Are you yearning for the warmth, friendliness, and cheer of a good local pub? Drop by "Four Guys Walk Into a Bar..." and sit in on the conversation. Whether it's serious or silly, you'll walk away satisfied.How It All Began
One day, a couple of us were talking about our favorite radio programs and podcasts and why we like them. We realized that we're really drawn to the ones that make us laugh (do we listen to Car Talk for advice on cars? We do not). And we realized that we're lucky enough to have a group of friends who make us laugh like that. So we thought, We should talk with those guys more often. And maybe, we thought, other people would enjoy those conversations as much as we do. So we turned them into a podcast.
Come Join Us!
Feel free to download the episodes below either directly or through the iTunes store, or if you'd just like a few samples/promos, check out our MySpace page.
Thu, 24 December 2009
Snowed in with a piano ... I get your snow from James' snow-o-rama ... socialized snowstorm blanket ... TARP funds repaid ... sharing birthdays ... most talkative person without being boring ... charles manson is an icon of bad ... blitzkrieg: when you only stop for kittens ... comparing people to Hitler waters down Hitler ... Bear's Christmas list - bring me the head of Joe Leiberman ... brain tumor recipients list ... Ann Coulter and threats to democracy ... Daily Show and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me as sole news sources ... Stephen Colbert (clown for our generation) on Bill O'Reilly ... when will those people see the light like I do? ... two party system promotes an exaggeration of conflict ... multi-party system ... Houston election ... episcopal church sending priest etc to the Catholic Church ... weekly pick: OmmWriter ... WriteRoom ... sculpture block remedy ... weekly pick: Michael Rhulman "Ratio" iPhone app essence of cooking food ... weekly pick: "Rocky" movie or "Pushing Daisies" tv show ... Columbus 500 - yup, it's a racetrack using downtown streets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WKKJ42QVYM
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Sun, 20 December 2009
Turning the tables on the telemarketers ... Indian firefighters ... peopleofwalmart.com ... wonders of cell phone cameras ... weekly pick: google goggles ... Snow Crash ... Vernon Vinge: Rainbow’s End ... A Fire Upon the Deep ... bucket o’ duck fat ... my kind of people ... a six pounder ... ruined a pair of shoes ... deep fried in a shallow pan ... bomb disposal trucks ... back when not top of the food chain ... seasoning the stove ... screen with handle ... weekly pick: blindside ... weekly pick: fivethirtyeight.com ... china climate awareness ... Obama Oslo speech ... we’ll get speeches like this ... Colbert afterward ... go back 600 years
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Sat, 5 December 2009
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Sat, 28 November 2009
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Mon, 23 November 2009
Bizarro world ... let me ground you ... ground you for a month ... the whole multiplication tables thing ... gee/guy, whatever ... IED job ... expertise: the Internet ... I can haz your social security number ... another job I don't want ... basement meth labs ... I did say that, yeah ... home invasion robbery ... meaning of lynch ... white bodies from trees ... maps.google.com/lynching ... the watchers ... no, they were perfectly fine people ... make people chipper ... porno on a plane ... hackers mess with your ring tone ... mini visor movies ... weekly pick: pixar short films ... standard dimensional portal ... bugs bunny on 2 martinis ... rabbit of Seville ... bugs is the only character ... funny the pants off you ... post-golden age ... jump the shark ... weekly pick: A Touch of Evil ... fmylife.com ... Ohio vs. Michigan wine clash ... weekly pick: David Chang, “Momofuku” cookbook ... pho que ... weekly pick: Modern Family ... weekly pick: Ryan Montbleau Band
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Wed, 11 November 2009
We are puzzled ... it's Richard -- get him! ... Dave is on location ... 3 hours sleep ... wiki Rocky Horror Picture Show ... as adviser, facilitator, cooling rod ... all right now kids ... gourds from another planet ... colored disco ball on a pedestal ... I don't believe you yet ... would I make this up ... goulos ... amusing governor ... what an amazing coincidence ... directed f-bomb ... facebook flair ... press button, get bacon ... skreened.com ... meatloaf hand, onion fingernails ... weekly pick: Rocky Horror Picture Show ... weekly pick: museumofhoaxes.com ... weekly pick: mafia ... weekly pick: rereading LOTR ... Thomas Covenant just not that good ... Zanzibar Buckbuck McFate
