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Brave the cold and come on out to the Tree House coffee shop for the weekly open mic. It runs from 8:00PM – 11:00PM. You can sign up in advance here or just come to hang out, play chess, drink coffee, eat food, etc. See you tonight.

I added some screenshots for the next version of Spew (formerly knows as “Spewtris”). I changed the name after a few people told me the owner of Tetris cracks down on *tris games. I’m still working on the next version, but I figured I’d throw the screenshots up now for fun.

Ugh. I had this thing already written out and then my browser window crashed. It was a good night at the Tree House and the first time under the “No Cursing” rule they recently imposed. Everyone seemed to be respectful of it. I thought the PA sounded awesome and hopefully it will sound that good…

Come on out to the Tree House coffee shop for the weekly open mic. It runs from 8:00PM – 11:00PM. You can sign up in advance here or just come to check out the local talent. See you tonight. Also, these are awesome.

I’ve had these sitting on my hard drive for years and I’m finally letting them out. Everyone gets weird answering machine messages once and a while. Luckily I recorded two of the best ones I ever got. The first one is from an old man who paid me to help him out with his computer.…

It was a fun night at the Tree House despite a problem with a weak microphone. Tons of good artists and I managed the time extremely well. Maybe I’m getting better at this… 1. Ben Garvey – I played “The Genius of it All,” “99%,” “All My Dreams are in Cartoon,” and Johnny Cash’s “Big…

Come on out to the Tree House coffee shop for the weekly open mic. It runs from 8:00PM – 11:00PM. You can sign up in advance here or just come to hang out, play chess, drink coffee, eat food, etc. Lots of great artists are already signed up. See you tonight.

It’s pretty pathetic that I hurt my foot on Sunday running to an ATM machine about 100 meters away. Another sad fact is that I need to replace the horribly cheesy photo of me in the sunglasses up there at the top if you’re using the default theme. It was supposed to be temporary and…

Matt Weatherford, author of the Filthy Critic, decided to bring Filthy back from the dead and continue his movie reviews. First up was Big Fish receiving 2 fingers and Peter Pan getting 3 (5 if you’re in NAMBLA).

The Grape Street Pub is closing their old bar and opening up a new one down the street. The new venue will be bigger and should attract more signed bands. It will probably also have bathrooms you can actually use. The new place will be called Grape Street Philadelphia and will be located on Main…

I don’t get excited about too many things, but the new Mars Rover is awesome. Just check out the pictures it’s bringing back. What I want to know is, what’s with the corner cropped out of the image? Is that where the rover discovered something like a can of Mountain Dew or a Barbie Doll…

We had 15 performers signed up to play at the open mic last night. A few didn’t show and a few more signed up, so we netted 16 in the end. I was timing it for 18 performers, but with two no-shows and a cancelation we ended up empty at 10:30. There wasn’t much I…

Come on out to the Tree House coffee shop for the weekly open mic. It runs from 8:00PM – 11:00PM. You can sign up in advance here or just come to hang out, play chess, drink coffee, eat food, etc. It’s been a while since the last open mic and there are already a good…

If you aren’t coming to the open mic tonight you should be checking out Adrien and Steve of Reju playing the Tin Angel along with the Phoenix Trap and Tania Alexander. Also, Happy Birthday Melissa!

I’ve been tossing around this project since last summer, but it’s finally at the point where I’m ok with letting people try it out. I wrote a tetrisesque game in Perl/Tk with a very interesting twist that may cause motion sickness. I included the source code so you can mess around with it if you…

I made some changes to the sign up list today and the most important difference is that I fixed a bug causing people to accidently sign up twice for the same slot. When this happened it screwed up how my code displayed the list. If you notice any new bugs, let me know right away.…

Last Friday I went to see Return of the King with my brother. I liked it, but 201 minutes is way too long for a movie, especially when they pad it with 6 or 7 previews. I thought the book went on for too long after the climax, and the movie faithfully represented that. It…

There will be no open mic tonight, but there will be one next week. I hope you all had a good 2003 and hopefully 2004 will be awesome.

Jeanne got me a new CD rack for Christmas and it’s awesome. I think it holds around 250 CDs, which I would have been able to fill if I hadn’t gotten rid of a bunch. I like to keep my CD collection fairly well pruned, although you might not think so based on some of…

I saw this linked over at BoingBoing and became an instant fan. So far, this is my favorite one, although I can’t begin to understand it. Maybe it’s like one of those puzzles where the pictures spell out a word.