tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:40:39 +0000http://www.ehrenstemme.com/noreply@blogger.com (ehren)Blogger295125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-2505535441078360237Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:18:00 +00002008-08-13T22:34:12.645-05:00personalinternetmediasiteHelvetica the typeface was created in 1957 from sheer awesome.  In fact, it contained so much awesome that it was used on subway signs, in corporate logos, on television, in the Mac and iPod GUIs, and even on the goddamn Space Shuttle!  In 2007, to celebrate the font's 50th anniversary, Helvetica the documentary was released to attempt to explain its awesomeness.  The film opened to http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2008/08/coolvetica-i-goddamn-hate-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-1094792412268576243Fri, 09 May 2008 18:16:00 +00002008-05-09T13:17:00.927-05:00...television has always been awful.  Check out this hideous open from sometime in the 1970s: AWFUL.  The theme song sucks, the stage is black with hints of orange and yellow, and all the kids are barefoot.  Two words: not awesome.  Though it did spark a bit of nostalgia in me, since the giant ZOOM letters reminded me of my dad's old Maxell cassettes he always had lying around: Ahh, memories.http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2008/05/as-it-turns-out.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-8079499058929339718Tue, 06 May 2008 22:20:00 +00002008-05-06T18:52:20.668-05:00medialocaltwinsThis past Saturday's Powerball jackpot was estimated at just a shade over $180 million. Upon hearing this, I excitedly licked my chops and promptly forgot about buying a ticket. Then, en route to church Sunday morning, I saw the giant billboard that denoted the new, paltry $10 million prize. I was fully expecting the monies, like in previous Powerball payouts, to go to one of this country's many http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2008/05/in-money.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-914203737680608723Thu, 01 May 2008 20:37:00 +00002008-05-06T20:01:31.208-05:00personalI think this is the unofficial start of spring. Sure as hell doesn't feel like it though. Alyssa and I finally booked our trip to New York City a couple weeks ago. It should be good times; I'm pretty excited. We have already planned quite a few things to do during that span. It also gives me a chance to test out my camera in a tourist setting rather than just family functions and city randomnesshttp://www.ehrenstemme.com/2008/05/may-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-162496574603105218Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:34:00 +00002008-04-24T15:19:36.647-05:00personalmusicreviewlocalFine Line Music Café, April 15, 2008 I know, I know, it seems like I'm always at the Fine Line. Shut up. Tax Day 2008 turned out to be very pleasant weather-wise. Mostly sunny skies and temperatures hovering around 60. This is why there was a tinge of regret in my soul as we headed downtown to catch an early show featuring the rising Sara Bareilles. But all was well, because we grabbed sone http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2008/04/concert-review-sara-bareilles-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-5752991628651701210Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:49:00 +00002008-04-19T02:08:13.498-05:00bestofsiteAs should be painfully obvious to everyone here by now, the dynamic content portion of ES.com is powered by Blogger.  And, since I've done this for God knows how long, I have a few posts.  Well, Blogger recently introduced the ability to tag posts with categories, so I've been applying categories to all of my old posts, some of which I have realized are better than others.  Which is why I am http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2008/04/best-of-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-2245029986845806545Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:01:00 +00002008-04-18T20:24:47.758-05:00techmac As an Apple fanboy, it gives me great pleasure to see Macs out "in the wild." I already point out any Mac appearances in television or movies, which my girlfriend mocks me endlessly for, but that still isn't as cool as seeing regular people using them in everyday situations. Example: I am sitting in Panera Bread right now, and of the 10 or so people using their laptops, four of them are on http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2008/04/as-apple-fanboy-it-gives-me-great.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-8926400734086711070Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:29:00 +00002008-04-14T19:30:28.282-05:00internetlocaltwinsEveryone who knows me knows I am super excited about the new Twins ballpark.  So much so, in fact, that I track pretty much anything I can regarding it: the webcam, construction galleries, etc. I even track down news articles from the Star Tribune. Which is why I read an article concerning the vendor selected for the new concessions. My favorite part? (emphasis mine):Walleye tacos and ahi tuna, http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2008/04/take-me-out-in-2010-to-ballgame.