jamin on May 15th, 2007

After reading about this on Micah Cowan’s site, I had to build one. You can download a pdf cutout with instructions. Once you assemble it, you stand about 2 feet away and cover one eye. Then move your head around, side-to-side, up-and-down. It will appear as if the entire dragon’s head is moving [...]

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Update: Oh, sweet irony

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jamin on December 14th, 2006

Last night I went to Borders for a ridiculously large cup of coffee and to pick up an ESV Bible and a copy of Fahrenheit 451. The church I’ve been attending uses the ESV translation of the Bible and I thought it would be easier to follow along if I had one. Fahrenheit [...]

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jamin on February 16th, 2006

If you were going to make a film about Mother Teresa, whom would you choose for the lead role? Apparently Paris Hilton is the obvious choice.

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jamin on August 9th, 2005

I’m happy to see that Google added RSS feeds for their news categories. Now if only they would add RSS feeds for Google Alerts. Update: It looks like you can create a customized feed by doing a google news search for keywords and then using the RSS or Atom link on [...]

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jamin on February 28th, 2005

poker: Sometimes you encounter a hand where you’re up against a single player and you both have great reads on each other and it comes down to luck or a kicker. I was at the final table of a no-limit holdem tournament Saturday with my friend, Ryan. He was getting pretty low on [...]

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jamin on January 24th, 2005

I saw Sideways last night with my friend, Laura. This has probably been posted all over the web by now, but I thought this was a brilliant scene:

MAYA
Wow, this is really starting to open up.
What do you think?

MILES
My palate’s kind of shot, but from what I can tell,
I’d dub it pretty damn good.

MAYA
Can I [...]

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jamin on October 12th, 2004

FELLOWSHIP 9/11 is the new best documentary of the year. Linux users: played well for me using firefox and mplayerplug-in.

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jamin on August 4th, 2004

Those who think Fahrenheit 9/11 is the greatest film since Casablanca should check out 59 Deceits in ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′. At the very least it may show you that Michael Moore is not making a documentary here. Also check out the bittorrent on that site. Moore is altering and misrepresenting information in order [...]

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jamin on March 22nd, 2004

Just got home from seeing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In various ways it reminded me of almost every one of my past relationships. What a true film.

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