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		<title>Failure Defines Us &#8211; Coco</title>
		<link>http://smikwily.com/2011/06/14/failure-defines-us-coco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smikwily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us, and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention. &#8211; Conan O&#8217;Brien]]></description>
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<p>It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us, and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention. &#8211; Conan O&#8217;Brien</p>
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		<title>Super Slo-mo Surfer!</title>
		<link>http://smikwily.com/2010/05/21/super-slo-mo-surfer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very wicked little video of HD slo-mo surfing. The &#8220;underneath the waves&#8221; shot is spectacular.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very wicked little video of HD slo-mo surfing. The &#8220;underneath the waves&#8221; shot is spectacular.</p>
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		<title>Post-it-apocolypse!</title>
		<link>http://smikwily.com/2008/09/11/post-it-apocolypse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smikwily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EepyBird&#8217;s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.]]></description>
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		<title>Torn</title>
		<link>http://smikwily.com/2007/11/05/torn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original is entertaining, the redux is classic:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2yNzw00mpA">original</a> is entertaining, the redux is classic:</p>
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		<title>Flyby</title>
		<link>http://smikwily.com/2007/09/13/flyby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smikwily</dc:creator>
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		<title>Good Guys Car Show 2007</title>
		<link>http://smikwily.com/2007/07/17/good-guys-car-show-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smikwily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few years, my Uncle and my Dad have been coming to Columbus for the Good Guys car show. I&#8217;m personally not a &#8220;huge&#8221; fan of classic cars, but the combination of great craftsmanship and the opportunity to see those two act like little kids again more than makes up for the sunburns [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the last few years, my Uncle and my Dad have been coming to Columbus for the <a href="http://www.good-guys.com/">Good Guys</a> car show. I&#8217;m personally not a &#8220;huge&#8221; fan of classic cars, but the combination of great craftsmanship and the opportunity to see those two act like little kids again more than makes up for the sunburns and worn out feet.</p>
<p><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="288" height="192" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&#038;RGB=0x000000&#038;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fsmikwily%2Falbumid%2F5088123810130990257%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been to a car show before and felt a little underwhelmed, I can pretty much guarantee this isn&#8217;t one of those shows. This year there were 6500 cars registered and while you do have a few &#8220;entries from the locals&#8221;, the Pro Picks and the majority are much better than you&#8217;ll see tooling around town. My uncle mentioned this year that this show has pretty much ruined other shows for him&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Bryan Gaynor &#8211; Yeah, I Think He Can Dance</title>
		<link>http://smikwily.com/2007/06/01/bryan-gaynor-yeah-i-think-he-can-dance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smikwily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watched this guy last night and he does a great job with what he has to work with physically. So You Think You Can Dance- Bryan Gaynor &#8211; The best home videos are here Shane Sparks offered him a part in the movie Spark&#8217;s is working on and getting ready to shoot. The Missus and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Watched this guy last night and he does a great job with what he has to work with physically. </p>
<p><embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/621218/so_you_think_you_can_dance_bryan_gaynor.swf" width="400" height="345" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><font size = 1><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/621218/so_you_think_you_can_dance_bryan_gaynor/">So You Think You Can Dance- Bryan Gaynor</a> &#8211; <a href='http://www.metacafe.com/'>The best home videos are here</a></font></p>
<p>Shane Sparks offered him a part in the movie Spark&#8217;s is working on and getting ready to shoot. The Missus and I will be looking out for him.</p>
<p>Edit: Updated link to video as apparently another production company doesn&#8217;t want to give viewers a reason to watch their show&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Mwa-wa-wa? Mwa mwa!</title>
