Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 21, 2009, 1:02 am
I’ve read a few articles like this, usually written by handsome internet-famous people (”weblebrities” is what they prefer to be called, I believe) and thought that I’d contrib...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 20, 2009, 1:14 am
When you decide that you’re going to build something as ambitious and ubergeeky as a fully articulated and mobile costume of Luke Skywalker riding a tauntaun (like in Empire), it’s importa...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 19, 2009, 4:54 am
(Forgive this post. Tomorrow we will be back to our regularly scheduled program involving Tauntaun Sleeping Bags and Zombie Space Vampires.) When it begins to rain, when it starts to get cold, people...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 18, 2009, 2:27 am
Along with being a science geek, a language geek, a trivia geek, and a music geek, I also consider myself a typography geek. I’ve got thousands of free fonts on my computer that I’ve colle...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 15, 2009, 5:25 pm
I’m taking a break from the usual postings of geekery and humor to post a few pictures and a video of the wife and I playing with an inchworm we found outside. Forgive the mouth breathing and w...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 15, 2009, 3:52 am
In my last post I extorted humor from the masses in exchange for Google Wave Invites, which are the Wonka’s Golden Tickets of the geek world right now. Among the awesome hilarity posted, this je...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 14, 2009, 12:31 am
But I’m not just going to give them away. Oh, no. I had to do some things I’m not too proud of to get my original invite, so here’s what I’m going to do. The first SEVEN comme...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 13, 2009, 10:19 pm
Somewhere, there is a Venn diagram depicting an interest in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and an interest in Reservoir Dogs, both classics in their own way. Smack in the overlap you’ll find this ...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 12, 2009, 11:59 am
I’ve seen this clip a hundred times and it still gets a laugh from me. I’ve always been a big fan of British humor (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Eddie Izzard, Rowan Atkinson, Fry & Laurie)...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 11, 2009, 10:08 am
Occasionally, when I’m staring at the computer screen, working on an article, or perhaps just reading a fellow blogger’s most recent posting, a string of thoughts will flash across my mind...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 10, 2009, 3:25 pm
Games have certainly come a long way, haven’t they? I can remember when I’d spend a quiet night with friends, playing a good natured game of Halo. This week, I spent a few hours playing Sa...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 10, 2009, 2:13 am
I’ve been enamored with the whole tilt-shift photography thing lately. Tilt-shift photography, in case you didn’t know, is where photographs are taken with a special lens called (you guess...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 9, 2009, 10:36 pm
Check out the brand new ChrisHokeBlog.com T-Shirt Store! Sort by: date created | popularity    Showing 1 - 12 of 12 products.   "Buddha Mind and...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 5, 2009, 10:33 pm
I don’t know exactly what’s going on with my spam lately, but these guys are getting pretty good. I’ve got the Akismet Spam-Destroyer 9000 hooked up to the ol’ blog here, but I...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 5, 2009, 8:40 pm
Just in case you don’t have time to properly celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, here are the best parts of one of my favorite movies. Happy Fifth of November.
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Nov 2, 2009, 2:58 pm
Awww! He’s the cutest little being of unspeakable horror ever!
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 31, 2009, 5:02 am
As Halloween approaches, my mind becomes filled with memories of the holiday as a kid. Visions of free candy, pumpkin carving, haunted houses, Christian protests, and potentially razor-blade laden car...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 27, 2009, 2:58 pm
I’m an effing exercise in aesthetic inconsistency: I love design that’s super-busy and forces me to take it in just a little at a time (which, I believe, is what she said) while I’m ...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 25, 2009, 8:21 pm
The beauty of Twitter is that it can connect you with other people, ideas, and media from across the globe, all happening in real-time. The lame part about Twitter is that it will connect you with peo...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 23, 2009, 2:39 am
All week long I’ve been worried about my Dad. Last weekend, during a monthly sonogram, he found out that he had fluid around his heart. He’s been getting sonograms regularly since he had a...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 18, 2009, 1:24 am
While adding Bonus Links to my previous blog post about the zombie cake on Flickr, I stumbled across this video… The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks Well, as the video wa...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 18, 2009, 12:34 am
This cake me wants to get married all over again. To a flesh-eating ghoul. Then, I”ll say, “Here’s your ring, baby,” but it’s not a ring. It’s a shotgun. We can ski...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 16, 2009, 7:00 am
My wife works in retail. If you or anyone you know has served time in a retail establishment then you know how very soul-deadening it can be. Customers are a large part of the problem, as my wife poin...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 14, 2009, 5:36 am
Perhaps it’s an advert for coffee. More likely a film crew just followed TLJ around for an average day in Japan. That brief piggy-back ride is just… awkward. I could’ve lived my lif...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 10, 2009, 9:45 pm
At a certain point in it’s growth, my hair becomes not just unruly, but downright malicious. While driving around with the wife yesterday, working on a never-ending list of errands, it started t...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 9, 2009, 9:05 pm
I recently wrote an article for  Email Service Guide about Zenbe, an online service that integrates and consolidates webmail, social networking, calendar, lists, and also Shareflow, which is a new co...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 6, 2009, 3:33 pm
According to a study done at New Scientist (noobs!), people who carry guns around are more likely to be shot than people who are unarmed. I’ve got a problem with this study. What about the peop...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 4, 2009, 11:25 pm
I’ve been enjoying this as my desktop background for the last few weeks and thought it would be magnanimous of me to share it. Can’t for the life of me remember where I found it or who did...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 2, 2009, 2:41 am
The following are the things I’ll do for a Google Wave invite. 1) I’ll tell you how great you look in those pants. Alternately, if you’re not wearing any pants, I’ll tell you ...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 1, 2009, 3:42 pm
There comes a point when you’re learning how to do something, usually pretty early along, and you encounter a “master” in that particular field. Perhaps you’re a ten-year-old k...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Oct 1, 2009, 1:53 am
There is a new Resident Evil movie in the works (RE: Afterlife) and, like everything that’s coming out these days, it’s in 3D. Flying mustachibats couldn’t keep me from seeing it. S...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Sep 25, 2009, 7:36 pm
And that girl named Stacy Griffith? That was ME. No, that’s not right. I simply love the way this was crafted, though… heehee… (From Cory Doctorow via Wil Wheaton.)
