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Aaron about: footballs I'm super excited for football. And as I have no offspring my summer went by just fine. I have basked in the 90 degree summer sun and soon it will be time to relish in football, chili, dark beer, and hoodie glory.    Aaron about: footballs Bub, just recognize your team is a bunch of jerks who are poor sports and are inappropriate to women. Oh - and have fancy hair.    Aaron about: footballs It's preseason and the Orton was doing his best speedbump impression. Dick moves might be standard in the NFL but it doesn't make me unable recognize one when I see it. It also seemed like the Steelers stole a page from the Raven's playbook with their tacklers laying on the ball carrier for about 3 seconds longer than they should.    Aaron about: footballs James Harrison's hit on Orton was kind of a dick move. Not a penalty, not finable, just jerky. Mostly cause it's preseason.    Aaron about: crazy date Holy crap! Did you guys no that Thursday is going to be 9 02 10? I am amped for Sports Guy's commemerative podcast.    Aaron about: movies I'm with you Derek. I really don't mind the quirkiness - I think that's his thing and it amuses me. However he needs to get some better stories. Actually he could just Wes Andersize other films and I'd watch. For instance I'd like to see The Dark Knight as a W.A. film. I've always said the only thing that film needed was a Portugese David Bowe soundtrack to make it bigtime.    Aaron about: movies I was not impressed w/ Mr Fox. I had high hopes. It was full of quirk and cleverness and not so much on plot. I wasn't a fan of D. Limited or Life Aquatic either. It's been 10 yrs since I saw Bottlerocket but I remember liking that one... I may have been on the drugs though.    Aaron about: Green Ha-has that was an enjoyable article.   Aaron about: ugh The author of this blog post may have a future over at The Onion.   smoking baby Aaron about: footballs The browns are so awesome. 23-0!   Aaron about: more other news I agree, baseball is stupid.    Aaron about: dickeys shenanigans Things really escalated quickly when I helped Dickey out by pounding his beer right before we left the Zepher.    Aaron about: dickeys shenanigans The vodka tonics were for multiple reasons: 1. After drinking beers all day and eating a big dinner they were light and refreshing. 2. They have less hops and therefore I have less hangover for Phantom of Operas. 3. They are tasty and I like them.    Aaron about: dickeys shenanigans It was fine. I was ok yesterday, but I missed a nice day of relaxing on my couch. How was you guys' afterhours game of really really drunk release? Also, best decision of the night = me not peeing int the corner of Glory Days' roof bar despite Bub's assurances that nobody would notice   Aaron about: funny story Thews will probably remember this, back in our college dorm days I wanted to start a Beta Fish fighting/gambling ring. Besides the obvious ethical and moral objections I didn’t think there would be legal consequences for fish. Somehow I mentioned this to a coworker a few weeks ago and he said it takes a couple of days for the fish to nibble each other to death – not exactly the spectator sport I was imagining. So besides the obvious ethical and moral objections, the possible criminal activity, you can add boring to the reasons that a Beta Fish fighting ring never took off in 3rd floor Verder hall. On a related note, our Arena of Death at 802 was also a failure. Priece the snake was not the most active hunter of dinner mice, I’d say she was more of a sit-back-and-wait-for-the-stupid-mouse-to-come-sniff-me hunter.    Aaron about: more other news that's hillarious. I love what Shanahan is doing.    Aaron about: more other news I'm not going to believe Faver is retired until week 14. And at that point I'll only count him out for this season. Next season will be totally in play.    Aaron about: T.O. I was on vacation last week and have this to say about T.O. belatedly - It doesn't matter to me how bad he's going to bitch after their first 2 game losing streak or when he's going to throw his QB under a bus, every time he lines up against the Browns I am going to wish he hadn't. I've got a feeling he hasn't lost as much as people think and with Carson Palmer throwing the ball and 85 on the other side of the field and Antonio Bryant in the slot I'm terrified. I think it's a great signing, it may cause locker room drama and eventually end badly but none of that matters when he's trotting out onto the field and our 5'-10" second cornerback is trying to cover him.   Aaron about: Reporting Back I vote J-Bub   Aaron about: Random yeah, our photographer used the pic in a 1/2 page ad he has in there and the magazine editors asked to use it on the cover. I think Marcy was the first to find it and tell Lindsay a couple months ago.    Aaron about: so... It's almost the same premise as the new Predator movie, but instead of Predator's hunting Adrian Brody, it Gary Bussy hunting Ice T.    Aaron about: so...   I'm dissapointed Aaron about: so... Pop quiz: What movie is this tag line from? No google cheating. "Jack Mason knows he's going to die someday. But today he's not in the mood."   Aaron about: music I love me some good record industry  hate'n Aaron about: cavs He kept referring to winning championships as the goal in every question last night. I was especially struck when he referred to it answering a question about him being ranked among his piers and within the context of basketball history. As if multiple championships are the only way he can gain his proper status. I don't know if winning 3 rings in a weak sports town like Miami (for non-fb) with the help of Wade and Bosh is going to be as dramatic or legacy building as he thinks. How about making it his career goal to bring the first professional championship to a Cleveland in 45 yrs? If he had made that choice I think the Lebron brand would have went through the roof. Even if he fails, he becomes a demi-god in Cleveland. Only the most jaded sports writer could ever knock him for not winning a championship.    Aaron about: cavs I'm disappointed and kind of pissed but I don’t know why exactly. I respect his choice to leave Cleveland - He doesn't owe us anything. I guess I didn't like the way it went down maybe. Not giving the owner a call was kind of a bitch move. I can point my angst at two questions he answered: 1. Q: Will a championship in Miami be as sweet as it would have been in Cle? A: Oh, definitely, championships are championships. Thruth: Not to all the Cleveland fans you're Miami championships aren’t going to mean shit. 2. Q: What do you say to all the Cle fans that feel betrayed right now? A: My true fans will follow me in Miami and understand. Thruth: What? We’re Cleveland fans, not Lebron fans. Nobody is going to root for Miami because you’re on the team dick. I kind of think this was just a regurgitated answer that didn't really apply to the questions. He used the same line to describe his friends and family - "My true friends…". Just like he referred to himself as an 18yr old boy turning into a 25 yr old man 3 times in 40 mins. Creepy.    Aaron about: gloating who's creapier in the cohabitating situation? Mario or Sidney? I say Mario. He's a creapy molester. Sid is just his boy toy. (You dress me up, I'm you puppet, you buy me things, I love it...)   Aaron about: all-star why go there to say, oh by the way, I'm staying in cleveland? Because, he would tip his hand if it's at his HS gym. I change my mind about 3 times a day, the suspense really makes me want to know more. Right now I think he's staying.    Aaron about: baseballs Going back to Steph's desperate girlfriend analogy, they had a "please stay lebron" rally at the Akron stadium. 4000 people showed up on a saturday. Lebron made no commitment to come. He came at the very end and accepted an award but half the people had left. I think it was the only thing he could do to not make it a story. Don't go and it's stiffing his fans and ESPN crawl reads - "Lebron, as sure as gone?". Come on time, fans happy but maybe now even more clinging and ESPN crawl reads - "Lebron, staying in Cleveland?". So he comes late and nobody knows how to take it, ESPN reports story anyway.    Aaron about: baseballs Maybe 50-50.   Aaron about: baseballs At least Cleveland got a coach who has been a head coach in the NBA and made it to the Finals twice. He should demand respect. Much better than if they had gotten an assistant or college coach. I change my opinion on Lebrons landing spot daily. I do think Cleveland has a better chance than most talking heads are giving them though.    Aaron about: baseballs baseball is almost 1/2 way through their 6 month season! Farve is playing HS football! Lebron went to the airport, rode in a car, and talked on a cell phone! I hate sports right now. Actually, soccer is ok, but all games get play while I'm at work. Boo. And boo EA sports virtual field. Just break down the film.    Aaron about: Bungles agreed Bub. Also going back to the Braylon Edwards punch, no going out to bars after losing a game. Win and go celebrate. BTW - That should be a team rule from the coach, not a league mandate.    Aaron about: Bungles something about that doesn't sound right though. And I was on his side for the boating incident - sounded like cops being dicks. But add the stories together and you got a guy who keeps getting into trouble. Your not going to find Kurt Warner or Tim Tebow getting arrested in a bar. Ha!   Aaron about: Bungles Only a matter of   time Aaron about: homeowner as long as we don't have meetings we're allowed to wear shorts on half-day fridays during summer hours. I don't generally because they keep the office too cold.    Aaron about: homeowner anyone have an alegience to either Home Depot or Lowes? I am a Lowes man for sure. Their employees are helpful, they have suprisingly low turnover, and their eisles are wider and less cluttered. I used to bleed orange because of my hatred for Walmart and my (real or imagined?) perception that Lowes was affiliated with them but then I realised that Home Depot is the Walmart and Lowes is Target in the metaphor.    Aaron about: hearthquake I blame the hearthquake on the gulf-oil spill. All that oil coming to the surface is probably leaving a void below the surface of the earth. This earthquake is a product of the earh shifting to fill that void. In the near future expect giant sinkholes and possibly the gulf coast states sinking into the sea. Feel free to tell your friends and coworkers this theory as if it were fact.    Aaron about: tennis Yeah, I was keeping track of it yesterday since 41-41. I was in shock of the score then but now its 59-59 and not over! I can't imagine the stress but The two guys are serving so well that it sounds like it would be boring to watch. Still 7 hrs for one set is insane. I once beat an opponent in just over 20 mins. (only two sets needed to win in HS). Our team would have a "shake and bake" against lowly opponents where our coach would time the matches and whoever won the fastest would get a free milkshake at whatever fastfood restraunt we went to eat after the match. Ahh sportsmanship.    Aaron about: futbol I'm sorry that was just an unprovoked, low blow attack at Slovenia. No offense to any possible Slovens reading.    Aaron about: futbol that was kind of dramatic. Sucks to be a Slovenian; right now more than usual.   Aaron about: futbol I heard he once scored 50 goals in one game.    Aaron about: Hughes speaking of seeing Italy professors, I saw Harker at Sam's Club a few months ago but I pretended I didn't and walked faster in a slightly different direction but not fast enough or different enough that he would think I saw him and was avoiding him.    Aaron about: Hughes Someone said he was going bald in Italy. He didn't have anyone to redo his weave so he wore that beret every day.    Aaron about: calling all mathletes My guess is 1472. I took the multipliers (shown in parentheses) between the lower numbers and their leap to higher numbers between 150 and 500 = (3.33), 290 and 860 = (2.965517). So by linear adjustment to the multiplier I got 2.965517 - (3.33 – 2.965517) = 2.0601034. So 566 x 2.0601034 = 1472.1852 Sounds as good as any other answer to me.    Aaron about: futbol what is the point? there's no offense/defense to differentiate when to use them. They just blow them for 90 minutes straight. I don't know a five year old who would be entertained by making the same buzzing kazoo sound for more than 5 minutes but somehow this is entertaining for South Africans. Vulvazuelas make Thunder Stix seem cool.    Aaron about: ipod The nano is good for excercising and now has plenty of storage for use at work too + i think they have radios and video also. I prefer to listen to my classic over iPhone at work because when someone comes over with a question it's a one touch/no look pause. With my phone and the touch you have to press on button, swipe screen, pause screen. Too much if your doing it 15 times a day.    Aaron about: hey pittsbrughians... he faces the Tribe next. Perfect game?   Aaron about: house for sale Is that a photo of Derek getting tea bagged over the living room couch?    Aaron about: holy crap balls how did you arrive at Jones? just like the name?    Aaron about: baseballs That perfect game probably shouldn't have counted anyway as it was against this year's Tribe.    Aaron about: my 2 cents I agree, they could have come up with something more plausable. Supprisingly I didn't notice that as an issue.    Aaron about: my 2 cents just looked up "phrenologist". Nice.    Aaron about: my 2 cents 5. I auppose I could just start wearing pleated jeans.|   Aaron about: my 2 cents Ok, I’m going to get way Trekky, sci-fi on you all. Abby and Berg should enjoy. Please consider this entire post a spoiler alert. My two beefs with the new Star Trek movies are: 1. This one is worse. At the beginning of the movie Nemo and the Romulon ship go back in time through the black hole where they blow up Kirk’s dad’s Starfleet ship. But then they wait for 25 yrs for future-Spock to come through because they think he is responsible for Romulus being destoyed. So we’re supposed to understand that after a Starfleet ship is blown up in a mysterious circumstances by a strange ship coming out of an unexplained lightning storm in space with thousands of survivors narrowly escaping certain death thanks to the heroics of Kirks father, an act that will be written into the history books and studied by future generations and know across the galaxy, that Starfleet didn’t head back to investigate the enemy ship in the next 25 yrs? The ship didn’t go anywhere, it had to wait at the black hole for future-Spock to come through. And nobody went to check on it? So then it just comes out of nowhere 25 yrs later in a lightning storm to blow up Vulcan? Really Starfleet, you might have wanted to keep tabs on that thing. 2. For being a sci-fi movie there as a complete lack of respect for the time-space continuum. There are many ways to interpret how time travel could work. I subscribe to Douglas Adams’ (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) theory that time fits together like a puzzle/you can’t change the future because if you do, you would have already done it and therefore nothing actually changes. But I also respect the change the past to create an alternate and parallel future ala Back to the Future 2 where Biff make bets using the book to create a future where he is a zillionair theory. In this theory there are two possible futures divergent upon a single change in history. Here’s what Star Trek does: Beginning of movie: Nemo go’s through a black hole to the past. Nemo kills Kirk’s dad at the age of around 30. Kirk’s dad is dead so he goes into Starfleet meets the gang including Young Spock and then shit happens. Here’s the hiccup: Old Spock (Nemoy) say’s in his reality that George Kirk lived a long life and was a generally awesome dude. What? So where was the point of divergence? Did the whole opening scene not happen in Old Spock’s reality? There is a bigger issue: Young Spock knows there will be a Supernova threatening the planet of Romulus coming up in 125 yrs because Old Spock told everybody, it’s the reason this whole mess started. So with a 125 year heads-up why was there a last minute mission to send Old Spock to the supernova with the red matter to save Romulus which he ended up being too late to do –again with a 125 yr heads-up he couldn’t make this happen. Actually I may have solved it. The only explanation is this: An ALTERNATING realities timeline. Before movie in Old Spock’s time Kirk’s dad doesn’t die because there is no Nemo ship coming from a black hole, Old Spock is late to save Romulus because he never gets warning. This sends the events of the movie into motion. After movie events, Young Spock DOES act on Old Spock’s warning of the supernova, there-by stopping the destruction of Romulus. But, here’s the kicker, in doing so – there is no time travel by Nemo or Old Spock and in turn no death to Kurk’s father and no warning for Young Spock. (And then it would continue with an alternating loop of realities where every other loop Kirk’s dad dies. The question now is whether the James T. Kirk in the television series was the one with a father or without. I’m gonna guess w/o because it explains his brash character and makes the movie a hell of a lot more relavent. The alternate Kirk (w/ father) probably was just a reasonable guy who went to Starfleet academy and was generally regarded as a stand-up guy.    Aaron about: Friday random 1. The new The National and Black Keys albums rock. I still need to pick up the new Hold Steady. 2. At a school designers conf. I went to 1.5 yrs ago the keynote asked the audience (90% over the age of 40) how many had used computer applications such as facebook, twitter, skype, flickr, etc. because these are the things that the 12 yr old student of today already knows. I (and assumably the rest of the audience) became quite aware of my lack of knowledge. And generally I consider myself “tech-savyâ€� – maybe not so much. So since then I’ve half-assedly tried to try these applications. Facebook-check, Google Maps – Check and I think I’m going to try Twitter soon, maybe just follow Conan and Sports Guy. Then I’ll be able to comment on Twitters merits or lack of with confidence. 3. Along those same lines, I’m starting to wish I had gone to see Avatar in 3D. All the other 3D movies coming out are post-production applied 3D and aren’t going to be as polished. But I want to see a movie in 3D just to form a viable opinion. 4. One thing I can say though, 3D television in my home = not necessary. I’m not going to sit in my living room with glasses on. 5. I’m pissed that Old Navy because they changed the cut of my go-to jeans (unadvertised by the way). They are now tighter in the crotch. My initial thought was they did it to appease the growing number of hipsters but Bader thinks it’s because kids today have smaller balls. I just feel restricted. 6. Did I tell you guys about how the new Star Trek movie had 2 humongous plot holes yet? I can't remember and don't want to repeat myself.    Aaron about: BabyBalon!!! More Balons is always good news.    Aaron about: zzzz We're going to lay 4 yards of mulch Sat. then no more work. I'm going to relax and enjoy the rest of the weekend.    Aaron about: Lost So was the ending good? Did it validate the 5-6 seasons of dedicated viewing? Should I start netflixing them? Or should I just read the synopisis articles to get the gist in case there's a future Jeopardy answer to be had.    Aaron about: this weekend. CS5 = Adobe Creative Suite 5 (photoshop). My weekend. work on yard, paint front door, and deck design. Also try to get to the driving range. My drives stink and it's holding me back, not from the PGA tour or anything but I definetly shouldn't get outdrivin by old farts in my golf league.    Aaron about: KFC meat I'm going to have to try one now. Maybe my mockery was misguided. I WAS wrong about the McGriddle back in the day.   uber greasy and successful Aaron about: news anchor I got a bigger laugh from the article than the youtube clip. Possibly because I can't see the expression on the co-anchors face very well.    Aaron about: now all of our teams are done Everytime I think of Dio I will think of Jack Black singing "it's time to pass the torch, you're too old to rock, no more rockin' for you!". I'm sure that's how he would like to be remembered.    Aaron about: now all our teams are done The rumor is Delonte West slept with Lebron's mom and Lebron found out just before game 4. Normally I wouldn't remotely believe this but both West and Gloria James ARE crazy so I'm not ruling it out.    Aaron about: I have all kinds of mixed feelings today about the Cavs. I'm glad I don't have to watch anymore shitty NBA and their foul shooting contests and their whiny players. The Cavs played like crap and deserved to lose. Boston took away alot of the things they try to do and our coach was not up for a challange. So how can Lebron leave now? He can't walk away from Cleveland a failure. If he'd at least gotten to the finals I think he could go without regret but not now. My wofully underinformed prediction is Lebron, Wade, Amare all stay and the huge free agent class of 2010 consists of Joe Johnson, Carlos Boozer, and Chris Bosh. Good luck Knicks.    Aaron about: Gideon starts to eat mmm...cream corn...   Aaron about: Happy Anniversary according to the Caveliers-playoff-pendulum they will be playing well tonight. Look for a stinkfest coming up this Thursday though.    Aaron about: TV that slow-mo with the music was a total swipe of Boondock Saints. I think they recreated the best scenes from every war, zombie, terminator, and alien movie ever made.   Aaron about: TV I used to just watch it when it was convenient but while watching last night's show I decided based on that single episode it had catipulted itself into my DVR series record zone. Maybe the best single sitcom episode I've seen in 5 years.    Aaron about: music   schedule Aaron about: music some really good bands coming out with new ablums this month including The National (next Tues) and Black Keys (2 wks). I'm psyched.   Aaron about: electic cars Adam Carolla rants. Starts to really get good right around the time he exclaims "Now just dig this all you f*ckin' tree huggers"  rant Aaron about: boner jam Vitalogy is a mixed bag. It's half filled with good leftovers that didn't make the VS album and total crap that was inspired by some combination of Ticket Master rage, a misguided pro-vinyl stance and Neil Young. Then No Code came out and it was boring and I had moved on to Bad Religion.    Aaron about: boner jam You're right Wes, both Rolling Stones and Pearl Jam have released way too many albums of mediocre quality, causing the casual fan to throw up their arms in exasperation while we wait for them to release a greatest hits volume 3. (note: volume 1 would be a rerelease of "Ten", volume 2 would be a combo of "Vs" and "Vitalogy", leaving volume 3 to distillation of their most recent 6 albums). PS - if "Wishlist" is on volume 3 I won't be buying it either.    Aaron about: bacon survey He says: "medium-rare"   Aaron about: bacon survey I used to like the chewy grissle, cooked just enough to kill the worms (thats right, I brought the tricanosis reference) But I switched to crispy about 7-8 yrs ago, never looked back.    Aaron about: tasers are awesome andy I respect that your anti-taser stance is based on bystander amusement only.   Aaron about: tasers are awesome I read an article about that at lunch. Everybody is getting their panties in a bunch because he got tasered. The article even said that the philly's players were laughing. The implication being that watching a dude get tasered shouldn't be funny. Really? since when is that not funny?   Aaron about: good news this time that's great for you, the new firm, and us here in Akron!    Aaron about: sports (sorta) what was your previous high? was it a big leap?   Aaron about: home invasion stupid burglars. I hope they didn't steal anything that can't be replaced. Any news on the job search?   Aaron about: MLB most hated list if the list was generated from teams alienating their fans wouldn't the Pirates win?    Aaron about: KFC Oh, and BK is going to have mimosas for their new "BK Brunch" menu. Evidently OJ + Sprite = a mimosa. Keep it classy BK.    Aaron about: KFC I forgot to mention the modified jojo carton cardboard sleave you get so that you can hold your meat. That would be a great name for it actually. "Yes, I'll have the KFC Meat, please"   Aaron about: KFC anybody see the commercial for KFC's new chicken sandwich where 2 pieces of chicken are the bun? wow, just wow. And really shouldn't it be called something else? you don't call a regular sandwich a bread sandwich - the rule is to name it for the insides.    Aaron about: NFL schedule Oh, and I forgot about Andy's pats. A cornerback is good.    Aaron about: NFL schedule Overall everyone should be relatively happy right? The browns didn't take Jimmy Clausen and his ugly face (yet), Pittsburgh gets a center to bulster their running while they phase out their reliance on Ben Rapelesraper, and Buffalo can't take Tim Tebow now. I say we're all winners.    Aaron about: NFL schedule rookie WR's = Massaqui and Brian Robiski AKA should-have-been-Ray-Mauluga. Hopefully either Berry or Clausen will be there at 7. They should take Berry in a heartbeat and I think they would. Or if Causen is there they should trade pick to someone with a pick in the teens that wants him and pick up Brandon Graham or Joe Haden there. I'm w/ McShay on Clausen; the dude threw +- 1000 interceptions in college and won zero big games... so he'll be better in the NFL? I'd rather have Jake Delhome. I just threw up a little.   Aaron about: NFL schedule yeah, she'll claim that Ben is the reason she started watching them and but now she really likes Polamula and Jerome Bettis is such a nice guy, bla, bla, bla...    Aaron about: NFL schedule Funny you mention it. She was just telling me she needs a Troy Polomula jersey this morning as her Rothlesberger one is no longer wearable..   Aaron about: NFL schedule I am way more exicited for the draft tonight than I should be. It's a soap opera for men. All I know is if Cleveland takes a QB in the first round I'm going to flip out, then spend the next 5 mos. talking myself into him. The guys I'd like to see on my team after our first to pics include: Eric Berry, Joe Haden, Brandon Graham, Rolando McClain, and Golden Tate. Players I don't want include: Dez Bryant, Bruce Campbell, QB's.    Aaron about: Roethlisberger suspended six games Berg, to summarize: He was proven to have been at a college bar trolling for 20 yr old sluts at 2AM. And true or not the allegations the girl made caused a media shit storm that looks bad for the Steelers and the NFL. I presume the NFL spends a lot of money promoting itself by way of commercials, charities, etc. and this type of press sends the complete oppososite message. You don't see church-goin' Kurt Warner getting caught in situations like that.    Aaron about: Roethlisberger suspended six games And yes, looking for the Browns to catch the steelers in the first 4 games was the #1 thing I checked when the schedule came out.    Aaron about: Roethlisberger suspended six games It's only 4 games if he's good. That puts his comeback in week 6 right after Steeler's bye week at home against the Browns. I'm actually suprised they didn't put his comeback on Monday Night Football against the Cowboys. The only AFC North team to play them in the first 4 weeks is the Ravens.    Aaron about: NFL schedule It is in cleveland. and if you sell, do it early before the losing and depression begins.    Aaron about: NFL schedule Suggestion - have the birthday party on Saturday. You're giving the inlaws an seven month heads-up. Hopefully they can rearrange their schedule|.    Aaron about: sausage   yes! Aaron about: charette time that seems like a huge shame to lose the parking and bury the slab. I would recommend what Wes said - slope it to the edge of the slab. you can over-excavate and put geotech fabric to tie the 45d slope back into the yard. Then make sure to use some removable netting when you dress is so it doesn't erode while the grass takes hold. Actually it will be a bitch to mow so you could also use a wildflower mix. This way at least you wouldn't give up the parking.    Aaron about: baseballs I am glad the the Yank's and Sox Pittsburg farm system is doing well. It'll be interesting to see how they do after all their guys get sold. I'm sorry, that was mean.    Aaron about: nfl draft boners abby, you wish it was Jack Del Rio's show don't you? He would be wearing his leather Jaguars jacket.    Aaron about: Birthday!! happy birthday!   Aaron about: nfl draft boners what does everyone thing of the new draft schedule? I liked it better on saturday = easy to get together and make it a party. Their goal to get more TV's/higher ratings is going to work though. I've already given Lindsay notice that she'll have to watch the Office by herself somewhere else as I will be power-toggling between the draft and the Cavs game.    Aaron about: nfl draft boners I like to gamble. I saw part of the Gruden show - not bad. Showed the personality of the 4 qb's pretty well. Gruden seems like he's kissing everybody's ass though, especially when he was known for never liking young inexperienced QB's. But overall I think espn should do more of those types of shows.    Aaron about: Friday Random thoughts for Friday: 1. Anyone else seen the trailer for the new black comedy “Death at a Funeralâ€�? Well, it’s a remake of an already good British dark comedy with the same name. Steve the Pirate played the naked tripping guy in the British version and I think the midget might be the same actor in both films. I urge everyone to watch the original. Judging from the commercials, I don’t imagine most of the Tyler Perry-esq embellishment will improve the movie. And that “…you got Jackie Chan in there!â€� preview – really? You’ve got 30 seconds to sell your movie and that’s the one-liner that is gonna real ‘em in? I guess the Madea Go’s to Jail audience isn’t so discerning. 2. As usual there was a lot of talk about the superbowl commercials this year with Betty White being a consensus standout but I really enjoy(d) the Kia commercials with the rockstar toys and the great The Heavy song. I liked the song enough that I read some reviews and bought 2 of their albums. Both are pretty good = some bluesy/soul/rock’n’roll mix. 3. This came up at a browns game 6 mos. Ago but is still valid – Why do millionaire football players still use Riddel equipment? If I made that much money I would have a custom made football pads. It would be like having on a batsuit underneath my jersey. They may have rules against that though. It’s not as big of a deal today as it was 10 years ago with Under Armor and Nike stepping up with performance padding/clothes but I remember in the late 80’s when pads used to be really bulky and movement restricting.    Aaron about: jobs I can't say I know them.    Aaron about: jobs what's the other firm?   Aaron about: sports Leaving today at 10:15 to go drinking/lunch at pickwick & frollic for the Tribe opener. If anyone is going to be downtown and wants to drink beers with myself and 70 of my coworkers give me a call. We ought to be done with lunch around 1:00-1:30.    Aaron about: sports Holmes for only a 5th rounder. I'd say the Jets got a steal. I keep hearing from Steeler fans that they don't want to cheer for a team full of thugs so they want to get rid of these guys. I say that is noble and something that a fan who can't remember the last time they were wallowing in the cellar of the AFC north would say. I've got a feeling some might change their tune after a 4-12 season. Also, on a more optomistic note, I forsee Rooney giving the edict to go run-game/defense all the way in this draft.    Aaron about: work Great. Leslie Opchinski works there. I'm sure she would put in a good word for you. LO = Leslie Wohlwend [lwohlwend@tcarchitects.com]   Aaron about: work how did your interview go Biggie?   Aaron about: work break a l... err.. good luck!   Aaron about: lawn care good tips. Thanks guys.    Aaron about: lawn care I've heard good things about the 12-12-12.    Aaron about: lawn care where is it at?   Aaron about: lawn care congratulations! you should put in a garden roof. every man should own at least a little patch of grass.    Aaron about: lawn care I've already done some research on the fertilizer and height. I hit it with a winterizer last fall. The lawn is on it's way. The people who owned the place last didn't do anything for about a year because they were getting a divorce and nobody was living there. It was kind of dumb because they were trying to sell a house while letting the curb appeal go to hell. I'm glad though because now I get to bring it up to my expectations rather than just maintain what someone else did.    Aaron about: lawn care I'd like to avoid bagging the lawn clippings if possible. (I've been to use the mulching attachement thus far). Most of the waste is going to be from the gardens (winter cleanup, trimmings, old mulch, etc.. There is a park that will take that stuff about 1/2 mile away, I just don't really want to transport it in a bag in my car. Maybe I'll use a couple rubbermaid containers.    Aaron about: lawn care Ok guys, I’m beginning to transform my yard into a finely manicured plush green carpet and I have a few questions for those with suburban yards as I have never taken care of one. Any recommendations on edgers/string trimmers? I need to buy one. Are you supposed to sweep or blow off the sidewalk after mowing? I feel like I’ve seen people do that. How often do you scrape the underside of the mower? For gardening, what do you do with plant clippings/refuse? Bagging it for the curb go’s against every instinct I have. I don’t have a truck to haul it away. Anybody use a composter?    Aaron about: side job I've never drawn a house. I don't even know what it entails.    Aaron about: baseball MOP - "Ante Up"    Aaron about: footballs Would I have liked to get D. McNabb for a the same picks the Redskins gave up rather than getting stupid Jake Delhomme? Yes, yes I would. Redskins got a steal.    Aaron about: i am bored I just got back from DC. I am now cultured. Really I just think it's cool to recognize places where Nic Cage steals the Dec of Ind. or where a warboling Barney Frank does his press conferences. I'm thinking I should get a 1-2 jeopardy question per week boost. We got lots of excercise walking and saw cherry blossoms in full bloom. Also had a couple drinks with Jim Hartley. I arrived back at work today with an e-mail from my firm's VP saying we could all bill a 1/2 day to holiday because Jesus came back from the dead and it's going to be 85 and sunny. Bonus!    Aaron about: music Crank them at 3:30 today and think about pounding your first happy hour bear. You will never be so pumped to for the weekend.    Aaron about: Footballs Berg, when I said you would end up making more money than all of us architects I wasn't being cynical (sp?). I really hope you do and I won't be suprised either.    Aaron about: Footballs I thought right after it happened that everyone agreed there was no intercourse but that a "sex act" had occurred. That could have been bad reporting at the time though.    Aaron about: Footballs Is that even an issue? Do we even know what the alleged sexual assault was? I keep imagining him grabbing her boobs and saying "honk honk". It probably wasn't that though.    Aaron about: Footballs It's nice to have Holmgren, but I preferred Mangini's defence and run first strategery to the westcoast offense. We should not draft any more 1st round QB's and especially not stupid Notre Dame ones.    Aaron about: Footballs I would trade the Brown's 7th pick for McNabb tied to a 4 year contract. No doubt.    Aaron about: Footballs I heard on SC last night that the DNA request dropping doesn't really mean that they will be dropping the case soon, just that they decided there aren't any questions that would be answered with DNA.    Aaron about: Friday will they be wide enough?    Aaron about: footballs His biggest knock is that he's a little slow. Good leader/intangibles. Last year we purged him to bring in Mangini's guys who weren't any better. It was a shame because he wanted to stay in cleveland and there's not many players who say that. He'll play well as long as he doesn't have to drop into coverage too often.   Aaron about: i stole this from deadspin after thinking more about it I don't think 30 would do it.    Aaron about: i stole this from deadspin I think it would take 30 attackers all at once (no Jet Li movie fight scene stuff). About 10 attackers would die but the others could deliver blows to the head while the gorilla was mauling. The possiblity of cornering it into the boards would also be good strategy. I'd just worry about him escaping mid-ambush and getting space again.    Aaron about: holy shit Cleve-town!!! I'm thinking Ben must be a sex addict. Rehab will fix him.|   Aaron about: holy shit Cleve-town!!! They are blowing everything up. Everything! Delhomme makes me sick but I might be able to talk myself into him as as a temp. Getting rid of Wimbly was stupid. He was at the least an adequate player and definetely worth a middle third round pick. I don't think Quinn ever got a real shot but I don't know how he would here at this point. Still he was probably worth more than a 6th rounder and a white running back. Maybe not if you think he's a bust but I don't think he's had enough games to make a judgement. I'm just ascared that they are going to pick a QB in round 1. We need defense, defense, and defense.    Aaron about: Thews 2.1 Quagmire?    Aaron about: Thews 2.1 what does the Q stand for?   Aaron about: Ha! who wrote that?    Aaron about: movie Lindsay and I saw Shutter Island over the weekend - we both loved it. Thanks for the recommendation Sweeney.    Aaron about: Biggies Biggest Concern Your right, I did not mean to imply a midget/retard relationship status for Biggie and Toner. Just like to reference Mad Max BtTD whenever possible.   Aaron about: Biggies Biggest Concern Yoda?! you mean Master Blaster!    Aaron about: weekend speaking of KSU-Akron, I was looking at the standings yesterday. That should be a good game to deterimine the #1 seed in the MAC tourney. I hope it's on TV somewhere.   Aaron about: Holy Hockey good game yesterday. I cheered for USA the whole game but didn't mind Canada winning. If we would have one it would have ranked about the same as a Cavs first round playoff in a best of 7 win for me. For Canadians it was like winning every sports championship ever combined. Also the Clark Griswold-esq., tongue and cheek raising of the 4th pillar in the closing ceremonies was great. They couldn't have played off that story any better.    Aaron about: 8 for 8 Badre has to retake 2 for 1 failed v3.1 site exam but is up to his ears in children right now.   Aaron about: 8 for 8 Yes, I'm done.    Aaron about: 8 for 8   I rule! Aaron about: kent state when they rebuilt Stouffer Johnson hall the one wing that is closest to Taylor Hall got rebuilt to look exactly the same so that it would be accurate to the old photographs. I initially thought that it was a waste of money and time but was "corrected" at an AIA dinner by Liz Murphy who happened to be sitting at my table. I have now downgraded my option to "I don't care". My original argument was that the parking lot and gym anex had already ruined the historicalness, isn't it a little late? She said there were many people who tried to stop the anex before it was built but that the importance of the place wasn't realized at the time. I did not bring up the ugliness of the parkinglot light bollard monuments nor their convenient location and size coordinating perfectly with the location and size of a pre-existing parking space. I may have sent her into a rage spiral if we had gone to that topic.   Aaron about: Have you found a missin Boner? excellent Tony! you win.    Aaron about: pics once every week or two they do one of these photo theme's that people submit for. Bub you might be interested.   cool photo's Aaron about: Have you found a missin Boner? do any of you remember what Boner's dad's name was? I do.    Aaron about: olympics ...and he has tiny vampire fangs.   Aaron about: olympics did you know he has a daughter?|   Aaron about: olympic he's a jerk with a wirey haired mullet. I'm glad he lost. The Russians need put in their place. Lindsay used to figure skate until she was 12ish, and she doesn't think blouses on the men are gay. Evidently they are artistic. She did however concede that Johnny Wier is quite flaming. I kind of like that about him though, at least he's not a sneaky gay like the rest of them.    Aaron about: olympic crazy speed on the downhill. They didn't show the crash that got the girl life flighted.    Aaron about: 10 Reasons Not To Become An Architect I'm pretty sure you can take most introductory courses, but college is expensive and remaining "undeclared" and adding time at the end is a luxury most people can't afford.    Aaron about: 10 Reasons Not To Become An Architect no firm for me thank you.   Aaron about: 10 Reasons Not To Become An Architect what doesn't help their causes are blouses. They should stop wearing them if they don't want to look like flaming homosexuals. (not that there's anything wrong with that)   Aaron about: 10 Reasons Not To Become An Architect I have no quolms about architecture either. Its not as glamerous as people might think (but at least they think it) and sometimes I enjoy having a dificult job, it feeds my superiority complex. I also would liked to have been a creative in an advertizing firm (even before Mad Men came out) but I'm sure it's just as boring as architecture. But sometimes commercials make me mad because they are assinine and I think I could do a better job.    Aaron about: HELLO When I was saying goodbye to a half-asleep Lindsay this morning she said she was going to honor the presidents all day. Good thing she got the day off|    Aaron about: yay canada! They should let Comedy Central do a tongue-in-cheek fluf piece on how the Colbert Nation saved the olympics.   Aaron about: yay canada! Like a good closer in baseball, on Friday afternoons around 3-3:30 I reserve a go-to album to ride into the weekend with, also serving as an amp-up album for happy hour and a distracter to the clock. I listen to it as loud as I can without causing hearing damage. It all started with Rage Against the Machine – Rebels back in 2002. Other past closers included: MOP – Warriors, My Chemical Romance (any album). More recently were the Hives – B & W album and Jurassic 5 – Power in #’s. Currently Wolfmother has enjoyed an unprecedented run and is still my go to when rocking out on Friday afternoons. I’m starting to feel as if I need a change though. Any suggestions? I’m sure you all do the same thing on fridays; that’s not weird or anything right?   Aaron about: question Oh, I think I just got it. He couldn't get her off.    Aaron about: question Evidently in a Playboy interview John Mayer called Jessica Simson "sexual napalm". My question is what the hell does that even mean? It it good or bad? Is she hot and sticky? Does sex with her burn and melt skin?    Aaron about: yay canada! I'm betting the farm on the over for the weather thing.    Aaron about: yay canada! How many times will Costas work in a Yankees referance? Over/under = 2.5    Aaron about: site update oh, and onion.com is always good.   Aaron about: site update I like that I can click a picture instead of precisely clicking on the meat of the word "comments". Good thinking.   Aaron about: question gizmodo, espn, s.i., cnet, ohio.com    Aaron about: knee I saw this movie about a guy who was fixed up with serial killer parts - It did not end well for a lot of people. I can see it now: It's Competition Weekend, Harold and Pryber have been missing for hours, and Biggie's knee won't stop itching. Don't do it Biggie.   Aaron about: snow We got 3-4" yesterday but the morning forcast was wrong and it mostly stopped last night. A bunch of the schools still called off though, I don't know their reasoning. Lindsay still had to work which stinks cause she was going to clean the house. Now I'll have to help.    Aaron about: drinking fountains Looks like they did not have permission to remove the   Q fountains Aaron about: hey buffalo wrecked cars and knees are the pits.   Aaron about: cheese I like the new pic for viewing reasons and the previously mentioned scrolling reasons.   Aaron about: tech chubbie a longer article about flash that gives a more in-depth description of the tech and the issues of switching to HTML 5. There are a few more obstacles that Slate didn't get into. Probably a bit dry for most. Bub, you might be interested (or know the info already).    Aaron about: tech chubbie i'm green.    Aaron about: college sports I think the bigger implication is there would be a Big 10 championship game in FB.    Aaron about: college sports i'd be pro Pitt in Big 10   Aaron about: Jeo party Thews, how did the Jeopardy test go? Are you going to be the next Ken Jennings?   Aaron about: trains ...and I forgot to put in "w/o stops". I don't like to be the naysayer shooting down progessive ideas but I think this one is just not going to work the way they have it planned. I agree w/ you Brad. It needs to offer something to trump the convenience of driving.    Aaron about: trains and: Cle-Atl is not possible in 4 hrs unless train moves at 175 mph.   Aaron about: trains Berg, Cleveland already is connected to Chicago and Detroit. Train travels approx. 50 mph. roughly 6-6+ hrs to get to chicago. $70 plus tax (plus gov subsity). And the demand was so high you didn't even know it existed|.    Aaron about: trains You're right. It's Federal spending on stuff we probably don't need but since it's free... Note: on the other side of my we don't need trains argument is the subsidizing of automobile gasoline making it cheap to drive. If the gov. stopped subsidizing gas we'd need the trains and then the trains wouldn't need subsidized (Amtrak is a money whore). Macroeconomics is dizzying, but even more so when the gov is pulling the strings.    Aaron about: trains There just isn't enough demand to support $400 mil worth of investment. I think you need alot of daily (or at least weekly) commuters to make the investment worthwile and I don't think Ohio has that demand. I think they are going about this ass backward. What they should do is create reliable networks of rail lines within each city and work outward. When the population growth and demand is strong enough move ahead with the statewide line.    Aaron about: trains It won't get used enough; I guarantee it. Also, maybe you could start a Ohio River ferry service from Pitt. to Cincinatti.    Aaron about: trains My take is that it's waste of money because I wouldn't use it more than maybe twice a year. On the few occasions I go to those Columbus or Cincinatti, I need to get around once I'm there so I'd have to account for extra money/inconvenience for taxi's. Overall it would not be useful to me. Maybe there are peeps who travel along that line alot who would use it but my guess is not enough. I don't think it would ever be close to self-sustainable. 400 mil to build it. How much to operate/maintain? At least we could turn it into a nice hike/bike trail in 20 years. I have a totally different opinion on intracity local rail systems though.   Aaron about: cnn is funny I agree, CNN probably doesn't need a headline for that. But when tech geeks were trying to guess the name of the thing, the iPad was an option that nobody thought would work for that very reason.    Aaron about: zzzzzz There will be nothing new in the State of the Union address = 93% talk, 1% substance, 6% Nancy Palosy clapping way to0 emphatically. Apple has been able to conceil the identity of this tablet despite a no-boundries media and even a bounty for info. So for curiosity sake alone Apple wins the day.    Aaron about: zzzzzz   iPad Aaron about: Jeopardy! was it Bath in England? - if so I guessed it before the clue as one of about 6 english cities. However I was not difinitive in my final answer.   Aaron about: zzzzzz i'm excited about the apple tablet announcement tomorrow. In today's real time news culture I'm shocked that there hasn't been a leak of info/pics.    Aaron about: archi stuff there's always   these guys Aaron about: project friends ...and maybe a musket gun.   Aaron about: project friends I will buy a tweed jacket and a pipe.   Aaron about: oh yes, can I do that?!!   Aaron about: TV I didn't see that part. Caught Crew Jones in a random spot though. It was like a family guy flashback.   Aaron about: music 4 albums sifted from the smorgasbord my dad gave me around Thx’giving. Frightened Rabbits – kind of a Modest Mouse meet Franz Ferdinand sound. Solid = 7/10. Phoenix – Super catchy but not very deep. A lot of songs sound similar. I wonder if they were going for a theme album, probably not though = 7/10. Mew – Not always super catchy but might be brilliant. Diverse tracks. I will need many listens to grasp all of the different things going on. Tremendous upside potential here = another 7/10. Owl Ctiy – Good God that is some terrible music. Sounds like the super cheesy tracks from Daft Punk Discovery only not as good and for every song. As a side note, sometimes in the car I’ll force myself to listen to classical music on NPR because it’s better than classic rock and I don’t feel like getting out a CD, but sometimes the Classical is boring and my hand will move to the stereo to change the channel unconsciously. That kept happening while I was listening to this garbage = 2/10. (the 2 because I couldn’t give it a full listen. Maybe the second half is the Joshua Tree of electronica, somehow I doubt it though.    Aaron about: weekend Biggie, I'm cramming for my Structures ARE this weekend. I'll shoot you a text if I feel like I've jambed enough info into my noggin by Sat. eve.    Aaron about: request Read or play video games.    Aaron about: request should we start today? Which of the many relms of my self-perceived expertise would you like me to offer my opinions on?   Aaron about: Pantuso Twins Ahhh. Congrats!   Aaron about: almost Pantuso baby time is Chan short for Channing?   Aaron about: bils What if Becky names her kids Buddy and Chan? you'll be doing a lot of backtracking Leanne.   Aaron about: riddle me this... <19   Aaron about: riddle me this... 1&2 across, 2 back. 5&10 across, 1 back. 1&2 across = 2+2+10+1+2 = 17   Aaron about: xbox debate you can get a wireless dongle I think.    Aaron about: Kinda Working gotta love KSU. Good thing tuition isn't expensive|   Aaron about: More random stuff good luck Berg!   Aaron about: More random stuff don't be knocking GnR Chinese D. If that album had come out in 1994 instead of The Spaghetti Incident it would have been heralded as gods gift to rock and roll. It just came out 15 yrs late.    Aaron about: More random stuff I like the hold steady and the truckers but not top of the decade worthy for me.    Aaron about: More random stuff derek, I put The National Alegator on my list. I don't really think it's any better than Boxer though. And I had the same issues w/ the Black Keys & White Stripes. I like them alot but not any specific album.    Aaron about: 01.02.2010 = uber-palindrome   Aaron about: More random stuff The other big one that I remember loving pre-2005 was Black Eyed Peas. It's easy to forget how good that album was.    Aaron about: More random stuff The order is not well thought out there. Sorry, no Spoon album makes the cut and Youth and Young Manhood as well as Aha Shake are both better than the rest. Sadly they have been getting worse. (not bad by any means though).   Aaron about: More random stuff Here's a quick list from scrolling through the ipod. ipod=2005 so it's backloaded within the decade. 1. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm 2. Atmoshere – I can’t Imagine… 3. My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade 4. Jurassic 5 – Power in Numbers 5. Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk 6. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago 7. Eminem – Marshal Mathers LP 2000 8. MOP – Warriorz 2000 9. Vampire Weekend 10. The Avalanches – Since I left you 11. Gorillaz – Demon Days 12. Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak 13. Hives – Black and White Album 14. The National - Allegator 15. All Black Keys/White Stripes albums as one 16. Sigor Ros () 17. Snow Patrol – Eyes Open 18. Wolfmother    Aaron about: More random stuff I could get behind B.P., I'm a huge fan of that album. I'll give it a kneejerk top 5 for sure.   Aaron about: museum glad you enjoyed.   Aaron about: museums I just remonised with Bader about a few memorable breakdowns. #2 was Ed Engle in Italy, in the middle of jury presentation he realised his plan and elevation didn't match which sent him over the edge and into complete dispair. He didn't cry but he lost it and started berating his own design. I give Harker credit for salvaging the remainder of that review and talking Ed off the proverbial ledge. #1 was Shidlo and Dryer tag teaming Mandy until she quit. I wasn't there but I've heard the story so many times from Hartly, Meng, and Bulldogg that I feel like I was.    Aaron about: Cribbs It's a ploy, he got the first offer from the Browns and the next day his agent went to the media. The Browns don't even have a GM in place to do the negotiating. Plus, what is he really going to do - he's under contract for 2 more years, he definetly doesn't have enough money to hold out long either.    Aaron about: St. Patty Jersey Shore!   Aaron about: bdc fun I'm going to guess 29,232   Aaron about: Nissassa Just in case that didn't make sense; Lindsay buys clothes, I buy xbox.    Aaron about: Nissassa PS3 = Blue Ray. I'm in your boat Derek, I wan't a blueray so a PS3 makes sense but more than that I want to play video games with my friends in different cities so xbox is the way to go. And your damn right headsets will be in play. Soon for me, I'm just waiting for the next Ann Taylor sale induced shopping spree to provide leverage with my wife.    Aaron about: Baby Berg Congrats berg! Bub when are we going to get a BDC app? Berg was forced to announce his offspings' comming on Facebook?!   Aaron about: Blah I came down w/ a bad cold Tues, I'm feeling better but I think the cold is still holding half my brain cells hostage. Thus not doing anything tonight - probably watching Harry Potter 6 on dvd.    Aaron about: great lines 2nd Baddest line ever = Omar from The Wire: "You've mistaken me for someone who repeats himself." (as he heists Marlo's ring) narrowly loses to every line Samual L. Jackson has in Pulp Fiction.   Aaron about: music Anyone heard of Freightened Rabbit? Got it form my dad at Thanksgiving but the name was bouncing around in my head before I received it. It's quite good.    Aaron about: football ravens lost last week. Green Bay and Philly are both looking good right now though. Also, does anyone else think S.D. has been hiding Sproles until the playoffs. I can see them unleashing him for 300 all purpose yards while slow Tomlinson watches from the sideline.    Aaron about: holidays I like your idea Thews.    Aaron about: holidays 2 years ago the Browns got bounced from the playoffs by a Titans team that had the luxury of playing the Colts last game of the season. It was that simple - the colts played 2nd stringers so the Browns didn't go to the playoffs. The media was indifferent then. I'm completely shocked at how they're acting now. The colts have been doing this for years but NOW its an abomination, a slap in the face to the spirit of competitiveness, really? For a month the colts coaching and front office have announced that they would rest players but somehow this made headlines.    