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Yesterday's nut January 20, 2022

Alright, let’s see what we have today. First up, a neat animation showing the world’s tallest statues. I was blown away!

A small island is looking for a bartender (and innkeeper and groundskeeper), which also makes you the king, by custom!

National treasure Jeff Goldblum, reacting to Jeff Goldblum impressions:

Here is a sentence I never thought I’d read, but honestly makes a lot of sense: Jason Mantzoukas is voicing Tommy Lee’s penis in Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy”

The Washington Blade is the first LGBT+ publication to be given a permanent seat in the White House briefing room!

A new comedy pirate show from HBO is coming in March, and it looks fun (and has Leslie Jones)!

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series finally has a name: The Rings of Power

The famously celibate, and chose his own name after the saint renowned for speaking with animals, says not having kids and instead raising animals is selfish. I just cannot.

And finally, the trailer for Moon Knight dropped:

Camp NaNoWriMo 2018 July 8

Yesterday's nut July 8, 2018

I’ll do another ‘blog’ type of writing today, perhaps that is what my weekend writing will become (this month is all about getting in the writing habit and see what I like and what I don’t, so why not experiment a bit).

This morning got up and ran a beautiful (although maybe slightly pollen filled) run through Schenley Park before heading to yoga at Phipps.  After that, four of us went to the Pirates pride game!

Two of us hit up the tailgate party beforehand, which included a donation drive for a new homeless shelter for queer youth.  While we only make up about 4-10 percent of the population (numbers vary), queer youth are 40% of homeless youth on the street, because they are thrown out of their homes simply for how they were born.  I was hoping to see the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence there, as they’re doing a ton of work for Proud Haven, but I’m sure they need a break, so I hope they could enjoy the game outside of face!

The game was fun (I got wings, saw the pierogie race), and we even won!  Headed to Local afterwards to grab a drink and let the traffic die down…and then we got lost in the parking garage, so that was a fun adventure!  Check out the photos from the day here.

Back to the grind tomorrow, and it’s shaping up to be a very busy week!

Camp NaNoWriMo 2018 July 7

Yesterday's nut July 7, 2018

My goal for Camp NaNoWriMo has been to get back into the habit of writing each day.  I’m sure it won’t be something I will keep up in August and September, as I’ll be putting in more miles to train for the GAP Trail Relay, but not only do I love NaNoWriMo, I also love the people I’m sharing a virtual cabin with for camp.

So far this month, I’ve been able to get just about caught up on my RSS feeds, have done some neglected work on my website (although still have lots to go, but the month is young!) and generally enjoyed getting back into this habit.

Today, while I had plans to wake up early and go running, my body had other ideas.  And that’s okay, when I did wake up, even though the temperature was great, I had no desire to drive to the park to go run long. So hopefully tomorrow I’ll go early to yoga and get a loop or two in before stretching (and then going to the Pittsburgh Pirates Pride game).

So instead, I was super productive around the house today.  Lots of laundry, brewing beer, some baking, weeding and some great self care: right now I’m sitting on my deck, enjoying the beautiful weather and clear blue sky, sitting under my new deck umbrella with an iced coffee and listening to some podcasts on a little bluetooth speaker.  Really, just a wonderful way to spend an afternoon.

And writing this has been fun, a ltitle different than my normal writing: an actual blog!  I’ll be walking down the street to a friend’s for game night later, but for now, enjoying this space is exactly want I want to be doing.

Edit: Still working on a good way to add posts from my phone (with pictures), but I’ll keep working on that this month!  Hopefully you enjoy the view from my deck though!

We never make progress without problems.

Yesterday's nut October 5, 2011

Hello everybody, another update for you!

Check out this really cool interactive billboard from McDonalds, pretty awesome.

Here’s an incredible little story.  Father and son at the first and last shuttle launches:

 

I think we all knew this was coming, and honestly, I think it may even make reruns more relevant, and fun to watch to spot them, but now there are new ads inserted into old sitcoms.

Your daily dose of politics from me:

 Okay, one more link for you.

Worried about what will happen to your online life after you die?  Here’s the Dead’s Man Switch and a way to help plan your funeral.

I missed this the first time around, but part of the big news is that Scissor Sisters are doing some of the soundtrack for the New Fraggle Rock movie.  The other is, how did I miss there is going to be a Fraggle Rock movie?!

If only this shirt was still true:

 

Oh yes, how very true:

 

an apple a day keeps anyone away if you throw it hard enough…

Yesterday's nut October 4, 2011

First up, this came out a while ago, and it’s in French, but it’s Mika’s new single:

Gizmodo reports on an awesome free t-shirt which was given out to German white supremacists, which, when washed, revealed a message of equality.  We had shirts over the summer that when they got wet the ink would disappear.  Close, but not quite.

Unplggd has a cool article about integrating your TV into your decor.  Check it out.  Or check out their article about clocks.  There are a lot of cool clocks out there.

Remember when the Pirates were doing awesome, and then we were the victim of a horrible call which sent us into a ten game losing spiral?  Well, Benstonium put together this video:

Big Think puts the odds that we’re all just Sims in some kind of giant computer program at 20%.  Does it still count if we discuss that possibility?  I’m getting confused.

I actually don’t like this that much, it seems impractical, but you can buy bookshelves to spell anything.

Back before the split, Jason Alexander was trying to get humanitarian aid for those affected by the Netflix price hike.

A good friend is a huge Michael Buble fan, and I found this awesome bad lip reading of his video for “Just Haven’t Met You Yet,” which becomes “Russian Unicorn:”

I was always kind of interested in this case, and it seems as though the code of the Zodiac Killer may have been cracked.

Awesome list of insane job titles, and points for the Arrested Development reference at the end, here’s a great one as well:

 

It takes a little bit of moving around to see it all, but should I work for free?  Check out this flow chart to find out.

I just want people to watch this:

And finally, need some propaganda for social networks, check out the posters here.

 

Hypocrisy at this level is like seeing Mel Gibson at a synagogue

Yesterday's nut August 13, 2011

I’m back from my summer travels, so that means, much more regular content!  Until I get back on a normal sleep schedule and whatnot, here’s a short update:

I know I missed it, but all I have to say is one of my favorite quotes, “You should live every week like it’s Shark Week.”  Enjoy:

So, a school district in Missouri banned “Slaugherhouse Five,” because it goes against the Bible.  Good gravy.  But thankfully, the Vonnegut Library will give any student from that district a free copy.  If you’d like to learn more or donate, check it out.

Here is the complete set of Arrested Development paper dolls.  I especially love the Buster one, since it includes the seal and the “You’re Killing Me, Buster” banner.

I posted this on Metblogs, but it’s too awesome to pass up again.  Just remember, this was released when we were still just over .500:

Go build a solar system!  And prepare to lose long bits of time as you play with this!

A message to everyone in London:

And finally, make sure to read this article, it’s about some kids who tried to make a newspaper the old fashioned way, and it’s awesome!

That’s it for now, but I’ll be back soon with a lot more, have a great one!

“Are You There, God? It’s Me, and I Need a Margarita.”

Yesterday's nut February 4, 2011

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):

 

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The King of Spades January 4, 2011

Written 01/04/2011

Originally I was not going to keep this going after I find a new job, but as I’ve written it, I think I will keep it as a separate category, to keep my thoughts about equality all in one place.

So I wanted to break things up a little bit.  I love music, it keeps me going, and of course, who doesn’t love pirates?  So enjoy the musical interlude:

All my best,

The King of Spades

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