October 2005 Entries
This weekend, in Chattanooga Tennessee, I visited Chucky Cheese’s as an adult. A young Corey had always said to himself “man, when I grow up, I’m coming back here with $40 playing everything here as much as I want”. I’m happy to report that, now, a couple of months before my thirtieth birthday, I am mostly grown up and I was able to play everything I wanted and for only $10.
I don’t remember this being the case as a kid, but they didn’t have any video games with any kind of shooting or fighting, which leaves surprisingly few options left....
Northern State did a 15 show tour with Tegan and Sara (I went to the one in New Haven). When the tour was all over I got this super all-access pass kinda thing brought back for me signed as a gift!
bsw96 posted a photo:
[via Flickr: f1 - Everyone's Tagged Photos]
Neat. Must be a strange feeling to travel so fast in that pose.
Following up my previous engrish post “I owned you once”
This comes via Amanda, who is in Hong Kong at the vendor’s office:
<name withheld>, one of the support guys, wore a dark pink ringer tee to work today. It is by Reebok and displays the message prominently across the chest: “Mall walkers do it slowly.”
I come into work this Monday morning and my computer has forgotten every single password I have ever stored in it. I have no idea why. Amazing how many there are; I’m finding new ones constantly. Of course it is extra difficult since my machine is not a domain member. It means that any server I want to connect to, I have to store my domain account in the manage my network passwords section of the user accounts control panel for that server. Rationale: I’m so particular about my computer I don’t want anything happening without my knowledge and I...
I just finished helping Emily out with a new version of her professional site (as opposed to the informal Experience photo blog site).
The site is done in Flash and every time we add something to it, we have to re-learn how to use Flash. I’m pretty surprised Flash has been as successful as it is with such a difficult to use tool. Even after I’ve remembered how it works and all I’m doing is following the same pattern to add images, it seems to take a really long time. I wonder what the cutoff point would be for taking the time...
This Rally Could Be Huge; It's Up to You:
You can also now download an attractive rally announcement at: http://centralpark.c.topica.com/maad64EablhWKa7ANZ5baeQA8g/Print it out and hand it out or post it!Please visit http://centralpark.c.topica.com/maad64EablhWMa7ANZ5baeQA8g/ to learn more about this campaign.I’ve been following this for a long time now. I’m going to be there, next Monday, offering my support.
My good friend Val is traveling to Pakistan. He has started a blog to document the adventure.
Hi everyone,
i've started a blog on my trip to pakistan. you can find it at http://triptopakistan.blogspot.com.
it's pretty basic right now--these first couple posts just provide some background about why i'm going and serve as a test-run as this is my first blog.
i'm going to try to post about once a week and will hopefully have some pictures up soon. hope you enjoy reading about it.
take care,
valRSS (atom) feed here: http://triptopakistan.blogspot.com/atom.xml
I zipped up and sent some IIS logs to our vendor in Hong Kong and got this priceless reply:
Thanks mate, I owned you once
I just watched one of the mail room guys retrieve his (late) lunch from the machine in the office kitchen.
Soup, Nissin, Cup O’ Noodles, Ramen Noodle, chicken flavorOne package Hostess brand Twinkies1 can Pepsi
746 Calories, 127.5 grams of carbohydrates, 24.1 grams of fat, ~80 grams of sugar, 7.6 grams of protein and enough sodium for the day and then some.
The glucose spikes from these kinds of meal are the fast track to diabetes. I had several reactions including horror and sympathy. It can’t be a question purely of economics because there were at least a couple of alternatives in the horrid machine that...
My Outsourced Life:
Esquire writer hires two Indian firms to manage his personal and professional life [via Waxy.org Links]
http://www.smartmoney.com/esquire/index.cfm?Story=20050909-outsource
I laughed out loud a few different times reading this. Very good article. Here’s my favorite quote:
Honey has completed her first project for me: research on the person Esquire has chosen as the Sexiest Woman Alive. (See page 232.) I've been assigned to write a profile of this woman, and I really don't want to have to slog through all the heavy-breathing fan Web sites about her. When I open Honey's file, I have this reaction: America is fucked. There are charts....