Aaron about: holidays L and I watched Monsters vs. Aliens last night. I couldn't help but think of Monte everytime Insect-a-saurus was on screen.    Aaron about: holidays I'm in until probably midday thursday. There aren't many people in my office though. Typically I'm not a big fan of using vacation in December just to avoid working.    Aaron about: merry Everyone have a fun and safe holiday! I'm out for the rest of the week.    Aaron about: 2009 albums - Billy Danze is a badass though. New Years resolution - more Warriorz in my life.    Aaron about: 2009 albums - Blakroc is meh. Derek linked the best song, it's a standout, the whole album should have been like it. I've given it about 3 listens through and most everything else is lackluster. Not enough inventivness or Black Keys in it. They set up a beat/riff and then someone raps over it. Ta Da! I was hoping for more integration, more change ups, less typical rap.    Aaron about: foxsports I also love listening to Simmons and friends podcast 45 minute discussions on MTV reality shows. I really don't think there is anthing more entertaining. It's way more entertaining than the shows themselves. Actually I don't even watch the shows (most of the time).    Aaron about: 2009 albums - I love the eplanation. I have been there many times before with electropop and much like you have always given in. There's just no reason to fight it. If I were Luke and electropop were The Dark Side the Empire would still be ruling.    Aaron about: foxsports espn is all videos and since I can't watch streaming at work espn = poop. SI is way better. Bub, next time your watching football on fox, listen to the robot noises their graphics make. If you like robot noises they're great, if you like to watch football they're unnecessary and completely ridiculous.    Aaron about: foxsports I bounce between espn, si, and foxsports. You're right about having junked up their page w/ the new layout, I haven't noticed the errant scores.    Aaron about: browns that play was terrible.   Aaron about: browns I am in your camp Thews. I really don't want Mangina fired. It was a plausible position when the browns hadn't scored a TD for 5 games in a row and weren't competitive but things are MUCH better in the last 4 games. We morgaged this season to get a lot of draft picks and players that fit into the new system and I don't want to start over again. Plus Mangini's gotten rid of all the false starts and stupid penalties - that I think says that he's got the players playing smarter or just smarter players, either way I like it. I'm also nervous that whatever direction they go Holmgren will tinker too much either by making too many GM moves or by trying to coach from the front office. The best scenario would be to give Mangini another year, good draft (no QB in 1st round), Browns play better next year, and we have two powerful personalities leading the browns for the next 3 years before they eventually fight to the death.    Aaron about: footballs Chris Henry reminds me of an elf.    Aaron about: 2009 albums - my dad gave me Muse over Thxgiving. He is really into it. Then I gave it to Badre because it sounds a little like Vast and it's orchestralish and he liked it so much that he bought 2 albums from Amazon. Obviously stealing music means that no one will ever buy music again|    Aaron about: birthdays Happy birthday Old Man English. Oh! Holy crap you should go by Olde English or Olde E. for short.   800 Aaron about: stupid mondays top 10 = Half of those bands are has-beens that are still coasting on their great work from 20 years ago. Not a top 10 i can respect.    Aaron about: Fonts I'm dissappointed. The poses don't even look like letters.    Aaron about: browns 8 sacks! Cribbs! 9 months till the Pittsburgh's next opportunity to redeem themselves!    Aaron about: camera/camcorders if you want to get into the mini video recorders, here's a synopsis of whats out there for tech. geeks.  video Aaron about: camera/camcorders I've got a point and shoot Cannon Elph that I love. It's tiny and simple. Cost about $180 (2 years ago). The best camera is the one you have with you.    Aaron about: gift idea kind of pricey for what it is, but cool none-the-less.  bubble wrap calanderw Aaron about: aural pleasures I like the one a day release schedule. I however abhore the haiku's. Why? Because they are limited in their descriptions. Could you do the haiku's and a self-rightious tirade for each album? That's probably too much.    Aaron about: aural pleasures I won't deny knowledge of Lady Gaga as I like to keep my finger on the pulse of pop culture but I have no affinity for her music and am not amused by her Maralyn Manson meets Cindy Lauper persona.    Aaron about: babies Bader had another baby boy. Isaac Bader born Sat. 6:19AM. Mom and baby are happy and healthy. Bader still made the company Christmas party that night.    Aaron about: ringtones yeah, what berg said about iTunes.   Aaron about: interviews I still have my sweater from the Akron christmas party. The worst is that over thanksgiving at lindsay's parents house I noticed a photo of her mom wearing the same sweater vest. That sweater was so ugly Biggie and I showed up with the same one because we both deamed it that hideous.    Aaron about: Tiger he's good, but in every article he writes about the 3rd paragraph in he starts to qualify his statement/points and it waters down his argument. I respect him for offering a balanced opinion but the formula drives me nuts.    Aaron about: Tiger Tiger's caddy would definetly be there. It's well known in professional golfing circles that you don't ever turn you back on Pervy Steve.    Aaron about: Tiger I think if Tiger were able to "play 18 holes" he would definetly end the are-golfers-really-athletes? debate.    Aaron about: Most awesome video ever!! whoah! happy day! congratulations Abby and Bub.    Aaron about: stuff Lindsay and I were thinking of doing a Holimont weekend over Presedents day weekend mid-Feb. I heard Vermont was further away than Holimont though. Let me find out when L's spring break is. Sometimes it's in early March.   Aaron about: good find andy - I will be sure to regurgitate that fun and interesting factoid at the next appropriate occasion. and thanks for the birthday wishes from everyone.    Aaron about: For you new planners in the group do you have to hire a consultant or can you just work with another architect in your firm that is LEED accredited?   Aaron about: photos Giz = Gizmodo, the website.   Aaron about: photos Thanks Bub, also you might understand the processes that are used in making these cool photos w/o photoshop.   open shutter contest Aaron about: nice Cathryn, I heard your dad on the radio this morning. (soundbite)  happier Akron area news Aaron about: footballs I was ok with the Browns loss. Our team played mostly good and we didn't hurt our draft choice. I was entertained by them for the first time in weeks.   Aaron about: um why do I forget how much I hate hangovers and have to remind myself every 2 months? Are beer pong and homebrewed Christmas Ales worth it? They were on Saturday but not so much yesterday.    Aaron about: YAY! good job guys. its a good thing both of you passed. Can you imagine if only one did? Awkward.   Aaron about: bday happy Bergday!    Aaron about: stump yes. I also have a black velvet wall, two lava lamps and am getting a weight bench for my birthday so I can recreate scenes from Kevin Spacy's American Beauty garage.    Aaron about: stump oh yes. "Stump 2000" (remember I put 3 dowel levelers and topped stump with glass) lives in the basement now, along with most of my pre-Lindsay furniture.    Aaron about: stump   light Aaron about: footballs I didn't understand this during the game and still don't. How is it an "illegal block" when the other team has the ball? Don't cornerbacks try to blow up blockers all the time on sweeps? how is this any different?   Aaron about: boners how recently did he get his contract extension?   Aaron about: footballs why would any team want L. Johnson? Is there any question as to whether he is a jerk? And does he have enough talent to overcome said jerkness? I think the answers are 'no' in both cases.   Aaron about: footballs Thoughts while witnessing the Bungles dismantle the Stillers in Pitt this weekend for Lindsay’s birthday present. 1. I didn’t know who I’d cheer for before I went into the game. Turns out I didn’t really cheer anyone. Just the sunny weather and nice view of the ohio river. I was pretty ambivalent as to what was happening on the field. 2. I may have been the only person at the stadium without a steelers garb/jersey (96%) or bangles garb/jersey (the other 4%). I probably stuck out as much as anyone wearing orange. 3. I took a great incognito pic of this huge slob of a steelers fan behind Lindsay and I. I’ve got to figure out how to post it here. She was like Rosanne Bar only fatter, louder, and more obnoxious. 4. If I wanted to see 7 field goals I could have gone to a Cleveland game. 5. Best part of the day for me was in the beginning of the fourth quarter the refs brought out the chains and the jumbotron showed the Steelers were about a foot short for a first down. As the home crowd groaned I yelled as loud as I could “It’s just the camera angle! That’s a first down!”. I’m not sure many of the fans got it. But I’ll take my small victory.   Aaron about: question of the day I would say that there is nothing unhealthy about Coca-cola if drunk in a moderate and sensible amount.    Aaron about: footballs With the injuries, firings, decention among the players - no way. If the browns win more than one game for the rest of the season it will be a miracle. I'm predicting 20 point losses for 6 of the last 8 games.    Aaron about: old email one more: Greenberg, You are a big crybaby. If you didn't want to come to our party and get housed in Madden and Euchre, and completely dominated by me in backyard football, you could have just said so. But making up excuses about football games, is that gay or not gay? I say GAY! If you had any balls you would write off you little football game and come celebrate your birthday and the Bills victory over the Colts that weekend in BUFFALO. "I'm not in support wah wah wah, lack of respect wah wah... i don't want to lose miserably, wah wah wah cry cry cry, my vag hurts..." BOO FUCKIN HOO YA FAG... Strap em on and be here. love, toner    Aaron about: old email Bub, I'm sure its not your "biggest" pet peeve.   Aaron about: old email -----Original Message----- From: Chris Bader Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 3:09 PM To: 'tbalon@wned.org' Subject: A new life... Tony, I hope this letter finds you well. I would like to share with you a little bit of the joy I have experienced over the last few days, partly because you were the cause of it. Heeding your advice on the underwear debate Aaron and I held last week, I went out Thursday night and purchased a multi-colored 4 pack of FTL boxer briefs. I have to say that your advice was as solid as the earth itself. Since my purchase, I have experienced an underwear revelation: Nothing can beat FTL boxer briefs. They are cozy and snug, giving my physique that extra lean and in-shape look that all men desire to have and all women desire to see. They cater to my testicles like a mother caters to her newborn - with extra care and comfort. I believe I will shave said testicles tonight in order to experience the ultimate in underwear intimacy. This may sound a bit offsetting, but I even had the same pair on for almost 48 hours and even then they did not creep up my crack, which is a big problem with other brands and must be confronted. After all, if a man does not feel right down there, how can he go into the world with the needed confidence and positive outlook that it takes to get ahead? My scrotum greatly thanks me for this change and in return I need thank you for introducing me to them. Already I have become a stout defender of FTL boxer briefs and will, in all my possible capacity, destroy anyone who thinks otherwise. Once again, thank you. Till next we have the pleasure of meeting and perhaps lounging together in our FTL boxer briefs, take care Bader    Aaron about: old email Back in the day, pre-BDC, all we had to communicate was ancient e-mail. Well before July 2004 I had a folder in my e-mail that I would throw odd personal e-mails into. Well I decided it was best if I saved the folder to my hard drive and deleted it from the e-mail server because most things in it aren’t very professional (at all). And I haven’t looked at it since today. There are some beauties in there. I figure I’d share one every now and then on slow days.    Aaron about: birthday Have merry birthdays!   Aaron about: random I've read a little bit about it. Seems too all encompassing and slightly complicated. I'll jump in if it catches on but I'm not going to be a beta tester. It sounds useful for teens who sit at their computers and I.M. all night... not that you and abby do that.    Aaron about: music The original Aesop Rock song was a gem. I'd say it was a lateral move. But overall, the hip hop really added some life to some boring S. Stevens songs. I got the Lupe Fiasco disk after Pandora played 3 songs I liked from it. It's good but probably falls into the Kanye West relm of better production than lyrics or rapping ability.    Aaron about: New Years I have no plans of for new years at the moment. This weekend I helped a friend move and I'm sore now.    Aaron about: more stuff I believe some of us predicted this would blow. I'll still watch it when it comes out on dvd.  Boondock Saints 2 Aaron about: I or there is this  Berg's too late Aaron about: I Wes, it doesn't find bathrooms or rate them but there is this...   poop the world Aaron about: baseballs yankees suck!   Aaron about: Agassi Agassi did crystal meth once. The best part is that he just cleaned his house.   meth Aaron about: my other football rant I don't know why anyone would care except that it's unusual to see, and he's in NY, and he's fancy. Wes, it think you almost hit the real story on the nose - Where did the hot dog come from? Did he ask the ball boy to get it for him? if so, how long did it take to run from the sidelines into the causeway and get a dog and return? Did the ballboy have to pay with his own money? Did sanchez just go to the front row behind the bench and get it from a hot dog guy in the stands? Again, did he have to pay for it? These are the questions that need to be answered.    Aaron about: Clevetown Browns "Pittsburgh: America's crotch. Literally one of the worst cities on the planet. Full of toothless mountain people." - Ha! now that's good stuff.   Aaron about: Home Sweet Home Welcome back! I mowed my lawn for the first time yesterday. It was glorious. Today I'm going to fetilize.    Aaron about: efffing awesome Now this is art!  toilet waterfall Aaron about: O great pictures!   Aaron about: Of all the petty instances of discipline addressed in the Ohio Architects quarterly newletter under the guise of protecting the sacred name "Architect" this one is the best. Why is this stuff published? A lame attempt to shame the perps?: Mr. Rose, who specializes in commercial and industrial shop, detail and erection drawings, allegedly prepared a set of construction drawings as a favor to his church for their proposed outdoor church picnic pavilion in Medina County, Ohio. The drawings were submitted for permit and required the seal of an Ohio registered design professional. This matter was amicably resolved whereby Mr. Rose agreed to cease and desist from providing any type of design services that may require the seal of an Ohio design professional. This matter was closed May 2009.   Aaron about: names Ooo, I like Huxley. And with the H & X you're setting him up to have a really bitch'n signature. So I'd definetely go with that one if I were you's... if your kid having a rockin' autograph means anything to you.   Aaron about: names The point is really moot. There's no way Lindsay would allow Nicodemus either.   Aaron about: names that's bullshit Berg. You stole Nicodemus from me.    Aaron about: footballs item 5: I was irate when that play happened and looked for an explanation this morning but haven't found one. Anderson said it a wierd camera angle but that is bullshit and I don't know why this wasn't a bigger deal at the time on the field. There is no way that was an optical illusion. Zero chance. I've never seen anything like it before. Item 6: yes they do. Cribbs runs 98 yards and in the same breath as "Touchdown Browns!" he's calling for a clipping call that didn't exist. He was persistend on the how-the-fuck-was-that-a-first-down call though. Some announcers just drop it right away and take the extra time to talk about a non-related story line from a different game.    Aaron about: cover letter Seriously, for $1 million you could set up an endowment and pay a guy $50 grand a year to sit in the lobby and do those paintings and give them away all day, everyday indefinetly. Now I ask, What would people remember/notice more- the free cheezy painting guy in the University Hospital waiting room that has been there for 30 years or a $1,000,000 abstract painting of a flower?    Aaron about: cover letter I agree though. Ballsy. Nice try.    Aaron about: cover letter The art in the university hospitals is actually really good. You should try to sell them on the idea that you could be a "thrifty" art collector and save them hundreds of thousands by buying art that looks just as good and isn't unreasonably priced. As long as you don't throw up Velvet Elvises and stick to modern stuff no one wo'ld know the difference. Scratch that- 3 or 4 Velvet Elvis's together with some b.s. on a white titlejobby would be brilliant.    Aaron about: random thoughts re: astroboy - I did not know that. Who ripped off who with the Pinochio-esq. plot lines.    Aaron about: random thoughts Random thought’s I’ve been compiling of for a week or two: 1. Windows 7’s new advertising campaign combines campy, colorful, psychedelic imagery with the A-team theme song…and it’s working for me. 2. In a shocker contrarian to every other organic food ever – organic bananas window of ripeness lasts longer than 1.5 days. Kirk Cameron eat your heart out! (no pun intended). 3. Saw an advert on TV for an animated kids movie called “Astroboyâ€�. Well, Astoboy’s arms turn into guns and somewhere Capcom lawyers are preparing Megaman’s paternity suit. 4. Speaking of adverts, the new “Vâ€� looks nice but I’m hoping for substance and not just nostalgia. We’ll see. 5. 41 degree high’s the last 2 weeks -global warming my ass. I’m proposing that Akron pulls a Lex Luther Superman 1 scheme. But instead of dropping Cali into the ocean and inheriting ocean front property in Utah. Akron will burn piles of tires until global warming raises temperatures and sea levels leaving Akron an ocean front tropical paradise. Al Gore will never be able to reverse the earth’s rotation therefore reversing time to stop us. 6. How did that work anyway? Who decided reversing the earth’s rotation = going back in time? 7. Dunkin donuts is back to using Styrofoam cups for their coffee. Did something change? Didn’t we all decide Styrofoam = bad about 25 years ago? 1985 McDonalds gets screwed again – sorry you can’t keep you hot side hot and your cold side cold – why don’t you use wax paper and cardboard instead.    Aaron about: Dyson is a genius nerd blog review of said fan.   Dyson Aaron about: browns Willie Parker and Troy Palamula are coming back sunday for the browns. Is that really necessary?    Aaron about: tauntaun   sleeping bag Aaron about: Browns vs Bills there were about 6 dropped passes. Plus our receivers don't make our QB's look good by coming back for grossly underthrown balls. Yeah, thats right I was talking about Ben and his weak arm.    Aaron about: Browns vs Bills NFL films might want to toss that reel in the dumpster.    Aaron about: bored don't say never Andy, we just need to get the Bubdotcompound together... or a teleporter. I think the teleporter might be over my head - I'm going to wait until Apple releases the iPort.   Aaron about: bored I would start at the beginning of college. And I'd want to just do everything over with some minor tweeks. I'm 60/40 on taking architecture as a major. Anything else would be boring. Plus if you get to keep knowledge it would be a breeze the second time through.    Aaron about: bored do you get to know then what you know now? or do you go back to being young and dumb?   Aaron about: WTF I will channel my inner Miss Manners. 1)Weddings are higher on the event priority ladder than a 1st birtday party's. I think mostly because they last longer and only happen once. It seems insane to reschedule a weekend getaway around a 3 hr birthday party. But I don't have any nephews or nices so I am not an expert. 2) 1/2 hr. late is not a problem but do you think there will be anything worth seeing in the 4th quarter anyway?    Aaron about: Fox Sports presents the Cleveland Browns   Turdbot. Aaron about: HEN That's not cool at all - just depressing. I think we could collectively come up with a better story for the Hen. Something involving his mohawk or an argument with a hopped up hippie about which Phish album is the best.    Aaron about: Footballs wait. why was the Hen in jail?   Aaron about: movies for fans of the first Boondock Saints movie, I heard on the radio this morning and confirmed on Wiki that the sequel will be in theaters end of october. I hope it doesn't suck, because I think there's a good chance it could.    Aaron about: anyone gets to write Brad, I agree with the close to home argument. I completely disagree with the too conservative arguement. OSU is losing because they aren't playing good Tresselball. If they stuck to the gameplan and stayed conservative they would have won 1 or 2 of those (last 6 or 7 now?) big games. They are making a couple mistakes each game that end up killing them. Conservative Tresselball is not thrills and no mistakes. That and I don't think Pryor has gotten much better in the offseason. I don't have an ioda of confidence in him in big spots.    Aaron about: anyone gets to write You don't think warm weather and hot chicks can sway an 17 yr old high school senior to go to a warm weather school? really?   Aaron about: food really good article about nutrition that makes a lot of sense. I'm still a big believer in "everything in moderation" when it comes to diet, but it sounds like we might not all be getting a moderate intake of  omega 3 Aaron about: Baugh House House is good. Rooms are painted, carpets are getting cleaned tomorrow, and we're moving on Saturday. I have some before pics here, but no way of posting them. Typical characterless development home - I refer to it as my "vinyl sided monstrosity", but at least its mine. And it won't distract from my soon-to-be envy-of-the-neighborhood lawn.    Aaron about: you tube no streaming media here, which really is for the best. I'd get fired.    Aaron about: anyone gets to write Berg, I didn't read your article but I think your point was that Ohio produces great wide receivers in the NFL. Well there aren't exactly hall of famers on that list.    Aaron about: Annual Football Lament what's the buffalo opinion on Lynch coming back? Is he the right guy for the system or a bad fit? Fred Jackson looked pretty good.    Aaron about: Annual Football Lament I think Mike and Mike forgot that they were announcing a live game instead of doing a morning show a couple of times. One of my biggest pet pieves is when there is a good game being played but because T.O. said something controversial in a post game interview the announcers are hashing over today's top news.    Aaron about: Annual Football Lament Berg, you can't boycott the NFL because the browns stink. Also, will McElvin ever be able to redeem himself? Dwayne Rudd never did after the helmet play.    Aaron about: musak I've been hearing: "The new Pearl Jam is their best one since Vs." for every new album since No Code. It's not happening. I have the same apathy as when my dad tells me I should listen to the new Sting.    Aaron about: musak I don't believe you.    Aaron about: funny from Beki P  Craigs list Aaron about: football ohhh.. that's what they call those.    Aaron about: football Who's merkin? Should I get that?   Aaron about: football Every media member and talking head out there is lambasting Mangini for not publicly reveiling who the starting QB is. I don't think it's exactly hannabal-esq in terms of game changing strategy but it isn't the catalist to an 0-16 season either. I think the media are just agitated that they aren't getting their proper press conference so their taking pot shots at Mangini and the two QB's. I keep reading all these preseason football predictions because I'm thirsty for the game and there all the same formula: Did they get better or worse offseason (by that I mean did they sign any big names, not necessarily good players)? Then, take last years record and add or subtract up to 2 games = Ta da! every teams 2009 record. My prediction is the browns go 8-8 for the season. Also, the Bucs are going to be terrible. I was reading about how little experience their 33 yr old head coach has - it's scary how underqualified he is. And just for good measure he fired his O-coordinater 10 days before the opener. I'm glad I don't live in Tampa.    Aaron about: ticket prices It's even more depressing when you think about the fans/taxpayers that are paying for a new stadium that they are now priced out of enjoying.    Aaron about: Columbus why was Nisassa holding a beagle?!!   Aaron about: weekend I'm out. Closing on our house @ 3:30. Have a good long weekend everyone.    Aaron about: simmons "This trip, I have a hankering for Arby's and end up re-enacting the "Wild Things" threesome with a medium roast beef cheddar sandwich and a big thing of curly fries." I read that at lunch and almost choked on some leftover rigatoni.    Aaron about: footballs does it really matter if he wears a cowboy hat? the dude has sharp pointy teeth like   Baraka Aaron about: angry emails make sure you turn off your autocad caps.   fired Aaron about: no talkie, talkie? I like when mine comes up with "tasteless". Leanne, your content blocker must be a prude because that wasn't porn or even close.    Aaron about: awesome sorry I got drunk at your bachelor party Biggie. I hope you had a good time despite me. How was PiB?   Aaron about: footballs ha!   Aaron about: footballs crap. For some reason I thought he showed more than that at the end of last season. We've got a short bench (4) so I think I'll probably cut his ass soon. Thews - you drafted Brady Quinn. That is all.   Aaron about: footballs so what are Fred Jackson's fantasy prospects this year?   Aaron about: gangstagrass that stinks Abby. Our firm does it on monday mornings, something about not ruining peoples weekends. I have to imagine they are talking about the workers who don't get laid off because I don't think it matters which day to the laid-offee. L-day - I've got a family gathering in Geneva on Sunday but no plans besides that.    Aaron about: gangstagrass I love it. and I love that it was free.    Aaron about: footballs Brad, its like we're psychic   Aaron about: footballs At least Brett Farve is back. I hope Shaun Rogers sits on him in game 1. speaking of old QB's, I just found out that Kurt Warner had hip surgery and enjoyed a hardy gaffa because that's what old people get.    Aaron about: footballs by pointing out that Devin Hester is not a 6'6" high jumping physical freak, Jay Cutler caused irreperable damage. He's such a jerk, always shooting off his mouth|. Seriously though, I can't think of a bigger non-story.    Aaron about: bored can we keep sharp object vs. eyeball stories to a minimal level of descriptiveness please. They make me feel wierd. (so far I'm ok)   Aaron about: footballs: me that is great! K S U Awesome. I'm out - Going to drink beers as badres family cabin on the Portage Lakes. I'm going to predict 4 drinks.  The endorsement Aaron about: houses I just switched it to Dickey's guy mostly to make Lindsay's parents happy. I personally wouldn't have worried about it or gone through the trouble if it weren't to appease them but it can't hurt.    Aaron about: houses Is it a bad idea to use a home inspector that your real estate agent sets up or recommends? Lindsay’s parents are adamant that the home inspector will not identify problems because he wants the repeat business and doesn’t want to jeopardize the agent’s sale. Paranoid or intelligently cautious?   Aaron about: boy, I'm full of football sarcasm today.   Aaron about: Here Thank god that the o-line is the one place on the football field where familiarity and teamwork isn't necessary.|    Aaron about: Here Good job Jeff Fisher, your first quarter preseason fake punt was a success. The Bills should hang their heads in shame|   Aaron about: Pantuso Twins Glad you liked it. I thought twice before posting it because generally I try to keep baby eating jokes to a minimum when there is a new baby(ies) announcement.    Aaron about: Pantuso Twins! Congratulations! At first I thought Bertha ate babies.   Aaron about: cross did I miss something? Why is Leanne driving across America? and is there any way I can read older posts? I want to read about the fallout from Toner's wedding....stupid awesome honeymoon making me miss fun weddings... now I have to live vicariously through friends message board postings...   Aaron about: good morning as long as there was still a 12 on the clock.    Aaron about: good morning wait.. was it at midnight EST or midnight Dickey Time?   Aaron about: good morning nice! congratulations to the Capana's! (sp?)    Aaron about: Roid Sox Sports talk radio is dumb.    Aaron about: tshirt This tshirt is quite clever. How's that working out for you? What?   Being Clever Aaron about: spot on iPhones don't make people annoying. Annoying people make iPhones annoying.    Aaron about: I'm back. Honeymoon was great. I'm slammed at work now and will be for the next week or two. Hopefully I'll get one of those fancy photo websites going this weekend so you can all see some of the cool sites L and I saw.    Aaron about: iphones pandora, sportacular (quick scores), 2 Across (crosswords), shazam, urbanspoon, iheartradio, the weather channel. Only the crossword one cost money.    Aaron about: rodebaughs L and I are in Philly connection ready to fly. Just wanted to thank yous for the fun times this weekend. We were happy to hear that the weekend was enjoyable for you guys as well. Bub, the painting was amazing! It's going over the mantle (or at least behind the basement baken bar.) Brad and alicia, that's great news. L and I are going to keep you in our thoughts and prayers. I'll post in two weeks. Peace!   Aaron about: address request reminder: everyone should go to Our Lady of Victory in Talmadge NOT Holy Family in Stow. Unless of course you want to do a field visit to a construction site rather than attend our wedding.    Aaron about: baby name A lady that works at the local blueprint company is named Gay. Everytime I say her name it makes me feel guilty, like I'm in 2nd grade and just called her a mean name. Funny though, I have no quelms about calling Thress "The Anal Thruster".    Aaron about: address request 4436 Mannington Blvd. Stow, OH 44224   Aaron about: Leah Update Glad to hear the better news. Will keep you in our thoughts and prayers.   Aaron about: What I just saw the bdc update in real time. Bub that was super. Speaking of old posts, everyone should respond to the What subject, scroll down, and read some old posts about tiny rhinos and elephants.    Aaron about: What speaking of ingrates, it would be awesome if the clickable words on the homepage were completely clickable. For instance, currently if one clicks in the void of the b or space between letters nothing happens. My hand/eye/mouse coordination does not always hit the solid and sometime I have to click twice or even three times to get to the comments page. The horror!    Aaron about: tailgating improvement I'm not suprised the holster has been done before. It's just too obvious. I'm way more impressed by whoever decided a ball sack should decorate a trailor hitch.    Aaron about: tailgating improvement A better idea would be a belt holster cousy. That would definetly spur quick draw/drinking contests and probably a couple of chipped teeth.    Aaron about: music A few that are getting stale for me but could be new and good for you. Airborne Toxic Event (like Strokes first good album without all the voice distortion), Ting Tings and Santogold (both remind me of what a No Doubt album might sound like if N.D. was edgier than I assume they are, as I have never actually listened to a N.D. album)   Aaron about: Wedding thanks, guys.    Aaron about: residential architects drip over I&W would make sense because you can return the I&W down the facia board and cover the whole thing with the drip edge and gutter. Otherwise you would have to stop the I&W at the bottom edge of the shingles.    Aaron about: Wedding Dear Lord can Bub snore. I was awakened the morning after the Bachelor Party by the sounds of your snoring echoing off the revine walls. I don't know how I've never heard that before. Berg/biggie - let me know or no basket for you.    Aaron about: Wedding For welcome basket sake, Lindsay wants to know how many of you are staying at the Sheraton for our wedding. She got a list from them but it doesn’t really show who would be sharing a room, and I know nobody wants to be sharing their welcome baskets.    Aaron about: MJ Trivia was it elton john? I almost said him.   Aaron about: MJ Trivia Better. I'm going to guess, Corey Feldman for the godfather and Ron Howard for the video. Or vice versa.    Aaron about: C'mon Thews, get some new trivia.   Aaron about: Eddy VH. You've tossed that one out before.    Aaron about: Lets get archidorky So Akron’s mayor of 23 years beat a recall vote yesterday by 75%. One of the knocks on him is that he has invested too much energy and taxpayer money into downtown rather than the neighborhoods. Nobody is saying downtown doesn’t look better, that’s undeniable, but they are saying that the local neighborhoods are not as safe or vibrant because they haven’t gotten as big of a slice. To all you urban designer or probably even more for our urban planner out there - Is there a strategy(s) in terms of allocating resources for encouraging overall development in urban/adjoining areas? My guess is that there are very few case studies where one strategy has been sustained for any amount of time without new blood changing the focus.    Aaron about: Some Funny Stuff that's some good ranting   Aaron about: quiet Actually scratch that, it had nothing to do with rain or woods or beer pong or lack of sleep. It was that damn Sparks that Derek and Bub brought me.    Aaron about: quiet I was there on the complete sentences part last night too. I'm still feeling a bit weak and sore. Two days of climbing rainy hills and sleeping on air matress will do it.   Aaron about: bored yes. it was my only stipulation for a bachelor party. There doesn't even have to be booze as long as there are dudes groping dudes.    Aaron about: energy software? our engineers use eQuest (per OSFC) but don't find it very usefull for sizing their equipment and the modeling for daylighting is very weak. There is a more detailed list of it's shortcommings that I could get if you want it. But it's free. The folk in our office have found HAP to be more useful. I don't know about the cost or user friendlyness.    Aaron about: Italy Salzburg is pretty close. It's really nice and can be seen in probably 2 days. Will require an out-of-italy train ticket though which might be more expensive.   Aaron about: I figured out Shania Twain Andy, I hope your realization of her nonsensical lyrics doesn't stop you from listening to the rest of your Shania Twain collection. :)   Aaron about: weekend Congratulations Pittsburgh, reigning Superbowl and Stanley cup champs, you are now one popular homer sports writer and a world series victory away from being obnoxious Boston sports fans. Good thing the Pirates won’t be helping that happen. Stupid cities that win championships all the time.|   Aaron about: pens isn't it advantageous to have your bench closer to your defense? Especially for killing power plays.    Aaron about: pens what is last line change? also, do they flip a coin to determine whether the bench is on the defense or offence side of the ice for 2 periods or is that determined by home/away?   Aaron about: Hangover Pixar films are money in the bank. They are all good. I am constantly amazed at the inventive, ORIGINAL stories, the constant wit, and through in some killer computer anamation that we are all numb to now. Wall-E was great, not depressing. Super social commentary. Incredibles, while good, was one of the weaker pixar flix so you'll love Wall-E. KFP was one of the best non-pixar animated. Lots of sweet fight scenes. I can't wait to see UP.    Aaron about: Pens Boy, that was a Marc-Andre Fleury of goals last night! (I'm giving you that one; use it at the water cooler)   Aaron about: Exciting new cook book! who's going to buy that book for Tony Balon's wedding present?   Aaron about: Exciting new cook book! Andy, why do you know this book exists?   Aaron about: sad state of Hockey I had to watch the hockey game on VS - channel 323 (non-HD) because NBC decided I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Outta Here was better programming. Ouch. Meanwhile, the NBA and their "we are going to stretch out the playoffs until august" schedule are getting more media focus during their 5 days off than the Stanley Cup is getting during a 3 games in 4 nights stretch. Ouch again.    Aaron about: two things I'll give him credit for showing leadership skills back in his college days but I honestly don't think he is smart enough to excel in the pros and you can't be a leader if you don't produce on the field. I think this story is manufactured by the media though. I really don't think he wants a trade but is reasonably disappointed that he isn't a starter/the star anymore. I've been avoiding the "LeBron is a jerk because he didn't talk to us after the game" story as well.    Aaron about: ok, have to share that is an excellent question. Stupid technology is trying to make Contra boring.    Aaron about: ok, have to share looks like xbox just stole the wii's thunder.   xbox Aaron about: ok, have to share I picked up the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs yesterday. It's really good.    Aaron about: cavs I think we have the ability to win in 7. I just hope that we do it convincingly. I can only imagine the NBA-is-fixed rumors that will go around if we get too many calls. Sports guy was urging his readers to compile stats and youtube video compilations of terrible calls to try to embarrass the NBA into improving its refereeing. I think that's brilliant because it's borderline unwatchable right now. Congrats to the Pens. I hope to be able to watch a few games... you know, if they decide to televise the Stanley Cup finals.    Aaron about: sports loss James played like crap down the stretch. He can't pull his one man show against the Magic. It's depressing watching him barrel into 3 guys and hope to get a foul call. NBA basketball is a sad sport because that technique works half of the time.    Aaron about: KOL tickets I had a chance to get tix for KOL from a coworker who was actively shopping them for face value or lower. I passed because it was at the Tower City Amp. on a Wednesday. Wednesday being the biggest detractor. I'm with Berg on the not enjoying shows so much anymore. I'm old and want to listen to music on my terms.    Aaron about: holiday weekend recap...... He had a buddy? Now I'm not as impressed.    Aaron about: browns so evidently Phil Dawson is making more money than Josh Cribbs. That's not right.    Aaron about: a few things Andy, absolutely it would. But I think only you could get it for me. 1 lego set as a wedding present is terrific. 5 lego sets as wedding presents would lead to an awkward explanations.   Aaron about: Ockham Wes, you forgot one more AND. ...AND coincidently took his/her revenge of said water running on the same evening as you were filling up your pond.    Aaron about: water water everywhere what is more likely? that your neighbors next door turned it on or that you accidently left it on?   Aaron about: sexting I've long sited my early childhood infatuation with Legos as my inspiration for becoming an architect and now Legos are giving me something back. Evidently Legos have created an architectural series with famous buildings. I hope Lindsay likes Lego buildings displayed as decorative sculptures in our living room.   Lego Architecture Aaron about: gladwell oops, I realized that everytime you refresh the page a different cartoon from their archives pops up. Not that it matters which cartoon I was commenting on since the other few I saw were almost as bad but here is the link to the one I first witnessed. In other shocking news you can buy this   turd. Aaron about: gladwell not yet, but I read the Simmons/Gladwell articles where it was one of the subjects discussed. I imagine that article was the catalyst for the discussion. I'll have to read it at lunch. Well, maybe at lunch on a non-80-degrees-and-sunny day. To a more immediate point, what is up with the cartoon in the middle of page 1? I remember Seinfeld making fun of the New Yorker cartoons but I had no idea. Why would you waste space in your magazine with that? Is it supposed to be humorous? Poignant? Witty? Clever? Endering? Cute? Observational? Am I missing something?   Aaron about: Cribbs pay the man. He singlehandedly almost won 2 games for us last year and he's making less than $700,000 in his 4th or 5th year.  Stupid Browns Aaron about: bye bye grandma sorry to hear about your grandma Berg.    Aaron about: hockey I’ve been keeping track of the Pens and hoping they win but that’s about all I can do. No Versus at my abode. I am glad the Blackhawks are significant again. They’ve been so quiet for so long that a couple of years ago I had to look them up to see if they moved to Santa Fe without me hearing about it. The same could be said for the Bruins. And what’s with Bettman putting the kybosh on Phoenix moving north and getting fans? I’ve been watching a lot of basketball though. I want to soak in every game by every team so that when the Cavs win the championship I will have thoroughly immersed myself immersed myself in their glory. Wes’ point about timeouts and stoppages is too true, plus foul shots stop the game flow every other trip down the court. My point being - I won’t defend basketball against hockey.    Aaron about: hmmm those photos are ridiculous. You are good.    Aaron about: hmmm my first thought is the cobra head shaped low pressure sodium street lights that give a yellow orange hue to everything. Maybe you could find one with a bum sleeping underneath it. Maybe Derek could pose as a bum for you. Or maybe a burn barrel with some crackheads huddled around it. that's ghetto lighting. Or... you could go the ductaped flashlight to the ceiling ghetto lighting route.    Aaron about: Two things I tried to watch it starting with the premier but quickly decided there was too much gross medical crap for my liking. I netflixed Season 1 Disk 1 of the Wire though.    Aaron about: fb Berg, I haven't posted yet today. why am I a jerk again? And since you posted Kuran's profile, why don't you post your comment. I'm not joining fb to see it. I hope it was an inflamitory remark about him not being able to cut it as an architect. We'll see if he's slow to anger or not.    Aaron about: KSU Arch Or should that be a Model Man 2nd year creation?   Aaron about: KSU Arch Bulldogg and I went to the awards open house for the First Energy project in Kent last eve. There isn’t a lunch anymore. It’s much more informal. The new Tri-Towers studio is pretty nice. Dickey and I had gone 3 yrs ago and were really impressed by the detail and quality of the models. Obviously the renderings were better than ours were. I was really disappointed this year. The posters/presentation boards were great but we weren’t impressed with one model of the 30 or so there. The detail was missing, but more alarming was the pathetic craft. I don’t think the best there would have stacked up against a Jared Dickey 2nd year creation.    Aaron about: Columbus Kids Brad, get with the program - It's the OC.   Aaron about: random one time we had a lunch and learn and the something happened that the food was late. So we were all sitting there for the first 25 minutes without lunch giving this guy the stink eye until we were fed.    Aaron about: Cavs I still haven't scene a highlight of the Mo Williams fastbreak fingerroll allyoop to Lebron. Joe Johnson twisted his ankle immediately after and I don't think that play got enough facetime. Stupid TV kept showing other Lebron highlights instead. I'm giddy that that is the only thing I can complain about.    Aaron about: Cavs no. But I heard.    Aaron about: holy crap wow, bub I swear I wrote that without seeing your post first.   Aaron about: holy crap for some reason I am surprised at him getting pinched. His personality doesn't fit the "whatever it takes to win/make money/etc" persona I associate with roiders. Between this and Favre I'm going to have to avoid sportcenter for the next month.    Aaron about: ugh how about coordinating acoustical ceiling panels on drawings with the specifications and verifying mounting condtitions?   Aaron about: life insurance nevermind. I got my terms messed up the word I was thinking of was "tontine" not "ponzi". I was listening to a podcast on the history of wall street. The Tontine Coffee House was an early meeting place of stockbrokers. Thank god for  wiki. Aaron about: life insurance I just remembered it wasn't insurance based. It was a death pool and it is the root of the term "Ponzi scheme".    Aaron about: life insurance I think it's illegal because of exactly that reason.    Aaron about: torture   furniture Aaron about: Competition Goal is to "improve upon the Habitat for Humanity home portfolio". Is there access to the existing HfH home portfolio for Ohio homes? It would provide a nice comparison. I went on the HfH ohio website and couldn't find it quickly.   Aaron about: Competition I don't think that building is that terrible. A bit grey maybe. And I kind of like the highline park too.    Aaron about: King James You're probably hating hockey a bit right now huh?    Aaron about: movies and such I definetly did not like The Fountain, mostly because I didn't understand it. I love a good puzzle movie with layers but I think The Fountain was borderline David Lynch-esq. I felt the same with Donnie Darko - I was into it for a while and then it got too wierd and was never resolved. If I have to read an explanation on the interweb the movie couldn't have been that good (sorry Sweeney). Badre said that they cut Arinofski's budget on the Fountain to 1/3 of the orig. so I'll give him props for getting it done. Also, I thought Pi and Requiem were quite good but not very rewatchable.    Aaron about: zzzz Sir Mix-alot is the Nostradomos of bad thriller movies.    Aaron about: zzzz didn't you and Duncun have issues with a giant rat a while back too? Must be some aggressive wildlife up in your area. Maybe some experimental serum from the naval yard made it into the water. Hopefully they'll make "Lake Placid 2; the Kittery Killers" with giant racoons with a taste for human flesh. Do you think I-Cube is free? Oh wait, he beats giant anacondas, not alligators. I'm getting my extremely large animals with a taste for human flesh movies mixed up. At least I didn't get it confused with LLCool J fighting genetically enhanced sharks. That would be embarassing.    Aaron about: I don't know about unlikely, but the Sox blew it in the 9th when the pitcher dropped a routine cover first base toss from Youk. There was also an error by Lugo that probably cost them 3 runs all-told in the 3rd-ish. 11 wins in a row must have just been luck|.    Aaron about: baseballs I'm happy about it.   Aaron about: tribe what a waste of 8 scoreless innings.    Aaron about: footballs I just read that Clay Matthews Jr. weighed 161 lbs as a freshman and added 80 lbs since. That doesn't seem right. I weight about that, maybe I should add 80 lbs of muscle.    Aaron about: footballs ESPN might as well add a link to foxsports.com and SI.com on their insider front page.   Aaron about: footballs was that back when they had 12 rounds though?   Aaron about: footballs I'm hellapissed that the browns took Robisky over Maulauaga. I think he's gonna be really good. I also wanted Clay Matthews Jr. but he got taken too high. Overall not bad. I'm glad we got out of the 5th pick after Aaron Curry almost fell into our laps. The browns fans have a habit of expecting high first round draft pick to save the franchise and when they don't play like HOFers in the first 3 games talk radio berates them like they got caught eating babies and inevitably the players turn sour on cleveland. Who would have thought?   Aaron about: footballs Geno Teretta? Charlie Ward (played basketball) Danny Wurful? Ty Detmer? All of those guys won it and I doubt any of them got drafted.    Aaron about: Kent makes Boston news I remember watching the riot police getting their pep talk in a van parked on Crane St. in front of Strom/Eby's. They way they were parked we could look from their living room into the open van door. 10 minutes later they shot tear gas and rubber bullets and cleared University Ave. No fires or riots but they probably wanted to "send a message".   Aaron about: Kent makes Boston news As much as I think the Kent police have too much power I don't have a lot of sympathy for students burning couches in the street.    Aaron about: Who awesomer than Mel Kiper? I don't think I could separate what the stupid teams will do with what they should do.    Aaron about: I hope the browns don't draft a QB or WR with the 5th pick. My level of frustration is quite high with them at the moment.    Aaron about: darth don't know if it's really worth going to the exibit for but it's at least cool that it's in pitt.  vader Aaron about: Geneva Some of you may remember my HS buddy Chris Kader from Kent. Geneva's local paper did an article on him and his tenniscentric family. If you didn't know him don't bother.   Geneva Tennis Aaron about: who moved my cheese? I think the big change was made in 2009. I think ACAD hit their peak around 2006 when they came out with trimming hatch. But they feel the need to make unnecessary changes because they can't keep packaging the same thing or there'd be no reason to update our software.    Aaron about: chinesse I have never done chinese brunch, I'll see what my better half thinks and let you know. Congrats and happy Birthdays again.    Aaron about: indians - yankees the cavs game last night was great. Mike Brown sitting the starters was the perfect move. Our bench getting the start and showing what they could do with Lebron and Co. cheering them on was the perfect way to end the season before looking ahead to the playoffs.    Aaron about: work I'm out. If anyone is going to be at the Tribe game today or drinking downtown give me a call.    Aaron about: Kanye nobody wants to bite on the Kanye West/Puffy Daddy bashing?    Aaron about: Kanye I've been disliking Kanye West for a while now and it's cool to see south park took him down a notch. Haven't seen the episode yet. I often get him and Puffy confused because they both walk around with an inflated sense of self worth and seem to lack any sense of humor. I can't decide which I dislike more. Probably Puffy because at least I like Kanye's music... but I think Kanye is kind of a reverse racist so I don't know.   south park Aaron about: I thank you berg. They should call it the Migs law.    Aaron about: Cool? or Fugly? not really my cup of tea. Obviously he wanted to have a unique looking house that fit into the context. Goal achieved. Still you'd think the goal should have a stipulation that the end product wouldn't be butt ugly.    Aaron about: news has anyone else noticed the death toll for the italian earthquake seems like it is being reported like its a sports score? I don't remember another tragedy where the death toll was updated on an hourly basis.   Aaron about: just a random sports thought... that era just happened to coincide with the sweetspot of impressionable youths born in the late 70's, i.e. us. What a great time to be 10 years old and getting into sports. (also you forgot Bernie Kosar on your list).    Aaron about: To spur conversation is Tyler Derdin really a grown up   hobbes? Aaron about: To spur conversation I was just parusing MSN's wonderwall for all the hot gossip and came across the same info. Pryber beat me to   it though. Aaron about: baseball I'm way more excited for the Masters.    Aaron about: baseball Baseball is entertaining to have around but I will not be watching full episodes.    Aaron about: mobile ninja vs. pirate mobiles are  a good thing. Aaron about: footballs Brad, did you notice all of your first round bust examples were offensive players?    Aaron about: Important Things Better off Ted is funny. It has the same producer or writer and a couple of the same actors as Andy Rictor Controls the Universe.    Aaron about: Important Things Andy, thanks for the heads up on the Dimitri Martin show. One of my favorites now.    Aaron about: footballs I agree - he's whiny. Should be a major upgrade for Chigago though. Anyone else going to the Indians home opener next friday?   Aaron about: sports sorry, my TO comment was kind of a low blow.    Aaron about: sports Rogers was the most productive guy on our defence last year. If you think that production is going to decline then maybe you consider getting rid of him but right now he's not a big enough of a headache to dismiss is beastliness. He's not T.O. As far as Cutler vs. Quinn, I think they are two different styles. Cutler is a better (or at least more proven) Derek Anderson - big arm, home run hitter. Quinn is more accurate but hasn't gone downfield much in his limited playing time. I'm still willing to give him a chance though.    Aaron about: sports I think you're retarted and the Browns would get the raw deal in that mix. We trade away a young QB prospect who has played respectably in all of his games, said the all the right things while getting acclimated (and paid) for his first year/heif and a pro-bowl DT for the #12 draft pick (aka an unproven rookie) and a draft bust from last year who hasn't done anything. If the browns gave away Quinn and Rogers for Cutler I'd consider it.    Aaron about: NCARB blows, but GBCI sucks Just got this e-mail: "Due to website issues the GBCI has extended the registration deadline to April 1st (Tomorrow) for the current LEED® NC and CI exams. You'll have until 11:59pm, pacific time to register. After registering, you will have until June 30th to take the current LEED exam."   Aaron about: Potentially a rant... Good question. When I was 10 I learnded that plants breath Co2 and exhale O2. We should all just go to a Ryan homes development and plant a tree.    Aaron about: NCARB blows, but GBCI sucks LEED is definetely a work in progress. The things it is doing well right now are PR, information distribution, and encouraging manufacturer's to improve their products. I think it has been effective on those fronts. The point system is messed but it is still being hashed out. I decided I'm not going to take the test right now but I'm not going to bash LEED either.    Aaron about: NCARB blows I e-mailed NCARB to ask if I could transition after I had passed the other 7 in V3.1 and was directed to the FAQ page where it was specifically noted that I'll have to wait. Right now I'm sitting with 6 done and no rush because I can't take structures until July. NCARB blows but they had this one spelled out the whole time.    