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Oct 2nd

a small request

I love these tilt-shift videos. The miniature looking boats zipping around is the best of the bunch,...

Oct 2nd

school of life

In Lodon you can attend the School of Life and take classes on love, politics, family, work, and...

Oct 2nd

My Kid Took These provides a view of the world from the eyes of a 3 year old with a camera....

Oct 1st

This is the bow bridge on the Catoctin Furnace hike (via my...

Oct 1st

Fett For Real Hoodie

Oct 1st

Junk Drawers & Medicine Cabinets

Oct 1st

Bacon cinnamon rolls

Sep 30th

Rososo, the peaceful newsreader

Sep 30th

The Outbreak: Would You Survive the Zombie...

Sep 30th

Listen

The Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River - The Stand Ins There are worse ways to start your morning....

Sep 30th

Beate Gütschow creates large scale idealized collage...

Sep 30th

tall man vs balloon monster (via my flickr pics)

Sep 30th

Listen

The String Quartet Tribute to Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down

Sep 30th

bad news

As if our current economic state isn’t worrying you enough I bring you more bad news. That...

Sep 30th

“The blog also serves a more practical purpose. Unless you go...”
— From Ryan Adams: My blog is my...

Sep 29th

From Jargon Boy’s collection of Modern Alphabet Cards....

Sep 29th

The Shepherdstown Opera House, an independent movie theater and music venue, located in...

Sep 29th

Where’s my jetpack? Right here.

Sep 29th

**nice tree graffiti **

Sep 28th

“The wounds from Ghostbusters 2 have healed”
— Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3

Sep 28th

“Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are...”
— from instructions a poem by...

Sep 27th

Lard lumps.

Mysterious lard-like lumps are washing up on New Zealand shores. Some discoverers of the lard lumps...

Sep 27th

Block Rocking Beats

Sep 27th

Make sure you clickey to makey biggey so you can appreciate...

Sep 27th

Wireframe Graph Paper Notepad

Sep 27th

Banditry Is Not Dead

Sep 25th

From a recent hike to the Catoctin Furnace. (via my flickr...

Sep 25th

He likes the wild things.

I finally got my son to read Where the Wild Things Are the other night. He was really into it and...

Sep 25th

A frame from The Birds by way of 1000 Frames of Hitchcock. ...

Sep 25th

A bridge we crossed during a recent hike. (via my flickr...

Sep 24th

My research proposal

Sep 24th

NYC transit gets the Google map treatment

Sep 24th

Nice! Add Ken Foree from Dawn of the Dead and you may have...

Sep 23rd

“Small, yet so swift and strong, Moss is now as elusive as a...”
— Mike Wise on Santana Moss

Sep 23rd

I saw this Horned Owl at an aviary at a local park. He had a...

Sep 23rd

“He described his bike as a companion, a crutch and a friend....”
— From an obituary on marathon...

Sep 23rd

Add-Art

Sep 22nd

He was being Spiderman. He picked a purty good superhero to...

Sep 22nd

righting my twitter wrongs.

I recently went through all the people I follow on Twitter and nuked any non-persons (c-ya New York...

Sep 21st

Marbelous table

Sep 21st

the 555th squadron (via goopymart)

Sep 21st

Watch

by Benjamin Reece (via). Mine: since I watched this on a Sunday my daily wish of hanging with my...

Sep 21st

a dog's life.

Took a nap with the dog today. We both laid on the bed, in a sunlight filled room, and snored. Mr....

Sep 20th

The zombie maker, George Romero. (via)

Sep 20th

From a Smithsonian Magazine article on the “the once...

Sep 20th

Watch

On Friday, after a five-year and $15 million restoration effort, the panoramic Battle of...

Sep 20th

A traditional family circus braves the 21st...

Sep 20th

Missed connections on Craigslist by Very Small Array. I...

Sep 20th

Places I Will Haunt

Sep 20th

BBC Olympics Ad

Sep 20th

“The script required a chimpanzee to learn how to cook bacon...”
— Nick Hornby from The Believer...

Sep 20th

Campaign 2008: Patchwork Nation

Sep 18th

career opportunities.

If your current career isn’t working out you could always pick-up dog poo or start a frog farm...

Sep 18th

stealing history.

Over the last couple of months articles about the theft of items of historical significance have...

Sep 18th

It’s County Fair time in Maryland and probably in your...

Sep 17th

For creator Stefan Buchberger, a design student at the...

Sep 17th

The hottest rhetorical device of campaign...

Sep 17th

10 Badasses From the Pages of History

Sep 15th

We went to this recycled tire playground that is located in...

Sep 15th

Apache sign, Tombstone - Arizona by Seba Kurtis (via)

Sep 13th

In the Wilds of New Jersey, a Legend Inspires...

Sep 13th

Lies we tell kids

Sep 13th

My son is holding Mr. Softy (aka nibbler, aka butterball)...

Sep 13th

big picture guilt.

I’ve noticed something popping up on a lot of blogs lately. I call it Big Picture Guilt. It...

Sep 13th

Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD on Vimeo

Sep 13th

“Hello Friday, I’m glad you’re here.”
— Chris Glass

Sep 12th

The Professional Panhandling Plague

Sep 12th

Stephen King's N

Sep 12th

My son had his first day of pre-school today. The face says...

Sep 10th

Heinlein's Fan Mail Solution

Sep 10th

The mass graveyard of the blogosphere

Sep 10th

“In deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we...”
— Nicholas Carr on the advent of...

Sep 10th

blog idea.

Someone should create a blog that does nothing but list songs from car commercials. Please feel free...

Sep 9th

like kids.

We are robbing kids of fun and treating adults like kids. I have an idea … STOP IT!

Sep 9th

Brady Done for the Season

Sep 8th

Umbrella Today?

Sep 8th

A mini water fall I saw after Hanna rolled through. I...

Sep 7th

Please Dress Me

Sep 7th

boise, idaho.

I watched this video (nsfw) last night and it must have crept into my subconscious because when I...

Sep 6th

Listen

Ice Ice Baby - Ben Kweller

Sep 5th

Caffè sospeso

Sep 5th

so it begins … one of my son’s first Star Wars...

Sep 5th

Watch

Some sights from my trip to the Outerbanks in North Carolina.

Sep 5th

A modern cuckoo clock. (via)

Sep 5th

Your message could be on this sign that sits in the window...

Sep 5th

The Illustrated Guide to a Life of Mystery

Sep 5th

Now that’s a bus. (via)

Sep 5th

“A Facebook avatar is really just that: a museum of presumed...”
— Diana Kimball: Algorithms and...

Sep 5th

I'm scared.

After looking at this graph of Google traffic I realized that we (me included) spend more time...

Sep 4th

Recessions, Good for Health

Sep 3rd

I took this photo from the top of this lighthouse (via my...

Sep 2nd

Emergency Food Kit

Sep 2nd

“I have pulled out of nearly all my online communities and I...”
— From a comment on Becoming an...

Sep 1st