The WP and NYT both mention Texas's release of thousands of Harriet Miers-related documents mostly during her time as chair of the Lottery Commission under then Gov. Bush. […] The NYT, meanwhile, notices a number of correspondences like this: "You are the best governor ever—deserving of great respect," Miers wrote in a b-day card to her boss. "I appreciate your friendship and candor," responded the president, "never hold back your sage advice."
[via Slate Today's Papers]
I’ve also heard that Harriet claims that Bush is the smartest man she has ever met, ever. It is a good thing she is also the best...
Ozocar:
Now you can be driven around New York City and not put a strain on the environment. Ozocar is a new car service that uses only hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius. The cars are all EVDO-equipped so that you can check your email from either your own laptop or the iBook supplied in the car. It is also GPS-equipped so that you can also check your progress through the city.[via Luxist]
Next time I have to go to JFK, I’m definitely going to take this service. I get car-sick in all Lincoln towncars and their cousins the Crown...
Now, I never liked the idea of spending up for Monster Cable since the physics just don’t support their whole business, but this quote is just ridiculous on several fronts.
Basically millions of people every year walk into Radio Shack or Circuit City and ask the help for “wires” and because they usually don’t even know what they are trying to do, and only have a vague idea of connector shapes at best, the associate will proceed to walk them over to the Monster Cable section and charge them $89 for a six foot S-Video & RCA set. And because of this...
http://www.coreyh.com/corey_henderson_web_redacted.html
I present my résumé.
Another story to your body:
Motherfxxxer is beautiful and so was his set. He seemed to have a better feel for the sound system then Ellen -- everything bumped harder, as he struck this phenomenal balance between vicious and pleasant. Matt stuck to 4/4 house, minimal enough to make me feel the good kinda space and caustic enough to taint that space with paranoia. By the time he went on, the dancefloor was clearing off -- it seemed like he was playing four times the quality to half the crowd. He brought out some big-gun track, massive stomping funk, and...
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You can take your dead relative or pet’s cremated ashes, send them in and have a diamond...
While I'm already convinced there is a connection between Bush's low approval ratings and terror warnings, this particular one is really pissing me off. Are we supposed to buy that this is a coincidence? The republican party having near daily criminal indictments has nothing to do with subway terror alert banner headlines?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/07/newyork.subways/index.html
I’ve added an Upcoming.org badge to the left nav (down at the bottom). It shows all the events I’m either going to or interested in. Check it out.
Tonight!
Hurricane relief benefit concert OCT 5th at the Somerville Theatre andwe want you to come.The event is NEW MUSIC, NEW HOPE, NEW ORLEANS, a Boston hurricanerelief benefit concert featuring Apollo Sunshine (2005 Boston Music Award winner), Mieka Pauley (2005 Boston Music Award winner), Protokolland other artists. Doors open 7pm - music starts at 8pm. Tickets $12on sale now at the box office, concert website and with Ticketmaster soon. Please visit www.bostonkatrinaconcert.com to purchase ticketsand find more information about the bands, the cause and the event.The funds will be donated to the American Red Cross and the Tipitina's Foundation for...
You know how the days leading up to a vacation can be the most productive times since you are making effective authoritative decisions to get things wrapped up before you leave?
Well, I’m learning there is a polar effect when you know you’ll have some spare time ahead of you. The lady-friend is going to Wisconsin for the weekend and I am planning on getting all this work done then, but these days leading up to it I’m finding items falling in to the “I’ll get to it later” category.
I suppose the thing to do is pretend that I’m...
"Purpose"-driven life, eh?:
Remember "saintly" Atlanta hostage Ashley Smith? Well, it turns out that it was a lot more than her "faith" and a copy of a Christian self-help book that got her through that particular ordeal... [via MetaFilter]
I’ll spoil the surprise for you. The woman gave her captor crystal meth. Was it just me who when I read about this incident back in March knew something was fishy. Can we just now assume that those who profess to be the most pure are probably the least?
Is the intro to Saturday Night Live filmed at the Cellar Bar, in the Bryant Park hotel, aka “Corsets”?
My bottle of beer at dinner had the familiar five cent deposit markings. I thought, you know, I haven’t even thought about taking cans or bottles in to get the deposit in years. The last time I remember doing it was in Boston. Furthermore, I don’t even know of a place to take them back in NYC.
It seems that New Yorkers are willing to accede that market to the homeless and the determined elderly and not even try to recoup their nickels.