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The water’s up at the cottage this year, high enough to...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:50:00 -0700

The water’s up at the cottage this year, high enough to float the pier off its supports so that it sinks under water when walked on.

I LOVE it here.

"Cookies ‘n cream ice cream is my favorite breakfast."

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:40:23 -0700

“Cookies ‘n cream ice cream is my favorite breakfast.”

- Cousin C.

Hello, Gerald R. Ford International Airport. I am SO psyched to...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:54:17 -0700

Hello, Gerald R. Ford International Airport. I am SO psyched to be back here. Bring on the Lake Michigan thunderstorms, baby.

We Need Puppy Name Help!

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:32:45 -0700

How about naming it Meadowlark Lemon Beagle, after the Harlem Globetrotter widely acknowledged to be the greatest comedic basketball player ever?

huge:

Arin and I are having a big debate about what to name our lemon beagle puppy (real pictures coming soon!). We figured we’d throw it out there and let you decide:
Miso
Gardenia
Lachuga
Challah
Chicken
Noodle
Chicken Noodle
Chicken and Stars
Rachel Vogelstein
Peppermint
Starbuck
Gozer the Gozarian
Arwen
What do you think?

Mom's on Facebook, and that's a problem

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:47:00 -0700

Mom’s on Facebook, and that’s a problem. Now, suddenly, Facebook is an inappropriate place for Mom-inappropriate content.

For example, I want to change my status update to “Ken loves having sex but he’d rather get some head”, but Mom would not get the musical reference and would be, um, alarmed. Plus she has like six Facebook friends, so it’d be the only thing in her news feed for weeks. Sigh.

Thank god she doesn’t know about tumblr.

WALL-E: it really is that good.

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:13:09 -0700

WALL-E: it really is that good.

Listening to Girl Talk is like playing competitive chess

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:21:00 -0700

Is anyone else physically exhausted by the new Girl Talk album Feed The Animals? I’ve been listening to it for 72 hours and I feel like I’ve just run 72 miles, or eaten 72 ounces of steak. I find listening to it to be much like playing competitive chess; it requires the same sort of close attention, and it produces the same sort of surprising(*) and rewarding fatigue. It’s so good I need to lie down.

For the record, here’s a list of songs sampled on the album: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_the_Animals

(*) At least, I find it surprising that mental exertion can produce the same sort of exhaustion as physical exertion. I’m always shocked(**) by the human body’s equivalence between mental energy and physical energy.

(**) I admit that I shouldn’t find this equivalence that surprising, given that both mental and physical work are exactly that, i.e., work, i.e., Joules, and given that I’ve never been particularly fazed by other, less plausible equivalences, like Einstein’s equivalence between mass and energy, two quantities that don’t even have the same units, for god’s sake. But the fact remains that I am less surprised by general relativity than by the feeling of tiredness I get from thinking hard.

One man, one dance, one world. I find it hard to not like...

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:22:29 -0700

One man, one dance, one world. I find it hard to not like everyone while watching this.

Video

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:56:35 -0700

huge:I can’t believe we’re actually training them to fight....

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:59:45 -0700

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I can’t believe we’re actually training them to fight. (Thanks to Ton for stressing me out even more than I already was)

Ben, I agree with your sentiment — by all means let’s forestall the robopocalypse — but I hope that when robots take over the planet, these are the robots who do. They fight like tap dancing hermit crabs, and even if they shuffled up to pummel us to death, I’m sure I’d die laughing first. It’d be a good way to go.

The world may not have been waiting for a musical response to...

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:12:39 -0700

The world may not have been waiting for a musical response to Donovan’s “Catch the Wind”, but it has one now. Here’s my “Break the Wind”.

"i want to do 45019874091734917324 things but there is only time for 2347895 things."

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:35:52 -0700

“i want to do 45019874091734917324 things but there is only time for 2347895 things.”

- My friend L.

Guess what just got hidden in a National Historical Park?

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:20:00 -0700

Guess what just got hidden in a National Historical Park?

All dressed up with Wooie at Friendly’s. It’s...

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:04:00 -0700

All dressed up with Wooie at Friendly’s. It’s Fribble time. Huge!

Booooooooooooo. Northampton sucks!

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:57:00 -0700

Booooooooooooo. Northampton sucks!

Sister got married this past weekend in Northampton, MA, where...

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:53:00 -0700

Sister got married this past weekend in Northampton, MA, where parking is only 15 cents per hour. Northampton rules!

Note to self

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:20:00 -0700

List of things to have on hand next time it’s hot:

popsicles
freezee pops
baggy shorts
frozen peas to stick inside baggy shorts
tiny fan to carefully stick inside baggy shorts
tiny guard for tiny blades on tiny fan
frozen strawberries
frozen raspberries
frozen peaches
bananas
vanilla ice cream
freezing cold vodka
a blender
freezing cold pint glasses
a bigger freezer
watermelon

These are the things I wish I had today.

Also, this is the car J and I drove up to the RPS tournament. ...

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:44:05 -0700

Also, this is the car J and I drove up to the RPS tournament. Did I mention she has a vintage 1966 Porsche? She has a vintage 1966 Porsche.

Today Roshambo Winery hosted a 192-player Rock-Paper-Scissors...

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:30:00 -0700

Today Roshambo Winery hosted a 192-player Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament in Sonoma County, CA, and I and several friends drove up to take part in the competition. The event drew a considerable number of San Francisco hipsters in various states of costume, inebriation, dance, and undress, generally in that chronological order over the course of the afternoon, and needless to say I had a very good time.

Among the day’s highlights was getting to see a quintumvirate of Hooters waitresses do RPS battle with a sextet of rather frightening Nazi S&M clowns. But that wasn’t the best part. The best part was watching my girl J take home first place in her first-ever RPS tournament. I was so impressed. She’s got ice water in her veins. And now to accompany that ice water she’s got a trophy (a molded hand resting in a red high-heeled shoe and flipping the bird) and a $1000 championship check. Not bad for a day’s work.

mmm… hot chocolate…

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:14:31 -0700

mmm… hot chocolate…