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Friday, December 31

Ouch

I think one of my taste buds exploded - it's very hurty.

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Gophers, Yaay

20-16 = DominaSHON

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Movies, Puzzles & Wine, Oh My!

Ever since hearing "Man of Constant Sorrow" about 4 years ago, I've wanted to see O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and finally accomplished this feat just yesterday. I'm pretty much in agreement with its 78% tomatometer rating, but I must concede that I was slightly distracted by the aforementioned puzzle. It's done now, but I'm conflicted over what to do with it?

Please bear with me as I attempt to jot down a few tasting notes from last night's wine...

2003 Three Thieves California Zinfandel (13.9%) $10 for 1L
Light ruby color, dark berries & slight spice nose, rather fruity but balanced - Susan even thought it was decent.

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Thursday, December 30

How Was Your Evening?

Just fine, thanks for asking. We finally watched Beverly Hills Ninja, a going away to CA present from Anna. Not exactly Farley's finest work, but it made me miss him nonetheless.

For any of you Johnsonites out there, I'm willing to bet that I've spent more time with my $1 gift than all of y'all combined...



Muchas Gracias to Mirassou Sauvingion Blanc and South Park episodes #809-812 for keeping me company:

Now Playing: T.I. - Trap Muzik [mp3]

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  • As a Johnsonite, I'll place a wager. It is impossible to catch me apart from my 'soap dish.' When I sleep, I keep my phone in it. At dinner, I won't eat from anything but that dish. When I buy things, rather than actually handing money to the cashier, I simply place it in the soap dish and slide it over with one finger. Hell, sometimes I even put soap in it! No puzzle can beat my love for the soap dish.

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Tuesday, December 28

McBlog Roll

I'm stuck at work over lunch waiting for a system backup to finish, so I warmed up a Sausage McMuffin and started probing my RSS feeds. As much as I love Live Bookmarks in Firefox, it's annoying that I have to set them up on two computers or use the portable version and give up Cookies & History. del.icio.us is a decent way to make your bookmarks available from any computer, but RSS feeds are a little more high maintenance...

So I'm going for a ride on NewsGator, which allows me to access a single list of RSS feeds from any location. Not as sexy as the menu interface in Firefox, but so far I think I'm gonna like it. Hopefully you didn't already notice that the "Other" Blogs list to the right grew exponentially, but check it out - that blogroll is an automated script that NewsGator provides.

If I like something enough to NewsGator it, it will automatically show up there and you can learn to like all the things that I like!

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  • I think I'll just stick with my Lappy 486 thank-you-very-much!

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Yawn

Here's another dose of "3 month old breaking news" on The Myth...

While reading a rather insightful article called Why There's No Escaping the Blog on Fortune.com, I learned about how blogs affected the Kryptonite Lock company - to the tune of $10 million dollars. Short version: you can unlock those U-shaped locks with a Bic pen.

Oh and by the way, that is 40% OF THEIR ANNUAL REVENUES. It's enough to make any executive cry...

Now Playing: Hoobastank - The Reason [mp3]

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It's Over!

I needed Isaac Bruce + 15, I got zero. Through a series of unfortunate events, my first shot at fantasy football greatness is over. My only consolation is that the Rams won and the Vikes aren't in the playoffs - yet. I wonder if lots of other MNF viewers enjoy Sushi with their John Madden?

Why is it that I can't help but watch CSI: Miami whenever I'm in the same room as it? Without fail, I spend most of the episode shaking my head in disapproval at David Caruso's overacting.

I tasted 3 Lodi Cabernets this afternoon at the Lodi Wine & Visitor Center - did you know that Cabernet Sauvingion is a hybrid of the Sauvingion Blanc and Cabernet Franc grapes? I didn't.

The 2002 Celestial Cellars was far to tannic for my tastes, while the 2001 Six Hands Winery was fruit forward and enjoyable. The 2001 Mettler Family Vineyards was by far the best of the three, chocolatetastic and coffee-riffic.

