Honor Scroll

April 21, 2013

 

Oblivion

Like a great Sci-Fi cover band, you've seen all these tricks before.

But they look great, they sound great, and you have a great time.

Today's Photo:

Honor Scroll From Natural Helper Weekend.

This is exactly the point of this blog.

A digital scrapbook for things I want to keep.

Farm Animals

April 20, 2013

Natural Helpers 2013

We also played laser tag in the commons.

It was dope.

Humanity Overcome

April 19, 2013

Wringing Out A Washcloth In Space

 

Todd Frazier Homered At The Request Of A Batboy With Down Syndrome

Heartwarming.

 

Today's Photo:

Seventh graders are just getting into Pandemic 2.

I was totally "hipstering" on this last spring.

The key is to lower visibility and lethality and increase infection rates.

 

"Thanos Holds The Reality Gem, Which Links Us To The Star Wars Universe"

April 18, 2013

 

 

"...And Didn't Die Once"

April 17, 2013

 

Ghostface Killah - 12 Reasons To Die

 The new album is tied into a six part comic book.

 

Meet The First Digital Generation - Wired

They are the Nisei of cyberspace—the first generation born into a world that has never not known digital life and so never had to adjust to it as the rest of us settlers have. Like all Nisei, they understand the new world in ways their parents never will and speak its language with far more fluency. If you want to understand the past two decades, they are perhaps the perfect subjects. The drumbeat of disruption and technological advance that has defined the past 20 years is their natural rhythm.

 

Technology has shaped not just how they navigate the world but how they see themselves. Each generation imagines itself as rebellious and iconoclastic. But none before has felt as free to call bullshit on conventional wisdom, backed by a trillion pages of information on the web and with the power of the Internet to broadcast their opinions. They have thrown off the shackles of received culture—compiling their own playlists, getting news from Twitter, decorating web pages with their own art.

But at the same time that technology has empowered the digital Nisei, it has also exerted control over them. The way they interact is influenced and mediated by the available tools. A Pew Internet survey from 2010 ranked the seven main ways teenagers communicated. Among then-17-year-olds, who are 20 now, in descending order these were text messaging, cell phone calls, landline calls, face- to-face, social networks, instant messaging, and—dead last—email. (Written letters didn’t even merit a footnote.) Teenage girls averaged 80 texts a day, Pew found. Boys, around 30.

 

Today's Photo:

 

Where I read Ernie Piper's "YOLO Guide To Getting the F#$% Out Of Town"
He went on five Washington State adventures and didn't die once.

Billy Joel - Still Culturally Relevant!

April 16, 2013

 

Zombies, Run! 2 Released And On Sale

 

Florida Gator Coach Recruits Players With Creepy Joker Tweets

The Feminist Comedy Of Louis C.K.

 

Billy Joel In Winter

Grantland

The conventional wisdom among music critics and smart culture thinkers is that an artist has to keep creating to stay relevant. But Billy Joel has stayed relevant — if he put out a new album next week, it would almost certainly debut at no. 1, and the support tour would surely rank among the year's highest-grossing — by not creating. For two decades, Joel's discography has remained essentially unchanged; what's different is the context in which that music is now heard. When Billy Joel was Public Enemy No. 1 among rock critics, he suffered in comparison to Springsteen in part because the artists were likened on Springsteen's terms. Springsteen consciously presented himself as part of rock's folk-based tradition, a link in a chain that included Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, and Bob Dylan. Billy Joel came from the opposite tradition; he was pop, a descendent of the corporate song factories that secretly powered '50s and early-'60s rock and roll. When he tried to traverse Springsteen's cool-guy rocker turf, he resembled an off-brand, helmet-haired Elvis Costello (though the tunes were usually crackerjack).

Twenty years ago, Springsteen and Joel represented opposing sides in a debate — "authenticity" vs. "artifice" — that formed the crux of nearly every conversation about popular music. Today, this dialogue has been marginalized to the point of virtual silence. Hating Billy Joel is no longer a meaningful act; at best, it suggests that you're the sort of person who's actively annoyed by things that most people tend to like or at least tolerate.⁴ But it doesn't register as an aesthetic choice in a larger cultural argument, because most people have long since checked out of the discussion. And this has helped how Billy Joel's music is perceived. Joel's strengths — his accessibility, his knack for romantic balladry, his understated versatility in adapting to different songwriting and production styles — are no longer held against him. As far as Billy Joel's legacy is concerned, staying put has been the next best thing to dying.

How I Met Your Mother - The Longest Time

A Billy Joel cover on prime time network TV.

Today's Photo:

From Hospital Socom.

The game that never ends.

