Month: March 2010
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KICK-ASSMy other bit of birthday celebration was attending Popcorn Taxi‘s sneak preview of KICK-ASS. This is a new film based on a comic book about a normal kid who decides to put on a costume and become a superhero called “Kick-Ass.” The crowd was definitely the stereotypical “comic book geek” demographic. (I’d estimate less than…
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Chuck Hahn DinnerTo celebrate my birthday last week, the Snook and I went to the Chuck Hahn dinner as part of the March into Merivale promotion. It was held at Bistro CBD and featured three courses with matched beers. (I tweeted a picture of the menu.) Chuck himself couldn’t come due to illness, but he…
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GOOD GRIEF. Has it really been nearly a full week without a blog post? I think that may be some kind of record. Sorry about the silence; I’ve just been super busy lately. We’ll see if we can’t get some updates happening more regularly…
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Chewbacca says you should have your own domain name. Good tip.
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Kristy, it’s your birthday! Happy birthday, Kristy!*So today is my 33rd birthday. Man, that feels old. I was digging around this morning and found some photos from my 23rd birthday back in London, ten years ago today. I was living with the Notre Dame London Program then as an R.A. and working as an HTML…
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Week 10I’m still experiencing the after-effects of the Public Nudity Epiphany, I think. For the past 15 months, I’ve been struggling with the rowing machine at my weekly Spudds session. There’s always at least one station on the circuit where you do two 20 second rowing sprints separated by a 10 second rest. The goal…
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Molasses Coffee Marinated Pork Chops from Alton Brown. Yum. I’ve got some pork chops in the freezer just begging for this…
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Michael Mobbs has a couple blog posts (and photos) about the failure of the new fancy “rain gardens” in Chippendale. I wondered if they were working. We guessed that they were there more to filter cigarette butts out of the stormwater drain than anything.
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Peter Sagal (of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me fame) has a
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Clarification on the tiebreakerSince someone emailed to ask, I did not include John Hughes in the tiebreaker count for the Oscar Contest. Jenny and I debated it during his tribute, and we hoped the producers would make it easy by including him in the “In Memoriam” reel as well. But they didn’t. However, the actual…