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I couldn’t let today pass without doing something to acknowledge the sloanie.com blog turning 6 years old. I wasn’t the first person ever to blog, but it wasn’t nearly as common back then. In March of 2002, I bought my first digital camera, the Canon Powershot S40. I was inspired by a blog that’s now…

I took a quick break from work to go grab some dinner (mix plate, mmm…) and on the way saw some aftermath of an accident on the opposite side of the road in the left turn lane. There was a jeep and behind it a red coupe with it’s hood all bent upwards, and between…

I’ve been on vacation to a handful of different places. For some reason, this one is the only one that sort of haunts me, makes me miss it, long for it… like it puts some sort of spell on me.

Both Emilys made reference to Google Reader recently on their blogs (I think I mighta heard something from Cassi too– this is how they are the first–and sometimes only– people to comment on new blog entries). So I thought I’d check it out… and now that I’m started using it, I thought I’d give it…

Yesterday I was watching / listening to a Dane Cook bit* about crying, and he describes part of it as “your face is leaking many different fluids”, heh. At the time all that really came to mind was tears from the eyes, but I didn’t think much about it. While I was eating leftovers tonight…

Guess who’s back? That’s right. The Canon Powershot SD10. You know, that camera I bought back in March-ish 2004? Well, the SD30 I replaced it with when the SD10 died tragically just didn’t cut it– though it was similar in size, sported a 5 megapixel CCD and actually had an optical zoom, the image quality…

Yes, the days are getting longer, but for the time being it’s dark when I get up at 6am a couple days a week. Usually the sun is out by the time I’m driving to school, but today it seemed especially dim out. What was really odd was that it *looked* overcast with how dim…

So I moved desks on Monday evening at work for various reasons. This time around I decided to put my computer on my desk. No one else here, that I know of, does this. Due to the placement of power outlets, usually the tower would end up cluttering up the space down below kinda awkardly,…

Haha, oh man. I meant to post this blog weeks ago but needed to muster up the energy to edit a little video together to really share as much of the hilarity as possible. So *all* of the Sloanie crew headed down to St. George for the weekend of March 7-9, and as is almost…

I’ve been blogging for nearly 6 years now. I think I started my original, from-scratch (that means it didn’t use a blogging system / engine, every entry was hand coded in HTML) blog in April of 2002, as a way to start posting pictures I had taken with my new digital camera. Well here we…

Check out what Dwane at the office gave me for my birthday today: I didn’t even know these things existed. And I think I got the three that look the best as bobble heads, just by looking at what else is available (thought it might be fun to have Yoda and a Storm Trooper). Although…

So there’s this little game that I’ve started to play during the day at school. First, I make sure to get only 3 or so hours of sleep the night before. Next, what happens is that I get to campus early enough that I get a parking space that’s pretty close to the building. Then,…

My senior seminar instructor frequently references “The Prestige” in class– or rather, the way a magician shows you he has nothing physically up his sleeves, and the way the audience doesn’t really want to know the secret behind the “magic” or illusions. The audience just wants to be fooled, to be entertained. Are you not…