Nerd's Corner

(Williams age 11)

The Costa Rican version of Netflix has recently kicked-off, and now for only $4, small mustached men on dirt bikes will deliver pirated movies to your doorstep. You are given two months to return them and, given that they ask for no credit card information, you could (if so inclined) keep them forever.

As the service grows (known as CinExpress), the movie selection is improving. Last week I rented and watched Metropolis (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/) (links! links!!). Have you seen this? German directed 1927 film. It's silent but has a great score and, for a movie that was made 84 years ago, is fantastically impressive. This nerd recommends it.

Also, I recently finished Portnoy's Complaint, written by Phillip Roth in 1969 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portnoy) (links! links!). Without question, this is the funniest book I've ever read. Puts David Sedaris or Augusten Buroughs or any other contemporary humorist to shame. It's about growing up as a neurotic Jewish kid and, while repressing almost all other urges, is uncontrollably sexually charged (including leaving dinner to jerk-it or banging the family's liver prior to serving it for dinner). It's f'ing hilarious and bizzarely and appropriately includes a TCU reference when talking about his envy of Goyim (non-Jews) and why blond girls would never date a slimy Jew like him.

"For these are the girls whose older brothers are the engaging good-natured, confident, clean, swift and powerful halfbacks for the college football teams called Northwestern, and Texas Christian, and UCLA. Their fathers are men with white hair and deep voices who never use double negatives, and their mothers are the ladies with the kindly smiles and the wonderful manners who say things like "I do believe, Mary, that we sold thirty-five cakes at the Bake Sale."

These are my nerd recommendations.

Have I written too much? If so, here's a daffy picture to break-up the excess wordage.

Happy President's Day!

Think we can go a work-week without a post of a link or a video about racoons throwing fade patterns?

Me neither!

 

Pretty impressive dunk contest.  Here is a good 1:30 Highlight if you missed it.

http://www.nba.com/allstar/2011/dunk/index.html

I know I haven't posted in some time so thought I would let everyone know that Jess and I got engaged last weekend.

Backup QB is the best position not on the field.



He even wears Chuck's like Faust.

In case you didnt know...



TCU Baseball starts tonight

Roll Call:

Brown?

Butz? "Here!"

Chambers?

Dalrymple? "Here!"

Faust?

Lubahn?

Mazur?

Miller?  "Here!"

Portillo?

Weiss?  "Here!"

Williams?

first ic'er to get one wins at life! im voting for chambers, he's on the fast track (see what i did there?).

i think it comes with a testicle massager... in both seats.

http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/leisure/2011/01/28/pagani-huayra/#slide=1

it hadnt previously occurred to me that outside of the middle east there might be rioting too. ukraine: one silly nuclear reaction and a score of years, and even lincoln can't stop the upheaval and unheaving of breasts.

also, anderson cooper wouldve enjoyed being sexually assaulted (post below), whereas lara logan... not so much. it's sad when a hottie gets molested/raped. :( thank allah for the veiled women that saved her life though. positive onda in the direction of the logan family.

how's the clan(clint, lube, butz excluded) fairing in this oh so cali dreamin weather we been having? if we can talk about anything, anything at all, it's probably the weather, huh? team!!!

just keep rockin' in the free world!

anderson cooper wouldve enjoyed this.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/15/60minutes/main20032070.shtml

majority of arab world is following suit with eqypt. i tried to find something visual to break down how it's all happening, and in a context or in terms that all ic'ers understand... twitter.

how to revolution:

Inner Circle, I present to you Fundamentals of the Game with Matt Bonner.

You dont have to be a Spurs fan to appreciate the genius behind The Red Rocket aka The Medium Fundamental.

wu.

y'all be careful out there. who wants to start a debt collection business?



http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/07/pf/credit_card_interest_rate/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin

Not bad for Green Bay.

 Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers.


You couldn't ask for a better team to win.  Nice to see good guys like Rodgers, Jennings, Woodson and Driver get a ring.  I am also happy to report Nick Butz was wrong when he sent me a smug text stating the Steelers would win.

happy monday!

