http://craigsanatomy.com cliff's notes on my life. Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:27:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1625500http://www.feedburner.com Amy and Adam inspired me to do my own "Visited States" map - and I had the opposite reaction as Adam did after seeing my map - this is much more impressive than I thought it would be! In full discosure, some of these states (Kansas, Indiana, Wyoming, New Mexico, a ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/471416256/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/12/01/my-visited-states/ Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues (past, present, future), and complete strangers: I'm happy to announce that I have accepted a position with Space 150 in Minneapolis, working in Search Engine Optimization.  I will probably write more about this in the coming weeks, and I'm thrilled to join such a brilliant group at ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/465354181/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/11/25/dear-world-i-got-a-new-job/ Friday was a fun and interesting day for me.  Julio Ojeda-Zapata (tech writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press) summed up the day's events nicely.  For the sake of this post, I'll just say that a movement was started centering around the idea of Chipotle opening their doors a little ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/436033571/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/10/29/social-media-movement-1-2-3-just-add-water/ Politics Suck I'm really sick of politics.  Why is that every election season we seem forced to choose the lesser evil?  I swear,  between ads from McCain / Obama, Madia / Paulson, and Coleman /Franken, I really want to shoot my TV.  I am actually happy when an ad comes on ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/420674085/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/10/14/vote-for-independent-dean-barkley/ I didn't want to leave the baby robins memory on such a sad note.  So yesterday when I needed to test out the Sonicfire Pro software (it's cool, by the way), I grabbed some of that footage and played around a little.  So let's all remember these baby robins and ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/414008887/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/10/07/baby-robins-tribute/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/413054028/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/10/06/family-guy-teaches-dont-write-songs-like-they-used-to/ I've always said...that if I were to publish a book, I would publish it as "C. Lawton Key" because I think that sounds much more smartie-pants than "Craig Key."  I could go for the full thing "Craig Lawton Key," but that makes me feel like I'm in trouble or something ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/401905197/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/09/24/i-think-ill-write-a-book/ No seriously, who else could have made this?  Way to go adam! (i took the game off the front page--if you really want it, click the more button) Play Games at AddictingGames http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/364119192/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/08/13/i-swear-adam-cozens-must-have-written-this-game/ Here's a little fun for a Friday time waster...  Check out wordle. In goes your website, blog, whatev...and out comes: Yep the thuper-thmart wordle bots scan your site and grab all the words that are used the most and puts them in a nice cloud-like picture (does anyone else think it's funny ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/352697524/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/08/01/wordle-more-fun-wasting-time-than-ever/ Some haters are all up on the comments section of this video on youtube: They are calling it out as a viral ad campaign from Nike (which--I would say is pretty likely, considering the nicely cropped zoom in shot of the cool shoes with the swoosh logo about 40 seconds in), ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/348726314/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/07/28/attention-brands-this-is-how-you-get-me-to-like-you/ What??? Half of you (which would be 2 of you) don't know what that means...but I just found a post about using SEO (search engine optimization) powers for good, and I thought it was a pretty sweet idea.  So here is the deal: If you post a link to a site, you ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/345974862/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/07/25/crazy-seo-idea-for-freetibetorg-link-to-it-with-olympics-as-the-anchor-text/ Today, I think I'll start telling people how old I am.  I mean, I think 25 is respectable...isn't it?  Not that I haven't been respectable before now, in fact, I've always fancied myself to be a helluva guy (that's the narcissist in me), but before today, when I was 24, ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/342983356/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/07/22/25-years-ok-ill-reflect/ Ok, so if you know me very well, you know that I don't generally like "Big Computer" (aka Microsoft) and its products.  I would rather not have to restart my PC 5 times a day, and I also don't like paying large sums of money for software that is ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/329904379/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/07/08/i-might-just-be-endorsing-a-microsoft-product/ Well if you followed my tweets this weekend, you know I had a pretty full Memorial Day Weekend.  Indiana Jones 4, Barefoot Waterskiing and Tornado watching, and then post tornado cleanup made for a pretty full couple of days.  However, there was one event that happened this weekend that I ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/299850625/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/05/28/fairwell-dead-baby-robins/ This is so awesome.  I just randomly found an article about the old band which has two major things going for its awesomness:  1) They spelled my name wrong (I actually think my bandmates didn't know my name was "Key" not "Keys") and 2) The picture on the article isn't ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/298488914/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/05/26/this-was-the-peak-of-my-fame/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/291741036/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/05/16/amy-makes-baby-wade-cry/ Wade Tomas Sturlaugson was born yesterday (May 13, 2008) at 4:38pm. He weighed in at 8lbs 11oz and is 22" tall!  Mom, dad, and baby are all doing well. It was a pretty awesometastic experience!  Here are a few pictures, but there is a bunch more pictures and videos (I'm in ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/290221365/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/05/14/wade-tomas-sturlaugson/ Just upgraded to the new wordpress (using the automatic upgrader), and all is good in the hood--except the page looks a little funny.  I'm too lazy to play with the CSS right now.  So both of you readers can just deal with it for now. kthxbye.  http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/282200887/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/05/02/i-look-funny/ I just finished a book. Have you caught your breath yet?  Ok, shocking as it may seem--this one was pretty short, and a quick read.  The book is by Mohsin Hamid and is called "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."  A story about a young Pakistani who comes to the US for school (Princeton), ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/277823333/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/04/25/the-reluctant-fundamentalist/ I'm in Brady, TX right now.  It's 4am and I can't sleep, yesterday was an interesting day--thought I'd share: 4:30 am  Dad picks me up to go to the airport.  We're flying to San Antonio to go Turkey Hunting with Cuz Strickland ,who is a client of mine and probably the ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/264504771/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/04/05/wild-turkey/ Have you ever been to a smoothie joint, or one of those asian tea places and ordered a drink with "boba" in it?  If so, you know that boba are these marble sized balls of tapioca that they put into your drink of choice.  Then they have to give you ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/257863283/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/03/25/twitter-is-my-boba-tea/ If you are a male, and either have a signifficant other, or can pretend that you have one, please take this poll.  You can be honest, it's ok.  But would you rather have a high-def, flat panel (LCD, or plasma--you pick),  big screen TV... or a very thoughtful gift that has lots ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/255891291/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/03/21/tv-or-gift/ Posting an album to the Amazon MP3 store: $38 Sales Revenue generated from said album: $1,600,000 (ish) Sticking it to the man: priceless http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/03/nine-inch-nai-2.html http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/253203932/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/03/17/turns-out-trusting-the-consumer-might-actually-work/ www.rockworms.com has just found it's arch nemesis: http://perfectporridge.com/ this town isn't big enough for 2 mediocre music blogs. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/251681196/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/03/14/wwwrockwormscom-has-just-fou/ In case you were wondering what happened, I tried to introduce my twitter account to my wordpress blog this afternoon.  I find keeping up with twitter to be a lot easier than blogging--mostly because I'm lazy, so if I can share something clever in 140 letters or less, I'm all ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Craigsanatomy/~3/251668272/ http://craigsanatomy.com/2008/03/14/twitter-wordpress-matts-inbox-is-full/