December 2008
63 posts
Hulu's Counting Down to 2009 →
livejamie:
Hulu will be live-streaming the event straight from New York City
Thankful I’m not in the cluster but will enjoy watching everyone else.
GPOYW Theme PSA
Tomorrow the debauchery of new years eve will be upon us and since there is no Y2k, lets make this a GPOYW new year! It will probably be a lagged gpoyw but I still encourage everyone to participate.
Either some 2009 glasses, a new years hat, adult beverage in your hand, or I’d even be okay with documenting your 12:00 makeout because you may not remember it but Tumblr will. Have a safe new...
Male Skillset
As a man I believe there should be several basic skillsets in your man repertoire. These may either be taught or learned going through life as a dude.
How to swing a hammer
Sounds simple enough but watch someone who’s never driven a nail
Drive a manual transmission
Not necessarily ‘manly’ but a good skill to have should a situation ever arise
Throw a punch
It...
Just woke up dream log for later WTF analysis
My friend and I were driving in small town USA when a Lamborghini Gallardo and Ferrari Testarossa come screaming by both with car alarms blaring. 2 Cop cars quickly take chase right as both cars turn into a vacant parking lot where the drivers flee and jump the fence to a busy summertime pool.
Still driving, we come up on a stop a sign and notice a male and female hitchhiker and opt to pick them...
The Life of a Bearded Amateur
From Billy Mays to political figures to Santa Claus the beard has been a symbol of masculinity and power. The beard can be represented in many shapes and forms either for form or function. For me, it has been an everyday reminder that I did this on purpose for whatever reason and with every new facial hair adventure comes an unanticipated set of problems. They go as follows:
Blowing your...
GPOYW - For the Holidays
The gratuitous picture of yourself Wednesday offices are closed today, but may I encourage everyone to post a picture of you being surrounded by the ones you love and care about most, your family. Gratuity is fun but family gratuity is better. Simple math.
So go back to your eggnog cheerios and I will see everyone in a week. GPOYW new years eve next week, start drinking water now.
Scion Open 2009 →
If you live in Kansas City or St. Louis, check this out. We launched the site today. Snowboard tourney at Snow Creek, Hidden Valley (St. Louis), and downtown KC. Yeah we are putting on a snowboard tournament in downtown KC. Shizzle!
5 Destinations to Watch in 2009 →
What’s that? Oh right, Kansas City is on this list. (tipster)
Friday Check List
Friday December 19th:
Christmas shopping done - none
Project beard going well
Ramones Christmas playing on Pandora
Margarita Friday starts at 4:00pm
New Years eve plans - done
Landed Chiefs tickets for final home game of the season
1 unopened box of Cheezits at my house for weekend
Do I have pants on - yes
GPOYW Recap →
And there is it, the result of 100% gratuity at it’s finest. I recommend everyone take a minute and scan through the wonderful people that participate in the weekly wonder that is GPOYW. Find someone new to follow or just discover a new crush/someone to e-stalk. Thanks as always for keeping the dream alive.
See you all in 6 days!
Watch10 Best SNL Digital Shorts
Punched before eating by far my favorite. Complete stupidity and the wtf factor we all expect from Andy Samberg.
GPOYW Theme PSA
With tomorrow being the middle for week and more commonly know as Wednesday means that GPOYW is fast approaching. The GPOYW committee (me) has decided that this weeks theme will be based on the second best holiday movie ever Home Alone. A Christmas Story is #1 one obviously.
So what I’d like to see is your best Kevin McCallister “aghghghrhrhhgh” face. Easy enough where...
Top Ten Essential Bars for the Ultimate K.C. Bar... →
hilker:
1. The Phoenix Jazz Bar 2. Harry’s Country Club 3. Waldo Pizza Tap Room 4. 75th Street Brewery 5. Harling’s Upstair’s Bar & Grill 6. Davey’s Uptown 7. Pierpont’s (at Union Station) 8. Harry’s Bar and Tables 9. The Peanut (at 50th and Main) 10. O’Malley’s underground Irish bar in Weston
nine to go…
I’m 4 for 10. Office pub crawl Monday will mostly like fill in a few blanks.
How to get Xbox Live to stop complaing about...
marco:
It’s not a UPnP problem, nor will any combination of port-forwards work.
