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My nephew rocks!

My nephew Dylan's band, Syncaphonic, has a MySpace page where you can listen to a few of their originals, plus a Stevie Wonder cover. My favorite is their version of "Couldn't Stand The Weather."

They are pretty good, eh!?!

I died on Law and Order

It's from a 2006 episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent. This is the actor who played me.

New PoP guest post: I love trash

The Pile
Originally uploaded by Jacob...K

I have a new guest post up on Prince of Petworth, about how I secretly pick up trash on my block and my fears about becoming the annoying passive/aggressive neighbor that everyone silently despises.

Quote:

"I think one of my goals in life is to never be “That Guy”: the person who does things so stomach-turningly earnest that you are unsure whether to nominate him for a mayoral citation or kick him in the nuts."

The comments are already rolling in.

[Link] to the whole thing.

Only in Ohio

Stories like this make me miss Ohio. Though people have their own concepts about life in the mid-west, stories like only happens in places like Ohio.

Quote:

A transgender woman was sentenced Friday to four years in prison for killing her frail husband by forcing him to exercise.

A surveillance camera caught Mason forcing her husband around in the pool.

Chris Mason also goes by Christine Newton-John, the name she took after her 1993 sex change.

[Link]

Meghan's food blog

My friend Meghan is quite the foodie. She makes interesting and delicious things almost daily.

She has a page on Recipezaar which is an aggregation of her recipes, rankings, and comments.

We occasionally tease her that this is her food blog. For some reason, the idea of having a blog makes Meghan's skin crawl. Looking at the page, it is obviously not a blog. But Meghan gets so lit up, so quickly about this, that we often refer to it as her blog.

Recently I discovered the site Xtranormal, which allows you to type in a script and some animation instructions, and it converts it into an animated movie. I used it to document a typical conversation with Meghan about her food blog.

I love you back...

Blinding freedom.
Originally uploaded by tom_collins

After eating some bad tunafish or something, the folks at We Love DC have declared me to be their official mascot.

Quote:

"Not just because I keep linking to his stuff (the dude entertains me, what can I say?) or because he works for my radio station of choice, but because the heavens have aligned and shown him to be The [WLDC Blog] Chosen One."

I'll stop there, because then they quote me, which (if included) would be me quoting them quoting me, and then it would feel really weird.

Here's a link to the whole post.

I'm sorry to disappoint, but I'm sure I won't look very good on a t-shirt.

Wait, does this mean I have to wear fake fur and show up at their softball games? Maybe this won't be so bad after all.

I'm sure this is supposed to tell you or me something

Wordle takes the text of your Web site and creates a relational word cloud of the important words it finds. Here is the word cloud for this blog (click to enlarge):

I'm not sure if this say more about about me, as someone who wrote it, or you, as someone who reads it.

The most addictive Web site ever

I ran across this site kinda by accident and it is amazing--videos of objects being thrown into industrial shredders. I'm talking cars, refrigerators, computers, a couch--and even an oddly and unfortunately uncompelling video of a sack of diapers being shredded.

Below is a video of a piano being turned into splinters in less than 25 seconds.

The videos are made by the shredder manufactures. It is a genius piece of marketing.

Me--I can't stop watching. Simply amazing.

Sounds like a total Nuzum

So, figure this one out...

Sometimes I get curious about other Nuzums. There are thousands of them around, probably tens or hundreds of thousands of them--yet it is still an unusual enough name that I feel some kind of kinship with just about anyone who shares that name.

So I occasionally Google "Nuzum" just to see what comes up. It is always interesting--an experience I'm sure the Smiths and Fitzgeralds of the world can't enjoy. A lot of the early results are about me, but through these searches I've discovered distant cousins who are semi-famous Christian musicians (who just happens to be another Eric Nuzum), a woman who writes novels involving dogs, Lucy Nuzum the photographer, and Robert the lawyer. I love reading about them.

In one of these recent searches, I stumbled across a reference in Urban Dictionary--the definition of a "Nuzum."

To quote:

"Nuzum

A person who has extremely little value in the eyes of others (including his/her family). Someone with next to no redeeming qualities or personality traits. They would have no hobbies of interest to anyone, nor any sense of humor that coincides with another human being."

Oh, it goes on from there. You can see it here.

The person that contributed the definition in 2007 only authored this one, so it kind of stands out as a practical joke.

But now I want to know who this Nuzum was, the one that inspired this. Was it someone's Chemistry teacher? A friend with a good sense of humor? The neighborhood bully?

Who could inspire this?

I think I have found my new favorite Nuzum.

My friend Meghan has too much free time

Meghan made these for, well, everyone she knew. It is an automated engine called Make Me Super, so it isn't like she filmed it, etc... But still, by her own admission, she found photos of all her friends (and I do mean all) and made superhero movies about each. And, of course, she picks the least flattering photo of each person. After you've viewed it, you can make yourself super, too.