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Snow! Not as much as the 20"+ of NY and CT but still got 14" or so.

Apparently the reason everybody's telling me that Sufjan Stevens is awesome is because Sufjan Stevens is awesome. - Mike Doughty

Very true Mike, very true. Get it via emusic.

It was close to the UP, I guess maybe one day they might get up ...

Following kottke and since this past year was actually interesting here is my 2005 in cities(or towns):

Boston, MA
Flint, MI
Syracuse, NY
Washington, DC
Houghton, MI
Minneapolis, MN
Sebeka, MN
Cedar Rapids, IA
Hamburg, Germany
Copenhagen, Denmark
Lund, Sweden
Jabel, Germany
Glastonbury, CT

I spent at least one night in each place at some point over this past year. Never got to the West coast something I plan on  remedying at least once this year.

I just got back from Imogen Heap concert at Paradise Rock club here in Boston. Zoë Keating is along for the tour. I hadn't heard Zoe's music before but she plays a mean acoustic cello. Immi's show is amazing. She has an awesome stage presence. Immi mostly played songs off her new album Speak for Yourself. Luckily she also played Let Go along with It's Good to Be in Love from Details. Zoë Keating played along with Immi on Can't Take It In the track from the Narnia soundtrack. They also played Headlock together along ...

Random Acts of Reality has found one of the best blonde jokes ever.

Hannibal over at Ars has written two good articles on the NSA wiretap scandal. First he goes into what can be gathered by reading quotes of people who know about the program. He also talks about what has been previously mentioned about this technology. In the second article he neatly presents an easy to read summary of why mass surveillance is bad. If you read anything at all about this issue read these articles.

The new technology at the root of the NSA wiretap scandal

NSA wiretap followup: Why computer-automated mass surveillance is a bad idea

Update: Bruce Schneier has ...

Tim, Amin, and I went to the Blue Man Group "Tubes" show on Sunday. The show has been playing for quite a while and I had never gotten a chance to see it. We had second row seats. Unfortunately we didn't get any thing on us even though we had ponchos. :(

The rock show that I went to back in May of ...

Yes thundersnow. Boston had a nice snowstorm yesterday. We got about ~~6in~~10in of snow other places got up to 17in. Plus we got an added bonus a little bit of thunder and lightning.

Amin made it here safely even though his plane got hit by lightning and broke of a portion of the wing.

Then the T was being very very slow and we had to wait for an hour for a bus. It was all fun and good though we had a nice random conversation with another bus rider.

Yipee for winter.

One cool thing with windows Live maps is that you can add pushpins onto the map. And then create a URL to always access that map. Plus it has Europe with some level of detail. More then any other service I have seen.

Check out a map of the route Paul and I took on our trip to Germany back in May of 2005.

A Paul and Steve adventure.

Pictures to go along with the points.

1) Amsterdam

2) Hamburg