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Sep 25, 2009, 7:16 pm
Last night I had the least enjoyable tacos of my life at my favorite taco place in the whole world. Let me start off by saying that I’m a little bit of a taco snob, and constantly on the search...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Sep 21, 2009, 2:10 pm
The wife and I have a soft spot in our brains for zombies. We’ll see almost literally anything in the theaters featuring the undead hordes and owns a bevy of zombie and zombie-related DVDs.  I ...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Sep 16, 2009, 1:25 pm
I’ve got a friend who shall not be named Speedicut, who’s currently bumming his way around China. China, as you might know, is a really enormous country where there is a large Asian popula...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Sep 13, 2009, 12:01 am
I’d really like to thank everyone who has visited my site in the last few days. The StumbleUpon community really enjoys a little post I wrote to amuse myself a while back called 8 Strange and Aw...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Sep 8, 2009, 4:52 pm
There are lulls, sometimes. I’m currently in one, musically, I think. The number of gigs that I play monthly has dropped off a bit and I’m seeking some new opportunities, which may or may ...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Sep 5, 2009, 4:33 pm
As I delve deeper into research for the novel that I’m working on, I keep stumbling across thing like this: A speech/essay given by one of my heroes, Philip K. Dick, on humans, androids, and the...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Sep 3, 2009, 4:50 pm
I’m not against having children. Quite the opposite is true, in fact. I’m delighted with the notion that, someday, in the not-too-distant future, the wife and I will have a little bundle ...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Sep 1, 2009, 9:58 pm
Just returned from Crescent City (yesterday), near the California/Oregon border, where the band played a fan’s birthday party. Very nice, great food, great people who love blues and country and ...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Sep 1, 2009, 7:08 pm
“I woke up, last night, cold, wet and naked.” Speedicut told me. “You don’t say.” I remarked, taking a sip of my tea. Some people might be shocked by a comment like this...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Aug 27, 2009, 5:33 pm
I’ve been playing about on Ficly.com, which is a website where you write short little narratives and then other people can write sequels and prequels and aftquels and mequels. It’s all a b...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Aug 27, 2009, 4:21 am
Upon coming home to our ground-floor apartment on a Halloween night quite a few years ago, my lovely wife and I found something on our doorstep. No, not a flaming bag of dog excrement, or a smashed pu...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Aug 23, 2009, 2:12 pm
Whenever I visit my parents house, I’m greeted by a fierce but tiny growling. It’s a low, guttural sound that lacks any depth whatsoever, a sound that could very well be an angry grasshopp...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Aug 21, 2009, 10:59 am
If you missed Part 1, please go here. “We’re going to be bagging and rubber-banding papers on-the-go here. When I call out for a paper, I’ll either say ‘bag’ or ‘t...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Aug 19, 2009, 4:47 pm
As we rocketed along through the vast winding outskirts of Reno, Nevada, kicking up dust with the tires of my wife’s mother’s Chevy Malibu, under the inky blackness of the new moon, I let ...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Aug 17, 2009, 10:59 am
Here’s an essay from the vault. I’m off having an intensely hot vacation in Reno right now and will be back tomorrow if the Wordpress Scheduling Robot does like it’s been told. Hugs ...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Aug 15, 2009, 7:31 pm
In response to a post I wrote last week, the amazingly talented D at Seafoodpunch has drawn something of such beauty/horror that I am rendered speechless. It is awesome and, dare I say, bad-ass. A...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Aug 14, 2009, 10:59 am
“Really, it’s a lifestyle change,” one of the miscellaneous middle-aged male attendees impressed upon me several times over the course of last night’s party. “By drinking...
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Chris H. posted an article on Chris Hoke Blog - Aug 13, 2009, 10:59 am
Yes, I totally just wrote a thousand-word blog post/essay when I pretty much promised in my last post that I was going to keep it short and sweet. Ah, well. Occasionally, a man (or woman) must stand ...
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