors, so you don’t give away [...]
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Greenlake Bike House Update

By | Published: July 1, 2005
Last year I reported on the bike house near my office.The residents (which I have never met) are always up to some kooky stuff. I have contemplated knocking on their door a couple of times but have never quite mustered up the courage. Since my last report we have seen some cool stuff in their front [...]
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On the phone again (sung to the tune of on the road again)

By | Published: July 1, 2005
Last week a bought a P800 to replace the one I lost last summer. It showed up today, I am very happy to have another one of these phones. The p800 is end of life and was replaced by the p910 or p900. Which of course has brought the price of the p800 down quite [...]
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