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I spend a lot of time on the web. Most of it is business related, but I do take time away to play. Here are some more of my favorite sites:

Site:

Stuff White People Like

Synopsis:

This site has gained a TON of momentum over the past several weeks, and rightfully so; it’s hilarious! Very insightful, yet ultimately self deprecating, Stuff White People Like is a blog that chronicles the nuances that go into the decision making process of the average white (and I would assume affluent, 25-45 year olds) person. Hilarity generally ensues. The writing isn’t particularly laugh out loud funny, but if you can have a sense of humor about yourself, it becomes hilarious as you begin to see bits and pieces of yourself in the writing.

Signature Post:

Most posts can be given signature status, but two recent posts really made me laugh out loud. The first is the post about the Wire, which is a great television show. This article easily could have been written about me. The second is about hating corporations. Since I’m not the biggest fan of corporations, this one fits me as well (although often for different reasons than outlined in the article).

Site:

Jake and Amir Dot Com

Synopsis:

One of the stupidest sites on the web, but I absolutely love it. Jake and Amir are two guys who work for College Humor. Every few days they post a video that’s about 1-3 minutes long, and it details Amir’s unhealthy man-crush on Jake. The videos are all a little odd, and make me laugh about 90% of the time. Not everyone will think this site is funny, but if you like the one I’m posting, chances are you’ll like them all.

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I started writing this on Thanksgiving, but forgot to finish until now

While I feel that I am an excellent long term planner (far beyond my years, actually), I am not very bright when it comes to planning for the short term. Generally I’m resourceful enough to overcome this lack of planning ability, but sometimes things are beyond my control. Case in point, Thanksgiving.

This year I was going to family Thanksgiving in St. Cloud like my family does every other year. I’m at the point now where I’m old enough that I am required to bring a side dish of some sort to family functions, and this time my mission was cranberry sauce. Naturally, I forgot that I was supposed to bring something, and didn’t buy Cranberry sauce during the week as I should have.

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I am a huge South Park fan, so when I saw this on Youtube, I was pretty happy!

This was pretty much all that I said for an entire year circa 2004.

I decided to buy a new car.

Check it out. A 2008 Infiniti G37 Coupe.

Pretty. Freaking. Sweet.

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So technologically speaking, I have been feeling sorry for myself a lot lately. I haven’t been posting on here very often, I have been extremely busy with work, and I have been falling behind with work for my clients. My whole plan for the summer was to work less and enjoy the awesome summers of Minnesota. I have not lived up to that plan!

To go along with my present work overload, I had some very unfortunate events happen with my computer. First, the hard drive on my laptop crashed this weekend, and I lost about 6 months worth of work files, pictures and other media! That’s a really really really bad thing! My computer is my life, and having my hard drive crash is devastating to say the least! To top that off, I have a stupid iPhone and somehow that stopped working as well, and I lost all of my phone numbers and email addresses!!!! From a technological standpoint, life pretty much sucks right now.

On the bright side, I have a wonderful girlfriend who is supporting me through all of this, and I did have a lot of my vital data backed up on my computer. So, although the crash has killed my productivity over the past week, it could be worse.

Then I turned on the news tonight, and all of my problems came into perspective. As I’m sure all of you already know, a bridge on Interstate 35W collapsed right over the Mississippi river, and several cars were plunged into the water and onto the ground below. I have been glued to the news ever since (it happened less than 2 hours ago), and I just can’t believe what happened.

I also am thankful that I was not involved, because this is a road that I travel 3-4 times a week! It is my main entry point to Minneapolis and the south Twin Cities area (one of the only roads that I can take to get around town), and now it is gone! Since it just happened so suddenly, I have no idea if there are any casualties or how many people are injured. I have called several of my friends to see if they are OK, and so far I think that things are fine.

It will take some time for things to settle down from this crazy incident, but I know one thing; it really puts my petty problems into perspective.

I guess it’s something that’s out of my control, but I just thought I’d let you all know that I pretty much can’t grow facial hair. Well, I guess that’s not fully true. I can grow hair on my face, but it’s not very visible. I’m writing this post right now because I am at the peak of my most unshaven point in my adult life. Yes, I haven’t shaven for 5 days.

This is the longest that I have gone without shaving since I’ve been an adult, although I’m sure that you probably wouldn’t notice, even after looking at the picture on the right hand side of your screen. This picture was taken today, right before I started writing this post, and it is the inspiration for my rant. The last time that I shaved was on Saturday. Today is Wednesday, and this is all the facial hair growth that I could muster. That’s 5 days of unadulterated growth, and I still look like a man envious of a 13 year old Mexican boy!

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I just put on a shirt today that I haven’t worn in a long time. In fact, I’ve probably only worn it twice in my life. It is an Old Chicago Spring Mini-Tour t-shirt from 2005. Here’s a shot of me wearing the shirt that I took on my webcam. For some reason my webcam takes really crappy still pictures, but good videos. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Anyway, so I put the shirt on and noticed the smell of cilantro shortly thereafter. I thought maybe it was just something that I smelled in passing, but the smell lingered for the next 5-10 minutes. Finally, I decided to smell my shirt to see if it was the culprit, and sure enough; my shirt smells like cilantro.

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My brother Brian married his high school sweetheart Michelle in April of 2004. I was their best man. In order to celebrate their two year anniversary, I am posting the “best man” speech I gave at their wedding.

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Revolving Debt. That is the defeatist term commonly assigned to credit card debt. For good reason, too, as Credit Card debt is something that is very easy to succumb to, and a tough cycle to break.

We all know how we get there. We figure why wait to save money for possessions when you can have them immediately? Why spend your own money on groceries, when you can spend the money of Chase Manhattan Bank? I’ll take extra guacamole on that Chipotle; after all, it’s going on US Bank’s tab!

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I believe that every individual is the center of the universe, only some universes are more relevant than others.

I believe that women should throw themselves at me for accomplishing the most trivial of tasks. In this scenario, making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich would lead to an extensive making out and heavy petting session.

I believe that the song “happy birthday” has the deepest lyrics of any song dealing with birthdays.

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