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Watching the season finale of The Bachelorette. TRAIN WRECK!
- 7/27, 9pm
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Bereft of enthusiasm again today. First step in bouncing back from that is probably to get out of bed before mid-day.
- 7/15, 9am
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The Big Picture has some wonderful photos from Glastonbury 2009: [ http] The new tipi field looks great.
- 7/6, 9pm
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There ought to be a website where you can see outlines of athletes and yourself to compare sizes; like Me vs Federer vs D.Howard vs M.Oher.
- 7/2, 7pm
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@ladoceour, you'll like these Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter video cards: [ http]
- 6/26, 4pm
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Via Captain @kottke, this is my favorite John Hodgman sighting for quite some time: [ http]
- 6/21, 12am
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Can't sleep. Getting up to make some guacamole.
- 6/17, 12am
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Nice cricket catch: [ http]
- 6/12, 1am
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Re-reading Bill Bryson's wonderful "Notes from a Big Country". In my mental map of "Good People", Bryson ranks up there with Richard Feynman
- 6/7, 5pm
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Having a consult to get my wisdom teeth taken out. Yuck.
- 6/3, 3pm
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Watching rugby highlights from the Lions game, earlier today.
- 6/3, 2pm
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"'77" looks like a great film, based around the release of Star Wars: [ http]
- 5/27, 1pm
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Well, this thing seems too cute to be real: [ http]
- 5/26, 3pm
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I really must stop looking at sites like this: [ http] They just make me annoyed that I have to live in a house I didn't design.
- 5/26, 2pm
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One of the annoying things about living in unremarkable houses, is that to make them interesting we have to fill them with interesting crap.
- 5/26, 2pm
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@ladoceour needs a reality/celebrity TV intervention. I'm thinking of faking a Comcast outage...
- 5/24, 6pm
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Up early to keep Matt company while he watches Newcastle get relegated (or not).
- 5/24, 7am
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My dog just came within 3 inches of being hit by a car, and now I can't stop hugging him.
- 5/22, 6pm
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Finding it hard to put down Steven Levy's excellent "Crypto" book. I adore these kinds of stories.
- 5/20, 12am
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Dear Flickr, Im afraid I cant come to work today. My new job as a FlightController requires I stay in bed and land airplanes for hrs & hrs.
- 5/14, 9am
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the snake, the engine, and the roadtrip: [ http]
- 5/13, 4pm
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Hiding in the bathroom because one of the songs on American Idol is so embarassingly awful I can't bear to be in the same room as the TV.
- 5/12, 8pm
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Up horribly early (for me) for another appointment with the physical therapist about my knees.
- 4/29, 6am
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I need to watch more indian kung-fu films: [ http]
- 4/27, 1pm
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I can't imagine the power it takes for a 6'5" 287lb man to jump *out* of a swimming pool: [ http]
- 4/25, 10am
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Tweenbots are delightful: [ http]
- 4/10, 3pm
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Update: Redacted. It turns out he's just a complete wanker. Our previously reliable source was slightly off the money on this one...
- 4/3, 9am
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Sometimes I wish I lived a life where buying $200 sky blue & white stripey French sailing trousers was culturally acceptable.
- 3/29, 6pm
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Fresh Comcast internet installed -- I get 0.75mbps download, and 8mbps upload... something not quite right there. Tech seems puzzled.
- 3/27, 10am
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Ohhh, I would be very much loving this "REBRAUN" thank you please: [ http]
- 3/19, 10am
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Aftr wearing Nike Frees, which smoothly curl wth your foot, the Pumas seem stiff, and slap my feet onto the floor with each step. I'll pass.
- 3/18, 6pm
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Out with Sam. All the dog owners I meet are super-happy about the return to BST, as it means we still have daylight for our evening walks.
- 3/9, 7pm
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And the shootout in the Guggenheim is nothing special at all. In fact, the more I think about it, that scene is a bit rubbish.
- 2/25, 2am
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Just stumbled across this great Happy Birthday video one of our members had made for George: [ http]
- 2/24, 12pm
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Via the magical flengbot: [ http] (I used to steal sugarbeets set aside for our sheep, and eat them raw.)
