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Moving Day reminder

Saturday, July 29th, 2006 [ Click Post Title to see entry in its entirety ]

Ah, moving day. Look out the window and down on the sidewalk to a familiar scene of trash strewn all across the sidewalk and the trash cans all tipped over. Another neighborhood trait that I won’t miss. Ah, moving day !
(Bonus: that’s my dark green car)

Last Night on McKibbin Street

Friday, July 28th, 2006 [ Click Post Title to see entry in its entirety ]

End of an era: Nearly two years of living in the “McKibbin dorms” will be over tomorrow morning.
Overall this has been a good place for me. My amazing room with its huge bank of windows where I watched all manner of weather and human spectacle. The friendly folks at Potion and The Archive that helped […]

Google SketchUp

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 [ Click Post Title to see entry in its entirety ]

I’ve been playing wtih Google’s free 3D program SketchUp
The free version is pretty powerful for throwing together
quick 3D renderings. You can even import photographs
and use them to texture objects (distorting to fit). This
grew out of a need to create 3d objects for Google Earth (I believe).
Here’s a mockup I made, to scale, of my new […]

Packing the books

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006 [ Click Post Title to see entry in its entirety ]

I have a little packing-to-move ritual. I always pack my books first. Book packing is an easy way to ease into the whole packing experience. They handily fit into the boxes without resorting to padding or handling odd shapes. As you move from smaller to larger books, you become more efficient at placing just the […]

2yrs and counting

Monday, July 17th, 2006 [ Click Post Title to see entry in its entirety ]

saturday marked two years of keeping this weblog. It started out at kaimcbride.com, moved briefly to mumbleBunnies.org and now lives here at acMeriBKid.com for the forseable future. here ! here !