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Sat, 7 November 2009
Making it under the line ... a ten-minute show? No ... Skype on an iTouch ... JUST like Switzerland ... "I believe that's pig" ... the worst? Chicken ... seasons ... biking with children ... screw drives ... caramelized onions ... internet wine arrives ... the red savings button on the wall ... health care just happening ... NPR communicating effectively ... Obama v. Fox ... weekly pick: Superbad ... weekly pick: twitter feed, [poop]mydadsays ... weekly pick: iomega portable hard drive + Time Machine
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Sat, 31 October 2009
Usually one more window ... validating your paranoia ... my house podcasting ... windows 7 shudder ... hiding in the closet ... killing your progeny ... a little bit to mock people ... consider our driving habits ... oops, dead ... confirm that in a nonce ... 14.5 minutes later ... not a bad way to die ... screaming in the back of the taxi ... amazing medicine ... caffeine drip ... this is the plan? ... frogpaste tube ... a mouth with 4 legs ... 90% of the free food ... food backing ... is that your car over there? ... I saw one and then I knew ... so I could teach it to my daughter ... the power of logic nomenclature ... thinking: it's not for everyone ... Hoosiers ... Bull Durham ... weekly pick: The Capital Steps ... mystery meat ... pairing wine with camel ... camelpaste tube ... camelducken ... weekly pick: Michael Sandel, "Justice" ... weekly pick: Midshipman Hornblower ... game of wink frog trying to pull a house ... me-shaped impression in the snow ... I made an angel on you
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Wed, 14 October 2009
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Sat, 10 October 2009
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Wed, 30 September 2009
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Thu, 24 September 2009
Potential for awkwardness ... no, yes, totally doesn't work like that ... peg leg, peg leg ... sharing monty python ... Brazil lite ... practicing an apology ... supernatural good looks ... I wish I were Carey Grant ... old Carey Grant fine ... Dorothy Parker ... pearls before swine ... or vice versa ... liked Ayn Rand ... is Nixon British? ... play Godzilla without makeup ... face-brand actors ... Meryl Streep as The Wrestler ... the President called him a jerk ... denial of service is wrong ... Astroturf grass roots ... enemies quoting you for amusement ... the last day ... thanks a pantload ... weekly pick: Cerebus the Aardvark ... hawk consommé ... the whole pig ... 0-ten is out ... ... weekly pick: the Vietnam humanitarian ... weekly pick: C.S. Forrester, "The Good Shepherd" ... and if you don't like the Beatles ... weekly pick: rockband, beatles
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Sat, 19 September 2009
New version of skype death ... iPhone to iTouch ... iPhone tether ... there's unlimited data and then there's unlimited data ... clam bake! ... dinner for 500? No problem -- hey, where are the serving spoons? ... burned roof of mouth on best pizza in the world ... mystic pizza ... weekly pick: "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters," Gordon Dahlquist ... weekly pick: "The Art of Eating," Edward Behr ... weekly pick: flightcaster.com
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Sat, 12 September 2009
And then there were 4 ... lightning strike damaging computer components ... Richard's working on the weekend ... there's causation behind every correlation, no matter how remote ... chocolate covered bacon ... dave's road trip ... lava beds and caves ... timber contests ... crater lake ... isolated ecosystem ... weeks without internet ... illegal wireless poaching ... Lincoln Continental roadtrip ... just pop out the brakelight ... electrical converter for the car ... roasting coffee and smoking chickens for a 50th ... not offending a vegetarian ... weekly pick: John Colton's Code Monkey song ... weekly pick: gapminder.org ... weekly pick: www.informationisbeautiful.net
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Thu, 3 September 2009
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Mon, 24 August 2009
