Monthly Archives: June 2008

The Times Newsaic

My friend David Taylor started a very ambitious project this past January, he is creating a collage every day using the New York Times. Each piece has a certain structure and a theme or concept that was derrived from that days paper. Each piece is created from torn pictures and text from the paper and [...]
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Get with the program folks

Airport security my be an oxymoron, I wonder all the time if the inconvenience is actually worth it. But so long as we have to deal with the security lines, lets all get along together. 80% of the people making their way thru security are the ones screwing up the system, by creating some efficiency will [...]
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This is crazy

My keyboard and trackpad went south, last week, so I brought my MacBook Pro to the Apple store and it magically all worked. ok. Then this past weekend on Sunday same shit no keyboard or trackpad, plugging in external works fine… but I’m stressing, and I don’t really need the additional stress, heading to San [...]
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A little twitter management

Last night I finally got to following peeps that have been gracious enough to follow me over the last few weeks. I’ve considered using a bot to auto-follow new followers, but I do have 2 criteria for following and I don’t know of a bot that you can assign these types of constraints to. No avatar=no [...]
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Cottage Update

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ZoneTag Photo Sunday 4:28 pm 6/15/08 Montauk, New York, originally uploaded by Bryan Thatcher. Wow it’s looking really cool! Siding is almost done, all the windows and doors are finally in. The plumber has plumbed and [...]
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Making Fusebox and Empressr just a little greener

Getting bottled water has always bothered me, it seemed like such a waste, between the processing and trucks delivering it, makes the water very unfriendly to the environment. So last week we got rid of the bottled water and installed a water purification system, the system feeds both the water cooler and the coffee machine. [...]
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Laura and Kassandra

Laura and Kassandra, originally uploaded by Bryan Thatcher. Laura and Kassandra at Middle School Graduation addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fbryanthatcher.com%2F2008%2F06%2F13%2Flaura-and-kassandra-2%2F'; addthis_title = 'Laura+and+Kassandra'; addthis_pub = '';
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These guys actually get paid to write shit like this?

I love CNN, but I don’t get the purpose or the intent of this article! One the iPhone rocks, yes it is missing a few features I would really love to have. The usability, like no other phone or device, EVER. Need to get your email, you know exactly what button to click, need web, [...]
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Graduation Day

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Me and Kay, originally uploaded by Bryan Thatcher. Kassandra graduates from Middle School today, sniff sniff. On to High School. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fbryanthatcher.com%2F2008%2F06%2F12%2Fgraduation-day%2F'; addthis_title = 'Graduation+Day'; addthis_pub [...]
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Gary Vaynerchuk aka @garyvee closes Tech Cocktails

Gary is his classic closing talk stresses be a R.A.T — R.eal A.uthentic T.ransparent. Stating that social media is only at the National Anthem for an 18 inning game. Embrace the RAT cause life is only going to become more and more transparent. Be passionate and work your face off. Here is my Qik of [...]
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