Look What the Mailman Brought Today…
It’s as if he knew that Sean and I are home alone for the next week. Amazing.
Archive for July, 2009
Detour at 35,000 Feet
Cari got home last night from a 4-day trip to Minnesota, and I decided to follow her flight on FlightAware.com just like she and the kids do when I’m traveling. Thought this image of her flight path was cool:
I like how they flew through the maze of storms approaching Minneapolis, and I really like how I can follow this kind of thing on the Internet. Technology is amazing, y’know?
Hi, my name is Dug, and I LOVE you
I mentioned before that UP wasn’t my favorite Pixar movie, but I absolutely loved “Dug,” the obedient dog whose job was to track and find “Kevin,” the rare bird. So I just had to add him to my growing Pixar collection:
He has seven phrases and sounds awesome when you make him talk.
I’d been watching DisneyStore.com for a while, waiting to order him — but they’ve been sold out. So, I finally tried eBay and BAM – found him, and for about the same as it would’ve cost on DisneyStore.com.
Tolerance & Intolerance
I posted this on Twitter earlier today:
“Why do people who promote tolerance often want to completely eliminate/shutup people with differing views? #irony
And tonight, a local guy named Adam replied with this link: Nearly all my professors are Democrats. Isn’t that a problem? It’s written by a non-conservative, non-Republican student at the University of Oregon, and I think you’ll find it interesting no matter where your political affiliations are. I know I did.
I’m reminded of a quote by a famous Irishman:
“You rid the room of argument, you empty your life of the people you need the most.”
T-Shirts
(At the risk of everyone thinking I’m some kind of freak…)
I have a t-shirt that I only wear when cutting the lawn.
I have a t-shirt that I only wear when cutting my hair. (This t-shirt gets tossed and replaced 2-3 times a year.)
I have a few t-shirts that I wear when cleaning bathrooms or working around the house, because I don’t mind them getting dirty, and others that I’ll never wear when cleaning (because I do mind).
I have 4-5 t-shirts that I only wear to bed.
I have 4-5 solid white t-shirts that I only wear underneath nicer dress shirts when I’m at conferences and such.
I have about 5 nicer, “dressy” t-shirts that I tend to only wear to church in the summer.
I have about 20 U2-related t-shirts that I never wear at all.
Anyone else like this? Have certain t-shirts that serve certain purposes, like cutting the lawn? Or am I really weird about my t-shirts?
Me, Bono, and Avril (& Kate)
Just another day at the office for the bigtime author here. I mean, don’t we all get our picture on the same web page as Bono, Avril Lavigne, and Kate Winslet?
Who am I kidding with the fake conceit? This is awesome!!! That’s the Lifestyle section of Vecernji, a Croatian newspaper that covered the launch today of the Croatian translation of my book, U2 – A Diary. The publishers over there held a big press event because it was the first book they decided to translate, and it was covered in newspapers and even on national TV. For realz!!!
The publishers invited me to come to the launch event, but since they weren’t paying my airfare, that was out of the question. (In case you haven’t checked lately, Pasco to Zagreb with one-week advance purchase runs about $3k.) So instead, they asked me to send a 10-15 minute video introducing myself, talking about the book, what makes it different from other U2 books, etc.
During the event today, they played a highly-edited, 5-minute version of the video which can be seen here: http://www.vecernji.hr/lifestyle/matt-mcgee-predstavlja-knjigu-u2-dnevnik-video-3363.
Oh, might be hard to see on the screenshot above, but my name below the photo is “Matta McGeeja.”
Life is sometimes tremendously surreal.