Recording in video (NOT!) ... Bear, Dave, and Mike ... sweat lodge ... lord of the flies in capture the flag ... Dave marshalling the tweens vs the teens ... agent modelling ... you can't handle the truth ... neutral experience with wasps ... oh the beemanity (http://tinyurl.com/beemanity) ... weekly pick: book "And Tango Makes Three" ... hide it in the non-fiction reference section ... Dar Williams ... bye Dave ... 60% chance of rain and hail ... he knows how to make mobile pizza ovens ... no pistachos on pizzas ... a well balanced pizza ... $14 hamburger restaurant ... 40% of the restaurant's costs are food? ... grass fed chicken ... weekly pick: handbrake, Mac software for ripping dvds to disk/ipods ... weekly pick: "Charcuterie" by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn - how to make pancetta ... it's good not to be kosher ... pink salt is nicely dangerous
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Fri, 24 July 2009
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Wed, 15 July 2009
Cell phone contact ... being absent ... robotics camp ... Watercourse Way ... Prius mapping ... ``Turn around'' ... the cookery demonstration ... it's not waterproof?!? ... What did you do to the tomatoes? ... culinary Ohio ... farms in Ohio ... torturing grapevines ... weekly pick: George Taber, the Judgment of Paris ... weekly pick: gdgt.com ... weekly pick: Monkey, Folk Novel of China ... weekly pick II: The Language of Bees
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Fri, 10 July 2009
Can we hear Dave now? ... Jon and Kate minus one ... a new reality show: the news ... Richard's back ... or not ... unscripted television ... running on county fair food ... better than bacon? Are you mad ... get out of the car of I'll tase me ... their ship of state should be unfettered ... you want to look in my BAG? ... do it again, do it again ... put them in a room with Lloyd ... gas mask training ... low grade current stories ... lighting the lightbulb in your hand ... Ripley's Believe it, OR NOT ... president ninja ... no-fly zone ... PETA: releasing flies into the wild ... what animal is too small ... releasing bacteria into the wild ... giant hypocrites ... antithetical to our way of life ... mortality reminders ... tragedy at the beach ... resignation of Palin ... enough rope to end the Republican Party ... picking on Palin ... strategy or just human life? ... not a very good strategist ... weekly pick: sendables.jibjab.com—hes_barack_obama
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Tue, 16 June 2009
It's not you, it's me ... Dave's all-nighters ... lying down in poppies ... Iranian voters ... winning fake elections ... last day of school week ... the Kindle DX ... Mike's daughter's texts ... iPhone etiquette ... snoring during conference calls ... Ohio wines ... dry wine people ... Gateway wines ... Pinot Noir ... tracking the center of the country ... strangemaps.wordpress.com—389-americas-mean-streak ... the gold bar again ... weekly pick: cellartracker.com / cor.kz ... weekly pick: Weeds ... weekly pick: Target ... the Ponzi economy ... growing food my steak eats
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Sat, 13 June 2009
Bee-sting allergies ... you mean I SHOULD listen to the voices? ... public service message: OOTS ... weekly pick: hat trick of pain killers ... detectable back pain ... excruciating, crucifying pain ... mud boots ... clay armor ... you can rot in hell ... recording expertise ... 20th reunion ... surviving vs. not surviving ... a bullet dodged ... a bunch of do-overs ... what are your intentions with my wife ... anti do-over ... bigger kindle ... reformatting pdf's ... the beauty of European paper sizes ... oh, and what's on TV ... the wonders of two screens ... http://www.necdisplay.com/Products/Product/?product=34f0e2d4-795b-4c4c-964d-da99e85a39fa ... hitting your peripheral vision ... weekly pick: passiveaggressivenotes.com ... weekly pick: gapminder.org ... positively geektastic ... multiple datagasms ... weekly pick: http://visualizeit.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/visualization-in-sports/
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Fri, 5 June 2009
Technical adjustments ... KMN, KMN ... stringing brain cells together ... oh, so I get to choose ... first concert post children ... medicine pantry ... compound fracture of the liver ... removing coin size piece of your skull ... turducken/trepanner combo ... night guy ... a lillet hangover ... just not plumber’s crack ... TV on the Radio ... deceptive Tom Stoppard ... the Hunger ... it was deliberate? ... weekly pick: howtosayin.com ... ``standing on a steet corner in Mumbai with an iPhone in my hand'' ... how would you squander $1,000? ... walkman? ... normally I’d be dead by now ... hexagonal bottle storage ... fondle an macbook air ... weekly pick: the gumption memorandum ... weekly pick: horrell.ca/file_download/7 ... weekly pick: Studs Terkel's Hard Times
