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Wii U To Launch Globally by End of 2012
Thanks to the stress of investors and Nintendo’s first annual...
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Science Valentines by Stephanie Burrows Fox
Get them from here! Order before February 8th
mmmmm Brian Cox
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20 Things in 2011 by Ars Thanea
The collective group of Peter Jaworowski and Michal Lisowski took some of the most notable calamities of last...
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This definitely makes no sense.
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Stellar moment, bro.
Oscar Best Picture Nominees
The Help
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Descendants
The Artist
Hugo
Midnight In Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
full list should be posted soon at oscars.org
30 Japanese Giant Hornets kill 30,000 Honey Bees
let the bodies hit the floor
(via Ben)
I travel to a backwoods community center that turns out to be a commune for cultists and radicals. They request contributions for an up coming “field trip” and then kill their visitors by first covering them in a flammable rubbery paste made cotton balls and gasoline and then locking them in a room with fire breathing bees.
![Hahahaha. This happens weirdly often. The first time Katie (my girlfriend at the time) made the connection was pretty funny. She comes through the door to find me playing Guitar Hero.
[Katie] “Why are you playing in the dark?”[Me] “It was light out when I started.”
It happens less these days but only because I plan ahead and turn on the light unnecessarily early in the day.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx7lt9PKVl1qcqorzo1_400.jpg)
Hahahaha. This happens weirdly often. The first time Katie (my girlfriend at the time) made the connection was pretty funny. She comes through the door to find me playing Guitar Hero.
[Katie] “Why are you playing in the dark?”
[Me] “It was light out when I started.”
It happens less these days but only because I plan ahead and turn on the light unnecessarily early in the day.
(via fuckyeahrandomstupidity)
There is no spoon. Meet actor Rowan Witt, age 23. Now don’t you feel old.
Katie and I are watching The Matrix DVD commentary right now. Lost of interesting insights.
- Roughly 20% of all frames were digitally altered which was an enormous proportion at the time.
- Shooting in Sydney proved difficult when they needed to find derelict neighborhoods and alleys. Apparently the city just doesn’t have slums or run down neighborhoods in the same way that most American and British cities do. The city is just too nice!
- The Helicopter crash was just about the only scene in which a small scale model was used.
- The lobby scene took about ten days to shoot (for about 3:00 of film) and all the columns, all the explosions, all the stunts are real. Only about two stuntmen shots were used in the entire scene.
- Carrie-Ann Moss was only given one take to land her off the wall cartwheel (with the help of some wire work) because it took about 6-8 hours to reset any one of the columns.
This game is just fantastic. Fortunately Katie shares my love for it.
The only tension occasionally comes when one of us tries to watch the other play. Katie wouldn’t dream of commanding her character (also a young brunette female named Katie) to do anything immoral; to do anything she herself would not do. I on the other hand will do just about anything it takes to make my character more powerful.
Its kinda funny to watch her squirm as she watches my guy lie, steal, cheat or even murder just to obtain some unique ring or dagger. I feel the same way watching her character spend hours running in game errands just so that some non-player controlled character will give her a key or book that could have just as easily been obtained through more nefarious means, like a quick arrow in the back.
Creates a fun dynamic though. Wouldn’t trade it for anything.
(pic via chris f)
Happy Birthday Katie!
Today I get to celebrate my wife’s 26th birthday. I am so thrilled to be able to call myself part of her family even though I am relatively new on the scene. I will never get enough time with this woman.
She also has not one but two blogs better than mine. So check them out. (kquizzo | ourlittleplace)
I am hoping to start moving away from simply re blogging funny photos and to start putting a lot more personal thoughts and original content on this page. The new theme I chose (Single A) reflects that change in focus. The text posts should read a lot easier and there is a lot more clean space. But don’t worry, animals doing stupid things and people falling on their faces will still dominate the “Posts I Like” feed in the right hand margin and the best stuff will obviously make its way onto the main page.
I really enjoyed hunting down a new theme and this one was the clear winner. I was very drawn to the green social networking buttons on the right as well as the custom redirect links above my title. However, keep in mind that the search function is still terrible. That is tumblr’s fault and is the biggest reason why will continue to make sure to use plenty of tags for all of my posts.
Please provide any feedback on the new layout. This theme is very customizable, so I can make changes here and there to make it read better. Also please let me know if any links are broken. I just threw them all up in an evening and wouldn’t’ be surprised if i had miscopied something.
please hang with me while i fiddle with all the options available to me. ill post again when i feel like i have it all how i want it.
My Best of 2011 - an addendum
When I post My Best of 2011 a few weeks ago I completely forgot this category, my favorite book. And for good reason; I had read just 3 books in 2010, all in the last few months of the year. But this year I got a library card, kindle touch, and a goodreads.com account (beckelmann). As a result I was able to polish off 16 books, all but 3 in the last half of the year. And so my favorite of the bunch are:
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Princess Bride
Next year should be even more productive in this category. My goal is going to be to read 26 books this year. 26 would be continuing at the rate I have been going for the last six months. Plus it is one more than Katie’s stated goal of 25. Hahaha.
Wipeout Track Using Quantum Levitation
(via ben)
A friend of mine admits he is afflicted with an addiction where he sneaks out in the night, heads into the woods, finds moose pee, freezes it, and gnaws on his moose pee ice in guilt filled privacy.
I have decided to start documenting some of the stranger things I dream about. Here is the first of what will hopefully be many bizarre excerpts
11/8/2011
At a banquet style dinner in a new town it is revealed that I have been chosen as a sacrifice so that this 45 year old bearded man can have his teeth back that he lost in an accident years ago.
This list is not meant to be a comprehensive review, it will only include things I have experienced in the last year and my decision will be completely dependent on MY experience . Finally entries need not be released/debuted in 2011. All that matters is that I enjoyed them this last year.
The first entry is my winner. The runners-up are roughly ordered but less thought was given after the number one slot.
Single Player Video Game
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Portal 2
Dragon Age Origins
Batman Arkham City
Online Multiplayer Video Game
Gears of War 3
Modern Warfare 3
Offline Multiplayer Video Game
Portal 2
Gears of War 3
Video Game Achievement
100% FC Half of All 670 On-Disc Guitar Hero Songs
MW3 Triple and Double Collateral Kill Feed
Live Music Experience
Foo Fighters in the rain @ Lollapalooza (1:17)
Avenged Sevenfold @ Welcome to the Family Tour
The Valient Thorr @ The Congress
The fan behind me @ The Honda Civic Tour
Band
Avenged Sevenfold
Bullet For My Valentine
Foo Fighters
Song
Avenged Sevenfold - Lost
Foo Fighters - Walk
Marilyn Manson - This is the New Shit
The Lonely Island - Jack Sparrow
Restaurant
Next (Childhood)
Palo (Disney Dream)
Benjyehuda
Pro Sports Moment
I cheer Patriots, Red Sox, Spurs. Its been a tough year.
Movie - Drama/Action
Drive
Gone Baby Gone
Primer
Movie - Comedy
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Bridesmaids
Movie - Horror
Paranormal Activity 3
Rosemary’s Baby
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Television Show
Parks and Recreation
Breaking Bad
The League
Web Site
Spotify
Goodreads
Google+
Personal Experience
On July 3rd I married my wife, Katie. Best thing I’ve ever done.
4 nfl quarterbacks need to average less than 330 passing yds/game through the last 3 games to break marino’s single season passing record of 5084.
brees (239) @min alt car
brady (271) @den mia buf
rodgers (320) @kc chi det
eli (327) wsh @nyj dal
im very excited to watch this story line unfold. can you imagine if eli breaks the record and finishes fourth!
