From the category archives:

_Miscellaneous

Merry Christmas

December 25, 2007

Wishing the world happy holidays, Google-style.

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R.I.P., Dear Goulet

October 30, 2007

My tribute to the late, great Robert Goulet, with some help from Will Ferrell.

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Hercules Hooks

October 2, 2007

Have you tried these things?
Wow.
They’re definitely on to something here. Assuming the stuff I hung with them doesn’t fall down, or there isn’t some freak accident with the backside of a hook, I may crown these things the “Best Invention of the Drywall Age.”
Look out George Foreman, there’s a new As Seen On TV [...]

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Another Redesign

September 30, 2007

Just dealing with some weird caching issues at the moment…could be done, could still be waiting for something to rear its ugly head.

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Finally leaving TypePad

October 26, 2006

They were good to me, but in time we’ve grown apart.  Adios, muchacho.

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Metrolink lays down the law

August 16, 2006

No Cigars, Dropping Icecubes, Boomboxes or Martinis

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The Superhero Pizza Guy / The Real-Life Dwight Schrute

June 12, 2006

Is there a word that fully describes the awesomeness of Cameron Evans, the pizza-delivering superhero? 
I really don’t think so. 
While on duty at Galactic Pizza, a Minneapolis pizza shop that dresses its delivery people in superhero costumes, Evans saw a woman being mugged, and quickly responded to her cries for help.  He then proceeded [...]

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Knob Creek Machine Gun Night

June 4, 2006

From Google Video:
This footage was originally intended to be part of a segment for a NBC show. Unfortunately Columbine happened right after and the Execs  … all » killed it for sensitivity issues. This is a quick edit of some stuff i hung on to for my reel. I think it gives a good representation [...]

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Masked Crusaders Working Overtime

May 26, 2006

While the likes of G.I. Joe and Transformers are permanently embedded in my brain, some of the supporting cast of cartoons from my youth have been forgotten.  M.A.S.K. was one of the dearly departed, but thanks to this video of the opening credits, I enjoyed a nice flashback this morning.
Thanks to Robin Sloan for pointing [...]

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Kottke+Dooce

March 12, 2006

Kottke+Dooce

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Best. Sign. Ever.

January 5, 2006

(from lushlush)

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So long, Blue

January 1, 2006

LOS ANGELES – Patrick Cranshaw, who achieved cult-like status as
fraternity brother "Blue" in the 2003 comedy "Old School," has died. He
was 86.

[AP/Y! News]

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Thinking about opening a coffeeshop?

December 31, 2005

You should read Michael Idov’s story of opening a neighborhood coffeeshop in NYC first.
Ahhh the food service business–always so alluring, and almost always ludicrously challenging for the $$$ you’ll make.

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Alaska Airlines: First we nearly kill you, then we trash talk you on your blog

December 28, 2005

I’ve got a tip for Alaska Airlines and their employees:
Spend more time on making sure your planes don’t have holes in them, and less time on the blogs of people who almost died on your hole-ridden planes.

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The Kid & I vs. Aeon Flux

December 4, 2005

Have you heard the story behind The Kid & I, the new Tom Arnold movie that’s littered with burnt-out ’80s and ’90s stars? 
Forbes 400 billionaire Alec Gores paid for the movie, which was written by Arnold and directed by Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World).  And Arnold’s co-star is Gores’s son, Eric Gores, who suffers from [...]

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Almost Turkey Time

November 24, 2005

Although, in honesty, I think I’m more excited about the stuffing and green bean casserole.

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No posts in awhile?

November 18, 2005

{insert standard "I’ve been busy with this and that" lines}
Don’t worry about me — I’m hard at work at a few new things (that for once in the last two years AREN’T blog-related) that I’ll be unveiling shortly.  In the interim, go read Nick’s great work over at Blogebrity, Juhbuh’s juicy goodness over at { [...]

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Sort of like Lance Armstrong, but with hot dog eating

July 4, 2005

Congratulations to Kobayashi, who put away his 5th straight Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest title today–eating 49 hot dogs in 12 minutes.  In the world of competitive eating, he knows no equal.

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Songs you don’t want stuck in your head, volume 437

June 23, 2005

The new Sufjan Stevens record Illinois is definitely a keeper.   But track 4, "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." — a haunting little folk song whose lyrics just happen to be all about the disturbingly-prolific serial killer who liked to dress up as a clown — is definitely not the song you want to catch yourself singing [...]

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Hooray! HST’s Rum Diary coming to big screen (for real this time)

May 18, 2005

According to Variety’, The Rum Diary has a director.  And with Johnny Depp attached, there’s no question it’s got enough star power to get off the ground (gotta love the Pirates effect).  Could Hunter S. Thompson’s early novel finally make it to the theaters?
I sure freakin’ hope so.

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