		<link>http://smikwily.com/2007/03/15/mwa-wa-wa-mwa-mwa-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smikwily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[File this in the &#8220;Random Trivia&#8221; corner of your skull: &#160; According to Leonardo Moran of Bill Melendez Productions, &#8220;Composer John Scott Trotter directed his trombonist to &#8216;enunciate&#8217; the teacher&#8217;s dialog as though it were a trombone riff. Trotter&#8230;would read the teacher&#8217;s line, e.g., &#8216;Linus, where&#8217;s your homework?&#8217; then direct the trombonist to repeat Trotter&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>File this in the &#8220;Random Trivia&#8221; corner of your skull:</p>
<blockquote><p><p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>According to Leonardo Moran of Bill Melendez Productions, &#8220;Composer John Scott Trotter directed his trombonist to &#8216;enunciate&#8217; the teacher&#8217;s dialog as though it were a trombone riff. Trotter&#8230;would read the teacher&#8217;s line, e.g., &#8216;Linus, where&#8217;s your homework?&#8217; then direct the trombonist to repeat Trotter&#8217;s inflection through his instrument.&#8221; </p>
<p>User-edited site <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts#Television_and_film_productions">Wikipedia</a> explains that this called for a &#8220;trombone with a plunger mute opening and closing on the bell to simulate adult &#8216;voices.&#8217;&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://ask.yahoo.com/20070306.html">Ask Yahoo!</a> </p>
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<p>Always thought the voices sounded a bit musical, but couldn&#8217;t quite tell for sure. </p>
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		<title>Fixer of Fans</title>
		<link>http://smikwily.com/2006/09/14/fixer-of-fans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I did my &#8220;husbandly&#8221; duty and replaced a bad exhaust fan in our master bathroom last night. For a large portion of you, that probably doesn&#8217;t seem like much, but for yours truly, while technology comes fairly easy, manual labor is far from my strong suit. I had purchased a replacement fan kit a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I did my &#8220;husbandly&#8221; duty and replaced a bad exhaust fan in our master bathroom last night. For a large portion of you, that probably doesn&#8217;t seem like much, but for yours truly, while technology comes fairly easy, manual labor is far from my strong suit. </p>
<p>I had purchased a <a title="Nutone 690NT" href="http://www.nutone.com/product-detail.asp?ProductID=11225">replacement fan kit</a> a the previous night, but when it came time to install, there was a piece missing from the kit and it&#8217;s location on the assembly meant that my usual scattered self couldn&#8217;t have misplaced it. After about an hour of assuming I was an idiot, I verified that &#8220;it weren&#8217;t all there&#8221; and called it a night. After returning it and double checking the new kit in the parking lot of the <a title="Home Depot" href="http://www.homedepot.com/">HD</a>,<br />
I headed home for round two. After struggling to see through the debris that was especially bred for blinding any would be attacker (killer drywall?), I was able to pop everything into place and hit the switch for the final verdict. I knew I was golden when I could feel the air pulling through both the door and over my fingers on the wall plate. After a quick mowing of the lawn (all .2 acres I call home), I hopped in the shower and emerged to a non-steam filled bathroom for the first time in about a week.</p>
<p>&#8216;Tis the little things that makes you comfortable and replacing an exhaust fan in the bathroom that pulls double <strike>doodie</strike> duty made my world a slightly better place.</p>
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		<title>Text PayPal Me</title>
		<link>http://smikwily.com/2006/03/29/text-paypal-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smikwily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems that PayPal answered fairly quick after my post a few days ago on accepting SMS based money exchanges, taking on new comer TextPayMe. Still not sure how quickly it will catch on, but the thought of doing cash free transfers face to face is intriguing if anything. Guess if you have a few tech [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems that <a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/paypal-plans-phone-payments-163482.php">PayPal answered</a> fairly quick after <a href="http://smikwily.com/?p=473">my post</a> a few days ago on accepting SMS based money exchanges, taking on new comer <a href="http://www.textpaymore.com/">TextPayMe</a>. Still not sure how quickly it will catch on, but the thought of doing cash free transfers face to face is intriguing if anything. Guess if you have a few tech heads on both sides of the transfer, this could catch on, otherwise it will probably take a transfer via the phone companies for this to hit mainstream.<!-- technorati tags start -->
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