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The old city.

Monday, December 27th, 2004

Amar is in Jerusalem. “Imagine Venice, except it’s not this artificial tourist mecca– people are heavily invested here, heavily armed, heavily hasidic, arabic, 1000 armenians left from the genocide, christians coming to via dolorosa, muslims headed to al aqsa… it means so much to everybody.”

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Live from Scotland.

Sunday, December 26th, 2004

Matt Haynie, live from Scotland (where he appears to be in some kind of iSight-enabled jail).

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Blizzard.

Saturday, December 25th, 2004

We’re having a white Christmas Eve here in Houston. It’s been an excuse to play around with Flickr, which I’ve been procrastinating mightily. Hopefully the accumulation (about a half-inch, maybe more) will still be there in the morning.

Elsewhere: flickr photos tagged “snow” and “houston”; Metroblogging Houston; Houston Chronicle.

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LOTR coming to Houston.

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

As seen in Metroblogging Houston:

Just in case you don’t know the Lord of the Rings Exhibit will be here this summer at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The exhibit will open on June 5th and run through August 28th. It was created in exclusive partnership with New Line Cinema and will feature costumes, jewelry, armor and weapons, models, and information on the digital effect and makeup used in the film. You can find information on the exhibit here.

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Coffee swirls.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

The Rice Coffeehouse recently announced that they are planning a renovation, and have posted several concepts drawn up by Vaughn and Clarkson Architects. Of course, I can never leave well enough alone, and so when I read that the Coffeehouse was looking for additional input, I doodled some ideas of my own on the whiteboard in our office, and fired off an email.

Of course, I never heard anything back from the Coffeehouse, so I might as well share it with all of you. [Update 1/21/05: The Coffeehouse has moved ahead with a new concept.]

There’s more; read on. (I can’t seem to stop talking sometimes.)

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“Don’t you lock up something / that you wanted to see fly”

Monday, December 20th, 2004

My friend Dave rediscovered his high school CD collection. Hey, I remember listening to that Rusted Root album. Yours, in fact. Superunknown, too (though that may have been Pat’s copy I’m thinking of).

Hey, did you find those old Deep Forest discs as well? Sasi sasi…

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NYT discovers Penny-Arcade

Monday, December 20th, 2004

Bumper crop in the Technology section today. Now that everybody knows about Penny-Arcade, is it still cool?

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