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Sat, 23 May 2009
Regularity ... one-hand Harold Lloyd ... safety last ... the man's completely insane ... boxee vs. roku ... get me out of here chewy ... convenience nukes ... really fast hand driers ... Pride and Prejudice, Bride and Prejudice and Pride, and Prejudice and Zombies ... Captain Jack ... weekly pick: http://www.vimeo.com/3519159 robert parker's [w]itch ... weekly pick: video of why my spouse is amazing at news.cnnbcvideo.com ... Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, especially TANSTAAFL ... Patrick O'Brian exacting use of words
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Thu, 14 May 2009
Dave's connection issues ... Mike's 20-year college reunion ... going to off-year reunions ... who are they now ... restaurant prison breaks ... it's PG-13, Dave ... spoilers: Dave's kryptonite ... Kids In Mind: the half-empty part of the glass ... Netflix envelopes of doom ... I am Spartacus ... Firefly in XKCD ... XKCD's obscurity ... Spock and Heroes ... the cow in a can ... weekly pick: garagistewine.com, offbeat internet wine merchant ... weekly pick: Faultline, by Barry Eisler; The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan ... weekly pick: Star Trek ... stacking jello blocks ... Dexter ... Go ... playing chess in the park
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Sat, 9 May 2009
Richard, just un-mute ... diasporadic podcast of opportunity ... philandering skype ... let's hear it for H1N1 ... ninja cat ... small pork industry ... they'd done a dry rub ... you heard him pigs, f*** off ... bacon in the rain ... every picnic should be preceded by a hike ... bacon explosion v. 2 ... whole more or less the sum of the parts ... making me hungry ... Sweet Sue chicken in a can ... foodnetworkhumor.com—a-whole-chicken-in-a-can-yummo ... curb teen pregnancy photos ... weekly pick: Chuck ... the iocaine effect ... chopstick switch-hitter ... I, too, am not right handed ... the world's most condescending server ... they're side dishes ... weekly pick: Beer Wars ... weekly pick: Bottle Shock / The Judgment of Paris
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Mon, 20 April 2009
Dave and Chuck Norris ... Facebook Somali pirates ... pirates and kings ... taxes and piracy ... Daily Show and piracy ... cooler than beep ... not the armored suit zion ... ride 'em like you stole 'em ... cut it until it dies ... barcode hijinks ... urban iditarod ... cement cuddlers ... and wanted to date me ... facebook: the end of ``what happens on the road...'' ... there was this jello ... how did he know that was me ... how about a miller lite then ... weekly pick: the lychee martini ... lillet ... weekly pick: Pandora pay service ... weekly pick: ``The Windup Bird Chronicle,'' Haruki Murakami ... weekly pick: Zion national park
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Sat, 11 April 2009
Richard in NYC ... Dave being blocked by Skype? Naah, just asleep ... Richard's Easter in NYC ... dyeing eggs ... the Mini-Me Egg ... weird, wacky eggs ... making Ukrainian eggs -- from hard-boiled eggs ... Ukrainian lobotomies ... Dave and Ukrainian eggs ... Ethopian ninjas ... Predators ... reluctant Predator pilots ... recruiting a separate geek squad ... dy(e)ing rabbits ... possum recipe ... garbage-fed possum ... why pigs don't play dead ... ramps as harbingers of spring ... twitscoop ... the hive mind vs. traditional media ... weekly pick: twitchhiker.wordpress.com ... weekly picks: TheMime, common_squirrel on Twitter ... weekly pick: City of Ember ... Mike's first 30-year reunion
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Mon, 6 April 2009
Preemptively lost mike ... rights are left ... stuff warmed over, again? ... listener request ... brussels sprouts with Montreal steak seasoning ... fighting over the leftovers ... everything's better with bacon or nutella ... like a cabbage, but slimy ... to the bone ... brussels sprout confetti ... and on trucks ... and secretly gifted ... recipe for amber-something ... punk-in ... parsley cigarette ... [mangaleeza?] pig ... adorable massive pigs ... real good ... http://www.marriedtothesea.com/071108/tastes-of-the-swine.gif ... parts that are delicious ... gigantor the imperious ... make the crazy man go away ... Zathura ... we're meat ... I can see why they made this guy their leader ... yes, a sign ... weekly pick: Heavy Metal ... weekly pick: Castle in the Sky ... superpoop.com ... normally I'd be dead by now ... well, you know ... weekly pick: twitter ... follow my toots
