January 2011
21 posts
December 2010
20 posts
“Yeah, thanks for stealing my thunder. I suppose you “stole” a medal...”
– A comment from “George” on my “Running bandit in the Boston Marathon” post from my old TypePad blog.
I hadn’t looked at it in over a year, but saw that this post actually gets great traffic (it shows up high on Google), and that it’s actually received 31...
“Alec Baldwin, who has hosted “S.N.L.” twelve times, says, “I’d be stunned if NBC...”
– From a 4 year old New Yorker article about the time when 30 Rock and Studio 60 were both simultaneously in development.
Only Baldwin, with both comedic and dramatic credibility, could get away with saying this.
“Alec Baldwin, who has hosted “S.N.L.” twelve times, says, “I’d be stunned if NBC...”
– From a 4 year old New Yorker article about the time when 30 Rock and Studio 60 were both simultaneously in development.
Only Baldwin, with both comedic and dramatic credibility, could get away with saying this.
“Some misinterpretations have crept into the English-language version over the...”
– Wikipedia has, once again, blown my mind. I’ve been saying “calling birds” my whole life. Lisa would flip out if I gave her birds every day for 7 days, but Furio would love it. Maybe it’s really a love song about cats? Oh, and partridge is basically pronounced...
“Small children know that a picture of two apples is different from a picture of...”
– Inside the Minds of Animals
I don’t know why, but I’m fascinated with what animals’ minds are and are not capable of. This fantastic (and surprisingly lengthy, for Time) article was like crack for me.
I also think that a great insult for a slow co-worker would be: “That...
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☃ O-Zone XMas [Link opens iTunes] →
I finally made my 2010 Christmas playlist. Named it for O-Zone, who’s doing this all for the first time, and probably thinks that every dad spends hours looking for quirky holiday tunes :-)
iTunes has a new “social playlist” feature, so go ahead and tweak this list if you know a good one I’ve missed.
I’ll post some of these gems as songs here over the next two...
Stolen credit card
My credit card info got jacked a few days ago.
As far as I can tell, the thief spent $33 on AdultFriendFinder 5 times in the same day, and $2 on some gaming website.
I’m not going to have to pay for those things, and it’ll be a hassle to have to update my CC info on all my sites that have it stored (e.g. Amazon, Comcast), but the bigger concern is how they got my info, because I...
Air rage: Is reclining your seat a right? →
Until about a year ago, it never seemed reasonable to me for someone to complain about the seat in front of them reclining. Then two things happened, I realized that Lisa passionately felt otherwise, and I heard a pregnant friend complain.
In the case of the pregnant friend, I learned that there’s at least one case where it’s inconsiderate to takeover someone’s airspace...
