January 2011
ten accomplishments from this year.
I’m mainly documenting the following things so that I may have something truthful and positive on which to reflect on for those sure-to-occur days in 2011 where I feel like a big piece of poop. The exclamation points are for me, not you.
I featured and sold artwork in a gallery!
I quit a job because they weren’t paying me enough!
I got a job where I get paid to write!
I drove back...
7 failures from 2010.
While I didn’t gain very much back at all after losing 50 lbs., I did not maintain the good habits to the point where I made it all the way down to the miraculous weight goal I’ve had in mind for over a year.
I did not finish that script I wanted to finish.
I did not finish that graphic novel I wanted to finish.
My “Just Bought” project flew off the tracks circa August....
would you like to learn about nearly all american... →
December 2010
7 failures from 2010.
While I didn’t gain very much back at all after losing 50 lbs., I did not maintain the good habits to the point where I made it all the way down to the miraculous weight goal I’ve had in mind for over a year.
I did not finish that script I wanted to finish.
I did not finish that graphic novel I wanted to finish.
My “Just Bought” project flew off the tracks circa August....
ten accomplishments from this year.
I’m mainly documenting the following things so that I may have something truthful and positive on which to reflect on for those sure-to-occur days in 2011 where I feel like a big piece of poop. The exclamation points are for me, not you.
I featured and sold artwork in a gallery!
I quit a job because they weren’t paying me enough!
I got a job where I get paid to write!
I drove back...
martin: is she here yet?
frasier: no, not yet. that's her box over there; the empty one.
martin: well, i'm not going to sit through a whole opera for some woman who's not even here.
frasier: oh for god's sakes, dad, give it a chance. you might even learn to like it if you listen to one.
martin: hey, your mother used to drag me to a lot of these things when we were dating and they were all stupid. these stories make no sense whatsoever.
frasier: oh, that is not true!
martin: oh, all right -- what's this one about?
frasier: well, it's about rigoletto, the hunchback jester in the court of the duke. he has a daughter, gilda, who's secretly living with him. but everyone thinks that she's his mistress. and in this opening scene, rigoletto mocks the duke's enemy, who puts a curse on him.
martin: a cursed hunchback dating his daughter? well, nothing screwy so far.
WatchI like this design reel by DeepGreenSea. The music can get a tad irritating but whatever — it’s a terrific thing to watch.
tyler stout cannot create a bad movie poster.
His recent Star Wars trilogy effort proves this, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
“Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.”
– Henry James. Apparently this was the original quote that Miss Cross was going to have written in the Jacques Cousteau book that Max Fischer discovers in the library, in Rushmore. Obviously it was changed. This one is still good, though. Working to be smart is the only surefire way to ensure you...
WatchMore snow. More Riley. More video. More French Christmas tunes.
1 tag
the bbc's correspondent to the states reports back... →
I love this part:
And they could speed up their journeys to work by not insisting on holding every elevator for everyone who wants to catch it as though it was one of the last helicopters leaving the roof of the Saigon embassy in 1975. There will be another lift along in a minute.
cratchit: uh, excuse me, mr. scrooge but it appears to be closing time.
scrooge: very well. i'll see you at 8 tomorrow morning.
cratchit: tomorrow's christmas.
scrooge: 8.30, then.
cratchit: if you please, sir... half an hour off hardly seems customary for christmas.
rats: hardly customary! not at all!
scrooge: how much time off is customary, mr. cratchit?
cratchit: um... why... um... the, uh... the whole day.
rats: yes! yeah! that's right, the whole day!
scrooge: ...the entire day?
rats: no, that's the frog's idea!
cratchit: uh, excuse me, mr. scrooge but it appears to be closing time.
scrooge: very well. i'll see you at 8 tomorrow morning.
cratchit: tomorrow's christmas.
scrooge: 8.30, then.
cratchit: if you please, sir... half an hour off hardly seems customary for christmas.
rats: hardly customary! not at all!
scrooge: how much time off is customary, mr. cratchit?
cratchit: um... why... um... the, uh... the whole day.
rats: yes! yeah! that's right, the whole day!
scrooge: ...the entire day?
rats: no, that's the frog's idea!
nefarious path to free $10 gift cards to lowe's,...
Coinstar (the machine that takes in loose change and gives you cash or gift cards) is running a promotion through the end of the year: pour at least $40 in, select the “gift card” option for one of the four retailers listed above and you’ll get your $40 gift card plus a promo code for an extra $10 gift card to whichever retailer you chose. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Yes....
