Monthly Archives: August 2006
Penske and Allied Storage
We rented our moving truck from Penske, and picked it up from Allied Storage on 15th Street in Fayetteville, AR. Jenn did a lot of research before we reserved the truck, a lot of reading on the web, and called the folks at Allied at least 3 times. She was sure she had our price [...]
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In Decatur Now
Well, we’re moved in to Jenn’s parents’ house in Decatur, IL. It’s been pretty exhausting, loading up, driving, unloading, going to an interview. We got a new truck from the one we rented because the first one’s turbo acutator wasn’t. Actuating. So a new truck was towed down from Joplin. It only got there an [...]
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When Companies Compete (with themeselves)
I’m doing some research to get ready for my interview on Monday as a copywriter, doing producting naming and whatnot. I’m looking at a wikipedia page about brands–some of it is really interesting. Like this quote about why one company will launch a brand to compete with another one of its brands: “The rationale is [...]
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All Our N-gram are Belong to You
I’m not completely sure what this means, but it looks really cool: Google Labs is releasing their analysis of over a trillion words, or more specifically, “…are publishing the counts for all 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times.” Like I said, I’m not sure I get the ramifications, but the data takes 6 [...]
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No Pressure Cooker? Use Your Nalgene!
We’ve packed up everything in our kitchen. There’s nothing to heat water in except one tall travel mug that’s microwavable. But I do have some water bottles still out (one for coffee, one for tea, one for water, and the new ConC bottle; the latter two are full of orange juice right now since the [...]
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Cool Opera Buttons
Here’s amess of buttons for Opera that let you do handy things. Like remove the main menu bar (you know, “file, edit, etc”) so you get even more screen space, and replace it w/ a button. Or use a button to toggle it on and off. There’s more, but I haven’t spent any time w/ ‘em [...]
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