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Book Report: Things the Grandchildren Should Know

Based in the recommendation of David Kernohan I bought a copy and devoured “Things the Grandchildren Should Know”, the life obstacle overcoming journey of Mark Oliver Everett, the man behind The Eels. Before David played a long set of Eels, my limited by very satisfying exposure was the haunting Novocaine for the Soul, a frequent […]

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Bad Baby Macguffin

In checking out some of the student visual design work for ds106 (which the CUNY students are really going far and powerful with), I could not resist one more Macguffin. A better real estate decision could have avoided dealing with that whole building full of freaks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogfqfnt2Aaw Thinking again on the idea of a regular […]

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Dog Down Under

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog That photo was from my 2007 trip around Australia; I always thought that pattern in the desert looked like the shape of a dog. LUcky for me I made the effort a few days ago yo visit Sheryl Nusbaum-Beach, as this was a first time […]

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The Road Ahead for Feed2JS

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Wavy1 This has been beyond my expectations as a response to my call for help to keep Feed2JS going. I actually had never looked much to see where it was being used (D’Arcy would claim its mostly spam), since the site does not track […]

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Road Stats: Week 16

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 105 Miles Driven: 9856 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 17 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 2 Money spent on gas: $2678 Cheapest gas price: $3.25/gallon (Fredericksburg, VA). Highest gas price: $5.64/gallon (1.39/liter) (Wawa, ON). Amount of time required to […]

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Rivers and Oceans

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Among the scattered notes scribbled illegibly in my journal, tapped into the app on my phone, and mainly swirling through my head was the image of the quiet powerful earth moving force of the Salmon River I saw in northern Idaho. I had followed this […]

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From an Iconic Movie

It felt time to play a Four Icon Challenge assignment in ds106. it’s always hard to know if you make these too challenging or too easy, I am thinking this one is the latter. My approach, as I usually cannot recall movies all that well, is to watch some YouTube clips to remind me of […]

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Roadstats: Week 15

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 98 Miles Driven: 9661 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 17 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 2 Money spent on gas: $2604 Amount of time required to drive 47 miles from Falls Church VA to Baltimore DC: 2.5 hours (frustration: […]