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-1538146846707438989Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:13:00 +00002008-04-05T10:30:43.079-05:00internetweathermaclocalThis is the first entry to ES.com that I'm posting with the iPod touch so bear with me if I make any mistakes... Yesterday being April Fools Day, the internet was all atwitter with random-ass pranks. Some of them were lame: MacUser, one of my favorite Apple blogs, chimed in with a dizzying array of occasionally-funny news stories. But the prank I found most amusing came from Woot. On top of it http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2008/04/april-fooled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-4490094824263727118Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:20:00 +00002008-03-28T17:19:03.337-05:00personalinternetweathersite... or at least that's what the calendar says. I swear, sometimes spring in Minnesota feels like karmic retribution for the awesome summer and autumn we usually get. Or maybe I've just been spoiled by the past few springs. Every day, when I log on to weather.com, I'm greeted by the same dismal forecast: clouds and a high of 40° with a chance of snow showers. Then, I click on the ten day http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2008/03/its-spring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-8920141553224682774Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:53:00 +00002008-04-05T10:33:01.761-05:00personalweatherchristmaslocalWe got some winter finally, dudes. Ever since I started seriosuly blogging on ES.com back in 2004, and even before that, I have bitched at length about the pussified winters we have had of late. This year though, even with the snow being late to arrive. the chilly teps set in early enough to get the ground frozen and allow any snow we do get to stick around. You know, like the six or so inches wehttp://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/12/now-this-is-what-winter-is-supposed-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-8193097529575982928Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:55:00 +00002008-04-14T19:17:16.658-05:00personalworkGOTWmediachristmas I love the Christmas season, but not the hours associated with it. Thankfully, the worst is over; I put in fourteen hours on Black Friday and about ten on Saturday. I've done this for ten years now, so it is mostly routine, but one thing that never fails to amaze me every year is the volume of people who are willing to sit in the cold for hours on end just to save a few extra bucks on that http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/11/black-friday-i-goddamn-hate-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-2061684396506330933Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:02:00 +00002008-04-15T11:56:33.453-05:00personalmusicreviewlocalFine Line Music Café, October 7, 2007 I think that by now I've seen the Pat McGee Band somewhere around four billion times. The greatest thing though is that it's never the same show. PMB has toured semi-nationally since signing to Warner Bros Records in 2000, and this tour with co-headliner Josh Kelley and support act The Kin marked their eighth headlining visit to the Twin Cities, third gig http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/11/concert-review-pat-mcgee-band-and-kin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-4158996917253893375Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:40:00 +00002008-04-15T12:00:57.937-05:00personalmusicreviewlocalFine Line Music Café, September 27, 2007 I've been to a few live shows in my day. I had never been to one put on by a former pop princess though, and I'm not used to entering a venue before 6:00 on a weeknight. But there were a couple of extenuating circumstances here: first, I am a Mandy Moore devotee, and secondly I haven't yet seen a show at the Fine Line that disappointed me. Luckily, the http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/11/concert-review-mandy-moore-and-ben-lee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-1395242769291280969Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:01:00 +00002007-11-10T23:46:12.791-06:00personaltechGOTWsiteYeah I know, I haven't been keeping up.  Shut it already.  Reviews will be coming shortly for them concerts like I promised, and I am pleased to announce the return of properly capitalized sentences. I started my Christmas shopping already. I'm proud of myself.  One thing I did notice tonight though is I still hate crowds dead.  The one thing that pisses me off most about crowds? All these self http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/11/hi-im-norm-and-this-is-fake-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-2502216311424341134Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:00:00 +00002008-04-18T20:37:50.360-05:00personalweb2.0internetmedialocalsiteever since the venerable Blogwise bit the dust, I've been without a blogrolling service. today, to hopefully increase my blog's visibility, I registered at Technorati. also, nowe that I have the new design in place I can update with some frequency again, and I'll kick it off with a grip of concert reviews starting with Thursday's show at the Fineline featuring Mandy Moore and Ben Lee. as http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/09/ever-since-venerable-blogwise-bit-dust.