February 2011
1 post
A Preview →
It seems that I am terrible at chronicling events in my daily life even though I am getting better at living them. Harper is sitting up now and babbling away, always happy to see me even if she…
January 2011
1 post
And Then She Was →
Harper Mae Berthume was born on November 10, 2010. As of today that was last year. I had been putting videos out at a pretty good clip, and then when I started my new business venture that slowed…
December 2010
2 posts
eaglewheeler:
We have been having great success using BaseCamp from @37signals, @freshbooks, and @proposable. All terrific tools!
November 2010
1 post
This is my rad company
eaglewheeler:
We are now Tumbling our behind-the-scenes happenings - and taking your questions - at http://inthegreenbox.com/ #tumblr
October 2010
3 posts
Stephanie, Molly, and Laila →
The Week 28 Montage →
Diana paints a mural, the dogs go nuts at Wiggly Field, Grampa Gar and Gramma Tammy stop by, and Dr. Valenti? Still pumped.
September 2010
11 posts
Hello world! →
Halo: Reach →
I was a Playstation kid and shunned the original XBox for a long time, and so I totally missed the original Halo. By the time I wised up and gave Microsoft a chance, it was 2004 and Halo 2…
Baseball! →
Peanut Butter Puffins →
I like to think I’m a bit of an expert on breakfast cereals. It sits on the shortlist of things in this plane of existence that I truly love, and ever since I was young, I have cultivated…
Brutus, A Tragic Hero →
At The Dive-In →
Machete →
Machete is really, really violent. If you are the kind of person who is turned off by anything gratuitous in a movie, this one is not for you. However, if you have a special place in your heart set…
Wish Wires →
Infant Daughter Countdown 2010 – Week 26: Nursery... →
Show Us Your Longshots!
longshotmag:
We like to think of Longshot as an exercise in creativity. By imposing constraints on time and topics, we hope to inspire people (ourselves included) to create something wonderful. And while one of our greatest thrills is reading and viewing all of the amazing work that people produce during those first 24 hours, it’s a real bummer that we can’t publish everything.
So. We’re using...
Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage →
Let’s be honest: you either love Rush, or you totally hate them. I have never met anyone who thought they were ‘okay’, and if I did, I would kick them in the butthole for lying…
August 2010
26 posts
Infant Daughter Countdown 2010 – Catching Up,... →
Working From Home →
I attended the Glenn Beck’s Victims Rally remotely. If you want to know why someone like Glenn Beck – a media personality leveraging his media power to make political noise – is so dangerous /…
Logitech Illuminated Keyboard →
Normally I write long reviews, but I broke that pattern with The Expendables. My reasoning for that shorter review was simply that there wasn’t much to say. Explosions, crazy stuff, fun, shitty…
Brutus Is A Tragic Hero →
Right now Brutus is asleep in our bed at my feet. We brought him home a little more than three years ago. The lady from the shelter told us he had “a touch of kennel cough,” so we didn’t worry about…
Can’t Be Tamed →
Betsy:
It’s only been this year that I’ve been weary of putting my photos online.
I would like to put all of my photos online so my friends can see them, but I’m weary of employers lurking.
Frosty Drive N – Denton, TX →
I like old things. It is no surprise that I love the Frosty Drive N building, a post-war burger joint off 377 that looks like it came from the set of Hollywood Knights. It has the crazy-angles…
Kelvin Robert, Facebook Prince →
I got a Facebook friend request from Kelvin Robert, someone I didn’t know. He had no friends. Obviously, I added him.
Soon, I received this message:
Kelvin Robert August 11 at 6:59pm
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What You Should Be Doing →
I should be either sleeping or finishing the final draft of my thesis, but instead I am sitting up in bed and watching [adult swim]. My plan had been to come home from the weekly dinner we have with…
Lifestyle Guide – Vanity License Plates →
Don’t do this. It’s not funny. It’s not clever. You’re not contributing anything to society by telling other drivers that you are indeed “1GR8DOC”. The only thing you’ve accomplished has been to add…
I Smirk When I Say “Shared Burden” →
Econo-moist Dr. Ken Mayland proposes an idea he swears is pure whimsy, but one that brings about an occasion to “share the necessary sacrifice:” everyone should take a 10 percent paycut! This…
Summer Poems: III →
The Expendables →
The Expendables is exactly what you think it is.
The writing and dialog are terrible. The action is incredibly macho and awesome.
I would write more, but that’s really all there is to…
A New Morality →
Ernest Hemingway, on morals:
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
-from “Death In The Afternoon” 1932
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The Shack →
SPOILER ALERT: This book is pretty damn weird.
So, a while back one of my wife’s friends recommended this book to her, and said recommendation was then passed along to me. Ordinarily,…
Whut
Small Talk →
I saw a friend for the first time in a few years at lunch the other day. We hadn’t planned to eat together, but we ended up at the same place and caught up for a few minutes.
It turns out he was…
The Other Guys →
Since the advent of the critical essay, a particular problem has always faced the author in review of movies or plays or books: how to communicate that a work is worthwhile and what in particular…
The Other Guys →
The Other Guys is a movie that sets out to be very funny and a little thoughtful and accomplishes both.
The Hunger Games | Catching Fire →
Young Adult books have to walk a line that most other books do not: the storytelling has to be terrific up and down to make up for the depth and narrative gravity they lack by design. This means…
TWEET IT, BRO →
Oh, hello. I didn’t see you there!
Did you know that, while we rag on people plenty live and direct on this site, we also do it within 140 characters on Twitter?
oh god fail…
Sitting Still →
The impermanence of everything – even those things imbued with power by a society’s collective history or an individual’s perception – is striking.
Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico... →
As long as I’ve been familiar with Outkast, I have been incredibly impressed with the lofty philosophy and semiotics in the work they produce. I think you can clearly draw a line in their music from…
Summer Poems: II →
Gasland →
Gasland is a film concerning things that you can’t do much about as an individual: A massive multinational energy company shows up in your neighborhood (or state, or region, depending) after…
Denton Sushi Jamboree →
I’m the first to admit, I’m no sushi connoisseur. I like what I like, and every now and again I’ll get adventurous with some new kind of sashimi, but I’m never going to be the dude ordering a big…
July 2010
34 posts
At the Dive-In →
Approximately forty minutes after finding out I’m going to have a daughter, I began to transform into an Uptight Dad. I recognize this transformation now. During high school I ran into…
Infant Daughter Countdown 2010, Part II →
We’ve set a standard here. Sorry, other husbands.
Video Review: Inception →
Nursery Painting Day →
Nursery Painting Day
One of my favorite pictures from yesterday. We’ve had three solid weekends of toil, getting the house ready for the impending arrival of Princess Beyonce.
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