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Yawn

Oct

26

2008

I am tired. A lot physically tired, a little tired of getting run into the ground at work, VERY tired of this election, frustrated-tired of the stupid plateau I hit with my weight, tired of just having no time to do anything except work out, work, and sleep. And the latter of which I really ...

And Now, For Something Completely Surreal 1

Oct

22

2008

Courtesy of the Best Week Ever blog and a disturbingly large number of people I know from my days at The Ellen DeGeneres Show who are now working over at at Bonnie Hunt: Bonnie Hunt and Jimmy Kimmel make imaginary meatloaf. More updates when I’m not flat-out exhausted, probably sometime around Thanksgiving.

I’m Coming Home Via Chicago

Oct

16

2008

A truly brutal early week (seriously, I’m bribing my boss with whatever change I can scrape off the floor of my car to never have to be at work at 6am again) left posting a bit light this week… …and it ain’t going to get much better, since I’m hopping a plane to Chicago for ...

Cancelled

Oct

13

2008

And the winner of this year’s First Show Deleted Off The Season Pass List is…Little Britain USA! Sorry guys, you’re just not funny enough to overcome that hideous laugh track. Although I will admit, had I gotten around to watching the two episodes of Fringe sitting on the TiVo, I might have deleted that first.

A Week Late… 2

Oct

11

2008

A few of my better photos from my ridiculously good seats watching the poor old Cubbies lose to the Dodgers a week ago: Thanks to my friend Matty Lew, who generously subsidized my ticket, and blatantly lied to me about the extent to which he was doing so because he knew I would have been ...

Pop Quiz 2

Oct

9

2008

What is this an ad for? Click to find out. And laugh.

Things, Divided 1

Oct

7

2008

Still just buried in work as we try to get our footing, but a few quick: THINGS I LIKE – This American Life’s podcast this week, aptly titled “Another Frightening Show About The Economy.” You can download it for free from that page for the rest of the week, and it’s a much, much clearer ...

A Tale Of Two Verdicts

Oct

4

2008

October 3, 1995 I was in the student lounge of my high school in D.C., where they’d dragged a bunch of TVs so we could all watch the O.J. verdict. They knew people would cut class to go find TVs elsewhere and watch it anyway, so the administrators just threw up their hands and let ...

Addition To The Previous Space Nerdery

Oct

4

2008

MSNBC’s Cosmic Log breaks down the bailout in terms of the Apollo program: Even accounting for inflation since the program ended in the early 70’s, this bailout could pay for seven Apollo programs. Seven Apollo programs. Not just sending one set of guys to the moon, but the ENTIRE program. SEVEN TIMES. And that’s before ...

For My Fellow Space Nerds

Sep

29

2008

NASA found snow on Mars. At least one of my PA’s is about as much of a space nerd as I am and gave an excited, “DUDE!” when he read this, causing me to make him send me the link. I know fuck-all about the continued collapse of the American financial system and quite possibly ...