Archive for July, 2007
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
I LOVE Me Some WeeWar!
I’ve been playing an online game for a while now called WeeWar. It is so awesome. It’s kind of like the board game Risk. Aside from the fun strategy, and scheming, and destroying, one of the things that makes the game great is that it is turn-based. I’m currently embroiled in [...]
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Moving in Three Days
Yes, it’s true. Just three days until Lenore and I move to Pittsburgh. There is a lot of work yet to be done and I am tired. Part of the tiredness might have to do with the fact that I drove almost 300 miles today, and it is currently 1:27 am.
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Driving Model Trains With Uncle Bill
Today was the last day of the International Jugglers Association Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It was awesome. If you juggle you HAVE to go to an IJA festival. It’s just amazing. The Saturday night public show may have been the best show I’ve ever seen. Check out Get The [...]
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Better Ranking Through Good Design- How to Pick a Website Designer, and Why You Need One
I wrote this article for a now-defunct Search Engine Optimization (SEO) site, and I think it’s a good article, so I thought I’d share it here.
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In a previous post I talked about the importance of Covering the Basics First when dealing with search engine optimization. My first point was that you need to be [...]
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
Working on a Mark Hayward DVD with Takeshi
I have been gathering footage, and mulling over ideas for this project for years. Many of my performer friends have DVDs that they sell after their shows. I have wanted to make one for years, but having the high standards that I do, I wanted to make a really high-quality DVD so it took a [...]
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Warning: Possible Certified Check Scam on Performers
I recently got referred for a gig by a friend of mine. It was a wedding/anniversary celebration in Jackson Tennessee. I actually thought it was a legit gig until we started to talk about money. The guy said that he wanted to get my address right away so that he could have [...]
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Watch for me on Nickelodeon’s Slime Across America
Yesterday, as I was setting up to do my first street show at Summerfest in Milwaukee, there was a big camera crew standing in front of me. I went over to ask what they were doing, and to see if they were going to be staying right there for long since I wanted to [...]
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
A New Career High: My Face on a Birthday Cake
One of the reasons that people become performers is that they like the attention. Most of the time that attention comes in specific, expected forms. But I was recently offered an awesome new format: my photo on a kid’s birthday cake.
Elijah’s mom took this photo of us after a show at the Burlington [...]
