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Epic Cartman

I totally missed Thanksgiving, so I didn’t get to blog about what I’m thankful for this year. So, here’s a belated, extremely simplified list. The #1 thing I’m thankful for is these little mini shopping carts from Safeway:

These are the greatest, especially if you’re not doing a full big shopping trip that requires [...]

Interior Design Tip #121

Having your window shade repaired? Why not fill the vacant window space with lovely flattened cardboard boxes from Amazon and elsewhere. And to keep them in place, stick some unused shelves from home entertainment units up against the cardboard at the bottom. And place some thin strips of wood from who-knows-where in [...]

Cokehenge

This is what happens when no one empties the can recycling bin at work for a very long time:

Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ 39°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:

“Jimmy Still Comes Around” (Loud Family)
“Moody” (Nouvelle Vague)
“O’Malley, Former Underdog” (Deerhoof)
“Mr. Caution’s Funeral” (Trotsky Icepick)
“Eureka Signs” (Guided By Voices)
“In Context” (Field Music)
“Riffs And Variations On [...]

The Property Of A Lady

Movie Mention Sunday!
Saw my first first-run theater movie in awhile today. The Hugh-man and I went to see the latest 007 flick Quantum Of Solace at the Continental Big Screen. This was also my first movie at the Continental since they remodeled the big screen theater to make it stadium seating. I [...]

Imperfect Storm

It’s the war of the touchscreen phones! Is it a coincidence that yesterday marked the release of both the Blackberry Storm (i.e. “the iPhone killer”) and the 2.2 iPhone firmware update? I say “No!”, it is not a coincidence!
I haven’t seen the Storm yet. One of my co-workers went to a [...]

Chasing The Pregnant Dragons

Anything ever invented eventually shows up at the iPhone App Store. Case in point: The old Atari 2600 game Adventure (iTunes Store link here). Adventure was the first of its kind in many ways. It arguably started the whole action-adventure videogame genre, which is my favorite videogame genre. It also contained [...]

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