Aaron about: I missed the Chuck E Cheese thing too. I am incrediby curious now about this thing that is too disturbing for the internet.    Aaron about: ncaa I have them losing to pitt in the finals. your bracket is defunkt.    Aaron about: ncaa I have memphis going to the finals. Ugh.   Aaron about: Crawlz I enjoyed receiving a text mid-crawl from Thress. "Did you see Dante Stallworth is a murderer?"   Aaron about: Crawlz who made puke-mud?   Aaron about: Darwin Martin House that house is cool but do they have one of   these? Aaron about: 2nd greatest idea never executed = yeah, I don't know how I jumped to a shower providing the ability to bask. I think I was thinking of the "exposing yourself to enjoyable warmth" aspect of   basking. Aaron about: 2nd greatest idea never executed = Thank you abby. My odd brain will be ready to shower.    Aaron about: Crawl Bulldogg is inquiring what the headcount will be at this year's crawl. Anyone want to guess?   Aaron about: 2nd greatest idea never executed = A confessional camera at competition weekends. And o save someone from having to ask, the 1st greatest idea never executed would be an overly edited home video of great beerpong moments set to Michael Jacksons "Beat It"   Aaron about: kent state AWESOME!   Aaron about: How I Met your Mother RoE is merely tolerable. The rest of the cast is like a dingleberry on Putty's ass.    Aaron about: really?? Toner made the upside argument when I text'd him "ha ha ha ha TO ha ha". The biggest problem is that even if everything works out ok, Bills fans still have to cheer for one of the biggest jerks in sports. Thankfully only for one year. (hopefully)    Aaron about: crawl L and I will be there Saturday afternoon.   Aaron about: hoyl jesus you know I love you Sweeney.    Aaron about: hoyl jesus they make you want to be Sweeney?   Aaron about: Bebe Thews It's a boy! Caden Charles Matthews. 8lbs. 11 oz. 21 inches. Everyone healthy and happy.    Aaron about: Bebe Thews Still taking his/her time. As of last night everything was going fine. Baby Thews is just building anticipation.    Aaron about: Crawl Is there a hotel close by?   Aaron about: Bebe Thews nothing yet.    Aaron about: ...not that there would be any reason to sue you.    Aaron about: Abigail Mountain, RA Congratulatiions! Now if you can just manage to get through your career without ever having to stamp something you might not get sue'd.   Aaron about: italy I think a sausage, egg, and cheese McGriddle would be on my list. Those things are the greatest. oh, and a basket of bacon.    Aaron about: I can see clearly now Yesterday I went to the eye doctor and asked to try some different contacts because my eyes dry out after about 4 hours. That’s why I wear my glasses most of the time. She gave me Oasis contacts. I’ve had them in all day today and barely noticed them. I tried Acuvue 2 and Optix before and they were not nearly as good as these. If anyone else has the same issues I strongly recommend the Oasis contacts.    Aaron about: prof. hughes "...everything ever built throughought western civilization is technically afrocentric." I think Hughes would agree with that.    Aaron about: italy Berg, I don't know where that Piazza is but I imagine you're speaking of the big park west of the city. I've seen it on Google earth but I never went there. I could count on one hand the number of times I walked outside the medieval walls road. 1. Walked around south side of pitti gardens south of the city. 2. Went to a Florence soccer game. 3. Carra fests 4. Dinner at Niccoli’s (Tall Becky’s boytoy) 5. Little train station for spring break. I’m not counting food at Coop, San Mineato, or Piazza Michelangelo.    Aaron about: BDC is back Winslow was good and we'll miss his hands. He can catch anything. But he's always injured, has a big mouth, get's paid a lot, and Steve Heiden kicks ass when filling in for him so I think it's similar to the Jeremy Shockey/Kevin Boss situation in NY. What I really want to know is what 2 draft picks we received. I'm guessing a 3rd and 5th. I predicted a 2nd on Friday but I doubt we got that much.    Aaron about: BDC is back I posted my opinion on the Winslow trade on friday but I think it got erased during the bdc update and now I forget what I said. I'll post my thoughts on the matter that will reflect the opinion the entire browns fan base at lunch. Also, I haven't heard from thews. I talked to him last week and he said he'd send word of Baby 'Thews via text when he/she arrives. I'll pass it along as soon as I hear.    Aaron about: BDC is back woo hoo, first post!   Aaron about: ARE berg, I am doing the exact same thing with regards to the structural exams.    Aaron about: BDC is it terrible that I didn't notice the shamrock? I love it more now.   Aaron about: BDC that logo is wicked cool.   Aaron about: Harry Dick did the play have a name?   Aaron about: random thoughts I will never go to your hairy island!   Aaron about: random thoughts Funeral's at 1:00. How about Patigonia? BTW, I Wiki'd Patagonia - It's the lowlands in Argentina. Remote for sure but maybe not exotic enough.    Aaron about: religion I got Ortodox Quaker #1! but 2nd and 4th were the prodestant ones which would make sense.    Aaron about: how old is your brain? younger is better. I dogged one and was deemed 120 years old.    Aaron about: how old is your brain? 28 and 31.    Aaron about: rust belt sports I was just going to say that Biggie. He is scary.   Ahhh! Aaron about: rust belt sports Marshawn Lynch arrest for having a gun. Not a traffic stop, he didn't shoot it, but somehow was found to own a loaded gun therefor arrested. Thoughts? Penguins fire their coach half a season after getting to the Cup. Thoughts?   Aaron about: Dave Sad news, Thews' dad died this morning.    Aaron about: Names I just heard a comic do a bit about naming. His point was - Don't name her something she will have to spell out for people the rest of her life.    Aaron about: Tell them how many friendship units they can earn if they hire you.    Aaron about: St. Patty Yes! the 14th means I can crush.   Aaron about: teleport sounds like the are on the right track, now they just need to add the 1.21 gigawats.   Aaron about: Sadness Out of curiosity, can you run acad or revit off a Mac? Abby, didn't you used to us a Mac?   Aaron about: St. Patty Can we vote as many times as we want? I didn't vote on the last one - My vote would be that it is up to Pittsburgh's discretion on which bars/area we go to, new is always fun though.    Aaron about: by the way, that was my first colon-perentheses face ever. I don't know how I feel about that.    Aaron about: hey pittsbrughians What weekend? St. P's is on a Tuesday, so will it be on the 14th or the 21st? I can't go if it's on the 21st. :(   Aaron about: super bowl I thought he was in because his knee landed on top of Fitzgerald. I thought the late hit was weak and the facemask penalty should have been ignored because the offensive player was jacking the DB's facemask at the same time. Did anyone catch Federer-Nadal? Everytime those guys play it's must-see. Highest level of tennis I've ever seen.    Aaron about: super bowl If warner had gotten off that hail mary what are the chances Fitz would have pulled it down? 40%? 60%?   Aaron about: me That is cool Berg. I find it touching that you sluthed a picture of Robin before replying to her e-mail.    Aaron about: stupid ARE glad to help Wes.    Aaron about: weather yeah, I saw the van.    Aaron about: weather no, we just have a lot of snow. It stopped yesterday afternoon but some roads are still really bad this morning.   Beki Poitras = Bonnie Pleacher Aaron about: ugh! it's snowing here. alot.    Aaron about: old I had a couple of pairs of parachute pants, but they didn't have that many zippers. I think my mom got me about 4 pairs at Hills. I also had a sweet pair of jams and some Roos. Only the Roos got me in trouble, in kindergarten I put my lunch money in the pocket and I couldn't get it out and the line started to build up behind me. Thats when I realized that having pockets on my shoes wasn't as cool as I thought it would be.    Aaron about: old you could wear rollerblades?!! That is a bunch of shit. I'm a rollerskating purist.    Aaron about: old I was a hellion on wheels in my younger roller skating days. Oh, the memories. My favorite part is that they still play the same songs from the 80's. But really could they play anything else? It would have to be modern pop but that doesn't fit as well with rollerskating. It would be like going to a disco without disco music. Some of the best were The Fat Boys - Wipe out, Glen Fry - The Heat is On, Starship - We built this City on Rock and Roll, and anything Cindy Lauper.    Aaron about: LEED help again Our website has better pictures, etc.   Akron Metro Aaron about: LEED help again I just finished the metro bus station here in Akron. We are going for LEED silver. Also the ohio schools are going to need to be LEED silver so we have an abundance of LEED work. Fortunately there are plenty of people at my firm who can do LEED paperwork and I really have no need to get credencaled. I just thought it would be a good thing to do. I'm completely turned off now though.   Akron Metro Aaron about: LEED help again Sooooo, am I hearing that LEED will soon be treating Legacy AP's as lesser members? Cause paying extra money and not being listed as accredited is not equal.    Aaron about: stupid ARE no, it was. I just needed a jumping off point for the princess bride mania quote. I got it right but almost ruled out C because I figured they would know about galvanic action at the time it was built and account for it. According to Wiki they did but the gaskets broke down.    Aaron about: stupid ARE "Thursday has purple turnpike, what happens before monkey admiration?". Those are the first words that came to your mind? I bet Frued could make that mean something. Also, thews is right, everytime I leave a multiple choice ARE i'm pissed but then I always pass, so ultimately the ridiculous questions don't make a difference. Here is my favorite example from my last test: Why was the statue of liberty refurbished in the mid-80's? a) seagull poop corroded the copper b) Sea salt in the air corroded the steel frame c) Corrosion by galvanic action between steel frame and copper d) corrosion by galvanic action between copper panels. Why would I know that? I was 8 years old. Am I supposed to know if bird poop is corrosive enough to desintegrate copper? how much bird poop is there? Do seagulls fly that high? Probably not, therefor the answer cannot be "a". I do remember pictures of the statue of liberty with scaffolding and unless they replaced the structure one pice at a time without taking the whole statue down the answer cannot be "b". Galvanic corrision is doesn't act between panels of the same material so clearly the answer can not be "d". But if you picked "c" you fell into one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never start a land war in Asia but only slightly less know is this: that there were provisions made to stop the copper/steel galvanic action but they broke down over the prior 100 years of it's existance.   Aaron about: on a serious note Congratulations!   Aaron about: Happy day! I will catch the highlights tonight.    Aaron about: pittsburgh... They should have played soundbites of McGahee speaking his many words of infinite wisdom. Actually they should have done that during pregame like a bloopers reel. Glad he's ok though.    Aaron about: pittsburgh... I have no problem cheering for Zona. I built fantasy fandom with them after cheering for fantasy Fitz and Warner all year. I also didn't realize how much I disliked Philly until yesterday. Actually I think I just hate the media covering Philly but I'm not going to make the discertion.    Aaron about: sports guy It's funny that you bring that up. When I read that bit yesterday I thought it was so funny that I read it aloud to Bader, but I kept laughing so he found it only marginally funny.    Aaron about: brr!! It was 6 this morning and supposed to be -7 (sans wind) tonight.    Aaron about: Building Systems Bulldog read it and said he enjoyed it. I think he's insane. Bader tried to read the book but couldn't handle it and he passed. I am taking it next month and don't plan on cracking the big blue book.    Aaron about: working Bub Good job! Pun intended.    Aaron about: I was looking for an injury by game report but all I found was this from scout.com "The past two years he has suffered from injuries ranging from ankle and wrist problems that hounded him all of last year to a foot injury that caused him to miss three games this past season. He finished his career on the bench because of a concussion as Ohio State". I was supprised at how good his stats were for last season. I didn't realize he was able to rack up 1600 yards. Not bad. I still think he gets injured too easily. I would take Javon Ringer from MSU. (btw Ringer wanted to go to OSU but had to settle)   Aaron about: footballs I hope the Browns stay as far away from Beanie Wells and his oft-injured scrawny legs as possible.    Aaron about: Old Happy old Derek and belated Wes.    Aaron about: This is brilliant! Smart guy. Great advertising.    Aaron about: sports Mangini = meh. One of Lerner's requirements was head coaching experience so that rules out young, promising coordinators. It makes sence that that was important since we have some veteran players with big heads that need put in their place. I like his philosophy of drafting linemen and defence before skill positions (which we already have filled anyway) and hopefully he can give our guys some discipline. I figure we'll win 8 or 9 games next year whether we had fired Romeo or not. At least now we can all credit Mangini for the turnaround and have outragous expectations for 2010.    Aaron about: LEED I'll second Berg sounding like an arrogant asshole but I think its more ignorant idealist. And they are changing they point system to fix things like that.   Aaron about: LEED I don't want to take the LEED exam as I am busy with ARE but I don't want to study harder later. I really don't want to get accredited at all but all Ohio schools are going to have to be certified soon. Stupid extra paperwork and resume padding.   Aaron about: speaking of skiing... GPD's ski trip is usually the first friday of February at Holimont.    Aaron about: mistakes what line is it cutting?   Aaron about: Happy New Year some of the things people were uptight about seem really harmless - blowing your nose or shaving (I assume his face) aren't that intmate of things. I see farting, peeing, and discussing BM's as more contentious.    Aaron about: my rustbelt football fan friends... From everything I've heard recently they are going to try to get Pioli for GM and then the NE circle jerk will start and the coach will either be Mangini or the NE OC or someone of that ilk. Pioli probably wouldn't even consider Shanahan.    Aaron about: my rustbelt football fan friends... Shanahan wouldn't be bad. I just wish he weren't from Denver (I still kind of hate them) and he's never been a defense guy. But he's got experience and respect. I wouldn't be suprised if he took a year off though.    Aaron about: my rustbelt football fan friends... NE, Pitt, Indy, Philly, Bal, Tenn, Den, TB, GB - all put competent teams on the field every year. Even if they aren't in serious contention they are always in upper half of the league. Playoff thoughts beyond October - thats all I want.    Aaron about: my rustbelt football fan friends... oh, and not Shotenheimer either. That has Joe Gibbs-the sequal written all over it. I think he's just too old. If he were 10 years younger I'd be all about it though.    Aaron about: my rustbelt football fan friends... I don't want Cower. It would be wierd having him in Cleveland after 12 years in Pittsburgh. He's practically their mascot for god sake. Fortunately I think he feels the same and has rebuffed the Browns' advances thusfar. Mangini wouldn't be terrible. He wasn't bad in NY and probably shouldn't have been fired, but that's NY. I'd rather go with a young defensive guy, like a Rex Ryan or Steve Spagnolo. Definetly someone who has real leadership ability. Not the Pats OC, I really don't understand why Belaceck's underlings are still getting acclaim. It's obviously not them but rather Belaceck that is the difference maker.    Aaron about: girl talk I'd liken it to the Avalanches mixed with rap.   just buy it Aaron about: music I have to revise my top 10 for 2008. MGMT is in there and Girl Talk is top 3.   Aaron about: Bill Simmons that was his best article in years. He should always write about 80's pop culture and not boston sports supremacy.    Aaron about: music Derek, for Christmas my dad gave me a jump drive with about a dozen ripped albums on it, including the new MGMT which is really, really good. Sorry you don’t like music as much as you like being hip. I’ll be rocking out while you wait for your super cool vinyl to arrive. He also gave me Bon Iver and Portishead. The lesson is: 1. Vinyl is stupid 2. My dad is cooler than all of us.    Aaron about: ugh yes, I'm going to work hard today though so I will be keeping my BDC-ing to a minimum.    Aaron about: Bored 1. Hot tub 2. Couch with movie 3. Skiing 4. Couch with book and music 5. Bar   Aaron about: GPD they also reference the prior year's cards in the beginning. They do it every year but this one was the best.    Aaron about: GPD Here's something that is kind of entertaining. My firm's christmas card. You don't have to watch the whole thing because it references a bunch of the principals you don't know but it's still ridiculous and I don't even want to know how much money they spent on it.   GPD card Aaron about: Bored They just sent out the e-mail that the office is closing at noon and we can all bill 4 extra hrs to vacation. Yes! They also got us chicken wings for lunch - everyone just brings in a side or desert.    Aaron about: Bored I'm here but leaving at noon.    Aaron about: music Note: Clap Your Hands and the Hives probably would be 1 and 3 respectively if integrated.    Aaron about: music Aarons Top 8 of 2008 1. Vampire Weekend 2. Atmosphere – When Life Gives You Lemons you Paint that Shit Gold 3. TV on the Radio – Dear Science 4. Black Keys – Attack and Release 5. Guns n Roses – Chinese Democracy 6. Kings of Leon 7. Raconteurs 8. Kills And these albums were new to me this year and I probably listened to them more than half of the 2008 albums: 1. Clap your hands and say yeah – self titled (2005) 2. Hives – The black and White Album (2007) 3. Death from Above 1979 – You’re a woman I’m a Machine (2004) 4. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)    Aaron about: our favorite architect So, Lindsay and I went to meet with a potential DJ last night. He was showing us recent wedding planning sheet that we would fill out for songs/cake cutting/etc. as an example of what we would do. The grooms name for the wedding was Brock McNutt. I almost couldn't handle it. Poor Mrs. Jennifer McNutt.    Aaron about: stupid people Leanne, I love how you always rat Wes out when he gets to leave early.    Aaron about: footballs I don't think that there is a two year window on those two guys. Even if they start to decline in their 7th year (year after next) they can remain on the roster and be veteran leadership, something we haven't had much of. As long as we infuse the team with younger guys we are going to be ok. You make it sound like the Browns are pulling a Dan Snyder by sacrificing every pick for Jason Taylor types.    Aaron about: happy birthday Dickey   Aaron about: footballs we didn't lose any later draft picks... I don't think. And we have our full arsenal of draft picks coming up. Really the only picks effected were the 1,2,&3 from last year and I just outlined who we got for them. I don't think Phil Savage has been the problem, we have way more talent than we have had since 1999. I think we had a crappy schedule, bad preseason, never got in sink, had crazy expectations, a lot of injuries/ stalph infections, and couldn't live up to the hype. Crennel is a stiff and not much of a leader but a lot of it isn't his fault either, but we should probably still fire him. If we kept everyone (players, coaches, and front office), next year I bet we'd win 8 or 9 games. Which is probably what we'll win with a new coach, etc. anyway.    Aaron about: footballs the draft isn't the problem. We got Brady Quinn for a 25rd pick overall, Corey Williams with a 2nd rounder, and Shaun Rogers in his prime for a late 3rd round pick and Bodden. We got a rookie and 2 guys in their 5th year, one who is going to the pro-bowl. We're one year away, I'm tellin' ya.    Aaron about: peer question Have you considered propositioning the Ohio arch. schools? It might be right up their ally. Individual or small team gets money for winning. And then the rest of the money is delegated to the school for material/printing costs as the students produce CD's whilst learning their trade a la Wes' bus station.    Aaron about: peer question I don't even know what a set of house plans would look like, but I'm guessing $8,000 is either considered sidework or pro-bono here.    Aaron about: fancy   beer pong Aaron about: Browns and stuff I don't have one. But I could have picked up Pennington or T. Jackson. Really anyone except for Ken Dorsey would have been better.    Aaron about: Browns and stuff Is it just me or is the national media NOT make as big of a deal as they should about the Browns not scoring an offensive touchdown in 5 consective games? You've got to admit their futility is pretty impressive. The bungles will probably achieve Derek's dream of beating the Brown's record. Congratulations. On another note, I'm giving myself a big boo for starting Kirt Warner in my fantasy league superbowl despite warnings from friends and my own fears. It was just too hard to bench the guy who got me there, but I guess a Fantasy League Champion manager would have made that tough decision.   Aaron about: SNOW Lindsay got the day off because it was kind of icy outside. Miserable weather yes, but not close down the schools weather. I think the superintendent just decided nothing was going to get learned on the last day before break anyway. Anyway, I hope she does the laundry.   Aaron about: Army Football I saw it and love it. Totally unique and perfectly appropriate considering they are Army. Bader thinks that Navy should get white uniforms like the sailors and have men for cheerleaders.    Aaron about: Name change Boner's last name was Stabone. I remember because his dad was named Sylvester Stabone. I did not have to Wiki that info.    Aaron about: footballs In FF I finished off the Brain Train last night and have to play a HS friend in the finals. My team is extremely consistent and deep but I think he has more potention firepower. I didn't pay and won't bother to collect except to make people buy me beer if I win.    Aaron about: footballs did you guys hear Jeff Fisher's explanation of why he didn't kick the field goal at the end of the game? He gauged the kicker's range before the game just in case the situation arose. And did anyone see Mike Tomlin reciting the rule on the advance of a muffed fumble to the refs. Those might seem like minor things but I hope the Browns next head coach can do them. I'm sure Romeo cannot. (I'm already bitching and we haven't even lost yet)   Aaron about: Happy! ...old man English, sitting in his robe on his front porch throwing empty beer cans at neigborhood kids who come too close to his yard. He once threatened to beat me with a rock tumbler when my football landed in his Azaleas    Aaron about: crazy weather Is it just an excuse for lots of women to get drunk on wine and bitch about their husbands? or is that just a stereotype I've picked up from watching too much bad television? I went through my lets-read-the-classics faze about 4 years ago and it ended with me throwing down A Tale of Two Cities in disgust the moment I finished it. The Count of Monte Cristo wasn't terrible though. I'm reading Freakanomics right now, really interesting but not much point that I can follow.    Aaron about: crazy weather wait, wait. Book club?    Aaron about: crazy weather nothing here, just cold and dark. Most depressing time of the year.    Aaron about: baseballs He already weighs 290. But it's ok because it's spread over 6'-7"|. Really though, he's looked fat for a while now and it hasn't hurt him yet. Probably doesn't bode well for a long career though.    Aaron about: baseballs I'm totally fine with Sabathia going to the yanks for 160 mil. The tribe did the right thing getting players for him from Milwakee. The biggest shame is that we don't get to watch CC bat .250 and rack up 25 wins against the quadruple-A National League. I think I would be irked if he hadn't signed for such a ridiculous amount of money. He didn't want to play for the Yanks but for 160 million he would have played in Japan.    Aaron about: investing Sounds like a class you should start. Or maybe it has already been distilled into Investing for Dummies.    Aaron about: investing Bulldog's take on financial advisor is this: "no one cares about my money more than me". I think he's absolutely right. You can use an advisor or take your dad's advice but you should continue to educate yourself and after a few years you should probably have a retirement roadmap in place.    Aaron about: music not ripped off by Coldplay he's got a song on the Garden State soundtrack. It's good.    Aaron about: Festivus I heard it, and yes, Coldplay are a bunch of copyright infringers.    Aaron about: Festivus I don't have plans but will entertain offers for my presence.    Aaron about: Browns and stuff so how about Buffalo beating #12 Ball St.? And Kent beat Buffalo so that pretty much puts Kent in the top 10 in country right? Bring on Oklahoma!    Aaron about: Browns and stuff no TD's in 3 games and counting. In better news, Marty Shotenheimer is being discussed as a possibility for next head coach. I don't know it that was a sarcastic statement or not. At least its not Cowher talk.    Aaron about: archidorks Dickey and Bulldogs' pet name for David Mann. Daddy S = "Daddy Stalin"   Aaron about: archidorks no, just the CM insisting that we put it on our plans. It is called out clearly in our specs. Also, masterspec calls for 24" from exterior face of wall. I'm supprised that Daddy S would go the extra mile.    Aaron about: archidorks do you typically show ice and water shield on your roof plans or just leave it up to the specs?   Aaron about: music Wes, that is exactly why I wrote that anecdote about myself doubting them. If Bader weren't such an over-the-top fan, purchased it, given it to me for free, and asked me four times in two days what my thoughts were before I finally broke down and listened I would also be a naysayer. You can disregard my review but don't think that I'm a Gn'R lifer that would swallow another "Spagetti Incident?" just because its I'm a huge fan.    Aaron about: music the new Gn'R is exceptional. I strongly suggest you all get it if you ever liked them in the past. I was fully resolved to deem them over the hill and creatively washed up but I was wrong. I think we might have a Simon and Garfunkel thing going on and Axl Rose turned out to be Simon with Slash serving as Garfunkel. I can burn copies for those in my relm. Just let me know.    Aaron about: sharing I think we are all just tipical humble architects that never want to toot their own horn|. Seriously though, I don't know how to imbed photos.   Aaron about: lug-nut Thews is right Berg, those forums are a time suck and can potentially do more harm than good. Dickey procured the best study guide possible for the graphic exams in Dorf. If you don't have it I believe he has a pdf version e-mailable. And I've been using 3 year old flashcards for the multiple choice exams. It's really a lot simpler than you think.    Aaron about: digital music opps, i missed brad's post. I wrote similar.   Aaron about: digital music I don't know where they stand on computers, but if they are going digital then they will need to use one anyway. My point being that they could also play music directly from their computer via aux jack into reciever or there are wireless components that will also support the aux jack if they have a wireless network. Either way all music would be controlled by the computer. Maybe complicated, but then they wouldn't have to invest in an ipod right away. (can't bring it into the car though)   Aaron about: another   good one Aaron about: duck hunt   packin' Aaron about: footballs nevermind, I just looked. Buff vs Ball 8:00 friday espn 2   Aaron about: footballs so does Buffalo still play Ball St. in the MAC title game?    Aaron about: footballs Kent needed Antonio Gates to push them over the top and into MAC championship megahood. BTW, did Buffalo beat Kent?   Aaron about: footballs That would probably be more effective than Dorsey. No touchdowns in 2 games.    Aaron about: footballs Lindsay got me a Josh Cribbs jersey for my birthday. It's great and so is he. The browns.. not so much.    Aaron about: movies For those of you who've seen Oldboy, how is this going to work?  Will Smith? Really? Aaron about: not in the spirit of the season Nobody would want me on their board anyway.    Aaron about: GnR What if a Guns and Roses album started WW3? Does that make them bigger than the Beatles?  Chinese Democracy Aaron about: Browns and stuff That game sealed the deal on Romeo's firing. And also proved that he is an Anderson man and it wasn't his choice to start Quinn. I figure he decided at half time that if he didn't win he would be fired so he might as well try putting in Anderson. "Who cares if I get second guessed, it's over if we lose." We lost anyway. I changed the channel in the 4th quarter to watch the Columbus Crew win the MLS championship. Yes, the poor play drove me to watch soccer.    Aaron about: Browns and stuff glad I didn't go to see yesterday's game. Worst football I've seen in years.   Aaron about: big bridge   the Chinese are crazy Aaron about: snow now there is a huge swarm of black birds flying around in the whiteout. Bizzar.    Aaron about: Berg it's a blizzard outside. At least bright white snow is better than grey and rainy.    Aaron about: MNF Article rehashing the last 10 years of browns sucktitude.  Browns Aaron about: MNF yes, i'm at work. I've got some good pictures that I'll post for shutterfly viewing tomorrow. My face is windburnt.    Aaron about: modern technology DVR is the best. I would take it over HD if I could only have one of the two.    Aaron about: aaron got it biggie. you were shown to my spam folder by yahoo. Thanks   Aaron about: Royal Toolbox I see Garvey is supposed to receive his Bar results today... except the Bar result reporting website is down. No suspense there or anything|.   Aaron about: aaron no, did you send it to my aaron2000xl@yahoo.com address?   Aaron about: snow   yes! Aaron about: Sex taint size is key.   Aaron about: Jared other name ideas Bader and I came up with: the Afternoon Delight and the Nooner.    Aaron about: happy birthday Happy happy birthday.   Aaron about: Browns and stuff are you going to make the baby sleep in the basement?   aaron about: In my husband's defense, he will typically leave the room if I turn it on. I, on the other hand, allow myself the guilty pleasure. AND I couldn't believe how much KOL was in last nights episode! If I have to beat up stupid teenie boppers at the next show, i'm going to be pissed.   Aaron about: Browns and stuff don't pretend that you haven't been watching it under the guise that Cristen turned it on and you were just in the room. I know there is a empty hole in your life that the OC used to fill. With Gossip Girl the insanity button is stuck on rapid fire; don't deny yourself.    Aaron about: Browns and stuff so the new Kings of Leon album was practically the soundtrack for Gossip Girl last night. I can't wait til they're on TRL next week|   Aaron about: Browns and stuff so is everyone excited to see the 2 game losing streak Browns take on the 3 game losing streak Bills?    Aaron about: Browns Browns defence is pathetic. I was right; Brady Quinn = 7 yard darts. No more of DA's wobbly, uncoordinated swing passes. Seriously, why is there not a Josh Cribbs random fact generator? When Josh Cribbs goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.   Aaron about: In an effort to avoid the grim outlook on the political horizon... I love the wagering strategy calculator.   Aaron about: Testees I haven't seen it yet, but it's on right after Always Sunny in Philidelphia aka the best show ever.    Aaron about: Madden 09 When I grow up and get a house, I'm going to get a big TV for my basement and I'll play video games with you guys. I'm really excited for that.   Aaron about: Madden 09 and headsets. you'll need headsets.    Aaron about: Browns and stuff At least we won't have to see any more of DA's wobbly uncoordinated off-target screen and dump-off passes. He seriously has a better chance of hitting a guy in stride 30 yards downfield than putting it on the numbers of Lewis out of the backfield. I'm expecting Quinn to fire darts for 6 yard gains. Maybe that will give us the consistency we really need.    Aaron about: Browns and stuff Not DA's fault Braylon can't catch but I am interested to see Quinn. What happens if the browns lose with Quinn too? At least we had the glimmer of future hope while he rode pine. If he's starting and we're losing what do we have? Also, how is it that I've dismissed Death from Above 1969 for 3 years as being too raw for my tastes and now its my favorite album?   Aaron about: portsmouth After the City of Akron dissolves their bldg dept. in the next few months Bill Ross at the Summit County bldg dept. will soon be reviewing many of our projects. Yes!| I think Dickey has had a few run-in's over the years already.    Aaron about: portsmouth I'm sure Duncan would never stand for a hoodlum at the back door.    Aaron about: portsmouth oh, I didn't get it. I'm sorry I underestimated your Star Wars knowledge.   Aaron about: portsmouth Also, I have a bigger problem with fake deer and geese. Do the people that put them in their yard yearn for wild animals so much that they need to have fake ones in their yard?    Aaron about: portsmouth Isn't it an X-Wing? Andy, you either know way too much about Star Wars or way too little.    Aaron about: portsmouth i've never been to Mike's in kent. I don't know how I avoided it.    Aaron about: ELections Is a Steelers loss would be worth McCain for the next four years? hmm...   Aaron about: Weekend Pictures It's snowing here; kind of hard. Nothing is sticking though. I kind of enjoy it now. My tune usually changes post-christmas, but right now it makes me want to drink coffee with Bailey's and read a book by my fireplace.    Aaron about: footballs Didn't I say that the browns would play great just to totally confuse the fans? This Jeckle and Hyde thing is gut wrenching. One quarter they are driving 90 yards with ease and every play go's for 10 yards the next quarter they can't get a single first down and punt 3 times. A win is a win but I feel so used.    Aaron about: soccer why is italian soccer attendance down?   Aaron about: sporting points... ignore the extra "L" in staph every time i wrote it.   Aaron about: sporting points... it was a stalph infection. I think windslow is absolutely right; something is wrong when six guys get the same serious infection.  Stalph Aaron about: Next season we will have a new coach (not Cower) and Quinn starting at QB. I don't think we'll be able to unload D.A. I don't even know what to do with Braylon Edwards. What am I talking about? Next week we'll probably look great. Frustrating    Aaron about: depeche? pathetic.    Aaron about: awesome Sarah Palin t-shirt If I had a nickle for every time someone posted a link on the BDC and my work internet filter stopped me from viewing it because it was deemed "tasteless". You guys are awesome.   Aaron about: footballs 1. I’m disappointed the Redsox won. I don’t want to hear about Boston sports anymore and I’m still bitter about the Tribe losing to them last year. 2. I wish the Redskins hadn’t had the wake-up loss to the Ram’s last week but I still think that the Browns can stop the run and win the game.    Aaron about: something you might find on Lego House.   poster Aaron about: Shidlo that stinks   Aaron about: Browns Yep, the browns are great. The triumpant return of Ryan Tucker shored up the right side of the line. Give Derrick Anderson 5 seconds to throw and he'll pick you apart. Kornheiser is an idiot on MNF. 10-7 game with 6:00 in the second quarter and they decide it's the right time to talk about Tony Romo for about 5 plays. Thanks guys, I don't know when I'll get another chance to hear some analysis on the Cowboys|   Aaron about: nice berg.   Aaron about: k2 his head is too big. I'm guessing it looked like the 2nd bad guy ninja in Big Trouble in Little China right after he saw that Lo Pan was dead. but seriously, its probably a staph infection.   Aaron about: google nice. I just noticed how fantstically placed Ohio is within a 500mi radius. We get all of the east coast but not so much as to waste it in the Atlantic. Those suckers on the coast got screwed. I bet the folk in Tennesee are amped that they don't have to waste part of their 500mi on the great lakes and Canada.    Aaron about: google what is this custom google map you speak of?   Aaron about: bills. or maybe Peter King is just as bad at power rankings as Berg. I bet he didn't even have the Browns in his top five|   Aaron about: OJ and all just for some old trophies.    Aaron about: space   porn Aaron about: Oregon St. better than Ohio St.? Also, tribe gets to play spoiler against the White Sox this weekend. Should be intersting.    Aaron about: cops The best part is that he fanned it.  battery charges? really? Aaron about: Responsibility As long as we are picking apart Brad's grammer, "find it assuming"? Dixlesic much? I'm kidding, please don't pick apart 3rd grading writing level.   Aaron about: umm... I got them both too, even though I haven't been a huge fan of TVOTR's previous albums. We'll see. I can't offer an opinion on either yet. I can say the new Gym Class Heros is good if you like bubble gum pop and rap mixed together.    Aaron about: i Japanese are at it again.  new rubix cube Aaron about: weekend musings McGahee came off the field with a tear of blood coming from his right eye. I hope it was just a cut near the eye and not something more eye-centric. The announcers didn't comment and there was no follow up report. I don't remember if he played after that. Too much beer on my end.    Aaron about: weekend musings I haven't heard any news of Willis McGahee's ocular hemorrhaging. It was gross and I think everyone collectively chose to ignore it.   Aaron about: He writes back no, i read it too occasionally. It comes free because I ran a leg in the Akron Marithon. I can't relate to most of the articles though. Everything is geared to people who run 30 miles a week. They need to write about ways to get faster when you only run 7 miles a week if the weather is good. Or ways to impliment a hangover into workouts.   Aaron about: He writes back he's a lawyer too i think.   Aaron about: He writes back you read runner's world alot andy?   Aaron about: fonts thanks abby, that's perfect.   Aaron about: fonts what was the name of the website that had fonts?    Aaron about: house its near the Troy Hill Playground too. Bonus!   Aaron about: TV A scathing article about a show that I imagine no one watched anyway. But he really layed into this show. (he gets more harsh as in the second half)  Tim Goodman Aaron about: Happy, happy! oh man. Tony's sooooo old. And the Englishes and Thewes are soooo married.   Aaron about: music new Jem comes out today. I heard a song on Gossip Girl. She's got a recognizable voice.    Aaron about: Footballs Parker was not effective despite 100 yards rushing. The browns D stopped the Steelers from controlling the clock and utilizing their classic 12 running plays in a row drives. That and they held them to 10 points. What else would you like to see? Coaches lost that game with poor game management and play calling. That and Braylon Edwards dropping passes. We need to play a powder puff D-fence to regain our offensive rythem like the Bengles in week 4.    Aaron about: Footballs no one hase mentioned that the Browns were able to stop the run for the first time in 10 years. Everything else = terrible.    Aaron about: Thursday Yeah, they said Stallworth hurt himself in warm-up. How does that happen? Isn't that precisely what "warm-up" is for: to avoid injury. Emmitt Smith said he used to get a pregame message every time. He avoided injury well enough. With the amount of money involved can't we get 52 masseuses. Make it 53, I think Romeo could use one too.    Aaron about: Thursday I hope you're not planning on trying to "support your team" while in Cleveland. I'd rather watch the Browns on TV than go to Pittsburgh to see them play.   Aaron about: Phelps I would love it if sprots guy wrote 5000 words about pop culture. Instead he does an all-Tom Brady mailbag. Ugh. As for Easterbrook, I can't even read a whole article from him. I usually get exhausted trying to figure out his nicknames, anagrams, and overzealous use of wordplay. I got sick of him when he decided that the Bengals need to be called the "fudgesicles" after they wore all black uniforms once. As far as I know he is still calling them that.    Aaron about: Phelps They have a still shot clearly showing that Phelps struck the button first(maybe they didn't at the time). And what does Easterbrook know about the accuracy of touch pads. Maybe he should do some research and report on that instead of baselessly insinuating that the technology can't be that accurate. Eaterbrook is a dipshit i.e. "Tenths of seconds are absurd enought". So by that logic, Bolt won the 100 meters in 9 seconds (along with the rest of the field). I'm not defending NBC, I have my own beef with them (why was Collinsworth even over there? Was Jerome Bettis too busy?) I just want to dispell that Easterbrook has anything relevant to say. Ever.   Aaron about: footballs I'll admit, Buffalo and Pitt looked slightly better than average. Did Moorman ad-lib that pass?    Aaron about: footballs As long as the Browns are 2-2 and healthy going into the bye week I think we'll be ok. I can't even respond to the FG thing.    Aaron about: Gonna Take My Job, Bitch... So I watched some of the new 90210 last night. I say some because it was terrible and couldn't finish it. I think they may have used real 15 year olds and the plot was lame and regurgitated. I want the 15 yr olds in my teen dramas to be cast as 25 year olds and I want them to be sleeping with 30 yr olds and drinking in bars without anyone thinking twice. Well, now that I think about it they were drinking in bars and one dude was getting road head before the opening credits were shown... maybe I'll have to give it another chance. Gotta love when implied blowjobs can be shown on the CW at 8:00.   Aaron about: roofing I did commercial roofing for about a month after my senior year of HS. No humping shingles but I had to hump rolls of felt, epdm, modified, etc all day. That and being covered with roofing tar at the end of every day was enough to make me quit and teach tennis for the rest of the summer. Roofing is tough work.    Aaron about: Baby Greenberg (kind of) I think you already posted/told us that. Maybe everyone was on vacation.   Aaron about: Ricky Williams Evidently Ricky Willams wants to be a doctor. I bet he'll smoke pot and play video games instead.   Dr. Williams Aaron about: single ply = crappy this preseason was the worst ever. It was completely useless (probably harmful) for the Browns. Real football will be nice.    Aaron about: obx pics dude, that's a lot of pix! I think your dog to people picture ratio was about 60/40.    Aaron about: A couple of favorite pics Ugg. I'm jealous.    Aaron about: holy shit I'm guessing whichever way they make it out to be hardly anyone will watch it because it's on Sundance channel. And I don't know about you Josh but I remember my college experience as full of glory. I have shut most of the boring and stressfull parts out.    Aaron about: holy shit yeah, on the third trailer on the website they have one student telling his professor that he won't be able to work that weekend because he has a rock climbing trip planned and his prof. shakes his head and says "don't tell me that". I wish it were Shidlowsky. He'd make the dude pee his pants.    Aaron about: holy shit evidently someone deemed the sundance channel worthy of extra money.    Aaron about: holy shit no way, start's tonight. good find andy.    Aaron about:   rogue monkey Aaron about: anybody see this? I read that article at lunch. China is a bunch of jerks.    Aaron about: da browns I probably would too.   Aaron about: da browns I hate Costas and his tall low-voiced womanish cohort. If your going to waste my time with a story about exotic Chinese food, you should at least try the food. I think I'm even more exasperated that she would pretend she was going to eat it and then the shot would cut away just before she put it in her mouth. Gutless, misleading, amazon lesbo. And then there's Costas. I want to see him in a cage match against Lestor Holt (who would be wearing a pin striped singlet).    Aaron about: da browns Last night Lindsay told me about the parallel bar shenanigans. Commie Cheaters!   Aaron about: da browns the browns will be fine. They needed to lower expectations. You're right, the chinese are cheaters. The vault scoring was a farce.    Aaron about: beat this Lt. Dan! Do the folk in Pittsburgh commonly swim in the rivers?    Aaron about: vacation Dickey, Bulldogg, and myself also will not be working this afternoon. Gotta love summer hours.    Aaron about: Olympics No way in hell those female chinese gymnasts were 16 years old.   Aaron about: AUG 8, 2008 under 10   Aaron about: Brady Quin I hope Brady Quinn does come out but then becomes the super aggressive gay guy who slaps everyone on the ass a la Willam Dufoe in Boondock Saints.    Aaron about: what about Brett Far-va-uh? I'm going to run out and buy a Favre Jets jersey today. I'm sure it will be a collecters item just like Emit Smith's Cardinals jersey.   Aaron about: Co-Exist Berg, I thought of calling you out for non-belief of your argument (hence liar not idiot) but I think you fueled conversation for the day and everyone enjoyed berating you. Also, please explain your little violin comment. Are you sure you didn't mean marionette?   Aaron about: mt lions Berg, you are either an idiot or a liar.    Aaron about: footballs I heard this story a week or two ago, was infuriated, and then promptly forgot about it. Fortunately someone wrote an article with my thoughts but with quotes and facts and grammer.   Bunch of shit I say. Aaron about: Competition Weekend Anyone else sore from kickball. My hamstrings are sore and so is the middle of my back. 40 feet to first base was the first time I've sprinted anywhere/any distance in well over a year. I'm old.   Aaron about: Competition Weekend Great weekend, host city, food, T-shirts, pong table, and friendship units.    Aaron about: Competition when is each event taking place?    Aaron about: Competition What is the schedule like? 9:30 opening ceremonies then...? Do you have pong at your house Brad? I am sooo ready to compete.   Aaron about: Holy fuck!!! oh crap, there go's Canada.   Aaron about: new toys Lindsay already turned it down. Maybe I'll apply it to everyone from buffalo.    Aaron about: new toys I got myself an iPhone. So who wants the obscenity laced tirade at the beginning of MOP’s “Ante Up” as their ringtone? I love toys.   Aaron about: onanism did Mikey have to look the word up or was that part of his prior vocabulary?    Aaron about: Is that going to be your fantasy football team name Andy? (I had to look it up). And wes, as much as I'm flattered, I don't think that the Stupid Creepy Boners will be as intimidating with my name in their title.   Aaron about: KoL I think you should name your fantasy football team the Stupid Creepy Boners this year.   Aaron about: Competition Weekend Now if you had written, "Pittsburgh is going to blow into town like the right front quadrant when oriented in the direction of the movement of the hurricane", I would have been very intimidated.   Aaron about: Competition Weekend The eye of the storm is the calm part Sweeney. Know your 7th grade earth science!   Aaron about: thought of you aaron :) that is the happiest cat I've ever scene.    Aaron about: this one is too easy Do you think Brady is a pitcher or catcher?    Aaron about: this one is too easy so wes, do you spend a lot of time on TMZ.com?    Aaron about: ipods It's amazing how different some interns are than others. We had a guy last year who didn't have much work for a couple weeks. He would walk around twice a day asking everyone if there was anything he could help with and then he would try to organize the library to keep busy. At the end of the summer we hired him an are giving him a lot of leeway in getting hours in around his school. On the other hand, this year there is a guy who surfs the web all day and bitches to his friend about how he doesn't have anything to do. His attitude got him a job field checking old electrical shit at some beachwood job 45 mins away for the rest of the summer.    Aaron about: ipods Cool thanks bub, I may purchase that in the future.    Aaron about: ipods tell me more of this software.   Aaron about: Bush Stinks! I heard about that. People from the sewage plant are opposed to it. They claim that the sewage plant has a perfect record and there is no justification for naming it after Bush.   Aaron about: to spark conversation well maybe deaf wouldn't make you more independant. Thats not really true.   Aaron about: to spark conversation I think being deaf would push you to be more independent and isolated and being blind would lean towards more dependance and social behavior.    Aaron about: to spark conversation Obviously none of us would prefer to be either but would you rather be deaf or blind? At first I was going to go with deaf because it would have less of an impact on my ability do physical things. It may also be possible to work, drive, get groceries, etc. without help. Plus I could learn to read lips and then there wouldn’t be as big of an impact. BUT, there would be no music which I don’t know if I could handle. Also, routine conversation would not be the same no matter how good of a lip reader I was. And I really like to talk to people without sounding like a wookie. So I think I’m leaning towards being blind.    Aaron about: speaking of CYA... I am so impressed by their crafty wordsmanship I think you should pay them lots of money. They are obviously very good.    Aaron about: music the new Hives is great. I was hasty and undersold them in my initial review a while back.    Aaron about: music has anyone heard the new Sigor Ros album?  new album Aaron about: sports I am a huge Brett Favre fan but he's yanking them around and that's a bunch of shit. However, GB better slap an ear to ear cheshire grin on and welcome him back before ESPN starts the Favre Network for next season with 24 hour opinions on whether GB would have been better with Brett Favre instead of Aaron Rogers.    Aaron about: breaking news I hope they didn't ban morning stars, maybe I'll be safe and just bring my mace.   Aaron about: work not for planning/site plans but I did make a color scheme for my floor plan.   Aaron about: movies imagery was fine. There needs to be more plot or a plot or an ending or something that would make me not feel bored during the movie. Maybe I just needed drugs. The thing that kills me is that I could have been watching The Usual Suspects for the 20th time on AMC but I figured since I hadn't seen this yet I should watch it. I regretted that decision for 90 minutes. No wait, 89 minutes. The scene with Natalie Portman's butt was cool.   Aaron about: movies I watched the Darjeerling Limited last night. I can't remember what all your reviews were but I thought it was terrible. Wes Anderson has gotten worse with every one of his films.    Aaron about: interview question I'd know you were there. You'd be invisble, not weightless.    Aaron about: interview question And Abby, I can think of lots of ways to be incredibly pervy whilst hovering above the earth. Lindsay might want a parachute though.   Aaron about: interview question have fun sitting shotgun invisibly on a five hour road trip while I'm flying.    Aaron about: interview question The only way invisibility would be worth it is to steal stuff and if that's not your boat then what good is it?   Aaron about: interview question If I chose invisiblity and the guy right next to me chose to fly I would have the buyers remorse immediately.    Aaron about: interview question Pirates have been known to mutiny. Would a potential employer like that? No.    Aaron about: interview question Is 'yes' the correct answer? I don't think I "do everything I can". But I used to when I had to hike up 3 floors. Now the trip from the kitchen to the car is only about 15 level paces. It's not really a big deal to make an extra trip in order to assure that I don't smash the bread.    Aaron about: random sighting What I'm really pumped about is the Cleveland Gladiators (arena league) going to the conference finals this weekend after their second playoff win. I'm looking forward to another rambling (but not drunken) Bernie Kosar interview. I think he's going to talk himself into a comeback soon.    Aaron about: random sighting I'm not really broken up about it. We weren't going to sign him for Santana money and got something out of it. The tribe has done this before and it is the best course of action to sustain the team's future. Most people seem to be pretty ok with it.    Aaron about: happy country everyone I also got roped into the best tennis match I've ever seen. Not only was it the closest match I've ever seen in terms of score but also their level of play sick.    Aaron about: happy country everyone We saw Wall-E over the weekend. Pixar never lets me down.   Aaron about: holy crap yeah, I told myself I was going to save that line for the next time I got into a conversation about the economy. I would drop it nonchalantly like I just made it up. I may still when in the company of non-bdc'ers.   Aaron about: holy crap I saw a shirt in a shop that said: "Gas costs so much that I can't afford to fart". I told Lindsay I wanted to buy it. She wasn't amused.    Aaron about: No standing! Any other NE Ohioans psyched about the Gladiators big playoff win on Monday? If the Gladiators played Elway's arena team how bad would Bernie want that win? ...or would that just be kind of pathetic?    Aaron about: camera I have the Canon SD1000 also and it is great. small, very simple to use, takes good pictures, rechargable battery, decent video. I just got mine about 3-4 months ago after doing a bunch of research and have zero regrets.    Aaron about: Dear Husband what is no-touch icing? You don't have to touch it up, they just blow the whistle?   Aaron about: baseballs? I just made up my mind that the DH is dumb and boring. Mostly because of derek's reasons but its validating to disagree with Berg.    Aaron about: baseballs? the glowing puck was great when it turned orange and had a comet trail. Thank god HD came along and fixed the puck is to small to follow problem. Speaking of sports technology. Remeber the super bowl with CBS "eyecam" where they set up cameras around the entire stadium so that they could pan 360? that was awesome. they should do that again.   Aaron about: Live Golf I don't get video at work so I'm reading the play-by-play blog. So archaic.   Aaron about: Live Golf 3 straight birdies! On a related note I shot a personal best 47 on friday.   