Month: July 2005

May 11th, 2005 was the first day of Joel’s Blog.

It’s time to pay tribute to J-Walk Blog, the inspiration for Joel’s Blog.

While some see blogging as a fad, AA-List John Walkenbach takes it seriously. The J-Walk Blog, considered by many to be the best blog in the world, celebrates its 1,000-Day anniversary.

Every day I ask myself “How can I be more like J-Walk? Should I start wearing a hat? Should I visit Alaska?”

I want to live on Park Avenue too, even if it’s just a small apartment. Why doesn’t CNN ever call ME?

This spring we asked the Princeton University community to submit imagery produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science. The response was overwhelming: more than 200 entries from nearly 100 individuals in 15 departments. We selected 55 of these works to appear in the 2005 Art of Science Exhibition…

…like the above picture of a spider. NSFW?

Submit a photo of your friends indicating the date or time.

I’m back. My brother and I spent a long weekend visiting my daughter in Minneapolis. I tried updating the blog using an Apple laptop, but the software had a major problem being updated by this particular laptop. Today, the weekend blog entries are back.

While in Minneapolis, we visited the Mill City Museum, near the Stone Arch Bridge, and found it very interesting.

Beginning in 1880 and for 50 years thereafter, Minneapolis was known as the “Flour Milling Capital of the World.” At the industry’s peak, the Washburn A Mill was the most technologically advanced and the largest in the world. At peak production, it ground enough flour to make 12 million loaves of bread in a day.

Des Moines Alive is dedicated to discovering and promoting the fun and exciting things to do in Des Moines. You can find out the best places to eat, drink, dance or just hang out, and you can share your opinions on the places you have visited.

Another good example of fun things you can do with Google Maps. For example, click on “events” at the top right corner and learn that Boom Boom Huck Jam will be at the new Wells Fargo Arena on July 14.

Tony Hawk leads a world class line-up of skateboarders, BMXers and Motocross riders that will leave fans on the edge of their seats. a $1 million ramp system, which includes a massive half-pipe encircled by a motocross track, the Loop of Death, and a 30-foot drop-in will challenge the athletes.

The Austrian firm of Kaiprow, Kompak und Ozborne introduced programmable armor at the ArmorWorld Trade Show in Leipzig in 1520, which allowed a knight to instantly adapt off-the-shelf armor to his needs by inserting a 5�” floppy disk into the helm and resetting the EPROM (E-Z-armor Pre-stressed RhinoTufSteel� Over Mail) settings. It should go without saying that programmable armor became the fad of the decade.

Art that “kind of” looks familiar, like:

Under the Water Lillies
Unfinished Portrait of George Washington
Washington Crossing the Styx
Whistler’s Overbearing Mother

An Exhibition of Europes worst interiors of 1974.

Hey, I graduated high school in 1974. We were all united in being non-conformists back then.