August 2008
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Hemingway (via yesyes : ermengarde : finallyseeing : girlwhosavedtheworld)
Yesterday: Was supposed to be the fantasy draft for work. Got postponed because there’s an odd number of teams. Rescheudled for Monday.
Today: Was supposed to be the Tumblr Fantasy Football Draft. Got postponed because there’s an odd number of teams. (Someone, sign on up so we can get it on!)
Wow, this sounds like a Caucasian Complaint, but I can’t help but be a little miffed...
Rudi Johnson Released From Bengals →
From the comments:
Rudi, if you’ve ever wondered, Wondered whatever became of me, I found out I’m released from Cincinnati, Cincinnati, W-A-I-V’d.
Watchjonic:
Dare I say that it actually doesn’t look all that bad? A videogame to movie conversion that might not suck ass? Hmm.. I’ll believe it when I see it, but if they can just stay true to the games then we might be in business..
The Max Payne Mousepad on my office desk says this movie better not suck.
Watchgirlwhosavedtheworld:
This always makes me happy.
That is… very cool.
WatchAll that firepower, undone by a puff of air.
After hearing the T. Boone Pickens ad for the billionth time, I got to thinking about getting cars to run on Natural Gas. I’ll be honest, I’m a bit skepitcal of the idea (nat gas seems more… I don’t know, volitile than oil). But if they can get it to work, great. When then led me to draw the connection to the next level of hybrid… A Natural Gas / Solar powered car.
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Bran and I went to the new Melting Pot as a belated birthday present. Hooooly fuckin’ Moses was that good. Expensive, but good. I am stuffed solid.
Who better to councel adolescent girls with low... →
I’M SO EXCITED
I’M SO EXCITED
I’M SO… SCARED
I don’t know who or what this is, but there...
I was on the way out the door of the office to get to class when I ran into Phil. He asked me if I had about 10 minutes. Seeing as class doesn’t start until 7:20, I’ve got plenty of time. He then hands me a bottle of König Ludwig Weiss.
Note to self: on your way to class, get gum.
McCain AND Obama miss Deadline in Texas →
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHA. Hoooo boy.
Bob Barr could actually receive electoral votes. That’s awesome.
“If being a douchebag was an arrestable offense in Ohio, the whole state would be...”
– KSK
How come I’m still not receiving my “Reset Password” email from GrandCentral? I tried contacting support, they even changed the e-mail on the account, and I’m still not getting it.
The number still works, too.
I don’t know why I have The Boys of Summer...
When aesthetes competed at the Olympics →
rach:
They used to give out golds for watercolor, writing, sculpture, architecture, etc. That ended in 1948. Sigh.
From the article:
The arts competitions were not part of the first modern Olympics in 1896. But the founder of the revived Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, had long toyed with the idea. Writing in a French sports magazine in 1891, he proposed an event consisting of a 14-kilometer...
Introducing Ubiquity →
This is hot. From the Lifehacker Article:
Mozilla Labs unveils the first prototype of a natural language web service connector called Ubiquity, a Firefox extension that adds a command panel to any web page. Ubiquity will look familiar to Quicksilver, Launchy, or Enso users: you invoke Ubiquity with a key combination and the text field drops down command suggestions as you type. Ubiquity’s...
Jay Mariotti Resigns from Chicago Sun-Times →
Just back from Beijing where he wrote about the Summer Olympics, Mariotti said in a phone interview Tuesday night that he decided to quit after it became clear while in China that sports journalism had become “entirely a Web site business. There were not many newspapers there.” He added that most of the journalists covering the Games were “there writing for Web sites.”
Two...
simko:
While traveling recently, I sat across from a couple that was hearing impaired Deaf. At some point during the trip, they got into an argument - their facial expressions turned angry, and the speed of their signing rapidly increased. Like most couples, they eventually stopped fighting and came to some sort of an agreement. She smiled at him, he smiled at her, and they resumed signing at a...
livejamie:
A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing and say your mother.
Hey-o!
(More posts from the weekend tomorrow. We’ve been dealing with the stupid leak all day, and I’m beat.)
Fox News: Michael Phelps fails drug test →
(gregcbrown:oliviaisferosch:tylercoates:inothernews)
We got home from camping, all ready to post a feature I thought of while I was out there, and we’re greeted with a leak in our ceiling. Onto our couch.
That’s a fucking pisser.
"Boom Goes the Dynamite" Got a Job! →
With maybe the best example ever of “at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” Collins has landed a job as an anchor for a real television station. No, seriously, that guy is going to be an anchor for KXXV in Waco, Texas.
If there’s hope for him, there’s hope for me.
Let’s revisit the fun, shall we?
This weekend, the whole fam damnly is headed out to the campground of my youth: Harrison Lake State Park. A whole lot of memories were made over there. Although I’m 99% certain this will be the first time we camp on the electric side.
I think I need to go get a fishing license.
Breakfast of a champion? Frosted Flakes! →
Olympic legend Michael Phelps will appear on boxes of the Kellogg’s brand sugar cereal, drawing sharp criticism from health experts worried about the message he’ll be sending to children across America.
“I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian,” said nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of Mount Sinai Medical Center.
“I would rather see him promoting...