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trzupr | Thursday, 26th of August 2010 at 11:44:33 AM
Burn Notice season finale tonight – I can’t wait!
Proving that there is an exception to prove each and every rule, I an enamored with Fiona. Her’s is not usually my preferred body type – nothing against the Victoria’s Secret model archetype, it’s just not my personal favorite cup of tea. But who doesn’t love Fi? [...]
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Eric | Thursday, 26th of August 2010 at 06:00:05 AM
Penguins, very popular at Chez Porvaznik. Another H/T to Ms. Brooke.
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Floyd | Wednesday, 25th of August 2010 at 09:26:03 PM
While President Poopypants (thanks Scott M!) vacays somewhere… President and Mrs. Bush are putting their time to good use. They were in Maine Sunday and dropped by The Run For the Fallen. Here’s the story from WMTW Channel8:
Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura surprised participants in the third annual “Run [...]
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Eric | Wednesday, 25th of August 2010 at 08:30:38 PM
Uncle Teddy sure does. The loony left can say what they want about The Nuge. He doesn’t care and those on our side of the aisle love him all the more for it.
Nugent … has “well over a dozen” tracks written and “eight or nine that I have to capture on tape as soon [...]
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trzupr | Monday, 23rd of August 2010 at 06:00:53 AM
Airplanes are, by their nature, awfully beautiful things. And, fixed-wing airframes are far more attractive than their rotary-winged cousins. An Apache is scary as hell, but it’s not very sexy (sorry Outlaw). So, herewith is my top five sexiest fixed-wing aircraft of all time. For the record: I am none too committed to this list. [...]
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Eric | Sunday, 22nd of August 2010 at 09:04:11 PM
With one more August show to go, an easy way to get caught up on the return of Radio Free Threedonia. Moving backwards …
8/22 — Author Kender MacGowan and a mini-memorial to The Call’s Michael Been, including great stories from Been friend and former collaborator Eli Braden
8/15 — Jeff Radice (No No: A Dockumentary), Christian [...]
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trzupr | Friday, 20th of August 2010 at 08:28:16 AM
What’s the hardest word to solve in hangman? A dude named John McLoone (not making that up) tasked a computer to figure that out, after his six year old daughter asked him how to win at the game. Here’s the methodology he used:
To find out, McLoone wrote a program that would play Hangman with all [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 19th of August 2010 at 04:59:12 AM
Here is their Legendary Shots YouTube channel… it is as labeled. Yes I know it took hundreds of shots to get one to go in I’m sure but it’s compelling YouTube and beats doing drugs.
I wish I’d had YouTube for all the stupid crap I did as a kid. Maybe [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 18th of August 2010 at 03:28:07 PM
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Floyd | Wednesday, 18th of August 2010 at 09:23:57 AM
From a blog called Letters of Note comes this story about Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: TNG) and a young fan — from 1989…
In 1988, aged just 8 but already a fan of the teen actor due to Stand By Me, Star Trek: The Next Generation and his ‘awesome smile’, an excited Teresa [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 18th of August 2010 at 08:31:44 AM
Czech President Vaclav Havel and the Rolling Stones… Prague 1990
Here is a great piece from yesterday’s The New York Times about the 20th anniversary of the Rolling Stones coming to Prague — after 40-plus years behind the Iron Curtain and 25-years after the British Invasion of rock and roll had swept the West.
That night in [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 17th of August 2010 at 06:23:39 AM
The things one finds on these here interwebs. Yesterday’s Classic Pick O’ the Day — or today’s rather is The Quiet Man. In the comments just a bit ago the editor to Maureen O’Hara’s official website dropped by and left a link and a comment. It’s a very well-done site and if [...]
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Outlaw13 | Monday, 16th of August 2010 at 06:40:31 PM
From BlackFive who reminds us that today is National Airborne Day!
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Outlaw13 | Monday, 16th of August 2010 at 04:54:18 PM
Supersonic shock waves explained…the video is cool as well.
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Mike | Saturday, 14th of August 2010 at 09:50:42 AM
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Outlaw13 | Thursday, 12th of August 2010 at 03:40:59 PM
There’s a Cowboys game on tonight, but I will always miss this guy…they broke the mold…
and yes he did have a sense of humor.
We miss you coach!
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Floyd | Wednesday, 11th of August 2010 at 05:22:49 PM
I sure do…
George W and Laura Bush went to D/FW Airport today to greet some returning troops.
More pics here from the USO Facebook page.
Damn I miss that man.
h/t: NRO The Corner
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Floyd | Wednesday, 11th of August 2010 at 08:11:06 AM
From MY FOXNY:
Your thumbprint might soon be the key to an afternoon candy bar. A Massachusetts based vending machine company is joinng the growing ranks of companies that are field-testing new technologies.
Next Generation Vending and Food Service is experimenting with biometric vending machines that would allow a user to tie a credit card to [...]
