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Pre-Recorded Late Night

Wednesday January 18, 2012

During my morning commute lately I’ve been eschewing NPR one day each week and instead listening to Pre-Recorded Late Night, an improvised comedy podcast with “fake” guests. It’s sort of like The Daily Show, except it’s entirely improvisational. Imagine a typical late night talk show … there’s a desk, a couch, a host and a [...]

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Link Droppings

Monday October 24, 2011

News & Notes Couple married 72 years dies holding hands — from kottke.org Jason Kottke also published an epic round-up of all the best stories, comments, obituaries, collections, videos, etc. about Steve Jobs. Top Ten Misused English Words — from listverse.com 4 Personal Finance Principles That Would Make Your Grandfather Proud — from The Art [...]

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The 2010 Census

Sunday May 2, 2010

Okay, riddle me this, kids: The local NBC affiliate’s nightly news keeps running items about how Los Angeles residents are not returning their census forms. The anchorman reports hyper-specific percentages each evening of how many of us have not responded. On Thursday night he said that less than 72% of the city had completed the [...]

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Daily David

Monday March 15, 2010

Hugh Hefner: Teen Cartoonist Have you ever ordered any of these secret restaurant menu items? Congratulations to the Gators, who won their first NCAA Indoor Track Championship this weekend. (It’s nice when the football team has a running back who spends the offseason being one of the fastest sprinters in the nation.) A solar-powered iPhone [...]

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What about Sicko?

Thursday June 18, 2009

Does anyone have any idea why the Michael Moore film about health insurance in America, Sicko, got nowhere near the same amount of publicity as Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11? I’m not asking how you feel about the message / content of any of these films. I’m just trying to understand why Sicko seemed [...]

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Eight Memorable Moments

Tuesday January 20, 2009

Everyone on the radio this morning was talking about what an historic day today is. I started thinking about today in comparison to the other “big days” of my life. I’m not talking about David Gagne here; I’m talking about the moments that I somehow share with everyone else. (I was born in 1973.) If [...]

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Zima: RIP

Wednesday November 26, 2008

To Coors’ horror, Zima proved most popular among young women — a demographic that, while generally fond of getting tanked, just doesn’t have the same thirst for hooch as its male counterpart. And once the ladies took a shine to the stuff, the guys avoided Zima as if it were laced with estrogen. from The [...]

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McCain? Obama? Who Cares?

Tuesday October 21, 2008

Lifehacker has a great list of tips to help maximize your influence in the election. The most important one is the last one, and it’s the one I’ve been trying to explain to people for months. McCain is not going to do anything about speeding on my street and Obama is not going to cut [...]

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Out of the Office

Friday October 10, 2008

Just for fun, let’s take a look at what has happened the last few times I’ve taken a vacation. Late August, 2005: I go to Europe to celebrate my girlfriend’s birthday. Katrina wipes out New Orleans. October, 2007: I go to Hawaii to get married. My good friend, mentor, and business partner dies of a [...]

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Palin v. Biden

Thursday October 2, 2008

I simply cannot have been the only one who watched the vice-presidential debate tonight and thought that Palin’s answers were eerily similar to this famous speech. I mean, really? Really? Nucular? Poliferation? Infastructure? Here’s a random quote I grabbed from the transcript: John McCain, in referring to the fundamental of our economy being strong, he [...]

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