Category Archives: Event

on wasted votes

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: November 5, 2008
While Missouri (not to be pronounced “Missourah”. ever.) has long been an indicator for how the election would end, I’m thankful the electoral votes don’t depend on it for this election. table.results{margin: 18px 0px; font-size: .8em;} td{padding: 4px 8px;} tr.alt{background-color:#ddd;} span.line{float:left; background-color:#333;} Office — Candidate Name Votes % Of Votes U.S. President And Vice President Precincts Reporting 3533 of 3533 John McCain, Sarah Palin REP 1,442,613 49.4%   Barack [...]
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Team Discovery Joins Tour of Missouri

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: June 26, 2007
Mark your calendars… The most recognizable team in international cycling is the first to sign on for the inaugural Tour of Missouri. The Discovery Channel cycling team, for which Lance Armstrong rode to seven consecutive victories in the Tour de France, will participate in the race, which begins Sept. 11 in Kansas City and ends Sept. 16 [...]
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Where 2007 Conference

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: May 29, 2007
As the Where Conference takes place, I watch from far away since I’m not yet on the map. A few interesting items recently noted: GeoPress/MT brings the MoveableType blog crowd into the maps, GeoRSS, KML, and Microformats space with a plugin to make marking up content easy. WordPress users have enjoyed similar for a while, though I’ve [...]
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29 Years

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: May 9, 2007
It’s been a good day. It started slowly as we took our time climbing out of bed, enabling each other to be late taking turns hitting snooze. Walking to the office behind schedule, we missed the group walk to Starbucks, but Kelly and I found our way over shortly after, passing those returning. I treated myself [...]
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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: April 19, 2007
Missed opportunity: Julius Popp created a waterfall installation entitled Bit.Fall to output words formed by droplet streams, fed from news pulled from the Internet. It was hosted in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, and this short documentary touches on his motivations. I’m irritated I was unaware of this and some other [...]
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Happy Easter

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: April 6, 2007
Be safe this weekend. Also, read up on your Easter origins.
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Office Holiday Party

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: December 16, 2006
Lessons Learned: the “geek” table ends up the loudest the charlie brown x-mas tree is better left un-adorned blue-balls, rubber, hot-wax, o-ring: all acceptable table conversation in context placing the iPod Nano down your pants does not protect it from theft during gift-exchange several glasses of wine does not make me a better foosball player ability to walk home from an [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving!

By Ryan Stephenson | Published: November 23, 2006
The Thanksgiving weekend traditionally consists of travel, family, and food; not necessarily in that order, and never in moderation. OK, the food’s the defining feature. We’ll first be joining Kelly’s family in town this year for a large meal before driving up to Chicago with Amy and Henry to join the rest of my family [...]
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