jamin on June 27th, 2005

You are Wallace Stevens. You love everything,especially the sound of things. Too bad youare so obscure that at times even you don’tunderstand what the hell you have written.
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jamin on June 21st, 2005

Over the Rhine is playing here in St. Louis at Blueberry Hill this Friday. I would describe Over the Rhine as the result you get when you take the Angel with the sexiest voice in Heaven, put her in front of a talented rock band, and then give her pure poetry to sing. [...]

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jamin on June 10th, 2005

Glynn: I think it’s a great idea to publish recipes without exact measurements. In fact, when I cook, I don’t generally get out the measuring cups/spoons. I just throw in what I think looks good. So when I wrote the recipe I had to estimate. Half the fun of cooking is [...]

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jamin on June 9th, 2005

Kielbasa and vegetables is another quick meal that I like to make. Since my last recipe I obtained a rice cooker and have been making heavy use of it.

1/2 lb Kielbasa sliced.
1 cup cooked rice
1/2 green pepper sliced
6 mushrooms sliced
1 small zucchini sliced
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon Sherry or cooking [...]

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Well, maybe not. But after going to the game last night, we all ended up at Paddy O’s and saw a few of the players. I tapped Jim Edmonds on the shoulder and said something about the game and he brushed me off and said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah…” and walked away. A [...]

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jamin on June 6th, 2005

Yesterday we celebrated my niece’s first birthday.

Tommy and Lilley relaxing on the back porch

Lilley enjoying some cake

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jamin on June 4th, 2005

Last week my brother, Noah, graduated from high school. He’ll be going to Mizzou. And today I got a call from my other brother, Micah, who recently moved to Arkansas. He was calling to tell me he’s getting married!

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jamin on June 2nd, 2005

It only takes a second. Go vote for your favourite desktop.

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jamin on June 1st, 2005

GUADEC was pretty sweet this year. Okay, I wasn’t financially able to physically be there, but I enjoyed it as best I could from St. Louis, Missouri. Of the videos I watched, my favourites were

Owen Taylor’s talk on Cairo
Jeff Waugh’s inspirational “10×10″ talk
Miguel de Icaza’s keynote
Davyd Madeley’s talk on the future of [...]

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