Monthly Archives: October 2007

Almost run over (again)

By Matt Jacob | Published: October 24, 2007
One of these days, somebody is going to hit me with their* car. And my biggest fear isn’t that I’m going to get hit or even that I’m going to die. My biggest fear is that nobody will be there to scrape me off the pavement, and thus, I won’t even get a proper funeral [...]
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How much did you pay?

By Matt Jacob | Published: October 14, 2007
How much did you pay for the new Radiohead album? Personally, I paid £5.00, which I think is a reasonable price for a digital download of 10 tracks. Considering that I’ve bought seven other Radiohead albums over the years, I feel the name-your-price approach is a fair compromise for artists and customers. Of course you’re [...]
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Pardon the dust around here

By Matt Jacob | Published: October 9, 2007
Some of my regular readers (all three of you—ha!) may have noticed that I didn’t use Title Case in My Last Post. That was intentional. I’m switching to a more newspaper-like style for my headlines, and I think it’s less awkward this way. I also upgraded to WordPress 2.3 (the software that powers this site) a [...]
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Living in the mall

By Matt Jacob | Published: October 3, 2007
Oh, Rhode Island. So small, yet so weird. A 36-year-old “artist” and a couple friends set up a 750-square-foot apartment in a mall and then lived there on and off for about four years. According to this article, the cops were slightly amused, but they sentenced the guy to probation anyway.
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