All Blog Posts (Page 30)

Jan 07, 2009
Music

The Most Unwanted Song

Head on over to the Slog and listen to the song; there’s an embedded music player at the bottom of the blog entry. This thing is totally, awesomely terrible. If you can tolerate it for 30 seconds, listen to the portion from about 5:40 - 6:10. It’...

Jan 07, 2009
Seattle

Wetter than usual

Seattle is wetter than usual today. It’s been raining since last night, and some areas around here are expected to receive 10-20” before it’s all over. Needless to say, this amount of rainfall is way above the minimum level required for flooding a...

Jan 06, 2009
Zoon Politikon

Breaking: Norm Coleman to challenge election results

Just heard on Minnesota Public Radio that Coleman is going to challenge the election results that determined Al Franken to be the winner of the very close Minnesota Senatorial race for Paul Wellstone’s old seat. I’m disappointed but not surprised.

Jan 06, 2009
Photography

Fear of Failure and Portrait Lighting for Beginners

If you’ve ever taken a gander through my collection of photos on Flickr, you’ve probably noticed that I don’t shoot many people, and when I do, it’s normally candid photo work. There’s a really simple reason for this: I don’t find portrait work to...

Jan 06, 2009
Photography

Helen

Day 5 of my 365 Project

Jan 06, 2009
Zoon Politikon

Latest on the Coleman Debacle

From the Associated Press (via MPR): The lawsuit alleges that the Canvassing Board made mistakes when determining voter intent on challenged ballots, that ineligible voters cast ballots and that some absentee ballots were erroneously opened early...

Jan 05, 2009
Zoon Politikon

More Info on Aaron Schock

Aaron Schock is the newest—and youngest at 27 years old—member of the incoming Congressional class. It took some work to dig up anything about him. His campaign website is devoid of anything resembling position statements, and instead contains yo...

Jan 05, 2009
Photography

My nephew is ludicrously adorable

My eight month old nephew, Addison, is ludicrously adorable. See the pictures below for indisputable proof (and click for larger sizes).

Jan 05, 2009
Zoon Politikon

Norm Coleman is a Big Sore Loser, and Other Observations

The election panel’s stamp of approval is unlikely to bring an end to the contest. A lawyer for the Coleman campaign, Fritz Knaak, issued a statement today calling the court’s ruling “disappointing and disheartening” and vowed to challenge the out...