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Well, it’s the middle of December and my fingernails continue to improve.

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I know, I know… You’re all clamoring to get me the coolest gift for Christmas.

Well, never fear, here are some ideas. And while they’re sure to make the anti-geek in you cringe, they’re also sure to make me happy. And don’t we all just love happy Evan’s?

If you’re Internetaphobic, just check with Nea - she’s sure to help you out.

Apparel (shirts in XL, if you please):

• All Your Oil… t-shirt - Highest on my list! *backordered*
• Ignite Realtime t-shirt - Black or navy’s fine
  
• Creative Commons ND t-shirt (lightweight/red)
• Productively Lazy t-shirt
  
• LifeHacker t-shirt
  
• Please wait… t-shirt
  
• Every time…
  
• All Your Base…
• Durable, cool-looking sunglasses (I will treat them roughly!)

Gift cards in any denomination from any of these fine establishments:

• Starbucks
• Amazon.com
• Buy.com
• Graeter’s
• Panera (Evan’s other office!)
• CompUSA
• Micro Center

Entertainment

• Family Guy, Season 4

Computer Shtuff

• Parallels Desktop for Mac - Lets you run Windows on an Apple.
• Kensington Laptop Lock
• Clear Protective Case for Laptop

Earned my brown belt!

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Couldn’t reach you on the phone, so the family decided to record you a couple of birthday wishes.

So, in your honor, may I present our two renditions of “Happy Birthday.”

• Happy Birthday
  MP3 format, 89Kb, 28 seconds

• Happy Birthday (Zoo Version)
  MP3 format, 72Kb, 23 seconds

Enjoy!

– E

Well, my cousin threw down the gaunlet by proposing this quite humorous programmatic rendition of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s indominatable “I Like Big Butts”:

I.like(bigButts) && I.canLie(false);
otherBrothers.canDeny(false);
when (girl.walksIn())
{
if (girl.hasIttyBittyWaist() && roundThing.getLocation()==your.FACE)
{
you.getSprung();
}
}

Which I thought was quite clever. So, I felt I owed him a response comensurate with the length of time I made him wait for a reply.

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“Read any good books lately?”

Well, I’ve got a new favorite. It contains all the elements of a great book: a snappy introduction, intrigue, plot twists and a cliff-hanger of an ending.

As I’m sure you’ve guessed, I’m referring to The Square Root of 3 by Jerry Bonnel and Robert Nemiroff, available on Project Gutenberg.

SPOILER ALERT: The 30,788th significant digit is 4.

In all ernestness, I think Project Gutenberg is a great concept. But when I ran across this, I just cracked up.

Now two months since my famous accident in which I saved the lives of countless orphaned children, my fingernails are making good progress:

My middle finger is back to around 80% and the ring finger to around 50%.

Today’s workout was just that — a workout. The emphasis was on keeping our bodies in motion without many breaks.

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