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That One Day When I Got Bored and Just Started Ordering Watches off Amazon

Posted on: 17 June 2019 /

Categories: Buying Stuff

This is a true story. The Contenders Suunto Core All Black ($129.99) Pros It’s all black! Supposedly if you calibrate either the altimeter or the barometer, the other one sorts itself out automatically. Has a cool “second hand” that cruises around the circumference of the dial. Very cool band. Cons Kind of hard to read.

Saw Modest Mouse in Concert Twice

Posted on: 26 November 2017 /

Categories: Entertainment, Music

It’s like an Onion article: the headline is the whole story. Saw them in June in Salt Lake with my Aunt Mitzie, then again in September in Boise with myself. Salt Lake had a better play list, but I liked the Boise venue better. Now what? I like that they don’t ever play the same set

Last Summer: Bend, Bachelor, and Broken Top

Posted on: 23 June 2015 /

Categories: Food, Hiking, road trips, Travel

I had never been to Bend before since I skipped out on the family reunion that had been there. There’s less threat of golf when visiting solo I think. I went to a really good Thai place there and had the Kao Soi: The very next day, I drove up to Mt. Bachelor to see

Baseball Stadiums I Have(n’t) Visited

Posted on: 6 July 2012 /

Categories: Sports

(Alpha by “official” team location.) Arizona – Not Visited Atlanta – Not Visited Baltimore – Visited (1997 when I was moving to Boston supposedly) Boston – Visited (1987?) Chicago Cubs – Visited (twice, last time was 2008 maybe) Chicago White Sox – Not Visited Cincinnati – Not Visited Cleveland – Not Visited Colorado – Not

Hanging Out in Provo

Posted on: 12 May 2011 /

Categories: Cities, Food, Travel

On the way to SoUT and then coming back again, met up with Terry and Claire and did some stuff. Verzeihung. The muse escapes me. These are just words. This is just a paragraph. We went and had sliders at a restaurant at River Bottoms. They looked like this: The thing on the right is

Book Report: China Marine

Posted on: 14 February 2011 /

Categories: Reading, War

I read this book. This was the “follow up” to With the Old Breed, which is the greatest first-person account of war I’m aware of. It was written by the same guy, Eugene Sledge. Unfortunately, it turns out that 100 pages of musings about sitting around in China after the war isn’t quite as gripping

Book Report: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Posted on: 1 February 2011 /

Categories: Reading

I finished it, so it couldn’t have been that bad. And yet…: For a book with a theme I identify with (i.e., people being born into lives not of their choosing and then having to deal with it), it seems like I should have liked it a lot better. The main character sucked. I mean,

Movie Review: Terribly Happy

Posted on: 21 January 2011 /

Categories: Entertainment, Movies

Movie Synopsis: Danish remake of Hot Fuzz reinterpreted as a psychological, noirish thriller. Why I Watched: Because Netflix said that users like me rated it 3 1/4 stars. Which is really high for users like me. (I gave it 3.) Biggest Question: Why is it so hard for lower-budget movies to maintain consistent facial hair

IMDB Top 100 Movies and Me

Posted on: 17 January 2011 /

Categories: Entertainment, Movies

About 3.5 years ago, I sort of reviewed the American Film Institute’s Top 100 Movies of All Time or whatever, which, I was later informed, constituted a crime against humanity. Such power. With that in mind, I’ve kind of been thinking I ought to do the same thing with the IMDB list since, you know,

Bye, Dave

Posted on: 10 November 2010 /

Categories: Self, Sports

I always feared this day would come. Edgar’s Double, 1995 That’s not just 50 seconds of baseball radio announcing, that’s vindication for everyone who lived in the Northwest from 1977 to 1994 and followed the local baseball team despite its historic ineptitude. Dave Niehaus was the man who made people think that following a bunch

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