• personal

    Big Sur

    October 23, 2009

    I know I typically stick with fairly technical stuff on this site. But there’s a trailer so I’ll pretend it is a little technical… One of my favorite authors, Jack Kerouac, wrote a number of books. And when he was “just plumb sick and tired…of the whole nerve-wracking scene” he wrote Big Sur. Unlike On the Road or some of his earlier works that look at a new generation with fresh eyes, as something that is exciting and new Big Sur is a book from a haunted man, trying to reconcile these new ideas with his own upbringing and the contradictions that he has seen. In Big Sur, he becomes…

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    Bunny Clogs @ Southern Theater

    October 4, 2009

    The Bunny Clogs are coming back to Minneapolis, and now in support of an upcoming album! According to the Southern Theater’s site: The Bunny Clogs is Shel Silverstein-meets-Prince surreal dance fun. The debut record More! More! More!, led by Honeydogs frontman Adam Levy, is not your run-of-the-mill, strummy, folky kids’ music. Part comedy routine with weird characters, part dance party with all the attendant drum loops, house beats and hip-hop accoutrements, and part subtle message of peace, love and positive gastronomy, Bunny Clogs is music for kids of all ages. The show is at 11am, the morning of Halloween, early enough for a slightly later than usual nap time (for…

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    Home Robotics

    October 3, 2009

    Technology is a beautiful thing. Especially for those of us that hate to do the dishes, get up to change the channel or even walk over to grandma’s house to say hi. For those things we have (respectively) dishwashers, remote controls and of course the telephone. I’ve talked about Z-Wave for awhile now and automating the home – but that’s automating electrical currents. But what I haven’t talked about is automating the cleaning that goes on in the home. And I’m not referencing putting a cleaning service on automated bill pay; I’m talking about robotics. To sweep, mop and do tasks beyond those that have been automated for 30 or…

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