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My nephew Connor was baptized on 26 Oct 2008. Meredith and I are his new Godparents. Here is a picture of me with the child.
(See photo on Flickr)

http://cameronandjinha.com/ (아저씨 says http://결혼해주시오.com)

It’s that time of year again!

The 28th Annual Symposium of the Special Interest Group on Cameron Jones (SIG-CAM) will take place this Friday, October 26, 2007 at the Grotto (aka. Mert Bay’s apartment) located at 212 W. Healey, Apt. 303. Champaign, IL. SIG-CAM is the premier annual symposium devoted to research and scholarship related to Cameron Jones. The symposium will focus on current trends and challenges in beverage markup, digital drunkenness, drink recommender systems, and the impact of new media on society.

We invite interested parties and experts from academia, industry, and government to attend SIG-CAM 2007. The opening Plenary will start at 7:00 PM at the Grotto, with a reception will follow the plenary at the Blind Pig bar in downtown Champaign sometime later Friday evening. If you can’t make the plenary, try to meet up with us later at the reception!

You can find a map of locations for SIG-CAM 2007 on Google Maps by searching “SIG-CAM” on maps.google.com.

i.e., Cameron’s Birthday Party this Friday, October 26, 2007 @ 7:00 PM

Sometimes I feel like I neglect my friends. I thought for a while that I was becoming antisocial, but I realized that this is not the case, and that really I am just lazy. Keeping in touch with so many people can be stressful, and I don’t “do stress”… so I tend to just shutdown. However, I do Google-stalk my friends as a way to keep up with what they are up to and try to feel like I know what is going on in their lives — Facebook has made some of this easier. Today, I Googled my old friend Kal and saw he has revived the wonderful Kal’s Gift Shop. I used to host the archives of KGS on my website, but now Kal has chosen Big Brother to host it for him. I can’t complain though, they have more reliable hosting than I do.

Anyway, this one goes out to all those people I’ve neglected to call recently — especially you Kal!

PS – no birthday party this year, just drinks next Friday somewhere in Champaign if you’re around.

–update!–
It looks like Kal has left the Gift Shop to stagnate for about a year — almost to the day. Which had me confused, because I thought that posting was from today (no year in the date). So, maybe this will motivate Kal to start posting again (again).

I got a new Wii today! Replaced the stolen one… only took 2 months to find a Wii in stock. Anyway, the new Wii number is 6806 5821 7727 9940 if you want to join my Mii Parade.

It was totally random luck (or maybe fate) that we got the Wii. By a random set of circumstances, I ended up spending an extra day at my parents’ house this weekend. My brother and his two kids were visiting too. My parents went to Toys R Us this morning to get training wheels for my nephew’s bike and while they were there, saw they had Wii’s in stock. They picked one up for me, and boy am I glad I stayed the extra day! YAH! WII!!!! Now, I just have to get my characters back up to Pro level on all sports

here is a photo of the new dog. his current name is “bear”, it may change. i am insisting that we spell his name with lowercase letters to make him totally 1337 and web2.0 compatible.

he was rescued from a family in dubuque, iowa where he was very much unloved. his previous family left him in his crate most of the time and ignored him for most of the first 18 months of his life. they finally decided to return him to the breeder because they felt it was unfair to the dog — in reality the dog was getting depressed and took to chewing his fur off (thus the reason for his shaving) and the people probably didn’t want to deal with it anymore. anyway, the breeder sent out the alarm to the rescue network and i guess my parents were next in line — or closest, or something. anyway, we have him now. he is a very friendly dog and loves any attention he gets.