Browsing all 54 posts in Everything Else.
07/09/09
I do not understand this series of Microsoft ads that are supposed to make me want to buy a PC.
I’m sure you’ve all seen them, but if you haven’t, they all follow a basic formula: Someone wants to buy a computer and they have a limited budget. So they first go to the Apple store [...]
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05/06/09
H/T to Desipio for this one, but I greatly enjoyed this error from the Daily Herald today.
The copy has been fixed, but I caught a screengrab from the time it was up (click for larger version).
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04/30/09
Someone managed to swipe the cable box from my apartment’s workout complex, so when I go to work out, the only channel the TV can get is CBS. From careful monitoring of the network during prime-time hours, I have concluded that this is the extent of CBS programming.
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04/27/09
I love the NFL Draft. I love the absolute ridiculous optimism that comes attached to every draft pick, simply because we haven’t had the opportunity to watch them suck yet as professional football players.
As fans, we have the amazing ability to read scouting reports of these players, drool over their alleged strengths and ignore the [...]
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04/26/09
Meryl loves Meryl
Oh yes, dear, watch how I act!
Oscar noms for me
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04/23/09
This is a story that has been slowly getting a little bit more buzz in the last 2-3 years, though still probably not the amount that it justifies: Why having the top pick in the NFL Draft, or even a pick in the top 10, can be a curse because of the incredible contracts they [...]
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04/15/09
Predictable plot
Will Smith makes scrunchy faces
Death by jellyfish
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04/09/09
Ones I’ve seen in the past few days:
“I’m one of the many addicted to caffeine; my body can’t get by without its own personal stimulus package each morning.”
“Cutler will provide a much-needed boost to a Bears offense that was in need of a bailout last season.”
There are many more offenders. Please stop.
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04/06/09
In a sometimes-annual tradition, JR Radcliffe and I are posting our 2009 baseball predictions so we, and you, can look at them in October and laugh about how wrong we were. I pored over my projections for hours and hours, utilizing mounds of data, insight and historical comparisons; JR wrote his in five minutes and [...]
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04/02/09
Just caught Mr. Baseball on HBO in my hotel room. Curious what you all think about the international sociological issues presented in the movie. I thought Schepisi was clearly aiming for a movie about the difficulties of assimilation (as he also did with Iceman), which he nailed, but I’m left wondering if Jack experienced re-entry [...]
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