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Sunny Days, Everything’s A-Okay…

Patrick D. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:48:32 +0000

On NPR this morning, they had an interview with Michael Davis, author of a new book called ‘Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street’. It’s a behind the scenes look at ‘Sesame Street’ and the people that worked there.

Lately, I’ve found myself very interested in things revolving around Jim Henson.

I’m not sure why.

Anyway, in the interview, they talked about the death of Mr. Hooper and how emotional it was to do the scene below with Big Bird. It was so tough they did only one take. You can really feel the emotion. It’s a great clip.

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Win A Peek!

Patrick D. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:40:29 +0000

Guys, I’m trying to win a Peek. It’s a neat device that lets you check your email on the go. Looks cool. You can enter too. See the next paragraph…

Win a Peek at jenn.nu! Participating in the Peek giveaway is as easy as creating a blog entry that links to the giveaway and to getpeek.com. For more information, see the official giveaway blog entry: Win a Peek!

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A Wee Bit Sexist…

Patrick D. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:22:47 +0000

HT to Queen of Spain via Twitter.

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Norm Coleman Is Kind Of A Douche…

Patrick D. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:04:28 +0000

“I would step back.”

Those were the words Norm Coleman spoke two months ago, telling the media what he would do if he were trailing Al Franken following the Nov. 4 election.

Apparently, this was fine when Norm was winning, but now that’s he losing, it’s ‘LAWSUITS AHOY!!!’. Just man up, Norm and admit defeat. There’s always 2014.

UPDATE: Additional reading from The Ward Report.

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Fine! Here They Are!

Patrick D. — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:09:01 +0000

Because Todd Jordan nearly demanded it on Twitter, I will break down and post some New Year’s resolutions. Not the namby-pamby ‘lose weight, feel better’ kind, but some real resolutions I can really get behind. So, here they are, in order of importance.

Don’t die.

Stay employed.

Don’t lose the house.

There you have. My resolutions for 2009. Let’s see how I do.

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I’m A Pretty Princess Jedi…

Patrick D. — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:27:39 +0000

Jen went to Target the other day for stuff. While she didn’t find any Technomarine watches, she was delighted to find a ‘Clone Wars’ T-shirt for $2.50. The Oldest loooooves Star Wars anything and everything. So she got it.

She got it home and took a good look at it. And wow. Understanding now why it was marked down. Anakin Skywalker has so much lipstick on that he makes Tim Curry from ‘Rocky Horror’ look like Chuck Norris.

Have a look. I’m not making this up.

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Stuff From 2008, Part 2…

Patrick D. — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:31:37 +0000

Continuing my year-end review. See the first part here.

In June, I barely blogged at all. Weird.
In July, I wrote about bathroom problems at work.
I discovered the greatness that is Matt.
In August, we all discussed this amazing wedding dress.
Also, Jen didn’t have the c-word.
In September, I launched my new blog, Patrick Talks Tech.com.
In October, I geared up for (and later failed) at both NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo. Go figure.
In November, The Wife became Jen and launched her own blog.
Miss Britt did a guest post for me about the ladies of Disney.
Also, in November, we voted in the change that we desperately need and hope in our political system was restored in me. This was easily the best post I wrote all year.
December was a lot of depressing posts, so let’s just leave them there.

Anyway, go read some posts. Unfortunately, most of the comments are closed on those posts to reduce the dreaded comment spam. So feel free to comment here on any of these posts.

Thanks for reading my blog.
Here’s to a better 2009.

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Linkage Roundup…

Patrick D. — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:52:03 +0000

Just clearing some stuff out of the feedreader.

This is a great read from the folks at Mental Floss. It’s the stories behind some of your favorite (or mine, anyway) Muppets and how they came about. It made me want to find a biography of Jim Henson. (BTW, I found one and am on wait list at PaperbackSwap.com for it.

Secondly and lastly, a hat tip to Topless Robot for finding this. Hilarious. (I’m a Star Wars fanatic and this is still funny.)

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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Stuff From 2008, Part 1…

Patrick D. — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:52:56 +0000

Seems like everyone in doing their ‘Year In Review’ posts about now. Sure. Why not? I don’t really have one planned. But I can whip it together like air tools filling tires. So, without any fanfare at all, here is my ‘Stuff From 2008′ list.

We found out that Jasmine is WAY hotter than Belle. Not even close.
I got some love from STLToday.com for this post about Star Wars.
I tried to find my passion…I’m still having trouble with that one.
I discovered Randy Pausch. He touched a lot of lives while he was here.
Amy Lee of Evanescence became the patron saint of this blog. This resulted in a 0% sales increase for her band. You’re welcome!
I used PaperbackSwap.com a lot and I’m reading more than I have since I was in the Air Force back in the nineties. I suppose that’s a good thing.
Gas prices killed us at the pump, reaching $3.50 or worse per gallon. The only benefit of a dismal economy is gas is way back down.
I discovered Katy Perry and was enthralled. That ended pretty quickly.

And that was JUST through May. I like this year-in-review thing so much I think we’ll do a second part tomorrow. See you then.

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I Can’t Believe This Happened To Me…

Patrick D. — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:40:41 +0000

So, I debated posting this one. It’s hilarious, but wow, is it embarrassing. I figured it would probably get out from Jen telling her friends. And I wasn’t wrong. It’s spreading out there. So, why should I penalize my online friends who don’t have the benefit of the local network? So, here you have it.

My brand-new, most embarrassing moment…EVER.

On Saturday, Jen and I had a date night. We were going to a reception for her cousin who had recently gotten married out of town. We had a sitter. That does not happen often.

So after, we have plenty of time to kill. And we are child-free. Unless you have kids, you will NOT understand the joy of a child-free night. It’s intoxicating. I love my kids, but man, sometimes we parents have to get out.

And sometimes, things can get a little…frisky…

We’re driving back home and we’re apparently both teenagers again. Because we pass a park and figure, why not? (This was all her idea, by the way.) We pulled in behind the recreation center. As things are getting ‘more intimate’ though, the car becomes flooded with headlights followed by flashing blue and red lights.

SCRAMBLE! SCRAMBLE! CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!

I’m thirty-nine years old…and I’m getting busted by the police…for making out IN A CAR.

I roll down the window and John Q. Law asks me what’s going on. I sing like a canary. He asks for IDs for both of us and proof of insurance and heads back to his car…obviously to wipe the tears of laughter from his eyes and tell his buddy in the second car about what he caught.

Meanwhile, I’m in the car with Jen and I’m shaking my head and she thinks this is the most hilarious thing ever. Ten excruciatingly long minutes later, Officer Law returns and gives us back our stuff. He reminds us that we are trespassing and he’s going to let us off with a warning. We immediately head home.

Lesson learned: if you’re going to make out with someone in your car, best to do it in your garage. No one gets busted and you save money because you’re burning less gas. Hey, look, that’s better for the environment too.

I can’t believe I got busted for making out in a car…

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