Top posts of the year
May 10, 2009
Today, May 10, 2009 marks the one year anniversary of my blog. Here are my top 10 posts of the year:
- 2008 Olympic Games
- USS Iowa aka “The Big Stick”
- Electrical Storm
- You’re the winner
- More phenomenal pictures of the electrical storm
- Wall-E and friends
- the Office quote of the day
- Rampage
- 9/11
- SNL Digital Short: Japanese Office
- (tie) the Office quote of the day 7-11-08*
*Top posts are based on number of views.
Internet phenom
April 17, 2009
Susan Boyle
Britain’s Got Talent 2009
Don’t judge a book by its cover.
I watched this clip yesterday at noon for the first time – it had 11 million views. Only 24 hours later and it has 19.6 million views. It was posted only 6 days ago.
the Office quote of the day 1/14/09
January 14, 2009
Oscar: Great. They stole my laptop.
Kevin Malone: Yeah, well, they stole my surge protector.
Oscar: How does that even compare!
Kevin Malone: Oscar I’m now going to be prone to surges.
the pine tar incident
July 25, 2008
July 24, 1983 25th Anniversary
“It might be the most replayed baseball highlight from the last quarter century: George Brett — eyes bulging, arms flailing — sprinting out of the visitor’s dugout at Yankee Stadium with intent, it seemed, to kill the home plate umpire, Tim McClelland.
With two outs in the top of the ninth inning that day, Brett hit a home run off Gossage to give the Royals a 5-4 lead. As Brett circled the bases, McClelland was informed by Yankees manager Billy Martin that Brett’s bat was illegal because the pine tar on the bat was too close to the barrel. Rule 1.10 of the rules of baseball stated that a bat may not be covered by such a substance more than 18 inches from the tip of the handle.
Bruce Bennett Studios/Getty Images
the Office quote of the day 7-20-08
July 20, 2008
Dwight Schrute: I have been Michael’s number two guy for about 5 years. And we make a great team. We’re like one of those classic famous teams. He’s like Mozart and I’m like…Mozart’s friend. No. I’m like Butch Cassidy and Michael is like…Mozart. You try and hurt Mozart? You’re gonna get a bullet in your head courtesy of Butch Cassidy.
Josh Hamilton
July 15, 2008
Josh Hamilton did not win the Home Run Derby last night at Yankee Stadium. However, he is a winner at life. Congratulations goes out to the humbled Justin Morneau who did win. Josh Hamilton, however, stole the show and the hearts of all those who witnessed it. Jayson Stark from ESPN reports how this was literally Josh Hamilton’s Dream. Article
“But hold on. There’s more. There’s also Josh Hamilton’s Dream. It’s a famous dream now, a dream he had back in the winter of 2006. But it was a dream that made no sense at the time, because he had it at a time when he was still suspended from baseball for drug abuse, back when he was, therefore, about as far away from this place as a bunch of aliens from Neptune.
He’d dreamed that night that he was taking part in a Home Run Derby — in Yankee Stadium. Of course. It was a dream that couldn’t possibly come true. And then it did. Whoa. Did it ever. In the dream, though, he never saw himself actually swinging the bat. He remembers only being interviewed afterward on ESPN, and describing how he’d gotten to this miraculous point, through the power and the grace of God. But now, here he was, 2½ long years later, and he got to find out how it all turned out. How beautiful was that?
“This,” he said, “was like living the dream out, because like I’ve said, I didn’t know the ending to that dream.”
Now, though — now he knows. Now we all know. We saw a man have an evening in Yankee Stadium that told a story that ought to restore our faith in mankind.”
(AP Photo/Mike Carlson)
Bill Gates last day
July 11, 2008
Big bad Bill Gates and friends capture what his last few days were like at Microsoft. Nice.
married to the sea 6-11-08
July 1, 2008
George Carlin
June 23, 2008
Comedian George Carlin passed away today, he was 71. – NYTimes article
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.”
“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
“What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?”
“I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.”
“You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.”
“Weather forecast for tonight: dark.”
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
“Always do whatever’s next.”
Tim Russert
June 14, 2008
“Tim was a man of many passions – his family most of all, his faith, his country, political journalism, baseball and the Buffalo Bills.
As a working class Irish-American with a Jesuit education his range was wide and deep – from the sensibilities of blue-collar voters to the politics of the Vatican, from the power plays on Capitol Hill to the power plays on network television.
Almost all of our conversations – and they went on every day – ended with some version of, ‘Can you believe how lucky we are to be doing this?’” - NBC News’ Tom Brokaw
May 7, 1950 - June 13, 2008
