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I Am Not My Gamerscore (..right?)
For all you Xbox Live gamers out there–I stumbled on a really cool site the other day via my teammate Ryan Markel that promises to tug at your competitiveness and your obsessive compulsiveness. The site is called True Achievements, and it immediately force pulled me into its clutches. True Achievements takes the base Gamerscore value […]
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Led Zeppelin Night
The Wif discovered Led Zeppelin approximately two weeks ago and it has been an obsession ever since. I’ve had most of their catalog on CD for a while, but the Wif pushed to new heights and demanded a DVD. I’m never one to complain about buying anything music-related, so I happily bought us a copy […]
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Everything You Know About Fat Is Wrong
We are being literally fed grain-based slop in the name of corporate profits. Big agriculture companies–in their collective quests for profit–have pushed bad science down our weak-willed politicians’ throats. We’ve all seen Super Size Me, right? Try Fat Head: Fat Head is a tiny indie “mockumentary” that counters Super Size Me. It ends up going […]
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music update – JPNDRDS edition
a few albums I burned through today at work: Japandroids – Post-Nothing Annuals – Be He Me Archers of Loaf – Vee Vee Cream Compilation The Nationals – Boxer The Dead Weather – Horehound Handsome Furs – Face Control Julian Casablancas – Phrazes for the Young I’m really starting to like Japandroids. I doubt I […]
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Saturday Morning Food Run
It’s market day…in the suburbs…Gas powered engines are revving. Traffic is flowing. A light snow and rain mix is drizzling down. It’s just like Tuscany or Provence, right? Nevertheless, we cheerily made the best of it. I think we attempted to buy up the entire meat supply of our local farms–whole chicken, ground beef, chuck […]
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why the burning cubicle?
“Michael, we don’t have a lot of time on this earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.” – Peter Gibbons, Office […]
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new job!
Today I started a new job — Happiness Engineer. I won’t bore right now with the details, but suffice it to say that I am incredibly excited. Now, the big question: what will this blog space be about? A picture is worth a thousand words… so I’m definitely going to trying to bring those in. […]
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