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I wonder if there are many model railroaders who have ended up really good at painting tiny graffiti… Continue reading

Tiger just three-putted from five feet. Oh, well.

Then he eagles the next hole. This guy is killing me.

Not Phil, please not Phil. Doesn’t my booing count for anything?

C’mon, Phil, use the driver on 18. That club never lets you down.

Three wood? Pussy… Continue reading

As some of you may already know, I’m a huge fan of the BBC show Top Gear. You may also know that I’m a fan of the site Jalopnik.com.

That all comes together in a video they linked that features Jeremy (‘Jizza’) Clarkson clips mixed into an electronica video.

If you’re into that kind of thing, I conveniently (for you) ripped an MP3 of… Continue reading

We made it back to the Centennial last weekend. We got the leeboards off and set up on sawhorses in anticipation of the soda-blasting happening on Tuesday. Thursday looks more likely now, what with rain forecast until then.

The four new sawhorses are from Harbor Freight. They seem very sturdy, and were only $15 each, but each one had… Continue reading

LeBron James makes playing professional basketball look like fun. I haven’t seen that in like, forever.

Addenda: “Chuck just pulled your hamstring”… Continue reading

I fueled up the Primus No.523 and gave it a go. And it worked great with no fancy repair work. The pressure pump could probably use an overhaul, but it did the business. I’m quite pleased.

I wasn’t organized enough to do a BTU test last night, but I’ll get to it. It seemed to be putting out… Continue reading

This beauty arrived from Australia today. I think it might be pre-war, but there isn’t much info to go on. I got it on eBay from Australia (at a pretty reasonable price, too)… Continue reading

AP story here.

This makes me very happy (and not just because Krugman is the only Nobel winner I’ve actually read before he won).

Now he’ll have to be introduced on the TeeVee as “Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman,” which has a much nicer ring than “shrill lefty economist and blogger Paul Krugman” (or words to that effect).

His not-at-all shrill (and more ‘reasonable liberal’ than… Continue reading

Periscope, an app from Freeverse, can upload timed iSight pics to my .Mac site. Check it out

I got new x-rays on Tuesday, and the doc said I was done with the boot. No running or jumping for another six weeks? No problem there.

I wore an Aircast™ plastic cast for almost six weeks, and I guess it was OK. It squeezed my toes, so I couldn’t wear it as tight as I thought I was supposed to, but the doc said that it didn’t need… Continue reading

I broke the fifth meta-tarsal of my right foot while trying to fly a kite (!) on Friday night. This is the temporary splint; I going back in sometime next week for the real one. (And I was supposed to fly to Aiken, SC, today.)… Continue reading

Eric Alterman’s blog used one of my contributions for today’s Slacker Friday post. (Scroll to the end.)

(There’s been a part-of-speech thing concerning a certain word going on there for the last few days.)… Continue reading

Jason Schwartzman was asked by Terri Gross if Bill Murray ever gave him any advice about acting.

He claimed it was odd advice, but that it was good advice, and that he took it. It, roughly, follows:

Jason asked Bill if he could tell when he was in character. Bill asked Jason how much he weighed. Jason said he weighed 140 pounds. Bill asked if Jason could feel… Continue reading

I know that I’ve probably said this to every single person who might ever read this post, but, just in case there’s a budding film-maker that might stumble across this:

Seriously, every time you think you have a spot for a music cue in whatever movie you’re making, remove it.

If your imagined movie relies on music cues, it will not only fail, it probably sucks… Continue reading

This is a picture of the building Matt Damon lives in with his wife and his daughter.

That must be odd to come home to.

From The Smoking Gun via Fark

According to this review, I can continue to go back to what is now the Bourne trilogy for that calm space I need. I haven’t seen the film yet, but the reviewer (and the people Todd works for) are people that I trust… Continue reading

This is my parent’s cat Molly getting some exercise… Continue reading

Available here is a quickie remix of the Beastie Boys “That’s it” that I helped DJ Projet (AKA Patrick Walters) do using Apple’s SoundTrack Pro. Henjoy… Continue reading

My observation:

He could play Gary Busey in the (I’m sure to be up-coming) Gary Busey story.

Fer serious… Continue reading