Aaron about: Live Golf if they're tied at the end of today do they play 18 more tomorrow?   Aaron about: Tiger I agree that this has been the most entertaining golf tourney I've ever seen.    Aaron about: Browns If I were LCB or any of Browns players that had staff infections I'd hold them responsible too. How do you explain that many infections?   Aaron about: punching beavers in the face I haven't noticed a decline from the Daily Show. However, Colbert is so much better lately, someone must have sat him down and told him to stop interupting his guests every 5 seconds.   Aaron about: punching beavers in the face saw that last night. Great stuff.   Aaron about: The News I laughed pretty hard.. but it felt wrong.    Aaron about: The News andy, did you delete your last post?    Aaron about: The News you should get her a personalized liscence plate "OMALLY 2". Congrats.   Aaron about: college food i remember the goth kid. He had straightedge x's tattoo'd on his hands. Good thing sweet J didn't do that.   Aaron about: karma Big Gay Indian and the   Gamorrian Guard were great. Aaron about: WHAT WHAT Wasn't Mitch an ice scupture wizard? Dickey, back me up. I'm sure you took Ice Sculpures 101 in college.   Aaron about: WHAT WHAT are you going to see a Pink Floyd laser light show? A few of us took a road trip to the Pitt science center freshman year of college for that. We were not sober. Then I had to pull an allnighter on Sunday night with Berg to finish a project for studio, some kind of paper. Then for some reason we went to the stadium to get leanne's neon and ate pancakes at the student center. mmm...pancakes.   Aaron about: Ahh baseballs Holy crap, that is incredible.   Aaron about: Brainiacs I got some clarification, it's not a heatpump-like device. It is a watersource heat pump which is much more efficient than your typical airsource heat pump. Particularly when heating in cold tempuratures.   Aaron about: Brainiacs We've used geothermal on a couple of commercial projects and it works exactly as Brad described. But in a residential application I think you can hook up your geothermal to a heatpump-like device that uses a compressor thinger to expand the freon stuff and actually heat/cool rather than just moderate the system w/55 degree fluid. Anybody care to correct me? I might be making this all up, I really don't know where I heard that.    Aaron about: truck nuts The steeler's mascot could be 100% cooler if it were just a walking W8x31 named "Wide Flange". Nope, wait, still gay.   Aaron about: truck nuts I love "Mad Cows". It would be a really good name if you could take all of the baggage away. I like when a team name includes a descriptor. They aren't just cows, they're Mad Cows!   Aaron about: pens Mulkin should take up the Rocky IV fitness plan. Running up russian mountains; not doing steroids or Bridget Nielson.   Aaron about: pens I fell asleep between 2ot and 3ot but woke up 8 mins. into the period just in time to see the final goal. I had to call derek to ask why the pens weren't checking or hitting. I know they don't want to get burned but I don't want to see guys stop 2 feet behind an opposing player at the boards and attempt to poke check the puck out. I want to see the detroiter get flattened and let a trailer clean up the puck. If the pens are going to dump it in and then get beat to the puck every posession they might as well make detroit hurt.    Aaron about: awesome! what a tool. Do you think he got a good deal on Jimmy 'mouth of the south' Hart's old suits?   Aaron about: Interesting Weekend Any thoughts on 5 v 3 ineptitude?    Aaron about: lost tribes...not the TV show whatever bub. stop judging them by the color of their skin.   Aaron about: lost tribes...not the TV show In star trek they had to adhere to the "prime directive". You weren't allowed to make "first contact" with lesser civilizations until they had achieved warp drive for space travel. They should probably come up with somehting like that for the tribes.    Aaron about: pens I'm sure he's available. he's probably just doing the splits somewhere.    Aaron about: pens no VS HD.    Aaron about: pens that was much better. All around much more fun to watch. Although I didn't really watch the first two closely because they weren't in HD. Is Mellon Arena a real peice of crap inside? It didn't look that bad on TV.    Aaron about: zzzzz I went to a funural on Sat. morning for Lindsay's great aunt (she was really old anyway) and then went to Kader's wedding that evening. BBQ'd at Dickey's for a couple of hours on Sunday and did nothing at all worth mentioning on Monday.    Aaron about: zzzzz the enema, muscle relaxers, pain killers and opportunity to shit on Wes' chest sound like a holiday weekend dream come true. You know, for Mante... not me.   Aaron about: footballs and such that's cool. We need a cornerback.   Aaron about: pens ugh.   Aaron about: wanna hear about my boner? I can't stop listening to the new black keys either. I agree totally with the Raconeurs critic too. Super-mega songs but a lot of unnoticable one intermixed. The last song is killer. The new Kills is good too.    Aaron about: because I that's what I'm saying Doug. Now you all know it took me at least 5 minutes to compose my 3 sentance long thought.   Aaron about: because I I think the MLS shootout is more fun to watch, less reliant on chance because the goalie doesn't guess, and puts goalies and shooters on more of an even plane. If a shooter misses in europe they blew it or the goalie guessed right, those are really the only explanations. But I don't see europe changing because of the long tradition. The only other option would be to eliminate the shoot-out only in championships. Sudden death till infinity. I would be more interested in watching if they had sportscenter highlights of a game winning goal in the 168th minute. They might need more ambulances though, definetly more gatorade.   Aaron about: American Idiots Idol it has nothing to do with american idol. Don't you realise the incredible irony of voting to gage opinion on a decision that was decided by a vote one day earlier? And soccer is fun to play, not so much to watch.    Aaron about: American Idiots Idol you mean George Michael?    Aaron about: American Idiots Idol I love that MSN has a place where you can vote for who you thought should have won American Idol. Because the previous 92 million votes that counted were not a good enough indicator.  dumb Aaron about: carl lewis old lady in hot tub = creepy awesome Carl Lewis killed BDC   Aaron about: other people NBA is crap. I can't believe I got roped into watching it again. They've got issues with refs controlling the outcomes of the games by the way they are calling fouls that night. If they call a tight game then LeBron go's to the foul line 40 times (boring). If they let them play it turns into jungle ball and the game gets sloppy (boring). Congrats to the Pens, I will enjoy watching hockey finals and return to my boycott of the NBA.   Aaron about: report from Becky his dreads were fake anyway. Remember in Italy he wore a beret for four months to cover up the fact that his extensions were growing out. Also, in school somewere I saw a picture of Hughes in his early 30's - he was skinny with short hair.    Aaron about: Silly Breakfast for dinner last night. Mmmm... pancakes.   Aaron about: Hey Archidorks... My first thought was that the designer must be into cleveland steamers. I know that doesn't make any sense. I mean if you're into that type of thing a toilet is probably a completely unnecessary item. Maybe it could be useful for clean-up.    Aaron about: Jess and I are engorged... nice Toner, good stuff   Aaron about: Browns kicking ass in B-lo I'm about 50 percent but my momentum is heading towards a yes.    Aaron about: horses Just saw that Wes beat me too. I thought he was talking about stupid permits. I'm with Bub on that one, I don't like them and will probably attempt to avoid paying for them when I grow up and have a house.    Aaron about: horses bub beat me by 13 seconds with more information and a better sense of humor.   Aaron about: horses it was a girl horse, not a guy.    Aaron about: competition weeeknd yes, first weekend of August. Is there any way to have a big wheel race at competition weekend? Biggie, did you ever think about putting in a pool? I think a pool might make for the best competition weekend ever.    Aaron about: a.r.e. Pre-design and CD's were easy. I studied for about 8 hours total for each. I probably won't take the design ones very seriously either. The structures and bulding systems scare the crap out of me though.   Aaron about: into the wild I haven't heard it but there were some interesting tracks in the movie.    Aaron about: ugh Bub, it's funny to see how excited you were last friday in hindsight after witnessing that snoozefest.|    Aaron about: Get Your Boys Ready for December That is pretty lazy. But you are mostly correct. Article summary - July 31 cut-off for little league.   Aaron about: Burritos, Chimichangas, Taco Salad . . . oh my You should have insisted that they give you a gun anyway.    Aaron about: 4th of july is this legal?  adult big wheel Aaron about: 4th of july can a big wheel be outfitted with a castor or two to help displace the weight directly under our fat buts? Or would that be an unfair advantage?   Aaron about: tribe v. sox I bet you at least 3 of the 8 playoff teams won't be playoff teams next year.    Aaron about: 4th of july my way would have been entertaining too.   Aaron about: 4th of july oh wait, not six is a row and then one lap on the big wheel. One beer at a time - each followed by a lap on the big wheel. Nevermind the question.    Aaron about: 4th of july for curiosity sake, how long do you antipate it would take for people to drink 6 beers in a row. 20 minutes? 30? 45? Is there a no bonging/shotgunning rule?    Aaron about: yankees Bub, sometimes I don't know how you put up with the mental abuse she puts you through. And to answer your text message from Saturday; Sometimes I think so, I blame it on my rockhard abs limiting the size my bladder can get. My initial response was going to be "whenever your mom gets thirsty".    Aaron about: yankees I think it's hillarious that they are looking into filing charges against the guy in a court of law. Their lawyers will talk them out of it but I would love to hear how having that jersey under their slab would be detrimental without bringing up the superstition aspect.    Aaron about: Bored Really random but Nathan ran into Eby in Kent at 3:00 in the morning on Friday. Eby gave him his phone number and I tried to get him to go to the Aeros game with a few of us on Sat. but only got his voicemail.    Aaron about: Bored just like   Mr. Perfect Aaron about: Bored I think we should talk more about how awesome The Lifestyle was.    Aaron about: the biggie picture face makes a glorious appearance in pic #4.   Aaron about: basketballs I was cheering for Kansas the whole way so I'm glad they won but I feel a little bad for Memphis. I was really close to turning it off when Memphis was up by 9 with 3 minutes left. I was looking for the remote when Kansas stole the imbound pass and hit a 3.    Aaron about: dead I was thinking more like a gun accident joke.    Aaron about: work question Berg, please create the "small cocks hatch" and e-mail me the .pat file. No more parquet earth for me.   Aaron about: cleve-town ochres I thought that was Eric Wright and almost set myself on fire. Fortunately it wasn't. I've never heard of Kenny Wright and didn't know he was on the Brown's roster.    Aaron about: sorry, I have to brag. I'll burn you a copy of the MP3 disk my dad handed to me. And can do the same for any others I might see on the 19th, just let me know.   Aaron about: sorry, I have to brag. I didn't know the Black Keys had a new one until yesterday, so no to them. But I did get the new Mars Volta. I'm listening to it right now, a major step up from Frances the Mute. Also got Vampire Weekend, Drive By Truckers, new Ted Leo, Juno soundtrack, new Racounteurs, new Kills, and Grand Archives   Aaron about: sorry, I have to brag. My dad is the coolest. I sent him a list of 10 disks I covet that have come out in the last 4 months. I sent it last Thursday and he had 8 of them ripped and burned to a disk by Sunday. Now time to enjoy. On the next occasion that i'm home I'll find out what "newsletter site" he is a member of. I believe its about $10 a month. It may be of some interest to some of you big music consumers.    Aaron about: music The new black keys album was produced by Danger Mouse. I'm excited  Keys. Aaron about: forget wedding planning faily = fairly   Aaron about: forget wedding planning although the film Millennium was faily compelling as well.  millennium Aaron about: forget wedding planning interesting, but I don't understand why he says knowing the future is impossible with time travel being possible. If you time travel to the past then you would know the future. Personally, I don't think there will ever be time travel because otherwise we would see time travelers from the future now or 200 years ago for that matter. Douglas Adams (hitchhikers guide to the galaxy) explained a world that would include time travel the best. He said that all of time would be predefined and fit together like puzzle pieces. In my mind that's the only way it would work.    Aaron about: the children are our future.   Oh my. Aaron about: Baseballs I'll be at Pickwic and Frollics at noon for lunch and dollar beers with 40 other GPD'ers. Then stumble over to the game the game. Give me a jingle if you want to get together.   Aaron about: Musak And, I'm definetly not going to be infuriated that you listened to 2 of their songs and decided to dismiss them.   Aaron about: Musak Berg, I like the Hives. They produce better-than-average punk rock albums on a consistant basis (I have 3 albums). Nothing spectacular but they have their place in my rotation.    Aaron about: american idol Thats cool. I must have missed it. Seacrest mentioned it on the results show last night too and said that Chris Cornell was happy about it. It was the judges who screwed up and thought it was original.    Aaron about: Netflix Thews, you are 93% similar to me in movie taste.    Aaron about: Netflix you can't tell me you understood that. Is there a viable plot? I have to admit I was entertained until about 3/4 way through and I realized I didn't understand anything.   Aaron about: Netflix Oh, wait. He didn't direct that one. He's still terrible.   Aaron about: Netflix Whoa Sweeney, you gave Donnie Darko 5 stars! What's wrong with you? You don't like David Lynch movies do you? He's worse than the Coen Bros.   Aaron about: Netflix I am excited for Sweeney's recommendations the most.    Aaron about: Netflix Good call Leanne.   Here I am. Aaron about: American Idiots Idol no, the Aussi is still in it though. I'm the opposite, I hate watching losers pretend they think they are good and dorks acting out so they can get 30 second of air time. I bet their parents are proud. I don't like to watch until it gets competitive. Here is MSN's synopsis of my new nemisis: David Cook had the best performance of the night. He’s not afraid to take risks. Already this season he pulled off an emo version of Lionel Ritchie’s “Hello,” and he went down a similar path on Tuesday, singing Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” in that same rock/emo style. It was a strange choice of songs, but he’s now two-for-two in reinventing ’80s classics. Randy Jackson, who liked almost nothing all night, was effusive with his praise. “I gotta say, I think you’re probably the most original, the most bold contestant we’ve ever had,” he gushed. Simon agreed. “That was brave. It could have either been insane or amazing, and I have to tell you it was amazing,” he said    Aaron about: American Idiots Idol I don’t know if any of you watch American Idol (Lindsay made me watch it, begrudgingly at first but then I realized how much I enjoy judging people, it doesn’t even matter whether they’re dancing or singing. ) Anyway last night this douchebag sang Billy Jean but not the Michael Jackson version, the moody badass Chris Cornell version from his newest album. I can understand most people haven’t heard it, my dad gave me the album a couple of months ago otherwise I wouldn’t know it existed. Anyway that song is standout and this guy got handjobs from all three judges for his “creativity” and “courage” for taking an old song and making it current. Only he didn’t do any of those things, Chris Cornell did. No credit was given at all. It makes me sick to think there are 30 million idiot Americans out there that think that this guy is a creative genius. I hope that it gets mentioned on the results show tonight.    Aaron about: Spears on TV What do you guys think about "first Becky" leaving Rosanne? Do you think she was looking for greener pastures or jumping ship before the show got terrible and cancelled?    Aaron about: Go sci-fi I agree with the first half of his letter with brilliant use of the G.I. Joe mantra. But as someone who has watched my fair share of Star Trek, I think it's a stretch to say that because the letter writer was inspired by an alien that solves problems with logical/critical thought that watching Star Trek would help others with mental illness.   Aaron about: Colon Nice, tell colon I said congrats.   Aaron about: regarding elasticity... Thanks, I half expected you guys to have made an engagement prediction in my absensce. I'm glad I caught Lindsay offguard at least. I'll work on vacation pictures sometime this week. Bub, is there any way to access last weeks posts or at least links to pics of the good times I missed. I like to live vicariously through my friends' bar crawl photos.    Aaron about: 401 K or Yankee Game I would guess it would be something that is known for it's price. Like penny candy or something on a dollar menu. But inflation screws those things up. And Lindsay and I got engaged in San Diego.   Aaron about: holy shit No crawling for me. Lindsay and I are going on vacation to LA and San Diego. Our flight leaves tomorrow at 7:30AM. I hope you all have a good green crawl.    Aaron about: holy shit copy me on drunk texts. And take lots of sloppy pictures   Aaron about: Spitzer Stupid trasporter, I can't be stuck building a tranporter all day. I'm an idea man!   Aaron about: Spitzer I'm happy about getting more sunlight in the evening.    Aaron about: Spitzer Sorry Bub, that was kind of harsh. Berg got me worked up with his inflamitory root beer comment.   Aaron about: Spitzer Bub, do you control the time stamp? Fix it.   Aaron about: Spitzer Barq's and its bite are crap. A&W baby.   Aaron about: hockeys I've watched the last 2 Kent games and about 5 over the course of the season. They are going to lose because of sloppy turnovers and I am going to be screaming at my TV the entire time. If I don't see them play better in the MAC tourney I'm going to pick against them in the first round of the NCAA's. I don't see them winning without cleaning up their game. It's like watching the Bob Huggin's Bearcats.   Aaron about: Cristen you guys better be watching the porn again when Bill's friend arrives. Let her think that's all we do unless a bar crawl interupts.    Aaron about: weekend storm 18 inches and one missed Ashtabula County Home Brew Association microbrewery tour.    Aaron about: Baby Boy Lloyd Go Lloyds!    Aaron about: fixer upper thinking of that, I think you should get a label maker and label it the "detonate furnace" button for your renters and then casually toss around lines like "whatever you do, do not press that button".   Aaron about: fixer upper good job berg. Good thing the "magic button" wasn't the "detonate furnace button".    Aaron about: so no banter about NFL offseason... how about the new Candlebox?   Aaron about: Favre that's understandable   Aaron about: Favre Brett Favre was great. It's not his fault that the media talks about it incessantly or that Madden wants to hump him.    Aaron about: AFC North I think the browns are gambling that 2nd year McDonald and Wright will be their starters. After watching the Giants D-line win the superbowl with mediocre DB's behind them I can understand where Phil Savage's head was.   Aaron about: AFC North Stallwrorth's contract was too big and long. I wish we could get Northcutt back, he'd be a nightmare in the slot with a good QB and two big recievers on the outside, but I guess thats what Windslow is for. I think the Quinn/Anderson co-existing in harmony will last one more year. After '08 one of them is going to have to go. Hopefully neither of them blow their trade value.   Aaron about: I saw No Reservations this weekend. It would have been better if they had replaced every tearful hug or meaningful glance with a sex scene featuring excessive nudity and every musical montoge with something getting blown up. 2/5 stars.   Aaron about: Lost do you think the Lost writers ever look at his theories to get plot ideas? talk about the tail wagging the dog.   Aaron about: NCARB Instead of hating on NCARB, you should devise a stratagy to take over fat lazy NCARB and turn it into an efficient money making machine.   Aaron about: I hope I don't have to use a phone for primarily business needs anytime soon. I don't want to work that much/hard.   Aaron about: I've been working with dinosaur phones for the my cellular career and I want a phone with some fun stuff.    Aaron about: a'ron My high tech take is that I want an iPhone. I played with one this weekend and it is hands down the coolest piece of electronics ever made. Weather that title constitutes a $500 price tag is a healthy point of contention. Fortunately our good friends in gov't have decided I should get free money and spend it on american goods. Who am I to argue. As far as HD is concerned, I bought an upscaling DVD player ($100) when I got my TV and it works pretty well for now. I would consider a playstation now that there is a clear winner in HD but Wes and Thews already have Xbox's and the plan is for all the cool people to unify on one gaming system so that we can be dorks with headsets playing Madden seasons in our basements. It's only a matter of time. And Berg, you can leave your painting anywhere you want. I still don't know why/how you are going to just leave half your stuff in a house your renting out. Why would she want your shit there?    Aaron about: today I caught the 10 minute highlight reel of Clemens' hearing. I always imagined a hearing was a courtroom-like setting with procedure and professionalism. I guess I was wrong. Evidently at a hearing the congressmen are allowed to scold, berate, belittle, make general comments without asking questions, and voice their opinion at any point during the hearing. They came off as a bunch of blowhards sitting on their highhorse.    Aaron about: this is your QB the guy getting his junk grabbed looks just like Kader.   Aaron about: nerd stuff My favorite part is that McNamee produced more evidence the day after Clemens assumable purgered himself. Stab and twist.   Aaron about: wedding dates It should be called the unnecessary plate.   Aaron about: Say something... I had dunkin donuts coffee this weekend. It was really good. My favorite coffee now. Cris Cornell has a cover of Billy Jean on his new album. It sounds like what one would imagine it would (which is really cool). I saw Juno this weekend. Also very good.    Aaron about: Competition i couldn't make it July 12    Aaron about: Engaged No berg, its embarrasing to those that support your cause. I cringed when you decided to call out Rothbergeer being gay. You can't even bring stuff like that up when we've got Quinn running thought virtual tires on Neptune or whatever.    Aaron about: Competition July 12 is no good for me. And sooner is better. August is 6+ months away.    Aaron about: Competition I propose the pick-up style exibitiion games like we did at the summer throw down in '05. There wasn't as much testosterone flying around and we don't have to take anything seriously, just pick teams from a hat and play. I can still enjoy dominating but don't have to be embarrassed by Berg's pathetic trash talking. I'm fine if you guys want another shot at the belt though; I understand.   Aaron about: Competition Weekend The June 6,7,8th is the best for me.   Aaron about: movie maybe they sold the movie as a romantic comedy date movie and it's really a movie about a father who pimps his 8 year old daughter for hand jobs at massage parlors.    Aaron about: movie Maybe you just have a filthy mind. Although Ryan Reynolds is funny and I don't think I could take that line seriously from him either.    Aaron about: hah hah! I would say as a taxpayer that whomever within our government that has the job/time to reinvestigate the spygate should be reappointed to a more worthwile position. I feel that the fraction of a penny I contribute to his salary could be better spent.    Aaron about: hah hah! Is anyone else outraged that the government is considering getting involved with spygate? Is congress going to try to control sports now because it's easier than running a country?    Aaron about: hah hah! Poolside bars are the worst|    Aaron about: Eyesore of the month And berg, go up a story? really?    Aaron about: Eyesore of the month I kind of like the addition. That picture is of the back but I suppose showing a picture of the back supports their point better. Akron wanted something flashy by a big name that would earn them some press. That's what they got. I think it's a waste to have so much of the budget soaring overhead without any purpose except aestetics though. Dickey, I think the original building might have been a post office before the Mayor building. Someone should check on that. I'd bet even money it was.   Aaron about: Lost If I were wes I'd watch it on vacation. Why not?   Aaron about: anyone wes, hasn't been around to ruffle any feathers with his inflamitory remarks toward scientologists.|   Aaron about: Fletch Not enough credit? From who? The film was made over 20 years ago. It's awesome but I don't understand how a film made in 1985 can be "underrated" in 2008. Would you like them to air it on primetime network. Also, I suppose you were in europe or cleveland when the Strom household all dressed up as different Fletch characters for Halloween.    Aaron about: I hate people Last post = me.   Aaron about: test I believe my vacation time for the rest of the year is booked. Lindsay and I won't be able to make it. I'll let you know if anything changes. Actually Lindsay might want to go since she has 2 months off. (I'm so jealous)    Aaron about: docs Wes' sidekick is Model Man.    Aaron about: docs I too have a hieghtened sense of awesomeness.   Aaron about: docs I see the same behavior Wes described with teachers who arguably don't have the same mega-ego's. They want to this and that lab tables, a seprate area for computer stations, etc. They give us sketches and cut sheets from office supply magazines. Then we show them that it won't fit in 900sf and they get mad. The problem is that they aren't in charge or paying for it and the people who are make the final decisions. So the teachers just make a wish list that is often unrealistic. Much like the doctors.   Aaron about: docs I don't really think it's the size of the ego that causes the friction. One can have a mega ego without acting unprofessional or childish. I don't think any of our egos is any smaller than your average doctor. The difference is the social behavior.    Aaron about: 90210 Brian Austin Green has pulled some serious hotties.  I found this interesting Aaron about: In other news. Nice pics and congratulations. I'm jeolous.   Aaron about: What weekend! Thanks to whoever recommended Mr. Brooks. Andy maybe? It was fantastic and that scene at the end freaked me out good. Also, I watched 12 and Holding about a month ago. I wasn't a huge fan straight off but I like it more now than I did right after I watched it. Also, if anyone hasn't seen it, Oceans 13 is really good especially if you like heist movies. Oceans 12 was terrible so I didn't have high hopes but the heist/ridiculous Vegas architecture in every scene made this one rock.   Aaron about: WWYD Are beers called hookers now?    Aaron about: Tecmo someone updated the teams and rosters for Tecmo Bowl for 2007. I wish there was a way I could by that person a beer in appreciation. I suppose I'll just drink an extra one tonight instead.  2007 Aaron about: iPod Cathryn, I know this is a week late but I bought a couple of songs this weekend. After you buy them they send an e-mail confirmation with a link for reporting any problems. I imagine that is where your co-worker can get it fixed.   Aaron about: NHL The NHL has one chance to be in the national limelight and they give us that turd.|   Aaron about: browns that was a ridiculous hit. My office is only about 15% full today and I'm not even pretending to work. I did a bunch of research/organizing on taking my ARE tests this morning (new year resolution) but that is done. I probably should just leave now. Sorry Biggs, I think I'm out of here.    Aaron about: browns I don't know where to place my anger. At Jim Sorji for being terrible, at Kerry Collins the drunk for being reasonably competent, at ineffective Vince Young for getting injured, at the schedule makers who gave Tennessee an extra division win, or just the Browns for not sealing the deal when they had a chance. I've been calling out 10 wins since week six and I never considered it wouldn't be enough to get in the playoffs.    Aaron about: ice bowl Why am I working today?    Aaron about: Browns Rumors Berg, your an idiot. Why would you want Cowher on the Browns? He is firmly entrenched as a steeler now. I mean he's practically their mascot. Sorry Bub, had to make the Steely McGaybo reference.   Aaron about: BDC you're a savage   Aaron about: sad he was probably as cool as the other side of the pillow.   Aaron about: Archidork talk I took basic training and we have a project designated that we are going to use it on this spring. I was just wondering if there was anyone here that had used it for real.    Aaron about: Archidork talk Anyone here use Revit?   Aaron about: Browns v. Bills No, I just never considered the browns could lose. I still don't, but I just today wondered what would happen if they did.    Aaron about: weekend   Priceless Aaron about: weekend harold... that's awesome.   Aaron about: weekend not that it'll happen.   Aaron about: weekend When deterimining playoff spots for teams with the same record, do they look at head-to-head first as they do in division races? If so, a win by buffalo not only would give them the same record as cleveland but put them above us for essentially the only wildcard spot. Right?   Aaron about: american gladiators Did you guys notice it's on at 9:00? I will probably watch the first episode or two for nostalgia and curiosity sake. They need to spice it up with some new games and rules.    Aaron about: american gladiators do you think Mayhem protested that he has to wear a haltertop for his outfit or did he just go with it? I had to check if he was a girl or a guy. He looks like a crack whore... and a little like a black Iggy Pop. It's funny how they pass off these bulked up weightlifters as prime athletes.    Aaron about: buffalo bills are neat All the weather people here are saying they are not sure what to expect but to definetly plan on 4-8 inches saturday eve to sunday and possibly more. I think a sloppy game bodes well for the the Bills. Our precision passing attack may be stunted. When should I get to cleveland tonight and where will we do our boozin'?   Aaron about: buffalo bills are neat I saw that feel good liberal puff piece on MSN's front page. Someone needs to write an atricle with the angle that the Bills are all injured because they are weak nancy boys. Or at least there needs to be a line in there about how the Bill's hopes and dreams are going to be squashed this weekend by the juggernaut browns.    Aaron about: uh oh Bub, I wish you could be an espn corrispondent and unleash that summary for all of America to read.    Aaron about: music critic The new Iron and Wine is a must have. Newish White Stripe is also awesome if you like them. New Killers and Hives are good too but I haven't listened much. Newish Common is more of the same (which I think is a positive).   Aaron about: uh oh I'm going to avoid espn tonight because I don't want to waste my time. Just like I avoided MNF featuring the Falcons the day Vick was sentenced. There lots of other ways I would like to waste my time rather than listen to an endlessssssssssss barage of sportswriter's opinions.    Aaron about: snowjob we just got rain last night and the day before and the day before that. This weekend we're going to have great tailgatin' weather though.    Aaron about: Touch footballs I will probably be in. My skills are diminished because of the cold weather and I'm old. Who is up for some boozin' on Friday? I am going to maximize friendship units and crash in Cleveland.    Aaron about: Hunting Oh man, playing the unicorn card was nice. One point to Bub.   Aaron about: Hunting Ha! Good one Abby.   Aaron about: again with the injuries why are all the Bills players so fragile? 14 injuries = 14 weak girly-men.   Aaron about: Browns v Bills I'm really glad the game is in Cleveland. I think that that will make the difference. Hopefully DA breaks out of this mediocre streak and turns superhuman again.    Aaron about: Gift idea awesome. Why does it have to be so expensive? I would totally gag gift someone with that for 20 bucks.   Aaron about: ugh Has anyone played a Wii yet? I did over Thanksgiving. It's awesome. Tennis is rad. It would probably get a little old after you got good at the games and were playing alone. But for multi-player it can't be beat. In the next couple of years I think we need to homogonize our videogame systems with interweb and get dorky headsets so that you can all feel the agony of losing to me on a random Wednesday evening. I'm joking but actually not really.   Aaron about: I heart winter Lindsay and I are training for Dec. 16th tonight at the Division 2 HS football state finals. Her HS is one of the teams. No snow here though, but cold. I wish I were fat... ahh, soft and warm.   Aaron about: here you go berg... he gets flack not slack. And he is either really good (as in this article or the Imus one) or frustratingly posturing between both sides of an argument by qualifying all of his statements. I read most of his stuff also because at least he is smart enough show that there are can be two legitimate sides to an argument even if not every point supports his opinion. Here he had some insightful thoughts on the   Jena six. Aaron about: poor pittsburgh...never invited... The owners of our favorite watering hole caught a burglar.  69 taps Aaron about: music Biggie, my dad just got me about a dozen newer disks including the new Common. If you can wait until the Browns game I'll burn you a copy. I wish to continue the proliferation of free music.    Aaron about: KITCHEN SINKS who loves "caulk"?   Aaron about: footballs Ralph stadium should go back to the green carpet over concrete. That had to be intimidating in December. That and Daryl Tally's spandex with spiderman biceps.    Aaron about: Rambo Did you guys know Stalone is making a new Rambo movie? He better have Tango and Cash 2 in the works. Or maybe another Demolition Man.   Sooo bad. Aaron about: OSU I want to see West Virgina in the title game because they are fun to watch. I don't want to see Mizz because I don't know anything about them or their state. I've been watching the whole college football season and that's as strong of an opinion as I can muster on the subject.    Aaron about: athletic fools! Because he went to Miami U and is already on parole.    Aaron about: athletic fools! I heard "Sean Taylor gets shot" and assumed it must be his fault.   Aaron about: Touch footballs I have a football and am reasonably athletic. Count me in for some mild tag FB.    Aaron about: Thanksgiving Happy Birthday Berg and thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. I'll try not to break a hip this weekend.    Aaron about: Black Friday Here's a topic for everyone who is around today. Kohls is opening up at 4:00AM on Friday. How shitty is that that for the people who have to wake up at 2:30 in the morning to go to work the night after thanksgiving just so a few yahoos can get up just as early to get started on their holiday shopping. Is anyone here going shopping on Friday? How about at 4AM? I think I will be waking up a 9:30ish and making peach pancakes instead. I may be nuts but that sounds more appealing to me.    Aaron about: baseballs I was pissed that the bonds story preempted PTI last week so I think he should get 30 years.    Aaron about: ok, so that's settled. Now who wants to argue the three types of rocks? I'm going to take the pro-igneous stance. Who's got the guts to defend sedimentary? Should we move this to the rants page?    Aaron about: zzzz that would be a northwest wind berg. Know your middle school earth science.   Aaron about: Sunday Night Matchup did anyone see Madden's pregame analysis of how the Buffalo might win the game (after noting that Lynch was out). He searched for a reasonable answer for a couple seconds while stuttering and then just decided to fess up and say that he couldn't see any way it would be possible.    Aaron about: Rivalry Week I have two thoughts. Only against the browns would the ball defy physics and the laws of nature and bounce off the sloping support bar back into the field of play. That and Josh Cribbs is a freak. There is no way we would have won yesterday’s game without the field position he gave us. And without him we wouldn’t have been in last week’s game either. Not bad for an undrafted QB out of Kent.   Aaron about: life changing I liked when they danced on bikes to "Send Me an Angel" and when Rex and Rod were in their shiny outfits doing the coreographed backup dance to the Zabka character's smooth dancefloor moves. Sooooooo 80's   Aaron about: what Tiny rhino's would lead to bruised shins. Would he still have a symbiotic bird live on him to keep the flys away or would that be unnecessary? I think I'd like it more if there were a bird.    Aaron about: workplace protocol It wasn't on the seat, was it? I envisioned in the bowl above the water, laying on the beach sunbathing...or would that be moon bathing. Ha!   Aaron about: footballs yes, it's awesome. He doesn't get a commission right?   Aaron about: No comment on bike racing, but I'm eating a banana right now and thinking of Kirt Cameron. I wan't him to expain why his god didn't make a banana's window of optimal ripeness last longer than 2 days.    Aaron about: soccer Bub, what media outlets do you use to follow soccer?    Aaron about: john clayton They let Brees go because he just had shoulder surger and no one knew how it would effect him. And I understand you're not defending logic, your defending the inevitable trend of backwords thinking and according to that thinking Anderson will be out and Quinn will be in, just a matter of time.    Aaron about: john clayton I don't think Quinn will be happy not starting next year and there's no way he'll be satisfied beyond that. So keeping them both indefinetly is not an option.    Aaron about: john clayton I think browns fans are already attached to Anderson and I think more importantly the rest of the team is too. They couldn’t possibly risk a let down by trading him away. That would be their jobs.    Aaron about: john clayton Where's DA on that list? Not proven enough yet I imagine. I hope the Browns get him signed for another year or two before he hits restricted FA at the end of the season. I think Quinn gets traded after next season and we stick with DA.    Aaron about: Emile Hirsch you know what movie he was in that I hated - Emperor's Club. sold as Dead Poet Society 2 and starring Kevin Klein how could it be bad, right? It was complete garbage.   Aaron about: Emile Hirsch Alpha Dog and Lords of Dogtown were enjoyable.    Aaron about: good movie yeah, he's been in a bunch of movies I liked.    Aaron about: sports funny, my first thought about the Cincy game was shock that the Ravens were being shut out by Cincy's D in the fourth quarter.   Aaron about: footballs Did anyone read Bill Simmons' football column this week? what a bunch of shit. I don't want to read 2000 word article about how his team (which won) is getting bad calls. He has been getting more unreadable every week and I think the biggest reason is that Boston sports is winning everything. Nobody wants to read a bunch of gushing crap about how awesome it is to win. And I definetly don't want to read about how the league is trying to keep the Pats from going 19-0. What I want are articles breaking down the Karate Kid trilogy, the OC vs. 90210, and the history of football video games. Thank god he already wrote those because it looks like we're in for plenty of "The Celtic are awesome" bullshit to come.   Aaron about: footballs 12:30 central.    Aaron about: we can win. The browns offense can't wait till 12:30 to start playing though. And it'll need to be a shootout.    Aaron about: Tough Weekend "Muppet Babies" is a term used by Toner to describe Harold when he is drunk and telling his stories. It is a reference to the way the muppet babies would explain to their nanny what had happened to them in their imagination at the end of every episode.    Aaron about: Tough Weekend Is Sweet-J Muppet Babies now?   Aaron about: Tough Weekend wow J, wow. You took a cab all the way from Philadelphia to Bel-air? That must have been quite a fare.   Aaron about: it's cute though... trying to use slang like the all the kids.    Aaron about: NFL Power Rankings wikipedia it berg. you're so wrong.   Aaron about: Halloweener speaking of Sweeney, does anyone have an update? Also, I have a few questions. Sweeney works downtown right? So was he walking from where he parks to his building when he got hit? And why did the car hop the curb? Was it avoiding an accident? Ricocheting from a collision with another car?    Aaron about: Now I know why it was the gayest birthday party ever!   Aaron about: NFL Schedule Change I started Ben and Pitt Def. in fantasy football to overcome a 35 point deficite against Kader going into last nights game. I bet he's pissed, I think I'll call him at lunch to rub it in.    Aaron about: NFL Schedule Change I think buffalo is two different teams depending on whether they are home or away. Fortunately for the browns we catch them in Cleveland.    Aaron about: NFL Schedule Change They are both lame NFC matchups. And berg, you can tell your brother that the reason that the NFL wouldn't have either of those games on Sunday night is that Detroit and Dallas play again that Thursday for Thanksgiving. They probably didn't want to make a short week any shorter.    Aaron about: NFL Schedule Change The only game I'd rather watch is the Cleveland game.   Aaron about: tonight I too wan't to see pictures of all you drunks. Good weekend for football. I don't know who to root for tonight. Do I root for the steelers because it is a forgone conclusion that they will win the AFC north and I should want them to beat all medeocre teams that will get in the way of the Browns securing a wild card spot? Or for the Ravens because if Pitt loses this week it gives the browns a reasonable chance at winning the AFC north? I need to know so that I can attempt to control the outcome of the game with the power of my mind.   Aaron about: tonight only Sweeney would get hit by an out of control car stunt man style.    Aaron about: tonight Dear lord, I haven't played beer pong in over a year. And the streak will continue as I will not be making the trek to Pitt. I suck.    Aaron about: hehe do you think Lance uses pickup lines that refer to his "stamina"?   Aaron about: hehe What if Lance accidently calls her Michelle when they are gettin it on?   Aaron about: hehe so what does everyone think about Lance Armstrong's hookup with the Olsen Twin that eats? Berg, I'm sure you have an opinion.    Aaron about: Andrew Lee English . . . Seattle is also one of the 10.   Aaron about: Andrew Lee English . . . What if it's just a trial separation and you never meet a new team that you like as well. Then can you go back?    Aaron about: Andrew Lee English . . . Good call brad. The Mr. Opposite is obnoxious.    Aaron about: Andrew Lee English . . . I agree with Wes on those forementioned points.   Aaron about: Andrew Lee English . . . I agree on all points. I also believe that sports polygamy occurs most often and harmlessly when it is for college sports. I will cheer for Kent to win but they realistically won't, ever. So I cheer for Ohio State in football because I'm from Ohio. And I cheer for Duke in basketball because I like white people... Kidding, its because coach K always gets the best out of his players and they usually play fundimantal, smart basketball and that's what I like to watch. I have adopted other teams because I like sports and Kent doesn't get a whole lot of face time on ESPN. If Kent plays either of those teams then I am a Kent fan. I think scenarios like this occur constantly and to put together an all-encompassing set of sport aliegence rules is absolutely ridiculous because it will be riddled with exceptions.    Aaron about: Browns Dec. 16th is going to be great. Unfortunately for you the Bills are one of the 10.    Aaron about: Browns 10-6...we're on our way!   Aaron about: speaking of stupid TV... yeah, and what wes said.   Aaron about: speaking of stupid TV... I didn't notice much difference. My dad said he did. I think it depends on the TV. I don't think it's worth $25 bucks but for $6 it's nice to have one cord work visual and audio and surround.    Aaron about: speaking of stupid TV... bub, if you can wait a week for your hdmi cable Amazon has them dirt cheap. Like $6 dollers (including shipping) cheap.    Aaron about: world series I watched Storm Chasers last night.    Aaron about: world series I am not cheering for the Red Sox. I was totally on board when they upset the Yanks in '04. But seeing as how they are the Yankees V2.0 I am no longer interested in passivly cheering for them. I just want baseball to end as fast as possible at this point. And then I want the NBA to be dissolved so that Hockey and College Basketball get a bigger piece of the pie.    Aaron about: Bored? 500 grains for the starving. I am amazed that I knew/guessed some of those words. I had a vocab level around 32.   Aaron about: Mos Def I am listening to an old podcast of Bill Mahr's HBO show from sept. Mos Def is on it and i'm dissappointed to find out that he's an absolute idiot. Also, Rob Thomas was on it in October and was not a complete douchebag. Sometimes I hate when reality destroys my preconceived notions.   Aaron about: sports Thress and I broke down the schedule and decided that the Browns have a good shot at going 10-6. We may have been drunk.    Aaron about: sports what story is that?   Aaron about: wow.   Dumbledore loves the cock Aaron about: Vikings Did BFT write this?  Vikings Aaron about: football I totally agree with your last point bub. I would love to see the conferences go everyone in round robin.    Aaron about: that is not nearly as cutthroat as I was led to believe. I thought the Tribe's people were attempting a stab-and-twist before the game even starts.   Aaron about: ARE Exam how long would they be expected to work at that firm without feeling like a total traitor for leaving? 5, 10yrs?   Aaron about: classless indians I need to know more. Did the marriage end badley? Is she even a singer? If so she sing for any of the other game or just this one?    Aaron about: classless indians that's so awesome!   Aaron about: archiflash cards you should try to get your boss to pay for them. An "office set", although they will be outdated in less than a year. Anybody know offhand what tests are good to take assuming I am not going to finish them all by next July.   Aaron about: FREE!!!! you should sell it on e-bay.   Aaron about:   finally a real candidate Aaron about: Dolphins suck Chambers looked like a punk against the browns; took a lot of plays off. Maybe a change of scenery will help, he's a big dude.   Aaron about: site update thanks bub. Good work.   Aaron about: break up the Browns The browns score 41 points! They've been so good the last couple of weeks that I'm starting to take for granted that they are an offensive juggernaut. I was really excited when I heard that Gagne was warming up in the bullpen.    Aaron about: my angst Here is the first article that I will NOT be reading.   Sex with robots Aaron about: my angst I imagine whiney neighbors have been doing things like this forever but with Al Gore inventing the internets it is just now coming to my attention on a daily basis. This + the blind suing Target + etc. is going to lead to my eventual anurism. For my health sake I am going to try to avoid the news from now on. Ahh, sweet ignorance.   flower Aaron about: Hey Voit, Manny/Ortiz scare the hell out of me right now. Assuming they continue their bad-ass ways and adding a raucous home crowd I am going to be in the fetal position every time the meat of the order comes up. And if they come up in the ninth against Borowski god help us. Also, I think Casey Blake is in a bit of a funk right now. He was ridiculous in late Aug./early Sep. but he needs to heat up again. That home field advantage would be nice right now- we will have had 4 games away in a row w/ NY and Boston. All that said I think the tribes chances are good.   Aaron about: are you sure it's in lakewood and not on Lakeside Ave. in downtown?   Aaron about: i dont get the T I don't get it either. I mean what is more awkward, going through life feeling you were born with the wrong equipment or getting some jerryrigged equipment that doesn't all match and get blogged about by strangers who are unabashedly curious how you can accomplish daily activities like taking a piss? And is Mr. Garrison is an inspiration or an embarrasement to gay transexuals?   Aaron about: DEMO that looks like a long, long weekend. I might order a mug with a picture of you guys working on it. I'm kidding, it'll be great when it's finished.   Aaron about: sports oooh snap!   Aaron about: sports no bub, it was really obnoxious. I don't think any of us are oblivious as to why it was happening but sitting through a four hour game of that shit can really be irritating. I had them on mute for the ninth inning because the announcers + Borowski = me throwing things at the television.    Aaron about: sports I hate Joe Buck and Tim McCarver more than Tony Gwynn and his sqeeky voice. Only TBS's play-by-play guy was deepthroating the Yanks. It was probably because he had to segue to countless Yankees comeback clips with the same line "Will this be the turning point for the Yankees and this series?". No, no it won't. Also, the Tribe players should have taken credit for the impending Joe Torry firing in the post game interview. Q: How does it feel to beat the yankees? A: It feels great. I just feel bad that we got Joe Torry fired...ehh, no I don't! (turns and sprays champaigne on the nearest teammate).   Aaron about: sports Cleveland fans need to bring a class action lawsuit against Joe Borowski for giving them heart attacks and ulcers. Go tribe!   Aaron about: Tech problem I think you need to use windows explorer and copy/paste the iTunes music folder to the iPod drive as if it were a external hard drive. Detach iPod from old computer, attach to new computer Then copy/paste them to the iTunes location on new computer. Then open up new iTunes and direct it to look for music in that folder. I can't remember how iTunes works exactly so if you're a neat freak about your files you might need to organize it a little bit or tell Wes and he will OCD your whole library.   Aaron about: sports n stuff n music the coach?    Aaron about: sports n stuff n music This might be the year when I swear off the NBA completely. It is an inferior product. College basketball is the only way to go.    Aaron about: Bill Simmons This killed me: When the Ravens' defense takes on the Rams' offense in Week 6, it's going to be like watching Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone getting it on in "Basic Instinct 3."   Aaron about: sports n stuff n music I agree with everything your saying and Bub, I thought exactly the same thing about the his front-runnership. But I also had this thought: As dispicable as I think it is, I think him always cheering for #1 is probably connected to his attitude as a competitor. Kind of like how Tiger and Federer are friends. They both have the same drive to win over anything else. Michelson wants to win but not as bad as Tiger. Lebron wasn't happy just being the loyal Cleveland fan watching his teams lose every year, so he started rooting for the winners. Still, he should have stayed home and watched the game on his 100" plasma.   Aaron about: sports n stuff n music greenberg should not be allowed to represent cleveland sports fans. It is an embarrasement.   Aaron about: sports n stuff n music Anyone see Sabathia K Jeter swinging? Jeter almost fell on his ass. Great game. CC also made Posada his bitch in the 5th. 3-0...pitch, pitch, pitch...sit the fuck down.   Aaron about: sports n stuff n music I would say that Josh Beckett is a slightly better than average picher.    Aaron about: U.S.S.R. update Do you think there are people in Hollywood that are secretly hoping for the Russians to become evil again so that they could have a face for generic bad guys in Bond-esque films? Generic bad guy Russians had so much more bravado than generic middle eastern terrorists. I think it was the accents.   Aaron about: architecture look what I came across whilest working.  Derek, Thews, and Bing's corporate project Aaron about: this is   bad Aaron about: sports n stuff baseball wasn't on in Ohio either   Aaron about: race I ran the last leg in 1:06. It sucked. I got a stomach cramp for the entire downhill portion. Next year I will be much faster. GPD's 1st team won the men's relay.    Aaron about: espn There wasn't one mention of Brady Quinn during the Browns game except in the 4th quarter when they mentioned that they hadn't mentioned him. It's really a perfect scenario for us. Derek Anderson has played well enough to get some wins and barring injury he can finish the season. It's so great not to have to play the "this season is fucked, might as well throw in the rookie to make the disgruntled fans happy even though it is absolutely the worst thing for him" card in week 3.    Aaron about: 10 second music reviews Ok, I've been thinking about picking it up ever since I read the review on Metacritic (great site). Speaking of reaching mainstream acceptance, Gym Class Heros won best new band at the MTV video awards. At first I was all happy that they beat out Akon, then I realized that they will be shoved down everyone's thoats and I'll soon resent them because of the subsequent overexposure.    Aaron about: 10 second music reviews wes, if I were to go out and buy an album tonight which would you recommend?    Aaron about: 10 second music reviews Didn't spoon have a new one out a couple months ago?   Aaron about: Sports ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS: KELLY KAPOOR They're too young, nobody really likes them, and they're annoyingly energetic. This one was easy. Oh, you were expecting me to use Kelly for the Indians? You racist.   Aaron about: Trivia No, I thought of Taft because he was a president with health problems. I ruled him out because I new he died way before '67. I want my half star.    Aaron about: I didn't mean to piggyback your guesses andy. I thought of eisenhower on my own. I thought of Taft first because he was fat and sickly.    Aaron about: I usually go to sleep around 11:00. Also, I'm sure you and I probably get to work a bit earlier than Derek. My guess is Eisenhower.    