- 2/23, 3pm
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@waferbaby - well, I think I get them all. I've not not understood anything, anyway.
- 2/21, 11pm
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Just tested out the bathroom-butt-flap on my red Carhartt longjohns. It was slightly unnerving, but it worked perfectly.
- 2/14, 9pm
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I love the multi-language support Dave Hill offers on his site: [ http]
- 2/10, 10am
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"Roo's last morning" captures a beautifully sad moment: [ http]
- 2/9, 4pm
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Up early for another 0840 football game.
- 2/8, 7am
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Being introduced to the music of "Blind Pilot", and liking it.
- 2/7, 11pm
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"Passion for Christ Movement Launches 'Ex-Masturbator' Shirt": [ http]
- 2/6, 10am
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Sam pooed in Sara's house tonight. A very runny, indoor poo. Bad Sam.
- 2/4, 12am
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"I have two fingers. Now I have four." [ http]
- 2/3, 11am
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Another beautiful building on materialicious: [ http]
- 2/1, 11pm
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We won 4-1 today at soccer. Matt got the first two, and I got the second two. Good game.
- 2/1, 12pm
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Buddy E. Jones, a private investigator from Georgia, has been staking out our building for the last two days. It's odd. [ http]
- 1/31, 6pm
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We won 4-1 at soccer last night. I got two goals and put in a great corner (even if I do say so myself) for the fourth to be headed in.
- 1/30, 11am
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This brakedancing starts off looking jerkily chaotic, but ends up looking strangely graceful: [ http]
- 1/30, 12am
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Just watched the first episode of "True Blood". Looks like a series worth getting into.
- 1/28, 12am
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Anyone know of a dog collar that has dog's details (name, phone #, etc) built into it, instead of having to have jangly-dangly dog tags?
- 1/27, 4pm
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Science should find a way for David Attenborough and Richard Feynman to have a man-baby: [ http]
- 1/27, 3pm
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400 Facts About The World's Greatest Human: [ http]
- 1/26, 11pm
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More photos from @alastairorchard (my brother) freediving under the ice in an Italian mountain lake: [ http]
- 1/26, 12pm
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Eating dinner in North Beach with Lauren, before seeing Stella at the Cobbs Comedy Club.
- 1/25, 6pm
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2-2 draw at soccer today. I scored our second and nearly got another, but hit the crossbar. We really should have won.
- 1/25, 3pm
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Just ate a bad hamburger. It was so bad I had to take it home and cook it some more so it wasnt half raw. Then when I ate it it was horrible
- 1/25, 3pm
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Oh! This is what Sam will hopefully be on: [ http] I'll post a follow up if he makes it. How funny.
- 1/22, 2pm
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I like how Sasha got to stand on a box: [ http]
- 1/21, 1pm
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Based on recent toilet paper usage, figures show I'm blowing my nose somewhere between 90 and 129 times a day. No wonder it's gone red.
- 1/21, 12pm
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Going back through the archives of two other cartoons from the "Get Your War On" guy: [ http] and [ http]
- 1/21, 12pm
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It's amazing that this image of Grace Jones was produced pre-Photoshop: [ http]
- 1/20, 10pm
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What on earth is this woman in pinky-red whittering on about?
- 1/20, 9am
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There are many reasons I'm glad to be British, not least of which is an intrinsic understanding of why "Dad's Army" is so utterly wonderful.
- 1/19, 10pm
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Trying to decide which side of the duvet is least covered in I-have-a-cold sweat.
- 1/18, 5pm
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1-1 draw at soccer today. A sore throat, runny nose, dizzy head, & bum knee didn't result in my best performance of the season. Back in bed.
- 1/18, 2pm
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Back from the try-outs - a fun but frustrating morning's football. The standard was a bit over my head, but I did score 1 of our 2 goals.
- 1/17, 11am
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Limping to work, listening to The Mark Sreel Revolutions.
- 1/16, 10am
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Watching "Match of The Day", doing pushups, and NOT on the loo (in case @hitherto was wondering).
