Tweak Today: mgatti's Activity

mgatti participated in "Take a picture of your desk as it is right now... NO CLEANING ALLOWED!"

mgatti — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:56:07 -0700

Today's TweakToday mission: Take a picture of your desk as it is right now... NO CLEANING ALLOWED!

This is my work desk. My home desk is slightly less messy, but also much bigger, so they're probably tied for overall messiness.

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mgatti participated in "do a google image-search on your name and post the most interesting result."

mgatti — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:41:02 -0700

Apparently I run a desktop publishing outfit. I wish I had been crossing my t's like that all these years.

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mgatti participated in "Submit a photo of you a child (or much younger person), side by side a current photo."

mgatti — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:22:41 -0700

TweakToday's mission for March 27th, 2009: Submit a photo of you as a child (or much younger person), side by side with a current photo.

The old photo is from my sophomore year in high school I think, so 1991/1992. The new photo is from 2009. I'll let you figure out which is which.

[Tried to get the smile the same, but this was the only photo that was in focus (thanks, iPhone!)]

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mgatti — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:28:36 -0700

Scar #2

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mgatti — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:28:23 -0700

Scar #1

mgatti participated in "Take a picture of a scar and tell it's story."

mgatti — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:58:10 -0700

Here's two forehead scars from two different incidents; not sure which story goes with which scar. One is from a shopping cart (sister hanging off one side, me off the other; sister gets off without telling me; shopping cart turns over straight onto my forehead) and the other is from a chimney liner (we used them as coffee tables in our living room when I was a kid; I was hiding behind the drapes from my sister; when I blindly ran out to scare her I plowed headfirst into the edge.)

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mgatti participated in "take a photo of something hanging from your wall."

mgatti — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:58:01 -0700

A semi-dirty triptych courtesy of Douglas Pfeffer.

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mgatti — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:20:07 -0700

AccuWeather knows ALL.

mgatti participated in "Take a picture/screenshot of the weather forecast, then take a picture of the actual weather"

mgatti — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:06:07 -0700

I'd say Accuweather has lived up to their name today.

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mgatti participated in "Take a picture of the books next to your bed"

mgatti — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:16:10 -0700

Technically there are only two books here, but this is what was on my nightstand:

Wired
Last month's issue because I find very little time for reading anymore.

My War: Killing Time In Iraq by Colby Buzzell
This book, while being an ostensibly frank and honest portrait of life on the front lines as told by a grunt, was one of the worst reads I've had in a long time. This is part in due to the fact that the impetus for the book, and in fact half of its contents are made of up the blog posts Buzzell made while stationed in Iraq. The bigger problem however is that dude cannot write to save his life, and the publishers apparently couldn't be bothered to hire an editor for him.

Kelly's Heroes
Lawrence of Arabia
Two DVDs I borrowed from my dad then left on my nightstand after unpacking. I have yet to watch either, probably because they are on a completely different floor from the TV.

A Model World by Michael Chabon
I figured a collection of short stories might be easier to get through than a full-fledged novel, but I have yet to crack this, so I have no idea.

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mgatti participated in "Show us the view out the nearest window"

mgatti — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:16:08 -0700

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mgatti commented on flight404's submission

mgatti — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:16:59 -0700

That's really all you need anyway.

mgatti commented on jess's submission

mgatti — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:15:56 -0700

I really need to lose some weight. And grow some arms.

mgatti commented on icyfrance's submission

mgatti — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:36:57 -0700

It's that damn DOG again...

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mgatti — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:35:12 -0700

Forget the palette expander, what did those sweet shades run ya?

mgatti participated in "photograph something you've never used/worn. Explain why you bought it."

mgatti — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:56:17 -0700

Today's TweakToday mission: Photograph something you've never used/worn. Explain why you bought it.

Back in the fall I became convinced the brake pads on my bike were almost done, but no shop in town carried the replacements. Turning to the internet, I found some for a decent price, and bought two sets to try and offset the shipping costs. When I went to replace the ones on my bike, I realized my current set were only about halfway gone, so I stuffed them in my bag figuring I would put them on at work within a couple weeks. That was in October. Anyone wanna buy some Shimano Ultegra brake pads?

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mgatti participated in "post the song in your itunes library with the highest "play count""

mgatti — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:25:30 -0700

Today's TweakToday mission: post the song in your itunes library with the highest "play count."

I wasn't sure how this would turn out since I had to rebuild my iTunes library from scratch a couple months ago, so it really could have been anything. Instead, in a somewhat unsurprising move, it turns out to be a track off what may be my number one album of 2008, the third self-titled record from The Bronx. Even less surprisingly, it's track 1, "Knifeman," that came in with 11 plays so far (and now 12.) You can slo see from the cover flow view that Anchor Arms' Cold-Blooded and Springsteen's Born To Run have been in heavy rotation lately as well. Not a bad lineup if I do say so myself.

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mgatti — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:32:29 -0800

Don't worry Bill, I still get the weekly email updates.

mgatti participated in "light something on fire"

mgatti — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:15:35 -0800

For TweakToday's daily mission: light something on fire.

I think the manufacturers of American Girl® dolls (and clothes and books and furniture and god knows what else) must have an inside line at every maternity ward in the country, because these damn catalogs full of creepy and repetitive dolls just started showing up the moment we had our first daughter. Lo and behold, one showed up this morning, just in time for the first TweakToday mission I've had time to complete.

Check out www.tweaktoday.com for more exciting daily missions.

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