Officially Lucky

I love Judge Judy

I agree with SM, we should start calling idiots "marginal" from now on.

Clint Ecker

What do you guys think of my awesome new tshirt? I've had a lot of people tell me that they would wear a "Clint Ecker" t-shirt which makes me both giddy and frightened at the same time ;) I got this for our trip to Boston, it works well for meeting new people ;)

Tecmo Bowl: Bo Jackson

Weezer video for Pork and Beans

The guys in Weezer (including Cuomo's amazing 'stache) has put together a great video for their new single, Pork & Beans, using a mixture of mimicked and real people who starred in popular internet memes. Watch it, you'll find it extremely funny ;)

It's funny because it's racist

Wired magazine covers, then and now

So I've had a mint copy of one of my favorite Wired magazine issues (5.06 from June 1997) laying around forever. Just recently, Wired released an updated version (16.04 from April 2008) which I thought was super clever:

Not unlike lava

Saw this over on Justin Williams' blog and laughed my ass off: What do you expect?? It's lava!

This American Life live

Last night Jacqui and I rode our bikes over to the Kerasotes theater on Western and Maplewood to see a live broadcast version of This American Life. This was unique because the filming was done in New York City and then live broadcast to theaters all over the country. It was really fun and if you haven't seen much of the video version of This American Life, it was a real treat. The place was packed and we got some of the last seats in the upper area. We also ate popcorn and drank giant tubs of diet soda, which ...

Facebook advertisers think I'm gay

This isn't the first time I've gotten gay ads. You know, not that I mind, I'm just curious as to why! :)

Biking around Wicker Park

Rode to Walgreens to pick up some vital supplies and thought I'd try my hand at the Flip.

Bike ride on beautiful spring Chicago day

It was 60°F yesterday and it was the perfect opportunity to take Jacqui out and hit the pavement on her new bike. We rode from our place out to Lincoln Park zoo, saw all the animals and then rode down to North Avenue Beach, up and down the lakefront trail, and then took a break and snapped some photos: It was a great day. Jacqui's a little sore, but well worth it. Here's the whole Flick Set (18 photos) and a map of our photos and where they were taken.

Those TNG transcripters sure did go all out

Who would've thought they'd transcribe the Klingon dialogue as well?

Awesome little robot

I've built robots before, and I probably will again in the future. I ran across a post about this robot today in my feed reader and I absolutely adore him! The Yellow Drum Machine robot's sole purpose in life is to avoid obstacles, find a flat surface, and then to play a tune on it with little drum sticks. He tests it out, and if it has a good sound, he records a sample of himself playing the tune, and plays it back and plays along with it, building up cool little percussive tunes. Check out the video, not only ...

Forbes traveler names Hopleaf one of america's best beer bars

Saw the link over on Buzz's blog (he's been posting a lot of good stuff!) about Forbes Traveler's best american beer bars. I decided to skip through it and I found one of my favorite spots here in Chicago! At our old apartment in Uptown, we lived within walking distance of Hopleaf and visited it quite a few times. The bar is amazing and always packed, but they make some mean bavarian-inspired food as well. If you're ever in the area, be sure to check it out! Now we live far away in Bucktown/Wicker Park, but there's a nearby place ...

I want to be like Daft Punk when I grow up

Great weather in Chicago: Did a 20 mile ride

The weather shot above 45F for the first time for what seems for like forever in Chicago. It's one of those days where you know that you absolutely know that you have to take advantage of it. So I decided that I was going to go on an epic (for me) bike ride around the city. It turns out that I wasn't the only person in Chicago who had the idea to go outside and enjoy the weather. When I finally got off North Ave. at Lakeshore to jump on the Lakefront Bike Trail I was greeted by literally hundreds ...

Bin Wine Cafe plus Pint, a beautiful night

Had an excellent time out with Jacqui last night. Ran into her coming out of Cooking Fools with two big chunks of tasty looking cheese in hand. We walked to Bin Wine Cafe where we each had a wine flight, shared a cheese plate, and devoured a large order of their tempura green beans. Once complete, we walked practically next door to Pint. We drank $4.00 Blue Moon pints for a couple of hours while laughing, talking, and generally having a good time. Oh, I think we also ate some potato skins in there somewhere! We started at 6pm and ...

Steve Jobs Is Your New Bicycle killed the meme

My stupid little site got a lot of linkage. The first big site to link was Violet Blue's TinyNibbles.com (NSFW). I emailed Violet a screen grab of what I considered to be one of the funnier lines I wrote, "Steve Jobs Told Katie Cotton That You're Rude," because it was specifically about her (Violet's) experience with Steve Jobs on the floor of Macworld. That got a lot of people linking to the site on Pownce, Twitter, and elsewhere. Yesterday Eric Zorn, a technology blogger at the Chicago Tribune, emailed me with a series of questions about. His article on the ...

Whenever you feel yourself getting worked up about trival crap

Just remember these two guys and how they couldn't possibly give a shit. Cats only worry about stuff that really matters, like snuggling:

Two videos for a slow Sunday afternoon

You read TechMeme, right? For those who don't, it's a completely automated site that pulls, organizes and displays the hottest news from blogs at any given moment. It changes continuously, 24/7 in response the the "buzziest" news of the second. Amit Pagarwal at Digital Inspiration made a pretty cool 50 hour time lapsed visualization (down to 50 seconds) of the evolution of the TechMeme home page: And if you're familiar with the Scoble/Facebook thing (as well as that stupid video made about Britney by Chris Cocker), this might be a little entertaining:

The Wii Fit, looks pretty cool!

I heard about the Wii Fit when my friend and colleague who writes for Ars Technica wrote about the device at last year's E3. It's basically a new peripheral and "game" for the Wii that helps you work out, tracks your progress, and has a bunch of other fun balance games, watch this video: We talked about the Fit today at work and I think we've resolved to get one, but I think that I'd like to get one for home too. I've heard mumblings about it being release in either January or February, but there's nothing definitive yet.