http://therats.org Juggling, dead things, and other objects of interest to Matiss Duhon Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:51:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are, by this point, mostly settled in to our new place in Portland, Maine. The town seems great. Its tiny size relative to Chicago is already coming through, as we run into people we've already met far too often when wandering around downtown. In a similar, ... http://therats.org/2008/03/28/new-environs/ I enjoy reading about the creation/evolution debate. I like seeing science and reason defeat lunacy. Lately, the blogs have been a-roaring over the Expelled brouhaha with PZ Myers and his mystery guest. Tonight served up some more delicious drama when PZ crashed their promotional conference call. This is ... http://therats.org/2008/03/28/toosomething/ Yesterday was the first of my shows for this season with Newton Learning, the education-y company I juggled for in the fall. They run after school programs, funded by No Child Left Behind, at schools that perform low enough on whatever standardized testing is the current..um..standard. Where last ... http://therats.org/2007/06/10/summer-shows/ I finally got around to watching The Secret this week, with Erica and Kate.  I first learned about it through a coworker, and then some months later read up on it as Oprah started endorsing the damn thing.  Now, there are many, many, critiques out there already, and I don't ... http://therats.org/2007/05/19/the-secret-crapola/ I have been listening to almost nothing but metal lately, (with a little Bangles and Roy Zimmerman thrown in), and I'm pretty excited about it. Since I've finally figured out embedding in this thing (I just turned off the Rich Text Formatting stuff) it seems like a celebratory YouTube ... http://therats.org/2007/05/19/so-then-i-realized-this-blog-needs-more-metal/ So I still haven't figured out embedding video in this WordPress thing... Lame. Erica and I put up a couple of videos of ourselves on YouTube, though, which I think is pretty cool. Still lame that I don't have the videos sitting nicely in the middle of ... http://therats.org/2007/01/18/lame-and-cool-at-the-same-time/ I always very much enjoy the start of winter in the midwest. Back at the end of high school, whenever I told anyone that I was considering attending college in Iowa, the first word out of their mouth would always be either "Why?" or "Cold!" It became pretty ... http://therats.org/2006/12/05/ten-years-of-winter/ So the other day Erica and I were walking out of the apartment, when she paused to look through the mailbox.  I stood on the steps, heard a noise from the tree directly in front of me.  I turned to look just in time to see a bird of prey ... http://therats.org/2006/12/02/pals/ So Weird Al has a new cd coming out in two days.. I've been enjoying and sharing his latest music video as I wait to rush out and make my purchase...it's great! An excellent parody of Chamillionaire's "Ridin' Dirty" song.... Enjoy! In fact..September seems to be a big media ... http://therats.org/2006/09/24/something-of-an-anthem/ So I've gone back and forth a number of times, trying to decide if I should post anything about the Chris Bliss video. When my upper elementary school teacher sent it to me, the first person to do so, I thought, that's a nice little video, and forgot about ... http://therats.org/2006/06/16/breaking-my-silence-on-chris-bliss-and-not-writing-anything-myself/