Nick Mag’s family is now 3

I haven’t yet seen any pictures of the calves, but he looks like a stud.  Introducing Ryder Russell Magnuson

Dean Kamen’s Robotic Arm

Many of you know about my Kamen man-crush.  He just gave a speech about an arm he built for the Department of Defense.  It’s an awesome thing and brings the Luke Skywalker’s fake hand fantasy closer to reality
It bothers me that there have been over 7 million Michael Vick jersey’s sold and nobody knows who [...]

This is the best South Carolina has?

A question answered on sunday night’s Miss USA pageant:

Pearl Jam Revisted

Today in 1991, Pearl Jam released their first album, called Ten, which was the number of NBA player Mookie Blaylock. The album sold over 10 million copies. That’s a lot. To compare, the top album of 2006 was Carrie Underwood’s which sold 3.7 million.
The band was orginally called Mookie Blaylock, but Eddie [...]

Santana is amazing

He struck out 17 last night in 8 innings. That means only 7 hitters got out by NOT striking out.

Ron Mueck is the coolest artist i’ve seen in a long time

Finally, a truly modern sculptor.
Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Australia to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children’s television shows for 15 years (like Fraggle Rock) before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie.
Eventually Mueck concluded that photography destroys [...]

It’s not all technology - the arts matter too (Dana Gioia)

Below is a great speech by the poet Dana Gioia to the Stanford graduating class of 2007….
Stanford Commencement address by Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (June 17, 2007)
Good morning.
It is a [...]

Klosterman on Bonds

Some people have asked me what i think about Bonds breaking the record.  In general i’m against it but i do recognize it as impressive.  I think Klosterman said it best (article here) over a year ago when he was close to breaking Babe’s record….
At some point in the immediate to near future, someone is [...]

Reading The Beach at the beach

On my vacation to the beach (picture of me below), i thought a good book to read would be the book The Beach. It turned out to be a great idea.
The Beach (the book) is a good read about an secluded beach community in Thailand. The community is populated by a bunch [...]

Minesweeper: The Movie

If you’ve ever played Minesweeper, check out this trailer - it’s hysterical.  Click the image below: