Posted by blainegarrett on Jun 30th, 2009 | View Comments

I’m pretty sure looking the below foliage in my yard makes Arika randy. I’m impressed with the results so far since this is my first year gardening. My mom claims I have a green thumb. Meh. Main garden has cucumbers, cranberry beans, green onions, peas, spinach, and carrots. Beds surrounding the house contain big boy and cherry tomatoes, green peppers, purple and regular basil. The...
Posted by blainegarrett on Jun 26th, 2009 | View Comments

After a little comedic back and forth yesterday at work starting with C.K.’s post about “Wolverine Being a Slut“, I decided to go as Sabretooth from the Xmen.
I was going to reprise the Wolverine role from last year in order to finally get my claws to retract (which didn’t quite work last year). I was also toying around with the idea of going as one of the Knights of Lil...
Posted by blainegarrett on Jun 24th, 2009 | View Comments

At the TV Correspondents dinner the other day, John Hodgeman (daily show, mac commercials, etc) spoke on Obama being our nerdiest president.
He related the ongoing struggle of "Nerds vs. Jocks" to the divide between the administrations of this past decade as well as politicians whose main asset is their charisma rather than their
analytical minds. As Hodegmen noted, he had to question...
Posted by blainegarrett on Jun 9th, 2009 | View Comments

Leo Laporte does what most people who are not trying to kiss Mike Arrington’s butt want to do – tell him to get over himself. However, Laporte doesn’t quite put it as nicely.
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Arrington discusses...
Posted by blainegarrett on Jun 7th, 2009 | View Comments

Red Hot Art Fest just wrapped up an hour ago. It was pretty cool, but I will write about that later when I can get all the pics and such together.
I noticed a reoccurring theme with how I handle events like this. Similar to the way, super busy people get sick after a long stretch of business since they finally have “time” to get sick, I seem to have a sort of purging nature after an...