tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65605472009-07-06T18:42:42.272-05:00neither pertinent nor important. did you expect anything less?ehrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10240406451695219572noreply@blogger.comBlogger306125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-65782978831733941972009-06-24T18:42:00.004-05:002009-06-29T10:13:04.251-05:00

I've had a few cellphones in my day. Since I got my line in the winter of 1998/9 I've used at various times a Sony CMD-500, Qualcomm QCP-800, Sony CMD-Z1, Nokia 8260 (in all three colors), Samsung SCH-850, LG TM-510, LG-VX10, Kyocera SE47, Samsung SCH-a670, Motorola RAZR v3c, and LG VX-8700. Whoof. That's probably 3% of the earth's electronic waste right there. And you know what? The only phone I

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Happy June! It's pretty hard to fathom how fast the year is going by. Just think: in January I was still thinking of putting a ring on it, and by next January a wedding will be mostly planned. Unreal.Anyhoo, waaaaay back in the day I was rocking a Windows PC I built myself. Hard to believe, right? But you know, when I got out of high school, I had zero money for a Mac. They had those slick

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Note: This is the fourth (and possibly final) post in a series of unfinished thoughts that I hastily tacked an ending on to to bridge the gap between the past and the future of ES.com. I started this one almost exactly a year ago, on May 21, 2008. Thanks again for reading. –ESI always felt that reminiscing was for douchebags, and it's a belief I still hold on to. Thus, it should come as no

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Note: This is third in a series of draft-level posts I've had in Blogger for ages that I am finishing and posting. I originally started this one August 26, 2006, and have kept up my odd writing style to maintain post integrity. New content should follow this series, get excited! Thanks for reading. –ESit's August!during the later days of this month, the State Fair happens, which is pretty much

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Note: This is another in a series of posts from the "unfinished" heap, originally intended for publication on March 8, 2006. I have retained my odd writing style from that period to make my thought seem more seamless. A thousand pardons for the not-so-new content as I figure out this blog's direction. Thanks again for reading. – ESon Sunday, [March 5, 2006,] one of my very favorite baseball

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... or, alternatively, I explain in long-winded detail my music tastes.Note: I started writing this post waaaaay back in September. I came across it while cleaning up in my stunted posts and decided to finish it. Lucky you! Thanks for reading. – ESMusic is a funny thing. It's almost like politics, in the way that so many people are so deeply passionate about it. And like politics, which I

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Oh hey. Yeah I haven't been around so much, sorry. I was busy working, schooling and getting engaged. Anyhoo, enough with the chitchat and on to the blog post!I've been browsing these internets a long time. And one thing I've noticed in said internets is that while most sites in general are either visually interesting or informative, sites that specifically focus on PCs or Windows are usually

ehrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10240406451695219572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-59977800876129610752008-10-21T10:29:00.002-05:002008-10-21T10:46:52.233-05:00

I have owned the newdeep.net domain name since April 2005. Three and a half years now. And how long has there actually been a website there? Probably about 10% of that.Well, that changes today. After being a blog aggregator, discussion board, file-hosting site, HTML test bed, ES.com redirect, nuclear power technician and 400 error, I am pleased to announce that NDDN will be my professional

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This whole before-8 thing is gonna take some hardcore getting used to. I've been spoiled by so many "early" shifts beginning at 9:30a that getting up at a quarter of six to get ready for school is a major pain. Even when I was at Century, my earliest class was at 9:30. Let me tell you, the world looks a helluva lot different when the sun isn't quite up. I do believe that I will be taking some

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I am sitting in my Web design class right now, surrounded by Macs.  I am also largely surrounded by people who have no idea how to use one.  Which means we are going through Mac tutorials!  This should be the easiest class ever. now playing on iPod: silence

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It's been a while. Working on an extremely long feature-type blog post that I will finish soon. Lots of stuff going down right now; I will start actually blogging about what is going on a little later.Stay tuned. And follow me on Twitter!now playing on iPod: Dave Matthews Band "Ants Marching"

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Helvetica the typeface was created in 1957 from sheer awesome.  In fact, it contained so much awesome that it was used on subway signs, in corporate logos, on television, in the Mac and iPod GUIs, and even on the goddamn Space Shuttle!  In 2007, to celebrate the font's 50th anniversary, Helvetica the documentary was released to attempt to explain its awesomeness.  The film opened to

ehrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10240406451695219572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-10947924122685762432008-05-09T13:16:00.003-05:002008-05-09T13:17:00.927-05:00

