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Tetris League Denver makes the Denver Post

Monday, July 14th, 2008

This is how it happened: Three weeks ago I was coding away at work, and the Post’s features editor came by to check out the day’s Rocky. We were chatting, he asked how my girlfriend was, and I told him “We’re going to Tetris League tomorrow, it’s the only competitive tetris league in the country.” […]

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Three things, three videos about Tetris:

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

First, before we go all-tetris here: Tonight the Colorado Avalanche got swept, which marks the third pro sport team in Denver to exit with a sweep in a row (Rockies got swept out of the World Series in October, Nuggets swept in the first round of the playoffs this week, and Avs in the second […]

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Fruitful thought experiments

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

This a selection from the book Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two — the book is a collection of articles, bits and pieces from a bunch of different people. Roger Scruton is one of them (this is Roger’s web site), and he wrote this. I […]

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Danny Federici, Bruce Springsteen, and Born in the USA

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

My friend JJ got me a book a couple months age — it’s the 33 1/3 “How-This-Record-Came-Into-Existence” series’ book on Born in the USA. Bruce Springsteen and I go back — I was eight years old, with my mom and my sister in a K-Mart, and we were in the music section. My mom gave […]

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Bombed my first black diamond last week

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Okay, so I’m still a noob with all the snowboard lingo, but this I know: I stuck / bombed / went down my first black diamond run last week. It was the Last Hoot run at Keystone, and I carved the heck outta all but one really steep part of it. Awesome, right? Sure.
My friends […]

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Anybody want to play a game of chess?

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Okay, so Adam kind of inspired this call-to-dork-action: We’ve been playing (as in, he’s been beating me at) chess online for a couple months … as has Vinnie … and it’s good, good fun. It’s turn-based, as in, you play a game over a week or two, whenever you have a chance. It’s fun. And […]

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Notes, photos, bits, awards, blurbs, music, Ms. Pac Man, stuff

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Hey y’all,
Here’s a bunch of stuff that’s awesome and you oughta know:

JJ, whose photo portfolio web site I built, is selling a book of his detailed Chicago photography for 30 bucks. Thirty bucks! That makes a great gift!
My employer, The Denver Post, won an Online News Association award last month for “General Excellence” among medium-sized […]

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Slax got music / launched a solo album / it’s good!

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Virb’s yet another social networking site, and it’s a place you can listen to my friend Tom’s (music name Tommy Slax) new album. If you dig it you can buy tracks from the album (The Spaulding Years) here… it’s an interesting site — tracks are about 16 cents a pop, but the more people who […]

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Minimum Mass vs. Minimal Mass biking strategy

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Biking in Denver made the news and my life this week. It makes my life most days, so that’s nothing special. And the news isn’t extraordinary — it’s just a column Diane Carman wrote about the difficulties of bicycling in Denver:

Denver has the distinction of being the only city ever to decline in the national […]

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Denver, meet, erm, ’sex rock’

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Hey, so Tuesday night (at 9 p.m.) my Chicago friends Jack Flash and Gretta Fine bring their band Bang! Bang! to the 15th Street Tavern in Denver. They call Bang! Bang! “sex rock,” but it’s more like glam-lick rock.
I’ve followed Bang! Bang! since they started — at first because they were friends, and now […]

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