Monthly Archives: December 2006

Get my Wallet for Free

By MattK | Published: December 28, 2006
If you like the wallet I posted about in November, good news. I stumbled across an instructable about how to fold your own Tyvek Wallet. It’s not as nice, but it’s also not as twenty bucks.
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BOCCE: Old Dirty Barristers Almost Win It All Again

By MattK | Published: December 18, 2006
We’re good. I know it. We only lost one game this season, and that one was in the finals against our arch-rivals BocceLism. They get to have the threepeat championship and we get to be second place for the second season in a row. Next season we will have to go Tonya Harding on Lism. [...]
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Math Everywhere: How Many People at a Good Party?

By MattK | Published: December 15, 2006
Doing some last minute shopping for Sam and ran across Apartment Therapy’s post on Party Density. Seems like they’ve got it down. I’m having a dinner party on December 25th, I’ll have to check the math for the space… The unanswered question, of course is how many people you should invite to achieve good density [...]
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NASA being slowly dismantled

By MattK | Published: December 10, 2006
Thought my pals might want to read this entry I found from Bruce Sterling about the Planetary Society’s campaign to fight for the mission and budget of NASA . It was bad enough when this administration removed “to understand and protect the Earth” as a primary goal of NASA. It just gets worse, and because [...]
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Vail Vacation

By MattK | Published: December 10, 2006
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Snow Waves, originally uploaded by snarkhunt. Finally broke down and went to the hoity-toity Vail with some fellas. Vail is really swank, really huge. We definitely went too early in the season because the [...]
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Bloggy Blogroll welcomes….

By MattK | Published: December 6, 2006
Nate! Nate and I have been geeking out together in NYC. He and Claudia took me and Sam to Brazil for carnival. He actually writes long entries in his blog that are worth reading if you are techie. Hint hint, Acton. HINT.
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In Praise of Lost Time

By MattK | Published: December 4, 2006
Here’s a common sci-fi trope. A character is obsessed with the future and science and all the advantages it could bring. This blinds that character so that they don’t see that they are losing their essential humanity. Moral: All that dirty stuff that is unpleasant is also part of what makes us human. I don’t [...]
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Bocce: Old Dirty Barristers Undefeated

By MattK | Published: December 4, 2006
My Bocce team, the O.D.B. is undefeated going into the championships. This is the season that we win it all!
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