tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94157612024-03-14T00:33:47.061-05:00Standard "oh this is nothing" false humility to hide the embarrassing fact that I think these posts merit exposure to the entire World Wide Web.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger204125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9415761.post-79013083283161504202010-07-07T11:14:00.002-05:002010-07-07T11:16:38.401-05:00

Watch this clip all the way to the end - the infographic at the end is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-july-14-2004/the-boys-in-the-ban

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This experience last night at 2am had me both extremely pleased and somewhat profoundly depressed.I dusted off my Sony HC3 HD camcorder. It had been retired because it--gasp!--shoots on magnetic DV tapes. Yecchh. Tapes. What a pain. I had moved on to a snazzy Canon HF100 that writes to SDHC cards. Pop the SDHC card into a card reader and, voila, video files are ready to go.But this seemingly

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"I was once present when the poet was asked by someone, 'Sophocles, how are you in sex? Can you still have intercourse with a woman?' 'Silence, man,' he said. 'Most joyfully did I escape it, as though I had run away from a sort of frenzied and savage master.' I thought at the time that he had spoken well and I still do. For, in every way, old age brings great peace and freedom from such things."-

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Pointless entertainment gossip site E! Online's report of the death of John Travolta's son includes this excerpt:Travolta, wife Kelly Preston and their chidren, Jett and daughter Ella Bleu, arrived in the Bahamas on Dec. 30 and were joined by friends and family before Jett's death for a long-planned party over the holiday week.Many of the friends are from Florida and nearly all are staying at Old

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Use the usual password to access:View each video at vimeo to see my comments (click on the name of each video in the lower left). Not all vids have comments though.Min - doubles from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Emily - fulls from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Jenny - giants from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Callie - front giants from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Darek - handspring-front from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Emily - tsuks

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A friend in my M.Ed. program responded to an email thread in which I said that some of the worst inner-city schools really do need to be shut down. I listed off some of the deep, systemic problems I observed first hand. He responded:"and that's why we go teach out in the burbs. the schools that really don't need us."That got me a little pissed. Here's my response:I know you said "we" but I think

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Emily - Pak Saltos from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Jasmine - Arabian fronts from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Tyler - Back Fulls from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Molly - Laid out front #1 from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Molly - Laid out front #2 from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Molly - Laid out front #3 from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Molly - Laid out front #4 from Keith Mukai on Vimeo.Jasmine - Beam handstand power down from Keith

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Puh-lease. Bill Ayers is hardly my favorite person on the planet but here's a fact to chew on: I've spent more time with Bill Ayers in the last decade than Barack Obama has.There I've said it. I admit to it fully and willingly of my own accord.Bill Ayers is currently a professor at UIC. I'm an M.Ed. candidate in UIC's College of Teacher Education.Ayers was invited to debate my English 557

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Thanks to Sal's video presentations on the economic crisis and the bailout plan I think I finally get what's going on here. But what I don't get is why the Fed, the president, the Senate, and even Warren Buffet are supporting the Paulson plan. It seems like only a half solution that is fraught with risk.I think it would make a lot more sense to take an equity stake in failing banks rather than

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Okay, forget my last post. It is a good primer but it makes everything seem deceptively rosy if you don't know how the one piece it talks about fits into the broader picture.What you need is a crash course on finance and then a specific discussion on where we are today and exactly how Paulson's plan would affect the situation.A friend and former co-worker of mine, Sal Khan, has posted a series of

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I found the post linked below to be immensely helpful in understanding the economic recovery plan. It is NOT a bailout plan. No one is getting free money they don't deserve. The irresponsible banks and CEOs are not profiting off of this either; they would be selling their troubled loans to the government for a loss.Bailout or bonanza? Part 1: what do you do?I think almost nobody understands the

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Let me get this straight: House Republicans slowed the weekend meeting at the White House and prevented the $700bil banking credit relief plan on the table then from being approved.They rightfully expressed their disagreement and engaged in their own bipartisan House discussions.After days of work, both Dem and GOP House leaders thought the compromises were good enough to put the bill before the

