Author Archives: Steve

Picayune, Weblog format, two years later (belatedly)

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Steve

Whoops! I forgot that the shift in Picayune‘s style was on July 3rd, not the 5th. So what do you all think now after 677 entries in two years, a new set of colors every month and according to the Server, … Continue reading →

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Happy 43rd Birthday Yeardley Smith

Posted on July 3, 2007 by Steve

Everyone will always remember her as the voice of Lisa Simpson and it’ll probably be on her tombstone. If you go to imdb.com, you’ll see her larger body of work outside of Fox (Herman’s Head quickly came to mind). I … Continue reading →

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Walk a mile in this kitty’s paws

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Steve

Seems someone in Germany found a way put a camera on a cat collar to take pictures from the cat’s perspective. Here’s the shots from Mr. Lee’s first trip.Thought about getting it for Miette since she’s the better climber around the … Continue reading →

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More of the Summer 2007 line (of T-shirts)

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Steve

After going to see Ratatouille at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar, we took in Mondo Tees next door and scored these additional fashion accessories for the Summer of 2007. What a fun little side store the Alamo people started up. … Continue reading →

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What’s with these colors this month?

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Steve

You may be asking yourself or me, “Ugh! What’s with these colors? Don’t they have Garanimal Tags for web pages?” No, there’s a method to my madness. On July 24, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s will hit the shelves … Continue reading →

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1867: Happy Canada Day, 140 years of “Blame Canada”

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Steve

This isn’t quite Canadian Independence Day, it’s more like Canadian Intention Day. When the (American) Civil War started, the people of the Great White North were still part of the UK and they feared a repeat of the War of … Continue reading →

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Birthday cake – Miss Spider

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Steve

This was for a little boy’s birthday. I don’t know how old he is and if he picked out the characters he wanted. I do know, little kids do like Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends even if the computer-generated graphics appear primitive … Continue reading →

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Free Agency Frenzy starts tomorrow

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Steve

Free agency opens up tomorrow and we’ll see which teams will be paying too much right away and then see if the decision is vindicated by Christmas. Sadly, Robert Esche will be shown the door by Philly as Biron was … Continue reading →

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iPhone is here, now back to the Paris Hilton coverage

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Steve

Just as Ambassador Kosh said in Babylon 5, “and so it begins.” The Daily Showbit and Stephen Colbert were funnier. I think the iPhone will work out in the long run and if it follows the path of the iPod, it’ll slowly work … Continue reading →

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Durant passed over for Oden, only time will tell who’s #1

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Steve

Seems Portland is going to repeat history by going with the not-so-popular Greg Oden from Ohio State, the school that can’t seem to beat Florida at anything. So I’m being a (fair-weathered) hometown fan by laughing at them for not … Continue reading →

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Seems cats have been around us for over 100,000 years

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Steve

I was half awake for this story on NPR/BBC this morning (much to the wife’s irritation, I like to have the radio on early in the morning which is another story on the “why” element). I knew the domestic house cat … Continue reading →

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KMAG’s patterns for 2005

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Steve

I know my Best of 2006 page is long, long overdue but one of the things I have been doing during the times I can’t think, can’t write and/or I’m killing time; is sifting through KMAG’s logs (the home/main version). … Continue reading →

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Alamo Drafthouse is dead, long live the Alamo Drafthouse

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Steve

How fitting, the 666th post is about today being the original Alamo Drafthouse’s last evening. I fear not because there will be a replacement on Sixth Street in September (say that three times quickly) where the old Ritz Theater used … Continue reading →

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George Orwell should’ve been an advertising copywriter

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Steve

When I went to Costco Sunday, I saw that they’re already selling Olestra II…I mean Alli. I first heard about it on The Colbert Report but I thought he was kidding. No, it’s real and it is comic gold for the … Continue reading →

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Move over Emperor, here comes the Venti Penguin

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Steve

The BBC mentioned a pre-historic penguin found in Peru last night. It lived over 30 million years ago and stood over 1.5 meters tall (almost five feet)! This is definitely a setback to penguins’ ongoing PR campaign to present themselves as … Continue reading →

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