http://www.omnium-gatherum.org Matt Hanson's Brain Archive Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:01:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy Halloween! Vote for your favorite, and least favorite pumpkins for the 8th annual Pumpkin-Fest. While it was cold the sun was out and the weather a great improvement over the last two years of rain. This year, 15 pumpkins - less then in previous years but ... http://www.omnium-gatherum.org/2008/11/i-have-never-met-a-pumpkin-i-didnt-like/ 2008 saw another Pumpkin-Fest chez Crouses in Newburgh ME. Good times once again although I seriously slacked at taking pics this year. After a few hours I stopped snapping other then when someone was done with their pumpkin. Sigh. I will make ... http://www.omnium-gatherum.org/2008/11/2008-11-01-pumpkin-fest-2008/ A friend of mine convinced me to sign up for a Facebook account. I was rather amazed at the amount of old friends that were on it. I then found a cool plugin for Wordpress - WPBook, that displays the RSS feed from my Omnium-gatherum Wordpress site. Now ... http://www.omnium-gatherum.org/2008/08/facebook/ Happy Halloween! Vote for your favorite, and least favorite pumpkins for the 7th annual Pumpkin-Fest. We had a respectable 18 pumpkins to choose from despite the rainy weather. See the pictures of Pumpkin-Fest day. If you participated and I got the name of your pumpkin wrong, sorry. I ended ... http://www.omnium-gatherum.org/2007/10/ask-not-what-your-pumpkin-can-do-for-you-ask-what-you-can-do-for-your-pumpkin/ Much like last year's P-fest, the clouds rolled in and the rain fell. The pumpkins were thankful for the mostly dry interior of the garage, unaware they would soon be stabbed, gutted, and then put on display. The humans brandished fire and grinned at them, ... http://www.omnium-gatherum.org/2007/10/2007-10-27-pumpkin-fest-2007/ I am happy to announce that Omnium-gatherum has been mostly restored to it's former glory. It's been several months since I broke it and more then a year since any significant updates. The image galleries should all be working and now I can begin the process of adding new galleries. ... http://www.omnium-gatherum.org/2007/10/its-a-happy-halloween-omnium-gatherum-has-been-risen-from-the-dead/ It has been months (since sometime in May) since my website went down due to a poorly planned upgrade of the Wordpress software. It has been even longer since I've done any significant updates (i've got thousands of backlogged pictures). Summer hit, things got real busy and ... http://www.omnium-gatherum.org/2007/09/under-construction/ It's been nearly 7 months since my basement was ruined by flooding. I ripped out the wall paneling and furring strips that made up the walls, tore up the vinyl flooring tiles and took out the ceiling panels. I learned the basics of a Home Designer program ... http://www.omnium-gatherum.org/2006/12/building-science/