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photo slideshow, individual photos

Kudos to Seth for showing up to work, thus making it into a Wired.com tour of Mozilla.

Seth “I’ve got a black belt in crazy” Bindernagel has come a long way from the Ed’s days of fitting insulting remarks into the newspaper.

I gotta hang a nerf hoop up at work.

On December 10, I read a blog post titled Shattering The Eyeglasses Scam.

Being a big dork, I couldn’t get the story of how “Glassy eyes” got new glasses for $81 online.

The last pair I purchased cost about $500 before insurance from LensCrafters. After insurance, we were out about $250. (I can’t find the receipt — this was in 2004).

So, in early January, I headed over to LensCrafters for an exam. My carrot-eating regimen must have worked, because my prescription hadn’t changed. After being sure to get my “PD,” I spent about 30 minutes waiting for a ride home from my bro-in-law while looking through the LensCrafter offerings.

There was one pair that I really, really liked: The Donna Karan 3525.

Without the power of the internets, I would have gotten them on the spot. But, those frames (Just the frames) cost $200. After insurance, that would have put me back $70. And then the fun of being really blind and needing extra-thin lenses (think: money, money, money for LensCrafters) arrives and I end up spending a lot more than $70.

Back home, I started shopping for frames in earnest. After about an hour, I narrowed it down to two choices from Zenni Optical:

1. $29.95 pair
2. $8.95 pair

Ordered the frames Sunday, January 7th for $130 total (Again, I needed lens upgrades) and got the spectacles Saturday, January 20th.

The first pair is still in need of adjusting, but I’ve been wearing the second pair non-stop since having them slightly adjusted at Costco. (You can see the pair I’m wearing above. John Hodgman, look out. The other pair is on flickr)

Grand total so far? $10 co-pay for exam + $131.72 for glasses = $141.72.

If you want to save money on your next glasses purchase, here’s a brief review of online retailers: Eyeglass Retailer Reviews.

I’ve been taking alot of photos with my new Sony camera (DSC-W100) and had the thought Saturday: What happens if the hard drive on my six-year-old computer dies?

Like normal people, I haven’t backed up my important data for a long time.

As I type, I’m attempting to use Amazon’s S3 storage to backup my photos and videos. I currently have about 3 GB of photos, and Amazon tells me this will cost $5.40 per year to back up. That’s much cheaper than Flickr’s $25 per year and amazingly cheaper than purchasing a hard drive or setting up a personal server to run at home.

I’m using Jungle Disk to manage sending my photos (and, eventually, important files) to Amazon on a regular basis.

More info
Here’s a look at how S3 compares to running a home server: Replacing my home backup server with Amazon’s S3

A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools

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Halloween 2006: Dougal in a ringer t-shirt, fun-size play-doh for the kids and jack-o-lanterns. And chocolate.

The Rock, at a craft store near you

For some reason, I thought it camera-phone worthy that Pat Catan’s is offering framed portraits of such notables as The Rock and Rush. Don’t get me started on the 3-part series on Dave Matthews — to die for.

It’s the perfect impulse buy for those scrapbooking moms and wannabe artists who frequent Cleveland’s cost-cutting craft stores.

Can you smell what The Rock is scrapbooking?

Electric Six: We Love George Bush

Originally uploaded by dketterick.

The hardest rockin band in the land rocked Cleveland at the Grog Shop Friday night for the second time in a year.

It was no joke as the Electric Six kicked into April with bombast and cockiness.

The setlist was superb: Vibrator, Improper Dancing, Gay Bar, Danger! High Voltage, Devil Night, and my favorite: Bite Me. The show ended after many encores with Dance Commander — reprising the song for an extra 5 minutes to keep the frenzied crowd moshing.

Highlights: Rock N Roll Evacuation, Bite Me (to which I moshed), Dance Commander (to which everyone moshed).

Rock Kills Kid opened with a tight setlist. They’re power-pop in the vein of The Killers, but not as dumb. Very good, I purchased Paralyzed Friday. Their third song was their best — I need to figure out which song it was. Check out their site for more free streaming music.

The Fever held the second slot. They didn’t hold my attention.

Hallahan enjoyed the show, as well

Parade dolphin . Originally uploaded by dketterick.

A week late, but here’s a few pics of friends enjoying a perfect Cleveland St. Patrick’s Day.

1. St. Coleman’s
2. Parade (with Irish dolphin)
3. Corned Beef from Danny’s Deli
4. Guinness / Smithwick’s / Jameson
5. Pizza @ midnight