November 2009
Twitter Updates for 2009-11-01 →
@KlausTaus what about dumped out the back door, next to the flower bed. That’s were ashes usually go. Or the trash. in reply to KlausTaus #
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Halloween Apathy
Realistically, I should be more excited about Halloween than I am. As a kid, I was obsessed with scary stories, scary movies, the occult, vampires, werewolves and ghosts. To a certain degree, I still am. I enjoy reading about “haunted” sites across the world, or weird phenomena and paranormal activity. As a person who puts so much creedence into facts and science, I remain a skeptic...
October 2009
Halloween Apathy →
Realistically, I should be more excited about Halloween than I am. As a kid, I was obsessed with scary stories, scary movies, the occult, vampires, werewolves and ghosts. To a certain degree, I…
Twitter Updates for 2009-10-30 →
Just started getting into Lost. We’re halfway through the second season. Now I know what everyone has been talking about for the last 5yrs. #
@ErikHagen I don’t trust you. Maybe I should…
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Heaven
I’m pretty sure this is what it looks like. Thanks to Sara for the pic.
Heaven →
I’m pretty sure this is what it looks like.
Thanks to Sara for the pic.
I Love This Stick! →
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Climbing Back Up
It’s been a long week. Crawling into bed at 9PM. Waking up involuntarily at 4AM. Being sick as a dog all day and night. I do not like infections, and I have one. But mine is mild. Sara has a bad ear infection that she’s getting over. I just have a minor sinus infection. Both of us have taken more pills this week than we are comfortable with, all with the goal of getting over these...
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It’s been a long week. Crawling into bed at 9PM. Waking up involuntarily at 4AM. Being sick as a dog all day and night. I do not like infections, and I have one. But mine is mild. Sara has a…
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Rich Germans demand higher...
BBC NEWS | Europe | Rich Germans demand higher taxes. File under- Things that will never fucking happen in the USA. Damn quasi-socialists, thinking of the common good and making the money-grubbing rich Americans look bad. It’s like they don’t even want to be rich, or something.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Rich Germans demand higher... →
BBC NEWS | Europe | Rich Germans demand higher taxes.
File under- Things that will never fucking happen in the USA. Damn quasi-socialists, thinking of the common good and making the…
Google to launch online music service to go up... →
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Arial Tram to Montjuic - Barcelona
YouTube - Arial Tram to Montjuic - Barcelona. Little video I shot with my iPhone during our ride across Barcelona harbor. Beautiful evening during a great trip.
Arial Tram to Montjuic – Barcelona →
YouTube - Arial Tram to Montjuic - Barcelona.
Little video I shot with my iPhone during our ride across Barcelona harbor. Beautiful evening during a great trip.
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We Are Home, Literally
After a long, long, long day of travel on Monday, we finally put the key in the door and stumbled into our home at 7:30. It had been 20 hours of constant travel. From Madrid to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Vancouver and Vancouver to Portland, we were in the air for 14 hours. Yeesh! To add to that, we were both nursing sinus and ear problems, which made each takeoff and landing especially awful. Turns...
We Are Home, Literally →
After a long, long, long day of travel on Monday, we finally put the key in the door and stumbled into our home at 7:30. It had been 20 hours of constant travel. From Madrid to Frankfurt, Frankfurt…
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Almost Home
We have but two full days left to enjoy all that Spain has to offer. Seems like it should be more, but what are you going to do? If you haven’t checked out the travel blog, you really should. Our day 4 post should be up soon and day five will be up tonight (or, 10 hours from now, whichever works best for you). It’s been at times hectic, at times wonderful, at times frustrating and at...
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We have but two full days left to enjoy all that Spain has to offer. Seems like it should be more, but what are you going to do? If you haven’t checked out the travel blog, you really…
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John Mayer Threatens to Sodomize Us -- Vulture
John Mayer Threatens to Sodomize Us — Vulture. I’ve decided that, for no particular reason, I now like John Mayer. Not his music, just John Mayer.
John Mayer Threatens to Sodomize Us — Vulture →
John Mayer Threatens to Sodomize Us — Vulture.
I’ve decided that, for no particular reason, I now like John Mayer. Not his music, just John Mayer.