- 1/7, 8pm
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No idea what this is about: [ http]
- 1/7, 5pm
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What an enormous arsehole: [ http]
- 10/9, 5pm
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I'd be terrified of going on this swing: [ http]
- 10/9, 4pm
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If you don't have a sore throat and runny nose (but live in San Francisco) you should go watch The Muppet Movie in Dolores Park tonight. 7pm
- 10/9, 3pm
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Listening to the radio. Eric Schmidt is on the Commonwealth Club talking about Google's new energy plan. Sounds completely awesome.
- 10/8, 8pm
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For some reason the LoC doesn't have permanent search result links, so here's a NYT post on the $20 bike tax credit: [ http]
- 10/8, 11am
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Jeez. SFist reports that proponents of California's Prop 8 (the ban on gay marriage) are currently ahead in the polls [ http]
- 10/8, 11am
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Hmm, there's money in the bailout package (up to $20 a month) for commuters who cycle to work: [ http]
- 10/8, 10am
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@pascalpp - I'd forgotten about the CatTrack guys: [ http] And I bet I can find an even cheaper GPS logger if I hunt around.
- 10/7, 9pm
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Just been listening to Slavoj iek's very entertaining talk on KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" series: [ http]
- 10/7, 9pm
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Catching up on the debate. Palin uses the word "also" like normal people use commas and periods. BREATHE, WOMAN!
- 10/3, 7pm
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Sitting in the dentist chair, waiting for my mouth to go numb.
- 10/3, 8am
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At the gourmet taco truck at 21st and Mission.
- 10/2, 8pm
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"Darfur? I don't know what the fuck that is. It sounds like a tshirt company to me." [ http]
- 10/2, 6pm
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Homer votes for Obama: [ http]
- 10/2, 10am
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I like to end all my unasked-for P.O.W stories with a smug wink, too: [ http]
- 10/1, 10pm
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On a bus going through China Town, with 40 elderly Asians and about 300 pink plastic grocery bags.
- 10/1, 5pm
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Yesterday we quietly launched a spruced up version of [ http] for the iPhone (only). Bug fixes will follow tomorrow.
- 10/1, 12pm
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Bought a bunch of AAPL today. $106 is a good price, though doesn't compare to the $24, $36, and $48 a share I paid for my first 3 batches.
- 9/29, 10pm
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New WaMu CEO may get $19 million for 17 days of work. That's a little under $140,000/hour for an 8-hour work day. [ http]
- 9/27, 9am
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We're drinking on "pre-condition". It's tough going during this segment.
- 9/26, 7pm
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This must have been enormously frustrating for the cyclist: [ http]
- 9/25, 6pm
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Oh look, it's quarter past four in the morning... maybe time to have another stab and that sleep thing.
- 9/23, 4am
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A wee video of me shooting things: [ http] Another film and some extra stills can be seen here: [ http]
- 9/21, 9pm
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Off to watch Stanford play football against San Jose State.
- 9/20, 3pm
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Wonder if Palin shares the creationist view that "Coal and oil are the obvious result of the activity of Noah's Flood" [ http]
- 9/19, 3pm
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Dammit. I got 1/3rd of the way to work and my bike chain snapped; not good news on a fixed-gear. I had to pull a Fred Flintstone to stop.
- 9/19, 10am
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Listening to Fresh Air and walking Sam in the hills south of SF. It's a lovely evening here.
- 9/18, 7pm
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So perfectly perfect: [ http]
- 9/16, 11pm
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I thought this was an informative summary of where McCain's coming from. It helped clear a few things up for me: [ http]
- 9/15, 12pm
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Just subscribed to the "NPR: planet money" podcast. I love TAL's money shows, and apparently this is more of the same: [ http]
- 9/15, 12pm
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Good graph showing the lack of immediate "pump relief" local offshore drilling would produce for the US: [ http]
- 9/15, 11am
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These photos from the paralympics are just extraordinary: [ http]
- 9/12, 1pm
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Eagle's are more emotional than you might have thought: [ http]
- 9/11, 4pm
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The good thing about these long interviews with McCain is that theres a 1:3 chance he won't survive the whole broadcast [ http]
- 9/11, 2pm
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I can't believe they passed a car: [ http]
- 9/11, 10am
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Hmm, that's a little annoying. My new bike has different spacing for hubs, stem, and maybe seatpost, to my old bike. I need new everything.