...television has always been awful.  Check out this hideous open from sometime in the 1970s:AWFUL.  The theme song sucks, the stage is black with hints of orange and yellow, and all the kids are barefoot.  Two words: not awesome.  Though it did spark a bit of nostalgia in me, since the giant ZOOM letters reminded me of my dad's old Maxell cassettes he always had lying around:Ahh, memories.  And

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This past Saturday's Powerball jackpot was estimated at just a shade over $180 million. Upon hearing this, I excitedly licked my chops and promptly forgot about buying a ticket. Then, en route to church Sunday morning, I saw the giant billboard that denoted the new, paltry $10 million prize. I was fully expecting the monies, like in previous Powerball payouts, to go to one of this country's many

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I think this is the unofficial start of spring. Sure as hell doesn't feel like it though.Alyssa and I finally booked our trip to New York City a couple weeks ago. It should be good times; I'm pretty excited. We have already planned quite a few things to do during that span. It also gives me a chance to test out my camera in a tourist setting rather than just family functions and city randomness.

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Fine Line Music Café, April 15, 2008 I know, I know, it seems like I'm always at the Fine Line. Shut up.Tax Day 2008 turned out to be very pleasant weather-wise. Mostly sunny skies and temperatures hovering around 60. This is why there was a tinge of regret in my soul as we headed downtown to catch an early show featuring the rising Sara Bareilles. But all was well, because we grabbed sone

ehrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10240406451695219572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-57529916286517012102008-04-18T23:49:00.005-05:002008-04-19T02:08:13.498-05:00

As should be painfully obvious to everyone here by now, the dynamic content portion of ES.com is powered by Blogger.  And, since I've done this for God knows how long, I have a few posts.  Well, Blogger recently introduced the ability to tag posts with categories, so I've been applying categories to all of my old posts, some of which I have realized are better than others.  Which is why I am

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As an Apple fanboy, it gives me great pleasure to see Macs out "in the wild." I already point out any Mac appearances in television or movies, which my girlfriend mocks me endlessly for, but that still isn't as cool as seeing regular people using them in everyday situations. Example: I am sitting in Panera Bread right now, and of the 10 or so people using their laptops, four of them are on

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Everyone who knows me knows I am super excited about the new Twins ballpark.  So much so, in fact, that I track pretty much anything I can regarding it: the webcam, construction galleries, etc. I even track down news articles from the Star Tribune. Which is why I read an article concerning the vendor selected for the new concessions. My favorite part? (emphasis mine):Walleye tacos and ahi tuna,

ehrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10240406451695219572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-15381468467074389892008-04-02T13:13:00.005-05:002008-04-05T10:30:43.079-05:00

This is the first entry to ES.com that I'm posting with the iPod touch so bear with me if I make any mistakes...Yesterday being April Fools Day, the internet was all atwitter with random-ass pranks. Some of them were lame: MacUser, one of my favorite Apple blogs, chimed in with a dizzying array of occasionally-funny news stories. But the prank I found most amusing came from Woot. On top of it

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... or at least that's what the calendar says.I swear, sometimes spring in Minnesota feels like karmic retribution for the awesome summer and autumn we usually get. Or maybe I've just been spoiled by the past few springs. Every day, when I log on to weather.com, I'm greeted by the same dismal forecast: clouds and a high of 40° with a chance of snow showers. Then, I click on the ten day

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We got some winter finally, dudes. Ever since I started seriosuly blogging on ES.com back in 2004, and even before that, I have bitched at length about the pussified winters we have had of late. This year though, even with the snow being late to arrive. the chilly teps set in early enough to get the ground frozen and allow any snow we do get to stick around. You know, like the six or so inches we

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I love the Christmas season, but not the hours associated with it. Thankfully, the worst is over; I put in fourteen hours on Black Friday and about ten on Saturday. I've done this for ten years now, so it is mostly routine, but one thing that never fails to amaze me every year is the volume of people who are willing to sit in the cold for hours on end just to save a few extra bucks on that

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Fine Line Music Café, October 7, 2007I think that by now I've seen the Pat McGee Band somewhere around four billion times. The greatest thing though is that it's never the same show. PMB has toured semi-nationally since signing to Warner Bros Records in 2000, and this tour with co-headliner Josh Kelley and support act The Kin marked their eighth headlining visit to the Twin Cities, third gig at

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Fine Line Music Café, September 27, 2007I've been to a few live shows in my day. I had never been to one put on by a former pop princess though, and I'm not used to entering a venue before 6:00 on a weeknight. But there were a couple of extenuating circumstances here: first, I am a Mandy Moore devotee, and secondly I haven't yet seen a show at the Fine Line that disappointed me. Luckily, the fan

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