Andy Laub

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February 2006

Shoes, the Reversal.

PDF likes his shoes black and his socks blacker. My personal taste is not quite the same, nor are my buying habits. I would estimate at least 20 pairs accumulated in the last couple years alone. The best ones:

  1. Ben Sherman Cheetah, white/red/navy
  2. Converse Jack Purcell

22:52 on 27 Feb 2006

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The Merit of MySpace

Last year sometime, in what I consider to be one of my frequent lapses in judgement, I signed up for a MySpace account. Someone else that I know was on there and it looked interesting at the time so I went ahead and registered. The idea was (and …

19:24 on 25 Feb 2006

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Compulsive Updates (or, DOCADD)

It’s probably not gone unnoticed that this site was overhauled just two months after its previous incarnation, and I feel an explanation is in order.

The Problem

I’m going to coin another phrase, and I call it Designer’s Obsessive-Compulsive Attention Deficit Disorder; DOCADD for short. But I’m not just the discoverer …

21:55 on 22 Feb 2006

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V.12

The site finally comes together in its current iteration.

21:34 on 20 Feb 2006

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Chicago, part 2

So you may have noticed some delays in between the first and second parts of the series, and hopefully now you see why (if you’re RSSing, give it a break and visit the actual site). One of my main goals was to begin posting images and text independently, so …

18:51 on 18 Feb 2006

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Chicago, part 1

Back from Chicago! Architecture today, cars…soon.

I believe this was IBM Plaza.

Cranes, working on The Donald’s new building. They had just started this last summer.

Watching the cranes.

I’m not sure hocking bags was what …

19:41 on 13 Feb 2006

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DuSty

One of the first things I tried with Mario Kart DS was connecting to our router and playing wirelessly. Unsurprisingly, because we don’t broadcast our SSID, the DS was unable to find our network. I pulled up our router settings and turned on the SSID broadcast — still …

21:51 on 08 Feb 2006

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Demo

Although we didn’t plan it that way, we seemed to end up trying a lot of things yesterday. It started off with checking out a couple of open houses, something we like to do as we always seem to be passively looking. While Abe and his parents checked …

23:45 on 05 Feb 2006

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End of the Line

At some point it was bound to happen.

I’d mentioned before that Bender was not exactly the healthiest of cats; not a month went by that he didn’t visit the vet, or as we called it, his home away from home. Some of his ill health we attributed …

19:28 on 03 Feb 2006

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