The Myth: October 2008

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Friday, October 31

Handicapped Scooter

The bus is empty tonight, so my scooter gets two seats. Why don't more people use scooters?

Currently Listening To: The Ting Tings

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Kindle Count

I was explaining the Kindle to my parents tonight over dinner at Koi (my Yelp review), and wasn't sure how many Amazon has sold since the "wireless reading device" was launched one year ago.

Randomly, I just read Scoble's column in the new Fast Company and learned that an estimated 240,000 sold in the first nine months - less than I would have guessed.

They've got some work to do to get Kindle into the hands of over 4 million more people in the next couple years... I think I'm waiting for the second iteration of the hardware design.

Labels: amazon, magazine, yelp

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Wednesday, October 29

Target Field

I always thought General Mills should buy naming rights to the Metrodome and call it the Big G:

Our friends at Target beat us to the punch - the new ballpark will be called Target Field.

Kinda sad that this is news to me, given it was announced a month and a half ago...

Labels: baseball, minnesota, photo, twins

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Indeed that is sad. You are so close yet so far.

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Tuesday, October 28

Hairball On My Scatterplot

I was trying to plot dataset with its regression line, but something went horribly wrong...

Labels: data, nerd, school

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Sunday, October 26

What a Crock

Putting our wedding present to work on Karen's chili recipe...

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It was tasty! Good work, honey.

By Anonymous, at 10/27/2008 10:45 PM

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Saturday, October 25

From the Cockpit

Riding Metra into downtown Chicago on a cloudy Saturday morning...

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Thursday, October 23

A-ha

Watch this, and then this, and then this.

Labels: familyguy, funny, video, youtube

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Monday, October 20

Fam-Tastic

The new Fast Company arrived today, and I couldn't wait to read the cover story about Seth MacFarlane (the creator of Family Guy). Among other things, I learned that sethcomedy.com launched about a month ago. This is my favorite:

Labels: funny, magazine

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Yuck! You WOULD like that, though! :)

By Anonymous, at 10/21/2008 4:33 PM

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Sunday, October 19

Find Free Photos For Your Use

Right now, Flickr is hosting nearly 3 billion photos (which I determined after reading TechCrunch and trial-and-erroring my way to the 2,956,757,980th photo).

Many of them are private, and many more are "all rights reserved." But there are millions being shared with a Creative Commons license, which you can find using Flickr's Advanced Search and checking the box at the bottom of the page.

I wrote this for my mom, but hopefully it helps someone else!

Labels: flickr, numbers

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Friday, October 17

Har Har

Whoever writes John's speeches...

...is funnier than whoever writes Barack "Steve" Obama's:

Labels: funny, politics, video, youtube

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I disagree. Also, McCain can't deliver a line.

By Anonymous, at 10/17/2008 10:59 PM

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Thursday, October 16

Napa Cabbage Salad

Here's what's left of the salad we brought to the Random Walk Chile reunion last night - I should have made more! Thanks to Kelly for the recipe...

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Wednesday, October 15

Wedding Cake Part Deux

Aww, one of our Chile Random Walk trip leaders baked a wedding cake for me & Ankur!

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Not sure how I should feel about this! ;) But the cake sure was tasty!

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Layover

This is where I wait for the bus every morning, having ridden a Metra train into downtown Chicago. It occurred to me today that this tree won't have leaves for long...

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Monday, October 13

1 day, 3 posts?

Welcome to the blogosphere, Vogtman.

PS - blog posts usually link to things they refer to, but I'll forgive you since you're new...

Labels: blogs

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YouShould...

...be using YouMail.

That way, you could have every voicemail saved as an MP3 - making it easy to share your Mother- and Sisters-In-Law singing Happy Birthday with the whole Internet...

Labels: handy, photo, video, wedding

posted by Brad at 10/13/2008 06:29:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

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this post cracked my ass up. then i was interested in the service but then i remembered that my super cool Iphone already let's me do this for the most part. don't be a hater blackberry man. ;)

By H.Maxwell, at 10/16/2008 10:33 PM

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Birthday Brownies

My wife knows the fastest way to my heart - a pan of brownies...

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Saturday, October 11

Worn Out

Looks like the Acura needs an alignment pretty bad...

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My poor baby! Let's take care of her soon with all of our discretionary income! ;)

By Anonymous, at 10/14/2008 10:43 PM

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Thursday, October 9

Puma Clothing Tag

According to Puma's research, only 4% of people actually read the tags on clothes. I bet less than 4% of those people are amused enough to post a photo of the tag on their blog.

Kristi is so lucky, I'm one in a thousand!

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Gmail 'Goggles'

In case you're prone to drinking too much and sending e-mails you later regret, Gmail Labs just added 'Goggles' - they force you to answer several simple math problems when sending e-mails at times you can specify (after bar time, for example). I wonder if this works with Gmail Mobile?

Um, I had no idea that Gmail Labs even existed - this is one of more than 20 "features" you can try out...

Labels: drinks, funny, google

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Tuesday, October 7

Rainy Today

Before we know it, this rain will turn into snow...

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Monday, October 6

I'm A Consultant!

Well, sort of. I got my first choice project for the Business Solutions Group, which means I'm going to spend the next few months working with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Our team will help them evaluate their association with the Museum, and recommend a long-term strategy for how the relationship should continue (or not). It could impact what you find at artic.edu in the future...

Labels: art, chicago, school

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Thursday, October 2

Metra Student Discount Petition

I just became the 1,566th person to sign a petition for Metra to include those of us going to college in their description of a "student." Currently, we are not eligible for a fare discount, which really hurts on top of the whole tuition and lack of income thing...

Labels: chicago, school, travel

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Wednesday, October 1

Portfolio's "Podium Index"

Based on medals won in Athens divided by 2004 GDP, Ethiopia is the most efficient country and producing Olympic medalists...