tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78344952024-03-13T11:09:25.256-05:00Argonautical RamblingsOne man types...nobody reads...repeat...grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.comBlogger897125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-53211923665972660972010-10-11T07:11:00.000-05:002010-10-11T10:18:04.111-05:00After all, Elmo seems equally disinterested in both...I have a hard time believing that Elmo was traumatized by Katy Perry's decollatage after discovering that he had already "been around the block"... Compare and contrast:So I am left with the understanding that cleavage that sings pop songs is "bad" while equally impressive cleavage that sings Bizet is "good".Thanks, Sesame Street!grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-30891137357957768492010-07-10T01:11:00.003-05:002010-07-10T01:22:28.192-05:00Returning to baseIt's been almost a year since my last post. Sure, I'll admit I got caught up in all the hoopla about Facebook for a while. But lately I'm finding myself getting kind of tired about it. I missed the regularness of just blogging. Where I can form and use complete sentences and where I am sheltered from the Farmvilles, the quizzes, and the people you didn't really know in school but you felt toogrrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-45154206066822430502009-03-30T22:03:00.003-05:002009-03-30T22:05:15.482-05:00Quickie - Save the children!Anyone want to bet that this school has an abstinence-only sex-ed policy?Just another legacy of the past eight years...grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-33827702939557241572009-03-25T06:50:00.000-05:002009-03-25T08:01:40.077-05:00One of many, latelyOne annoying thing about Facebook is the ridiculousness of the ads. I mean, not only to they appear to have been designed by 8 year olds* but almost all of them are for fraudulent or potentially illegal activities**. But every not and then I'll see one that I find amusing, but not for the reason you might think. Consider the following:Let's consider the power of simile for a moment. So buyinggrrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-45369026826160290672009-03-23T16:53:00.003-05:002009-03-23T17:05:47.325-05:00I'm bringin' Tesla back...yeah!I think I'm starting to like Tesla Coil music a little too much, but this is awesome.My only wish is that you could hear Sexyback a little better while the coils are working. As it is you can pretty much just hear the bassline.SexyBack vs. Legend of Zelda Theme on Two Tesla Coils from Trammell on Vimeo.grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-57829068263589837202009-03-19T06:39:00.002-05:002009-03-19T07:46:01.130-05:00Weird search resultsYesterday I received an email from my mom. She's really gotten into emailing lately, presumably because it's one of the easiest and more reliable ways to get a hold of me, other than text message (which my dad is now better at than I am). Anyway, mom mentioned Grrrcat several times, asking how he is and whatnot.I only mention this because as I was reading this in my gmail browser, the "sponsored grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-30149127879147593092009-03-09T12:35:00.001-05:002009-03-09T15:38:26.124-05:00Quickie - Recess? I'd say so!Just when you think government is comprised of adults...video emerges of an actual city council meeting somewhere where a kid in the audience uses one of the plethora of iPhone fart sound apps to add his own - shall we say "color commentary"?Kid Uses Fart Machine During City Council Meeting - watch more funny videosOf course, if I were in that situation, I'd probably laugh too. Who am I kidding grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-83293533627916795842009-03-06T12:21:00.000-06:002009-03-06T13:25:21.257-06:00You're welcome, music fans!Had to make a change to my blog template over lunch today because the old template - in all its fascist glory - wouldn't adapt itself well to either large image or video posts. While I could mostly live with that, I couldn't live with the fact that it wouldn't show the full width of hte new Current widget! So begone "Scribe"! Consider yourself exiled!Yay! Now I can listen to the current grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-9362213200608676712009-03-06T06:38:00.002-06:002009-03-06T08:42:42.660-06:00In the battle of science vs. politics - my money is (sadly) on politicsYou know, as much as I love living in Chicago, there is a bizarre dichotomy between how the city tries to position itself as a modern, sophisticated urban center (see: 2016 Olympic bid, Alinea, Magnificent Mile, fantastic cultural institutions) and how the rest of the state seems heck-bent on celebrating it’s ignorance. It’s sort of like your one friend in high school who was the eccentric, grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-68531854606388871742009-03-05T12:09:00.001-06:002009-03-05T13:12:12.813-06:00Facebook...meh.<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-69003363635692619272009-01-20T13:01:00.001-06:002009-01-20T14:08:31.677-06:00WTF Yahoo?On the current front page of Yahoo is coverage of the inauguration speech and hoopla.Also, an opportunity for the American people to review what various fashion talking heads have to say about Michelle's fashion choices.For the love of pete, Yahoo. The man just finished a speech in which he talked about the need to "put away childish things", grow up and take responsibility for making hard grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-15813962458171535992008-11-25T16:58:00.002-06:002008-11-25T17:23:52.302-06:00Ahhhh.....Greetings from Maui! I tell you, if any of you out there get the opportunity to come here, not only should you say yes, but you should quit your job so that you have enough time to truly appreciate it.The first day we arrived the weather was a little rainy, but since then it's been *gorgeous*. Pretty much sunny and mid-80s every day, but unlike back in the midwest where heat like that is grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-60259396945885987562008-11-22T09:59:00.000-06:002018-03-28T17:06:08.683-05:00THIS MY JAM!Because I forgot to post this before...here's something to watch while the GF and I wing our way to Maui!
