Archive for May, 2006
Saturday, May 27th, 2006
Barbeque
Lenore and I went to a really fun barbeque today. There was all the fun stuff that you could want, volleyball, badminton, boche ball, drinks, food, a potato cannon, and fireworks. But what really added to it is that Dave has a collection of tin wind-up toys from the 1950s (which was really [...]
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
The Duncan Warehouse. It’s like the Holy Land for yo-yoers.
Takeshi and I drove down to Columbus Indiana today to go to the Flambeau (aka Duncan) warehouse. Takeshi had ordered some yo-yos, and I needed to get some too. It hadn’t occured to me that I needed to place my order in advance, but thankfully Michelle in Customer Service was very kind and made things [...]
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Monday, May 22nd, 2006
Mark Goes to the Indianapolis Speedway
Today I got to go to the Indianapolis Speedway in what may have been the best possible circumstances. I was going to see my friend Chuck’s wife Lynda ride around the track in a two-seater Formula One racecar. Chuck bought the ride for her to commemorate her 50th time seeing the Indy 500.
It’s pretty cool, [...]
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Sunday, May 21st, 2006
Toss Up Jugglefest
I LOVE juggling festivals. Love, love, LOVE them. This weekend is the Toss Up Jugglefest at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire IL. Yesterday was also the Illinios State Yo-yo Contest as a part of the festival, and I was a judge. In fact, I found out once I arrived that I was [...]
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Clouds….
It has now been cloudy for basically a week straight. Today I had to resort to battery power to try to work on my new solar widget. Tomorrow off to the hobby shop to try to get the last part.
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
Not Today
Cloudy days are not a good time to try to make something with solar panels.
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Making Gizmos
I am in Chicago for the next few days staying with my friends Harper and Matiss. Tomorrow is day two performing at Math Bowl 2006 down in Chicago Heights, and after that Harper and I are going to go to American Science and Surplus to buy parts to make new gizmos! It’s been too long [...]
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Indy Jugglers
Today I went to the weekly meeting of the Indianapolis Juggling Club for only the second time since I moved to Indy. My understanding was that the club only met in the summer, and since I am usually working on Sundays in the summer, I was only able to attend once before winter came. Today [...]
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Friday, May 5th, 2006
Jay Gilligan
Jay Gilligan and his buddy Erik Aberg are going to pass through town on their very brief Shoebox Tour on May 26th. Lenore has been helping me hook up a space for them to perform at Herron School of Art, and the show is going to be incredible. Now I just have to do some [...]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Secret project revealed!
Although it is still in the beginning stages, the time has come to reveal my new big secret project.
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It’s a site on renewable energy. The intention is for it to be a community where people can find all of the information that they need about solar, wind power, biodiesel, firewood etc. At some [...]