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Monday, December 27

PayPal + iTunes

This is hardly news, but thou shalt most definitely take advantage of this promotion if you haven't done so already...

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Sunday, December 26

Meat, Meat and More Meat

I was disheartened to learn that my family decided to visit the Prime Quarter the day after I left, but somehow got over it thanks to a BOGO Pannido coupon from the good folks at Jack in the Box. I fear this may be lost on my legions of midwest followers, but for future reference...

Deli Trio Pannido > Zesty Turkey Pannido

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Since I Know You're Wondering...

...the Lodi Flamers are currently embroiled in a heated battle with Your Mom, and look to make up a 14 point deficit on Monday Night Football for a berth in their first ever Fantasy Bowl. Here's to Brian Westbook and Torry Holt combining for at least 15 more points than Isaac Bruce.

Now Playing: Medeski, Martin & Wood - It's a Jungle In Here

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Goodbye Reggie

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Friday, December 24

Foxy

I wonder if Firefox is actually a subsidiary of Kit Fox Vineyards?

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  • Kit Fox Vineyards is a small family wine business. Firefox is a technology company. Thye are both based out of Northern California though. Maybe they are connected. Hmmm.

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Blow Pinocchio

I've recently returned from spelunking in the wine blogosphere, after the brothers Johnson shot down my proposal to rename The Myth to "Whine" last night. It wasn't until I read this post that I realized Huge Johnson is not quite the same guy who wrote the cryptic wine guide on our bar at home...

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Thursday, December 23

iBlog

I don't think I've ever posted from a Mac before, but surfin' with Safari is a somewhat familiar experience due to the tabbed-ness of Firefox that I have come to know & love. Nobody else has shown much interest in the botttle of Cab/Merlot Rose I bought yesterday, so I'm being forced to slowly work through it on my own. Oh darn.

We saw Meet the Fockers and Ocean's 12 last night - the former of which I found to be more enjoyable than it's predecessor, while the latter was truly a "phoned in" performance. Speaking of which, I have 6 new Gmail invites for any of you who so desire - I just need your e-mail address to send one.

My brothers both arrived at home this morning without serious incident, and we had a grand 'ol time battling the holiday shopping crowds in the afternoon. I'm sure glad I waited to hit up the dollar store until those two could join me - they almost got booted for playing hockey with shoe shine pucks...

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Tuesday, December 21

Cabin Fever

I'm not exactly proud of the fact that I haven't left the house since arriving here 62 hours ago - but it's f-ing cold outside! Not being able to drive a stick (pictured below) doesn't help , but I promise to go out shopping tomorrow. This is good news for most of you, since I haven't exactly bought any gifts yet. Yeah...

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  • Hey Brad. Dan here. Congrats on your Fantasy football win. I remember earlier in the year you saying that you weren't very good at this, but then Manning happened. I made it to my super bowl and I will be playing my brother! Already won $210, winning next week will add another $210. Had a great week last week. Culpepper (400yds, 3td's) Jerry Porter (140yds, 3td's) Curtis martin (100 yds 2td's) and mushin muhhammad (130 yds, 1TD). Hopefully Culpepper will be able to blow up on that green and yellow team this weekend.

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Monday, December 20

Running Backwards

It's the name of a team in our fantasy football league, but now exists in reality. The neighbors across the street appear to be watching TiVo'd Packer football - in reverse.

Why would you want to watch that game in any direction?

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  • Well, for one to re-live the glory that is 4 turnovers by Fav-ra. And two, (safely said now that Fergie is going to be ok) to see how they hang their clothes out to dry in Florida. Wanna throw down a shiny 25 cent piece on Friday's game? Have a Merry Christmas!
    -JP

    By Blogger JP, at 12/20/2004 6:35 PM 

  • I take back everything good I've ever said about you. First you call my Colts the flamers, and now it is clear to me that you're another delusional Packers fan.

