November 2011
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6'1" 190
There are NFL safeties playing at that size/weight. It’s just about moving it around.
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((P → Q) ∧ P) → Q
There is a wind advisory today, possibly to include 20ft waves on Lake Michigan, and I find myself hoping that runners and cyclists will try to get through them again near Oak Street, like last time.
We’re hosting Sharon’s family on Christmas Day and we’re terrified of making a full turkey dinner for the first time, so we’re going to do a practice run next weekend. This...
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Do something about SOPA
Last night, I posted a Beatles song here. If SOPA passes in its current form, and the copyright holder chose to make a stink, tumblr.com would be pulled from all American DNS providers and I could be looking at up to five years in prison. If you posted a clip from a movie, same for you.
And if google or bing returned a link to...
Do something about SOPA →
Last night, I posted a Beatles song here. If SOPA passes in its current form, and the copyright holder chose to make a stink, tumblr.com would be pulled from all American DNS providers and I could be looking at up to five years in prison. If you posted a clip from a movie, same for you.
And if google or bing returned a link to that post in their search results, they could get the axe, too.
The...
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You nerds are all right
Thanks for the encouragement and tips, y’all. It’s interesting to me that pretty much everyone (except the runners) hates cardio, but more due to boredom than anything else.
And while the boredom is surely part of it, the real problem I have with exercise now and at times past is the apparent futility of it. Every time I have started a regimen, I’ve had exactly zero to show for...
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I have a bad attitude
I know it already and I can’t fix it and I am gonna need help.
I went out and joined a gym this morning. It’s close to my house, cheap, clean, big, associated with a hospital, there’s a pool, it has month-to-month terms, and (best) it’s filled with boring, old suburban people like me who are not looking to hook up. There are no light fixtures powered by odd corners of the...
early sounds
The wind blowing over the chimney top, the rain on the slate and in the copper downspouts, the ticking clock my parents gave us for our wedding, the water starting to boil in the kettle, my own breathing, the furnace blower and the boiler pump, these keys clicking.
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This does not appear to be a joke
A bill was introduced in the Illinois House calling for Cook county (Chicago + burbs) to become a separate state. It has two sponsors, both downstate Republicans.
People wonder why I quit politics.
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Tuesday bullets
Just my opinion, but I don’t much care for the pepper spraying cop having his own meme. The first one (Seurat?) was wicked good satire, but the subsequent slew of them lessens the monstrousness of his actions. He should be sued and jailed—ideally, sprayed with neurotoxins—not lightheartedly embedded into pop culture.
Against all my better judgement and desires, I’m...
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“Slow down, something’s going on up there.”
I was kinda spaced out, so I was glad for the warning. We had just left her parents’ house after the final event in a long, fun weekend of birthday celebrations.
But she was right, something was going on. A couple of cars had slowed to a stop up on the hill maybe a quarter mile ahead. We saw one in the median flip on his...
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SOPA / PROTECT-IP
I just got a 500 word email from Sen. Durbin—one of the most reasonable, progressive voices in the Senate—explaining how awesome these bills are in their current form. I’d quote it, but it would make sane people sick. He just can’t imagine a world where the Justice Department can’t shut down websites when they are asked to do so by their corporate masters.
Those who...
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Zip asked me how I liked this Blue Kiwi for close...
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The Insomniac's Pentathlon
Regretting the ancient and unchangeable
Wanting the unattainable
Fearing the improbable
Enumerating the unmeetable commitments
Accepting the futility
Where do I pick up my gold medal?
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“Stop it, Bryce.”
“Put that DOWN, Bryce!”
“If you can’t be helpful, Bryce, then just go back inside. I have told you MANY TIMES now.”
“BRYCE! I NEED YOU TO BE RAKING OVER THERE!”
Bryce is about three, a very cute, bounding little dude in a colorful, puffy coat, just trying to “help” mommy and daddy, like kids that age want to...
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WatchLast night, as my friend Shiney says, I went to the mountain.
I had a completely head-exploding experience seeing The Fab Faux (warning: aggravating, Flash-based site). It’s basically five of the top session guys in the country, including Will Lee from Letterman’s band and Jimmy Vivino from Conan’s, playing painstakingly note-perfect renditions of Beatles songs. Last night, they...
WatchK-4 “disco party.”
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Crisis in Italy Spurs Fears of Euro Zone Break-Up →
“There cannot be peace and prosperity in the North or in the West of Europe, if there is no peace and prosperity in the South or in the East,” [European Commission President Jose Manuel] Barroso said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in with a call to arms. She said Europe’s plight was now so “unpleasant” that deep structural reforms were needed quickly,...
