jamin on August 31st, 2003

I’ll be having a BBQ on Monday at my place, starting around 2pm. If you’re interested, come on over. Bring a side dish and your favourite beverage, if you feel so inclined.
Hope to see you there.
On a side-note, Dave Attell and Lewis Black are coming to St. Louis on December 12th. I [...]

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jamin on August 29th, 2003

I recently got back in touch with an old friend of mine, Bill Harmon. His band, The Strawmen has a new album, Saving Faded Dreams. I ordered my copy last week and I have to say it’s a great disc. You should buy it.
The lyrics are rich and there’s a few absolutely [...]

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jamin on August 29th, 2003

Last night I went on a Metropolis pubcrawl. The first bar I went to was The Cabin Inn at the City Museum. It was quite a surreal experience. First of all the City Museum is surreal, especially at night. Inside and outside the museum are ladders, ropes, slides, beams, an airplane, [...]

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jamin on August 26th, 2003

Well, this morning I started the process of quitting smoking, yet again. I added a block on the right side to show my progress. This time I was a bit smarter and know a bit more PHP so it calculates the number of days dynamically.
If you’ve been following the SCO vs. The Good [...]

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jamin on August 26th, 2003

Steve and I carpooled up to the Canton/Quincy area on Friday. Quincy is an interesting town. One of the most amusing sites was a trashcar that we couldn’t stop staring at. Ben was a nervous wreck. But it all turned out okay.
There was a lot of drinking at the [...]

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jamin on August 14th, 2003

Thanks to everyone for coming to the dinner/discussion. The food was delicious, the company most excellent, and the discussion engaging. It was good to see that everyone enjoyed TWHF as much as I did.
The next book discussion will be held on Monday, September 8th. We’ll be reading Phantastes.
We’ll discuss the menu and [...]

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jamin on August 12th, 2003

Thanks to Max Drown for his design of the new logo which is a vast improvement.
While I’m talking about aesthetics, I just want to remind everyone that this site looks best with the default theme (Sand_Journey) and using a Mozilla-based browser. In particular some of the icons look awful in IE due to IE’s [...]

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jamin on August 12th, 2003

Anonymous writes: Tiger Wood’s dad, Earl Woods, recently told Sports Illustrated, “Tiger will do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity.”
This amuses me.
-micah gray

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jamin on August 11th, 2003

Some of my good friends from highschool have set up an online store where they are selling swords at foolishly low prices. It looks like they have some great deals, so check it out.

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jamin on August 11th, 2003

Okay, the book discussion will take place this Thursday at 8pm at my house. Sorry for all the rescheduling; it’s been hard to find a day that works for everyone.
In addition to the discussion, some of us we’ll be meeting earlier (6pm) to cook and enjoy a meal together. We’d like to get [...]

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