http://lawrie.aquapixel.net So there is life after college. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:30:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the guys at work recently got an iPod touch.  Now, I don't really think of myself as a gadget person, but playing with the iPod touch made me really want to get one.  Like, enough that I spent some time considering how to finagle $300 out of my ... http://lawrie.aquapixel.net/2008/04/14/if-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie/ Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted here. Time to get the cobwebs out, I suppose. It's hard for me to believe that trip to Boston in my last entry was over six months ago. It's kind of interesting to re-read that post and realize I had ... http://lawrie.aquapixel.net/2008/03/12/60/ Hanging out in a friend's apartment all weekend to eat tacos with hand fried taco shells and play Guitar Hero II. Driving towards Boston over the Tobin Bridge at night with the skyline lit up in front of you. Walking from the Boston Common(s) to Government Center to Faneuil Hall to the ... http://lawrie.aquapixel.net/2007/09/05/snapshots-from-a-perfect-weekend/ When Evelyn and I visited Santorini last fall, we took an eight-hour ferry ride to get there. The ferry docked at the port in Santorini, and we disembarked with hundreds of other passengers, a mix of late season tourists, like us, and locals returning home. In the crowd ... http://lawrie.aquapixel.net/2007/05/09/silence/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sunset on the way home. http://lawrie.aquapixel.net/2007/02/02/01-09-07_1715jpg/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } My new toy :) http://lawrie.aquapixel.net/2007/02/02/02-02-07_0933jpg/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Snow! http://lawrie.aquapixel.net/2007/02/02/02-01-07_0907jpg/ Europe was...many things.  It was good.  It was different.  It was tiring.  It was beautiful.  It made me want to learn French, German, Greek, and Spanish.  It's ridiculous and awe-inspiring that there are buildings hundreds or thousands of years old still standing.  We saw what we went to see, although ... http://lawrie.aquapixel.net/2006/11/08/so-im-back/ I've used Webshots as the source for pictures for my desktop background for years. They have lots of free pictures that you can download, so every so often I'll visit the site and download some new ones. Many of the pictures from this site are quite beautiful, but ... http://lawrie.aquapixel.net/2006/10/02/it-all-started-with-a-picture/ What will music be like 500 years from now?  Will it be super-electronified or simple and chant-like?  Or will it go through both phases and end up somewhere completely different that I can't imagine right now?  What will they think of our music?  Will they even know what it sounds ... http://lawrie.aquapixel.net/2006/08/03/things-i-think-about-as-i-fall-asleep/