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  • Great Word

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    This is an awesome word: Grandiloquent – Characterized by language that is elevated and sometimes pompous in style:

  • Robot Dracula

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    Probably for a robot, the scariest thing isn’t a ghost, because they wouldn’t know what one was. The scariest thing would be Robot Dracula. — Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

  • Infinity Rx Vial Accumulator 3D pic

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    Here’s a screenshot of the 3D model version of the new vial accumulator I mentioned a few days ago. The only thing it doesn’t show is the conveyor chain. Compare:

  • Newspapers feeling the heat from craigslist

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    Most people know I’m a huge craigslist fan and I’ve bought and sold a few thousand dollars worth of stuff through it. I’ve always wondered about how much it has impacted newspapers and whether they’d start to print negative stories about it to make it seem unsafe or seedy. As long as you do everything…

  • Inland Empire (Again)

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    I watched Inland Empire again last night before sending it back to Netflix.? I think it’s easy to write it off as a random conglomeration of scenes, especially because David Lynch claims he didn’t use a script and filmed it as he went, but then I look at someone like Jackson Pollack who always claimed…

  • New version of WordPress

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    I upgraded my wordpress installation yesterday and the primary difference is the addition of tagging posts, hense my tag cloud on the right. I’ve only been able to tag my last 30 posts or so (1100 will take me a while!) and I haven’t tagged any of the video ones due to a bug with…

  • What I do

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    I don’t make too many work posts, but here is a quick explanation of what I do every day. I’m the Engineering manager for Garvey Corporation, a company started in 1926 by my great grandfather, Gordon Garvey. We make product handling equipment for high speed packagers in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and consumer products industries.…

  • Check the Roof

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    I did something really dumb on Thursday after work. I had a bunch of stuff to take home and it took a while to put it all in the car. I pulled out of the drive way and made a quick left when I heard something fall off the roof of my car. Oh crap.…

  • Phils Can’t Get it Done

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    Well, looks like the Phillies are now down 0-2 in the playoffs against the Rockies. It’s hard to come back from that in a five game series, but it would be nice to see them take at least one of the games in Colorado. In other news, this was a really nice gesture by the…

  • Lebron on SNL

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    I loved this skit, if only because the glove box on my car is stuck down.

  • Going to the game tomorrow

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    Woooo. I can’t wait. Also, the Phillies announced their 25 man roster for the first round of the playoffs. Adam Eaton didn’t make the cut.

  • Phillies Win the NL East

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    It’s been 14 long years since my freshman year of high school when the Phillies made the playoffs and eventually made it to the world series. I was a big baseball fan then, but the 1994 baseball strike and a string of absolutely horrendous records made yardwork look like a more exciting hobby. Baseball nearly…

  • Phillies Win, Mets Continue to Lose

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    Wow. It must suck to be a Mets fan right now. The NL East is all tied up now.

  • Odd Man In game started

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    I haven’t started an Odd Man In game in forever, mostly because I thought the players still into it were fine with the private games, but xorg (and my mom) has been bugging me to start a public game. Oddsmobile has begun and the first moves are due Monday.

  • Rogan?

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    This video was highly enjoyable for me. Brian is probably the only person who reads this site that ever played Age of Empires though.

  • Interpol @ The Tower Theater

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    A friend offered Interpol tickets to Jeanne and I a few days ago. I’ve never seen them live and I’ve heard good things, so we decided to go. The Liars opened up and everyone around us hated them. I thought each of their songs tried to emulate a different band. I had fun guessing whether…

  • Dude_____

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    As most of you know I’m a big fan of Jason Zahn’s world famous GameShow. I submitted a bunch of possible word ideas two years ago and today one of my phrases made it’s way to the game: Dude____ I’ve gotten so much crap for this word today.

  • This American Life

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    I know I’m late to the party on this, but how brilliant is This American Life? While most shows are about extraordinary events and people, This American Life examines the lives of mundane, ordinary people. They take the time required to find out things like why summer camp is like a cult, or that the…

  • Wayback Machine

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    I’ve posted this before, but man you have to love the Wayback Machine at archive.org. You can go back and view almost anything on the web from the past. bengarvey.com August, 2002 One of my first web pages in 1999 Some more… Retro Google BoingBoing circa 1998 A site I designed in 2000

  • Another Rib Try

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    I made baby back ribs again for the game today (argh!) and they turned out great. The main difference was that I smoked them with hickory chips and I cooked two racks at a time instead of just one. A neighborhood cat tried to eat them right off the grill. I almost screwed up the…