    Your team might not even win their division - a division consisting of 5-9 Chicago, 5-9 Detroit, and 8-6 Detroit. The Colts are undefeated vs. NFC teams, while the Packers lost their last game against a team from Florida on the frozen mythical holy magic sacred overrated tundra of Lambeau Field. Need I even mention the Bears @ Lambeau? Perhaps the Giants @ Lambeau? The Titans @ Lambeau? How about the wonderful game in Philly. I can't remember what happened in Indianapolis (even though I was there wearing Blue and White).

    Good Luck on Christmas Eve :)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12/20/2004 9:28 PM 

  • So perhaps I should only comment when my brain has approved it. Disregard 90% of that last post.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12/20/2004 9:34 PM 

  • If you watch it in reverse, it looks like Fav-ra is catching an INT instead of throwing one. bahahaha

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Chatting With 12 Year Old Boys

Rewind to a week and a half ago, my new watch had just arrived and I was all over the SPOTstop.com forums trying to figure out how it was going to handle my upcoming weekend in Arizona. The only person to reply to my discussion board posts was Kas, an "evangelist" who averages 7.36 posts per day (2060 and counting), and I noticed he shared his MSN Messenger contact info...

I put him on my buddy list to ask a follow-up question, and soon learned that he was a 12 year old kid from Toronto. This immediately creeped me out, and not because he was a wacky Canadian. We've chatted a few times since then, and this morning I made a comment that immediately triggered the "MUST BLOG NOW" portion of my brain.

but i can't imagine not having a computer sitting under my desk at home


Not exactly profound, but I realized how dated that thought could become in the not-too-distant future and wanted to capture it for posterity. He was asking me if I had a laptop, and my argument was that it is a nice compliment to a desktop PC at home but far from a replacement.

Anyways, he's working on a website at beyond-spot.com, check it out yo.

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  • There's something a bit "Knuckle"y ab00t that title.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12/20/2004 3:35 PM 

  • Ha Ha
    Great post, and be sure to check put the site, its great!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12/20/2004 6:05 PM 

  • Chatting With 12 Year Old Boys

    I'm a bit scared here!

    But that site is pretty awesome. I want to win that free watch they're giving away!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12/20/2004 6:13 PM 

  • Sorry to be the mean one again, but I can't believe you got one of these watches. You're dorkier than I thought. In what scenario could you possibly need watch info??? You'd do a lot better switching to a GSM carrier for your cell phone and getting an unlimited data plan so you can nerd out on your phone instead of on your wrist.

    You're dorkier than I remember...

    By Blogger Laura, at 12/20/2004 8:17 PM 

  • really don't know what s going on here, i'm pretty sure that this site is hidden from the outside world with not a lot of people visiting, write for us internet if you're interested then you should share this on a popular website and see the results.

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Sunday, December 19

Delusional

3 hours of sleep in the last 36 hours, maybe I'm hallucinating about the football scores today? As long as Mr. Manning doesn't throw 17 interceptions in the 4th quarter, the Flamers will prevail and move on to the fantasy playoff semifinals - against a team that will likely be without mighty T.O. <insert eyebrow raise here>

I did some |337 Outlook programming for my dad today, and to pay me back he crafted a replica Pastrami Burger, which didn't quite resemble the one from the commercial...

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Lover's Quarrel

Definitely sitting next to a wife asking her husband why he keeps text messaging this other girl from work - awkward?

I'm "testing" out my 3rd T-Mobile HotSpot trial as a means of killing time at SFO airport Gate 31, our flight isn't scheduled to leave for another hour. In case you were wondering, the Lodi Flamers won their first playoff game last week and now face the Crazy Scandinavians. We're down 26-10 after a few Saturday games, but I'm confident that Peyton & co. will pull it out for me.

Not sure why I decided to search for this, but I found a site that lists notable things that happened on October 13th besides me being born...

Pre boarding time. I'm exhaused. I'll stop bothering you now.

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Saturday, December 18

SFO ATA MDW OMG BY33

I've found a new outlet for my anal retentiveness between sets at the gym - organizing the free weights. Of course, this only works when it isn't busy (Saturday morning perhaps?) and there aren't a bunch of guys twice my size using them...