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Thu, 2 April 2009
Hung over around the edges ... a whisky pot luck ... we've got the 23 year old ... I feel like stuff warmed over ... the perfect cure for a podcast ... the Kentucky whisky run ... more edible, less magic ... this is not a highway ... weekly pick: Christian the lion video ... unwanted circus animals ... we're fragile ... lions vs. water buffalo vs. crocodile ... zombie water buffalo ... weekly pick: academicearth.org ... importance of lecture vs. whole course ... dead pixel in google earth ... sheep pixels ... pole position ... weekly pick: "Mistress of the Art of Death," Ariana Franklin ... weekly pick: Voyage of the Dawn Treader ... marketing Christianity ... wiping out the zombie competition ... Jesus is not a vampire ... random acts of kindness to quit smoking ... meeting the someone from the Internet ... weekly pick: Pappy van Winkle 20 Year bourbon ... Pappy van Winkle nouveau ... creamy, tasty, shifting, delicious ... always mirror sensitive data to an outside system
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Sun, 22 March 2009
Why there's no show this week ... the dog zapper ... the origins of ``lifestrawed'' ... ok, really, no show this week!!
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Wed, 18 March 2009
Working in notepad ... loading s l o w l y ... vestigial formatting ... little peanut mind ... hitting undo ... WYSIAYG ... cross between a bureaucracy and a juggernaut ... jug-ocracy ... cloud computing for idiots ... hook up your twitter feeds ... that doesn't involve my social life, Professor ... tinyURL crashes ... www.tinyurl.com/peanuts-sincity ... weekly pick: Important Things, Demetri Martin ... weekly pick: momix ... Tonga Room, Fairmount Hotel ... endangered tiki kitsch ... pencil preferences ... weekly pick: Pentel sharp kerry mechanical pencil ... the mont blanc we're-still-better-than-you line ... judicious use of the mute button ... muting in the dark ... all pens are mine ... filling up the empty spaces with pens ... the kind of clients you don't need ... roller-bowling-ball pen ... desk size mousetrap ... OOTS & ERFworld at www.giantitp.com ... NSFW ... World Trade Federation!! ... Mike's going to lifestraw us again ... weekly pick: www.positivityratio.com/single.php ... grandma clean
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Sat, 7 March 2009
Logan's Run nakedness ... City of Ember ... amber habanero drinks ... nothing new in Eragon ... don't drink beer at a basketball game ... if it happens, they know who did it ... Mr. President you're not allowed to play ... we know you don't like beer ... earned a martini ... little house on the prairie ... bruce lee nun chuck ping pong ... weekly pick: amazing ping pong video ... rock paper scissors lizard Spock ... weekly pick: the Watchman, the book ... the Joker doesn't plan? ... quite a performance ... pear-Riesling yogurt ... skypuku ... ignore the spinning beachball ... smell of burning meat ... weekly pick: Rye whiskey ... anti-pick: Rī1 ... weekly pick: crumbled bacon ... anything without bacon tastes better with bacon ... weekly pick: roasted vegetables ... blazing vegetables ...Montreal tonsil sauce
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Sat, 28 February 2009
Shovel-ready ... fired! ... too much email at the wrong times ... email productivity tips ... downtime's bad ... Disneyland strategies ... streaming Netflix ... Dave being seduced by BluRay ... the remote ... smart electronics ... giving a talk upside down ... weekly pick: SaiSuke ... Kindle 2 as Hitchhiker's Guide ... e-readers and PDFs ... weekly pick: Google street view ... weekly pick: The Queen ... weekly pick: Youtube seadragon tech demo ( www.youtube.com—watch ) ... Seadragon iPhone app
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Sun, 22 February 2009
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Thu, 12 February 2009
