January 2011
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December 2010
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You can keep your fancy ales.
You can drink ‘em by the flagon.
But the...
– Merry and Pippin (The Return of the King)
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You know, at 23 years old I still find the scene in Home Alone where Kevin booby traps the house as bad-ass as I did when I was 8.
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
I hope that today finds you happy healthy and warm, surrounded by the people you love and eating your favorite foods. I hope you got every single thing you wanted. I hope you feel blessed and excited for the coming new year. Merry Christmas!
It's a little bit weird
Waking up for The first time on Christmas not at home with my family. The apartment is decorated and looks beautiful but it’s not quite the same. oh well…present time.
Merry Christmas! A message for my family (who I miss terribly).
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We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest...
– Clark Griswold
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Striking Similarities
If you have a minute, stick with me to the end here. I want to tell you a story.
Imagine if you will the following scenario. A bright new star has appeared in the western sky. Three royal men, learned in the arts of alchemy, magic, and science, know that this is the fulfillment of an ages old prophecy that a chosen child will come to deliver the world from the forces of evil and darkness....
471. Never tell your old man that he's lost a...
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There and back again...
Just finished The Lord of the Rings trilogy. 15 very epic hours. Awesome.
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Facebook Adding Facial Recognition to its List of... →
If this keeps up, in about three years Facebook is gonna start sending cyborgs back in time to kill Sarah Connor.
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I’m suddenly having a very hard time coming to grips with the fact that there is nothing left about my life that is even remotely punk rock. I used to have a mohawk, dammit.
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An update on the future of designed content «... →
I’m a big fan of the guys over at snarkmarket. Robin Sloan in particular. (By the way, if you haven’t read his novella Annabel Scheme go do so immediately; it’s a free e-book and it’s the best piece of sci-fi I’ve read in years) They seem to be the only place talking consistently about the future of media as an evolving paradigm that we are living through rather...
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Put your mental burden in my mind vice…and I will crush it.
– Jack Donaghy
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NASA Finds New Life →
This is absurdly exciting! No, they didn’t announce the discovery of alien life, but they did find a new type of life here on Earth that dramatically expands the types of places we can look for off-world organisms. Combine this with the announcement of a massive number of newly discovered red dwarf stars that have the potential to hold trillions of Earth-like planets, and our chances of...