January 2012
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December 2011
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2011: A Year in Review
illustratedexample:
1. Tacos.
10.0 Best New List
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Year of Glad
This may come across as smug, but it’s my Tumblr and I’ll smug if I want to (or something).
The past year has been incredibly good to my wife and I - Kate ran her first half marathon and finally got hired as a full-time permanent federal employee at her job that she loves after nearly four full years of contracting. I’ve managed to accomplish what looks to be a lot on paper: I...
Maybe I'm A-Maize-d: B1G/Pac 12 Matchups Matrix →
cdbarker:
Because I am nothing if not insanely curious about this, the followingis a matrix of the last time each Big Ten school faced each Pac 12 school, along with the essential range of the number of times they have played since 1936. There are eight matchups that have never occurred, those are in red…
Great stuff, Craig. Even of you are a Michigander.
Slow States: Patrick's Top 11 of 2011, Number 10:... →
slowstates:
There are people who have problems with country music in general, and these people are sadly irredeemable. Country music, in and of itself, is a great thing. It’s a truly American form of music and a distinctly American way of storytelling. It serves as the soundtrack for basically the whole SEC…
Rlvnt.
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“Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know....”
– Robert Frost
This poem always makes me think of Christmas and the journeys to be with family.
Happy Christmas, y’all. (via brevetcaptain)
FUN FACT: That last stanza is one that I mutter to myself from time to time while running.
That thing
When you wake up at 2:45 AM because you have some food in your sinuses and you never threw up, wretched, or snorted your food all day.
THIS IS A MONKEY RIDING A DOG AT HALFTIME IN...
matt-t:
V.important.
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Pretty sure both humans and both dogs in my house...
Pretty sure both humans and both dogs in my house have gas
“If I had a dime for every time someone in the hearing used the phrase “I’m not a...”
– The nightmarish SOPA hearings - ComPost - The Washington Post
Seriously, people, abject morons are deciding this issue. CALL YOUR DAMN REPRESENTATIVE AND SENATOR AND STOP THIS SHIT FROM HAPPENING.
I don’t GET one of those because I live in DC. Call yours and tell them I sent you.
SOPA is a...
acmesalesrep:
The two-year-old decided he wanted to stay with me in his sister’s room while I sang her bedtime songs. He then proceeded to yell random things during breaks between lullabies. “Grandma and Grandpa’s house!” “Airplane ride!” “Merry Christmas! Ho ho ho!” It was like having a midget hype man in the room.
File under: things that make me laugh at 5:45 AM.
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“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you...”
– Richard Feynman (via quotablescientists)
Craig Finn | Clear Heart Full Eyes: New Tour Dates... →
steadycraig:
Hey Everyone, I just got back from Austin, where we had a wonderful first show with the band that will be playing with me for the Clear Heart Full Eyes tour. It’s a great group of guys and the lineup is: Ricky Ray Jackson - Guitar/Pedal Steel Alex Livingstone- Bass James Stevens - Guitar Falcon…
See you in March, Mr Finn.
508. Eat like a local, tip like an American.
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Motivation, Nostalgia, and A Lot of Random...
So now with my ‘spare time’ I’ve been trying to read books. This is as good a venue as any to talk about them, so if you don’t like it I’ll get back to pictures of my dogs soon enough.
I received a copy of Matt Long’s The Long Run last year at Christmas and finally got around to reading it this week (thanks, DFW). The book is told in first-person by the...