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Too. Much. Awesome.
YouTube - The Golden Age of Video by Ricardo Autobahn. I’m honestly not sure which is more awesome, the video itself or the name of the artist, Ricardo Autobahn. Seriously, I could watch this all fucking day.
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YouTube - The Golden Age of Video by Ricardo Autobahn.
I’m honestly not sure which is more awesome, the video itself or the name of the artist, Ricardo Autobahn. Seriously, I…
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Travel Blog Operational
Our travel blog, Nate & Sara Are Going Places, is up and running for our fast-approaching trip to Spain. We fly out on Saturday and hope to have our first post up sometime Sunday. For now, you can check out the older posts from our 2007 trip to Norway and our Christmas roadtrip from 2008. Hasta!
Travel Blog Operational →
Our travel blog, Nate & Sara Are Going Places, is up and running for our fast-approaching trip to Spain. We fly out on Saturday and hope to have our first post up sometime Sunday. For now, you…
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YouTube - Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997
YouTube - Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997. Up and down the television dial, almost to a person, we have bloviating, self-important, loud-mouthed “personalities” who we allow to invade our homes without a second thought. They tell us how to think, how to act, what to be angry and outraged about, what to buy and who we should be. Very little of it is positive and very little of...
YouTube – Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech – 1997 →
YouTube - Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997.
Up and down the television dial, almost to a person, we have bloviating, self-important, loud-mouthed “personalities” who we…
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T-Minus Four Days
We leave for Spain in a scant four days. While I can’t say that Spain has been a huge designation of mine historically, I’m definitely excited. I mean, why wouldn’t I be? I’m headed to a new country. I will land on the shores of Spain and plant my flag into it’s soil, declaring it for my own. Or something like that. We fly into Madrid and then plan on splitting our...
T-Minus Four Days →
We leave for Spain in a scant four days. While I can’t say that Spain has been a huge designation of mine historically, I’m definitely excited. I mean, why wouldn’t I be? I’m headed to a new…
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What I've Learned - Week Five
Every week, after the games have all finished on Saturday’s college football slate, I sit down and think about what I’ve learned from the week’s action. All of this goes down on my sports blog, Fourthandblog.com. Here’s a taste: Jimmy Clausen is my #1 Heisman candidate. Period. End of discussion. The fact that Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy, who are great players who have had...
What I’ve Learned – Week Five →
Every week, after the games have all finished on Saturday’s college football slate, I sit down and think about what I’ve learned from the week’s action. All of this goes down on my sports blog, …
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Sports-less; Three Months In
Three months ago, I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and torn meniscus in my right knee. Nine years ago, I tore my ACL and meniscus playing intramural flag football in college. The doc warned me that I would have early-onset osteoarthritis because of the amount of damage and pre-existing scar tissue that populated my knee. Because of this, I hit my rehab especially hard and within a few years, I...
Sports-less; Three Months In →
Three months ago, I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and torn meniscus in my right knee. Nine years ago, I tore my ACL and meniscus playing intramural flag football in college. The doc warned…
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Alan Grayson and Inequity
YouTube - Congressman Alan Grayson Apologizes, But Not To Republicans - 9/30/2009. Alan Grayson, I had heard little about you before this, but I already love where you’re coming from. Now, if you can turn some of your vitriol toward your fellow Dems to get them off their asses and working, for real, on getting a strong public option into a health care plan and getting Americans back to...
Alan Grayson and Inequity →
YouTube - Congressman Alan Grayson Apologizes, But Not To Republicans - 9/30/2009.
Alan Grayson, I had heard little about you before this, but I already love where you’re…
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Minnesota Tattoo
I have a love/hate relationship with tattoos. I love getting them. The needle has never bothered me and the small jabs of pain are actually nice, oddly enough. I enjoy the way that they look, even if mine are more direct and literal than most. The idea that these signifiers of specific moments in my life will be with me as long as I’m here (unless I lose an arm, in which case a lost tattoo...
Minnesota Tattoo →
I have a love/hate relationship with tattoos.
I love getting them. The needle has never bothered me and the small jabs of pain are actually nice, oddly enough. I enjoy the way that they…