Aaron about: sex tape I like that Sweet-J pulls the graveyard shift of BDC posting.    Aaron about: with the first overall pick of the 2008 NFL entry draft... A couple of thoughts from the Browns game. 1. Our substitute punter Scott Player is Mormanesque. He has a blond Hulk Hogan goatee which is on full display because he uses the old school unibar faceguard. 2. Browns was offense terrible the first half. We were lucky to be in that game at all. 3. Cribbs with a 98 yrd TD return is the best player on our team. 4. When I saw the Denver timeout clip from last week I immediately thought it was a shady thing to do and that Shanahan was a jerk for pulling that shit. Then the Raiders pull the same move against us. I don’t blame them, but this rule has to change. If a team has 3 timouts, they can make the kicker kick it 4 times, and don’t tell me a coach wouldn’t do it when faced with the prospect of losing.   Scott Playa Aaron about: Friday Laugh-time I was reading it at lunch. I can't check it now (filters). So I assume you linked to the to do list. My comment is, what kind of person colors , plays tic tac toe, etc. AND makes to do lists?   Aaron about: Friday Fun Fact Fantastique I don't know and I really want to now. Also in other nerdumentary news, is anyone else amped for The War on PBS?  The War Aaron about: oops, sorry Andy, I didn't watch Kid Nation, nor will I, because it looks stupid although I don't think it looks any worse than a lot of other shows on TV. The thing that really ruffles my feathers about it, is the unnecessary remake/cover of Tears for Fear's Everybody Wants to Rule the World shown in the previews. Why water down that song with a lackluster uninspired remix? This trend go's way beyond this one song. And what’s with the heavy metal band that decides to take a classic song and “rock it out”? This generally means that the original song will be distilled using crunchy electric guitars, a screaming singer, and possibly accentuated volume difference between the refrain and the chorus so that we can all feel that during the refrain the band was brooding and when the chorus hits their inner fury is released. In my mind Marilyn Manson can be blamed for this type dating back to their cover of the Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams which was actually pretty good because it deviated enough from the original to create something new. Unfortunately it opened the floodgates for countless metal bands to produce crappy remixes. The most recent is Disturb’s Land of Confusion. They added absolutely nothing and yet the radio decides it’s worth airtime. The only reason it is a hit is because it was a good song to begin with.   Aaron about: footballs ravens should be 15th-ish   Aaron about: awful ...and by awful, I mean hillarious.  squirrel catapult Aaron about: Probably completely inappropriate... why Doug Williams? Why not Warren Moon or Randall Cunningham?   Aaron about: Weekend oh man, the Browns are awesome!   Aaron about: Attica!!! imagine if they had been shorted bacon.  sausage Aaron about: Cheaters she already divorced him 2 yrs ago.   Aaron about: always sunny I just saw the first one. The second one was new also, but then they just replayed those two the next hour. "I'm an abortion survivor!"   Aaron about: TV for those of you with cable, tonight at 10:00 is the season 3 premier of "It's always sunny in Philidelphia" of FX. If you like dark humor with demented characters, and I already know that you do, you will love it.    Aaron about: fantasy If the browns are going to blow I am going to at least win some Fantasy points - I picked up Bengals D for this week. Also I'm expecting big things from Rothlesberger and Ward on Sunday. (Note: I didn't start Ben against the browns because I didn't want to be happy if he played well. My plan backfired, I wasn't happy that he played well AND I wasn't happy that I didn't get fantasy points.    Aaron about: not to pile on the Browns but... Berg is right. Frye got sacked because he held on too long. And Leftwich would have been great 2 months ago but not now. He doesn't have time to learn the offense at this point.   Aaron about: A new low for humanity. sorry... I SAW a commerical   Aaron about: A new low for humanity. I say a commerical for a new show on MTV. It is a "The Bachelor" style dating show where the object of desire is a bisexual. The potential suiters are 16 lesbians AND 16 straight men. What can be done to top that?   Tela Tequila Aaron about: the patriots are cheaters Also also, I was a Crennel supporter before that game. He inherited a terrible team and just because the media starts to grumble after 2 years it probably isn't enough time to fix the bad that Butch Davis left. While watching the game I realized he doesn't have what it takes to be a head coach. He just kept standing there by himself awkwardly looking at his play sheet. I don't know what he was supposed to do but that wasn't it. By the way Cower shouldn't be the coach for the Browns, that would be wierd.    Aaron about: the patriots are cheaters Also, I was a Frye supporter before that game. I thought he was the best guy until Brady was ready. He had game experience and I blamed some of his previous ineptitude on the bad O-line. I was wrong. Cleveland's answer at QB has been under their noses this whole time - Josh Cribbs.    Aaron about: the patriots are cheaters Out of all of the ineptitude from the Browns on Sunday I believe the worst play was the missed "tackle" on Steelers' backup TE's TD. It was either Pool or Jones. Did anyone else see that? The 4 penalties on one play was pretty bad too.    Aaron about: the patriots are cheaters I think he needs to sit until the bye week. Derek Anderson was passable as a stopgap/back-up. The bangles D looked frisky last night and won't be afraid to blitz, blitz, and blitz. Brady was pathetic in college when the other team blitzed up the middle. I was quite against the Browns picking him at No. 3 for that specific reason.    Aaron about: Cavemen I don't really have an opinion on Cavemen but just wanted to note that Berg owns the first season of The Simple Life.   Aaron about: politics no   Aaron about: McCain fights with high school kids As I was watching that video I was hoping McCain would channel Sam Kennesy's (sp?) character from Back to School.    Aaron about: Browns GM is to blame for warped perceptions in NE Ohio They are a better team than last year and they didn't finish dead last then. I think the dolphins, cheifs, titans, giants, texans, lions, and raiders are all worse.    Aaron about: Browns GM is to blame for warped perceptions in NE Ohio This is not in direct response to those comments but I think that some of the power rankings are ridiculous. I've seen 2 or 3 and they have the browns dead last. I dont think there is any way that we are that bad. I would go about 22nd. Also I don't think the Bears running game is going to click like it did last year with 2 running backs. So I wouldn't put them above 8th or 9th.    Aaron about: flash back I bet App. State could beat Kent.    Aaron about: civil war I used to argue that the General Lee was better than Kit. It was a tough argument to hold up. I should have thrown out that Kit liked to goose Michael with the emergency brake.    Aaron about: civil war It's terrible, but when I was 5 it, Air Wolf, and the A-team were the coolest thing ever.   Aaron about: civil war you beat me to it wes. I agree it CAN symbolize the South, but it still carries a bad stigma.    Aaron about: civil war I don't think the confederate flag only symbolizes pro-slavery. I think it can symbolize the South as well (i.e. Dukes of Hazzard).    Aaron about: bye bye soccer I have mixed feelings about the confederate flag stemming from its prominent role atop the general lee.   Aaron about: bye bye soccer I cannot that 20% of Americans can't find the US. I would like to see the study. Also, I think the 1777 flag is more of an affront to the British. I think the flag with however many stars there were right after the civil war would be the anti-confederate flag.    Aaron about: bye bye soccer If we're a microcosm, who is the 1 out of 5 of us that can't locate the US on a map?   Aaron about: baseball Do you think our closer knows he sucks?   Aaron about: dumb Happy birthday Abby. I'm alway intrigued by certain dates with clusters of birthdays. It means something on the calander 9 months earlier caused a bunch of people to get it on.   Aaron about: music i downloaded Le Disko. It was the song of the week on iTunes. I would give the album average odds of being good.   Aaron about: advice for Browns fans he's right though, the browns' fans are working themselves into a fervor over a couple of preseason 4th quarters. We'll see how he does against the bears.   Aaron about: NCARB Anyone see the tribe/twins game or highlights from last night. The Twins second baseman made a ridiculous barehanded grab and throw in one motion and then Tori Hunter smashes himself against the outfield wall making a grab the next inning. It was great to see those amazing athletic plays against us and still get the win.    Aaron about: fantasy footballs Biggie, just go with Brady Quinn.    Aaron about: It is unethical; not immoral. Also, I thought you needed to be in a post-professional program to earn IDP credits. You should give her some lip though, she obviously has no power to do anything to you if you piss her off.   Aaron about: big brother but there shouldn't be a law against it.    Aaron about: big brother I was in a rest area during vacation waiting in line to get food. There were a couple of kids dressed with their pants hanging down or XXXXXXL t-sirts down below their knees. I just kept staring in disbelief. I couldn't imagine being part of a subculture that thinks of that as cool. Its one thing to be clueless about clothes or amish or forign but it is just unimaginable to me that someone could purposely pick out a shirt that big or pants that loose and think "Yes, this is exactly the look I wanted. I can't wait to pair these up with my unlaced timberlands with the tounges out and a cocked yankees hat with a bandana underneath." Morons.   Aaron about: fantasy football I will play and no money is neccessary to modivate me. Although a gentlemen's bet ($1) is always fun.   Aaron about: damn blinky message thingy don't get me wrong, I listen to talk radio. Bob and Tom in the morning and a couple of guys on WMMS on the drive home. Just no sports radio.    Aaron about: In an effore to be fair Did they discuss Jaggar's performance in Freejack? If not, what is the point of even having a talk show. He and Estivez have a connection. They should have done a series of movies like the Cory's. I can see the movie posters for Men at Work 2 now.    Aaron about: In an effore to be fair I listened to Trivisano once in a car on the way home from a browns game 3 years ago. It was terrible. And I've delayed on the best of Mike and Mike while channel surfing. They weren't bad. I think it's the local stuff that would make me want to punch the radio.   Aaron about: In an effore to be fair I've never listened to sports radio. I think the idiot masses would make it unbearable.    Aaron about: go ahead Brown I didn't see the game and have no comment on Brady Quinn's triumph over the Lion's ferocious 3rd string defence. I am curious to see what he will do next week against Denver's 3rd string defence. If he plays good I think you can pencil us in for the super bowl.| I just want to be able to read a game recap without the phrase "comedy of errors" involved.    Aaron about: GPD civil peeps I know who he is. But the only time I converse with him is in march because he runs the final four office pool. Besides that I don't know much about him. Someone mentioned that he gets into the office at like 6:00 in the morning everyday though. So that's kind of wierd.    Aaron about: wow These kids and their crotchless pateloons. what's wrong with a good old fashioned hole in the sheet?   Aaron about: wow That is the worst penthouse letter I've ever read.   Aaron about: mr. nice. good article snippet. I hope he sticks it to Russell. But I'm not a raiders fan that paid sick money for season tickets either.   Aaron about: soccer update do you like them because you like english brown ale?    Aaron about: soccer update Why is newcastle like the SF Giants?    Aaron about: ahh..pittsburgh.. if I were writing the caption I would feel obligated to comment on their mulletedness.    Aaron about: hockey I just read an article about how the seattle sonics owner is blackmailing the city/people of seattle to build a new arena or he'll take the team to oklahoma city. I am pretty disgusted with pro sports ownership this morning.   Aaron about: Larry Johnson I hope Priest Holmes returns to old form and Larry Johnson sits out the whole season paying $14,000 a day. He's been a whiney bitch since he came to the NFL.    Aaron about: i dammit, I was able to take the survey but the results were filtered under personals/dating    Aaron about: BQ is my QB Is it worse if you didn't know they were still around or if you didn't know that they were ever not around?    Aaron about: Random thoughts from the weekend. One of my project Managers is from S. Africa and was a member at the same country club as Sabatini when Sabatini was a teenager. He mentioned it to me a long time ago only to note that Rory was a whiny bitch.   Aaron about: this weekend There is a shuttle from the east side (reception) back to downtown (hotel)where we could get a cab to the west side. And we could carpool downtown or to the east side before so that we would only have to leave minimal cars in cleveland overnight. That was my first thought but wasn't sure if someone had already been the architect of a plan.   Aaron about: this weekend How are people staying at Berg's getting to and from the wedding?    Aaron about: running You should just run the whole thing   Aaron about: running I got suckered into running the longest leg of the Akron marathon this year. Tony Burgoyne is on my team though. Biggie are you still gonna do it?   Aaron about: OSU vs. Kent tickets As proud as I am to be a Kent State alumni, they will receive no more money from me. I have been fortunate enough to attend 2 OSU games previously so I think I'll pass on the game. I may do tailgating and watching game somewhere else if there are others but no $86 for you Kent State.   Aaron about: baseballs he is always in the post season. Every year. I think he only has the one ring though. I was at the game on Friday, the first he played. Everybody had old Lofton jerseys on and gave him a standing ovation. He went 3-5 and reached base on a bunt...just like old times.    Aaron about: baseballs Kenny Lofton   Aaron about: Pants I hope KoL composes a rock opera.   Aaron about: holy crap   I'll be thinking about this in my next emplyee review Aaron about: Footballs welcome to every year since '99 for cleveland browns fans. Do you realize that is has been over 20 yrs since the drive and soon will be 20 yrs since the fumble. In my mind that was the last time the Browns were good. I was 10. God that's depressing.   Aaron about: Hold the phone Wes, you are mistaken. Layer cake was not crap, it was in fact really good but I don't remember Bale in it. (just D. Craig).    Aaron about: movies I heard that Christian Bale is awesome again in that movie. I think he will be joining Clive Owen and Ed Norton on my list of actors that automatically make me interested in a movie. (I almost threw in Brendon Frazier or John Goodman just to see if anyone would call me on it.)    Aaron about: stupid lunch you didn't take the chicken out of the plastic bag before you nuked it? Are you sure you got lazy, are you sure you didn't get dumb? Just kidding Bub.   Aaron about: I how was the guy you landed on?   Aaron about: I did you finish the race? I'm imagining you crawling terminator style toward the finish line.   Aaron about: footballs I'll definetly be cheering for them unless I forget it's on or have something slightly better to do. I watched a little bit of the first half in the Championship game but missed the end. Didn't they go 6-7 in the regular season?   Aaron about: screw you boss I have to admit I've considered what would make for good AutoCAD sabatoge. Purely hypothetical of course, but I think after changing everything to one layer it would be especially cruel to cover the whold model space with sand hatch and explode everything.    Aaron about: footballs Who's pumped to cheer on Columbus in the Arena Bowl this Sunday?!!!    Aaron about: Aaron I work at GPD Associates, not B&S. Nobody works from home on a regular basis here. The flex time is only vaguely defined in our project manual. Sorry I couldn't be more help.   Aaron about: more Vick Why are these people protesting? Aren't they a little premature with picket? It's not like there isn't a federal case moving forward which would put Vick in jail and effectively end his career, already his endorsements have started to walk away. Why is it necessary to picket the team to release him? I'm not defending Vick, I'm defending the productive use of time. These people should find something more constuctive to do.  dogs Aaron about: Garvey nice, thanks.   Aaron about: Wes, what what Garvey's blog site?   Aaron about: Vick Did anyone hear Clinton Portis' take on the situation a couple of weeks ago? Basically he said what a man does in his free time shouldn't be anyone's business. And that he didn't think it was that big of a deal. Moron.   Aaron about: Vick Ha! I haven't thought about that in years.    Aaron about: movies Transformers is really good. It takes the crown from Bad Boys 2 for best mix of over-the-top action scenes and side-splitting comic relief. I want a robot.   Aaron about: footballs I'm up for a second league. But only if it's yahoo.   Aaron about: footballs Fantasy football question: What do you think Travis Henry will do behind the Bronco's offensive line? 1200 yards 10 thouchdowns?   Aaron about: stange I get one every couple of months at work. It's kind of bizzarre.   Aaron about: 3. You're welcome. That was a Border's pick. 4. I was yelling and changing the channel on Sportcenter just this weekend because of the "Who's now" feature. Reggie Bush vs. Danica Patrick, give me a fucking break. 5. Sports guy is taking a break to write a book and won't be back until football season starts. Hopefully he gets his act together. He needs to go back to the days when he would write 2000 word reviews of 10 year old Karate Kid movies.    Aaron about: Prince Chuck Derbin listened to Anthrax?!!!   Aaron about: Prince Prince is giving his new CD away with the purchase of a mag. in the UK. Record companies are pissed. My favorite line is: "It is an insult to all those record stores who have supported Prince throughout his career," Quirk said. As if the record stores didn't make money and were only there to offer their help. I love when the business model shifts and the companies who were gouging their customers whine about it.   The man can suck it! Aaron about: Phones I've never had a problem with verizon in 6 years. I haven't heard much bad about ATT or Alltel either.    Aaron about: MUSIC I've heard the sprint network kind of blows. I wouldn't think that any of the "fired" customers should mind getting out of their contract early and getting credit from sprint. And I don't understand why the article implies that it is difficult to find another phone service provider in "only a month". Kind of humorous. Just imagine if sports teams did that for season ticket holders. "You complained too much about our offseason moves - No tickets for you!"   Aaron about: movies I'll never watch Dirty Dancing. I may give Red Dawn another chance though.    Aaron about: movies I saw Dreamgirls last night. I loved it. If you like really good motown music can stomach a musical this is a good one. The story was pretty good but the vocals were fantastic. I'm picking up the soundtrack tonight.    Aaron about: Old man and the rock show I'm with you Sweeney. The band and venue need to be right for me to want to see them these days.    Aaron about: clarification Dr. Anus   Aaron about: holy crap Do you think the guy saw the wrecking ball coming? I think if he did there would have to be equal parts panic and confusion.   Aaron about: if yer that bored, this is kinda cool... Fill it with malt liquor and duct tape it to my hand.   Aaron about: Hello?? ugg...   Aaron about: Architect I don't think that is a very good idea. As a designer of schools I can tell you that there is not enough money to design for Leed. Not to mention that it will just add to the bloated government burocracy.    Aaron about: Architect Also, the Cheif Architect of Amercica and whatever not being licensed isn't a semantics issue it's a qualification one.   Aaron about: Architect I tell anyone who asks that I'm an architect without remorse. It's much better than having to explain the ncarb internship process which is inevetibly the next question. I do think using the term intern can undermine authority. As far a trying to change the rules, I could care less. I am not afraid of getting sued and after I get my license it will be a non-issue. With all that being said, my business card says intern architect. Oh, and the title cheif architect of video games doesn't bother me.    Aaron about: Poverty As hard lined as it seems, I agree with you thews.   Aaron about: Poverty I actually kind of like it. I particularly like that Bloomberg is using privately raised funds since it is so experimental. It's a shame that it takes bribes to get people to take interest in being responsible. If the plan works it seems like a minimal amount of money to spend compared to just giving money away to unmotivated people on wellfare.    Aaron about: sorry c-town I was hoping that he was growing a pony tail like the shaolin monks but he keeps trimming it.    Aaron about: sorry c-town that's ok. The Cav's weren't good enough. I really didn't enjoy watching them play at any point during the finals. It was flashes of brilliance sprinkled on the sloppiest play I've ever seen. They just weren't able to bring the spurs down to their level. I was over it after game 3. Actually that series made me not want to watch the NBA ever again, they're selling a terrible product. Give me MAC basketball any day.   Aaron about: music the new Modest Mouse is good. To be honest, I didn't think I'd like it.   Aaron about: for the architects We are now using the term "Opinion of Probable Cost" instead of "Estimate". It seems the term Estimate has liability implications. Semantics are lame.   Aaron about: check out Brayon's helmet eye shield in berg's article - it's orange.   Aaron about: Blue-Ray or HD-DVD I don't want to watch used-up pornstars in HD.    Aaron about: Brunt will there be cornhole?    Aaron about: totally off subject Bub, I was watching The Wonder Years last night and guess who was Arnold's older sister's boyfriend - David Schwimmer. Now I agree with you that he is the only man for Jennifer A.   Aaron about: totally off subject Bub, you should send a letter to Jennifer Aniston to let here know that you would be comfortable with her having a relationship with David Schwimmer... and that her dating anyone else makes you feel icky.   fan mail Aaron about: umm.... oh man, I didn't realize. I'm not feeling as guilty about laughing at that inapropriate response now.   Aaron about: umm.... A couple of weeks ago I read the Hancock dad suing thing and was reading a couple of the responses at the bottom of the article. One really good one noted something similar to Wes' statement of Why doesn't he sue the tow truck, the cell service provider, the people who build the gas pedal, and the people who constructed the road. Then there was another that made me laugh but I knew I shouldn't that said he thought Hancock's dad should have been in the car too. My first reactions was to think about how much it would suck to be the person on the other end of that phone conversation. Did the phone break or shut off or was it still on while the ambulance etc. came? Who was he talking to and about? Was it a late night booty call? I want to know these things.    Aaron about: cavs holy crap LeBron is a badass. This article was written before last nights game and I tend to agree with alot of it. If the Cavs weren't from cleveland I wouldn't be watching the NBA right now; there's some fugly basketball being played in this series. I'm just glad we have the best player.   Simmons Aaron about: legalize   the drugs Aaron about: jenny, jenny   867-5309 Aaron about: Loooong weekend! I'm here and am eagerly anticipating drinking on 69 Taps patio.    Aaron about: KoL I am unable to watch this at work but it looks like it might be cool.   concert video Aaron about:   pug recall Aaron about: pet peeve of the day bonus tracks. Why don't they just add another track that is easy to skip to instead of filling a disk with 5 minutes of dead air? Or worse the NIN Broken or Tool Undertow albums with 99 or 69 tracks, 75% of which are 2 second nothing tracks. Have fun putting those ones in your 5 disk shuffle.    Aaron about: New Digs nice house, I want one now.    Aaron about: Bungles   yes, another one! Aaron about: music sorry, I got my info word of mouth. That post was directed mostly at you and possibly biggie anyway. I heard that during the show there is an impressionist painter working in the background.    Aaron about: music for those who may be interested, Joseph Arthur is playing at the Lime Spider (small bar where we saw Evil Beaver) in Akron this saturday. I won't be attending because of a prior commitment.   Aaron about: talk about a legacy.   the family biz Aaron about: suicidal Read the first line of the bills draft recap and click on the Bleep link. I'm guessing they either censored the name 'Dick' or the word 'fuckin'.  don't say dick Aaron about: Music I think that you are allowed to bring your own alcohal to orchestra events as well.   Aaron about: Music Whoa there soapbox. Bader has all three of the LOR soundtracks and the requiem song is not on them (much to bader's chagrin). The song was only used in the trailers, probably because it's badass. So there was no ripping off.   Aaron about: The first of the Lakewood elementary schools that my firm worked on put in new basketball hoops. One week later we are issuing a change order to remove basketball hoops and striping from all of the schools. It's a shame that you can't put up a hoop without a dozen kids hanging out until 2 in the morning, smoking dope, and grafiting our brand new building. Another shame is that they most likely aren't even from that neighborhood.   Aaron about: Party? sweeney, I'm in. Thews, can you send it to my yahoo account. I bet big brother got it.   Aaron about: Party? I know nothing of it. Speaking of the wedding, Lindsay can't make it. Anyone else going stag want to split a room?   Aaron about: Rogerk the yankees still suck. you can buy a relavent team, you can even buy a competitive team, but you can't buy a world series.    Aaron about: Buffalo I was hopping up and down just watching sportscenter highlights. Also, NBC's plan yesterday was to play the last 1/2 hour of the Buffalo game after the tribe game. Tribe went long so the plan was botched but I can't remember such a half-assed attempt to show a game. It's like they are trying to channel surf for me.   Aaron about: architecture akron Berg, look at the "artist renderings" to see the massing. There is a plaza around the courthouse already. The actual building sits back on the site. The parking does not go above their plaza and there is going to be a blast wall between between the parking and the courthouse on all levels of the deck. But thank you for exemplifying the reaction the layman when hearing a scare tactic news story.    Aaron about: architecture akron the goofy thing is that the city OWNS the land and this judge is saying they aren't allowed to develop thier own land. I think the ultimatum about abandoning the federal building if the deck and office get built is an allusion to the possiblilty that the Feds don't have a leg to stand on if this goes to a hearing about the contitutionality of issuing an stop work injunction (which will be the judge's next move). Also the two meetings mentioned in the article were initiated by the city/developer to address security issues with the federal building. The feds bottom line is they don't want the land developed at all.    Aaron about: architecture akron I hope the the City's response letter says: "If you keep whining you're going to give some people a reason to bomb you."   Aaron about: architecture akron one of my projects is on hold.  akron the next Oklahoma City Aaron about: hockey I saw the last minute of the game with the goalie pulled. I was hoping for overtime. You're right bub. Why doesn't someone invent a puck or football with sensors for the the goal line. You'd think that these inventions would be more useful and lucrative than some of the crap in Skymall.    Aaron about: hockey no goal!!!   Aaron about: where are the Browns fans? The browns with the best draft ever, Cavs are moving on in the playoffs and the Tribe is beastly. Can anyone say impending rash of injuries?   Aaron about: ncarb crap, you're right. I guess I should start taking tests now.... or just wait until 2008.   Aaron about: ncarb so by not starting my testing I have eliminated 2 tests and givin myself a legitimate excuse not to think about testing until mid summer. V4.0 is going to be out in July. I love procrastinating.   Aaron about: Andy, you should definetly take some liberties with the north is up or to the right credo if necessary. You can't let a set of documents leave you're office without the proper orientation.    Aaron about: sports I've decided that I want the Browns to take Joe Thomas if he's there and if he isn't then Adrian Peterson will be fine. If they take that wuss Brady Quinn I'm gonna shed a single tiny tear and then talk myself into believing that he will be great and the answer to all of our problems. Our offense will be "high powered" because of all of our "weapons". I can at least feel good until late august when it is undeniable that Quinn has no poise in a collapsing pocket even in the preseason.    Aaron about: Wishes Are you going to take that Old Man English?   Aaron about: 420 Happy birthday Thews and happy 420 everyone.   Aaron about: Official nice buddy nice.    Aaron about: Browns Tickets Good work berg. Or maybe it's your dad that deserves the gold star.    Aaron about: Playoffs What is worse is that every single basketball game will be televised and each game will have at least one day between thereby stretching the playoffs for a full 2 months - April 21 thru June 21.    Aaron about: Playoffs I've been tuning into Versus and catching some of the games there but what I really need is a 42" HD TV and a network to broadcast it. Not to sound shallow but I think that I would truly be a happier person if I had that.    Aaron about: music bing, I've got two Shins albums (Chutes Too Narrow and the new one) that are both mediocre. I want to listen to the album with the two songs from Garden State. If that one doesn't impress me, I will generalize their collective album repertoire as "not impressive".   Aaron about: music You guys all listen to great music. I just got around to listening to The National this morning – awesome. Under the Influence of Giants and Ambulance Ltd have cemented themselves in my current rotation. I’m a little disappointed with the new LCD Soundsystem after reading the glowing reviews on Metacritic (my new favorite website). Wes, your Competition Weekend Team Buffalo Hip Hop Companion is a little hit or miss but be on notice for a phone call where I hold the receiver up to my stereo so that you can tell me who does the 13th song. Also I say this too often without doing anything about it but I need more MOP in my life. And then there is the new KoL. I’m afraid I’m going to get sick of that album soon but I can’t stop listening to it. My relationship with that disk is like a porn where the girl keeps telling the guy no but then he doesn’t stop fondling her and pretty soon her no’s become yes’s and she’s bent over a… well you’ve all seen it all before.    Aaron about: bet board I knew that, but I was stating that case because it was such a clear-cut example.   Aaron about: after watching Edgerine James go from pro-bowl RB to suffering behind Arizona's line I decided that it's not worth getting a good QB or RB until the O-line is at least mediocre.    Aaron about: silly browns fans I'm not saying the Bills should have kept all those guys, but it's still a lot of holes to fill. The browns don't have big holes just mediocre players that constantly underachieve.    Aaron about: silly browns fans The browns are not a piece away. I would like them to stop drafting offense and go with D-fense and O-line. We did really well in last years draft with that strategy. Everyone on the team now will look better if we consentrate on those areas. But I was reading about Buffalo and the players they lost in the offseason and there are a lot of spots to fill on that defense, and a running back. Fortunately the O-line looks good.   Aaron about: pens I was gonna watch hockey last night and cheer on the Pens but I watched the Departed instead. I think I need to watch it again. I feel like I missed something. So that it isn't ruined for anyone else would someone e-mail me and tell me what the last scene was all about, mainly Marky Mark's intentions.    Aaron about: NFL I won't be able to make it anywhere fun for the draft. I just realized that I'll be on a plane back from Minneapolis that afternoon (work thing).   Aaron about: website is anyone else missing writing from the right margin?   Aaron about: I wish I lived in a town with cool dudes that like sports. But noooo, the only people 'round here to hang with are Dickey, Bulldogg, and Bader - all are basically sports haters.    Aaron about: Wes, you set them up. I almost wrote "Steelers win superbowls" for them.   Aaron about: My plans right now are: Lindsay and I will be driving to Myrtle Beach the week prior. Driving home on Friday and catching a flight from Crackron to Boston on Saturday. And is the idea that the Boston to Maine folk would caravan in a big rented car or has that changed?   Aaron about: 7th and 8th seeds in the East, not the NBA, berg. But I agree.    Aaron about: Paul Shirley If you're looking to waste some time, I would suggest reading Paul Shirley's blog. He's a basketball player that is barely good enough to play in the NBA and has played overseas for a lot of his career. He writes a blog about his everyday exploits. It's kind of funny. This one is about his trip to Spain.  Paul Shirley Aaron about: I really want the new LCD soundsystem. Thanks derek.    Aaron about: food network have any of you seen Giada De Laurentiis on the Food network? Her show is like porn with food. It's got porn music and extreme close-ups of her hands caressing and gently poking the food. Its kind of bizaare. I bet she's into sploshing.   Aaron about: good call Sweeney. I'm dumb, I meant Myrtle Beach is last week of June.    Aaron about: Lindsay and I am going to be in Myrtle Beach the last week of May, the week directly before 4th of july. I don't know if we could swing the 20 hr drive to Maine from there. But if that week is a concensus, I might be able to brainstorm some kind of a super trek plan.   Aaron about: Biggie, I'm gonna be running with the GPD team this year. One of the guys I work with is putting together a couple of teams from our firm and make the company pay our entrance fees and buy us t-shirts. I hope to see you there though.    Aaron about: The Tom Bader speaking in the LeBron article is Chris Bader's uncle.   Aaron about: that first sentance deserved a sarcastic line thingy |    Aaron about: He was a backup QB at Walsh University. I don't know if he would have made it at the next level. What does this sentence mean? "...resolved that Architecture is not a joke but wishing it would not interrupt" Also, can you believe something "exhaustively"? Who wrote this crap? the link isn't working for me.   Aaron about: Andy, metacritic is awesome.    Aaron about: I hope when we all get old we spend lots of time designing and engineering giant public specticles that smoke and light up at our whim.    Aaron about: yes, and Gary Baxter, our big free agent signing the year before Bently had been posterboy of good health|. I think that he tore ACL's in both knees on the same play last season. How does that even happen?   Aaron about: parenthood Oh dear lord?!!!  dry humpin' Aaron about: yup   Aaron about: music question does anyone have or heard of "The good, the bad, and the queen"? My dad recommended it and then I happened across it in a magazine last night. DJ Danger Mouse produced, with gorillaz peoples or something.   Aaron about: I like that the writer used pandora as an example. And his expanation of how people buy stuff because of it is absolutely dead on. I have picked up lots of music exactly the way he describes. The fact that there is a link from Pandora to Amazon and iTunes makes it seem as if the record companys should be paying Pandora.   Aaron about: If Ohio and Florida play again I know what my lotto numbers will be that night.   Aaron about: then Pitt will surely beat Duke.    Aaron about: NCAA How deep is Pitt's bench?    Aaron about: Yeah, I wish I had seen the whole game.   Aaron about: hockey I broke this seasons hockey watching cherry last night with about 10 seconds left in the 3rd period of the Sabres-Penguins game. Not a bad game to stumble upon. With march madness and all, I probably won't be watching much more hockey untill playoffs but I should.   Aaron about: Nice, you are all an inspiration to me. I will be starting tests in April. I am considering taking the graphic ones first.    Aaron about: oh man I love maps and am terribly inept at the same time.   Aaron about: did you see that they have one for any country, UN or not, also. There's only 245 of them.    Aaron about: memories Bader and I were BSing and we stumbled on something I haven’t thought about in years: Do any of you that had Prof. Flemming’s furniture class with me remember the time when we were using the adjective “pimp” as in “my table is gonna be pimp” so often in class that it had to be addressed by Flemming which then spawned a side topic where we discussed what attributes a pimp table would need? (Mirrors, drawers for lotions, leopard print, fur, etc)   Aaron about: Wes Dream Smasher Voit. Great boxing or wrestling name.   Aaron about: Lindsay and I will be at your place at least for Saturday. Possibly Friday if yins are doing cool stuff.    Aaron about: I would rather cheer for lawrence phillips.    Aaron about: Browns I am hellapissed about J Lewis. I don't even know what to do. First of all I think he's washed up, but if he isn't I don't want to root for him anyway. Thank god it's only a 1 year contract. I hope the browns curse comes down on him.    Aaron about: Seinfeld is awesome and The Simpsons was too in it's hayday.    Aaron about: he's the bee's knees   Aaron about: Everyone should watch "The Prestige" at their earliest convenience.   Aaron about: Joey Porter is slowing up already too. He isn't going to be worth his money after 2 years let alone 5. Stupid Dolphins.   Aaron about: Speaking of the Jets, in my mind they are the posterchild of how to start a team from scratch. Granted, they were a bit lucky to win as many games as they did last year. But last year they drafted two O linemen in the first round. Got a little luck that Pennington wasn't washed up (he's still only a slightly-better-than-average QB). Picked up L Coles (a below average #1 receiver). Got lucky with a Cochery (above average #2 receiver). And won some close games. Now, even before the draft, they have fixed their needs at RB, and can consentrate on getting some playmakers on D-fence. The offense isn't going to break records but should give steady points every week. I wish I could say as much for the browns.   Aaron about: The Jets got a steal to get Thomas Jones and a late 2nd rounder for an early 2nd rounder. No way would the bears have done that if Jones weren't a disruption to the team. And now Lance Briggs is telling everyone that he plans on being an asshole this year too. I love sports.   Aaron about: It's the same kind of nervous that you get when you're about to get on a big roller coaster. There isn't really anything to be worried about, you just buckle up and go for the ride, but there are still little butterflies in the stomach when the seatbelt harness comes down and the car starts up the hill.    Aaron about: Every year I get a little nervous before the St. Patricks Day crawl. But then I remember that all it is is drinking and talking alot. Then I feel better.    Aaron about: KSU Awesome Kent took Akron to OT last night but lost on a last second shot. Fantastic game. Not much was on the line, only the difference between 2nd and 3rd seed. The best part is that assuming they both win their quarterfinal games in the MAC tourny on Wed. or Thurs. they will meet again for another bloody battle on Friday.    Aaron about: my dad downloads TONS of music. He pays a minimal monthly or yearly fee to be on some newsletter site. Within this site there is a forum where he gets music from other users. It's probably similar to what Derek does. He was downloading pirated movies but the quality usually stunk so he stopped and decided to be happy with the copious amounts of burned netflix movies he already doesn't have time to watch. I don't think he's afraid of the law.    Aaron about: thanks bub. You don't have to do it if you don't like the idea.    Aaron about: Actually, I think when it flickers it should change into the New Courier b. You gotta keep the branding. The New Courier b is the BDC logo I thought.   Aaron about: BDC I think the b should flicker like its a bad television reception a la the ghost girl from The Ring. Just a thought.    Aaron about: music If andy can learn smartftp then I can too.   Aaron about: I would like everyone to be safe from the strong arm of the law, but BDC radio is worthless to me at work and I don't know how often I would listen to it at home.   Aaron about: no music downloads?!!?   Aaron about: BDC too dark   Aaron about: yeah, yeah, you'll get your painting. I've got a sketch, and it's really good. Meng/Pam's was finished on Sunday so Cristen and yours is next. Quit whining, my creative process takes time.    Aaron about: zzzz Maybe deaf peoples alarm clocks just turn on a light.   Aaron about: zzzz does Stevie Wonder count? Not exactly visual art. By the way, I think that they should have a reality show where stylists compete to dress celebrities for awards shows and the winner gets to dress Stevie Wonder for the Grammys. Because, wouldn't that be the dream job of any stylist. Stevie can't have much of an opinion as long as it's comforatble.    Aaron about: zzzz I am boring today.    Aaron about: Oscars That was a great skit. Ellen wasn't that bad either. Overall it was fairly entertaining from a hosting standpoint. The need to stop honoring people for lifetime acheivements. Borrrring.   Aaron about: go Browns! You won't be laughing when we....yeah, whatever. It is a good thing though because Tampa needs the same positions as we do (almost everything) and now we will be taking "their pick" right before they draft every round.    Aaron about: music From Gym Class Heros, New Friend Request.   Aaron about: music "On a scale of 1 to awesome, I'm the shit." Best line ever   Aaron about: KoL you are awesome. So is Derek for stealing it from the interweb and giving it to all of us. He's like Robin Hood.   Aaron about: OC The OC and the Office were awesome last night. The OC did a nice job of wrapping thing up.    Aaron about: KoL could someone, sometime today zip those KoL songs. My work computer filters downloading music, but isn't smart enough to know what is inside zip files. Also are the St. Patricks day shirts long sleeve or short sleeve?    Aaron about: crawl are they long sleeve or short?   Aaron about: AutoCAD question andy, when I drop something in from the detail manager it is a block, not an xref.   Aaron about: presidents day Sorry, that's a bizarre double negative. I have third grade english skills.    Aaron about: presidents day I prefer to think of it as: If others are not aren't working, I shouldn't be working.   Aaron about: Berg is a filthy animal what if you signed up as a furry or a plushie?    Aaron about: pres day My firm does not believe in presidents.    Aaron about: yummy paula sorry guys.   Aaron about: yummy paula   mmmm... Aaron about: architecture Was it abby's firm working on this?  superblock Aaron about: SPORTS It's TIM Hardaway Berg.   Aaron about: movies movie recomendation - "Oldboy", film noir at it's finest. Japanese with overdubbing. Dark, very disturbing, and not for the faint of heart). Somehow I think I enjoyed it. Think Requiem for a Dream mixed with Saw 2.   Aaron about: holy awesome! Almost too many at one time.    Aaron about: evolution I think that the two sides should be able to get along perfectly. The religious groups just need to embrace evolution as God's plan. The first living organism (which science can't even explain without admitting that it was a complete chance event) was God's creation sending into motion his plan for the world. This doesn't agree word for word with the book of Genesis but neither do dinosours and ice ages.   Aaron about: evolution sometimes I think I would be better off not knowing the news. You know how in the movie Independence Day the people of earth put aside their petty differences to unite against the alien attack. Well, maybe it would be for the best if aliens attacked so we wouldn't have these kind of arguments. People obviously have too much time on their hands.  evolution Aaron about: weather Berg, stuff like that is better than TV. you should have pulled a chair up to a second story window, grabbed a cold bevo, and enjoyed the show.    Aaron about: weather I made it into work. I should have stayed home. My meetings are cancelled and it wasn't worth my death defying trek to be here.    Aaron about: weather did you sit on the patio?    Aaron about: excuse me whilst i vent I saw the line "Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings kill people" on a architecture school's T-Shirt at the L.A. AIAS forum. I still wish I had bought one.    Aaron about: Grammy i said the same thing wes. I thought there was a fat one too.    Aaron about: Bitchin You would be unstoppable.   Aaron about: Bitchin Just imagine if that were teamed with the  stadium pal! Aaron about: new music Biggie, did you ever put up pics from New Years? Anybody got Andy's party? My camera is old and obsolete so I have to rely on others to provide recolection of hazy evenings.   Aaron about: beer Caffrey's Irish Ale! If you can find a recipe I will hump your leg.   Aaron about: Superbowl nice.   Aaron about: Superbowl Bub, I am offended that you are not offended. I demand that you remove your post.    Aaron about: Benefits Firm: Architecture and Engineering, 200 employees. Reimbursement for ARE fees: Only for a passed test . Access to studyguides: 1 copy of materials (I’ve heard). Paid time off to take exam: No Bonus after passing: Salary increase. Reimbursement for LEED exam fees: Yes. AIA dues: paid. Paid sick days: all . Personal time: 0 Vacation: 10 Maternity leave: 4 weeks full, then drops 20% every 2 weeks until 8 weeks Percentage of health insurance paid by employer: 100% Family coverage: Yes Do you have a deductible: No Dental: Optional Vision: I need to find that out. Does your company offer part-time opportunities, job-share or the ability to work from home on a frequent basis? Not generally. On a case by case basis.    Aaron about: Turner You're right. But I still think that it would have won in court. The DA made some pretty far reaching accusations.    Aaron about: Turner pays boston for causing the Aqua Teen chaos. I'm quite  dissappointed Aaron about: supa-bowl after the first play of the game, how many OSU fans were watching the bears celebrate and thinking "don't get too excited". Sorry Brad.   Aaron about: music could someone post Wolfmother? I like rock and roll.   Aaron about: crash Biggie, how it your truck? Has there been any resolution to that story?   Aaron about: history lessons That doesn't exist. You rendered it in sketch-up.   Aaron about: St. P I'm trying not to be totally self-serving but I will vote for Cleveland. I would like to vote offically in a pole though. I really don't like the words "toned-down" and "St. Patty's day bar crawl" in the same sentence.    Aaron about: love seat I don't think the link works. Go to www.furnitureporn.com   Aaron about: love seat a little chair on chair  action. Aaron about: I find it funny that the man go's out and purposefully shoots the duck for dinner. Two days later and it's at the vet being given CPR. At what point did the duck stop being tasty and start being worthy of mouth to mouth?   Aaron about: quack   the next Barbaro? Aaron about: ncarb so after Ncarb had no record of my request for transmittal to be sent to the state from mid-November, I sent them their own e-mail confirmation stating precisely that they would be tranmitting it to the state in 30 business days. A week later when they finally respond, some douchbag has the nerve to send me the same "it will take 30 business days for your request to be processed" e-mail. So I bitched him out and now it will only take 2-3 days... or they may have just said that and threw all of my records in the trash.   Aaron about: Sketch UP I also feel obsolete.    Aaron about: Sketch UP so after bub's analysis I think that the root of the Wes' problem with sketch up may be that it cheapens his ability and skill of the hand drafted rendering therefore making him obsolete.    Aaron about: Sketch UP Computer renderings are better because you can build one model and shoot multiple renderings from it. If you have a fickle client you can tweek that model and create a new rendering. Also the hand drawn effects are options, so depending on the stage of the project or the type of client the renderings can be customised for the situation. We have a young guy from a vocational school that does ours here. He can bust out a model with trees, people, cars, pretty sky, etc. in about a day and a half. And with another 2 days he can produce a rendered flythrough. It's pretty impressive. We do tend to shy away from the hand drawn effects though. I think most of our clients are more impressed by the computer rendered look.   Aaron about: music yes Dickey, it's the new one.   Aaron about: music delicious fun happy K-os is awesome. Thanks Wes. I will attempt to take down the other one tonight and put up Yo La Tengo or Imogen Heap. Two creatures of my dad's influence. I like them, I think you all will too.   Aaron about: cincinattica chalk up one more arrest. Amazing.    Aaron about: stupid sexy Lindsay decided to cheer for Peyton Manning last night because "he seems nice" and she felt bad that he had to lose to the Steelers last year.    Aaron about: do something good with your life... I'm sick of boston sports too. The easiest way to combat annoying oversaturation of lame sports stories is to ignore everything that isn't an actual game. The media is not going to change because evidently there is a market for this stuff.    Aaron about: do something good with your life... yes, but he also brought up the quote where Joe Buck asked Troy Aikman which was a longer cleat: 1/2" or 5/8". I will forever think of and refer to Joe Buck as "a fucking idiot" after that brain fart. Troy really should have called him out.   Aaron about: ncarb thanks Donna, I called ncarb this morning. They had no record of me asking them to send my transcript, so I forwarded them the e-mail in which they notified me that they would be sending my transcript. There are no words to describe my disgust. On a positive note, they now have humans at their customer service line instead of the prior system of leaving a message for them to call back at their conviencence.   Aaron about: do something good with your life... I considered posting that quote too. I had a sesame seed come out of my nose when I read it.   Aaron about: Alicia I'm really glad she's ok.   Aaron about: I already have a vacation planned for the beach this summer, so a second vacation planned for New England would add variety. Ultimately, I'm going to have to go with a lame maybe-next-year on the OBX.   Aaron about: traumatized I'm waiting for the green light from Ohio and they are waiting for my transcript from guess who...NCARB. 30 business days to send a transcript?   Aaron about: vacation feeler... oh man. that sounds great. I am really interested.   Aaron about: Bubba Ho-tep sounds awesome. I just added it to my queue.   Aaron about: BORED biggie, did you read or hear through the c-bus news what the ER gangstas story was?   Aaron about: tony balon fun facts of the day: didn't she have a bunch of gross stretch marks too?   Aaron about: tony balon fun facts of the day: if watching Tony masturbate to a picture of himself is gay I don't wanta be straight.   Aaron about: tony balon fun facts of the day: number 7 is amazing.   Aaron about: fuckers I'm instinctively wary of anyone who drives a full size van. This just reinforces my stereotype of those people.   Aaron about: what? who would the pittsburghians like to see as their next head coach?   Aaron about: GO BUCKS happy birthdays wes and derek. Also, who else thinks that Ted Gin Jr. was injured when he was celebratoriously tackled by his own teammates 16 second into the game?   Aaron about: Muzak biggie are you drunk?   Aaron about: smoke free maybe every urge should be snuffed by self control and the desire to live a healthier life.   Aaron about: The OC there are still a few episodes left and they are going to be able to wrap things up. I am already to the acceptance stage. The OC has been like a old relative with alzheimers who has been living in a nursing home for 10 years. Most of the time you feel bad for him and think it might be better if he just passed away. Then, every once in a while he does something that makes you remember him the way he used to be and gives you hope that he will emerge from the muddy waters of senility but alas it was just a passing moment. So yeah, I'm ok with the OC leaving us.   Aaron about: The OC   is over Aaron about: footballs I guess Brady Quinn (ohio native) said he would like to play for the browns, which is conceivable at the 3rd pick. That makes me nervous. I don't think we would be going after a quarterback (especially him), but Mel Kiper is going to brainwash everyone into no remembering his happy feet.   Aaron about: top ten rant Sigor Ros Takk was last year.   Aaron about: endulge me while I brag about my team nevermind, it must be based on fewest touchbacks.    Aaron about: endulge me while I brag about my team why is having 5 touchbacks (fourth overall) good for a punter?   Aaron about: make me want to shout! I had a 19 pt. lead and Shane Graham and Marvin Harrison against Rudi Johnson. I still wasn't comfortable. Indy's D can't tackle. They need the roids.   Aaron about: make me want to shout! You should have made a large wager. Although I wouldn't want to think of the karma ramifications of betting big against your team.   Aaron about: make me want to shout! I want to see updated pics of your house soon. I will live vicariously through your home improvement experience, that is I will enjoy seeing the before and after without having to spend any of the time, money, and energy of the actual renovation.   Aaron about: night moves I went to see Allman Bros. a couple of years ago with Biggie and Dickey. They had a similar set up where they blew the audience away with the shear magnitude of intsruments and musicians on stage.   