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Lassoed Links

I have a deeply significant matter to discuss but I have not yet decided how to do so, or if I should at all. To break my recent silence, resulting from the aforementioned hesitation, I would like to share a selection of recent links that I found interesting.
First, a new stick figure slideshow cleverly and [...]


Unexpected Respect for Montel

Four days later, Fox announced that they would not be renewing the contract for Montel’s show. In short, he appears to have been fired for standing up to Fox’s poor journalistic ethics. Check out the coverage on Daily Kos.
Montel raises an interesting point regarding the lack of availability and relevancy to US citizens of information [...]


Giant Rabbits + Communist Dictatorship = Crazy Delicious

I have had this post waiting in the wings for some time now. I keep trotting out this fantastical story to friends—it even came out at Thanksgiving. I figure the time is right to support my wild leporid tale with hard facts.
I first read of Karl Szmolinsky in an interview in Viceland. This champion breeder [...]


Reading List Infusion

The New York Times has published their list of 100 Notable Books of 2007. I will have to peruse this list in consideration for holiday reading.
I hoped to read thirty or more books this year but I think I will have to settle with 24 or 25. Still, I am happy that I have been [...]


Pressure, Pushing Down on Me

Christmas is in five days and I have procured two (2) presents.
I launched Frisbase yesterday. I estimate a few hundred Los Angeles players will be using it by the end of the month. It is not done.
Seattle experienced a terrible windstorm last Thursday night. Continuing a December trend, Sparkle Motion felt the brunt of the [...]


A Week (or two) in Review

On December 8th, the day before my birthday, Sparkle Motion asserted its dominance once again. Trina and I were at Red Mill in Phinney Ridge, waiting for delicious burgers (veggie or otherwise), when Trina remembered that she had forgotten her Nalgene in the car. I gave her my keys, and she returned a few confused [...]


Happy Moments

Election Results
Pickup in the mud and rain
A handful of handblocks at pickup this evening
Listening to a crazy old guy at Trader Joe’s tell the employee trapped at the sample station about how Frodo is a chump and Sam is the real hero
Skying a much taller player twice to get blocks on hammers
Watching Brooke’s dog, Mia, [...]


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