BubbleBurst http://sdrv.ms/11Oce0h I finally completed my first tiny iOS 6 iPad game. It's just a simple game where you tap on litt...

Note: If you just want to know how I set up the PAC, skip the next few paragraphs. Without youtube, facebook or twitter, an iPad misses ou...

i don't know why i never posted this, but there is outdoor climbing in nanjing as well. so you can bring your climbing gear! i know, it...

UPDATED DLL link on 12/25/2012: Freegate is the most reliable proxy I've used so far. Running it is pretty straightforward. 1. First g...

First you have to get freegate working on your mac, which I now realize I never wrote an entry for and was another day-long process. I'l...

Watching sports is never easy. bulls bowing out in the conference finals. the mls at anytime. it just doesn't get any easier when you mo...

wow. i just finished a bitchin upgrade of the hard drive in my macbook2,1. first, the two hour cloning process gave me a kernel error. but f...

in circles + sidewalk ends by mthongva at Garmin Connect - Details this was my first 5k with the garmin 305 using some new heart rate zones...

so i just picked up a garmin 305, and i have to say... It Is Rad. I chose the 305 because of the voluminous great reviews and its popularity...

lloyd haft has written a few blog entries that resonated pretty deeply with me on the experience of studying chinese. he's also included...

I read a pretty insightful quote by johanna drucker. It echoes something I've thought but never vocalized. "No violation of the p...

after one full year of continuous wear, the dwr pretty much wore off of my " stretch element " shell and the surface was absorbing...

october looks to be a great month for shows in iowa, for now we've got: 10/01: the thermals, the mill in iowa city, $12 10/28: joan o...

The 80-35 Music Festival looks to put Iowa and Des Moines, in particular, on the independent music radar with some big name rock bands. Jul...

yesterday's goal was to make a 'ježek [yayge-ek]' or porcupine. it's a dense chocolate cake with an outer layer of chocolate...

Sat 06.26 / Crooked Fingers @ the mill in iowa city w. So Cow After the Archers of Loaf disbanded, noted songwriter and indie-rock icon Er...

a very basic recipe for spaghetti sauce - 2 servings ingredients: 2 cloves garlic finely chopped 1 onion finely chopped 6 oz tomato pur...

ipod shuffle treated me to surprisingly awesome background music for a walk to BTC last week. being pretty new to the whole ipod gig, i have...

the title of the post says it all. yesterday i discovered project gutenberg's list of audio books . if you dont know anything about PG ,...

absolutely sweeeet. i've finally stumbled across a chinese dictionary for os x, 小词典 Small Chinese Dictionary . now i can lookup chinese ...

Earlier this year, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US would be supporting the development of new tools to enable citizens to ...

grinnell   / the picador / the mill / mshop   / vaudeville mews  / ames progressive and here are some march shows. it's just the c...

i have some original 10.5.6 system discs designed for macbook pro hardware. it is fairly common knowledge that you cannot use the discs on a...

this week, Kong Gejian's poetry collection, "Peanut Hill" (花生坡/空格键) , has received the most weekly clicks in the poetry sectio...

drum track to "strangers" by the kinks  and i'm also working on "this time tomorrow" by the kinks. drum rolls are pr...

i finally started messing around with garageband. it's a fun little app and if you had the right devices you could really get creative. ...

"Today’s system usually pays for volume rather than value, and we get what we pay for: more tests, exams, surgeries, and appointments. ...

grinnell   / the picador / the mill / mshop   / vaudeville mews  / ames progressive i thought i'd put together a list of shows goin...

while snooping around for info about the recent suicide bombing in iraq on the road to karbala, i found this great news program through yout...

i was having some trouble logging into vista from 10.4.11 tiger. it turns out that you cant have an empty password for your login. it will a...

i picked up a used ibook g4 the other the day for $100. the specs were about as nice as possible for a ibook: bought in 2006, perfectly work...