 

This Kid Transfered To Arkansas, Where This Test Is OK

April 15, 2013
 

Northwest Treehouses

Patton Oswalt on Boston Marathon

 

 Making a Keyblade

 

Today's Photo:

Cobras, Cholesterol and Rhymes

April 14, 2013

 

Bathroom Cobra


Public Humiliation Diet
by Drew Magary

10. I made sure everything I ate was fucking AWESOME. If I'm only getting three legit meals a day, they better be fucking good. So I made sure of that. Did you know two slices of bacon only have 70 calories? Combine that with a fried egg and you've got a breakfast of less than 200 calories, far less than a bowl of granola or some shit like that. So I went the bacon route. And I don't give a shit about my cholesterol. They can just Lipitor that shit. I'm in this for the sexy. I also learned to braise short ribs, make my own pulled pork, make Thai steak sauces, and all this other crazy shit because I wanted to lose weight and still enjoy what the fuck I was eating. None of this grilled-chicken-breast-every-night crap that NFL players do. Fuck that. I still love food and I LIKE it that way. People who don't love food are fucked in the head.

11. I exercised, but that hardly mattered. I did 45 minutes of cardio five days a week. But I've been doing that for 14 years now. I also started doing hundredpushups.com around the 220-pound mark. But really, the only thing that mattered was that I ate less, and within a daily routine that I could get used to. (NOTE: But by all means, exercise anyway. It helps you not feel like crap.)

12. I took a fiber supplement. Metamucil: Poop Yourself Thin!

Daily Show NCAA Eligibility

 

Sounders v. Revolution - We Have A Points Allergy

April 13, 2013

They still have the deal that craft beers (Goose Island, Mannys) are $5 if you get them 30 min. before kickoff. You might need to swipe your Sounders Alliance Card. With the way we've been playing, we need the extra drinks.

Got to Get Tough: YO JOE!

April 12, 2013

 

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Ninja fights on the side of a mountain.

Nuclear Armageddon.

Presidential Dopplegangers.

This movie is dope.

Foals - Bad Habit

 

2 Guns - Trailer on Hulu

Knowing Is Half The Battle

April 11, 2013

 

Bioshock Infinite Explained

Super Spoilers

This game is so good, but has so many great pieces that it's hard to keep them all straight.

This thread breaks it down pretty well.

All Ears Disney

All Disney All the Time. My Mother is in paradise.

Zelda Saves Link

Someone hacked The Legend of Zelda so the Princess saves Link. I have no problem with this. But I like it best when they work together, like in Ocarina of Time.

 

Grand Theft Auto Soundtracks on Spotify and iTunes

The talk radio stations were the best, and sadly, they aren't here.

Still a great addition on Spotify.

 

Gi Joe

Of course, G.I. Joe was going to exceed my expectations.

How could anyone try to watch this movie and have expectations?

 

Today's Photo:

Last person in the waiting room. 

Chile...Happiness Is Coming

April 10, 2013

Grassroots

Makes Seattle look beautiful.

And makes me desperately want a monorail.

Waxahatchee - Sister Saint


Brent Amaker and The Rodeo
I Guess You Wanna Die

A-Hole Coach Digest: 50 Hot Onces Coming At Ya!!

Our fielding practices started with taking ground balls without our gloves (and I'm not talking about gently rolling the ball) after which we'd take our positions and go through a regular "infield". His son was at third base and the first ball hit to him went right threw his legs, enraged coach hit another ball except this time it was twice as hard and he jumped out of the way. Now he was really pissed at the words that came out of his mouth will never be forgotten by anyone on that field. "FIFTY HOT ONES COMING AT YA!"

He proceeded to take a full bucket of balls and hit screaming one hoppers and line drives at his defenseless son at third base. He tried to deflect the first few but they were coming too hard and fast. All he could do was curl up into a fetal position as balls whizzed by his head and occasionally ricocheted off various parts of his body. We all stood and watched frozen with fear as this homicidal manic our parents trusted to teach and nurture drilled deadly weapons at his son. Now you may think this would be considered child abuse but this was the 80's and you'd have to drag your kid behind your car in front of a police station and maybe someone would say something.

Amazingly before the season started the returning parents tried to get him kicked out of the league but MY father stood up and basically said "Do you want your boys to grow up to be pussies". So if anyone ever yells "FIFTY HOT ONES COMING AT YOU!" run fast and far away.

Today's Photo:
No

 

I love having an indie movie house in my neighborhood.

Reading Sandman #8 - At World's End

April 9, 2013

Today's Photo:

Two thoughts from the couch at Park Public House

1) There are very few things that don't interest me.
How could you look at a comic and not be intrigued?
It's just another way to tell a story.

2) I know they aren't cool, but Coldplay makes me (unironically) happy.

First Pitch 2013

April 8, 2013

Mariner Opening Night

Sacks juiced full of runners.

Highlights
Due to MLB's insane video policy, I can't embed the video.

"God Only Knows What I'd Be Without You."

April 7, 2013

 

SNL - ESPN Outside The Lines

 

Gus Johnson Is The Voice Of Soccer - Deadspin 

Today's Photos:
God Only Knows - From Bioshock Infinite

 

"There's A Better Home Waiting In The Sky."

April 6, 2013

 

Bioshock Infinite - Let The Circle Be Unbroken

 

This game is amazing.

"Bring Us The Girl, Wipe Away The Debt."

April 5, 2013

 

Budweiser Red Light 

It lights up when your favorite hockey team scores.

Doesn't matter if you're watching or not.

It's real. It works. And it's only in Canada.
 

