Archive for July, 2006
Sunday, July 30th, 2006
Off Again
Tomorrow I’m off to Cassopolis MI for a fair for 3 days, and then it’s back up to Wisconsin for the WI State Fair. I like the fair, it’s always fun and pretty relaxed, although it gets brutal when it’s hot. Unlike Summerfest you have no relief from the cool breese off the lake. I [...]
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
A Great Movie: An Inconvenient Truth
Let me just say upfront that I knew I was going to like An Inconvenient Truth before I ever even saw a preview for it. That being said, it is a great film. I thought Al Gore actually avoided being alarmist while he was sounding the alarm. Most environmental messages move very quickly into the [...]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Origami is an Extreme Sport… Who Knew?
I just read an incredible article in Discover magazine about the cutting edge of origami. Those crazy kids are doing some astounding things with a single piece of uncut paper! The focus of the Discover article is Robert Lang who created a computer program that gives you a diagram of all the folds you need [...]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
7/26/2006
Ate breakfast (Apple Jacks cereal… I’m not proud). Went to dog park. Took dog home, went to get oil changed and steering column recall done on Prius. Brought Taco Bell to Lenore at work. Forgot guacamole. Went to Takeshi’s house. Talked about his yo-yo DVD project. Painted some yo-yos. Came home. Fed and walked the [...]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Home Again… For a Little While
I think I am now mostly recovered from the Portland IJA festival. It was a lot of fun, and there was just enough craziness and stupidity to generate some good stories. In other words, Crash was there. My last Portland festival memory was Crash’s foot bleeding all over the pool deck after a failed attempt [...]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
7/22/06
Juggling is awesome.
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Good Times In Portland
The IJA festival is going great as expected. In addition to seeing some great juggling, and doing a little myself, I decided that this is a good time to learn to whistle the loud way. You know, the kind where you put your fingers in your mouth and deafen everyone around you. It’s pretty funny. [...]
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
Portland Bound
In a mere 7 hours I leave for the International Jugglers Associations annual summer convention! This year it is in Portland OR, and it’s gonna be fun. I don’t know if I’ll get around to posting the week I’m out there, it’s usually hard to get away for normal life things during a juggling fest.
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Life on the Road… an Over-Detailed Snapshot for the REALLY Curious
Yesterday, Vader (my dog) and I left Indianapolis around noon Eastern time. We stopped briefly at the library to get what turned out to be a boring audiobook. I’m actually still in the middle of listening to Dune by Frank Herbert (and it’s AWESOME!) but it’s on cassette and I wanted to take the good [...]
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
I Am SO Famous
Mark Hayward in the media once again. Check out www.intakeweekly.com/partycrasher/ and click on the July 7th gallery.
