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I remember the days of late middle school when there was an unwritten rule that if you wore a band t-shirt you had to at least be able to list off an album or two and probably throw out a few song names. Otherwise you were a poser. I had Beastie Boy’s Root Down shirt, a Beck Two Turntables (and a microphone) and a Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire shirt. (more…)

A lot of stuff has happened in the last month and a half. Here are ten of them: (more…)

I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last couple months working on Brew52.com. Brew52 is the first online beer-tasting festival, and participants are sampling and reviewing a different Minnesota brew each week for the entire year. (more…)

Last week I rode the bus with Chris Roberts from MPR and he interviewed me about BusTales and also talked with some fellow riders about their experiences riding the bus. The piece aired yesterday on All Things Considered…here’s a link to the article on their web site and you can listen to the audio from there: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/20/bustales/

It’s probably a little late to post about Halloween, in internet time a week ago is like so old news, but I’ve got a good set of photos related to Halloween and homebrew that I’d like to share. (more…)

I’m by no means a fashion expert, but I do know that pleated pants pretty much suck. It wasn’t all that long ago that several pairs of my dress pants were pleated, so I don’t want to sound like a snob here. And really I don’t judge anyone for wearing pleated pants (well maybe just a little) especially considering the fact that they’re sold all over the place. (more…)

Rebekah and I spent about an hour last night looking for flights out to Connecticut to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. Last year I think we paid around $330 per ticket which seemed expensive. Last night we were getting excited any time we saw a flight for less than $500. Here is the list that we compiled to examine our options in order from most expensive/most convenient to least expensive/least convenient: (more…)

Mr. Lallensack is in town this weekend despite the fact that he missed the registration for the half triathlon he was planning on participating in. So what do two old college buddies do on a rainy day? Why brew beer of course. (more…)

I’ve been spending even more time in PhotoShop since the job switch and there are two features I thought of today that would really be helpful: (more…)

I’m running a promotion on BusTales.com where you get a free button if you submit a tale. The offer is good until I run out of buttons (I ordered a bunch back when I set up my cafepress page) so if you have a story, now is the time to submit it!

I started a new job on Monday as an interactive art director at Clockwork. It was definitely tough to leave Capella, but I’m really excited about the new digs. It’s a great work environment, located in a converted warehouse in northeast Minneapolis, and the team is awesome. (more…)

My friend Caleb is back in town for the summer and on Saturday we decided to hit up a bunch of yard sales in the Seward neighborhood. He was on a quest for a road bike and I was just hoping to find some sort of hidden gem. We stopped first at a place where he had been the day before to look at one bike. It was a bit too small but Caleb decided to take it for a test drive anyway. Caleb joked to the guy that he would leave me as collateral and the guy without smiling said (more…)

After working at Hardee’s for about a year and a half, I remember having a very serious conversation with my parents about wanting to quit. They were supportive, but told me that I couldn’t just stop going, I’d have to write a resignation letter and put in two weeks. I spent a considerable amount of time writing my first resignation letter and remember being quite diplomatic. (more…)

If you’re not into web nerdery or lengthy posts than stop reading here. With BusTales.com I’ve been learning as I go along. First learning: adsense does not pay very well. Obviously this is just my take and I’m sure for some it’s quite profitable, but to date I’ve made $34.71 (in a little over a month). (more…)

My friend Rich recently proposed what our lives would be like if we could use keyboard shortcuts. Examples being command + Z to undo something like overcooking a pizza or maybe forgetting to do something special for Valentines Day, and command + V for pasting in duplicates of things that you want more of like beer. (more…)