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BLAST! at Fermilab

This is a documentary about scientists sending a telescope into space to look 6-10 billion years into the past. On a balloon. From Sweden and Antarctica. Actually, seeing the Antarctica stuff is worth it, the rest is better. Lou and I screened the movie as part of the Fermilab lecture series with Mark giving some [...]

Holiday 2009 - Sara Jean at Schubas

Our Sarah’s High School friend Sara Jean performed with Tom Schraeder and His Ego on Dec 28th at Schuba’s Tavern in Chicago. She had done this before last year and I had asked her to tell us when she would be preforming again. She Facebooked me and since both Bette and I were on vacation [...]

Welcome Sara

Our latest addition to the Chwalisz family of bloggers:

Our Other Sara(h) blogs about life, love and adventure on the Continent.

Cousin Joe's 15 minutes of fame

Or as Cousin Mike puts it – “Joe versus the volcano. My brother Joe’s 10 seconds of fame….”

Joe:

Here is a link to the video that the Post had briefly Friday morning. It is one of the few that has me talking….. in case you care. John asked for the video where I could be [...]

DeDuping MusikCube playlists

Or, Use SQL Squirrel and JDBC to dedupe MusikCube playlists

I use MusikCube a lot. That said, I sometimes share files from various machines that have duplicate files, and rather than hand-edit the playlists after each synchronization to eliminate the duplicate albums, I want an automated way. Since MusikCube runs on SQLite, why not do it [...]

Paula Poundstone

Not sure what to expect. We have heard her on the Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me radio program, and enjoy her there. But a stand up show?
It was local at the Woodstock Opera House, and only $28. Not going downtown. Worth it.

Dinner at Mixteca beforehand. I had the pork Cxxxx, Bette the Xxxx Verde soup, [...]

Herban Fare

This is a small place in the old karaoke bar a block off of the Woodstock square. Not as much vegetarian stuff as I would expect from the name, but good.

Went with three people. Small tables, close — just like in the city! I had beef and pasta ($15), wife had the seafood stew ($19) [...]

Fermilab lecture on Nanotechnology

Neil and I stopped at the Little Owl in Geneva for din din, had the Shore Lunch – nice piece of Walleye and fries. Good, but I should have gotten the burger. Neil had the fish combo and concurs. Little Owl was a lot less crowded than I remember.

Got to Fermilab in good time, and [...]

Larry King on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

4:12
Larry: “O.K….I’ve got ties older than you.”

5:12
Jon: “… and you take the money and pay off gambling debts!”
Larry: “No, I paid off Internal Revenue…”

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, May 21, 2009

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College Tour 2009 – Grinnell IA

So here’s the route:

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We set out with the new Honda CR-V Friday afternoon. Traffic was a little funky in Rockford at the I39 on-ramp, and I-80 was trashed at the IL state line as usual, but for the most part, the trip was uneventful. Lots of water at [...]