http://ehough.com personal website of Eric Hough Tue, 13 May 2008 17:39:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few weeks ago, Melissa and I took a weekend trip up to LA to do some sightseeing. While sitting around in traffic, I spotted a gas station with outrageously high prices ($4.50/gallon) and took a picture of it. A few weeks later, during work, Chief tells me that the ... http://ehough.com/2008/05/13/cnncom-reads-ehoughcom The Sad Truth About Relationships http://ehough.com/2008/03/19/dont-let-it-happen-to-you Noah and Eva are the proud new parents of a baby boy! You can read about their adventures as new parents on their new site. World, please prepare yourself for the ultimate in model parenting. http://ehough.com/2008/02/14/peleh-bennet-shaltes While messing around with Google Maps's new edit feature, I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find that my hometown got an updated set of satellite images. Sweet! In the past you couldn't really get past a blurry town-level view of the area. Now you can zoom in almost all the way, so you too ... http://ehough.com/2007/12/15/finally-on-google-maps-carlisle-pa I spent this past labor day weekend with two of my absolute favorite people, Noah and Eva. They picked me up from Great Falls, MT and we spent about 4 days in pristine Glacier National Park (northern Montana) and Waterton Lakes National Park (Canada). Vacations don't get much better than ... http://ehough.com/2007/09/08/glacier2007 I recently jumped on the last.fm bandwagon and am loving it. Here's a video by The Knife that I think is just delightful. Check out the creative animation. http://ehough.com/2007/08/03/we-share-our-mothers-health It's amateur hour again as I put on my music-reviewer pantsuit and present to you: Rob Crow Maybe you've heard of Pinback. They're an "indie rock" band from my home city of San Diego. This is your basic awesome band. Pinback's music is dare I say? mesmorizing. My boy Rob Crow ... http://ehough.com/2007/07/12/i-hate-you-rob-crow As some of you may know, I was raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania: a small town rich with history that dates back to colonial times. One of our notable, yet somewhat shameful, claims to fame is the Carlisle Indian School. On land which is now the US Army War College, the ... http://ehough.com/2007/05/21/the-carlisle-indians-made-it-a-whole-new-ballgame When I moved to San Diego this past summer, I decided to treat myself to a new Razr from Verizon. I know, I know, jumping on the bandwagon. But I actually really like the feel of the Razr. It even passes my infamous "ear test" which I give all ... http://ehough.com/2007/03/17/flashing-my-razr-stickin-it-to-verizon This is a huge, huge release for TubePress. YouTube finally decided to upgrade their API to support playlists (among other new features); a capability that TubePress users have been pounding down the doors to get. New features in this version: Now with seven modes of operation. The new ones are: playlists (with paging) featured ... http://ehough.com/2007/02/05/tubepress-10-has-landed