Whoda thunk that we had nearly 90 gallons of leaves in our yard? Now I have a hurty blister on my hand - I heart being a homeowner. It's about that time, a glorious week in southeastern Wisconsin is calling my name...

Now Playing: Charlie Hunter Trio - Bing, Bing, Bing!

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  • This can only be compared to your sorting of the shirts you kept on hangers in your closet during your time at Horlick High. With the colors you owned, it was your own personal rainbow... right behind your closet door! Wishing I had a picture for the world,
    -Nick
    See you in a few days!

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Friday, December 17

Midwest Jazz RepresentaSHON

I'm from Wisconsin. Susan is from Minnesota. Grammy-nominated The Bad Plus hails from these two great states, and their cover of Iron Man is sah-weet. I must credit my knowledge of their existence to a good friend from high school, whom I recently reconnected with at a bar in Dinkytown - what up Sean.

Since writing that first paragraph, I've LiveBookmarked an RSS feed from the Minnesota Daily and complained to the Star Tribune after scouring their website for one and coming up empty-handed. I'm all about the syndication, which brought my attention to a recent post by my cousin about Google Print. Being that I tend to embrace anything associated with the Google brand, it was enlightening to read some very valid points to the contrary...


As a side note, I'm a little concerned that my own mother assumes that I must be dead if regular posts aren't appearing on The Myth...

Now Playing: The Bad Plus - Give

posted by Brad at 12/17/2004 08:23:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

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  • Sorry for the late comment but I thought you'd have read this article about google print already - maybe not? http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/5135658.html

    By Blogger Laura, at 12/20/2004 8:22 PM 

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Tuesday, December 14

Street Cred

Michael thinks that I'm a D-O-R-K for blogging about the new MSN stuff, but this Microsoft employee tends to disagree.

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  • If he's not careful, he might get dooced. It's happened before at Microsoft; poor Michael Hanscom. Also, another blogger who got dooced is the author of dooce.com whose blog is a very good read on a regular basis.

    If anyone I know is "dooceable" it's Bradley...

    By Blogger MICHAEL, at 12/15/2004 5:30 PM 

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Arizono Photas

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  • Your panoramic thumbnail reminds me of the one you tried in Philmont & ended up with the store-bought poster of before digital cameras & image ghosting panoramic-photo-cheaters.

    By Blogger Nick, at 12/17/2004 4:30 PM 

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Monday, December 13

A Word To The Wise...

You know the little cupholder dimples in airline tray tables?

Not optional.

I was so excited to have an exit row seat last night that I allowed my ginger ale to slide right into my lap. Which, of course, made me look really excited...



Now Playing: Tenacious D - Tenacious D

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All Up In The MSN

MSN has recently unveiled a slew of new stuff that you may or may not actually care about...

MSN Direct has been around for about a year, but I only recently invested $30 into the FM-based technology. Early reviews are mostly positive, and Susan "Dark Ash Brown" Larson is the only woman who hasn't complimented me on it so far ;)

If you ever need to reach me while I'm in a major metropolitan area that is not covered by Sprint PCS, feel free to fire up MSN Messenger and send a message to my wrist.

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Sunday, December 12

Devil Made Me Do It

After some illegal driving and getting lost on the ASU campus, we finally made it to Cereality for breakfast this morning. The concoction I had was so good, I named this post after it...

  • 12 oz. Cocoa Puffs
  • 12 oz. Lucky Charms
  • 2 generous scoops of chocolate milk crystals
  • 4 generous scoops of malted milk balls
  • 12 seconds of milk from the machine


Susan's was also delectable, but doesn't get further recognition due to the presence of some non-approved cereal. We headed north in the brand new Dodge Neon, stopping at Montezuma's Castle en route to Sedona, AZ. We spent the day checking out all the beautiful scenery and doing a little shopping, and then crashed the Festival of Lights at Tlaquepaque.

