• Archive for July, 2009

    Detour at 35,000 Feet

    by Matt • July 21, 2009 • 0 Comments

    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 [...]

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    Hi, my name is Dug, and I LOVE you

    by Matt • July 16, 2009 • 0 Comments

    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 [...]

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    Tolerance & Intolerance

    by Matt • July 16, 2009 • 7 Comments

    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 [...]

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    T-Shirts

    by Matt • July 12, 2009 • 0 Comments

    (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 [...]

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    Me, Bono, and Avril (& Kate)

    by Matt • July 9, 2009 • 2 Comments

    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 [...]

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