Today's Mighty Oak


Quick update for everyone, let’s see what I have for you today:

First up, just a reminder for everyone:

 

I could go on, but let’s remember, if God is more concerned with a football game than starving children, people dying of disease, natural disasters, etc, I would rather find a new religion, God wouldn’t deserve me.  Thankfully though, that’s not the case.

Need a primer on how primary elections work?  I did:

If you need a good laugh, and cry, check out Clients From Hell.  It’s bad.  And so, so true.

This is one of my favorite bits from stand up ever.  It’s from Patton Oswalt’s new special, and is amazing:

Pensblog covers why the Pens have been on a four-game slump: the Elmo Balloon died.

Over on his blog, Lev Grossman has a fan-created image of when Alice first saw Brakebills.  This is amazing:

 

That’s it for now, have a great one!



Quick update for everyone.  First up, the Last Supper…from Star Wars nerds?

I’m taking away points for not having blue milk on the table.

And speaking of Star Wars, watch this awesome VW commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0

Morgan Spurlock is trying to reimagine Times Square with no ads.  But really, it’s a lot of work.  But I imagine some of the touched up images will become ads themselves with creative use of the textures.

I am, also really excited about this game:

And speaking of awesome video games, I am so incredibly excited that this is coming out in five days (I had no idea!):

You Don’t Know Jack – Game Trailer from You Don't Know Jack on Vimeo

 

Google has a new project that uses a Street View type interface, but instead, goes through art galleries.  I’ll be checking it out later.

First he didn’t understand how the tides work, now he’s confused about the moon.  More proof (like we needed any) that Bill O’Reilly is a fucking retard.  And I use that phrase out of respect to Stephen Corbert’s wishes.  One of the people in the comments hit it spot on though:

The difference between O’Reilley and a scientist is, the scientist says, “I don’t know, let’s find out.” and O’Reilley says, “I don’t know, therefore God must have done it.”

Interesting article showing how meditation may change your brain.

And finally, don’t forget, Black and Yellow also applies to the Pens (when I find it, I’ll be posting the awesome goalie fight from last night):

 



Quick update for everyone.  First up, San Francisco has these awesome touch screen games installed at bus stop, that allow you to play multiplayer games against other bus stops.  Would be a cool way to have neighborhood pride I think!

Did you know that Congress passed Socialized medicine and mandated that citizens buy health insurance?  In 1798.  Interesting read.

Many items from the Civic Arena are being auctioned off, however, I think they are kind of scrapping the bottom of the barrel with this one:

Yes!  You can own a pendaflex file folder filled with assorted press releases.  Uh huh.  See how they are sticking out of the sides, that’s how you know it’s quality!

Slate has a really funny article about if O was written by someone else, check it out.

Make sure to watch Colbert, as always, he nails it:

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And finally, make sure to read this awesome article from Slog about the sad state of mental health in this country.

That’s it for now, have a great one!



Alright, update for everyone.  First off, here is the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NOkQ4dYVaM

Looks pretty cool, although it’s been so long since I’ve read the book that I don’t remember the plot at all.

I headed to the Pens game when they played the Kings.  We won, which was awesome, although the seat wasn’t the greatest, mostly due to the pillar in front of me.  It really wasn’t that bad though, I could see all the ice except for a little strip so I couldn’t complain.  I got to wear my Monroeville Zombies jersey, which a bunch of people recognized (I loved watching the double takes and then instant of realization).

On Friday, a bunch of us from work headed to Hofbräuhaus on the south side.  The beer was amazing (I suggust Dunkel), which they make on site.  The food was also really, really good, although I think some of it was a bit over priced.  The place was absolutly packed, which typically would turn me off, but this was just a lot of fun.  Every fifteen minutes or so, the band would lead us in a toast, and the entire place would erupt in singing, making it a half bar/half concert feel.  I do suggest checking it out, go sometime for dinner, although the wait is pretty long since it is so new.

My winning NaNoWriMo book from 2007 was just self-published (it took a while to get the free publishing worked out), and I got my copy in.  Here is the cover art that I made for it:

Speaking of NaNoWriMo, I am going to be doing their sister project, Script Frenzy.  A friend of mine is doing it and I offered to write with him during April, so I’ll be writing 100 pages during the month, this time of a Web Series.  I wanted to do something different, and I figured that this would be a good way to do it.

Yesterday, a friend of mine came in from Chicago and I headed up to Cranberry to spend the day with him.  His brother brought his PS3 and I got to play Little Big Planet, which was really, really awesome!  If you have a PS3, I highly suggest you check it out.

That’s it for now, have a great one!

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