I was baffled when the rental car key chain had a grocery store VIP card on it, but I can't complain about the $4.58 it saved me on tonight's wine-and-soy-based-snacks run. I better get back upstairs before said wine gets warm!

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  • Wasn't Sedona beautiful? We stayed right next to Tla... where you went to the festival of lights. We walked over there one day and took pictures, looked at the beautiful art and jewelry. Enjoy the rest of your visit. Jan

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12/12/2004 6:13 AM 

  • Okay, the malted milk balls put me over the edge. I'm thoroughly disgusted!! How could you function on that breakfast? And I'm not saying this as a mom like : "You need a nutritious breakfast" because I had Reese's Puffs (approved?), but Cocoa Puffs mixed with Lucky Charms?? And I don't even want to know what chocolate milk crystals are....they make me think of Folger's crystals which, no matter what the commercials say, can not pass for coffee from the best restarants. And then, as I said.....malted milk balls. BARF!!!!!!! Can't stand the things.....and you put them on your cereal??? You've imprinted this awful concoction on my brain and I'm completely scarred!!

    Okay I'm done. Need to go get a lobotomy now so my life can go on!

    ~Missy

    By Blogger Unknown, at 12/13/2004 9:12 AM 

  • I'm feeling a little bad, my last two comments on your blog haven't been very nice. Perhaps I need to practice the old adage: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

    By Blogger Unknown, at 12/13/2004 9:13 AM 

  • I will not follow the "can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" because I'd end up being very quiet. So how the hell did you know about this Cereality place anyway? I'm hoping that it's b/c of work because if you just found this on your own you're a big loser.

    By Blogger Laura, at 12/16/2004 6:46 PM 

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Friday, December 10

Google Suggest = Cool

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Go Nuts!

Stockton has the Ports, and today Modesto announced the... Nuts?

Go Nuts

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  • I can just hear it now...GO NUTS!...GO NUTS! Could be fun! Mom

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Thursday, December 9

BlogThis! - Peyton the Stud

This is my first year doing the fantasy football thing, and with each passing week I find myself slightly more "into" it. That's probably because of good 'ol Peyton Manning, who is apparently the greatest fantasy footballer alive.

The Lodi Flamers head into the playoffs with an 8-5 record, missing a first round bye on a head-to-head tiebreaker. Stay tuned for more riveting details!

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Wednesday, December 8

Happy Birthday Daniel!

He certainly doesn't act like he's 26 years old...

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  • Thank you for paying tribute to my husband on his birthday. We celebrated in style with burgers and bottomless steak fries at Red Robin. I surprised him with a birthday cake that I had smuggled into the restaurant without him noticing. We wish that you and Susan could have been there, a good time was had by all!
    Enjoy your trip to Phoenix.

    Love,
    Rebecca

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12/09/2004 7:09 AM 

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Tuesday, December 7

mjohn058: do you get many magazines?

bradleypjohnson: quite

I've alluded to it before, but there is a plethora of reading material floating around this place. I bal33t it was Laura who first enticed me to check out Half.com, and the rest is history. I've unloaded $1,114.08 worth of moichandice on said e-commerce site since 9/1/02, and bought enough goodies to earn me an impressive list of subscripSHONs...

  • Wine Spectator
  • Kiplinger's Personal Finance
  • GQ
  • US News & World Report
  • FHM
  • Real Simple
  • Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
  • US Weekly
  • Men's Health
  • Blender
  • Rolling Stone
  • TV Guide
  • Wired
  • Business 2.0
  • Wine Enthusiast
  • Ski
  • Golf Digest
  • Maxim

Of course, there's a catch - if you forget to call and cancel on time you get charged something like forty times the cover price. If you do remember, they usually act surprised and offer to extend the trial for 12 months for a measly $1 processing fee. Of course then you have to remember to cancel again in a year, but isn't that why Microsoft invented Outlook?

mjohn058: (holy shit do you get a lot of magazines)

I can't stop listening to Medeski, Martin & Wood's "Chubb Sub" lately, and feel compelled to share it with y'all. I wondered what a Chubb Sub looks like, and this is the best that Google Image Search came up with - click the little guy for an mp3!