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I've been trying to come up with a definition of sports ever since my racecar driving ex-roommate argued for car racing as a sport.After watching just five seconds of rhythmic gymnastics, I find the question screaming in my head again. I may not be able to define what a sport is, but I know this sh*t sure ain't it.Defining "sport"Rule 1: CompetitionFirst of all there has to be a competitive

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If you're interested in learning more about what documents have been uncovered concerning the now-controversial age of Chinese gymnast He Kexin, see:Stryde Hax: Hack the Olympics!I don't know if the above sleuthing is the primary reason for the IOC finally pushing the FIG (the international gymnastics oversight body) to investigate the Chinese gymnasts' ages, but it's pretty interesting

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There's a mini-controversy about the age of members of China's gold medal-winning women's gymnastic team. The fishiest age is that of gymnast He Kexin, whose age varies between 13 and 16, depending on the source.see: Earlier state media report listed gymnast He's age as 13My cynical side immediately leapt to her reported birthday: January 1st, 1992.January 1st? If the Chinese government

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My favorite audiophile cable company, bluejeanscable.com, has been accused of patent infringement by consumer grade audio conglomerate Monster Cable. But first, who is bluejeanscable.com? I'm not sure how I first heard of them, but I quickly came to really like and appreciate bluejeanscable.com for their honesty and pragmatism. With the exception of my custom-made high-end power cables, my entire

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My writing hero, Joss Whedon, has just launched his new Web-only project and, as the LA Times says, it's proven a "site-crashing success"The whole point--other than to entertain us with more Joss goodness--is to try to reinvent the entertainment distribution model. Can good work be produced without major studio control and financing? Can non-studio projects make money on the Web?Acts I through

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An amusing post on a discussion thread that was bashing and praising Pixar:"Yeah, Cars was my least favorite. Still, that's like saying I have a least favorite child. I mean, you do, but you still love it."see: A.V. Club InterviewsAnd my own take on WALL·E:banzai's review of WALL·E

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A profile headline from Match.com:"hello, hello!!! I 'm going to try this!!!maybe is going to work maybe not...who know's...any way you can ask me more..."Any adult woman that can make two egregious grammatical errors and a third less severe error in the span of two lines is pretty impressive.I think I'll send her a flirty message: "High their."

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I saw this snippet in an interview on Sony's 4k digital cinema initiative:"we’re taking the Cell workstation, a hyperspeed engine developed for PlayStation 3, and targeting the deployment of that into the 4K DI process, so you have 4K rendering in real time. Right now, 4K rendering takes close to forever. We believe we can create functional 4K DI processes based on the Cell workstation that will

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Lisa and Dan are hard at work building out their new chiropractic office.view photos of the work in-progressMy minor contribution was their Website:see: www.HealingHandsOfSkokie.comMostly this post is just to provide another Web link to their domain name. The way Google works is that the more that other sites reference a particular site, the more prominent that site is considered in the search

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see: Photographer speared by javelin at Utah meetThe best part:Ryan McGeeney of the Standard-Examiner was spared serious injury in Saturday's mishap, and even managed to snap a photo of his speared leg while others worked to help him.

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I used my annual bonus to finally complete my stereo system. I'd been holding off on buying a subwoofer until I had the money to spend and until I had a place where I could actually let a sub crank away without disturbing neighbors.I'd originally decided to get the Velodyne DD-15 but saw a good deal on a DD-18--the monster big daddy of the line--and figured what the heck. It's in cherry and very

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I spent about four hours today working on the second solo from "Sweet Child O' Mine".It's pretty easy but I can't figure out the last bit; I've got the tabs but they make no sense to my ear so far.listen: Sweet Child O' Mine solo 2I can just barely do the half-step bends, though you'll hear some sourness in there. The whole-step bends are too much, so I have to change them to hammer-ons or

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I have two minor musical victories to share.I'm not saying these are earth-shattering performances--I'm not even claiming that they're good!--but considering that I'm starting from nothing, I'm psyched and my progress makes me happy.listen: "And I Love Her" soloI know it's a little choppy, but it's getting there. Notice all the fun slides. The solo itself isn't terribly hard but it's very

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