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2008

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Ideas Blog
Sep 1st
There used to be a little greasy spoon in downtown Frederick...
Sep 1st
1001 rules for my unborn son
Aug 31st
In a Father’s Clutter, Historic Oddities
Aug 31st
Curing RSS addiction and continuous partial...
Aug 31st
Salvage Love
Aug 31st
Moon Jar
Aug 31st

Vacation reading.

Thanks to my hand-dandy new iPod Touch the wife and son got me and Instapaper I was able to catch up...
Aug 31st
Hurricane Tracker
Aug 31st
“We were strapped into chairs in uncomfortable positions, we...”
— James Powderly’s story...
Aug 31st
This shot was one of my favorites from the family beach...
Aug 31st
Looks like I have a project for our basement. I wonder if...
Aug 31st
This Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior) poster is bizad. (via)
Aug 31st
The little bumpy headed Lego dude is 30. (via)
Aug 30th
Six Shooter by Simon Dominic Brewer (via)
Aug 30th
Twitter / Amazon MP3: 8/30 Daily Deal
Aug 30th
Placefav
Aug 30th
I wish I would have thought of this. It would have made all...
Aug 30th

Castles made of sand.

Went for a rainy day walk on the beach. There was a red flag warning all day and we even saw an...
Aug 27th

The rescue.

I am currently at the beach with the family. While enjoying sun and sand a jellyfish washed up on...
Aug 26th
Evolution of the AT-AT T-Shirt (via)
Aug 23rd
Warch Watch
Music video for Austin TV by Alberto Cerriteño.
Aug 23rd
he also wore the mask into the grocery store. (via my flickr...
Aug 22nd
“Ask yourself this question: Have you ever watched a 2-D...”
— Roger Ebert by way of...
Aug 20th
Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore...
Aug 20th

Trash diggers.

Last night I took the boy to get some ice cream. As we sat outside a local burrito joint enjoying...
Aug 20th
Complicated Pile
Aug 20th
EveryBlock Washington
Aug 20th
Warch Watch
Schweppes Burst slow motion balloons Ad (via). Makes me kind of bumbed that my own water balloon fun...
Aug 20th

I want to do this.

I was at the pool today when the I heard the Ice Cream man’s crazy clown music and saw the...
Aug 18th
“The mass media is the single most detrimental entity within...”
— Chuck Klosterman by way of...
Aug 18th
Raid the table! You must clickey to makey bigey to truly...
Aug 18th
I saw this little fellow while I was hiking today. I thought...
Aug 17th
via ragdoll & pilnick
Aug 17th
I so used to have the Han Solo blaster. I sent many a Storm...
Aug 16th
Bottle Rocket gets the Criterion treatment (via)
Aug 16th
Saw this beast in the parking lot of the local shopping...
Aug 16th
Lotus has developed a concept ice-vehicle for Artic...
Aug 16th

300

Met the family for lunch at a local Ruby Tuesday’s this week. As I walked out of the place I...
Aug 16th
“There’s a lot of comment being made that it looks fake, or...”
— One of the two gentleman who...
Aug 15th
Wood Led Clock
Aug 15th
Days with My Father
Aug 15th
Blip.fm
Aug 15th
hrrrthrrr: While driving we saw this guy waiting at the...
Aug 15th
Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips...
Aug 15th
I’m not sure what is more dangerous: the guy sitting...
Aug 15th
Warch Watch
Is this El Chupacabra? (via)
Aug 14th
If this name sounds familiar to you, it’s probably...
Aug 14th
Rolling Stone, Switching to a Smaller,...
Aug 14th
who mourns for bigfoot? (via goopymart). Poor Bigfoot.
Aug 14th
Seattle a hotbed for new drinks, though few...
Aug 13th
Listen Listen
Hey Mama by Kanye West.
Aug 13th
Covert operation floats network-sniffing...
Aug 12th
'Star Wars' won't go beyond Darth Vader
Aug 12th
A List Apart: Articles: The Survey, 2008
Aug 11th
Cloud of the US Declaration of Independence
Aug 10th
Fair To Serve Up Funnel Cakes, Minus Trans...
Aug 10th
Airborne in an Emirates A380 at SFO
Aug 10th
Last night’s sunset (via my flickr photos)
Aug 9th
NowDoThis
Aug 9th
I saw this discarded 40 of Old English (or OE) in the...
Aug 9th
Fall Jumper (via winged photography by way of Mighty Girl)
Aug 9th
Trading Places
Aug 8th
monster (via designflyer)
Aug 8th
Hope you enjoyed the mini-mixtape via the tumblr dashboard.
Aug 8th
Listen Listen
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (Acoustic)
Aug 8th
Listen Listen
Bishop Allen - Rain
Aug 8th
Listen Listen
Kings of Leon - The Bucket
Aug 8th
Listen Listen
beastie boys - right right now now
Aug 8th
Listen Listen
Wilco - Side With The Seeds
Aug 8th
“there was an inflatable doll with breasts and a...”
— Chris Glass on a Kanye West...
Aug 8th
Internet Memes
Aug 7th
Number Of Men That Will Die In 2008 and From...
Aug 7th
The Journal of Urban Typography
Aug 7th
my son’s impersonation of mommy’s mad face.
Aug 7th
“We don’t have a strong hippopotamus program right now”
— From Zoo’s Hippo Must...
Aug 7th

some new micros.

For some reason I like words with micro duct taped to the front of them and I recently made...
Aug 5th
A fake owl guard (via my flickr photos)
Aug 5th
Just added comments to this blog so the 1.5 people who read it can say chello.
Aug 5th
Listen Listen
Hey Ya covered by Matt Weddle. I forgot about this terrific rendition, thanks Mister Jones.
Aug 4th
Tecmo Super Bowl Active Players
Aug 4th
New Bargains on Old Furniture
Aug 4th
Warch Watch
It looks like a guy in a suit with some sort of animatronics controls for the mouth and face (some...
Aug 3rd
Saturday Night Lost
Aug 3rd
lightning strike (via quigley_brown)
Aug 3rd
Warch Watch
Some video footage of a massive pillow war my son and I had this morning.
Aug 2nd
It’s that time of year again and fantasy football is around...
Aug 2nd

thanks jamaica kincaid

I picked up The Best American Travel Writing 2005 on whim at a local used bookstore and it was five...
Aug 1st