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  • Hang on to your Ego

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    Great song, but crazy video. I never saw it until today.

  • Is This Thing On?

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    The Tease I mean. Ouch: I shouldn’t be surprised the Phillies won’t be making the playoffs this year, but I always am. I’ve never seen a Phillies team hit this well, but it still won’t make up for bad pitching. The only starters I’d like to see back next year are Hamels and Kendrick. Myers…

  • Chicago AM Stations Heard in Philly?

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    My brother swears he can get Chicago’s ESPN Radio 1000AM in and around Philly at night. I was skeptical, but then I looked it up on Wikipedia: Medium wave and short wave radio signals act differently during daytime and nighttime. During the day, AM signals travel by groundwave, diffracting around the curve of the earth…

  • Phils Sweep Mets

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    The Phillies took the Mets down four games in a row! Pat Burrel with two home runs? As someone I work with said today, the tease is on.   You have to like Kevin Kernan’s article in the NY Daily News a few days ago. (found via 700 Level) August 26, 2007 — MEMO to…

  • NFL as Star Wars

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    18to88 has a great NFL preview where they map each team to it’s appropriate NFL character. The Eagles get Mace Windu, which isn’t too bad, but they slam Green Bay as Yoda (Green and 800 years old) and Cleveland as the Jawas (small, brown, and always trading for junk). Chicago was my favorite, but you’ll…

  • Baby’s Got Back. Always.

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    I thought this was entertaining.

  • Entertainment Center

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    I sold my entertainment center on craigslist yesterday, so I spent the good part of the evening putting together our new cabinet and wiring everything back together. That’s always a fun job. It took four freaking hours.

  • TV Shows Broken By Time

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    As society moves on, some of our beloved television shows can’t move with it. Culture and technology conspire to break sitcom plots every day. Is there any way to fix them? Here are a few examples: My Two Dads Premise: A woman dies leaving her daughter in the dark about who her real father is.…

  • Top Ten Poor Man’s Versions

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    Cracked has a great top ten list: The Top Ten Poor Man’s Versions. What other top list includes Go-Bots, Dentyne, and the LA Clippers? #8: The Poor Man’s Vacation Destination The Jersey Shore has actual sand and a real ocean, just like every other vacation destination. But, its sand and ocean just happen to be?unlike…

  • Wolf Parade @ The TLA (aka the Fillmore)

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    Last night I barely made it out to see Wolf Parade at the TLA, which was my first time being there since they changed it to the “Fillmore at the TLA.” It looks pretty much the same except they added some curtains, chandeliers, and fixed up the floor. Opening up was Montreal’s Plants and Animals.…

  • Lynchian Empire Strikes Back: An INLAND EMPIRE Review

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    I knew David Lynch’s next movie was going to be called INLAND EMPIRE, but I didn’t know much about it other than that Laura Dern and Justin Theroux were in it. After seeing the film I still don’t know much more than that. INLAND EMPIRE’s theater release was extremely limited and it finally came out…

  • Baby Back Rib Recipe

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    You can count me among the fans of baby back ribs, but they’re a little intimidating to make. Here’s why: Long marinating times Long cooking times Tricky heat settings Removing that damn membrane from the bottom My first attempt at making ribs was about two years ago and I spent all day working on them,…

  • Ben Garvey’s 101 Greatest Movies of All Time (Full List)

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    Here’s the rest of my list of the 100 Greatest Movies of all time.? Note:? This list is now out of date!? Click here for the latest list. Rank Title Year 101 L.A. Confidential -1997 100 Clerks -1994 99 Magnolia -1999 98 The Last Picture Show -1971 97 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -1998…

  • Ben Garvey’s 101 Greatest Movies of All Time

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    Thanks to John Resig Net::Netflix perl module, I was able to download my ratings for every movie I’ve rated on Netflix. The total number was 608. Based on the typical two hour movie, I’ve watched 50 days of movies in my lifetime. That seems like a lot to me. Probably too much. Anyway, I decided…

  • Odd Man In messages

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    Odd Man In has been around for almost three years now and in that time 226,337 messages have been sent back and forth between players. That’s hard to believe.

  • Looking for a good (free) FTP client for OSX

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    So far I’ve been using the free version of Cyberduck, and it’s painfully slow. Anyone know of a good, free FTP client for Mac OSX?

  • Be Kind Rewind

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    I’m loving the trailer for a new Jack Black / Mos Def movie, Be Kind Rewind. The premise: Two guys working in a video store erase all the tapes and they decide to refilm them all.

  • Guys are Dumb

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    If a random good looking female asked you to buy her $80 shoes, would you do it? The Young Turks did an experiment to find out. Unbelievable.

  • Open Mic @ The Roadhouse

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    Last night was the first night I played out anywhere since ye olde hand injury. It’s healing well, but I’ll have a nice scar that may be my downfall if I ever commit a crime and the witness gets a good look at my hand. The hand felt great and I played a long set…

  • I’m 15 in the picture above

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    The picture I’m currently using at the top of the site is me at 15 years old. It’s in the Paul VI 1994 year book and the full picture is me standing next to Sr Renata, my ninth grade Algebra teacher. I’ll probably switch it periodically since WordPress and the great K2 theme make it…