Category Archives: Fun

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 … Continue reading

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Welcome Sara

Our latest addition to the Chwalisz family of bloggers: Our Other Sara(h) blogs about life, love and adventure on the Continent.

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 The Daily Show … Continue reading

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College Tour 2009 – Grinnell IA

So here’s the route: View College Tour 2009 in a larger map 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 … Continue reading

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Catch Thirty-Five

Pulled up, early, couldn’t find the valet. Called, went around the block. He came right out. Early, went in for a drink. Cool place. High ceilings, huge window areas over the bar. Cool light sculpture over a performance area. Had … Continue reading

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