June 2012
May 2012
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Call him "Winnie"
You can call our new dog “Winnie” for short, in case you have something against using the full “Winston Severus Barnes” every time you address, or refer to, him in conversation.
Winston.
Just like some of you suggested.
Moron dog names
Thank you for all your dog name ideas.
They were fantastic. Some of them were horrible. You know who you are. (In case you don’t know who you are, or if you don’t know who someone else is, I recapped everyone’s responses below. All you have to do is go to the bottom of this post and then you can read what everyone suggested, and then you can make fun of people’s fantastic...
Bifurcation, Maybe
TL; DR
If you’re interested in confining what you hear from me to my professional babblings, you can henceforth follow @gbarnes on Twitter. The signal-to-noise ratio will be very clean.
If you would like to receive my un-edited stream of often nonsensical, joyously contextless, whole-life mishmash, that’s @texburgher.
If you’re interested in what all this...
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Is moss the world's scary beard?
My wife’s bourgeoning practice now has a blog. Which she’s writing. Which I love. I mean, I know I married the woman, but her outlook is uplifting and inspiring and if I can get a tiny bit more of it by reading her posts while I’m at work, well, more power to us both.
relationshipspgh:
So, this was delivered to my inbox on March 15th:
“When a resolute young fellow steps up...
Whatcha drinkin'?
Frankly, not as much of anything, and that’s been a fine change. Lately, though, when I’ve made drinks, I’ve been into the Last Word. It’s a gin drink I was introduced to at local gastropub Meat & Potatoes, and it’s pretty amazing. Amazing enough to guarantee you that making a few for you and your lovey will land you in the hay shortly thereafter? Approximately,...
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240...”
– President John F. Kennedy, Rice University, 1962
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Closer To Monkeys Than Gods
For about ten years, I’ve made kids oatmeal for breakfast, several days a week. Steel cut oats topped with brown sugar, milk, and cinnamon. Additional ingredients come and go, but the base has remained essentially unchanged.
For just as long, I’ve waged the sugar war, wherein the boys skim the sugary layer off the top of the bowl and ignore the rest, I rebuke, they resist, I insist,...
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nostrich:
5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 SecondsCracked is now your personal adviser on avoiding click-bait. Step one would normally be to avoid Cracked, sadly, this is actually pretty good.
This really is simply fantastic.
April 2012
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A Little Mess, A Little Order
Open bagel shop door
Notice dirty handle
Wash hands
Order bagel & juice to go
Pay with cash, receive change
Open car door
Drop off dry cleaning
Pay with card, use their pen to sign receipt
Open car door
Resist desire to pick annoying booger with dirty finger
Arrive at work
Open office building door
Quickly calculate number of others opening office building door between cleanings
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“The answer when you need pictures of cute puppies to placehold your designs or...”
– Placepuppy
YOU CAN TRUST THEM.
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