July 2009
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Dynamic Paintings of The Future
It calculates how close you are and enlarges the frame as you teeter close. It creates the sensation of depth by merging inputs based on the distance between your eyes and your closeness. No polarization tricks. No glasses. No staring at a dot or crossing your eyes required. The technology is seamless as air. If you like, it recreates the weather in your precise location and spawns pixels of rain...
June 2009
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Stephen Yeargin wins first Nashville's Almost...
Congratulations to Stephen Yeargin!
He told me he put calls on Do-Not-Disturb to fully focus on the prize, which won him a retro Opryland Belt Bucklet. Get it.
He was able to win Nashville’s Almost Impossible Crossword Puzzle by solving the last clue:
CLUE: In the second fold below the clouds
ANSWER: John C. Tune
The second fold refers to the folds in the Cumberland River.
With the...
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Nashville's Almost Impossible Crossword Puzzle
HOW TO PLAY
Leave a comment to guess a word.
The first to a correct answer is honored below the puzzle.
Guess the last word to win a Opryland belt buckle!
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ACROSS 4 Caped cab driver 7 Nashville’s showboat built by Jeff _____ 9 TN’s richest county per household 11 Nine nudes 12 Grand Wizard’s view 14 Street named after dead horse who has...
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Piecing Together Chapter 11
My computer froze as I wrote chapter 11 of my story.
Even though the excerpt was a draft and riddled with errors, I couldn’t stand the thought of losing a nuance of what I had just created, so I took some photos of the screen. I ended up not loosing anything, but decided to piece the images together for their own sake. Here’s the result:
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Nashville's tech community spawns gpsAssassin...
Kill your neighbor. That’s the motto of gpsAssassin, the iPhone application which became available on iTunes yesterday. Players scan for targets and launch mafia-style attacks on nearby friends. “What has been great is the huge community support that we have received,” developer and co-founder Jackson Miller said in an email.
For the over 50 beta testers and numerous...
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Bookstore Magician
A magician strolled down the how-to isle cradling Your First Herb Garden. Rows of books became rosemary, basil, parsnip perhaps—the daydream died at the “Magic Tricks Revealed” sign. The magician fumed. He readied the herb book.
Twist the ends of you mustache with your finger and thumb.
Press the desired series of letters in a bound book.
While fanning the pages out, blow...