December 2010
48 posts
drove the family swagger wagon over 80mph on Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte tonite. #bamf
can tell you that the journey of a 1,000 miles begins 2.5 hours late and with more than you than carry.
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has a slight hangover this morning.
Thanks to:
Dogfishhead 60 Minute Pale Ale - So good!
Sam Adams Boston Lager - Reliable
George Killian’s Irish Red - Reminds me of college
Shiner Hefeweizen - Very nice!
Shiner Black Lager - Interesting
Blue Moon White Beer - Not bad for fake small batch from a large corp. Very not bad at all.
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FRANK SINATRA, holding a glass of bourbon in one hand and a cigarette in the...
– So begins a profile of one of Hollywood’s best known drinkers by one of America’s best known profile writers, Gay Talese. When it ran in Esquire magazine in 1966, it helped launch a new form of nonfiction writing that did to plain old journalism what fermentation did to plain old barley.
Sinatra...
yewfy asked: Aw, I am uploading the album to media fire and was going to share it.
Badass of the Week: Nikola Tesla →
Another sweet thing about Tesla is that he conducted the sort of crazy experiments that generally result in hordes of angry villagers breaking down the door to your lab with torches and pitchforks. One time, while he was working on magnetic resonance, he discovered the resonant frequency of the Earth and caused an earthquake so powerful that it almost obliterated the 5th Avenue New York building...
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skysignal:
Your Highness red band trailer. (James Franco, Zooey Deschanel, Natalie Portman, Danny McBride)
So funny XD
I so cannot wait for this!
I for one welcome our arsenic-based interplanetary overlords.
– William Gibson (via Twitter)
Holiday Eating Tips
Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the Christmas spirit. In fact, if you see carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they’re serving rum balls.
Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly. It’s rare. You can’t find it any other time of year but now. So drink up! Who cares that it has 10,000 calories in every sip?...
You may have recently heard of or read about classified U.S. information being...
– Chief Legal Officer of my company.
Good point. Just because this information is now in the public domain doesn’t mean that it’s no longer classified, secret material owned the U.S. Government. There are some very real, very stout legal ramifications here. I think I better understand...
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Let it stand, empty and inaccessible, as a monument to our fears.
An empty...
– Schneier on Security: Close the Washington Monument
Star Wars characters enjoying the weekend at...
(via lancelot622: hannahisdeceased: hannahisdead)
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Numbers stations (or number stations) are shortwave radio stations of uncertain...
– Number stations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
— Aw gee, why’d Fringe have to go and make reference to some real world conspiracy thing I’d never heard of before?
Charlie Chaplin + TRON = Modern Times Legacy
(via Kottke)