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Some work related cool shareware: MacOSaiX is a freeware mosaic builder for Mac OS X. You just specify a start image, a source for thumbnails and let it go to work assembling a big image made from hundreds of tiny images. We’re setting up an image for work using a big photo of the hospital and lots of tiny images of the various docs & support folks.

Frog Island beer – Good. Very good. We got a six pack of one of their ales from Whole Foods last night and it was very tasty.

Elliot Ness Ale – Bad. Of course, you should probably expect that from a beer named after someone who was famous for keeping people from drinking.

DayQuil – Good. Right now it’s what’s keeping me from having to breathe through my mouth. Yesterday’s minor throat-tickle has morphed into a full-blown cold.
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Every so often, you find a book that changes how you look at the world. I’m not talking about religious conversion or huge philosophical changes, I just mean more subtle things. It could be a great physics textbook that gives you an unexpected insight into the Leidenfrost effect, so that you can never look at a pancake the same way. Or a software manual that suddenly and unexpectedly clarifies absolutely everything about PHP and CSS, giving you a deep appreciation of a well done database-driven website.

Or it could be a book about zombies.
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For all you Akira Kurosawa fans out there, it’s “Throne of Blood” – the home game!

Just click on the image and see what sort of on-the-job day care situation William Tell’s kids had to deal with…

Have I sung the praises of GraphicConverter lately? Because if I haven’t, then I’m long overdue. It’s possibly the coolest shareware graphic conversion and editing program out there for the Mac. Without Graphic Converter, I’d still be lurking around in Minnesota, working on the first days’ pictures for the Webcast.
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There’s a new restaurant near the Arborland mall… Actually, is it still appropriate to call it a mall? They’ve eliminated the old ‘large building enclosing lots of shops’ mall motif in favor of the ‘lots of shops all facing the street in a row’ style of shopping. I suppose it still qualifies for the ‘mall’ moniker inasmuch as it’s a ‘strip’ mall, but I digress.

I was talking about the Noodle Company.
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I used to have a whole slew of on-line comic reviews… I should dig them up and post them at some point.

In the meantime, what do you call a Dungeons and Dragons based adventure comic starring a bunch of stick figures? How about “The Order of the Stick!”
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I’ve been testing some really cool software at work. It’s got a sort of goofy name… “OmniGraffle“… but it’s really quite remarkable.

It’s a really fast charting program with some stupendous built-in alignment tools. We’re probably going to be using it to plot out web site structures for clients, but it’s got all sorts of graphical goodness…
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Short entry today… I just need to warn you about The Scotch.

By which I mean the beverage, not the people.

This particular brand of scotch is bad enough to deserve capitalization as “The Scotch.” It’s something I’d never have bought on my own. Curiosity will only carry me so far when it comes to impulse buys, but my wife was interested in trying it and the description that the guy in the store had was interesting.. So..
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