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4 Straight

Congratulations to Torii Hunter, who won his 4th consecutive Gold Glove in 2004 - even if it was announced over a month ago.

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Brad, the "Educated" Voter

I seriously just learned what stem cells are... from South Park episode #513. It might be the most irreverent show I've ever seen, but it makes me laugh nonetheless.

I shipped Susan off to Phoenix tonight, but it won't be long before I go visit for the weekend. I'm looking forward to the weather...

...and seeing her too, I suppose.

I promise to love you forever if you have an answer to either of the two burning questions currently in my head:

Why does airport security scrutinize one way passengers more than round trip ticketholders? Can't the bad guys afford to buy half a ticket they won't use?

Why does the car stereo in my 2003 Mazda 6i lack a pause button? Didn't anyone think that was an important feature?

Sorry, I promised two questions not four - I'm a liar.

Now Playing: Audioslave - Audioslave

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Sunday, December 5

Seven And Five

Apparently wearing my Packers hat while snowboarding yesterday wasn't good luck, but da Bears beat da Vikes again today so I guess it's OK. We got up early yesterday and drove to Pinecrest for a day of fun in the snow at Dodge Ridge "the closest snow to home" with the good folks from Susan's office. Good times were had by most, even though I banged my knee pretty good - on the flattest part of the whole mountain oh by the way.

The whole group had dinner at the Strawberry Inn, which was picked not for it's culinary merits so much as being the only dining establishment within 25 miles. They ran out of steak halfway through ordering, but miraculously had steak for the "roast beef" fajitas. My "burger of distinction" seemed distinctly overdone, but I could have just been distrcted by the vacumming in the next room?

We spent the evening playing some Texas hold 'em, but apparently the fact that the chips had my initials on them did not mean that I was destined to win. Now I have to go back to work and earn my money like my momma taught me to...

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Thursday, December 2

Hooray For The Word Blog!

It's just been pronounced Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2004.

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MSN Maps LineDrive™

Another Presurfer gem - Twinkler is a site that allows you to share the things you want to accomplish in life, and compare them to what others are saying. The font size for each subject increases as more people enter/click on it. I wasn't too surprised to notice one of the items was "stop relying on Google for facts," so I agreed.

It is for this exact reason that I had never experienced MSN maps & directions. I look up addresses by typing them into Google, and then click on the Yahoo or MapQuest links that appear above all the search results. Someblog mentioned that the LineDrive™ function at MSN was worth checking out, and I must admit that I'm a fan...

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Wednesday, December 1

photoblox?

Presurfer told DK to tell me to put a blogblox on my page, hence the thingie over on the right.

It's fun & new & stuff, but I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it - hotness or eyesore?

posted by Brad at 12/01/2004 11:19:00 PM | permalink | 2 comments

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  • Hotness.

    Just remember to add a new pic every once in a while.

    Signed,
    The Hypocrite

    By Blogger Nick, at 12/03/2004 1:20 AM 

  • Distracting. Besides, the Ken Burns Effect doesn't always show you the good part of the image... cropping off people's heads and such. Additionally, it significantly increases the load time and refresh rate of your blog...

    ...And when I want The Myth, I WANT IT NOW!

    Signed-
    The Other Hypocrite?

    By Blogger MICHAEL, at 12/03/2004 9:16 AM 

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Card Abuse?

Does the fact that I know my credit card account number, verification code and expiration date by heart mean that I use it too much?

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24 Hour Funness

...watched KenJen finally drop the ball at the gym tonight. Other highlights included just barely bench pressing 115 pounds for 3 sets of 8 reps - I am such a wimp!

As I was finishing up on the elliptical machine, I became increasingly aware of a horrendous odor. Although I never figured out who (me?) it was coming from, I did find it ironic enough to share that myPod was belting out Black Eyed Peas' "Smells Like Funk" at the time...

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