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Archives for August 2006
links for 2006-08-24
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A nice tutorial that walks through a secure CentOS configuration.
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A cheat sheet for comic artists.
links for 2006-08-14
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What’s worse–the Abu Ghraib prison photos, or this Coast Guard hazing ritual from the 1950s?
links for 2006-08-10
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A government initiative I can actually get behind.
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Materials engineering is so damn cool.
Sweet Home Chicago
So I flew everyone into Chicago for company meetings last weekend. While everyone was in one city, I figured it would be nice to have a group portrait done for marketing materials. I called on Neil Burger of Stronghold Photography for the job, and I’m very pleased with the results.
From left to right you will see Gary DuVall, Matt Niemi, Chris Cote, Jack Shedd, me, Matt Fetissoff, Brian Kieffer, and Michael Tseng.
And yes, I am wearing a seersucker jacket.
After the photo shoot, I took the team to play Whirlyball on West Fullerton. What? You’ve never heard of Whirlyball?
If you have ever read Brave New World, you might remember Aldous Huxley’s vision of a future in which all newly devised sports would require more elaborate mechanical and electronic equipment than previous existing recreational activities. This was a matter of public policy aimed at promoting consumption and driving economic growth.
That said, even Huxley couldn’t have possibly conceived of Whirlyball. It’s a bizarre and violent hybrid of lacrosse and basketball played on bumper cars. It seems to me the most quintessentially American sport ever devised, as it requires roughly $100,000 worth of equipment and 11 kilowatt-hours of electricity per game.
And you know what? I don’t want America to ever be energy-independent if it means we can’t have wonderful things like Whirlyball.
