all things mau

Howard Dean to Motivate Canadian Liberal Party

Former U.S. presidential contender Howard Dean will be a keynote speaker at the Liberal party convention next month in Montreal, the Liberals announced Friday. Sort of a motivational speaker of sorts, giving our neighborly fellow left wingers some tips based on how Democrats took over the houses this year. Hmmmmmmm. Step 1. Watch in a [...]

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Developing good Wii-flexes

Mission Accomplished… mau-wii.: ” That is mau’s nickname for his newest, and coolest videogame console/insta-party machine! last friday, jason, anna and i were invited over to mau and ali’s for a wii party. after experiencing wii with my closest friends for the first time… it was a clear indication that we were all witness to [...]

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My car was broken into last night.

Cars can get pretty cold late at night with the window down, nowadays. In case you were wondering. Alas, shame on me. I left my 30 gig video iPod on the passenger seat. Just asking to be taken. I guess it asked nicely. Don’t worry amigos. The wii was safe at home. You can send [...]

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Man gets keys to a new Aston Martin for mentioning them in blog post

Man gets keys to a new Aston Martin for mentioning them in blog post: “This guy mentioned in a blog post that driving an Aston Martin was one of his life goals. Aston Martin sees it and then gives him the keys to a brand new AM DB9 for a day.” (Via digg.) ehem… I [...]

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The Chipmunks vs Royksopp: A Christmas Mashup

Last year, Roach passed on to me, the greatness of Patton Oswalt, comedian extra-unordinary. On his CD, “Feeling Kinda Patton”, one track in particular struck my funny bone; “My Christmas Memory”. The jist of the joke is, Patton used to take his LP of Alvin and the Chipmunks singing “Christmas Time is Here”, and slow [...]

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Whiteboard Animation

My whiteboard art officially sucks after watching this guy.

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Alternative Public Transportation

I’m currently *reading “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson. I was sparked into reading it after entering the metaverse (metaphorical universe) of Second Life. The Book has in turn sparked me to re-enter the metaverse of second life to explore even more. For those not familiar with the Second Life phenomenon, just be aware that it’s [...]

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Wii all scream for Wii

Courtesy of xkcd.com 1987. My birthday had arrived, and this was the era when my parents would still ask me what I wanted for my birthday, and I still had an answer without all the mature modesty we learned to hold us back in adulthood. “Nintendo” “hmmm, ok, we’ll give you a choice. Nintendo, or [...]

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The Keyboard Puzzle

I love deadlines. I stare them in the eye and size up their threat, then I go do mundane tasks right in front of them just to piss them off. Like blog or something. Today’s deadline; Music editing on a show that dubs on Monday. Today’s procrastination Tactic; Keyboard cleaning. With a simple butter knife, [...]

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Goodbye Rummy

The Good news for Republican bloggers, is that their page hits will increase, as giddy hippy tree huggers like me visit their sites to watch them squirm and redirect blame. Go on… click on me Another Reason I love Google news. Contradictions as stories develop. But Brian Topping put it better Rumsfeld resignation summarized in [...]

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