- 9/10, 10pm
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Stripping, cleaning, greasing, and reassembling my new bike.
- 9/10, 9pm
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This is very odd (it is from Vice Magazine after all), and not entirely SFW, but it's also pretty funny writing: [ http]
- 9/5, 1pm
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Nice work @Trimpot - this looks just like the thing he ate: [ http]
- 9/4, 6pm
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A friend of mine was given "sea dog" to eat in China. It was fried, on a stick, and he thought it might be a lizard. Any ideas what it was?
- 9/4, 4pm
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I noticed the people across from me had the RNC on TV. They noticed I noticed, and called out "We only have it on so we can yell at it!"
- 9/3, 8pm
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I know they don't sell the iPhone online any more, but there's not even a link to AT&T's online price page. All you get is "Find a store".
- 9/3, 1pm
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This is why Gmail has an undo button: [ http] It seems no amount of confirmation steps is ever enough.
- 8/31, 12am
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How has this site not added english ads yet? [ http]
- 8/29, 4pm
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New light entertainment activity: reading glowing LinkedIn testimonials that ex-coworkers have given each other.
- 8/27, 12pm
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I love this ski video: [ http]
- 8/21, 2pm
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Lots of bugs fixes in the works, but Flickr has an embedable slideshow that plays videos now: [ http]
- 8/20, 2pm
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0215, and I've almost finished cleaning. Only the floors to wash and the dishes to put away. That can wait until the morning though. To Bed!
- 8/18, 2am
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Experienced beard owner's worst nightmare tonight: my trimmer changed its length mid-cut. I now have a 3-length beard, not a 5-length beard.
- 8/18, 12am
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@drunk_marsrover - Left a party pack of Guinness, Red Stripe, and Anchor Steam on the roof at 37.7788, -122.4026. Pick it up on your way by.
- 8/17, 11pm
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Exciting to see GB dominating the track cycling. Also, I can't wait to see Asain Bolt in the 100m. His second round run was extraordinary.
- 8/16, 12am
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I love it when they interview the GB boxers at the Olympics. They never fail to have awesomely regional accents and outlooks. Good lads.
- 8/14, 5pm
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Did I mention that Sam was also diagnosed with Giardia? Poor fella. Now he just needs to get the measles and chicken pox and he'll be done.
- 8/14, 4pm
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I like this Nike Softball advert. The song is lovely: [ http]
- 8/14, 9am
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Ditching expensive (but rarely used) hiking rain gear and trying amazing Tyvec. It costs (and weighs) almost nothing: [ http]
- 8/13, 10am
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@gravitywins unless the author is at the place I'm escaping to, she should use "take". See the second part of this: [ http]
- 8/7, 2pm
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Watching "2001: A Space Odyssey" on veetle.com's "Olympics 2008 on NBC Universal" channel (don't ask). Illegally streamed monkey/space fun!
- 8/7, 10am
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One of veetle.com's broadcasting options is "From DVD", which would maybe explain the LOTR channel.
- 8/7, 10am
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ShitBegone Toilet Paper is seeking a new home: [ http]
- 8/6, 4pm
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Smashing Telly points to a good story on that idiot Uri Geller: [ http]
- 8/6, 11am
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For the next time I want to print off a topo map: [ http]
- 8/4, 3pm
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I'm adding "Does this person use Plaxo?" as an additional question in my "Is this person a fuckwit?" internal decision making process.
- 8/1, 2pm
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Even WNYC Radiolab's short asides are wonderful: [ http]
- 8/1, 9am
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This is so horrible I feel compelled to share it so other people can also wish they hadn't seen it: [ http]
- 7/31, 2pm
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I bought Sam ground pork but he won't eat it. I hope he hasn't got religion.
- 7/30, 8pm
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Eating a fudgesicle. (Fudge+Testicle is all I can think of when I hear that name.)
- 7/30, 11am
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Foggy windy Fort Funston. Happy dog, though.
- 7/29, 6pm
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Excellent Fresh Air episode looking at the economic plans of Obama and McCain: [ http]
- 7/29, 5pm
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