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What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than sharing an mp3 of Alice’s Restaurant with your dad (since you weren’t able to listen together on the radio)…

The tradition of listening to Alice’s Restaurant goes back pretty far in the Marusin household. Always remembered listening to it on XRT and never knew it was such a [...]

Yesterday I posted a bunch of non-geek/non-technical things that I love. Since I originally posted, I’ve thought of a ton more things. Here’s a few more things that I <3:

Really really really good red wine (along with a bare-bones “waiter’s corkscrew”) Prefab Homes Twin Peaks Having a beer ready for me (High Life) as I walk [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I talked about some “Geeky Things That Don’t Do It For Me“… Rather than have a full-blown list of “Geeky Things That Do It For Me“, I decided to mix it up with some non-geeky things that I’m quite a fan of:

My LL Bean Fleece Jacket (like it so [...]

Matt has pointed out that del.icio.us now has automated tools (using a very slick Ajax interface) to generate your del.icio.us tagroll and put it wherever you’d like… Very cool.

With that said, here’s mine:

Today is Veteran’s Day…

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly. Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we [...]

Surfing through my feeds today, the folks at Coudal pointed to one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long long time.

“On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, [...]

I recently stumbled upon a pretty interesting use of RSS for you geeky Wilco fans out there (and I’ll have to stereotype and say that most Wilco fans have a touch of geekiness to them ~ myself included).

The fine folks at WilcoBase have an RSS feed that you can subscribe to that brings you the [...]

Who would like to help setup/organize an event like MindCamp or BarCamp in the Chicago-area?

I’ve been trying to figure out how I can get involved with an event like this and it finally struck me that I should try and organize it… Is there something like this going on? If so, [...]

I just discovered that Sound Opinions will be moving on December 3, 2005 from WXRT to WBEZ (Chicago’s NPR Affiliate). Sounds like this will be a great move for Greg and Dero…

From the email:

To our “Sound Opinions” Listeners:

After 354 shows on WXRT (93.1-FM), “Sound Opinions” will be moving on Dec. 3 to a new [...]