Monthly Archives: January 2010

That’s About All I Can Tell You, Really.

By hubs | Published: January 28, 2010
photo courtesy of clusterflock. The stories mentioned above have been mentioned here back in 2007. As for any of Salinger’s manuscripts that might have hidden away in a cabinet somewhere to be printed posthumously, I believe his thoughts about them are the same as stated above, or we all would have seen them by now. [...]
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Tabasco!

By hubs | Published: January 28, 2010
We Christened this one gallon bottle of Tabasco over a pot of crawfish etouffe last week. Yum.
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Tweets For The Week Of 2010-01-25

By hubs | Published: January 25, 2010
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Star Wars Initial Stickers

By hubs | Published: January 20, 2010
The image above is was made with the incredibly nostalgic Topps Star Wars ESB Stickers and help from the Restraining Bolt image generator. A similar generator can be found using 1974 Topps Monster Initials. Hat tip to Mr. Lady.
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Billy Mays Is A Sad Robot – Part II

By hubs | Published: January 19, 2010
I’ve said it before but I think this really proves it. Billy Mays really is a sad robot. The video below was created by John Boswell, the same guy who puts together all of those great Symphony Of Science Videos that have been going around the internet lately. [flashvideo file=/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/BillyMaysInfomercialBallad.flv height=390 width=500 /] If you [...]
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Reserve Your Free Netflix Instant Streaming Disk For The Wii

By hubs | Published: January 18, 2010
This Spring you will be able to watch Netflix instant movies streamed through your Wii. However, you will need a special disk in order for the streaming to work. You can now reserve your free Netflix instant streaming disk for the Wii on the Netflix website.
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Tweets For The Week Of 2010-01-18

By hubs | Published: January 18, 2010
I don’t like wasting my time on things not worthy of my time. # "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" – Carl Sagan. Here is the recipe: http://bit.ly/7RRdiO #
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Form Of A Rainbow

By hubs | Published: January 13, 2010
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Nickelback Is Cock Rock

By hubs | Published: January 11, 2010
Nickel back has already gotten way more time than they actually deserve on this blog, but I just couldn’t resist this one. Also, while you’re clicking on stupid Nickelback links you might as well check this one out www.isnickelbacktheworstbandever.com
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Tweets For The Week Of 2010-01-11

By hubs | Published: January 11, 2010
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2009: My Year In Photos

By hubs | Published: January 9, 2010
My monthly flickr stats can found here. Below are the three most viewed photos on flickr that I uploaded during 2009:
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2009: The Year In Blogging

By hubs | Published: January 8, 2010
Despite my lousy blogging habits in 2009 the blog continued to grow and I almost doubled my amount of unique viewers over the year. Below is a graph of my total number of absolute unique readers which totaled 206,881 over the year. The drop in late June was due to a serverside attack. The top [...]
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2009: The Year In Artifacting

By hubs | Published: January 8, 2010
So, here is where I have to admit that Artifacting has been pretty weak during 2009. Not a lot of posts. Not a lot of links. Really, just not a lot of blogging. Regardless, I would be remiss not to share with you the best of what little happened around here during 2009. So, I’m [...]
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2009: My Year In Music

By hubs | Published: January 8, 2010
According to last.fm these are the bands that I listened to most during 2009. There was only one band that was also on last years list: Ween. 1. Bishop Allen 2. Ween (1st last year) 3. Bright Eyes 4. Against Me! 5. The Apples In Stereo 6. Modest Mouse 7. Air 8. The Weakerthans 9. [...]
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2009: My Year In Cities & Towns

By hubs | Published: January 7, 2010
Below is a list of cities and towns I’ve visited in 2009. I spent one or more nights spent in each place. Those cities marked with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive days. Travel for me this year was about average. None of my traveling was for work last year, it was all [...]
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