Friday, August 25
Pour One Out
Continuing my half-day Friday tradition of stealing someone's Wall Street Journal (since they are out of the office)...
I was introduced to Wine Library TV host Gary Vaynerchuk, whose "folksy" video reviews have helped the shop grow to become "one of the highest-grossing independently owned wine and liquor retailers in the nation, with about $40 million in annual revenue."
In Episode #76, he used phrases like "smells horrible," "sweaty feet," "unattractive," "locker room jock strap stinky" to describe the 2004 Falesco Vitiano - and then linked to the page where they sell it for $7.99.
Sadly, I also learned that Maynard Ferguson died on Wednesday. I'm definitely gonna listen to "Live from San Francisco" on the plane in his honor - off to the airport!
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Thursday, August 24
Travel, Twins & Toothpaste
I'm heading to Chicago tomorrow to spend a weekend with Gretchen & Brie - two "ex" coworkers from sunny California - looking forward to seeing them for the first time in 3 and 9 months, respectively!
We've got (crappy) tickets to the Twins/White Sox game on Sunday, but I'm not too optomistic about the Silva/Buehrle matchup. But Santana and Radke should take care of business, and a series win is all that matters - since it also means retaking the lead for the AL Wild Card.
Dmitry and I were discussing the new TSA requirements, which restrict things like shampoo and toothpaste from checked luggage. He was recently gifted a huge box of "travel size" Crest from his friend who graduated from dental school (I think?) - and I started wondering what all that toothpaste would look like if squeezed from the mini tubes.
So I picked up a tube of Aquafresh at Target tonight...
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Tuesday, August 22
Fantasy Footballers
Let the criticism begin...
QB: Trent Green & Michael Vick RB: Clinton Portis, Willie Parker, Jamal Lewis, Mike Anderson & Cedric Houston WR: Torry Holt, Darrell Jackson, Rod Smith, Michael Clayton & Chad Jackson TE: Benjamin Watson & Christian Fauria K: John Kasay & Matt Stover DEF: Jacksonville & San Diego
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Hello, Bush
The presidential motorcade just drove through the 394/169 interchange, I happened to notice on the way back to my desk after grabbing some Caribou with Dmitry.
Traffic was backed up for miles on 394, can't wait to get out and join the party during rush hour...
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Monday, August 21
Golf 'n Balls
Pretty excited to have shot a 45 at Brookview tonight - might just be enough to pull our team out of last place on the final week of the league. Leaving my driver in the bag definitely helped, but the group behind us twice yelling to "hit the ball already" certainly did not.
It would be unfair to omit the round I played Saturday morning at Edinburgh USA with Wade and Crowley. I lost a dozen balls or so en route to a 116 - that course is not very forgiving...
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Sunday, August 20
Sporty
It's shaping up to be a sports-tastic Sunday afternoon. I've got the Twins/White Sox game & PGA Championship on TV, and our fantasy football draft starts in 49 minutes.
Since I don't know shit about fantasy football, I signed up for a 30 day trial of ESPN Insider to give me access to a bunch of guys who actually know what they are talking about. Looks like I have the 6th pick in the draft, so I better go figure out which RB will score me the most points...
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Friday, August 18
Woot!
Looking forward to a cheap "mini" to supplement my iTank - think this will get me into the gym more frequently?
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Thursday, August 17
Light Sweet Crude
Last year, James Kunstler published a book called "The Long Emergency" about (among other things) how we are using more and producing less oil every day, slowly spiraling into a global energy crisis. There's a fascinating excerpt in Rolling Stone, but it lacks any real suggestions as to what to do about the impending doom.
I read that article 4 months ago, and am perplexed as to why I didn't blog about it - certainly had an impact on me. Until today, when I read Malcolm Gladwell's case for geothermal energy - his dad installed a system and "guest blogged" about it.
Speaking of which, I think Busta needs to guest blog again sometime soon...
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Tuesday, August 15
Blogger in Beta
I was thrilled to see that Blogger has finally made some of the changes that I've been ranting about since starting to use it 2.3 years ago...
Most notably, the ability to "tag" posts (so you could quickly find all the posts I've written about the Twins, or wine, or whatever) - and a feed for comments (which I broke down and created myself last month.)
They are "limiting the number of people who can switch over" to the new functionality, so try to remain calm as I wait my turn...
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Friday, August 11
Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase
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OK Mom, how many of these can you identify?
Two-dimensional clay animations melding and merging the work of 35 famous artists. |
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Fun With Photos & Maps
I finally got the rest of the pictures from our trip uploaded, check out the set to see all 46.
I also put some of the thumbnails on our map, but then started playing with a geotagging bookmarklet that allows me to pinpoint the latitude & longitude of my photos and display them on a site like flyr:
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Thursday, August 10
Call Me A Dork, But
I'm stoked for this weekend's DCI World Championships in Madison, even though I have to miss an SNL-themed birthday party for Kristi, Toni & Josh in CA to attend.
To prepare for the main event, I'm going to watch tonight's quarterfinals via satellite at a movie theater. Popcorn for dinner, anyone?
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Tuesday, August 8
3.5 Months Later...
oh john and katie you were first to pledge money here is your haiku
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Monday, August 7
Oh Mel
Apparently, I find it rather difficult to identify movies once the faces of the actors have been removed...
I gave up after getting 16/60 on this quiz, how about you? Answers here.
posted by Brad at 8/07/2006 08:46:00 PM | permalink |
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Joe Mauer
Humble, hardworking & handsome...
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Wednesday, August 2
PCH = Pretty Cool, Hey?
Starting tomorrow morning, Kristi and I will be rollin' down the Pacific Coast on Highway 1. We found Windows Live Local to be real handy in planning the trip, and it even allows us to share the itinerary - check it out! The plan is to update the pushpins with photos as we go, feel free to follow along over the next few days...
On a semi-related topic, Nick told me about the Gigapxl Project a couple weeks ago - they are working on a Portrait of America that includes the Bixby & Big Creek bridges we will drive over tomorrow in Big Sur.
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