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Cars - Things that make the USA great

tucker — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:31:00 GMT

There is no other place on the planet that idolizes the automobile the way we do in the U.S. Yes, most of the world has cars, and yes, some of the best cars in the world are made by foreign nations, but at the end of the day, cars are a fundamental part of American culture. Cars are status symbols, primary and essential modes of transportation, sex symbols, entertainment, subjects for art and trash, they're idols, they're sources of frustration, they're money pits, and they're a part of everything that makes us who we are. ...(read more)

Intro - Things that make the USA great

tucker — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:47:00 GMT

Well well well, looks like we're a scant five days away from the birth of a nation. Just shy of 233 years ago, a few politics nerds were blowing the ink-setting powder off the 'well, it's good enough now' draft of the Declaration of Independence from Britain document. Less than three centuries is nothing in civilization's terms, but in modern history it's an enormous chunk of time. ...(read more)

nin

tucker — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:35:00 GMT

OK, so first of all, in the wake of my mom joining Facebook, she's gotten really into it. And as a result, I told her I should set her up with a blog - so now I've got a couple of pending blog posts in my inbox, and that means soon I have to make...(read more)

Twitter

tucker — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:55:00 GMT

As promised, I now Twitter ....(read more)

Yes, I'm a crappy blogger

tucker — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:53:00 GMT

I know, I don't need to hear it. But if I'm a shitty blogger, there's something I know I'll be even shittier at: Twitter....(read more)

Starting up the garden

tucker — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:15:00 GMT

So if you look at the photos I posted last year of the process of building and planting a vegetable garden (http://www.franksandbeanz.com), two things should be clear: 1. It was a learning experience and a work-in-progress all spring and summer 2. It worked pretty damn well. I had more produce than I could handle...(read more)

Iron Maiden

tucker — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:29:00 GMT

OK, here's a post dedicated to a most horrible oversight. In my wrapup of the 25 things that make me awesome, I listed some of my top concerts of all time. For some reason, and I have no excuse whatsoever, I omitted Iron Maiden. It didn't become fully clear to me that this had happened until Bruce Dickinson visited me in a dream and said "OI! WHAT THE FUCK, MATE, DON'T MAKE ME RIP YOUR BLOODY BOLLOCKS OFF!"...(read more)

Final things

tucker — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:13:00 GMT

Alright, people, here it is... the post you've all been waiting for. The final seven in my master list of 25 things that make me awesome. In case you're late to the party, here are a couple links: 25 things that make me awesome - #1-9 25 things that make me awesome - #10-18 Now that I assume you're all caught up and you know all the narrative involved with this project, I'll direct you to one more link if you haven't read it.. It will serve as a de-facto introduction to this site. Other than that, let's get on with it:...(read more)

Windowlicker

tucker — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:03:00 GMT

I'm thinking about finally finishing that whole "25 things that make me awesome" thing, but first I'm going to watch Hell's Kitchen. In the meantime, if you don't have 10 minutes for Aphex Twin's Windowlicker, then you don't have 10 minutes worth living.

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New site

tucker — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:55:00 GMT

Well, as prompted by my ongoing "25 things that make me awesome" series of columns in ec/dc, I decided to finally re-launch hottes.com. Check here soon for the final set.

Now that I spent the better part of my Saturday doing the hardcore coding and debugging and CSS-ing and ASP-ing, I'm going to see if I can get a little content up. Still a few annoying bugs hanging around out there, hopefully I'll get them squashed soon. I've decided to 100% ignore IE6, so I also need to write some code to give folks a friendly reminder to upgrade their browsers. Finally, I have to still make some adjustments and a template for the "full" blog. Gah, I still hate that word.

Time to throw on one of my favorite 'concert' films of all time: Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii. I've got about an hour before it's time to head out and see Jason do some killing in the new Friday the 13th remake.

Oh, and happy Valentine's Day or something.