Aaron about: night moves Sweeney, how was Bob Seager?   Aaron about: cure the link is to page 2 of the story. read page 1 first if you want it to make sense.   Aaron about: cure Scientists in Toronto have found a cure for diabetes! Crazy canadians.  cure Aaron about: Happy! Cool, I just wanted to post that quote for this line alone: "Anyway, if you have a problem with the misleading photo, you can file your complaint at the Department of Homosexuality"   Aaron about: Happy! It's still worth a Google search for Yoko though.   Aaron about: Happy! Dickey, I don't think that is Rockets. For some reason I read some of the article from the site you posted. Here is a quote: "Oh, I guess I should mention that the photo is not of Tomoya at all. The ol' Google Image Search didn't give me much to work with, so that's Yoko Matsugane, who from what I can tell is famous in Japan for being hot and having huge breasts. Which I think is a pretty good reason to be famous. The way I figure, they're both Japanese, so that's close enough. Besides, Yoko's got some humongous rockets, so the connection is pretty obvious. Anyway, if you have a problem with the misleading photo, you can file your complaint at the Department of Homosexuality."    Aaron about: konichiwa That is the gayest quote I've ever read. Are you sure that isn't from Gay Penthouse Letters, maybe the serendipity section?   Aaron about: Old! Over thirty huh? We can no longer trust you. Happy birthday.   Aaron about: Kent yeah, you're right. I was just about to correct myself.    Aaron about: Kent Berg, you're a rockstar. Also, check this out. This resteraunt is right next to Thews and my old residence downtown and was designed by Dickey and Thews' old boss. Guess he gets to design it again.  Crave Aaron about: konichiwa Hole in the roof is a dumb "feature" to perpetuate in the new stadium. But I'm still bitter that Browns stadium has zero resemblance to the old Memeorial stadium. they could have kept the horseshoe/open end concept, but instead they decided to make the seats orange. Thanks guys, I know a lot of thought and energy went into designing a stadium unique to cleveland.| I want seattle's field - the triangle end could be the dawg pound.   Aaron about: beerfest thanks wes, I try.   Aaron about: beerfest I know it was in the theater, but over the summer I didn't have the desire to go. I didn't figure it was the kind of movie that would lose much of it's bravado if I missed it on the big screen, but I did note your rave review and eagerly anticipated it's DVD release.    Aaron about: Beerfest I just got it from Netflix a couple of days ago. I haven't seen it yet. I am looking forward to it. Dickey, it just came out on video a week ago.   Aaron about: mmmm... Prancer   or is it Blitzen? Aaron about: Wish List I asked for a golf bag for walking. For some reason I relate owning better golf equipment to being a better golfer. So far it hasn't worked out that way.    Aaron about: baseballs i knew that too, berg.   Aaron about: cincinattica another arrest??!  bungles Aaron about: baseballs Sorry, I have a love/hate relationship with baseball. It's a lot like euker. It's not very interesting if only followed passively and can be thrilling and/or incredibly frustrating if followed closely.   Aaron about: baseballs I hate myself for defending the Yankees. I feel so dirty. You're right, Petite does suck. And I didn't know Abreu was old. I think I got him and the other power hitter from the Phillys mixed up (Howard mabey)? Baseball is stupid. I hope the Diamondbacks win for eternity so everyone on the planet would just stop paying attention to the stupid boring sport. Fuck.    Aaron about: baseballs at least Petite is proven and it's only for one year so if he's washed up the books are clean next year. Also releasing Sheffield was smart. I like his thug attitude but he and Bernie Williams were old, broken, and overpaid last year. I don't know what Abreu's contract is like, but at least his career is on the rise.    Aaron about: baseballs red sox suck. It's like their goal the last 2 years was to alienate all of the casual and periferal fans who enjoyed cheering for the underdog in the overhyped saga of Yankees vs. BoSox. Yankees have been smarter and thriftier this offseason while the Sox have been glutinous in their aquisitions. I understand the Japanese advertising aspect, spend money to make money factor but I'm disgusted. Now I hate both teams.   Aaron about: music nice berg. Is there any way to download the pictures to my computer? they aren't zipped.   Aaron about: Browns Bashing that Cribbs comment was out of nowhere. I don't mind that he brought it up, but it was 4 years ago. How does Gumble have that info? Do all broadcasters have bio's and just don't read them.    Aaron about: post game I liked when they misidentified Cozy Coleman the lineman as Casey Coleman the recently deceised local sportscaster - way to bring that one up jerks. Gumble is aweful. What a dweeb.   Aaron about: post game by the way, I'm going to steal Northcutt's job next year because I too can drop every pass thrown to me.    Aaron about: post game Collinsworth went too far with that comment.   Aaron about: post game oh shit, i totally forgot. I'll do it at lunch.   Aaron about: post game you have to admit, that game could have gone either way.   Aaron about: i hate people no reason other than I don't really need to consort with them when on a daily basis. They could just as easily be an out of office consultant. but it's good to have them in-house because then we don't have to pay mark-up.    Aaron about: i hate people we have in-house engineers, but it doesn't help much, since civil is on another floor we don't talk. I like having in-house structural the most. I could do without electrical.    Aaron about: BDC i'm still using old explorer here at work but i have new explorer at home. It was a problem both places until I posted, now all it fine.   Aaron about: music I picked up another Saxon Shore album from the library last night. Same kind of sound as the other one. I'll post it from home tonight. I don't know how they would react here if I did it from work.   Aaron about: BDC nevermind, by posting I fixed it. Wierd.   Aaron about: BDC Why is text getting chopped off on the right of my screen?   Aaron about: HAPPY FRIDAY!! Do you have to pay extra? Cause otherwise you just got an extra seat. But that could be a bummer if it were a recliner with a cup/beer holder and you were looking forward to turning it into your man chair.    Aaron about: Wikipedia I have absolutely zero desire to work right now. I want to say I'm sick and leave and then call in sick tomorrow and pull off a miraculous recovery just in time to get wasted at the office christmas party on saturday.    Aaron about: Wikipedia I think the work "jew" seems to come out of the mouth abrubtly or harshly. Anti-semites use "jew" as if it were derogitory even though it really shouldn't be. I prefer to use the adjective "jewish". Then it's nothing more than descriptive.    Aaron about: Eisenman sucks I went to a documentary about him last year put on by the library/art museum so that I could better identify and appreciate the things I dislike about him. The movie failed to extrapolate on his inability to design a weather tight building. He just spouted empty rhetoric about his "personal design philosophy" for an hour while wearing a stupid bow tie. On a side note, I don't like bow ties and quite often the people who wear them. Or mabye it's vice versa. (Bow ties on tuxidos are fine).    Aaron about: Eisenman sucks Quote from this month’s Architecture Record about the new Cardinals stadium. - “The form, spiraling and segmented, was inspired by barrel cacti indigenous to the Arizona desert, and Native American symbols, such as the coiled snake and the Mandala, says design architect Peter Eisenman FAIA, who has been an avid football fan since his undergraduate days, when he was a cheerleader at Cornell.” A couple thoughts: 1) That’s a lot of different crap for one building to look like. I call bullshit. 2) He should build all of his works in the desert, otherwise the roof will leak. 3) A cheerleader huh?    Aaron about: you know how after you take a little vacation (5 days) you feel refreshed with a renewed focus at work? Yeah, today isn't like that. It is more like being stabbed with a spoon. Why a spoon? Because it's dull and it hurts more. But besides that, Turkey Day was good.   Aaron about: Bday happy birthday berg.   Aaron about: photos mmmmmmmawesome!   Aaron about: ugh it's not working bub.   Aaron about: slice I don't think I'll have any time this weekend. Maybe the friday after turkey day. We can discuss later.    Aaron about: slice thanks Abby. no big, crazy plans this weekend for me. Dickey, I told Lindsay that we should just get coffee from the Marathon station but she had to have some Starbucks fru fru coffee and then I bitched and whined all the way there...until I got my fru fru coffee.    Aaron about: slice 'o life Since no one wants to talk I’ll bore you with a slice of my life: I don't really like starbucks. Their coffee is fine but I think they are too expensive and are a leading promoter of yuppiness. Well, this last weekend I entered the Hudson Starbucks. I also have a general disdain for Hudson, and it's inhabitants seemingly inherent snootiness. So this place really was a perfect storm of Frasier meets Friends esq. folk with nothing better to do with their time other than go to a coffee shop and sit their fat keisters on oversized couches drinking frappacinos from goofy oversized coffee mugs. Needless to say, the inhabitants of this preppy mecca seemed irritated that I was ruining their Gap commercial lifestyle with my wrinkled hoodie, dirty blue jeans, and unkempt hair. Or maybe I just imagined their ire. All I really know is that my gingerbread latte was phenomenal.    Aaron about: stillers-browns Oh, I also know that Josh Cribbs is the browns best player and that he looks like the preditor. I wish he would make that cat purring sound when he gave interviews and blow up the stadium if he gets hurt.   Aaron about: stillers-browns all I know is that Thews better get his butt over to Burger King asap and buy the King X-box racing game for $3.99.    Aaron about: ARE thanks, i found the form on the kent registrar's web site. Stupid tests here I come... in 4-6 weeks after processing.   Aaron about: ARE Ohio architects - was there a form that you submitted to get your Kent transmittal sent to the Ohio Board after IDP or did you just write a letter?   Aaron about: espn is unwatchable Kent plays Eastern Michigan tonight at 6:00.|   Aaron about: entertaining Leanne, you need to use the pipe. it's the cool thing to do. As in, "I can't wait to get my car e-checked tonight.|"   Aaron about: entertaining thanks Sweeney.   Aaron about: entertaining by the way, I was snooping around iTunes and found that LCD Sounsystem has a one song 50 minute running mix exclusively on iTunes. There were a couple of words from the DJ/or whatever about what he was trying to achieve, it sounded cool. I will probably download it within the next week or so. Then I will screw the man by giving it to you all for free.   Aaron about: entertaining I want Sweeny to put up My Chemical Romance. That would be awesome.   Aaron about: Pictures biggie is evil.   Aaron about: Hilarious!! "pug is a face humper" was filtered under "personals and dating" at my firm.   Aaron about: Madden thanks to pittsburgh for awesome accomodations, food, and city.   Aaron about: Madden wow, Derek, I'm sorry man. The playoffs look kind of bleak for the Bangles. The browns, steelers, and bills have the same record. Isn't that nice.   Aaron about: OMG!!! Nice!! You should buy a giant TV with the money you saved! (wes, you can buy me a beer later)   Aaron about: competition I believe we agreed upon 4 pairs per team per each event.   Aaron about: MCR sweeney I would love to rock out to new music. Bub can e-mail you directions to post. It takes a little while to do it, but maybe you could post it at lunch. If you don't feel like it that's cool, a burned copy would be just as cool.   Aaron about: YAHOO!! wait till the sanding starts.   Aaron about: digital era my dad's new camera (6 months old now) is really cool. It can shoot movies which isn't really new but it can take still shot pictures durning the movie. and it's credit card tiny with a big view screen. I'll try to look it up at lunch. I agree with andy, they are all wicked powerful. Probably more powerful than necessary to take pictures of wes' nuts.   Aaron about: OC How did I not forsee Ryan joining a fight club? It was the only way he would be able to unleash his inner demons after the horrible and heinous demise of his beloved Marissa by the hand of the despicable Volchek. By the way, I think the OC may have jumped the shark. Have you ever watched a bad TV show and thought it was great because it was cooky and over the top? And then it got moved to Friday night because it was about to be cancled and you realize that it was really a shitty Friday night show all along mascarading in a regular show's time slot? For me it was Boston Public and I think the OC is next. I don't see it getting past Christmas on primetime.    Aaron about: game...bring it 12 seconds was my best. The majority of my better performances were in the 8-9 second range. I could play that game all day.   Aaron about: music Sweeney is cool   Aaron about: music Wes, or anyone, do you have the new My Chemical Romance?   Aaron about: California vs. Iraq I prefer a little bit of danger. It keeps life interesting. Akron fits the bill perfect. I feel no real threat but I still wouldn't want to get a flat tire in some some places.   Aaron about: competition Berg, listen to Abby. I thought it was obvious, but then I have been thinking about next weekend way too much.   Aaron about: Kent I saw it. Kent made a lot of mistakes and missed oportunities in the first three quarters.   Aaron about: NFL What did you guys thing of Bill B's cut-off hoodie on Monday night? I like the hoodie - it's blue collar. the cut-off - one step too far, he is now white trash.   Aaron about: Netflix Queue Add Green Street Hooligans if you haven't seen it.   Aaron about: re: Madden Troy Aikman is good. Announcers for the Browns win yesterday weren't terrible. I'm sure they didn't send CBS's finest to cover Browns-Jets. Just proves that a couple of guys with communications degrees and a halfway decent knowedge of football rules are better than any ex-player especially if the ex-player is a retired perennial probowl ex-special teams specialist. Actually it was nice to hear them know EXACTLY what the challenge rules were for the somewhat contravercial last play of the game. Sometimes I don't think those guys really know the more complicated rules and/or they can't explain them properly.   Aaron about: new man Andy, fish everywhere are sarcastically grumbling "no shit dickhead".   Aaron about: new man I couldn't get it out. I wasn't even sure there was anything in there. I was hoping that if there were something in there that my body would break it down and use it as food. I had been putting neosporin on it though. Yesterday I agitated it enough that when I took a look I was able to grab it with tweezers. I danced all night in tuxedo shoes at Mengs. Thank god for the numbing qualities of a good stiff drink.    Aaron about: new man I pulled a 1/2" long by 1/32" diameter tapered-to-a-point oak splinter out of my foot last night. It had been living there for over 4 weeks. I feel like a new man. I will never take the ability to walk without pain for granted again. I have a whole new appreciation for the funcion of the heel. I do have a newfound loathing of oak though.   Aaron about: random bitching by the way, does anyone believe that was dirt on Kenny Roger's hand? He had the same "dirt smudge" in the ACLS as the World Series. And did it even look like dirt? No! It was shiny and it looked like pine tar. So it was one of two things - Shiny dirt on his palm on two seperate nights just by dumb luck or he cheated. I say book him.    Aaron about: random bitching I don't like camera speeding ticket givers either.   Aaron about: hmmm what about just drinking on a porch...with dice for dollars.   Aaron about: hmmm mousetrap cars!    Aaron about: One to watch for... I watched fraggles as a kid but I don't really think I want to see that movie.    Aaron about: I married Mc-freaking-Gyver ...and lava lamps   Aaron about: I married Mc-freaking-Gyver that is the coolest thing ever. Bub, did you want to rip off your belt and go down Tango and Cash style? Also, after I buy my big 'ol house that needs loads of work, I'll host competition weekend and there will only be one event. Everyone gets a room and a budget (I'll sponser)and the team who creates the coolest room wins. It'll be just like HGTV only with less video cameras and more beer.   Aaron about: Stupid parents... Those kids are all gonna grow up to be a bunch of god damn panzies. I played tag at recess everyday in second and third grade. We used to play it on the rusty metal jungle gym over the asphalt. That's right, tag on a jungle gym, and it was great.    Aaron about: Picasso It's a good thing he's rotten stinking rich. Sounded like he had a bit of a sense of humor about it. Still it's a  bummer Aaron about: KSU Awesome Did you guys know that Kent plays Virginia Tech on Sat. 11th. I hope its on TV. We can watch it in Pitt. and cheer.    Aaron about: Snowy fun poor trees.   Aaron about: pittsburgh i was gonna go but after that weak flyer I'm not sure.    Aaron about: SNOW later kiddies, I hope everyone makes it to town ok.    Aaron about: SNOW Meng and I drove to B-lo one time in my old escort in a blizzard. We were out by Erie and realized that it was really dangerous but there was nothing to do but trudge ahead. The scariest part was that I couldn't see anything except for two slight tire tracks from a semi ahead. I almost hit another car because I was following the ruts and the truck had changed lanes so I almost followed his tracks into another car. I was swearing and yelling at the other guy because I thought he was turning into my lane but it was really my fault. Only time I've ever been less than a perfect driver.   Aaron about: SNOW holy schmoly!   Aaron about: I live in C Falls I am looking forward to ski season this year. I need a vacation after all of the weddings this summer and fall. Be on notice that Lindsay and I will be interested in the annual and historically unsuccessful weekend cabin talk. I am just nervous that my body will not be able to handle the abuse of snowboarding for more than 1 day in a row.    Aaron about: poor peoples I remember learning about Chinese communities of the Hunan region that had homes built under ground with the main street/corridor as the light well. The leader or most powerful families got the dwelling(s) at the north end because they got the best light. I can't remember why they lived under ground though. Maybe it was the desert or they could have been leppers.    Aaron about: poor peoples It's something I've thought about before but after hearing the Roots say "southside Philly" for the 10th time in 3 tracks I started to think about it agian. I was thinking LA, Chicago, Philly, and London off the top of my head. I suppose that it might just be geography and settlement history that are the mitigating factors.   Aaron about: have you urban designers ever come across a study that theorizes if or why lower income neighborhoods tend to be south of a city center? Not in all cases but there seems to be a pattern.    Aaron about: music I'm glad that they are going out of business after gouging kids (and by kids, I mean me) for CD's in the 80's and 90's. It's just like Blockbuster. When they were the only game in town they were charging 4 bucks for a 1 day rental. Other stores and online places came along and provided the same product/service at a more reasonable price and eventually Blockbuster is begging people to come back. Serves them right.  down with the man Aaron about: meng weekend uhh... I don't have a hotel room but was gonna. I am riding around all day with meng. Then the reception. Is everyone gonna go out after brewery and recep.? Long day but I'm up for it. If everyone is going out, berg's house is good to sleep at. A clevelander should name a bar. Not a stupid one. Fulton?   Aaron about: TV has anyone else seen the BK triple cheesburger "eat it like a snake" commercial? It's fantastic. Also, How I Met Your Mother last night was all about how great it is to be able to say "I'm an architect". It was no Castanza on Seinfeld but cool nonetheless.   Aaron about: KSU Awesome "Kent State won 28-17 at Temple, giving the Golden Flashes their first nonconference win over a Division I-A opponent since 1987 (at Kansas). It was the fourth straight victory this season for KSU, which will try for the program's first five-game winning streak since 1976 this Saturday against Toledo."   Aaron about: friday happy music thanks wes. but I'll just download it at home.   Aaron about: friday happy music everyone is staying at the hilton garden in cleveland airport right?   Aaron about: friday happy music it's runphotos.com   Aaron about: friday happy music I don't think you can just convert it to MP3's but there is an option that allows you to rip to MP3's and they stay that way.    Aaron about: friday music happy abby, at home I will "import folder" and it will automatically convert the files to something that iTunes will play.   Aaron about: friday music happy Big Brother doesn't want us to have iTunes.   Aaron about: friday music happy I tunes lets you do that.   Aaron about: friday music happy Wes, you should rip them to MP3's at 128kbps (minimum) or 160kbps (better). That way they can be opened with anything. I can't open mp4's from media player at work. And I want to listen to radical music too.   Aaron about: The Benefits of Pot nice Cathryn!   Aaron about: Penguins From espn - "222-0: Yes, Saturday is the 90th anniversary of coach John Heisman and Georgia Tech's 222-0 win over Cumberland in 1916, the most lopsided game in college football history. Ahhh, sportsmanship"    Aaron about: Penguins I will call it "the incline". funicular sounds made up.    Aaron about: Penguins canadian businessman huh? I think they should carve the new stadium into the side of Mt. Washington, halfway up. so everyone has to take the vertical trolly. that would be dramatic.    Aaron about: The Black Keys I'll put up the new-ish ep tonight if it isn't up by then. It's good. By the way, nothing makes a person sound dummer than using the word "aint" particularly in a double negative.    Aaron about: team ohio Yeah, becky and biggie, I want to hear stories of Markawitz. I heard he's married but there has to be more.    Aaron about: team ohio I received a large splinter to the heel area last night. Hardwood floors are jerks.    Aaron about: music yes Meng! gold star for you.    Aaron about: they drafted who? I never doubted the Bills were drafting a good player. the draft is a crapshoot so they might as well get the guys they think will be good regardless of what Mel Kiper and everyone else says. BUT, since everyone else subscribes to having virtually the same draft board hierarchy the Bills could have traded down and still gotten their guy and maybe procured an extra draft choice. It is good that he turned out awesome though. I'm pretty happy with the browns' picks this year.    Aaron about: there was one scattered all over hallway 200 of the hotel when we got back from the bar.    Aaron about: wallet My wallet that I've had since I was 16 suffered a catastrophic structural breakdown yesterday. I got a back-up wallet as an unrequested and unnecessary Christmas gift 6 or 7 years ago. Its ok, but I miss my old wallet, most importantly it's layout. I feel so awkward with the new one, like it wants me to change, but I don't want to change.   Aaron about: T.O. Maybe he realized what an asshole he is.   Aaron about: music does anyone have Jack White's other band's album to post? the Raconteurs? anyone? anyone?   Aaron about: bouncy do you think there is a male on this planet who didn't go for the FF+G automatically?    Aaron about: bouncy   boobs Aaron about: ncarb do you think that's why West Virginian's marry their cousins? Maybe they just don't want to deal with the whole bureaucracy of the name chance.    Aaron about: movies Yeah, a 1920's mobster movie played out in a modern high school setting. How could that not be awesome.   Aaron about: I love the suburbs crazy subdivision naming conventions for developers in Denver  the burbs Aaron about: huh I'm Toner's retard!   Aaron about: 10 opinions 1. The only good thing about being in the AIA (my firm pays) is Architectural Record magazine. There is no other benefit. 2. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I love trimming hatch. Thank you ACAD 2006. 3. I’m a fair-weather fan for baseball. I will start watching it when the Indians are good again. Baseball is a boring sport and I hate that it sucks up Sportscenter time. 4. I prefer A&W root beer because contrary to Barc’s beliefs, I don’t like ‘bite’. I prefer smooth. 5. Actual quote from McBrian on Sunday. “How well do you guys know Harold? If half the stuff he told me is true, that dude is crazy.” 6. The Rock is the most enjoyable action star right now. Who would you rather watch? Arnold, Van Damn, Stallone, Sagal, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, that British guy from Snatch….or The Rock? 7. I like dirty dorms better than surface parking. 8. I get most of my new from the Daily Show. Seriously, I do. 9. My structural engineer refuses to acknowledge that a sky hook reinforced with force thrusters is the best way to support my building. He wants to use columns. 10. I’m really glad it’s Friday. I’m going to a wine tasting tonight. I’m guessing wine will taste good.    Aaron about: I need to vent I yelled at my TV last night. Stupid realtor commercial where they show how Century 21 or whatever goes the extra mile for their clients. The house buyer is thanking the realtor for showing her "about 25 different houses", then the realtor laughs and says it was actually 34. Ha, ha, heartwarming right? WRONG!!! Imagine if that story were actually true. 34?! Lady, if you are that picky, you don't deserve a house. Or maybe the realtor sucked and kept showing her crappy houses. Either way I was appalled. Speaking of stupid commercials... you know what Taco Bell, I get "full" whenever I eat a meal, I don't need your food to do it. Your commercials do not persuade me to eat your tacos. Alcohal, hangovers, and lazyness do. Also stupid serial dramas like Lost everywhere. I won't watch any of them because I have no guarantee that they won't be canceled 5 weeks if they get bad ratings or even worse in 2 years after people get bored, and then they never finish the damn story or tell what "really happened". Kind of like Twin Peaks. (but that was David Lynch and he is the shittiest director I can think of right now). What a waste of time that would be. Everybody out there who likes Lost - good luck, I hope they have an ending. The office last night was awesome and may be my favorite show. And Wes, yes spiral duck is nice and so are polished concrete floors and brick walls on the interior.    Aaron about: Terrible sports logos I always liked the old millwakee brewer's logo with the M and B combining Constucticon-like into a baseball mit.   logo Aaron about: Terrible sports logos where are the bufflo's feet. It should have feet. 4 of them. Maybe its an early buffalo from when they first crawled out of the water.   Aaron about: morons yes it was a dream. It seemed like a better story without that preface.   Aaron about: morons Last night dickey's kittens were speaking to me in spanish. They kept threatening to sue me because I was getting them wet. But I kept telling them that I really needed to shower because I was late to a wedding but they wouldn't get out of the bath tub. I wasn't so concerned with a law suit but more concerned that the white one was going to bite my achilies tendons. They were being real big jerks.   Aaron about: triathalon I can just imagine Berg's hair as cilia beating in perfect unison to propel him through the water.   Aaron about: marathon nice becky, and you still were able to dance all night at the wedding. how far was each section of the race?   Aaron about: movies I watched Fantastic 4 last night even though I heard it sucked. It was OK. not great but I was somewhat entertained for 2 hours despite a mediocre plot and bad acting. I watched "Brick" over the weekend. Awesome. Very artsy and intellectual. Great plot, great concept. Don't watch it if you don't want to think. Watch Fantastic 4 for that.    Aaron about: wow you guys remember a B movie where some guy got transplanted with a killers body parts and the body parts started to control him and he started killing people? That penis transplant premise would be a great start to a porn movie.   Aaron about: run machine that's awesome biggie. I plan on starting my conditioning tonight. I think I can get 6 days of training before the race (with 2 or 3 days off immediatly prior for so I'll be especially spry). Thews said he's going to do nothing but exercise down in San Luca. He may have been a little sarcastic. That's so awesome we dropped Berg's dead weight and replaced him with Dan. (puns are awesome)   Aaron about: footballs the playcalling sucks. They should run play-action bootlegs every play until someone stops it. Charlie is indestructable on that play.   Aaron about: footballs I lost a little respect for Chad Johnson after he made a fantastic TD reception, did the stupid chicken dance, and then crumpled in pain on the sidelines. I think it's kind of cool when a player makes such a spectacular play by sacrificing his body. But the fact that he is so into his stupid celebrations that he'll do them even if he just injured himself is dumb. The browns stunk, I napped 2nd half. 14-2 isn't a bad record.   Aaron about: wedding bliss Derek had jacket issues. good wedding. I'm still exhausted. Here's something for the architects and Pittsburghers.  city planning Aaron about: fall Guess who got invited to be on the GPD social committee? I'm going to push for 2 GPD golf outings a year, a GPD paintball killathon, and maybe an annual GPD Journey concert.    Aaron about: music my download worked.   Aaron about: music who posted Fisherspooner? was that Berg? I almost didn't listen to it for that reason, but it's awesome. I love new music.   Aaron about: survivor my take on survivor last night = Bad idea. I couldn't help but cheer for the white man and connect ethnic stereotypes to teams. But I may continue to watch. it's like rubbernecking at an accident. I can't look away.   Aaron about: music I put up the Appleseed Cast last night. (no problems) Crunchy layered instrumentals with moderate vocals. If you hate it just delete it.    Aaron about: music for the masses maybe it's the refresh setting   Aaron about: survivor Did you know that in this season's survivor the 20 contestants will be sorted by race: Caucasian, African-American, Asian-American and Hispanic?    Aaron about: free furniture can you imagine how nerveracking that fourth quarter would be if you had bought a couch that weekend?  free furniture Aaron about: Events I fell on your broccali    Aaron about: weekend drinking you can come to my house 2467 fourth st. #3 cuyahoga falls, oh 44221 i'll be at 69 taps for a couple of hours so call when you're within 1/2 hr of arrival    Aaron about: that game last night I think it's BS that nick saban is trying to blame the officals for not seeing his flag. He delayed throwing it because he wanted his guys up stairs to be sure it would go their way and by the time he threw it the officals were covering the extra point like they should be.    Aaron about: that game last night I'm just glad that they had Pink covering a modified "I hate myself for loving you" in a cyber universe as the intro. Nothing says lets kick off the football season like a female pop singer covering a 20 year old song with modified football lyrics. Did I mention that Pink was flying around in a cyber stadium like the Green Goblin? I'm glad NBC knows their target audience. At least Fox gives us football player robots.   Aaron about: bitching Freeze Tag?!!!   Aaron about: bitching How about 1st place is determined by the actual individual winner but 2nd and 3rd are determined by team placement? Sweeny I like your style. It could be 5 for 1st 2 for 2nd and 0 for 3rd but you added an extra 20 just to make it sound cooler. "The final score was 122 to 120 to 115. Fuckin A!"   Aaron about: bitching I think the only real gimme is bowling for pittsburgh and the poker thing adds a bit of chaos/luck to that. Beer pong is highly competitive now, darts is anyone's game, as is flip cup. I'm not sure about cornhole. I would say that the hometeam might have an advantage but then I think about Biggie and Sevantberg for ohio and I think that maybe we have a chance.   Aaron about: bitching paper, rock, scissors.   Aaron about: bitching how did they do it in laughalympics?   Aaron about: bitching The more I think about it I like the World Cup weighted point system. 4 points to the victor.   Aaron about: bitching we could do a weighted point system like soccer. 4 for winner 2 for second and 1 for loser. that's kind of cool.   Aaron about: bitching no way bub, it works fine for the winner to get 3 points, 2nd - 2, and loser 1. And it won't be that difficult for us to deterimine 2nd and 3rd place.    Aaron about: bitching yes, yes, we should have second and third place for everything!   Aaron about: competetion And they don't mind us destroying their house?   Aaron about: weekend of competition are they waterproof? we may need the all-weather bags in November.   Aaron about: weekend of competition Buffalo can also have Schmidt to shore the ranks. I'm not complaining at all, I love it. I'm with wes with a nice big 3 team, 5 event, competition logistical boner.   Aaron about: weekend of competition uhh..it's brass so it tarnishes but that's about all. sorry. we could add a big rusty spike to hang front and center.   Aaron about: weekend of competition see, now imagine if folk were allowed to spell words phoneticly. I would spell elementary- lmnchree and then I would be on a level playing field with the mildly retarted.   Aaron about: music Wes, the living blue rocks. perfect for my current mood.    Aaron about: weekend of competition I really don't know understand why flip cup isn't a definite - everyone can play and it takes almost no athletic ability.    Aaron about: weekend of competition november = yes   Aaron about: bomb 9 out of 10 times it's an electrical razor... but every once in a while it's a dildo.  bomb Aaron about: No more Pluto??? That's bullsh*t. Wouldn't it be so much better press to say that we have discovered two new planets than get rid of Pluto? I say we take their funding and give it to the underwater explorers. I want to see fish with giant teeth.    Aaron about: everybody busy? Kader's brother went to Texas for his senior year of high school for tennis, but rules may be different for that.    Aaron about: everybody busy? how does it work when kids go play at prep schools for sports? If he's so awesome why didn't he just transfer to one of them?   Aaron about: Rant alert I think there should be ranting on another column right next to the sports & fart joke column. Then if folks don't want to be worked up they will have to avert their peepers from the fascinating and witty opinions a mere 4 screen inches to the right. It will be a challenge in self-discipline.   Aaron about: banking thanks for your feedback guys. I have been super busy. -A   Aaron about: banks I'm thinking of switching over to First Merit for my checking/savings. Does anyone have a strong opinion either good or bad about them?    Aaron about: weekend nice paint, good dog   Aaron about: venting Saxon Shore is really good. I think of Sigor Ros like moodiness. I have a theory that the 5th song is a collage of all the others being played at the same time.   Aaron about: venting thank you for your simpathy Wes. It's the damn Akron Public Schools. When we are done we have to turn our CAD's over to them, they have specific layers, etc. They are very persnickity and want their signage schedule to match the drawings. On the next school I will number them in roman numerals if they want, but not on this finished job. The project manager is going to try to work it out. It's times like these that remind me of something I heard a contractor say once. "I don't get mad, I get $22 an hour."    Aaron about: venting that's - a 'B' spining backwards   Aaron about: venting bub, i love youre web site. you should make an alert for rant comments. like another be that spins backwords.   Aaron about: venting so, my jelly haired boss who hasn't been directly involved with a project in the 5 years I've been here and is somehow the "head" of the department told a client that we would renumber our rooms to their liking. The drawings are currently completed CD's and are with the CM for estimating. 2 volumes + specs. Talk about being a yes man. I'm going to go pee on his desk. Maybe an ass pen is in order.   Aaron about: browns don't pretend like berg some kind of offical representative of browns fans and that we all think cleveland is jinxed. I posted the quote cause it thought it was cool. I am against that crap, it's all fabrication from the idiot media.   Aaron about: browns Sweet quote to dispel lame superstition: "I think that it's absurd to think the team is jinxed. We're not jinxed now and we're not going to be lucky when we win the Super Bowl." -- Center LeCharles Bentley on the Browns' recent history of major injuries.    Aaron about: go buckeyes what a piece of shit.    Aaron about: Fantasy I need a beer.   Aaron about: Fantasy You know how when you're drafting a fantasy football team and you avoid taking the Raven's defense or Terrell Owens because you really don't want to root for them. Well, as an experiment I've been considering drafting a fantasy football team with only players I dislike. I guess it might be a little like masochism for the mind.   Aaron about: annoyed Bub, I read an article about the Arizona Cardinals just yesterday. Mostly about "the Edge". It really wasn't that interesting. They kept talking about the QB's and WR's but failed to mention that having a shitty offensive line is the reason they can't run the ball.    Aaron about: Idlewild was that the same day you posted the paris hilton song?   Aaron about: stuff sweeney, I watched 5 minutes of the movie 'Motorcross, the Movie' last night, thought of you.    Aaron about: hot, it is very.   Aaron about: sand in my vagina I will still watch the browns even when out of contention because football is a better sport.   Aaron about: sand in my vagina Nothing is more boring than following a baseball team that won't make the playoffs. Therefore I don't really care.    Aaron about: Hangovers are stupid. I've decided not to have them anymore   Aaron about: sand in my vagina History channel sucked me in last night. I switched over during a commercial for Flip that House and suddenly I am absolutely consumed by a craving hunger for any factoid concerning the civil war and associated military strategy.    Aaron about: Rollins writes Ann Coulter I saw that on the Henry Rollins show on the Independent Film Channel. Awesome   Aaron about: Prediction ugh   Aaron about: race day I believe it was 7.6 miles. you could go to the website to check. Are you running indoor or out?    Aaron about: wow! I probably could have guessed Stalin in 3. ....let's see, is it a dictator or actor? Dictator. Is it Hitler? No. Is it Stalin? Yes.    Aaron about: wow! it only took about 10 for Mr. Belvedere.   Aaron about: Prediction Preach on brother Nostrathewsis.   Aaron about: fantasy soccer did you read Bill Simmons' article on premier league soccer? It should still be on his website. It might help you make more informed decisions. Also, I think we need to do fantasy football this year. But this time do it right. It should be yahoo and all rosters should be set up with only 4 backups so as to encourage extensive roster changes and trades.    Aaron about: lallapalooza i agree with all, 8 stages is stupid. Back when I was young at the Van's Warped tour in '96. There were two stages right next to each other. While one band played the other set up. Flawless afternoon of punk rock. Also featured were a half pipe within ear shot of the bands and an independent stage with crappy hardcore bands that was off the beaten path rendering it inaudible and therefore unobtusive to my pollished musical tastes.   Aaron about: summit They are also available on CD's for purchase if you want the high quality arial shots.    Aaron about: new kitty I thought that story was going to go in a completely different direction. I'm actually a little dissapointed. By the way, since I grew up in a forest, our cats would run up trees all the time, they can get down when they get hungry enough. When was the last time you saw a kitty skeleton in a tree?   Aaron about: strange questions yes, thank you for reminding me of my ongoing procrastination of planning that event. I have started training though. Berg, you better get off your fat ass and start jogging or I'm gonna find someone else.   Aaron about: I use the Old Spice High Endurance as well. I haven't had to much experience with anything else, but the O.S.H.E hasen't given me a reason to stray. Sure I'm curious, I wonder what it might be like with another deoderant, but then I think about what I have and I don't want to throw that away.   Aaron about: pat tillman did anyone else read the article on Pat Tillman from ESPN? Politics disgust me. I did however watch a Dem. and Rep. sit at a table and discuss forign policy on Sunday without it turning into a bitch match or get political (despite Tim Russert's best attemts).    Aaron about: thanks! i agree!   Aaron about: Music work suck. It sucks, it sucks, it sucks. I'm bored. I wanna go home. Maybe I'll quit and go train with Sweet J.   Aaron about: Bye bye!! Wes, how soon until you're ready to start building a showcase for the bottles? (not as soon as you'd like i'm sure) I'm imagining some really cool lights and maybe a fog machine will be involved.   Aaron about: spam bub, you are a computer master. When I plan my next heist you should be my computer guy.    Aaron about: stuff to do when yer bored aha = #1   Aaron about: bitch-be-gone I've saw Candlebox back in '95 with Sponge. My first concert.    Aaron about: bitch-be-gone asdf   Aaron about: GAMES your tornado-less lands have made team buffalo soft.    Aaron about: album art that is awesome. I bet it'll cost $800   Aaron about: GAMES i think pittsburgh could field a larger team than buffalo particularly if buffalo has to travel. So is it a team ohio/team pittsburgh competition challenge? ouch.   Aaron about: music I just noticed that all the track and artist info is working on that disk I posted last thurs. I rule and sometimes I just don't realize it.    Aaron about: GAMES I agree; exactly what dickey said.    Aaron about: GAMES b-pong, c-hole, f-cup, ultimate b, and darts.   Aaron about: siskell and ebert you are not! I saw it in college under a similar "this is the funniest movie" pretense. I thought is was boring as hell. It was probably groundbreaking for it's time but that doesn't make it good now. I would say the same for most Literature with a capital L.   Aaron about: music sorry guys, I wrote in all of the artist info but it was lost in the process of converting files, etc; so there are just song names. I will try to re-rip it over the weekend. Everything else seems to work though, so you can enjoy cool music and make predictions about the artists if you like. Most of the artists are pretty obscure though.   Aaron about: competition biggs, glad things are getting better. Bub could you e-mail my aaron2000xl@yahoo.com account the passwords and stuff for uploading music. I am going to try that tonight. So everyone will have new music in the morning. My jury duty ended early and when I told my body to drive me to work it wouldn't listen. Evidently I'm playing hooky right now. I only feel a little guilty...but then it is 80 and sunny. BTW I love the idea of frenzied competition flip cup.   Aaron about: tasteless I never new that happened. Hockey is gross.    Aaron about: PETA I look at them and think about how tasty they could be with some bbq sause. I love meat! (Disclaimer: I'm really hungry right now, 1/2 hr till lunch.)    Aaron about: the law I've got jury duty tomorrow. I'm kind of excited.    Aaron about: chug-a-lug mmmmm....pittsburgh river water   Aaron about: arrrr!!! did you guys know that the Pirates of the Carabean 2 ends in a cliffhanger? I didn't even realize they were making a third. It's a good thing I didn't go watch that this weekend. After Star wars, the matrix, and lord of the rings I'm done with watching movies without endings in the theater. I'll go see Cars instead.   Aaron about: music question thanks   Aaron about: music question I'm listening to the Ray Charles anthology right now and was suprized to hear him do a version of Eleanor Rigby. Which came first the Beatles or Ray Charles version? anybody know?   Aaron about: undies I was pleasantly suprised to find out that we aren't the only ones who analize boxer briefs so thoroughly.   boxer briefs Aaron about: stupidest idea ever why? And who? Who is an advocate for this? Who spends all their free time to start this pro-badspelling-group? What a waste of time. they would be better off scheduling events for our competition weekends. I'm completely serious, it would be more productive. Wiffle bats to the face for them.   Aaron about: \"Kissed him like a kitten\" maybe the russian translation doesn't sound so creepy.    Aaron about: who are you!!! However, I did not know who Ken Lay was yesterday   Aaron about: who are you!!! I knew Greg Oden   Aaron about: bridge i can't get enough white tensile bridges. (even though I don't think the tower is very structural in this one)  Calatrava Aaron about: Sad News that sucks.   Aaron about: Who else is stuck at work today?? great show, I don't think sunday's episode was worth the trama though. Actually, it was probably the worst episode in the 2-heif seasons it's been on. also, great pictures. I want to see the photos in biggies pocket. how many dudes were in that booth? 5,6,7?   Aaron about: Who else is stuck at work today?? Derek, what show was it? I must know. I can't believe no one else asked.   Aaron about: a yeah biggie, the 7.6. I was mistake about it being 10. 7.6 isn't that much more than the 6.2 Steve and I will run. Berg and Thews will be in charge of the 3.2's. Berg, you better start training now. Sept. will be here soon.   Aaron about: a just do a search for the Akron Roadrunner Marathon if you want to look it up now.   Aaron about: music how about we get some rockin new music up today. anybody got anything good?    Aaron about: Pittsburgh is the coolest I would totally win. Rock is so awesome.    Aaron about: voitfest My golf outing got rained out. I will now be arriving in Buffalo much earlier. I will call the Voits when I arrive. I'm thinking 5 or 6.    Aaron about: Friday morning question If you were a baseball player, what music would you pick for your walk to the plate? I might go with MOP Ante Up, although the sensored version of the song might not have the same punch.   Aaron about: voitfest Lindsay and I are going to drive up tomorrow. I have my company golf outing in the afternoon in which I will be trying to drink prudent-style. That should end around 7:30. Probably won't get on the road until 8-8:30 and won't be there till 11:00. We're going to crash at Tony's and will be in cell phone contact with him when we get close. That's the plan anyway.    Aaron about: A Request for Music I read somewhere that the first album was more rockin.    Aaron about: bad news derek I've been trying to think of a word-sexual that could epitimize the drink beer/sit on couch kind of lifestyle. The only thing I can come up with is Tonersexual. Do you think he'd mind being the figurehead for a male lifestyle movement.   Aaron about: that game they play on ice i didn't change the channel FOR them so much as i changed the channel because of them, if anyone was confused.   Aaron about: that game they play on ice good game last night. I haven't really watched hockey since the lockout. I used to be good for watching a couple of playoff series and the finals but I was one of the casual fans out there that got burned by the lockout and lack of TV exposure. I forgot how great of a game it is. So complex, you can't appreciate it without sitting down and watching; no switching the channel during play. I only wish I had watched more of the series. On the same note, I have really enjoyed the world cup thus far. The competition is world class literally and the lack of comercials/20min halftime sans fluff pieces is great. BTW the NBA's halftime pieces (40 mins. min.) have been the most worthless garbage I've ever changed the channel for.   Aaron about: crazy I bet they go to Cedar Point and throw baseballs at jugs all day trying to win the biggest stuffed animals.   Aaron about: crazy Do you think that FAO Schwartz got a lot of business from plushies who wanted larger than life stuffed tigers?    Aaron about: crazy I think its nice that they could combine them into one convention. I've heard of furries before but plushies are a whole new breed of wierd.    Aaron about: images home   Aaron about: images speaking of files and such, I should be getting a new computer tomorrow or the next day. I am getting really excited about not hating the cyberworld as well as the impending multi-media nervana i will be submerging myself in.    Aaron about: lame 11. ARE = stupid 12. good luck thews   Aaron about: 10 opinions 1. Derek sucks (I'm jealous) 2. I need a vacation 3. I'm diggin Grand National 4. Rocky VI is going to blow 5. Saw a comercial last night for Volvo, I wasn't really paying attention but I think the jist was that they buried a car and set up a bunch of clues so whoever finds the car wins it. Pure genius in adevertising, much more interesting than a treasure hunt reality show. I think the most interesting part is to find out what kind of people invest time and money for the potential payoff. They need to keep us updated on how this turns out. 5. I love trimming hatch. 6. I know I'm preaching to the choir but the NBA is terrible. 7. Britany Spears looks like shit. I only watched a bit of her interview, I couldn't help myself. speaking of... 8. I am fully on board with Sweet J and Toner on MTV 16 yr old reality TV/real world/the Hills/8th and ocean bandwagon to hell. I'm discusted in myself for it and will be whipping myself with a cat-o-nine-tails as self punishiment. 9. I'm a terrible golfer but quite a good beer drinker. 10. Do I have to wear a suit to the Voit Wedding? I don't really want to. Maybe just a tank top and some jams.   Aaron about: music you missed it, don't go to europe next time.   Aaron about: The Mountains table   Aaron about: Voit Party Friday, but I have GPD golf outing that day so I don't know what kind of shape I'll be in or what time or how I'm getting there.    Aaron about: 7 wonders You should push it out the front window.    Aaron about: 7 wonders that was Mcbrian's dad's table, and yes that was the genesis of many drunken times in Kent, but I would also like to nominate Tony Balon's suggestion that he and Wes build the beer pong table of incorrect length and width. If you don't remember there was a pong drought in the years following college and that table was the catalist that brought a pong table to every major city we drink in (and I'm including Berg's mini-pong).    Aaron about: 7 wonders I third the Horse Cloud.   Aaron about: 7 wonders that time that thews puked was pretty funny. Or maybe the time wes showed everyone his nuts.   Aaron about: chiwawa I can't believe we share the same planet as people like this.  oh, geez Aaron about: hamburg takes on Walmart another article about a town doing something to thwart walmart's evil presence.  Wallmart Aaron about: mentos & coke I can't wait to try this. Also the music is really good.  video Aaron about: gnarles biggie, everyone, I am inept. My office web-filters prohibit me from getting album info and from posting to BDC, my home computer is slow and stupid and would be better used for a footstool. I am working on a fix. Until then, I will plan on burning 1 hard copy of each of my new music disks and giving that copy to a responsible party at the voit recep. to post for everyone. Thank you in advance for your understanding in this matter.   Aaron about: D-rok wedding in seattle   Aaron about: A Eric was nice enough to give us the wedding rate at the hampton. Only smoking double left though.   Aaron about: A check your e-mail thews   Aaron about: house troubles I hope you took the oportunity to buy a mauve toilet, maybe with a mint colored furry lid cover and definetly a vinyl padded seat with embedded sparkly glitter.    Aaron about: gnarles I can't post from work, sorry. I'll try tonight at home. It's good, kind of short though.   Aaron about: munday holy crap biggie! you're a rock star.   Aaron about: munday I think its funny that wes and dickey both broke the monday morning bdc holdout within a minute of each other. I'm not sure how much longer I could have made it.   Aaron about: ahh...summer later kids. half-day fridays are here. have good weekends.   Aaron about: my nephew can outspell your nephew I think wes should raise them to be beer pong champions. Start training at age 3.    Aaron about: buffalo sorry guys, I tuned in to the Outdoor Living Network for the third period to lend support, but it was too late.   Aaron about: FLorence pretty cool Leanne, I only read the first page so far. The writer certainly has a way with words, she kind of sounds like Peterson from Seinfeld.   Aaron about: buffalo yeah, i'm kidding   Aaron about: buffalo I'm gonna watch the spelling bee instead.    Aaron about: holy crap Thews - always a trendsetter  Speed jumping champ Aaron about: WOW! i sentance no make today   Aaron about: Saturday night I won't be in until Sunday, so save some partying for me. Also, I don't really remember what's going on Sunday in reference to shuttles. Is it? - We drive to the church, ride shuttle to reception and then to the downtown hotel, get cars at the church in the morning.    Aaron about: ugh I can't upload at work, I don't think. I am rocking out right now and not enjoying work as much as ever.    Aaron about: crazy tables I would like to play bubble billiards.   Aaron about: crazy tables bubble fights?   Aaron about: strange I wonder if she was OCD.   Aaron about: NFL Is anyone else concerned about the rumors that Jeb Bush could be the next NFL commisioner? I'm not concerned right now because I'm guessing it's rampant speculation but I really wouldn't like it at all. I don't want to see any Bush running anything important to me for a very long time.   Aaron about: color me happy... Speaking of new mixed disks, I was at my freshman dorm roommate Shane Hrenko's (some of you may remember him)apt. for the Cavs game on friday and he hooked me up with a DJ Shadow disk "Funky Skunk". It's ok, pretty much all remixed rap. Some good, some really bad. But he also threw together a mix disk from songs on his computer. He basically put together a mix that rivals anything I've heard in about 10 minutes. I haven't even heard of ANY of the bands. I'll post it sometime.   Aaron about: stupid horse that's not actually true....i don't think.   Aaron about: stupid horse Vegas made odds on whether he lives or dies so gamblers can place one final wager on him.    