Mark Pike

Cross Country Motel 2005
My sister has been planning a European vacation with her fiancé and was perusing deals on Hotels.com last week. She was quite surprised when she found vacancy at The Ritz Hotel in London for just one penny a night. You read that correctly, $.01. Without wasting a second, because afterall, time is [...]

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I’m a big NBA fan, but had mostly given up on the League when I went to college. It was tough to simultaneously care about the intricacies of Duke’s bball squad, the ACC, Dick Vitale’s aphorisms and at the same time manage to understand the big league movement. My college idealism and amateur appreciation for [...]

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Mii, MegaPickles

Originally uploaded by themarkpike.

It’s mii on a Wii.

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I posted a quick response to tonight’s SOTU speech over at the William & Mary ACS Blog.
Feel free to leave comments over there with your reactions…

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I got a fish. His name is Ghostface.
Well, his scientific name is betta splendens and his street name is Siamese fighting fish. But since he’s my new pet, I get to call him whatever I want. Ghostface it is.
It was an impulse purchase, really. I will never tell Ghostface this, and since the Wikipedia article [...]

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I’m a Mac addict. I’m on Winter Break. So, you’d better believe I’m watching live coverage of MacWorld in California, the yearly keynote address where Steve Jobs makes the real world seem like the future.
What are folks’ predictions this year? The coveted “iPhone”, HDTV and iTV, a true video full-screen iPod, and a robot named [...]

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Random thoughts from 2006 briefly considered through the medium of new(ish) music that I have listened to in alphabetical order during a train ride that completes the last leg of a fortnight of travel OR a poor attempt to create order out of chronological chaos in the face of a new calendar year.

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I ran into my old friend Blelvis the other night… He’s back, just in time for Elvis’ birthday.

Blelvis on Vimeo
Previously…
Blelvis Lives
And everything else I’ve written about the legend

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I was on vacation in Florida. It was nice.

Florida on Vimeo

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