A Whole Lotta Nothing Matt Haughey’s Personal Blog

Posts from April 2007

My new site: fortuitous

When I came back from Austin, I mentioned that I wanted to do a new site focused on business type advice. After a month or so of the idea gelling in my head, I wrote down about 30 ideas for essays I’d like to write, I banged out a mockup, and I looked up [...]


Thoughts going through my mind while at the dentist, listening to my iPod and on nitrous for the first time

Oh my god I love this song. Love it. The part in the chorus with the drums? Awesome! I totally need to see these guys live, I bet they’re so good. God this song rocks. Man, it sounds like someone really far away is getting a gnarly scraping, but all I hear is this awesome [...]


Some of my bikes for sale (Portland, OR area)

Remember this? Now is your chance to own a piece of history (sold!). I’m cleaning my garage out and getting rid of a few bikes (my cruiser, my old mt. bike) at rock-bottom prices. If you’re in the Portland area, drop me an email, stop on by and give them a ride.


Decursivication (new word)

[di-kur-siv-fi-key-shuhn] noun. The process of losing one’s penmanship, thanks to automatic billing and an increasingly electronic world. Bob attributed his chicken scratch-like note writing to the process of decursivication.


Basketball half bakery ideas

I thought of these during March Madness games, but neglected to post it until now, so here goes, my wishlist for technology additions to the sport of basketball:
1. Put RFID tags inside the soles of players’ shoes as well as embedded in the floor. Take the “3 seconds in the key” call away from the [...]


Not quite so modern after all

What is most amazing about Room & Board and Design Within Reach is not that they offer unique modern furnishings for your home, it’s that they’re based on a business model from the early 1900s. They’re catalog stores, plain and simple. You go in, check out the comfy sofas and interesting tables and you order [...]


GarageBand’s podcasting limitations

Today I ran into the 999 measure limit in GarageBand. The app is built with music in mind, with a default of 120 beats per minute. When I dragged in a couple podcast tracks that clocked in at one hour and 14 minutes, I couldn’t hear all the way to the end and my waveforms [...]


Flickr: Photos from oregonianphoto

This is wicked cool: Flickr: Photos from oregonianphoto
Someone from the big state newspaper The Oregonian is posting all the photos that go with stories in the paper to Flickr. I found it because I follow my small town’s photos by flickr tag feeds. The paper gets new readers by mixing it up on Flickr, and [...]


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2 April 2007 @ 12am

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Truly Awful Stuff: Toy Molotov Cocktail (You know, for kids!)
best toy ever.
(tags: wtf toys)


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1 April 2007 @ 12am

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“She looks so pregnant!” - a photoset on Flickr
bump alert! The pathetic celebrity magazine industry’s favorite new trend.
(tags: magazine wtf)