December 2011
13 posts
Turn on @comedyminusone’s 24-hour Holiday Radio Show and your Christmas will get about 100x better. http://t.co/ulQbEOPi #wprbxmas
RT @metroblossom: I’ve compiled my favorite photographs from 2011 on my blog: http://t.co/yriJIFgq
Yesterday we made several trays of homemade shredded potato pancakes, or as we call them in our house, a @kottke of latkes. #collectivenouns
RT @KenJennings: Dear everyone telling me about the interrobang: yes, I know, that’s great. Also I interrobanged your mom.
Mission Impossible was great fun, except for the having to read subtitles and such in Verdana. #atleastitwasntpapyrus
http://t.co/eoX2ujP8 #internetisover
Some asshole stole a vintage cash register from Simon’s in Andersonville. http://t.co/JkVWzMmi /via @EaterChicago
This makes my little nerd heart go pitter-pat. RT @adrianholovaty: Django templates now support {% elif %} http://t.co/Fkejaf8d
The awesome Drew’s Eatery is closing, apparently due to discount deals gone awry. #sadness http://t.co/NU4IXzcO
RT @srobbin: @beep Don’t get mad, get even: <!—[if lt IE 9]><style> * { cursor: wait; } </style><![endif]—>
Just found Season 2 of The League on Netflix Instant, so in other words I’m not sleeping for the next couple of nights. #shedre
“SWAT tanks headed up lakeshore drive. News reports police activity shut down Wilson red line stop.” http://t.co/Z3WOvELB via @ebchicago
Time again for the daily listening of “Life’s a Happy Song”. If this doesn’t win Best Song Oscar I’m going to be significantly less happy.
November 2011
16 posts
“Stevie Wonder song!”
“Sure! You don’t have to ask me twice for that.”
“Stevie Wonder song PLEASE.”
“Um, I just said…”
#twoyearolds
Ah, the smell of slow-cooked beef, wafting delicately through our home. Wait, what day is it?
RT @sarahweisz: Experimenting with being the kind of person who flat irons her hair, gets manicures, and believes leggings are pants. h …
Everyday I’m sitarin’. http://t.co/u7QaW9IF
Skokie #jewishmusicals
Eating Trini food somewhere in Queens while a cricket game plays in the background. #startingitoffright http://t.co/HUv0qa8H
Current status: http://t.co/VRVaMq1Q
High Society Muskrats, on the verge of winning yesterday’s Museum Mystery Madness at the Art Institute. http://t.co/TVYSLrLS
The division of cupcake labor in our house, with @andshewas & @sarahweisz. http://t.co/SjpNCAs3
Just rolled to a complete stop on northbound I-65 near Lafayette. Fire trucks rolling by. Lots of them. More coming.
Sunnova! I just discovered my @fitbit stayed attached to my jeans and took a ride through the laundry. This is why I can’t have nice things.
Yeesh, I guess 41,000 pounds of tires on fire is a good excuse for shutting down the highway. http://t.co/534F33Pv
Finally, something Google Image Search is good at. http://t.co/DX0lnhMO #melons
This. http://t.co/vkChZaFd
RT @cta: An official announcement from the CTA: Hello.
My wife @sarahweisz in the local news: “If Emanuel’s budget passes as proposed, Weisz can kiss story time goodbye.” http://t.co/bO7mDpQD
October 2011
13 posts
After planning rivaling the invasion of Normandy, Mama took off for IKEA this morning. Ezra, every 5 minutes: “I see IKEA too?!” #icIKEA2
Occupy Wall Street = Lest We, Plutocracy #anagrams http://t.co/Huq2PlVo
Mr. Ding Ding Gate @ Rockwell CTA Station http://t.co/eLu6SaGc
FaceTime with the boy, capped off with a big old’ camera smooch. http://t.co/YhEZsw6j
God DAMN, Seattle. http://t.co/V2nhKHAN
Well, well, if it isn’t @adrianholovaty in an old issue of Brill’s Content. http://t.co/36clkXsx
Current status: http://t.co/p0CZ5fcE
This will be @blastcap when he opens my wedding gift: http://t.co/pac8ydPe. (Shhh, it’s this: http://t.co/fz6rhQsN)
“Oh that banging sound outside is in exactly the same rhythm my cat makes when she vomits” is a terrible thought I just had.
RT @kyletezak: I’m interested in renting a shared office space in Chicago. Preferably North-ish. Checked out Desktime, anything else und …
This right here is my name and puzzle being read on NPR by Will Shortz: http://t.co/aS9ChOT2 #kvelling
Listen to the Sunday puzzle on NPR this weekend and you may hear a familiar name at the end.
RT @bbaxley: Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss
September 2011
15 posts
RT @ourmaninchicago: This is Chicago: How @juggernautco makes things better by messing them up. http://t.co/diGZoBQZ
God bless the subversive writer at Thomas the Tank Engine who realized how “Percy” sounds when spoken by a two-year-old. I owe you a beer.
RT @kevinthepang: A 10-year-old told me this: Knock knock / Who’s There? / Aunt / Aunt who? / Didn’t realize I had so many aunts
Part of the charm of reading a Neal Stephenson book is the nerve damage you get holding it up for 2 months. Just not the same on the iPad.
Two kids asleep in their beds in one room. Achievement unlocked.
As an allegory for the triumph of empiricism over True Belief, it kind of fizzled, but as a crafty piece of filmmaking, Moneyball killed it.
Just estimated roughly how many more books I’ll have time to read before I die. It’s a lot, but still sobering to discover it’s finite.
RT @srobbin: Chicago friends: SweepAround.Us now provides text message alerts for street sweeping in your neighborhood. http://t.co/fLvgUjyM