Aaron about: deal or no deal did anyone catch DEAL OR NO DEAL last night? The bald steeler fan stay-at-home dad was one of my buddies from Geneva. I've known him since 1st grade. He actually met up with me over in Italy and stayed with us for a couple of days. Anyway, he only won $70 grand, but he got to make an ass of himself on national television and talk to Ben Rothlesburger.   Aaron about: 90 degrees?!?!?!? just checked out the new Tool packaging. Very cool, I think I'm a little dizzy still.    Aaron about: we Am I halucinating or does the forcast for Sunday call for a high of 90?   hot Aaron about: we I figured we needed to win on Friday at home or we were done. I actually started cleaning my apartment when things got ugly in the second half. I've developed defense mechanisms for watching cleveland sports teams lose. Rule #1 is keep busy so that the disgusted feeling of blowing 3 hours on a browns game only to watch them lose in the ugliest way possible is offset by the fact that my whole apartment is clean. I think this fall I'm going to go to the gym and watch games from the treadmill. Anyway, the whole team blew yesterday's game. Hitting open jumpshots should not be as difficult as they made it. Also Tony Burgoyne and wife had a daughter Friday - Madaleyna Violet.   Aaron about: Cavs take a look at what Bill Simmons says at the intro to his mailbag today. I started tearing up. I hope it happens so much.  Lebron Aaron about: music so after burning a copy of the new Gorillaz disk for my dad, he enjoyed it so much that he went out and purchased a copy so as to get the cover art and best sound quality. He told me last weekend that he used to not like the rap parts but now he does. So i'm thinking that I'm going to keep giving my dad music with more and more rap until he actually enjoys rap, next I'll going to introduce him to K-os, then maybe Common and Atmosphere. Eventually...MOP.    Aaron about: site update nice b.    Aaron about: Asshole Drivers It was Wes, and Leanne has it on video. But it's ok cause it was Berg's car.   Aaron about: weather I don't like rain. I imagine I'm preaching to the choir though.    Aaron about: should i see a doctor eat a bunch of cheese.    Aaron about: Voit/Johnston wedding I'm gonna get a mug with Wake-up Wes on it. Gay or completely random somewhat creepy mug in my cupboard?   Aaron about: cheering pen by the way, while watching Wayne's World, I decided that Sweeny and Derek need to dress up as Wayne and Garth for Halloween this year. Sorry guys.    Aaron about: Student Loans Dickey, only a couple more years and you could achieve celebrity status.  Dickey's mentor Aaron about: cheering pen Badre and I were just talking about Stuart today. Did anyone else ever see the movie? I saw most of it. I think it was called "Stuart saves his family". We actually discussed quite a few SNL inspired movies after I brought up last nights viewing of Wayne's World. I also saw Corky Romano in the theater with Tony, Harold, and Wes, what a moment.    Aaron about: intramural sports - boys nope, frisbee golf   Aaron about: intramural sports - boys I don't like cold and wet. Well, mostly just cold. In football, it evens the playing field as some of my explosiveness is nullified by sloppy conditions. Also my TD catching hands need to be sheltered within poofy gloves. Thats why I think that Ultimate Frisbee should become more popular. It could be a summer sport opposite baseball.    Aaron about: music I was incorrect. Gnarles barley = cee-lo + danger mouse. Cee-lo is formerly from Goodie Mob.  gnarles barkley Aaron about: music I would love to hear them   Aaron about: music I read on the Daily Quickie (page 2 sports) about a new album coming out. It's Gnarles Barkley and DJ Danger Mouse colaboration. I'm thinking, who the hell is Gnarles barkley? He probably sucks. Then I'm listening to "...Guevara", a song catches my attention, and who is it but G. Barkley, great song.    Aaron about: dags I don't even know where the dog was from. He was just running down the sidewalk right at me, then continued on after he attacked me.   Aaron about: dags so I got attacked by a dog last night while jogging. first time. fortunately he wasn't that big (beagle size but more mut-like) and I was agile enough to get out of his snarling path of rampage. But he was unleashed, showing teeth, and barking incessantly. As he charged from my 12 o'clock, I moved laterally to my right keeping poochy in my line of vision. He circled around but I had exposed his lack of manuverability. One more olay and he had givin up his aggessive stance and continued down the street. That is when I gave a hardy "Jesus Fuck" for all of the neighborhood children to hear. I put a couple blocks between me and the hell hound before I decided I had reached my target cardio for the year and that it was time for a cool down walk.   Aaron about: music I don't listen to Kelly C. I really like the cover of "since you've been gone" on Thews' female disk though. I am not the dark corner person either. My guilty pleasure music is ultra-poppy-dance anthems. ie. Ministry of sound. Actually the 2006 MOS Annual has K.C. SinceYBG dance version first song disk 1, it's purtrid.   Aaron about: music Derek, both of your CD's are awesome. Could you or Biggie post Scissor Sister when you get a chance. Comfortably Numb went from sacrilegious to crack in about 4 listenings. Dickey, I only have one copy of Cousin Dan's disk, it's Mp4's so I have haven't listened to it yet.    Aaron about: Pittsburg Rocks I would much rather receive drunk dials (or BDC postings) of the afterparty.   Aaron about: Pittsburg Rocks While I am elated that 2 close friends are being united in matrimony in the birthplace of the renaissance I am wholly uninterested in listening to their ceremony over the phone.   Aaron about: OC update bloc party was was featured music on the OC last Thursday. They're a year late too.    Aaron about: time I'm wasted!!!! actually no....no, I'm not.    Aaron about: in other news... what are you talking about? I don't remember any controversy at the time. did abby make the tackle?   Aaron about: Browns I like Trent Dilfer. That stinks he's gone.   Aaron about: music The Black Keys released a 6 song EP this week. Cousin Dan said it is really good. Covers of some old song writer (James Kimbrough). I'll try to get it after the Gun raffle this saturday.   Aaron about: NBA sucks I woke up on my couch last night just in time to witness LeBron hit the game winning shot. It sounds awesome, but it wasn't. In live action while the Cavs anouncers were going crazy I thought it looked like a freak of nature play that only a physical juggarnaut like lebron could make. That or a travel. After seeing the replay, it was a travel. He took no less than 4 steps after picking up his dribble to the hoop. I wondered this morning if the other team or the media would pick that up and maybe start a contraversy. Nope. Not a mention. I'm glad we won but what a shitty game to win. I'm just intreged that everyone is so jaded by seeing bad calls by the refs and traveling that it's considered part of the game.    Aaron about: Help me to Confirm thews, i'll help you move   Aaron about: i might be gay, but... I probably wouldn't have told anybody though.   Aaron about: i might be gay, but... I saw that song last night and thought it was really cool. I had been meaning to look it up but you beat me to it.    Aaron about: stuff wes, you should get matching wife beaters and strut you stuff around town.   Aaron about: Voit/Johnston reception I ain't booked shit   Aaron about: I caught the english office one. I was shocked that the characters look and act the same as the american version. I thought it was be more loosly based. I was wrong. earl is ok.   Aaron about: Scrubs Abby, that's why you need Tivo. Its my best friend.   Aaron about: Scrubs Andy, Scrubs and Mother along with Office are the good sitcoms. I don't like the teachers show. I don't know if Cox is leaving but that would blow if he does.    Aaron about: BIlls I like that the Browns blackmailed the Ravens into trading up one spot so they could take that D-lineman which we probably wouldn't have taken anyway.   Aaron about: BIlls The Cavs looked horrible last night, actually the NBA looked horrible. It's a terrible perversion of a once fine sport. The only truly enjoyable version of the game is at the college level. Do rookies have to drink the cool-aid that renders their ability to dribble, pass, and play defence obsolete? It's pathetic. I'll watch because it's the Cavs not because it's fun.   Aaron about: remeber when I said that Skip Baylas was a fuck... I love that AJ Hawk is the most established, safest, sure think player in the draft and probably won't go till 5th or later. (he's not even on Skip's list). I with the Browns were within striking distance because you can be sure the dark Belichek would snach him up.    Aaron about: pa weddingzzzz just saying that when I think of Pittsburgh, I think of football and soot. Sorry I didn't catch the tounge-in-cheekness, I'm dumb.   Aaron about: pa weddingzzzz why do people go to pirates games if they suck so bad? And don't tell me Pittsburgh's fans love their team, it's not a baseball town.   Aaron about: College Football Keith Jackson is going to retire, bummer.   Aaron about: The draft they should have a Don Bebee/Felix Wright broadcasting team, but Bebee would have to do the telecast standing on his head. (and Felix Wright would be rightfully credited with an inteception)   Aaron about: music D-Rok, the "Xtrodinary" disk is nice. I am still getting used to it, but I can tell it has a lot of upside. Haven't listned to the other yet. I am inspired to start working on my next compilation disk though.   Aaron about: April 21st ahh, I know it's friday afternoon when Bader and I are looking for newd pictures of Brigitte Neilson on the internet. By the way, don't try that, I feel a little bit homosexual after seeing them.   Aaron about: April 21st suckling a wolf's teet. yup first thing i thought of.   Aaron about: Handicap People Maybe it's a "there's no way she'll win but at least she can participate" kind of thing, in which case it would be fine.   Aaron about: Handicap People It's like riding a bicycle against runners.   Aaron about: Pittsburgh is Fun! I've got god givin talent. I totally missed my calling as a professional bowler. I'm raw; never been coached, like Shaq in Blue Chips. I'll get a 140.    Aaron about: sore back = berg, you lay two pipes or 2x4's so that the tops are at the level that you need for the top of the sand. Put the sand in and then rake it smooth using the embedded 2x4's as guides, then carefully remove them and fill their voids with sand by hand.   Aaron about: sketch up I thought about making another one "A-Elev-Mega".   Aaron about: sketch up As long as we're talking nerdy things, there are 6 firms that are working on Akron Public Schools but the drawings are to look the same so there are many rigerous standards. There weren't any layers to differentiate thicknessed in elevations so we came up with a few i.e. A-Elev-Thin, etc. Well I made up A-Elev-Xtrm for grade lines and "extreme" dark lines and now it has been adopted by APS and all the other firms have to use it. I'm so cool.   Aaron about: this weekend i'll be there Friday, and we should play golf unless there is a hurricane   Aaron about: what? maybe he had a lot of student loan debt and is faking his own death. nah, who would do something like that?   Aaron about: FYI Berg, I don't really even follow baseball and I knew Faulke was going to lose his job.   Aaron about: FYI By the way, happy Dyngus Day everyone.   Aaron about: Happy Monday! evidently not   Aaron about: music Bader and I are in 80's Power Ballad heaven right now. At first I was nervous that Home Sweet Home wouldn't be on the disk, now I'm nervous that I'm going to forget where I am and start singing out loud.   Aaron about: Mr. Rodebaugh it allows meng's through   Aaron about: Mr. Rodebaugh I have not recieved any e-mail from you today to either of my accounts   Aaron about: hello? Bub, I'm going to buy you the biggest, most flowery, eye catching drink there is. I'm thinking something with multiple umbrellas, straws, and maybe a pinapple slice sticking out of it. Actually that sounds kind of good.    Aaron about: music yeah, what biggie said happens.   Aaron about: phone Berg, find the site where you got your phone and post or mail me the link. I can't find anything. Thanks.    Aaron about: music I don't want to be a bitch but could someone get Black Rebel Mortorcycle Club up correctly?   Aaron about: does wes still live? Dickey, BRMC is not working. the files are corrupt   Aaron about: does wes still live? wes, can you post Black Rebel Motorcycle Club?   Aaron about: does wes still live? My sleep schedule is all messed up. I didn't get to sleep until midnight.   Aaron about: woohoooo If I ever mentioned a medical emergency at 3:30 on a friday my coworkers would just laugh and ask which bar I was going to.   Aaron about: fryday Dickey, I don't mean to presume anything from wes and your veiled conversation, but I want to leave by 7:00 so please don't be running around trying to track down Nathan all evening. Buffalo, you should expect us there around 11:00.   Aaron about: thursday my brain is fried. I must have worked too hard today. I'll try to avoid that tomorrow.    Aaron about: Venting oh, geez, are we going to see Anti-christ Derek this weekend?   Aaron about: music Aaron's review - I don't like the Bloc Party remix. I'm glad it was posted and I got a chance to hear it but I think that most of the songs are watered down versions of the more rockin originals. I feel like I'm listening to an echoee humpback wale singing BP which might be cool if used in an Armand Van Helden "numb their brain before dropping the phat beat" kind of way. but unfortunately the only track that achieves sweet remix rockdom is the Death from Above 1979 mix.    Aaron about: radio I got an e-mail from IDP. My training requirement has been provisionally completed pending a final evaluation. Yes! I'm almost there! Harder NCARB! HARDER!   Aaron about: sports I remember Ortiz batting 3rd also.   Aaron about: sports I was at MengPam's over christmas and Pam's bro was there and he was saying what he got his kid for christmas. It was all yankees crap. Tickets /jackets/etc. I threw up a little in my mouth because I was just shocked that a kid would grow up to be such a disgusting Yankees fan after growing up in Cleveland. Fortunately I kept my mouth shut long enought to find out that Pam's brother is the L. Ron Hubbord of this brainwashing. I felt a little better, but before I could question when/how he sold his soul in a joking and lightly razzing manner I became disturbed by the MANY detailed stories he began telling of his (and now his son's) pilgrimages to the NY. Going early so they could tour the musium, etc. I decided he was too far gone and I could do nothing more than to let him fester as a revolting dihard Yankee's fan from Cleveland. Then I went into the kitchen and ate some chips with yummy cheese dip.   Aaron about: History Channel If any of you get a chance to watch Americas greatest dogfights; a history of air to air combat, I highly recommend it.    Aaron about: beer no Bloc Party on S.ofS. Franz Ferdinand is the closest thing to it. They got the Scottish thing going on. Release Date - Haloween. And I find that I am generally cooler than most.   Aaron about: beer I am pro-Bloc Party and pro-MOP   Aaron about: beer B & A, happy new house!    Aaron about: 10 opinions in a row #7. With one golf club or two?   Aaron about: OC update More greatness from america's favorite TV show, or at least american 16 year old girls' favorite TV show. scene: Marissa is caught in a "slut spiral" and making out with Volchek in the Bate Shop. Seth: If the body doesn't lie, what is her body saying? Summer: It's saying eww. Seth: Eww, or touch my pooper. I'm not kidding, that's what he said. Good stuff.    Aaron about: Lewis the Cat my favorit part is where they say that he has "catlike stealth"  crazy cat Aaron about: funtimes... I guess it's kind of early in the day to be bitching about work.    Aaron about: funtimes... I've been to a lot of the community design meetings. I just take notes while my PM does his show. The one thing I've learned is that the masses don't know what they want. They can be herded in any direction with enough spin. The problem is that they are fickle. If they were to listen to a point/counterpoint argument on say markerboards vs. chalkboards, their opinion would bounce back and forth like a pingpong ball. Oh wait, that has happened on every single school we have ever built. The worst is after it's all over the superintendent and maintenance people make the call.    Aaron about: funtimes... i hate clients, they're so stupid. I'd better invent something before I graduate to a position where I have to meet with them. I'm imagining a lot of head nodding and then a lot of do what I want.    Aaron about: drugs I know, i know, priorities.    Aaron about: drugs I didn't even think about the dreaming. It's kind of necessary for sanity. You're right; quicker, deeper sleep is the way to go.    Aaron about: drugs Why don't pharmasudical companies or even the US military do extensive research into devising a drug that could replace the chemicals we make when we sleep? They spend so much time and money researching drugs that will help people live longer, why not just get extra waking hours per day. The OE semester seemed like an eternity partially because I was awake for 20 hours a day rather than my usual 16. That is a 20% increase in life. The key would be to take a pill that would replace the sleep producing chemicals (seratonin?) so people didn't feel like shit when they get that little sleep. I know there are rec drugs that mess with that part of the brain, but I'm thinking about something that doesn't have so many after effects. Or maybe by messing with our sleep cycles we would be going against natures day/night rythem thus making any advances in this field inately unhealthy. Thoughts?   Aaron about: musac 2 cups of jo and MOP. I am going to murder these elevations.   Aaron about: musac the dark side is soooo much fun.    Aaron about: musac thanks, Bigs.   Aaron about: musac the psyche-up album we listen to when playing beer pong was what I had in mind, but it's up to you. I am utterly embarrassed by my lack of MOP albums.   Aaron about: musac why? Is it a MAC thing?   Aaron about: bloc party berg, you have the worst taste in media of anyone I know...actually that's not true, but you have unbelievable influences all around you. You should be a blue chipper when it comes to music but instead you're the black sheep. The blown potential aspect is depressing.    Aaron about: Arch infill the existing opening with CMU   Aaron about: Arch This note appeared on one of our firm's construction drawings. "Remove opening with CMU". I'm so proud.   Aaron about: monday morning rock Berg, good picks. I especially like Thews' sad face and Derek's alien vein foot. I'm disappointed there won't be turds though.   Aaron about: monday morning rock I like it. Wes, later this week could you post some MOP, I must be in a pissed mood, I just want to headbang to rap.   Aaron about: exciting Saturday fun! I didn't know they had R.O.U.S.'s in Maine.   Aaron about: Texas I hope cop's never patrol golf courses to give out DUI's. I would club them with a 7 iron or maybe my 5 wood.   Aaron about: baseballs my favorite sports story of the last week is that Prince "accented" Corlos Boozer's rental house purple. I spit pop all over my computer and some moderately important documents when I read about it.   Aaron about: Sweet firm I think the OC is going to make a comeback. After the whole Johnny plotline fiasco that killed the loyal OC audience, they came back with the "most racy OC ever" last night. Good stuff. And next week they are going to air the "most dramatic OC ever". Can they reel the straying audience back or will they be relegated to batting clean-up for Cops on the Fox Friday Night lineup? I don't know. But I do know that the OC broke my insanity button last night.    Aaron about: Texas Living boooo texas!!!!   Aaron about: 10 opinions in a row 1. I heard that Lost has lost viewers this year because they keep pulling that crap, while 24 has actually gained viewers despite jumping the shark because they are playing straight through.   Aaron about: blackalicious yeah, it's bad timing. I want to be quiet this weekend, plus I've seen them already.   Aaron about: Bachelor Article about the search for an architect as the next Bachelor. They have the best architect stereotypes I've ever read. The only thing they missed is that we're bad at spelling.  bachelor Aaron about: houses I cannot wait to have a lush and velvety lawn. The exact story came up with the 'what would you do if you won the lottery' hypothetical. I said I would buy a nice neighborhood house and sit on my front porch in my bathrobe all day drinking beer and throwing things at kids that stray from the sidewalk. Actually, Bader started writing a short story about it. I think it was up to 10 pages when he lost interest. haven't read it myself.   Aaron about: houses Bader sent me that article this morning with this subject, "This is going to be you in 40 years"   Aaron about: Brackets article about how hard it is to achieve a perfect bracket  Brackets Aaron about: Items to Discuss and they may have a female friend who could use a shirt as well if there are extras.   Aaron about: Items to Discuss Badre and cousin Dan are coming and will claim unused T-shirts.   Aaron about: Items to discuss Willie McGinest!!! Go Browns!!!   Aaron about: question Bader and I have to field measure a high school so we made our firm give us a laptop. It's been awesome, I'll never take field notes on paper again.   Aaron about: question desktop, laptop keyboards are too small.   Aaron about: st patty I will not be in C-bus until friday evening.    Aaron about: i can't stand people who write checks at the grocery store. I was in line behind a lady that wrote a check in the express lane. I just quietly judged her while the fiery rage inside me burned with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.    Aaron about: good and bad never mind, I misread. 1/10th done in 6 hours = 60 hours - 6 hours spent to date = 54 hours left. 54 hours / 5 days = 10.8 hours per day. ok.   Aaron about: good and bad bub, you say your basement is 1/6 done. That's perfect, You have 5 days left till C-bus.   Aaron about: good and bad Tell them it's their fault for scheduling a deadline for St. Patty's Day and that you will entertain no further discussion on the subject.   Aaron about: brackets I can't play a BDC bracket. I have hit my limit of 2. I don't want to hedge my bets to a point where I'm indifferent to who wins the games. Takes all the fun out of betting and cheering for teams that I could otherwise care less about.   Aaron about: brackets berg's bracket at CBS sportsline last year was easy to use. I like betting money and it could be collected at St. Patricks day.   Aaron about: music Wes, how was the Sleeping Kings of Iona concert?   Aaron about: SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH!!! I'm glad Crash won best picture. I didn't watch any of the others but Crash was on my top 5 best movies last year. Now if only Batman Begins would get some respect. Doesn't anyone appreciate lamborgini-tank batmobiles that can drive on top of buildings? They need a new catagory with "coolness factor" as a criteria. They could call it the Most Mega-sweet Movie of the Year.   Aaron about: TUNES nice... I'm alway flattered to make a cameo in others' dreams, it mean's I'm in your subconcious.   Aaron about: TUNES I've got it, but am inept at uploading things.   Aaron about: NFL It won't be that bad in 2006 but cap-less 2007 and beyond will benifit the best players and big money teams and leave everyone else looking like the 90's bungles. Also there is no minimum contract and no 401k, so 2nd and 3rd string guys will struggle. I think that will eventually be the modivation for the players union to get a deal together. Not to mention that everyone loses if the fans think games are unwatchable because of one-sided games. It won't be like baseball. The marlins/yankees David and Goliath kind of matchups will NEVER work out for the little guy, not in football.    Aaron about: fuck It's not late unless it's 2 weeks late.   Aaron about: NFL I read that the owners are sqabbling amongst themselves about profit sharing crap and that they wouldn't accept any agreement with the players until that was settled. I'd be more worried about this if my team wasn't coming off of another losing season and wasn't 20 million below the cap ready to pounce on castaways that will have no barganing power. How can the browns get any worse? It's been 20 years. Also, I think the biggest restructuring of the NFL is a rookie salary cap.    Aaron about: NFL Wes, I read that even teams that are in the browns' situation are going to be gunshy about signing the released players because without an agreement it will be very hard to make a judgement as to how much they are worth. That said, I'm glad we're in not in the shoes of the teams rashly cutting valuable players.   Aaron about: computers So I get this fancy new computer at work, it's faster and smaller and is overall a better machine, but it's so quiet it provides no white noise whatsoever. I didn't realize it but I kind of liked the wirring of the computer fans. It's becoming increasingly hard to converse with Bader about inappropiate subject matter within the office because it's so quiet. I might have to bring in a radio and quietly play NPR in the background.    Aaron about: zzz I would like to be sleeping now. I don't like drinking on a school night.   Aaron about: stupid IDP I did about 5 units worth in a AIA associate group. We discussed Akron and did some investigation on the history of the city and came up with some ideas for getting rid of the MLK interstate. Nothing actually came of it. I don't remember where the other 5 units came from, they just kind of appeared in the box. I blame my pen.    Aaron about: Monday I had this great dream this morning during snooze alarm time. I found out that today was a holiday and I didn't have to go to work. I was so happy that I could just sleep in and then bzzzzzzzz...back to stupid reality.   Aaron about: music I finally remembered to burn Jem - Finally Woker from my dad this weekend. It's awesome. Is this their only album?   Aaron about: house I am addicted to HGTV now and watch a half dozen house shows a week. Well, last night on Home Hunters there was this dumb chick that passed on what I thought was a better apt. partially because she would have had to paint some of the rooms. If I was a real estate agent and heard a client shying away from a potential sale because they didn't want to paint, I would call them lazy, uncreative, and boring. Nobody likes being called boring.   Aaron about: house Not that I really need to know, but why is painting the house even in the mix.? Why don't you pay less and have it be your problem or as we say at GPD "your opportunity for greatness"?    Aaron about: nose hair maybe it wasn't a nose hair, maybe it was a brain hair, and no, I shant be painting with your brain hair.    Aaron about: dags Wes, don't use old timecards. just make it up. Who cares. I filled mine out in multiples of 5 just to make it obvious to NCARB that I cheated. I'll be sucking it up and mailing in my overdue NCARB maintenance fees any day now along with my last set of hours. Pug-Boxers sound like trouble. A pug with the endourance of a boxer would run in circles for perpetuity.    Aaron about: Shirts I call under the beer pong table.   Aaron about: Trump I love that the Donald threw martha stewart under a bus. She has no personality; why would I want to watch her? Everything he says is absolutely true. I just didn't think anyone would say it. Trump is awesome.   The Donald Aaron about: crawling i love Canada is a third world country jokes.   Aaron about: St Pattys Day Are we touring on Friday or on Saturday?   Aaron about: guiness mmm....tasty weekend beer coming soon...   Aaron about: Italian Virgin Venice is cool because there are zero cars, it's only walkable, so the scale of everything is made only for people. I read an article that the best time to vacation there would be in January. Less tourists and less smell. Also the darker overcast winter days are a nice way to experience the tight streets. Toramina (hill town) in sicily was all walking too.   Aaron about: Italian Virgin the view from Ft. Belvadere and Noe Sandwich in Florence, St. Peters and Trevi Fountain in Rome, and Venice, anything else is gravy.    Aaron about: girl advice I work on a bunch of schools so community and teacher involvement is a must since it's their money, but there isn't much beyond that that they can offer. Usually my PM just placates them so that they feel like they are contributing when in actuality they are just wasting his evenings while budget and program control the design.    Aaron about: girl advice I'm dissapointed that they are going to knock down those houses on Elmwood. I kind of like them. They're colorful.   Aaron about: girl advice you just drink a bunch of coffee to counteract the pot sleepiness, and you have to put some liquor in the coffee to take the edge off the caffeine. Then the voices finally shut up.   Aaron about: girl advice just hide it, or you could smoke a gravity bong in front of her. One or the other, there is no in between. Also, corruption always beats purification, it's like rock to scissors.    Aaron about: V-day thews - you should go into a chant of "Thews Meng Clan ain't nothin to fuck with"    Aaron about: Apartments you should try to work a deal out with the landlord for an extra couple of months if you can handle the queers for that long.   Aaron about: Sad sorry about the house. I hope the roof collapses.   Aaron about: My Haunted House I sounds like Colon/his girlfriend fucking with you.   Aaron about: My Haunted House Berg, you should use that exocism line next time you are trying to woo a girl into having sex in your attic. Tell her you need to purge the demons.   Aaron about: VP Chenney I can't wait for the Daily Show tonight. At this point I think the administration is on Comedy Central's payroll.   Aaron about: Its time... Dear BDC crew, I will be leaving in 10 minutes to go play golden tee and drink a delicious weekend beer. Good day.    Aaron about: House speaking of real pong tables. I am going to procure 1 tonight from Marc's for $40. It folds up and is black. What a deal.   Aaron about: House no, Abby I've got one, but it's on my fridge at home.   Aaron about: House That's awesome. Will Tony and Sweet be your dirtbag tennants? Also, when is the Mountain weeding? May someting?   Aaron about: Tops I saw this on the 11:00 local news a couple days ago. In their monthly sale flyer Tops has decide to celebrate black history month by putting among other things, items like collared greens, pigs feet, etc. on sale. Needless to say they caught a little flak for that. It would have been great if they had really gone all the way and had 40's of Lazer and Kool cigarettes on there too.    Aaron about: Shirts I don't have a retired shirt pile. In fact, competition and st. patricks day shirts are usually bumped to the top of the rotation. (except for the "total domination ahead" one, I only wear that one to the mall.)   Aaron about: music I like Biggie's crazy penis.   Aaron about: St Patty I would like a t-shirt. I would pay $15 for one.    Aaron about: Wow... That dude who is sitting behind the Scarlett and Kiera was supposed to be the girl from Wedding Crashers, but she wasn't comfortable with it.    Aaron about: high school reunion Brad's team lost. Nick Goings would laugh at him.   Aaron about: Question yeah, this girl (first year out of Kent) talks to her husband everyday and last year we had a drafter that would talk to his wife twice a day.    Aaron about: Question I went to my 5 yr, it was fun-ish. I don't really want to go to the 10 yr, but might anyway.    Aaron about: delusional jew I see a couple of you have watched "Lord of War" or just a lot of history channel. Great movie by the way.   Aaron about: Question Do any of you young couples out there feel the need to call each other during the work day. Not just occasionally at lunch or to tell them they need to pick up milk, but for 20 mins. in the morning and 20 mins. in the afternoon, everyday? Just curious.   Aaron about: SHH!!! he definitely pushed off, off Hope's elbow. Weak call. I think Stevens' 3 drive killing dropped passes were the reason the Seahawks lost. Also I think they should have run Alexander more when the game was close.    Aaron about: structures prof I agree with Wes concerning the D I received. I think McWilliams was in on that tag team also. He was a complete schmuck.   Aaron about: catchup This was Bader's take on underwear from a couple of years ago. Tony is Tony Balon--- Tony has had a great impact on my life for it was he who found me lost and scared, curled up in a ball half-mad and whimpering, in the dark and dank back alley that is the underwear world. I remember so clearly his arrival - a figure of great power and bulk suddenly blocking out the harsh flickering light of the street lamp above, and a great, big hand reaching out to me, with a voice that echoed strength, yet sympathy, saying, "Do not be afraid, come, I will lead you from this vile place and show you light." I let that great, big hand lead me to the wonderful realm of FTL boxer briefs, where the sun shines every day and oversized talking fruits dress you in a fresh pair of misty-mountain smelling underwear each morning. Although I never got to fullfill my dream of sitting down with the great TB in nothing but our FTLs, sipping whiskey on the rocks, and talking on matters such as philosophy, science, and well, how FTL boxer briefs cuddle to the crotch like a well-trained girlfriend, I will cherish and remember the times spent around him otherwise.    Aaron about: do you want a virign?... I don't even know what that is from. Airplane maybe.    Aaron about: TUNES new underwear sucks, it needs washed for a year then its soft. New socks is where it's at. Speaking of, Target has these socks - they're white ankle socks. awesome because of the 3 1/2 light elastic band that go's around the arch of the foot conforming the the natural shape of the foot. No more saggy streched-out socks. I would reccomend them to anyone who enjoys wearing socks.   Aaron about: alternates I can't think of better way to get more work out of an architect than to have him do alternates. Spec alternates are one thing, but drawings are another. And construction managers love them because they can hedge against their own shotty estimates.   Aaron about: homoeroticism promotions When contemplating retaliation be aware of hate crime laws.    Aaron about: stupid mondays the 15 minute call ahead is the only way to go.   Aaron about: Arch I saw an showing of a movie about Peter Eisenman last Thurs. at the library. I didn't like him before. Now he is my nemisis.   Aaron about: fans of lost and the office... Office is awesome. So is Tivo for letting me watch the OC and record the office.   Aaron about: berg for a day burn!!!!!   Aaron about: Poll I don't want to brag, but last night my dream featured eddie murphy. The young, funny Eddie, not the old washed-up one. He didn't talk to me though, I guess I was just a walk-on.   Aaron about: Poll bub, In my dream last week, the Jurassic Park one, I had to beat this guy up. So I'm pummeling him with fists of fury, and I'm connecting but it didn't matter how many times I hit him. I think I got tired and woke up.   Aaron about: A yeah, he's got a 75% version. He doesn't enjoy the technoness of it so much.    Aaron about: Poll I've recently realized that my dreams generally play out like movies. But action movies. Think Jarassic Park (last week, it was awesome) I've even been shot at in a dream, they always miss. But I've been stressed lately so I keep having annoying and unrestfull dreams about getting out ASI's and work crap. I have scare the shit out of me wake up style dreams maybe ever 2 or 3 months.   Aaron about: A Andy, you live too far away, you should get it today. Sorry, I didn't give everyone their own, you'll have to share.   Aaron about: A yeah..uh, no girlfriend. got some extra time.   Aaron about: A Thank you, my only regret is that the quote on the inside comes off as cocky, I was trying to go with confident. My initial sentiments were: "Try not to hate it too much"   Aaron about: Pics yeah.. those only reinforce the gay/straight conversation from earlier. A lot of tounges and a lot of licking.    Aaron about: Skiing Bulldogg, Badre, and I will be skiing on Friday the 3rd. And then we will either drive to your house and be vegetables on couches or we will drive home.    Aaron about: ha! yes but his team should never have been the Broncos in the first place. If he was raised in Pittsburgh he should be a Pittsburgh fan. Otherwise he's a traitor.   Aaron about: ha! I think there is an important lesson to be learned. Loyalty. If he was from Denver it would be one thing, but he's only a fan of Elway. Not a good enough reason to wear the colors of the only team standing in the way of a superbowl appearance two days before the game.    Aaron about: things are slow... I wish things were slow here. I might have to work on it at home, so don't expect it until later this week at best.   Aaron about: Beer Thirty I don't drink in the office but if you include hangovers and the occasional beer at lunch that changes everything.   Aaron about: Coco Hopefully Charles Nagy will make a comback this year. He was always my favorite. I don't think he had the best stuff, but opposing batters were always distracted by the grinding noise that came from his shoulder with every pitch.    Aaron about: rant I've got a good rant in me, I just need a slow day to work on it. Dickey and Nathan got a preview last Friday. The angst and maybe a little spittle started spewing from my mouth. I had to stop before my head exploded. This piece will not be contravercial. I deem myself the leading authority on the subject and will not be told otherwise. I might need illustrations. Bub, will you up to the task of formatting my aggression next week?    Aaron about: The King just think of the dingleberries in berg's butt hair! I'm sorry.   Aaron about: The King yup, pooping pants is worse.    Aaron about: The King that guy is smooth  The King Aaron about: Paint I don't think you're responsible enough for a pet.   Aaron about: footballs berg, you're right about almost everything. I believe IF the steelers didn't twitch, the colts stood up and started to point and walk around which would draw the offensive linemen out of their stance. Clearly defensive offsides IF the steelers didn't twitch. The Palamala INT was total bullshit.    Aaron about: Sony dicks I got this from out computer guys this morning: "Please refrain from playing any Sony BMG music CD’s in GPD computers and laptops. Sony BMG has sold millions of CD’s that have a silent DRM Software that will install malicious software on your computer without your knowledge or consent (it happens in the background silently). This DRM Software was Sony’s attempt to stop illegal copying of their CD’s, but in reality it harms the operating system. The only remedy 100% effective is formatting the hard drive and reinstalling the computer from scratch. Just this week GPD has had our first dealings with this fiasco, and we are asking that all users take a moment and look at the label of all music CD’s before inserting them and playing them on GPD computers and laptops. If the label reads Sony BMG, please do not place it in your computer. We are sending this advisory out in hopes to avoid production time loss by our employees."  Sony Aaron about: football Hey, maybe the Bills will get Jim Haslet or even Norv Turner. Butch Davis is out there too, but they might need to get into a spending war against the Raiders for him.    Aaron about: football He's a quarterback, not a running back. He'll be fine. Maybe he'll run like Bernie Kosar for the rest of his career but he can still be productive. I wouldn't worry too much.   Aaron about: OMG!!! Too bad it didn't live. I would like a cyclops kitten. As long as it wasn't mean. It might have depth perception issues though.   Aaron about: poop That was me   Aaron about: toys yes, Derek! that was eating at me.   Aaron about: toys Have you ever noticed that Starstream's voice is the same as Cobra Commander's? Also, who knows the name of the Autobot/Decepticon's home planet? I think it ended with "-one".   Aaron about: poop who's gonna be the first cowboy and the butt of countless Bareback Mountain jokes?   Aaron about: Voit Yeah, we asked the cashier and she confirmed.    Aaron about: skiing Bader, Bulldogg, and I are going to ski on Fri. Feb. 3rd @ Hollimont on the other side of the mountain from Holiday Valley. Its all private but open to us clowns on weekdays. I've heard there aren't as many people to get in my way when I fall down the hills. We will be staying in Springville (20 mins. away/cheap) on Thurs. night. All are welcome to join us.    Aaron about: music I like Natalie Farr alot. Pink Martini is hit and miss. Avalanches sample from song #2. That all I've gotten to.   Aaron about: music Wes/Derek Happy B-days.    Aaron about: music You woke up that early just to listen to Stern? You are real fans. I enjoy him too, but I enjoy sleeping more. Ahhh, sweet unconciousnous.   Aaron about: Music There was a show on HBO a couple months ago about a porn musical that had a singing penis. I was all CGI'd. abosulutely bizzarre.   Aaron about: Music leanne, you forgot Ted Leo's cover of Kelly Clarkson "Since you've been gone" leading into Danzig. It's phenominal. In fact I'm going to listen to it right now.   Aaron about: My rant today... I've been to 2 phish shows, but refuse to listen to their recorded music, even bootlegs. Live and intoxicated they are awesome though.   Aaron about: Paint I'll do as much as I can before I become uninspired. There is actually a list, but everyone is actually better off not on it because the list makes it feel like work and then I don't want to do it. Great logic huh?    Aaron about: MUSIC of course Andy. With painting, I get really into it, then after I expel some of my creativity I turn to a different creative exploit. Basically, I've got creative ADD. Well, I've been building up gumption for doing some painting for about 8 or 9 months now, so it's probably time to do something in that media.    Aaron about: MUSIC Biggie, you were right. "Dinner for 2" makes me want to make out with you.    Aaron about: MUSIC wes, your reviews are awesome. I have all but spoon and Broken S.S. in my top 10. I know, I know... I'm wrong. After reading your reviews I will give them a little more time. If I had my druthers, I would probably replace them with the Kills and Sleeping Kings of Iona, but they would be at 9 and 10. and no, I haven't heard James Blunt.   Aaron about: music no I forgot to host the Feats of Strength. I thing that it was going to be between biggie and Thews. I'll probably just give it to thews for his dancing and because he is going to give me 30 gigs of maticulously organized music. Sorry biggs.   Aaron about: hairy bergs new years bonanza I have an extra copy, but it is what I thought were thews' copies, and I had lost dickey's but what I must have is dickey's and thews has his.    Aaron about: A pocket knife with a can opener if he intends on traveling after. Also, thermal underwear and shirts/wool socks (it was cold). Also as a strategy (I wished I had done this), just bring a couple packs of hanes white t-shirts over, buy cool italy t-shirts (Noe sandwich shop, Rome Hard Rock, etc.) while over there and ditch the white shirts as he's travelling. no sense in carrying around dirty clothes.   Aaron about: Seriously? and I thought traveling through europe was a pain in the ass. The kids got so brass ones.   Aaron about: Question Resturants/bars that have questionable accounting practices and possible ties to the mafia don't like card machines because of income reporting reasons. Because of the growing number of people who use credit cards, they put in MAC machines in order to bypass the trackable transacion. Luigi's is the only place in Akron I can think of that uses this practice. There are at least 2 places in kent.   Aaron about: music i almost spelled it "viola". Is that the right way? I think I saw it in a book once.    Aaron about: lesbians i want to sleep again already.   Aaron about: music by the way, this system long used by Dickey works pretty well. I just pick a disk from my available options at the time, whether I be in the car, at work, or home. Every once in a while, I'll shake things up and whall-ah it's fresh new music for me. The only major drawback is when I want to listen to something specific, but that rarely happens.   Aaron about: music Lately, I've been using the random-piles-of-disks-in-various-places ordering system for my music. Having 2 copies of everything could only make my music more organized.   Aaron about: music I will make a copy at work today or tomorrow. I am soooooo bored, but because I don't want to work not because I have nothing to do. that's the worst kind. I feel like a deadbeat. Good think I don't think about work on the weekends.   Aaron about: music yes! thank you derek   Aaron about: Duncan you're dag is awesome. And portsmouth looks fantastic. I really want to visit.    Aaron about: march madness Not to shoot down the comp weekend in c-bus (I would love it) but wasn't it deemed impossible for buffalo to field an away team.   Aaron about: Friday night activities I will be in cleveland sometime on Friday. I don't know when. I'll call people. Midnight showings I'm in for, maybe late dinners also.    Aaron about: BEER Mr. BUBbles' Suds is way gayer.    Aaron about: BEER yeh, "bubbly beer" is flaming, but its not my beer.    Aaron about: BEER how about Bubbly beer   Aaron about: music cool. thnx.    Aaron about: music While pimping Amadou and Mariam to my dad the language which they speak came into question. I said Portugese but was wondering what the correct answer is.   Aaron about: revit and sleep We didn't switch to revit, but we tried to use all the 3D desktop crap. Yeah, that didn't work. We were actually told by someone from Autodesk that creating a model that you can generate elevations etc. is not worth the time. We do use more tools than most firms do, ie. auto generated schedules, the project navigator, fields... But it took a lot of time to set things up and there are still things we have trouble doing. Revit is probably the same way. URS uses it. Their drawings look good but I don't know how long it took to customise. If I had to start my own firm today. I would use Acad 2006 (you can trim hatch). you'll spend more time thinking about design and less time thinking about how to throw your computer out a window. Plus new employees don't require 3 months to acclimate to the insanity.   Aaron about: Feliz Navidad Merry Christmas everyone. I'm out.    Aaron about: Feliz Navidad Laura, you should buy a townhouse or condo. I've considered it, it's like a training house. You only have to worry about the inside problems. But I really want a yard. One that I can manicure and make lush and velvety. I'll sit on my front porch and all the neighbors will know who has the best lawn.    Aaron about: GPD I am going to go play Golden Tee in about 20 mins. Right now I've just about finished reading the internet so this party is getting old.    Aaron about: Feliz Navidad Gill, that is why living in a city stinks. You should move to suburbs and then you can have a yard.    Aaron about: birthdays Berg, you really should stop huffing gasoline.    Aaron about: Holidays I can't stop laughing whenever I think of people with peanut alergies hating george washington carver. He must be like satan to them.    Aaron about: Holidays I rolled in at 9:30. My head is numb. I want to break out the liquor in the coffee but am a little nervous. People aren't completely screwing off like they were last year, yet. I'll wait another half hour. That'll fix me right up.    Aaron about: holidays happy birthday dickey   Aaron about: one more thing you made coffee and won't drink it because there is no milk? what a waste.   Aaron about: Holiday Season I am going to bring in a bottle of Jamisons on Friday and start drinking at 9:00 or whenever I get in. At noon the firm is buying anyone who is here pizza and wings, and hopefully sending us all home as a "suprise" even though it happens every year and by home I mean to the bar.    Aaron about: Damn it I'm down $75. Hoping to win is back today. j/k   Aaron about: Santa is your puppet yeah, I didn't really think he'd do that.   Aaron about: Santa is your puppet He did 95% of what I asked, including drink a beer, moonwalk, karate chop, and suplex tree. I like it.   Aaron about: bungles win the division I didn't say fear of god, I said fear of frisky Browns. They tend to pull teams down to their level.   Aaron about: bungles win the division I'd be more worried about the frisky Browns at home on Christmas Eve than a 3 way tie.   Aaron about: sports 323 lbs seems light for his size. I would have guessed 350.    Aaron about: bungles win the division randy cross is terrrrrible. It's really funny that he's got his own segments like "Cross' crucial plays" or whatever. I agree with the rest of your list and would like to add Boomer. I hate when he complains that a hit was too hard.    Aaron about: bungles win the division I was so zen while watching the browns game. I didn't even care if they won. It was cool that they did, but really it only hurt their draft status. The way the NFL is this year the Browns might end it with only 5 wins but still be better than 10 teams. I did scream my face off when the refs were being spineless and called a fumble after conferring for 3 minutes, just so that they could review it and find that Droughns was sitting on the ground for 5 seconds before someone ripped the ball out of his hands. I don't like instant replay anymore.    Aaron about: music I can do Christmas music. To be honest I am a slave to Amadou & Mariam and Atmosphere. I still need to give Illinoise and Dirty Three a few more listens and haven't even gotten to Hot Hot Heat and Porcupine Tree. So, while I am a dirty whore for new music I could probably us a couple days to catch my breath.   Aaron about: Neutral Milk Hotel MP3 Hen, I can't believe you contained yourself on the Tribe talk, or were you and Gill co-expounding on that topic? So much baseball knowledge.    Aaron about: New Topic Randall is cold, "it's called the Apprentice not the Apprenti." Ouch.   Aaron about: K-gun Cause they would would perform scoring "strikes"? and no way was that offense better than the 99/00 Rams. Remember when the kicker was hurt and they kept going for it on 4th down instead of kicking FG's. They were impossible to stop, Not only that they gained 40 yrds at a time.   Aaron about: Address My surragate teams are the Bears, and Chargers (if they make it) Teams I don't like are the Jags, Denver always, all other NFC teams. I don't think the Colts will lose. They're too good. However, not the best offense I've ever seen, The Rams definitly win that catagory.   Aaron about: thoughts on the Bills There's a good article about TKO Spikes on ESPN's homepage. So is Buffalo going to blow up their regime after this season, like the browns did last year? On monday night football they were saying how Moulds is good friends with Harrison. Harrison - one hall of fame QB. Moulds - 9 QB's of varying sucktitude. I'm supprised he hasn't done something until now. I think the Browns should steal him.    Aaron about: Berg and other shit. I saw "5 reasons why it wasn't Ernest Byner's fault" a couple of days ago on ESPN Classic. My loathing was somewhat placated. I am now pissed off at Webster Slaughter who didn't block the guy who stripped Byner. And our all pro CB's who missed lots of tackles. It's cool though, that was a long time ago. I'm ok now. Really, it's fine.   Aaron about: Berg and other shit. I don't like him. He's a loser and he'll never win anything. He'll ruin our chi.   Aaron about: music Berg, music discussion is good and I will continue to ignore you. I have pics that I should e-mail to Bub or something. And yes it has always been Barq's rootbeer and I have known since I was 5 yrs. old. (A&W mops the floor with it). Also look at the can, don't the orange barrels and trees look like a carrot sticking out of the ground? Where's the flyer? I'm gonna make other plans.   Aaron about: music sluts the new f.f. is at least as good as their first one. Might be better.    Aaron about: mante he's probably retired. Remember when he was Rick Schroder's sidekick on Silver Spoons?   Aaron about: music I'm actually still letting some of the other stuff soak in, but can I make a request for "TV on the Radio" sometime soon? Derek, I think you said it was your album of the year a year ago. Needless to say, I'm intreaged.    Aaron about: gold star so much awesome music....all sooo gooood....   Aaron about: ditry three it worked    Aaron about: HOUSE I don't know what that it, but sure.   Aaron about: house i'm jeolous.   Aaron about: house Oh man, I can't wait to get a house. I want to turn entire rooms into themes. My dining room will be a glowing cave. My living room will be a Sherlock Holmesian smoking den. It'll be awesome.   Aaron about: dirty three i've got everything so far. I'll check out dirty 3, but I'm in the middle of a really strong hip-hop binge. Anything that could help me out would be awesome. One of these days I'll enlighten everyone to some slammin' stuff I've got, I'll need to upload from home though.    Aaron about: ug-ly unis Next time you hear him having loud gay sex you should play some Black Sabbath really loud. Not to mask the noise but to see if you can get them really fired up.   Aaron about: College debts and broken dreams Berg, interesting article. It is a little whiny at times. Rising tuition sucks.   Aaron about: stupid football I don't know if he was told to miss it or if he's a renegade place kicker but I don't think NFL kickers miss 35 yrd FG's 20 yards to the left very often.   Aaron about: stupid football The browns played perfect. Gave me hope for next year but didn't hurt their draft status. By the way, was it disgustingly obvious that Houston's kicker missed that game tieing FG on purpose?   Aaron about: Beer Friday good to know. but I wasn't asking when the proper beer drinking etiquette says one could crack open a cold one. I was curious of the "Beer Friday" rules in an office. I've heard of "Beer-o-Clock" which is I think 4:00 at Meng/Becky's firm but Beer Friday is kind of vague and could be construed as keep a moderate buzz on for 8 hours just don't get sloppy. I wouldn't do that, but you know. Also, I don't buy the drinking before noon thing. By-darnit, if I want a beer I'll have one.    Aaron about: Beer Friday How early can you start drinking? noon?   Aaron about: TUNES Sufjan rocks out the longest song names I've ever seen.   Aaron about: Kaelynn Andy, Bill Simmon's has some pretty good things to say about the NFL in his article today. I like to print long articles out so they can be disguised as memos.    Aaron about: Kaelynn I agree   Aaron about: Kaelynn She could go by Lynn, but then she'd be Lynn Lloyd. I think she should just go by the letter K.    Aaron about: I have GoPlot to view and plot plot files, but it sucks. I'd try something else.    aaron about: tunes I'm a slut and I'm ready for more.   aaron about: syriana I think it looks like another "Insider". A couple of respected actors playing intense roles, story revolving around conspiracy (i think), gritty trailer. Insider was really boring though, and I'm going to wait for reviews to come out on Syriana before I decide if it's worth my time.    aaron about: 2 pac I've told you all.. HE'S NOT DEAD!  2 pac aaron about: sweet Christmas Chevy Chase eat your heart out.  sweet Christmas aaron about: car accident This Actually Happened on 768 Northwest Highway in Dallas. It's a phone call from a man in Texas who witnessed a car accident involving 4 elderly women in a Chevy Impala.   