Craig Talbert's blog

How NOT To Use Powerpoint

nobody@vox.com(Craig Talbert) — Sat, 17 May 2008 10:28:45 -0700

How NOT To Use Powerpoint By Comedian Don McMillan

I recommend paying attention.

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I'm plazing again

nobody@vox.com(Craig Talbert) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:18:53 -0800

I hadn't fired up plazes since over a year ago. But, I think I'm going to again. Here I am:

http://plazes.com/users/29310/

Add me.

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Celestial Seasonings Tour

nobody@vox.com(Craig Talbert) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:53:34 -0800

My sister and I went to take the Celestial Seasonings tour today. The top picture is a glimpse of the actual factory where the tea is packaged. The bottom is just from the outside of the building.

I was impressed with the amount of product such an incredibly small factory turns out. Not only that, but just operating five days a week -- the factory is closed on weekends. They go out of their way to sell you on the "Celestial Seasonings was started by hippies" story, and for all of the talk the operation still doesn't feel as corporate as I thought it would.

People had always told me about how hardcore the peppermint/spearmint room was -- the room where they keep all of the not yet packaged mint tea -- it's minty all right, but not to the eye-watering or hard-to-breathe level.

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My ZSpace

nobody@vox.com(Craig Talbert) — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:49:55 -0800

Z Communications just upgraded their site and it now includes glorious social networking features. So, well, here I am:

http://zcommunications.org/zspace/craigtalbert

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Pronetos

nobody@vox.com(Craig Talbert) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:33:04 -0800

I just signed up on Pronetos, it is a new social networking community for academics and researchers. This is me:

http://pronetos.com/profiles/craigtalbert/

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I made my 4000th wikipedia edit today

nobody@vox.com(Craig Talbert) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:15:35 -0700

w00t!

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My Cousin's Band, The Vultures, Best Garage Band in St. Louis of 2007!!!

nobody@vox.com(Craig Talbert) — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:41:03 -0700

From the River Front Times:

In a few short years, the Vultures have grown from three scrappy, underage rock & roll acolytes into one of the leading lights of this city's garage-band community. The trio's sets have moved from charmingly shambolic to drum-tight, plying audiences with primal screams, twangy guitar runs and a soulful, rubbery backbeat. The Vultures keep the needle moving by touching on rockabilly, swamp rock and gritty blues with little nuggets of pop bliss thrown in for sweetening. What's more, bassist and singer/shrieker Trashley spreads the dirt-rock love on her radio show, Talkin' Trash, on KDHX (88.1 FM) from midnight till 2 a.m. on Tuesday nights, playing first-generation punk, blue-eyed soul and rockabilly into the wee small hours. The Vultures are a band whose mission is the music, and the trio aims to win converts by any means necessary.

Add them in MySpace: www.myspace.com/thevulturesmusic

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Just rediscovered my Twitter

nobody@vox.com(Craig Talbert) — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:31:18 -0700

No, that's no a euphemism. I mean, this Twitter. If you want to follow me, I'm here:

http://twitter.com/craigtalbert

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Shambhala Mountain Center Trip

nobody@vox.com(Craig Talbert) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:44:52 -0700

I took a trip with some Buddhist Meditation peeps to the Shambhala Mountain Center. There is a Stupa that's kind of the central attraction, but there is also a full retreat facility with offices, hotel- dorm- and tent-style lodging, a dining hall, rooms for meditation and teaching, Buddhist rock gardens, etc.

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An eBay window in to my upbrining...

nobody@vox.com(Craig Talbert) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:11:49 -0700

I'm selling some stuff on ebay that's been in my dad's basement for years/decades and seemed like it might be valuable to someone.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthesupercraig

I've had my eBay account since 2000. That's scary.

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Ohh, and good to see Vox back up.

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