For the second year now my bookish friend and I — although, by no means is this initiative private or exclusive — have chosen a reading theme for the year; 2010 was The Year of North & South (2009, btw, was Fantasy). The goal is to expose yourself (wait! there is more to this sentence!) [...]
Guys, I got a keggerator for Christmas. I’m drinking a cold draft beer as I type these very words. THESE VERY BEER SOAKED WORDS. How incredible is our society, that I, a mere beer consumer once bound by bottles and cans, can now drink fresh beer in the warm (well, relative to interstellar space) confines [...]
Who needs yet another social network? Certainly not the majority of humans — although did you hear that one in twelve of those very same humans have a Facebook account? And, if I’m honest with myself, I certainly don’t need another social network either. But, my job as internet czar mandates that I’m at least [...]
When The U fired their most recent head coach they fired, quite possibly, the very essence of Miami slow cooked, concentrated, and poured into the earthly vessel of Randy Shannon. He was born in Miami, went to high school in Miami, played football at the University of Miami, coached at the Miami Dolphins, and finally [...]
Distribution of Slave Population in Southern states I’ve been following the NYT’s Disunion blog since its inception a couple months ago. While overly Northernly focused — for this guy — its fun to see things playing out in quasi-realtime. As a lover of fine chartsandgraphs this post caught my eye. There’s an interesting note on [...]
This is the best photo I’ve ever taken with my iPhone: Guys, I love the iOS only Instagram! Taking/sharing square-format toy-camera style photos is currently MY STRAWBERRY JAM. It’s nice to have absolutely zero options to futz with — just point and then shoot. Actually, that’s not 100% accurate. I use a few apps to [...]
These are some quotes from the in-game IM convo between Justin and myself. me: UNNGH FINISHED Justin: wtf, how do you not block that one guy me: ok offense, i have no faith in you, but please Justin: if you can’t score a TD on JMU, you don’t deserve to win games. i mean right? [...]
The other day I made the best nachos of my entire life. I asked, on the tweets, what makes excellent nachos. Here are the crowd sourced answers — chips consistency is the critical factor. @RossCatrow really good chips that don’t get soggy. – @jonnew @RossCatrow root beer – @scottpahrr @RossCatrow homemade tortillas chips, guacamole, black [...]