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-1229600525456815964Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:53:00 +00002008-04-14T19:30:28.284-05:00personalweb2.0internet this seriously makes me sad. the stuff at the top is supposed to be important and largely influence the stuff at the bottom. and people wonder why I get discouraged now playing on iTunes: John Mayer 'Victoria'http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/09/guys-seriously.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-3992895526700679408Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:49:00 +00002008-04-05T10:34:58.230-05:00siteversion nine of the site is now in release candidate status. I'm still playing with the CSS and some shit will undoubtedly be buggy, so like poke around and let me know if something is terribly amiss. Ehren OUT now playing on iTunes/iPod: musichttp://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/09/hiya.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-853295713903443362Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:19:00 +00002008-04-05T10:35:33.716-05:00siteI've been tinkering. it's hard to tell, but I've been working pretty hard at getting a new design and stuff up to revitalize this site. well now there is a way to tell: ES.com Labs. this is where I'll be posting new design mockups and blog layouts, and other features like Gallery that I don't really have a place for. ES.com version 9 has been a long time coming (almost 22 months in fact) but I'm http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/07/what-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-5513165657263774506Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:12:00 +00002008-04-05T10:36:23.455-05:00personalsiteI've been laying pretty low of late, internetwise; there's been a ton of stuff going on. here is a list of stuff I'm working on for the site, to hopefully be completed before May 21: slight facelift of the site, and migration to Movable Type softwareFlickr integration for a future themed photoblog based on this booka weekly podcast downloadable from the site, or a weekly vlog posted to http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/04/hi-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-7505720645373648318Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:59:00 +00002007-01-22T11:54:31.952-06:00twinsit's time it's time it's TIME TIME TIME for the Twins midoffseason report card! you may remember that about oh, three months ago the Minnesota Twins made a hasty exit from play-off action. shortly thereafter I posted a to-do list of things that absolutely positively had to get done in the offseason. how has the team done so far? and how do my predictions hold up? let's take a look: 1) Pick up http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/01/282.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-6591984876219142731Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:11:00 +00002008-04-14T19:30:28.285-05:00personalinternetsiteOH MY GOD EHREN POSTED TO HIS WEBSITE no I haven't forgotten this site, though it seems like it. I've just been busy with you know, life. it's been blowing up lately and for the first time in quite awhile I feel like I'm in just this awesome place where everything seems to be coming together, and I'm trying to not do a lot to disrupt that flow. except... Blogger sortof did that for me by http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2007/01/hi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-116535907573531819Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:45:00 +00002008-04-24T16:04:06.360-05:00techmacipodwhoops, I haven't posted here in over a month. my bad... got a Mac? and TiVo? and a 5G iPod? then go here and follow instructions. also, download iSquint or ViddyUp/Podner for conversion purposes.http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2006/12/whoops-i-havent-posted-here-in-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-116202934582122512Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:54:00 +00002007-01-15T01:26:04.129-06:00personaldrunkoh my god, I'm still hardcore buzzing and I'm listening to Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport. its been an interesting night now playing on iTunes: Gus Gus 'Sasha v the Light'http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2006/10/oh-my-god-im-still-hardcore-buzzing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6560547.post-116200085455825835Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:23:00 +00002007-01-15T01:26:43.631-06:00localtwinsOH MY GOD THE TWINS GOT SWEPT OUT OF THE LDS BY OAKLAND that was unexpected :( oh well, still a hell of a season even though it ended in a less than desirable fashion. next up is a crazy busy offseason, with many holes to plug and decisions to make for '07. thusly, here is the official ES.com "Hot Stove To-Do List". Terry Ryan, take note: 1) Pick up Hunter's option, and get a three year http://www.ehrenstemme.com/2006/10/oh-my-god-twins-got-swept-out-of-lds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ehren)