It's the GF's second ad she made for the Current. This one didn't get on air, but honestly I thought it had better non-sequiteur one liners than her first one for the Prius.
grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-20540432884452124382008-11-21T16:22:00.002-06:002008-11-21T16:38:04.493-06:00Update on the eyeFor those of you playing along at home, I'm taking a quick break from packing for Maui and doing laundry to relate the story of my followup appointment with the retinologist on Wednesday. At the first appointment she had given a bunch of different treatment options. We started with steroids for 10 days and when I went back in the spot was still there. When the doctor looked at it and ran some grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-50803159648008883132008-11-21T05:33:00.000-06:002008-11-21T05:33:00.985-06:00Warning - don't read over a plate of noodlesA woman in Arizona was recently suffering from numbness in her arm and blurred vision went into her doctor for a diagnosis. After some tests, a CAT scan, and eventually an MRI, they discovered a tumor in her brain. Of course, surgery was scheduled. But when the doctors arrived at the site of the tumor, they found – not a tumor – but a worm. The full story is here, but the most interesting partgrrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-21486120458926475342008-11-20T05:54:00.000-06:002008-11-20T05:54:01.006-06:00Double Entendre anyone?Umm...is it just me, or is this the most brilliantly-named "as seen on tv" product *ever*?I mean, really? Shoulder straps are *that* uncomfortable? Really?Why do I get this feeling that this whole thing is just a joke dreamed up by some millionaire who just wanted to buy ad space for his made-up product with the somewhat pervy name...anyone know what Bill Gates is doing these days now that he'sgrrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-88504705866429054272008-11-19T05:50:00.001-06:002008-11-19T05:50:00.339-06:00Also note: no black people?Am I the only one who gets a little annoyed at these ads? I mean, so there's no difference between a Bounty Hunger and a Criminal Investigator - they both just wear fedoras? Redheads are only suited for being a psychologist or a therapist? Where's the bald guy? What am *I* supposed to do for a living? Is there no place for me?Let me tell you I have friends who are CI's and he is *SOOO* not grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-31571717455678791042008-11-18T18:00:00.001-06:002008-11-18T18:01:43.449-06:00Quickie - Love is all about communicationEarlier today through the magic of the internet I was listening to 89.3 The Current out of Minneapolis at work when they decided to play “I’m a Believer” by the Monkees. Being a hopeless romantic, I decide to call the GF and tell her about it because she lurves the Monkees. She wasn’t at her desk so I just left her a voice mail of the song by putting the headphone up to the mic so her voice grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-80923313413215703202008-11-18T17:37:00.000-06:002008-11-18T17:37:01.033-06:00Future Generations of Bears will Praise MeThose of you paying very close attention* may have noticed that my position in the Cubs queue has changed! That's right b*tches, I'm now only 60 people away from crackin the top 30,000! Woo-hoo!Of course, this means that only 65 new people got tix this year. Doing the math, that means if we keep up this rate I'll get my season tickets in...um...about 462 years.Congratulations great, great, grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-51227099868227379722008-11-17T18:25:00.004-06:002008-11-17T18:49:49.338-06:00Stress and travelAll right, time for an update.After wrapping up a particularly intense travel month for work (October) I woke up a few weeks ago with a small, odd distortion in my left eye. I didn't pay it much mind for a few days until I saw a work report that was supposed to have text in a box had a warped corner in the lower right instead of a right angle. Being a big fan of right angles in boxes, I took grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-71201674731841281952008-10-31T12:40:00.001-05:002008-10-31T12:42:56.021-05:00HAPPY Halloween! AAOOOOOOOOOO!!!!How awesome is this? Some guy laid down 64 tracks of him making random mouth sounds and it magically turns into a near-perfect rendition of Michael Jackson's Thriller! And just in time for Halloween! What are the odds!?!?See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.Laugh if you want, but deep inside you know it's awesome and are jealous you didn't think of it first. Especially grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-88719898896717144802008-10-17T06:20:00.000-05:002008-10-17T09:22:28.976-05:00Sickness and Prairie Dawn the MinxOnce again, I have found myself cursed with a cold. And once again, I have the GF to blame for it. It’s really not fair – the same cold she had for approximately 4 hours has struck me down for the better part of a week. So much for the myth about how living in the upper Midwest makes you have a hardier immune system.I’m desperately trying to sleep as much as possible before this weekend grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-21445613379319469442008-10-11T19:12:00.001-05:002008-10-11T19:14:49.509-05:00Ukelele + Toy Piano + Kazoo = AwesomeAs you may have presumed, it's been a hectic time around these parts. Mostly work stuff but also a lot of committee meetings for the theater company.That said, I'd be remiss if I didn't pass this along:The internet is awesome...grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-91905361453134581642008-09-23T08:28:00.002-05:002008-09-23T09:52:52.336-05:00FULL SERVICE!!!!Earlier this summer, my mom retired. So her and my stepdad sold the house and began their life as wandering nomads in their RV. Because of this, I assumed custody of their cat, who will now become the latest character in the blog: Grrrcat. TOWWAS has already met him, and he’s pretty much the nicest cat you will ever meet. He is also very concerned for the well-being of all his pet humans, as grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7834495.post-53702890700905247972008-08-28T06:09:00.000-05:002008-08-28T08:13:04.254-05:00And last week, my place was so clean...Earlier this week I finally unloaded some of my older Ikea furniture on a friend from work who’s basically just starting to furnish her own grown-up place. She took away my ikea chair* and a huge desk that used to sit in my second bedroom before I realized that it was way too big to fit in the guest room/office. The chair was pretty easy to get out but the desk itself took a fair amount of grrrbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04070712215227643581noreply@blogger.com1