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WWOZ will be airing a “Street Talk” segment on the Lafitte Corridor greenway project today (Tues 1/12/10) at 2pm sharp. Listen on 90.7 FM in New Orleans or on the web at wwoz.org or just use the handy player on the FOLC website.

I don’t have much use for most of the new features in iTunes 9 (released yesterday) but there’s one thing I like: Apple has added nested AND/OR functionality to smart playlists. Very nice. In fact I’d upgrade for this feature alone.

Our toilet is a featured exhibit in the Museum of Unintended Use. Check it out.

House update: Our initial offer was $9K below the seller’s asking price, which got us to a nice round number. We also specified they cover $3K of closing costs. They made a counteroffer, bumping the price back up $3K. We are accepting this counteroffer and making a deposit. Now we just have to sell our [...]

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ROX has been Boing Boinged!

After a month of cajoling on my part, I’m happy to report my co-worker Nancy Hampton has finally launched the Xavier Library Blog. Please check it out and leave her a comment.

Rather than express my obligatory outrage over Bush’s remarks yesterday on Hurricane Katrina, I’ll simply link to Darwin Bond Graham’s rather excellent rebuttal.

Nightcap number three.

As of this moment, a bit of doggerel I wrote last year is the number one search result in Google for “christmas eve poem.” (Update: Five minutes later and I’ve already slipped down two notches.) (Update: 36 hours later and I’m back on top again. Didn’t realize Google fluctuated so much.)

I upgraded this blog (and a few others) to WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” today; it’s a great package, but the built-in upgrade installation feature is simply irresistible.

Here’s a new one: I got an automated call from eTrade, asking me to call them about my account; checking the website, I saw I have a negative balance of minus one cent — generated by a one cent margin call; I was on hold forever, but when I finally talked to a customer service [...]

One of my photos is being used in a book called I See… Xmas; I’m not actually sure which photo but I think it’s this one which is odd because it has nothing to do with Xmas.

Here’s another AmEx Members Project worthy of consideration; yes, you can nominate more than one.

Busier than usual; things always get kinda crazy here just before classes begin.

Unless I have a clear plan and a grim determination, I won’t get any work done on the house.

It’s taken a couple months, but I’ve finished uploading 700+ photos to my Less Old Stuff set; I’m calling this digital excavation project complete.

You’d think a guy like me would be all over Tales of the Cocktail. (Hell, I should be on a panel. After all, I’ve co-hosted almost a hundred episodes of a show about mixed drinks.) But every year it sneaks up on me, and I find myself obligated elsewhere. This year I’m hanging with the [...]

I’ll be at the FOLC booth at the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo this morning, from 10 ’til noon; stop by and say hi.

Just learned of the untimely passing of New Orleans’ own Robert Asprin, creator of Thieves’ World and Another Fine Myth and many other science fiction and fantasy works.