My daughter takes artsy photographs for your perusal.

I’ve known since our third date that I was going to marry Alisa. The rest of the last 11-ish months has just emphasized what I knew already. She’s amazing and I’m amazingly happy.

Minorthird’s Copycat Monday Quarter-In-The-Jukebox

The Long Winters - The Commander Thinks Aloud

Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (Live In Paris)

I’m From Barcelona - We’re From Barcelona

The Innocence Mission - Black Sheep Wall

The Housemartins - Bow Down

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Google Calendar is live and wonderful. I’ve been using Mozilla Sunbird and calendar files hosted on my own server for the last year and a half, which has worked well, but Google has incorporated everything one needs into their app. A quick import of my existing calendars and I’m off and running. There are some nice sharing features and the ability to display your calendars in existing apps like iCal or Sunbird. Yay Google!

FreeNAS runs on FreeBSD. It sets up in minutes and has a Web interface for all the config. Install it on an old PC with one or more hard drives installed and connect it to your network.

Provide network-based storage for your large audio or video collection on your home network or just give yourself a network-based backup option that you only power-on when you need it. It also allows you to connect external USB drives to it. Good stuff.

Via Metafilter - old school Nintendo recreation of ‘86 World Series Game Six with original audio:

The best restaurants feature full color pictures of some of their specialties on their exterior signage. I may be illiterate but I ain’t about to go hungry.

Seriously, who tricks out a Chevy Cavalier? Oh. That guy.

I’m a loyal man but, for the first time in several years, I’ve switched deodorants.

My thinking has always been to not tamper with what has been working for me in that area. Recent trips to two different stores didn’t turn up my kind and I’ve taken it as a sign. I’m sure they still make Adidas Sport Fever deodorant but I couldn’t find it when I looked so I decided a switch was warranted.

I can’t bring myself to change flavors every time like some people. Alisa and I were at the store recently and, selecting from several contenders, she declared she was “feeling tropical” and just threw one in the cart. That ain’t my style. This odor will be a part of me for some 6 months. This scent will define my armpits for the upcoming spring warming and into the summer months. When people think “Druzba’s armpit,” they will think fill in scent here. That’s a lot to ask and, as such, I couldn’t live with a fickle toss in the cart.

And so I am that guy that opens each of them up to smell them. Of course, three quarters of all men’s deodorants are variations or combinations of the same three themes: Sport, Phases of Water, or Forces of Nature. Don’t believe me? See for yourself: Colgate. Old Spice. Gilette.

I’m not sure how they come up with the names when the scents are all so similar. It seems to be a fairly arbitrary naming system. “Yeah, yeah, that’s Arctic Thunder Rage and that one, that’s Forest Ice Blast!”

I’d like to see some new names in there. Here’s a few I thought up. Any deodorant company namer people should feel free to totally steal these deodorant flavor names from me without penalty:

Proposed Men’s Deodorant Scents

• Ninja Style Force
• Meat ‘N’ Potatoes Blast
• Kickin’ Corporate Ass Avalanche
• Ragin’ Appetite Attack
• Women Love Me Ultra

So, my new scent is Old Spice Pure Sport. Not to be confused with Impure Sport or just Sport. My previous flavor was called Sport Fever. That’s right. I kick armpit ass. Every swipe is like “GOAAAALLLLLLLLL!”

Minorthird’s Copycat Monday Quarter-In-The-Jukebox

The Fools - It’s A Night For Beautiful Girls

Tweet vs The Human League - Thug Times

Rockwell - Somebody’s Watching Me

The Samples - We All Move On (Live 20021117)

Jem - Save Me

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