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I was just talking to my brother about this episode of Dirty...

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:03:34 -0700

I was just talking to my brother about this episode of Dirty Jobs, and hey - it’s on the YouTubes!

Dirty Jobs : Foul & Fabulous : Worm Rancher (via squishydemon)

Showing Han Solo our vermicompost bin. (via GoldenEel)

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:56:20 -0700

Showing Han Solo our vermicompost bin. (via GoldenEel)

"I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I’m Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up..."

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:00:51 -0700

“I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I’m Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. ‘What about getting up after five hours sleep?’, oh that’s Morning Guy’s problem. That’s not my problem, I’m Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, you’re exhausted, groggy… oooh I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There’s nothing Morning Guy can do. The only thing Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy looses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore.”

- Jerry Seinfeld

Merry Christmas everyone! via www.chicagotribune.com

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:22:48 -0700

Merry Christmas everyone!

via www.chicagotribune.com

Coyote Encounter!

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:53:39 -0700

Coyote Encounter!

I am getting rid of all the stuffed animals that have been boxed...

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:25:00 -0700

I am getting rid of all the stuffed animals that have been boxed up in my mom’s basement for 20 years. About time!

via mfrost.typepad.com This slays me.

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:51:16 -0700

via mfrost.typepad.com

This slays me.

"You will need to divide your current possessions into four major categories. 1. Beautiful..."

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:01:47 -0700

“

You will need to divide your current possessions into four major categories.

1. Beautiful things.
2. Emotionally important things.
3. Tools, devices, and appliances that efficiently perform a useful
function.
4. Everything else.

“Everything else” will be by far the largest category. Anything you have not
touched, or seen, or thought about in a year — this very likely belongs in
“everything else.”

You should document these things. Take their pictures, their identifying
makers’ marks, barcodes, whatever, so that you can get them off eBay or Amazon
if, for some weird reason, you ever need them again. Store those digital
pictures somewhere safe — along with all your other increasingly valuable,
life-central digital data. Back them up both onsite and offsite.

Then remove them from your time and space. “Everything else” should not be in
your immediate environment, sucking up your energy and reducing your
opportunities. It should become a fond memory, or become reduced to data.

It may belong *to* you, but it does not belong *with* you. You weren’t born
with it. You won’t be buried with it. It needs to be out of the space-time
vicinity. You are not its archivist or quartermaster. Stop serving that unpaid
role.

”

- Bruce Sterling’s “Last Viridian Note”

So timely for me. I was just having an e-mail discussion with my mother about a huge bag of my old stuffed animals that has been in her basement for about 20 years. She occassionally asks me to do something with them, but I have been resisting for no good reason (mostly laziness, I suspect).

I was just invited to a holiday party that involves an 80’s-themed gift exchange and I thought of this bag immediately. I told my mom that I would look in the bag to see if I had any Cabbage Patch Kids in there and then MAYBE I would also think about getting rid of the rest of the toys. MAYBE. Then I read this article and felt silly. The end.

My new toy - KitchenAid Stand Mixer

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:12:05 -0700

My new toy - KitchenAid Stand Mixer

via www.seriouseats.com

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:47:52 -0700

via www.seriouseats.com

LOST Survivors Camp

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:01:34 -0700

LOST Survivors Camp

LOTS of Roosters Here, Cock-a-doodling All Day Long

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:31:08 -0700

LOTS of Roosters Here, Cock-a-doodling All Day Long

Secret Lava Pools… Not so good for swimming right now!

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:29:05 -0700

Secret Lava Pools… Not so good for swimming right now!

Where I was when I learned that Obama would be our next...

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:37:35 -0700

Where I was when I learned that Obama would be our next president. I cried. I am filled with pride and joy.

Our First Hawaiian Sunset

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:56:34 -0700

Our First Hawaiian Sunset

Waiting for our flight from Honolulu to Kauai. This outdoor area...

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:26:38 -0700

Waiting for our flight from Honolulu to Kauai. This outdoor area is right by our gate!

The Sad Grandpa

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:09:34 -0600

The Sad Grandpa

Vacation has started! With ginormous beers of course…

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:56:04 -0600

Vacation has started! With ginormous beers of course…

"Now I have a confession. Even Brett doesn’t know this. I hope it doesn’t lessen the..."

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:04:27 -0600

“

Now I have a confession. Even Brett doesn’t know this. I hope it doesn’t lessen the professional work we’re trying to accomplish in chronicling this historic election on the ground, but if it does, I’ll live with it. There is something stirring in America.

Back at the rally, after the march had left MLK Gardens, I’d gone back for the car while Brett took photos, and I spotted a very old black man in a sharp Sunday suit walking slowly at the very back of the huge march. He hadn’t yet arrived at the voting center, and I decided to find him when I got back.

I wanted to go talk to him, to ask him what this moment meant to him. He was a guy who you take one glance at, and know, that guy’s seen it all. I wanted a quote. I had my journalist hat on. I thought, this will be great.

So when I got back to the voting location with the car, I went to find him in the line. Eventually I spotted him, and was ready to walk up the few feet between us and introduce myself when I stopped in my tracks.

A young black boy, no more than eight years old, walked up to this man, who was at least eighty. The boy offered the man a sticker, probably an “I Voted” sticker, but I couldn’t see. The man took the sticker and paused. Silently, he looked down at the boy, who was looking back up at the man. The man put his hand gently on the boy’s head, and I saw his eyes glisten.

I didn’t ask the man for a quote. I didn’t need to. I walked over by myself, behind the community center, and I sat down on a bench next to the track, and wept.

”

- Sean Quinn of FiveThirtyEight.com.

MTV MUSIC - I Want My MTV

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:26:18 -0600

MTV MUSIC - I Want My MTV:

Wow. This is such a great idea! I’m sure you could find a lot of these videos on YouTube, but it’s nice to see MTV actually supporting MUSIC videos again. First stop: finding the Black Hole Sun video and sending the link to Justin, who has never seen that video!