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The week goes on… and I am listening to the new album by Harvey Danger titled “Little by Little.” Even cooler you can listen to the whole album free as it was released via bittorrent. Of course you can go the old school route and buy it. Give it a listen, you don’t have anything [...]

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Neil Gaiman in Cambridge, originally uploaded by spi516.

Neil came to Cambridge as part of his Anansi Boy’s signing tour(as mentioned in his journal post). Neil read a few pages from Anansi Boys and then answered [...]

Deerwood river, originally uploaded by spi516.

So I am not on top of things, but last weekend I went kayaking on the Deerwood river in Western MA. We went on sit-on-top kayaks which are next to impossible to tip down class 1 and 2 rapids. So after getting used to running the kayak over rocks the [...]

Gin Blossoms, originally uploaded by spi516.

The Gin Blossoms played a free show at the Taste of Boston. They did play a few of their popular songs like “Hey Jealousy” and “Follow You Down”. So along with some 90s nostalgia we got to sample some really good food from local Boston restaurants.
I guess the Gin Blossoms [...]

Terry answering questions, originally uploaded by spi516.

The weekend during which Terry Pratchett visited Boston. Terry is on tour supporting his new book Thud! He is as funny in person as he is in his writing. He did a 20-30 minute chat followed by a Q&A and then signed books. He mentioned how he has to [...]

Looking down the beach, originally uploaded by spi516.

Beautiful weekend up in Michigan. Spent the weekend at Van Riper camp near Marquette. Then went down to Big Traverse Bay for the first part of last week.

Wooden Kayak, originally uploaded by spi516.

Spent time kayaking around in dad’s new wooden kayak. Took a totally awesome sauna and went [...]

A few minutes with me… Tonight after a day lazily spent hacking I now have a wordpress theme based on the OSWD theme done by Andreas Viklund. This theme is also on my main home page on panaverse.com That site is also served up by a nice cute PHP script which loads a page based [...]

Let the war begin, originally uploaded by spi516.

A Saturday afternoon spent playing Risk on the Boston Common. It was such a nice day I was glad to be outside. Even if I did get my butt handed to me in a Risk game. I just got a poor random placement of countries and couldn’t recover.

I [...]

Threadless is way to addicting. Since them having their sale last month I have bought another 5 tshirts. The designs are way awesome and are voted on by members.
Finally have the money to buy a boltz media rack. I have been looking for this for quite a while. Should make it alot easier to find [...]

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