April 2008
39 posts
Surfeit [Definition] →
Noun
- An excessive amount of something.
Verb
- To overeat or feed to excess.
Devil's Threesome [Definition] →
1 woman. 2 men.
‽ (Interrobang) [Definition] →
The interrobang (‽) is a rarely used, nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the interrogative point) and the exclamation mark (known in printers’ jargon as the bang).
“There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.”
– John Bradford
“She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to...”
– Dorothy Parker’s review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play, “The Lake”
“I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that...”
– Ishmael, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Like a Friend - Pulp
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My favorite song off my...
Mignon [Definition] →
Cute
“They say you can’t get it on with a girl in a Porsche. That’s...”
– James Dean
“Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized...”
– Ron Paul
“I don’t even want to be just the best. I want to grow so tall that nobody...”
– James Dean
“I’m playing the damn bongos and the world can go to hell.”
– James Dean
“So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their...”
– Roger Baldwin, Founder, ACLU
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I’m their newest card carrying member.
Ellipticaled 4.8 miles
11.6 total
Victory - Dropkick Murphys
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Notre Dame...
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
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Greatest performance in the history of music. Hands down.
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
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Because the last song reminded me so much of this.
The awful original version by Leonard Cohen:
Over The Rainbow - Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwoʻole
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The scary looking white kid with dreadlocks played this Israel Kamakawiwoʻole interpretation of Over The Rainbow on American Idol last night. The kid wasn’t that good, but I’ve always loved this song, it’s very similar to what Jeff Buckley did with Hallelujah.
“We’d run out of money and we didn’t have all the regulatory...”
– Fred Smith, Founder and CEO of FedEx
T Minus Zero [Definition] →
The countdown convention used in by both the American military and NASA.
Mathematically, T is time, minus whatever amount of time is left until the event happens.
Reagan Era Fastball [Definition]
A fastball in the mid-80s
1 tag
Rode 6.8 miles
Stadiums I've been to
Football
Notre Dame Stadium (Too many times to mention. My first game as a student we beat the defending national champion Wolverines, rushed the field, and then my roommate and I were the first ones in the fountain at Stonehenge.)
Candlestick Park (Once when I was young to see Montana play versus Warren Moon and the Oilers. A couple times in the last 5 years)
Michigan Stadium, University of...
“May the worst days of your future be only as bad as the best days of your past.”
– Irish Toast
Nostalgia [Wikipedia] →
Literal translation: The pain a sick person feels because he wishes to return to his native land, and fears never to see it again.
“Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them...”
– Roger Ebert
Grandfather paradox [Wikipedia] →
The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel, first described by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent (The Imprudent Traveller). The paradox is this: suppose a man traveled back in time and killed his biological grandfather before the latter met the traveller’s grandmother. As a result, one of the traveller’s parents (and by extension,...