Karate practice in the background ... the neutronium board ... weekly pick: O Brother, Where Art Thou? ... where's Mike? ... Latitude: Google Stalker ... can Mike come out to play? ... not drinking, drinking only to excess, and getting drunk only once a year, but being three years behind ... recipe for a drunken Dave: Zombie and B-52 ... weekly pick: the Rock o' Matics ... you call this a mudslide? ... how to make a mudslide ... hacking the drink computer ... hangin' at the pub ... 867-5309 ... soothing the bartender burn ... bar charades ... why it'd be so cool if everyone knew sign language ... email from the President ... weekly pick: www.jossip.com—occasions-for-barack-to-use-his-bad-boy-voice-20090206 ... Barack, bipartisanship, and the stimulus package ... American solutions
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Wed, 11 February 2009
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Fri, 6 February 2009
Good morning all ... thank you, AT&T ... 4 a.m. voicemails ... Richardless ... Dave's mom's celebration of life ... golden coronas ... why the memorial was so long after her death? now I get it ... enough food that there wasn't cheese ... Dave's family's equivalent of a wake ... The Optimist's Creed ... Obama-ness ... Presidential tweets ... can't tell ya, can't tell ya ... the Plaxo virus ... the invisible splinter ... ``We are downtrodden!'' ... weekly pick: Flixster for iPhone ... Slumdog Millionaire ... Obama's executive orders ... unwinding standard operating procedures ... toasting the inauguration with Scotch ... lip-syncing at the inauguration ... swearing him in AGAIN ... Fox News: Leaping to the fore ... ADD Theater ... license plate NCC-1701 ... weekly pick: Rock Band for the Wii ... non-age-appropriate lyrics ... weekly pick: whitehouse.gov
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Sat, 24 January 2009
Better stronger faster internet service ... lying about bandwidth ... memorial services ... didn't make it above zero ... snow cocktails ... a cocktail out of anything that doesn't move ... vodka infused vodka ... where are my gloves ... he thinks its cold ... world's largest sports fan ... layering for 25 degree football ... football from the crows nest ... thermo tourism ... air turned to fluid ... brain started superconducting ... a deer friend ... spit freeze before it hits the sidewalk ... ice would dramatically warm up the spit ... hit with both engines together ... well-placed faith in humanity ... a forest of porta-potties ... couldn't watch the rest of W's speech ... a sad spectacle ... we'll just feel better about it ... Road to Rushmore ... you sure you want this job, man? ... weekly pick: boxee.tv ... no, THIS is surround sound ... weekly pick: 4D theater ... weekly pick: mario cart wii ... weekly pick: adobe photoshop
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Thu, 15 January 2009
Gathering the troops ... weekly pick: sleep ... the book was - twang ... the only thing they disagree on is foreign ... bring your own catheter ... party in our own state ... the golden ticket effect ... 7.2% unemployed plus 1 ... why can't a criminal behave honorably ... only a presumptive slimeball ... Burress' mausoleum resume ... wise man 'Tapow ... I did not mean Thieves Guild ... Bear’s 9th wedding anniversary ... ceramic elements in speakers ... apple TV ... terabyte harddrive at home depot ... chef: go nuts ... gin infused salmon ... rabbit wrapped in bacon – and stuffed in a duck ... Tintin wrapped in bacon ... that is sarong ... now you're in trouble because I'm full ... 4 hour later when we rolled out of the place ... cab the 2 blocks to our car ... weekly pick: Jackie Chan Movies ... falling up a wall ... weekly pick: Heroes ... TV episodes a la carte ... wireless solution sucks ... didn't they learn with Betamax ... weekly pick: Flight Explorer ... weekly pick: Fring
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Sat, 10 January 2009
So needing a vacation from a vacation ... introduced to In-and-Out burger ... failed: unknown error ... a disgusting American food ... fast food for slow foodies ... flu, again ... never been so happy to have pneumonia ... 780 in a cab ... ready to strangle kittens ... beignet? ... new years at 9:30 ... the ball drop on You Tube ... extra man-I'm-getting-older day ... anti-resolution ... get round to it day ... relationship with a gym ... weekly pick: wii fit ... shoveling beignet ... Ohio: #1 in porn downloads ... weekly pick: Pandora for the iPhone ... Pandora needs money, badly ... weekly pick: netflix + tivo ... evil cable companies ... weekly pick bait-and-switch ... 81 degree doctor's office ... weekly pick: Don't Make Me Laugh ... weekly pick: Balderdash and Balderdash II ... doing pushups on a postage stamp ... the yurt
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