Posts from December 2009

The David Gagne 2009 U.S. Tour

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?

One Awesome Year

In which I compare films released in 1983 and 1999

#FridayFive: Favorite Christmas Songs

View the Friday Five from December 25th, 2009

You’ve got just about a week to enter The 2010 Lee Atwater Invitational Celebrity Dead Pool!
Until recently I’d never heard of — or even imagined the possibility of — Sweden’s bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve.
“RENT is so awful that you want to punch every single person that was involved in the face, except for Rosario Dawson …” — from a great movie review
I can’t decide if I like this article more as a lecture on how to create good video games or as one on how to motivate employees.
Knitting your Christmas presents? Be aware that it is potentially illegal to make sweaters out of dog or cat hair in New Jersey.
My company created a slick digital holiday greeting card. (I’m the one with the Florida Gators cap.)
Heismanpundit.com ranks the Heisman winners of the decade. Guess who’s #1?
And TeamSpeedKills ranks the 2008 Gator squad the best team of the decade.

I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. Let me make it absolutely clear that I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. But … I will admit that I am fanatical about some things. Since I was a sophomore in high school — a mind-bogglingly shocking twenty-something years ago

My Dad’s Personal Blizzard

My dad’s birthday is December 20th. This year Mother Nature’s gift to him was a tremendous snowstorm that blanketed much of the East coast. He took some terrific photographs of the area around his home in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Here’s a sample:

#FridayFive: Time-Wasters at Work

View the Friday Five from December 18th, 2009

Fixing Radio Advertising

With the exception of NPR, I no longer listen to the radio. It might be more accurate to say that there simply is no more FM radio, because here in Los Angeles — where it seems every station claims to have 20, 30, 40, or 50-minute “rock blocks” — I invariably hear nothing but 8,

Google Hates Me

For some mysterious reason the Google PageRank™ of this website dropped to zero about a year and a half ago. I really have no idea why. It didn’t coincide with any major design changes and I didn’t do anything black hat here (or even white hat) that would have caused that. Every few months I

#FridayFive: Favorite Months

View the Friday Five from December 11th, 2009

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