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/neuro-atheism/201101/buddhism-and-neuroscience

Here's to the Super Bowl

i dont know if you guys knew this... but ima jedi... my ic picture says so.

ipad + italian = idlehands = ... gave up there at the end. goooooo!!! silvio!!!




http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/108256/20110203/berlusconi-mp-caught-ogling-at-escort-website-on-ipad-during-debate.htm#

National Signing Day

FORT WORTH, Texas - TCU head coach Gary Patterson and the Rose Bowl-champion Horned Frog football program have announced the signing of 24 players.

The Horned Frogs' recruiting class is rated 23rd nationally by Scout.com and 25th by Rivals.com, the highest rankings in TCU's history.

All the newcomers are three star and above recruits. Three of the newest Horned Frogs earned four-star status: wide receivers LaDarius Brown (Waxahachie) and Brandon Carter (Euless) and defensive tackle Chuck Hunter (West Monroe, La.).

Brown and Carter are ranked among the top-five athletes in Texas... (read more)

Anderson Cooper & Crew Attacked by 

Mubarak Crowd in Egypt

snow day. be careful out there.




continuations aphex festive biopsy.







dicks. assorted sizes.








eat random shit. you'll poop better.

go super bowl!

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Pretty cool idea by none other than Radio, Television, Film students..



Suck it Business & Engineering School

dynamite cometh in small package. butz, these aussies are eye level. if anyone can imagine this, it happened... they opened for david byrne and the talking heads in austin, texas, circa 1978. apparently the byrne didnt know how to follow it. cuidado.




if you dont watch fox news and only fox news, you are wrong. cnn, fox, msnbc, and the rest of the msm are where the "magic" happens. carry on.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/31/suez-canal-threatened-support-military-action

http://lifehacker.com/5747213/how-to-hack-your-brain

tried a href, but no avail, must be chrome browser...

Is This Acceptable Behavior?


I was at a party last night. I was talking with my wife, her friend Lynn and a guy who recently got engaged to one of their friends. They were asking him about the proposal.  He said, "When I proposed her blue eyes turned almost pink. It was beautiful. It looked like a sunset." Lynn melted, Piper said "awwww," and I just stared blankly at him. I feel his behavior was unbefitting of a man.

Am I wrong?
 

One last time because it was that badass...

(Click on the Rose below)

Please comment

I might like to do this. Who else is in?

http://www.warriordash.com/

The Social Network
(four months behind)

People always ask "what do you miss from the U.S?" Aside from family, friends, black people and respect for punctuality, materialistically (artistically), I really miss movies. Good, indie, foreign or mainstream, well-directed, well-acted, important, movies.

And tonight, I went to the premier of The Social Network. Now, for the next 48 hours I can thumb my nose at uninformed Costa Rican populace who are yet to see the movie, for I, an esteemed member of the national media, was granted access to the VIP Sneak Peek screening of the four month old movie.

Back in September, when this movie was released, I read a story about it in the New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/20/100920fa_fact_vargas

It made me not want to see the movie. Why? The writer of the book that this movie was based on "The Accidental Billionaires", never met nor interviewed Mark Zuckerberg. Neither did the screen-writer Alan Sorkin. The sources used for the book and movie were people who visciously loathed Zuckerberg and were suing him for millions.

Imagine if I met with everyone of Lee Portillo's worst enemies and then wrote a book about Lee Portillo based on what they said. Then, another guy who'd never met Lee Portillo, distorted my already distorted book and made a movie out of it. And then 47 million people saw it, and 46.85 million believed it.

Before I Rooney-rant again, this movie was great. Great dialogue, direction, acting, music. Well done.

Too bad it's most likely a fabricated sham.

There doesn't seem to be much concern for the source of information anymore. See it, hear it, read it, believe it.