Switch to Static-Port mode, and it starts working immediately with no additional firewall or NAT rules.
This took me forever to find tonight.
(Information contributed to the internet for the benefit of other people looking for it eventually.)
Quick fix in dd-wrt. Wonderful.
Circle of Life
Many elements in my life can be classified into series of small unfortunate events and tonight is easily placed with this categorization. What I anticipated as a soon-to-be-eaten can of chicken noodle soup turned out to be a mispurchased soon-to-be-eaten-because-I-already-heated-it-up can of split pea and ham soup. The taste can easily described as two or three notches below as gross as it...
Carl Peterson Resigns!!@@#%^&** →
holy. baby. jesus. There is a football god in Kansas City.
Harsh Reality of the Day
I can schmooze, bullshit, and sell an idea any day of the week but when asked to create a visually pleasing graphic presentation I feel like someone has asked me to design and engineer the next lunar rover.
My sense of spacial design and aesthetics is that of a five year old. I know what I like and don’t like however I do not have the means to reach an end result that doesn’t induce...
WatchFIA 2008 F1 Championship in 8 minutes. Love me some F1 along with this well cut video and music.
My Journey to Mac
10/16 - Purchased my first MacBook ever
11/07 - MacBook does not boot, taken to Apple Store for repair
11/12 - 5:45pm Receive phone call MacBook repair complete
11/12 - 7:00pm MacBook freezes and again does not boot
11/13 - Go into Apple Store for repair where my computer is quickly diagnosed as paperweight and given a new MacBook for my trouble.
That is customer care corporate America, take...
Ten Rules for Being Human by Cherie Carter-Scott
she-thinks:
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that...
GPOYW Recap →
This was a biggin’. Thanks to everyone playing along as always and keeping the gpoyw dream alive! And as a side note, a big congrats to our fearless leaders at Tumblr HQ for be awarded a huge chunk of funding today. I’d give you guys a cookie but eated ‘em.
See you all in 6 days!
KC Tumblr Lunch @ Grinders West →
hilker:
i met up with some of yourdp’s peeps for lunch today at grinder’s west, which just opened today, has awesome food (i can’t stop talking about the smoked gouda potato casserole), and tonight, is bringing you everything on the menu for $5.
anyhoo, the tables, it appears, are all created by various different artists. ours was a diorama of pre-leaf &...
Note to the General Public currently seeking a Job
If you are sending a resume, please do not include every conceivable activity you have participated in since emerging from the womb. It’s not impressive, it’s annoying.
GPOYW Theme for Tomorrow
Tomorrow is that wonderful day of the week where you put your face on the Internet and everyone gets mad because it gratuitous. Duh.
Theme: Find your most ridiculous stocking hat/cap and put it on. Hot or cold, cloudy or sunny, do it! Again the theme is optional but merely an addition to the awesomeness that is your Wednesday. See you all tomorrow!
Mom's Birthday call
whytluda:
so it’s my mom’s birthday today and so naturally as her favorite son, i called. as stated before there isn’t much to talk about. my xmas list came up once or twice. DP’s ridiculous xmas list came up, and something about our fat cat at home.
next for some reason i decided to inform mom about the DMCA incident. this is what my mom concluded.
“your illegal downloading is part of a...
The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, free, online →
unalone:
If you haven’t read every single strip, quit work tomorrow and read this.
10 Best Beers of Christmas according to Florida →
10. Delirium Noel 9. Penn St. Nicholas Bock 8. Scaldis Noel 7. Lump of Coal 6. Santa’s Butt Porter 5. De Dolle Stille Nacht 4. Samichlaus 3. Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale 2. Avery Old Jubilation 1. Anchor Our Special Ale
I sadly have not have any of these but the Christmas Ale I enjoyed the other night was quite good.
Holiday Sweater Generator →
(via ianbroyles)
The United States of Toyota →
thatguyben:
A book by Peter De Lorenzo, of Autoextremist.
“If you can read The United States of Toyota book without repeatedly banging your head on your desk in frustration at the self-destructive transgressions committed by Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and the United Auto Workers, you are either dim-witted or work at Toyota”
Non-union employees and competitive pay/benefits. ...