car accident Aaron about: biggie- I'll go to Cleveland at least one night next weekend to hang out. Berg - frame that photo, i'm coming to collect.   Aaron about: weekend I'm just kidding. Don't use heroin.   Aaron about: weekend Freshman year in college I was drunk and e-mailed all of my highschool friends that heroin was "the bomb" and that they should all try it. When I checked my e-mail a couple of days later there were a bunch of concerned friends in my inbox. Panzies wouldn't try heroin.    aaron about: ski trip anyone? If I were to invent a teleporter, car manufacturers, gasoline moguls, and hotel owners would assasinate me.   aaron about: Posting tunes what, something doesn't work on a Mac? That's impossible.   aaron about: musac I spent lots of time at home listening to my costimized hiphop station on pandora last night. After about an hour I liked almost every song. Then every once in a while it would put on something that strayed a little far from my definition of "good" so I had to lay the thumbs-down smack down.    Aaron about: music what about the hip/hop we all had to be quiet and listen to while ponging? Automatic?    aaron about: holidays Is there anything better than the holiday tradition of half-assing work the second half of December? I love Chrismika.    aaron about: Pandora holy crap, that site is going to get me fired. But it'll be worth it.    aaron about: The Voit Wedding Leanne, I want to be on the list. I'm on the fence right now. I've got plenty of money, I'm just not sure if I like you and Wes that much. j/k   aaron about: music I don't care what anyone thinks, I like the Sleeping Kings of Iona   aaron about: boner I really have zero interest in watching any game the colts play for the rest of the season. They are too good. Break 'em up!   aaron about: Thanksgiving well said Berg. I'm out folks. Gotta try and beat the falling sky home to Geneva. Happy Turkeys.   aaron about: Hello - anyone out there? I am not coming in on Friday, and I am thankful that I will have made it to 28 yrs tomorrow.    aaron about: midgets I don't think people could sue because they would not have fit the job description. Men can't sue Hooters for not hiring because they don't meet the job description.   Aaron about: Fireworks Dickey, can I help? I took the day off to work on some of my "projects" and to do laundry. Should I work on Nathan stuff too. Give me a call or shoot something to my aaron2000xl@yahoo.com account if I can help. I'm going to run some errands now, so I'll check back in computer style in an hour.5 or so. -A   Aaron about: heat anyone? No heat bill in my new apt. Rent's a little more expensive but worth not getting a $200 bill. I signed the lease about a week before Katrina or the landlord might have jacked the price up. I would have if I was paying these gas prices.   Aaron about: cd label Do voi have any preferences or thoughts on cd label making software brands? I need to make some cd sticker circle things.   Aaron about: funny I would strangle the accountant. Really, you should have just started to talk his/her ear off about all of the minute details that shaped the design - programming/plan layout/budget/politics/zoning/code requirements...etc. Just blast them with a 15 minute detailed summary of what has gone into the project, and do it in a "hey, you're pretty damn smart, I've never thought of doing it your way, i've must have had my head up may ass while I was wading through all of this other bullshit. But you have set me straight and I will now disregard all of the other imput that shaped this design and do it your way" tone of voice. It's just a subtle inflection.   Aaron about: package Yes, go to Derek's old place. Aaron will you be taking Berg's chairs? Yes, I can grab them.   Aaron about: package Dickey and I will ride at 6:30. Expect us there by 9:00. To Derek's old apt. then?    aaron about: words 43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category. I dislike all forms of the plural you. "you all and y'all"-sounds southern/hick, yins-pittsburghese/hick, and "you guys"- inaccurate when women are present. I have no solution. Maybe "voi".   aaron about: lost Ed was such a terrible show, thank god it ended and Julie Bowen is now on Boston Legal.    aaron about: HP Did McDonalds make droppin the G really lame with their 'I'm lovin it' ads? I think they did. McD's should implement other pop culture idioms of questionable taste into their ads in an attempt to make them uncool.    aaron about: HP I am sooo stoked about Harry Potter IV tomorrow. Hangin' with you guys will be cool to.    aaron about: wes, what's a steinway?   aaron about: tasty tunes Wes, I am a dirty music whore. New, Sigor Ros is phenominal. I've said that here before but I'll say it again. Also, I know you said George Clinton is on the Blackalicious album. Is Tone Loc on there too?   aaron about: aaron bing - I'm no sure where the idea stealing subject was brought up but guess I do have an anticdote. I remember seeing John Kurtz over in Italy furious because Harker didn't like his idea and then walked him over to Luke's desk to show him a more appropriate design. Harker was a chode. Not all the professors were like that.   aaron about: annoying right on cathryn, although the Anna Nichole Smith marry money retirement plan might catch on.   aaron about: music Did everyone download both awesome albums? Wes, can you put up more good music? I am a junky.   aaron about: j hall Gill, J Hall = Jeremy. How could you forget that? He was nothing but a friend to everone in our class. A really creepy friend.    aaron about: this weekend If I have anything less than a foursome I'll grab chairs.    aaron about: this weekend I will be there, I don't know if anyone else from Akron will be awesome with me though. Biggie, rent a car, preferably a Navigator with tinted windows. We could cruse to the O.G. Pancake Hizouse in style.    aaron about: wolverines that was me. sorry    Aaron about: who goes camping in the middle of November? I guess I do. Yell at yall on Monday. Happy birthday Bub and Cathryn.    Aaron about: the blackalicious remember, head room is necessary   Aaron about: the blackalicious it's called World of Vibrations and it is good but not as good as Black Diamonds and Peals.    Aaron about: I will use that line when I make my afterschool movie about quarterlife crisises.   Aaron about: I don't drink because I hate my job, I drink because I hate myself.   Aaron about: freebes no   Aaron about: I don't watch Lost. But I kind of wish I did. At this point I could rent season 1 and watch 20 hours of TV to catch up. The thing I want to know before I commit myself is whether it has a planned ending or not. I'm sick of watching shows where the writers just kind of make it up as they go until the ratings go down and the show gets cancelled.    Aaron about: kid-fuckers Andy, I think that is entrapment. I didn't see the show but I watch a lot of law and order.   Aaron about: structural engineers Remember the ethics class where that Ethics teacher came in an told us we were professionals because we had esoteric knowledge and since we were "professionals" we have an obligation to serve our communities. Well, that's not why I wanted to be an architect at all. Couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, I lied on my IDP and served 6 of 80 hours of community service. Does that make me unethical and therefore a bad architect? Actually, nobody answer that. I prefer to think of myself as ethical and good architect with an aversion to doing boring pro-bono work.   Aaron about: structural engineers ..while laughing at the drooling comment, not in disgust at the architect title thing   Aaron about: structural engineers Cathryn, I just spit mountain dew on my computer screen.   Aaron about: structural engineer I'm with Abby, it doesn't irk me too much but I don't like it. I really have no good reason to gripe. The word works perfectly in that context. I just think that as good as Cleveland defence was in 86 it the feat still pales in comparison to getting a pole barn built in Hudson.    Aaron about: MUSIC 1/2 span in inches. That is the only answer that should be recognized on the NCARB structural exam.   Aaron about: Legos Dickey and Marcy were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. I finally remembered to go to the website and see if the buzz was for real. It is and it's everything a legomaniac could dream of.   Legos Aaron about: wow. I've got this theory where the best situation would be a D president and a R congress. The D pres. will be the face of the nation and the flagship for America. He/she can say all the right things, like - we'll give you money and you can get married. Then the republicans in congress as well as the rest of the government can be the burocratic blob that stifles the president whenever he/she overcommits to a country or a group of people.   Aaron about: Favor Can't, I will be among the wilderness. I have plans to go camping with Badre and his cousin all weekend.    Aaron about: Chicago No, I'm not serious, I'm jealous.   Aaron about: Chicago There are no good bars in Chicago. The whole city is boring and you should be very depressed that you have to spend a weekend in such a horrible place.    Aaron about: monday morning crap I am totally stoked to see potter, and will go. The only aprehension I have is the saturday afternoon showing on opening weekend will be the worst possible time to avoid the munchkins. They will be everywhere and be drooling. It would be cool if we went to the theater in the red light district near the gun shop.    Aaron about: monday morning crap congratulations everyone, all football teams did well this weekend.    Aaron about: ruthless Inc. We have an electrical engineer who has been working here for about 8 months. She has what I can only describe as a "clueless face" which she uses ALL THE TIME. The eyes get really wide, eyebrows slightly slanted up in the center, slight wrinkling of the forhead, mouth partially open in the anticipatory dog waiting for a treat way. I hate this face more than her incompetance itself. And I hate the high toned, I'm-so-clueless-please- explain-it-to-me voice that accompanies the clueless face. I also don't like people who make popcorn in the office at 10:00 in the morning and make everyone smell the buttery goodness 2 hours before lunch and god help them if they burn it.    Aaron about: Freedom Slave I was unable to take a virtual tour of ancient Rome this morning because of "educational intitutions".    Aaron about: Xmas party My firm has a party alot like Leanne described, except on Saturday night. It's a really big event - 150 people all dressed up, getting plastered and dancing. No kids. No santa. Just booze.   Aaron about: Video You all have to stop whatever you're doing and watch this in it's entirety.  Backstreet Boys Aaron about: BIG weekend last year we played cornhole in February. It was just as fun. And I liked the all-weather bags.    Aaron about: BIG weekend Are we down to Pitt or C-bus? Any other bidders?    Aaron about: big weekend the weekend of the 19th is Harry Potter IV weekend... good reason to drink.   Aaron about: NASCAR whatever, Tootsie pops are superior   Aaron about: NASCAR I used to be hellagood at playing backyard football drunk. I'd get ripped and run down to the Tri soccerfield 20 minutes after gametime so I could miss all of the boring team picking and then just tear shit up. Hitting and diving doesn't hurt drunk, plus there is the invincibility factor.    Aaron about: at least i have hockey? Maybe you should start cheering for teams that are already winning. You could become a huge USC fan, etc. The downsied is you might have to abandon your soul.   Aaron about: suckers I'm gonna have to say Tootsie Pops are vastly superior to Blow Pops. Better hard candy sucker, better chewy center, and better wrapper.   Aaron about: FF never mind. I read plumber. dsilxeia   Aaron about: FF "luckily i drafted palmer in the late rounds." WOW. who thought that would ever be in print.    Aaron about: good sports my favorite reason that a website is blocked/filtered - "tasteless"   Aaron about: music drinking the High Life will open your taste buds to another level.   Aaron about: game hand-eye coordination game. keep the blue dot on the yellow path or it starts over. I got to level 3.  skills game Aaron about: SERIOUSLY????!!!! It's like cutting a cat's wiskers, only for humans. The video game application would be cool though.   Aaron about: ESPN = My Chode wes, have you lost 4 games in a row? ouch.   Aaron about: i-tunes new sigor ros is great. I still haven't figured out why anyone would buy whole albums from itunes. I would pay $2 more for a hard copy, cover art, and liner notes.   Aaron about: news That's awesome, houses are cool.   Aaron about: ESPN = My Chode ...then "Mother" came on.   Aaron about: ESPN = My Chode I think I've only heard the K. Clarkson version once, so it doesn't carry any baggage for me. But Thress was over on Saturday and he couldn't even finish his sentence because he was so agast.   Aaron about: drunk dial I got some funny phone messages on Friday night.   Aaron about: ESPN = My Chode Track 6 off of male is the best. Ted Leo doing Kelly Clarkson is a close second.    Aaron about: the Browns ESPN sucks. I couldn't change my roster on tues. don't know why. so bye week brady is my starting QB. I tried to pick up Testaverdy for tonights game, but my team is locked. Not that testaverty would score 30 points but I wanted to have a glimmer of hope and a reason to watch the game tonight. Yahoo is 100 times better.   Aaron about: the Browns nothing at all.   Aaron about: the Browns I'm still miserable. Not because they lost, because I wasted 3+ hours watching the boringest football game ever. Nothing happened, nothing.    Aaron about: Ruthless Inc. I hate people who abuse casual Fridays by wearing baseball caps.    Aaron about: tsunami's it's just water.    Aaron about: Oil Drilling 400 acres is not that big. Alaska is a billion acres.   Aaron about: Fantaasy Football there is no such thing as global warming, it is a hoax   Aaron about: Ruthless Inc. At my firm, I'm either working really hard or goofing off. No quasi-wasting time/working bullshit. If I were to work all out 100% of the time I would have to start taking on more responsibility and I don't like working overtime. As for Andy/Wes/My future firm. I like it and you can all work for us, but you might get fired.   Aaron about: cable regulation I called last night. As of 2 to 4 o'clock on Friday I will have Time Warner cable (with DVR) and internet. You may now welcome me to the 21st century.   Aaron about: stupid fuckin people she got fired anyway, but probably 3 months after I would have done it. Also, I heard she is still tapping my money by becoming a single unwed mother with no job.   Aaron about: stupid fuckin people Andy, I wish you and I worked together. A couple of years ago my firm put up a suggestion box. At the time there was a just out of highschool drafter that did nothing. Actually she did less than nothing. By talking to coworkers she impeded their work as well. I somehow refrained from writing a suggestion that she be fired. I was going to propose myself working one hour extra every day in return for her salary.    Aaron about: football I saw a pink steelers hat at Target yesterday. It was a normal hat with the normal logo patch but it was pepto-pink. I almost bought it.   Aaron about: thursday I'm going to go find another website where the people write more stuff.    Aaron about: Babies 2 sets of twins, all the kids' names start with "j". Thats nice    Aaron about: hey thewsie... I can field that one. Crissy made it. It is a compilation entitled "A Taste of Lamb". Track 12 is scrumptious.   Aaron about: Responsibility I think it should be an ultimate fighting championship draw where we don't actually fight we just vote to see who would win... or not.   Aaron about: Responsibility Berg and Kevin - you guys sit right next to each other. You guys should have a cage match (or would it be a cubicle match?)(sorry) to decide whose opinion is better. Physical violence is the only way to solve this. The victor will notify BDC via post. Bub can we take a poll for oddsmaking purposes.    Aaron about: Responsibility my biology teacher in high school used to preach the "liscense to breed" mentality. A little over the top if you ask me, but sometimes when I'm on my high horse, I agree.   Aaron about: housing prices interesting, Columbus is the case study for this guy's opinion that the housing bubble is bursting  http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P131154.asp?GT1=7160 Aaron about: rant nice berg, i like it. have you seen "Coach Carter"? Also, I sometimes wonder if growing up in the city incubates the bad habits you speak of. If you grow up in the sticks cohorting until 11 isn't really an option. Neither is waltzing in at 9:30. If you miss the bus you don't get to school. And if you miss school, there aren't a bunch of gangbangers around to get in trouble with, just trees.   Aaron about: Later kids, I'm out   Aaron about: Ig Nobel Awards One of the guys in my office built an alarm clock that randomly changes the time up to 1/2 hour in either direction after the alarm goes off. So you have to get up because you might be 1/2 hour late. You might be 1/2 hour early though. That'seasily as cool as the alarm clock that runs away.    Aaron about: Sports Weekend I don't think anyone likes penn st. I like their classic uniforms, but not against the bucks.   Aaron about: hi   Aaron about: Yes! Why do you want to sell me your house? Are you afraid a boarded-up crack house will appear across the street? Do you think without Jane running the show your neighborhood will not look so prosperous?    Aaron about: i've always said that about turkeys   Aaron about: Yes! the healing process begins   Aaron about: Yes! Cleveland City Council President Frank Jackson thrashed Mayor Jane Campbell in Tuesday's primary, making Campbell the first mayor to lose in the mayoral primary since Dennis Kucinich fell to George Voinovich in 1979.   Aaron about: Quarter Life Crisis I'm don't know if there is much of a market out there for LEED accredited structural engineers. They'd all be pushing the bamboo i-beams and dirt walls.   Aaron about: I don't know if you guys remember but the original idea was that one could teleport anywhere he/she could see. Fiberoptics and telescopes would be huge, and they would erect teleporting towers that you could warp to and shoot across vast distances. It was one of the 3 things that would change architecture forever. The other two were aliens and giant magnet floor plates with similar polar repelling to creat column free spaces. I've been talking to my structural engineer about them. He's still leaning towards rocket thrusters and compression cables though.   Aaron about: this guy, and this machine! He kind of looks like Mr. Perfect   Aaron about: and take their money.    Aaron about: If someone does invent one though, I'll sue them    Aaron about: Quarter Life Crisis The teleporter is still in the works, but its not so much of an invention right now as just a good idea.   Aaron about: Quarter Life Crisis I am going to invent something, I just need to figure out what...   Aaron about: Quarter Life Crisis This bitchy math teacher in junior high was the mom of one of my classmates. He was OK but his mom sucked. Anyway, the dad went through a classic midlife crisis, divorced his wife; my mom saw him and his 23 year old girlfriend riding croch rockets down main street.    Aaron about: Quarter Life Crisis I definitely believe there is such a thing as a 1/4 life crisis. I was super depressed when I graduated, move out of kent and got layed off within 2 months. I think 17 years of school and then having to finally do the thing you've been preparing for is depressing and unlike the mid-life crisis you can't go buy a sprortscar or a motorcycle, and girls half your age are illegal.    Aaron about: Random? Will it be a birthday party or a halloween party? I'm just saying it could be both.    Aaron about: WOAH!!!! The down syndrom gives them the super-strengh. Somebody was telling me about that a long time ago. Harold maybe.    Aaron about: music The new Sigor Ros is awesome. My dad burned it for me this weekend. Didn't even know who they were, just figured I'd like it. Fantabulous.   Aaron about: stop staring I almost called attention to that picture earlier. I was wondering if Matt Lienert stayed in college because of the unbelievable amount of hot college ass he gets, but then I wondered if he wouldn't get at least as much if he had millions of dollars and was a pro. But maybe he just wants to learn.    Aaron about: poop berg, please bring the OC when you come down tonight.    Aaron about: poop d-rok, dickey, bulldogg, and I are not sleeping. we are going to tear up Akron starting at 5:00. Mmmm....happy hour.   Aaron about: Reality TV Rocks! I like this part: A justice ministry spokesman said that parts of the show were "probably illegal", but it was not yet clear whether anyone could be prosecuted.   Aaron about: Football Season football is a better sport. better to watch, better to play, better to tailgait for, better to sleep on the couch hungover for, and definitely better to talk about. However, it is playoffs in baseball and it isn't saturday,sunday, or monday, and the Indians are in it, so I am intersted.   Aaron about: TRIBE if boston can fend off the yanks    Aaron about: Jesus in the sky with diamonds I saw a horse cloud once. Seriously, it was a horse. Not an outline but a lifelike picture. Like the Jordache logo or Napolian Dynamite's shirt. And it wasn't the drugs.   http://www.jordache.com/ Aaron about: ahh.. much better Sometimes I think my body works like the Ed Harris' in Abyss when he has to breath the pink oxygen liquid. Only for me the liquid is alcohal. And then when I stop with the liquid, my body takes a day or two to return to air. Sorry... I'm wierd.   Aaron about: ahh.. much better I like the world again, it's has been a couple of days.    Aaron about: Hurricanes I think they should just start naming them after more obscure names. I would poop if I heard hurricane Plaxico was headed towards my house. How do you think people would react if their home was destroyed by hurricane Tito.   Aaron about: awesome I wish I had called in sick. I hate work, and I hate people today. They keep trying to talk to me and I just want to lie in the fetal position under my desk and take a little nap.   Aaron about: rokmusik Derek likes good music   Aaron about: fantasy football my line-up is so kick-ass that no changes are necessary. Derek will lose and I will smile.    Aaron about: uh yes   Aaron about: wedding my favorite part was the 40 minutes Thews and I spend driving around Rootstown/Revenna last night looking for Bernie's house so that I could get my car.    Aaron about: OC Article with Bill Simmons interviewing the creator of the OC.   http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050908a Aaron about: Beer Rolling rock sucks. do not get rolling rock. Stroh's is deceptively good in a keg though.   Aaron about: Golf I will not be driving a cart Sat. I have been in a couple of drunken golf cart wrecks and do not want the responsibility. It's funny when you break them, but then the paranoia of getting in trouble sets in and is a total buzz kill. I will get my kicks out of being obnoxiously drunk.   Aaron about: golf course no pants or collared shirts at Kent. However, the Pro's tend not to act as snotty when you're wearing a collared shirt. Plus you can "pop" it.   Aaron about: Philatelist I think the High museum of Art is not worthy and I'm a Meyer fan. It should be replaced with maybe the Empire State Building.   Aaron about: idiots Dickey is the only one with a porch and we could make him stick around and wait for you guys. But if you're goin to rays this fact is unnescessary and probably will only add to the confusion. You're welcome    Aaron about: Weekend bader said that at 9:00 on Tuesday. I almost threw my coffee at him.   Aaron about: Not Laundry Thews - Dickey would like to reserve the last seat on the Christen bus from cleveland on Sunday. I spoke to him last night.   Aaron about: Laundry is awesome! is it $5 for a wash? actually, it might still be worth it.   Aaron about: idiots you don't have to drive anywhere, so don't bitch or we'll leave you in Cleveland.   Aaron about: 2467 4th St., Cuyahoga Falls   Aaron about: this weekend greenberg and I discussed the solution last night. Thews and myself will need to drive to Bergs on Friday and leave one car there. Berg, thews, wes, toner, and I will uncomfortably drive to Jen B's going away party breifly and then head to C-Falls/rays where we will meet everone else. By leaving a car in Cleveland, Thews and I can return home on Sunday and Berg doesn't have to leave his car in Kent. This doesn't work, because I don't think Thews or I have a car big enough to accomodate 5 beefy dudes and golf clubs and overnight bags. We should rent scooters.   Aaron about: fantasy football Maybe the site is bogged down.   Aaron about: A I don't know, its too complicated. I think everyone should drive by themselves wherever they want.   Aaron about: site update does this mean voyers will now not be able to read our posts or will they just not be able to add their own?   Aaron about: Just kidding, I have enough help.   Aaron about: notice about gas Sorry Biggie, I would be happy to split gas with you but I am going to Columbus for the Ohio State game, then I'm going to be moving on Sunday and Monday. So full weekend for me. In fact, you want swing by and move some couches on your way home? I'll give you a beer, maybe two.    Aaron about: It's times like these that I think of a little place called Bartertown. I'm buying some pigs tomorrow.   Aaron about: fantasy football My team is rock solid. Seriously, It's so good. You are all going to lose to me.   aaron about: LLWS did anyone else watch the little league world series sunday as Hawii came back scoring 3 runs in the bottom of the 7th against Caracass to send it into extra innings. And then they went to the local news. I hate the local news. At least Hawaii won.    aaron about: Labor Day Extravaganza! Hey, if anybody wants to drive to Akron on their holiday off and help me move couches I'll give you a beer. Maybe two if you work for it.   aaron about: Fun Times! That was a very accurate depiction, and I think we saw "Entrapment" under the same conditions, in the same theater he mentions. It was an old opera house style theater. We sat in a box on the right side.   aaron about: post After it came up at dinner last night, I decided to repost my bacon propaganda. Unfortunately after I hit post Bader's "Wakin to Bacon" poem lost all of it's format and is now a run-on blob, maybe that could be fixed later. enjoy.    aaron about: footballs jeff blake   aaron about: footballs I think the browns are better than the Bears, 49ers, and Titans. They all suck.   aaron about: FF kidding, i'm kidding   aaron about: FF I don't have an issue if i'm second    aaron about: FF It is a little like work, like working the best job anyone ever had. FF provides a reason to be interested in games that otherwise would be of no interest whatsoever. A reason to stay up until 12:30 on a monday night screaming at your TV when Julius Jones scores his third touchdown of the game in the 4th quarter. And with money on the line I can justify my addiction when I am snoozy at 6:30 the next morning. You know, cause I was working late last night.   aaron about: we need conversations Fox had a fake reality show that they tested out a couple of times this summer. "Princes of Malibu" or something like that. the premise was really funny, although I imagine it was a little bit above the masses who will treat it like Arrested Development and shun it because the wit is over their heads. Stupid masses.   aaron about: fantasy football I'm in - What do I need to do?   aaron about: Music I haven't really listened to any of Mayer's albums so, I can't really say. He does have a monthly column in Esquire that usually amuses me though.    aaron about: Music I know this opinion is wildly unpopular but I think Jack Johnson kind of sucks. Its not bad music but I am never in the mood for him and if I am in to mood to relax and just listen to soothing music, I find it boring and monotonous. I will listen to about 2 songs and then go for someting that has more complexity (which is almost anything). I have Sept. Sessions though. I'll try to get it up sometime.   aaron about: H I am on team Aniston, but only until they start a team Kira Knightly.   aaron about: Hollywood I saw on the news recently that there is a clothing shop in L.A. that made shirts saying "Team Aniston" and "Team Jolie" and made a chalk tally behind the counter showing the amount of each sold. Genius.    aaron about: put yer $ where your mouth is does anyone know for certain which channel (ABC or ESPN) is carrying MNF this year?   aaron about: football I agree with Berg, I hate T.O. and I revel in every moment he has a chance to look like a jackass. As far a movies go, it amazes me that anyone hires some of the actors. Brendon Frazier is probably the equivalent of Akili Smith, he's bad, really bad but people keep giving him jobs. The difference is that there are a limited number of professional athletes, whereas there a millions of actors that could easily send B.F. to an early retirement.   aaron about: LAN Part-ays I used to play Warcraft at work during lunch, but the folk I played with moved on to Ghost Recon, and I decided reading article about farts on the internet was more fun than shoot-em-up games. I don't think the bosses like us yelling obscenities across the office either. We tried to tell them that it was building a stronger repore within the office, but I don't think they bought it.   aaron about: LAN Part-ays What does LAN stand for?   aaron about: Sex with a HOT teacher anyone? While I laugh I look over my shoulder and wince in disgust.   aaron about: Housing costs Scroll down to the top 5 most affordable housing markets. Lima, OH is about 10 minutes from my parents in Geneva. Also coming in at #2 is Buffalo, NY and rounding out the top 5 Youngstown, OH. I love the mid-west.  http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P125445.asp?GT1=6818 aaron about: Lost and found? I didn't know that the Suicide Machines were the opening band and I am actually really pissed that they didn't play. I used to listen to them back in the day. They're awesome. ska-punk at its best.   aaron about: its just WRONG! I flipped between MNF and Miss Jailbait USA last night. Missed the end though. Did Ohio win? You know what, nevermind, I don't really care.   aaron about: music Wes, the K-OS album and the other Lemon Jelly are my crack and I need a fix.    aaron about: Aaron Sorry I just checked BDC now, I was herding kittens all morning. I'm glad you guys responded, it would have sucked if nobody read it or didn't think it was worth their time to comment. I didn't even factor in the threat of harm/hazard pay aspect and don't really have a response to it. It takes a strong constitution to put up with that kind of crap.   aaron about: not so sunny toronto Thews and myself about 4:00 Wed.   aaron about: hocky bill simmons is incredible  http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050729 aaron about: suuny colden NY yes bub, please bring cornhole, I'll bring sharpies.   aaron about: suuny colden NY Get that map up, I need to send it to Owen. He should be meeting us in Colden   aaron about: site update i dig it. Only think and its cosmetic is that the icons should turn red not grey when you pas over them.    aaron about: Morning! is kisked a cross between kissed and kicked? That's a little bit passive aggressive isn't it?   aaron about: I wish.... I had a job designing and building the skeleton scenes at Cedar Point. I would come up with all kinds of inventive scenarios that would evoke gafa-ing laughter from the trainfolk.    aaron about: crime and punishment i think that must be all crime, even victumless crimes like disorderly conduct and public intoxication.   aaron about: Blues and Brews   http://www.stanhywet.org/main/home.asp aaron about: foul mouthed parrot a parrot that swears at people, it can't be the first one.  http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/466047.htm aaron about: music Wes, Lemon Jelly is really good and I seem to remember you saying that the earlier album is even better. Could you put that up soon? Abby, I will burn you a couple disks with all 5 of the Hitchhiker's Guides.    aaron about: kickball There are others playing kickball. Good wholesome family kickball, but still kickball.  http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/3820952 aaron about: editorial I have got a couple of ideas, but I'm thinking of starting off with something controversal. I will appologise preemtively to all who have teachers as close friends or relatives.   aaron about: Dorky habits oh, I forgot to comment on the rereading thing. I reread the Lord of the Rings because I really enjoyed them as a kid and wanted to read them since I knew it would be the last time I would be able to visualize the characters and the story without thinking of Olando Bloom as Legolas etc. Anyway, it turned out to be a bad idea because the books were not nearly as entertaining because A. I had already read them once B. I wasn't 12 so the fantasy genre thing wasn't as cool. C. Instead of just enjoying the movie, I compared it to the fresh-in-my-head book and that hardly ever works well. On the other hand, I've got Hitchhiker's Guide on MP3's and listen to it at work when I have a lot of drafting. I've listened to all 5 but I listened to the first one a couple months before the movie and loved the movie just as much. Just a great movie -5 stars.   aaron about: Dorky habits Wes, that might be the best post I've ever read. I can add - Yelling at stupid commercials, the local news, and bad television in general. I don't shut the TV off, I don't change the channel, I just yell and stew in my loathing. I also watch NASCAR sometimes...yup...NASCAR....    aaron about: Enough of the smurfing cartoon movies Did anyone read the comments below the story? they are pretty funny.    aaron about: dickey porchkralr@hotmail.com   aaron about: site update want to see a cool webpage? I accidentally went there yesterday and played for a couple minutes.  site update aaron about: site update what if the buttons ran vertically with the first/left button as the top button, then the menus could shoot out to the left.   aaron about: site update I could write a weekly column, but I will not be censored. I must have complete creative control.    aaron about: site update Bub, I leave my favorites menu up at all times and think it is really annoying to have to scroll to the right. I like having the articles right out front because otherwise I probably wouldn't check them. I like the setup now. The only thing I don't use at all is the links (my favorites menu has everything I go to). Maybe that could be replaced by something that moves, or 50's black and white porn, or vin deisel facts, or a quote/thought of the day, or the spaceship game from the 2nd intermission in Blades of Steel.    aaron about: Ah, yinzers It would have been cooler if he had dressed up in Biggie's Chewbacca costume a la Teenwolf.   aaron about: musac just remembered - that was Green Jelly    aaron about: musac who is Lemon Jelly, did they do the Three Little Pigs song?   aaron about: site update i actually agree with berg!   aaron about: breaking news... i will go to cleveland on friday and git drunkled at the game or not. Berg/Biggie do you think it will be a problem sitting near you guys if I don't want to commit now? Also, overtime must be in the air, because I am gonna be in the office about 60hrs this week and next. Thats the price for turning out supa-sweet projects. I get paid so I can't complain.    aaron about: The focus of the sprinter is ridiculous, I wonder if he ever saw her.   aaron about: STD Everyone is all classy with the flyers and T-shirts. They look professional. It tells people "When we get wasted and play horseshoes, we do it in style."    aaron about: std05 I agree that it is better than softball. However, I think that might be in direct conflict with kickball. I could go either way though. One of my friends in high school turned his back yard (think Wes' dad's yard) into a wiffleball field with a monster in left and the short fence (80') in right. It was always slow pitch but the game got better when a backstop was erected with a strike zone square.    aaron about: good day/bad day we fear change   aaron about: good day/bad day I have been doing Head/Jamb/Sill details all day. Got a ton of them done but my head is swimming. I am going to be a vegetable until 5:30. At least my firm got 7 hypercaffinated super work hours out of me before, the next 1 1/2 of zoom in, zoom out, pan, save, zoom in, zoom out....   aaron about: stupid fuckin terrorists what if it wasn't terrorist? what if the French were just so pissed that they lost the Olympics they decided to start a frivelous war with England for old time sake? That kind of sounds stupid but it's the first thing I thought of this morning. Well the first thing after the usual "I hate the morning" thought.    aaron about: musac Common = Good   aaron about: musac I am now aware that I am able to download music from work and can participate. Uploading might take some time to git the hang of, but I have the new White Stripes - very good, and I have the new System of a Down - very good though not quite as raw as Toxicity. When there's space, I'll add to the mix.    aaron about: Potter Two weeks till Harry Potter 6. Amazon is going to deliver it to my doorstep on the release day. I don't want to see the wackos who are going to be at Barnes and Noble that day, but I'm sure they don't want to see me either. Actually it'll probably be a bunch of little kids, or rather their parents doling out 20 bucks to keep their little ones quiet and sedated for a week and a half. Best books ever.   aaron about: sharing I also have no plans, except go to Dickey's on the third for a BBQ.    aaron about: breeze I once saw Breeze tape a bumwad sketch to his monitor and trace it in autocad.    aaron about: sad news Bader and I were talking about it and decided that they are going to have to poach somebody really good from another school.    aaron about: Sorry That was really harsh. I hope you all have a good weekend. -A   aaron about: Suckers Later folk, I'll be drinking/golfing at my company golf outing for the rest of the day. Sunny and 90, man I wish I could sit in my office the rest of the afternoon.   aaron about: what you all fail to realize... the sixties was bad. really bad.   aaron about: what you all fail to realize... perfection sucks. I would rather be in haphazard venice or florence than paris. I might be talking out my ass, but I think that the whole deconstructivist movement is an attempt to create the complexity and randomness that the old european cities which developed through time + no rules + not much planning). Only architects try to recreate that randomness inside of air conditioned corridors.    aaron about: two things, Catherine, you may not have been around for any of my more recent rants about Cambell. I basically think shes the worst thing to happen to cleveland since burning rivers and I think that adding traffic cameras is my biggest beef. It was absolutely a way to generate revenue and when people bitched all the sudden it became a safety issue. "These cameras are to save lives." I don't like being told blatant lies. Not just lies, blatant, obvious lies. The other thing - Don Pasqualic is in his 17th or 18th year as mayor for Akron. He is awesome and can do pretty much whatever he wants now because his track record is so good. There are a lot of rumors that he may leave to run for governor.   aaron about: I have complete confidence in Mayor Jane Cambell, she has the answers to all of Cleveland's problems and thank god she now has more power.    aaron about: "Majority: Local officials know how best to help cities" - that is the secondary headline and synopsis of the story. So let me get this straight. You guys don't believe that?   aaron about: flash rotating b. cool   aaron about: more sensitive war It is op no. 3, I think that means operetta number 3. I can burn it for you. I don't think I can post things from work, and since I live in the stone age without internet at home well... I suck.   aaron about: musac berg, i no longer respect you taste in music.    aaron about: musac i'm jammin to the new White Stripes. I might try to get it up after work if anyone is interested. I think it's kind of good. By the way, I burned Gorillaz last night, I've listened to it 3 times. It is the best CD ever. When I'm rich like Bill Gates and I have to spend all my money so nasty government doesn't get it from taxes, I'm going to build a lake and a mountain and I'm going to name the mountain Monkey.   aaron about: thought for the day Badre was telling me about this gadget called the "crown of dildos" featured in "Kelly the Co-ed 2". yeah   aaron about: thought for the day I saw it on TV, it must be true   aaron about: you can't read it, you just instinctively knew what it said. Left half of the brain controls reading, right half if for dreaming. (for right handers, opposite for southpaws). Speaking of southpaws, did you know that the term was derived from the common stadium layout where the pitcher is facing west toward the batter rendering his left arm to the south. I think stadiums were set up this way so that the grandstands would shield the afternoon and evening sun but that's speculation. Man, I'm full of random interesting knowledge today.   aaron about: thought for the day while I am neither blind nor deaf, all this talk about dreams has caused me to remember and self-analyze last nights slumber. My stupid brain is working too hard instead of relaxing. I was designing bathroom stalls right down to where to put the porn magazines. and then I had to save my work to a different version of CAD. I don't remember doing that part but I remember needing to, which is just as disturbing. No sunny beaches, no red ferris wheels, no scantily clad ladies, just frustration.    aaron about: thought for the day I don't hear people talking to me in my dreams. I just know what they want. On a side note - you can't read in dreams it is the wrong half of the brain, so I think sign language might fall into that catagory. The blind thing - that is intreging.    aaron about: pirates we be does anyone have a good copy of Acid Music or one of those software programs that let you chop and compose your own music?    aaron about: today I hate people today. I don't want to talk to anyone, I don't want to make boring small talk at the coffee machine, I don't even want to go to the bathroom because I might have to say hi while passing someone on the way. And you know what I really don't want? Getting asked stupid questions by stupid 55 year old mechanical engineers during my lunch hour. Sorry, I'm inexplicably crabby today.    aaron about: Jacko I don't think that Jacko will be able to lure children to his ranch any longer. His kids are gonna grow up really fucked up, they won't be able to have friends over because other parents will be afraid their dad will molest them. That might be awkward.   aaron about: golden locks the lifestyle is living large (no pun intended) in the land of the menenites and is doing exactly what he was doing the last time I saw him 1 1/2 years ago.    aaron about: golden locks I'll give you one guess as to who Biggie and I saw at Muggs Sat. night.   aaron about: baseball berg whines, the Bucs will have a fire sale in mid-July, and the Tribe is just streaky enough to keep fans interested until August.   aaron about: the brushback I like this headline "Desperate WNBA To Play Up Lesbian Angle"   aaron about: Characters I think that Derek Weaver should do a cameo in the movie and all of the cast should comment on how much he looks like Steve Bushemi and call him Mr. Pink. Brad is Rick Moranis...that is awesome.   aaron about: Goat Haus - the movie you could use the origional footage of JC and Bobby.    aaron about: kent bar crawl If anyone wants to go on a bar crawl in Kent this saturday let me know. It's not a big production and we will not be counting bars (i.e. serious crawl). McBrian is moving to UCLA and this is his last weekend. Also, I haven't drank in Kent in at least a year.    aaron about: new digs let's try that again - What is the RR situation?   aaron about: new digs what it the RR situation   aaron about: quiet andy, I think this website would get dusty if it weren't for your posts. You can probably catch the rest of our posts from the entire week in about 10 seconds.    aaron about: quiet biggie, instead of more money you should ask for an extra week of vacation, and then take it immediatly. I'm getting tired of working just thinking about 60 hours of work.    aaron about: work advice Just answer his question with - "yes"   aaron about: store wars Hippies should not have that much time.    aaron about: Vin Deisel Bub, could you put the vin deisel web link back up? It amuses me.   aaron about: I set him as my desktop background for a second. He's much scarier stretched acrossed the whole screen.    aaron about: Ewww If I saw him on the street in broad daylight I would scream like a girl and run.    aaron about: jeoPARTY I don't think Brad has ever lost - Won 5 in a row, won year end Tournament of Champions, won 2002 Million Doller Tournament of Champions against past winners, and now hasn't lost in the Beat Ken Jennings 2 Million Doller Tournament of Champions.    aaron about: jeoPARTY I was drinking, so I missed it. But I'm rooting for Brad anyway.    aaron about: bubdotcom bub, I like the division of comments but I think that today's comments could be lumped in with the "Last 2 Days' comments". That way we wouldn't have to start with a blank slate in the morning.    aaron about: STD berg, good idea, you build it.   aaron about: STD I'm all about mixing up teams. And then wagering, wagering for drinks. Andy is right. I agree with him.    aaron about: STD what does STD stand for again? I forgot.   aaron about: site update archives.. Yes!!! Now our bubdotcom blog posts will make us immortal!!!   aaron about: jeoPARTY The pot is actually 2 mil. Night one was a slugfest with Brad eaking out a 2,000 lead. Do you think that Jeopardy is pulling/rigging for Ken seeing as how he is their poster boy?   aaron about: comp wkend so is it team buffalo's intention that STD '05 is not to be a title match? is the belt on the line?   aaron about: just for Berg I'm curious about the mention of a jerk-a-thon. First, wouldn't it be better if people pledged money per climax. Longevity in that situation isn't really anything to aspire to, is it? Then there is no mention of who the money goes to. Is it for charity or do they just deposite it in a sperm bank? Sorry, that was bad.    aaron about: jeoPARTY You should all watch jeopardy the next three days. Ken Jennings will be taking on undefeated Brad and John Luvitz' evil twin in a best of three championship for a million dollars.    aaron about: ligers 40 midgets would win if they were all brave midgets and rushed the beast at the same time. The stratagy is that 12-20 would grab the lins hair/mane to subdue the wiley feline while the rest would kick and bludgen his/her face. It's really all about teamwork. Jackie Chan would lose every time if the axe gang wouldn't stand around and attack him 1 or 2 at a time.    aaron about:   "Zack, Zack, he's a Godhead Maniac...." aaron about: Kudzu, less filling, more drunk. imagine how drunk thews could get on new years.   aaron about:   I just saw fake penis in the headline and had to read it. aaron about: yes!    aaron about: I liked the old font.   aaron about: font I used to use "courier new" on my papers at school. For ever 3 Times New Roman pages I would get a bonus page with C.N.    aaron about: site update great job, Bub. Andy- we used it on two schools. We are just starting CD's. I have abandoned the 3D approach and am now stuck with a bunch of half-breed bastard CAD files with roaming Z coordinates. The main problem (besides knowing how to use all of the interfaces and produce accurate 3D objects) is that you need to set up display configurations for EVERYTHING. Once you customize all of autocad to conform to your company standards and proper building methods (the default for a handrail return is only 1/2" - fanfuckingtastic) it will be six months later and autocad 2007 will be out with faster, easier-to-use menus, all in different god damn places. Give your boss my phone number and I'll save your firm a years worth of blown budgets. I hope he/she doesn't mind colorful language.   aaron about: Badre Sophia Leanne Bader was born yesterday around 3:00 yesterday. Bader's description was that she was a "blue conehead alien". and evidently she has also uttered her first words - "Go team Ohio".   aaron about: collections My dad collects music. He downloads more than he can listen to.    aaron about: odd collections your car isn't worth much though.   aaron about: bundles of joy Bader called off "in labor" today.   aaron about: this weekend I would think involuntarily spuging might start to be a little uncomfortable after a while. I wouldn't want to be dryheaving.    aaron about: clone gay/not gay we should solve this with a poll   aaron about: clone gay/not gay I think it's incest   aaron about: summer throw down 2005 wes and leanne, can we go to sculpture park on friday if we arrive a day early?   aaron about: boat ahh, the sad lives of choke artist golferst. If only he had been able to win the masters, maybe he wouldn't have to live in such squaller.    aaron about: Comp Weekend filled it out at lunch   aaron about: question of the day I'll have to remember the holocaust when drinking margaritas later. That sounds kind of wierd.    aaron about: question of the day what do I win?   aaron about: question of the day cinco de mayo on the Jewish calender   aaron about: Polling The poll is good.    aaron about: The Killas Thews, when was that Killers show and did you buy me a ticket?   aaron about: Vin Diesel once cut a hole in a watermelon and put it in the mircowave for a mintue or two. He removed it and checked the temp, it was just right. He then fucked the watermelon, this isn't so much as a random fact as it is, as Vin calls it, "A damn good idea".   aaron about: I will never forget skeletor or her stretch marks   aaron about: summer fun anywhere you can see   aaron about: summer fun I am all about calling in sick on a Friday for summer fun.   aaron about: 2 things I think it must be that all the people of buffalo don't use depression medicine, so: A)they don't show up on the very unscientific list, and B)they cure their depression the old fashion way - drinkin' beer.    aaron about: effing freezing that's -450.67 F. That stupid troll.   aaron about: site update congratulations, word spreads fast, I heard last night from Wes.    aaron about: funny I think it was brought to a national stage with the introduction of Punky Brewster or maybe Rosanne   aaron about: funny uns (i always pictured it as "yins") is actually a conjunciton of "you ones"   aaron about: whoa http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=661594, you guys have to check this story out.   aaron about: music wes, new Kings of Leon - solid Broken Social Scene - catchy and addicting Cafe Tacuba - Borderline Unlistenable   aaron about: detwa while badre is relieved, I am a bit disappointed.    aaron about: DETWA I'm not going, so I don't really care, but imagine Brad, Alicia, Biggie, Derek, Nathan, possibly Badre and Bulldogg, AND Tela in Dickey's old bedroom in Kent. His apartment looks the same and isn't much bigger. I want you guys to take lots of pictures.    aaron about: WEather in dominican I think, Badre and Bulldogg are going   aaron about: stupid commercials clarification - the kids didn't shovel the driveway with the cell phones the dad bribed them with cell phones.    aaron about: stupid commercials I like the commercial where the dad tricked his kids into shoveling the driveway with cell phones and then tells his wife he isn't going out there cause it's too cold. moral: Kids = little slaves.   aaron about: You wanna know an interesting fact... I also feel that "Bust a Move" by Young MC should not be used by Old Navy unless they are planning on selling black spandex mini-skirts with stop signs on the buttcheeks.    aaron about: hey! newest commercial I hate: Bud light where the one loser on the couch is bragging to the other loser that he has a robot that runs on but light. Loser#2 shoves a bottle into the robots hole and we later find out it is a midget. Midgets aside, why would you be happy about a robot that drinks your beer. It would have been better if the robot ran on empty beer bottles, but then the midget thing wouldn't have been funny. So, I think that the commercial should never had been made. I also think people should get fired over that kind of crap.    aaron about: ZZZZzzzz oh yeah, I also armwrestled a crossdresser. Thank god I won.    aaron about: site updates a blinking photo comment advisory would be nice.   aaron about: zzzz personally, I was into the three of us singing along to Poison by Bel Biv Devoe at the top of our lungs. In any other location it would have been really weird, but since we were definitely the most normal to begin with, we had some slack in the acting-like-idiots department; plus we have jobs. Then Thews outdanced everyone to 80's tunes. beers on campus and darkest bar ever were also highlights.   aaron about: dork architecture comment the answer is 42   aaron about: butt cleansing Badre has been doing some research on cholonics and more specifically do it yourself home cholonics and now he wants to get one.    aaron about: Dickey's ghetto I believe I will be driving up the weekend of the 22nd. I have briefly/casually discussed with Thews, Bulldogg, Biggie, and Badre. They have all shown interest in the weekend of the 22nd as well. I don't know if anyone else was making any plans but I thought I'd through it out there.   aaron about: furniture I wonder if they come in colors other than mauve?   aaron about: furniture you know what I just thought of? Student Center couches - on the second floor. Was there a more comfortable piece of furniture? Has anyone ever seen a product catalog with them? I want to buy one.    aaron about: can hatred of Acad2005 makes the day go by fast. I come in, do battle with satan's spawn, and then before I know it, it's 5:00.    aaron about: blink i like it.   aaron about: Favorite Quote who is eric mendelsoh?   aaron about: crawl Silky's and the Squirrel Cage? These are the places you want us to go?    aaron about: website atrocious, abhoring, i'm so bitter   aaron about: Boredom go to MSN.com Look at the Muslum lady in the lead story holding up the purple finger. All I thought of was a purple jelly dildo. Nick Hoffman strikes again.   aaron about: undead Well, I finally feel normal today. Probally just got used to my new dummer status. I was seriously thinking of going Morman after this last weekend. But what do mormans get excited about? God? That's cool, but I'm sure they don't have competition weekends or bar crawls or a belt. Plus I tryed to "dry out" once. i.e. no herbs, beer, or caffeine. I made it 2-1/2 days. Some say addiction. I say choice.