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Wednesday
24Feb2010

Dog in a clothes basket

When he was a puppy we'd put him in a clothes basket in the car to attempt to keep him in one place. Several years and 60 some pounds later it appears he's taken to the idea.

Tuesday
23Feb2010

You know when an offer is legit?

When it comes stamped with a United States of America Seal of Authenticity.

Ah, junk mail.

Wednesday
18Mar2009

Southwest Airlines' Rapping Flight Attendent

I don't fly Southwest very often but I do respect how they do business (see my post on seeing founder, Herb Kelleher present in Bloomington) and apparently that includes rapping the pre-flight address.




He's right - you're not going to hear that on United Airlines.

Friday
06Mar2009

Pledge to End Hunger

Have you taken the pledge?


Sunday
08Feb2009

Des Moines: Hell Yes.

If anyone is casually looking to buy me a gift for whatever reason (because that happens all the time) you might think about this t-shirt (which I think is awesome).


You can get it at Smash in Des Moines.

Smash is also on Twitter: http://twitter.com/smash50309

Tuesday
27Jan2009

Random Internet Thoughts

A couple random Internet thoughts I wanted to document here:

I spent this past weekend in Ames with several friends celebrating my buddy Austin's 30th Birthday. Along the way I published a status update in Facebook to that effect. One of the folks who responded was Mike Himebaugh, the lead singer of Hello Dave (one of my favorite bands from back in the day when I went to bars to, um, listen to bands). Mike wrote a "Ames" about a real life experience he had and that starts with the line "I got arrested up in Ames". Therefore his comment made me chuckle:

Don't worry, Mike. We're good.

Second, tonight I was checking out the Google Analytics for this blog and happened to check the search terms that people have, well, "googled" and somehow found this blog. 

The best was this:
I assume that my blog showed up in the Google results because I had mentioned in a post a few weeks ago that one of the people I follow on Twitter is a person calling themselves "Hot Amish Chick" who is certainly fake but quite amusing in their irreverant posts about being Amish and using the Internet. However, the fact they found my post by searchin about the Hot Amish Chick on Twitter isn't noteworthy. What's noteworthy is the words they actually searched upon "twitter hot amish chick real or fake".  I wonder if they got their answer? That Google is good.

Friday
07Nov2008

Trishelle on OnCourse?

Each of my MBA classes has a companion intranet portal setup for resources, assignments and the like called OnCourse. OnCourse has its flaws but for the most part its a good tool that I use almost daily.

When you access the portal the startup page always has some sort of photograph. At one point I believe all pictures were originals shot of IU students, staff and faculty. However, over the last year they started adding in new pictures that appear to be commeric
ially produced with models and such(1).

Now, I'm the type of person that sees a new character on a TV show or movie or even a random person in a commercial and immediately trys to figure out what else I've seen them in. Usually, I can place them pretty quick in some other TV show, movie or commercial and all is right with the world(2).

So, it's no surprise that one photo caught my attention and peaked my interest:


Isn't that Trishelle from MTV's Real World Las Vegas? You be the judge:


(1)I've seen a few crop up on other websites. (2)IMDb.com is a good resource for those times I can't figure it out.