7 Wonders

I like this game and feel like other people should like it, but everyone I play with says the game is too complicated. And I win constantly. Please, somebody beat me at this game.  

 

Bishock Infinite

Wow.
Vacation means you can do whatever you want.
This game is totally what I want.

Russian Unicorn Redux

April 4, 2013

Hospital Socom

The Ultimate Frisbee team moved inside due to the rain. We played this old PE game, which is essentially endless.  I'm slightly worried that I can't find any mention of this game on the internet. 

My Dad swears he remembers this game too. 

But he's pretty old, so I don't know how much that comforts me.

Today's Photo:

It's my brothers birthday.
We went to Maggiano's, where they try to be classy and they almost get it right. They were playing old standards, which made me think of the above video, which always makes me laugh.

Ducken Keeps On Chuggin'

April 3, 2013

 

Daily Show
Girls of Atomic City Denise Kiernan

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

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Capitol Hill Block Party Ticket
Worth it just for Girl Talk


Hawkeye - My Life As A Weapon

I've been describing this as the adventures of Hawkeye: The Worst Avenger. That's only semi-accurate. Hawkeye is still a hero, he's just not that super. If he gets in a fight with five Russian mobsters, Hawkeye will get beat to a pulp. So how does this guy handle the same kinds of adventures that real SUPER heroes get into? That's what makes the book great.

Duck Life 4

Kids are playing this at school. I've already grown attatched to my little Duck racer, Ducken.

Ultimate Frisbee League Starts

April 2, 2013

River Giant

Grantland on The Band Perry and Country Crossovers
Near the end of "I'm a Keeper," a song from the Band Perry's new Pioneer, the country trio's brassy, husky-voiced front woman, Kimberly Perry, steps away from a maelstrom of squealing guitars and martial drum blasts to break the fourth wall and directly address the listener, the way girl-next-door types do. "I'm doin' my own thing!" Perry says, with (one imagines) her head held at a sassy tilt and a hand placed on her hip in a no-nonsense fashion. This moment — equal doses disarmingly plainspoken and carefully calculated — helps to explain why the Band Perry is one of the most popular groups in America. The Perry siblings (brothers Neil and Reid round out the family act) have come too far since the release of their platinum-selling 2010 debut to leave anything to chance. "Literally after every single show, we watch the video of that show like a game tape to see what we can do better," Neil recently told Billboard, adding that each track on Pioneer was (literally) rewritten four times before being committed to tape. Rarely is the act of "doin' my own thing" plotted out so meticulously.

Prison Architect - Kotaku

Today's Photo:

 

At Safeco For A Mariner Road Game

April 1, 2013

 

It's a World of Slaughter After All!

March 31, 2013

 

There Is No Such Thing As Sweating Out A Hangover
Deadspin

A weekly look at the iPod of a regular dude trying to run himself out of an early grave.

How I Trick My Brain Into Thinking Running Isn't The Worst: A Recovering Fatass's Weekly iPod Playlist

 

Another week, another look inside what I am quickly discovering is my very limited iTunes library. This playlist is from the first time I ever ran five miles in one go. Enjoy a Spotify list if you are so inclined.

 

Sweat a hangover out guy: [slaps washboard abs] Drank too much last night, gonna go sweat this hangover out.

 

Me, with an actual hangover: flrglsmpher

 

Sweat a hangover out guy: It really works!

 

Me, with an actual hangover: [writhing on floor]

 

Sweat a hangover out guy: You should try it, you'll feel better.

 

Me, with an actual hangover: Excuse me, sir? Sir. Please stop speaking nonsense to me. As you can see, I am hungover. I've been in your situation before. You are tired. You had a few drinks, didn't sleep well because that's what alcohol does, and you are now calling yourself hungover. You don't sweat the hangover out running after that, you sweat the sweat out because you are not hungover.

This–[indicating flecks of salt falling out of eyes]–this is a hangover. I can't even cry properly because I drank seven bottles of wine and am so dehydrated that there is nothing to sweat out. So, no, I will not go running after that. Running while your body is in the process of returning the enormous middle finger you just gave it last night is a fool's errand. I know because I've done it. I bought in to your snake oil and I threw it up all over Van Cortlandt Park. "Oh, shoot," you're saying. "Got all these paper cuts. Let me go take an Italian Dressing bath to kickstart the recovery process!" That's what your telling me to do right now. Listen to how silly you sound.

 

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to lay on this couch and watch 18 hours of Felicity on Netflix. Get out of my face.

 

 

Today's Photos:

More Table Top Games!

Smallworld

The title of the post is the tagline of this game.

and 7 Wonders!

 

 

Tabletop Day!

March 30, 2013

 

Tabletop Day

A new international holiday where you play board games with your friends.

You can stock up at two great local game shops:
Blue Highway Games

or
Card Kingdom

And play awesome games like:

Pandemic

7 Wonders

 

Today's Photo:

I like 7 Wonders, but I win too much.
#humblebrag
#straightupbrag

Shockers

March 29, 2013

Wolverines, Orange, Cardinals and SHOCKERS!!

at the MVPub in Kenmore.

Sparsely attended this afternoon, we had 5 screens just for us.