1985.

i tried. i really tried. even the showbiz and sports news was lame. you know, we might be fucked, but, im optimistic as ever about what's over the horizon...

hard time finding butterflies, rainbows, pots of gold, and macaws, but there is some hilarity in the world, even if it is slightly dark out there... all links are brevity/levity conscientious; in other words, take next to no time out of your day, and may stir up a smile too.

looking for a pram with the mr:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3369623/It-is-quite-mad-that-Im-a-grandad.html

mormons with guns:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110126/ap_on_re_us/us_utah_state_gun

weiss, is this person familiar to you?

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Teacher-arrested-for-improperly-touching-student-975340.php

watch out mazur:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12281238

travel at your leisure:

http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2011/01/22/phil-mocek-found-not-guilty-by-albuquerque-jury/

cool:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2011/01/aircraft-carrier-north-carolina-michigan-state-roy-williams/1

not cool:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/110125_tuesday_morning_quarterback&sportCat=nfl

as cheery as it gets:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20017-ancient-puzzle-gets-new-lease-of-geomagical-life.html

Donald Trump



Its worth the 9+ minutes.

1984.



www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/13/obamas-internet-passport/

Ummm.... holy crap.... we could have something here....

Here is an update on our advertising revenue. We only have 3 clicks (which were all me...) and we made $3. I suggest we click the shit out of our ads and start making some money.

Ask and you shall re-scoop.

Dude, be cool. Fifty Tyson can teach you how to Dougie Faust.

One of the greattest movies of all time...

Adam Williams stabs Jessica Colson, Piper & Adam Faust 

has anyone ever been in a group email, had a conversation with just one person from said grouped email, while you thought that you were still in original group email and being super witty and awesome, only to realize an hour or more later that you were having an awkward exchange with just one person from the group? i feel like this is potentially a common occurrence.

i did this with butz last night in reference to minnesota summer funtime.

i'll start post with last exchange that the group saw:

butz- I was hoping to camp with Miller, so he could be my campin' companion and take care of my "needs".

(and here's where i fuct it up, and start brainfart-realization-timer)

me- last thing im gonna do is wipe a ewok's ass.

butz- I can wipe my ass. I just need help with other tasks.

me- what other tasks? i dont know how to make you feel safe outside.

butz- Its not that I don't feel safe. I just need someone to cook for me. And feed me. With their toes. I thought that could be you?

me- if i go to minnesota for sum summer time fun, i will certainly feed you from my toes. and, i hope you like raw fish same as me. ain't no french fried taters where lubedbond is goin' ... if you havent watched deliverance, now is the time.

somebody should bring a blowgun, and yall should kill and eat varmin 'n smores. or karp. who likes koi?

me- and i just realized we're off the email string. brain dead.

butz- Yep. Just me and you talkin weird stuff. Makes it more weird

(kevin responded by now, and put email string back on track)

me- we gotta put the conversation out to the rest of em so we dont feel so queer.

--end conversation

only took me an one and one half hours to realize it was just me and butz frolicking through fields of email man love.

i love man. i know, i know, lame.

lovely levity.

I can turn people asian with my legs and my legs only.

NYE Weekend

prequel

From

Link to album at bottom. multiple fotos to blog takes toooo long. this was a good weekend.

NYE 2011 & TCU Rose Bowl

This video has a purpose.  What movie does every one rave about that you simply do not get, like, or see what all the hubbub is about?  I don't mean Citizen Kane or Casablanca.

For instance (and please don't be mad at me Kevin), I never really got into Back to the Future. I also wasn't a big Lord of the Rings fan. I kinda liked the first one- but the second two didn't do much for me.



Now Playing:

peter hates the godfather video

you guys are fucking boring.

https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formInstance.html?agencyFormId=23779454

The Soup: Unlikely Voice of Reason.

This made me very happy. I think this is how Butz would be as an anchor man.

It's all funny, but the part I am referring to starts at the 1:30 mark.

This reminded me of my office's conference calls.

Important Things with Demetri Martin
Lines - Conference Call
www.comedycentral.com
Funny Jokes It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Ugly Americans

Radio Voice

Fuck Tosh, I hate that guy. Williams was right

Ever feel like this?

I can empathize with this guy.

can anyone tell me where "square one" is located?