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Floyd | Sunday, 8th of August 2010 at 04:46:29 PM
This is from a Nationals D-Backs games from August of last year… but I just found it on BoingBoing. Normally I’m not much for trick National Anthems… I liked this one though… and it reminded me of this…
I know I know… “Jack White sucks… BLAHBLAHBLAH”
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Floyd | Sunday, 8th of August 2010 at 08:47:37 AM
Part of the big lie of feminism has been the notion that men are lazy and women can and do alot more than men. After all they work hard outside the home and then do ALL the chores at home too. Right? Wrong. A new study from the London School of [...]
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Outlaw13 | Sunday, 8th of August 2010 at 05:21:26 AM
Watch this time lapse video of a Space Shuttle being prepared for launch…pretty cool and soon to be no more. You also might want to adjust your speakers this thing opens to 100% and starts playing on its own…sorry
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Floyd | Saturday, 7th of August 2010 at 02:47:35 PM
Obama dissed the Boy Scouts — skipping the 100th annual Boy Scout Jamboree to be on The View. He sent a taped message instead. This was their response. And here’s the patch:
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trzupr | Saturday, 7th of August 2010 at 06:00:26 AM
Note: “most important” not “best.” This isn’t a list based on capability, but on accomplishment. The most technologically advanced bomber of World War II was, without doubt, the B-29, yet it wasn’t the most important, simply because it didn’t do as much to influence the outcome of the war as some others. We’re also excluding [...]
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trzupr | Friday, 6th of August 2010 at 06:00:49 AM
Eleanor Powell was, for my money, the best female dancer from the Golden Age of musicals. Astaire concurred in that assessment by the by, having said the Powell was the one girl hoofer who could out-dance him. “She ‘put ‘em down like a man’, no ricky-ticky-sissy stuff with Ellie” he said. “She really knocked out [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 5th of August 2010 at 08:43:05 PM
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trzupr | Thursday, 5th of August 2010 at 06:25:18 PM
The Sikorsky X-2 demonstrator set a new world speed record for rotary-winged aircraft today: 258 mph. The old record of 249 mph, set by a Westland Lynx (British, in other words) had stood for 24 years. Say it with me: U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!!!
No tail rotor, special anti-vibration technology, a pusher propeller and coaxial contra-rotating main [...]
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trzupr | Thursday, 5th of August 2010 at 01:46:45 PM
If any of you Chicago-area Threedonians are looking for something fun to do on August 14, you’re invited to the Tri-Count-Teas “Picnic In the Park” in downtown Bartlett. Lots of conservative speakers will be there, including Republican candidate for Governor Bill Brady. Your favorite Threedonian blogger (ahem – that would be moi) will be co-MC [...]
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Eric | Wednesday, 4th of August 2010 at 04:05:26 PM
Was honestly wanting to post this earlier today, after reading the St. Nicholas story, but even more on the mind thanks to a CA federal — cough, cough — judge.
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Mike | Wednesday, 4th of August 2010 at 09:43:23 AM
Just wanted to quickly point your attention to three excellent pieces over at National Review Online.
At the Corner, Andy McCarthy details the changing role of the federal government on the issue of immigration, which he points out is distinct from naturalization.
…in 1899 the Supreme Court, in the so-called Chinese Exclusion Case (Chae Chan Ping v. [...]
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Eric | Tuesday, 3rd of August 2010 at 01:34:25 PM
Him, yes. “It,” no.
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Floyd | Monday, 2nd of August 2010 at 10:47:05 PM
Wait for it… the pay off is nice.
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Eric | Monday, 2nd of August 2010 at 11:26:56 AM
If only current Hollywood could be this creative. Hey, Floyd, road trip to Las Vegas, NM, for the Convoy and Red Dawn screenings? Avenge me!!!!!
Olly Moss was asked to create advertising images for nine of the shows on the upcoming 2010 Alamo Drafthouse / Levi’s Rolling Roadshow tour. This tour is going to be [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 2nd of August 2010 at 10:43:22 AM
Huntington Library in San Marino… I highly recommend it.
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Floyd | Saturday, 31st of July 2010 at 11:15:16 AM
Ladies, gentlemen, and Rufus… I present to you the new American League RBI leader — for 1961. In the better late than never file… a baseball statistician discovered a scoring error that has resulted in Jim Gentile (pictured above) now sharing the AL RBI title with Roger Maris. From AOL Fanhouse’s Greg Couch
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Floyd | Friday, 30th of July 2010 at 03:32:16 PM
This is awesome… not the way I’d train my employee, but these things don’t always work according to corporate’s plan.
And I like the way the story is presented straight up — no editorializing that I noticed.
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Floyd | Thursday, 29th of July 2010 at 10:47:42 AM
In my International Law seminars we often discuss the similarities between pirates (or pyrates as Daniel Dafoe would write) and terrorists. I’ve just put the above book on my list since that course is coming up in the Fall again. The history of dealing with pirates could offer a great road map for [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 28th of July 2010 at 09:07:51 AM
3D — like IMAX — can be (and usually is) little more than a party trick unless used sparingly or in some way integral to the story. I can’t think of a better use for 3-D than this short film “City of Ruins” showing at The Warsaw Uprising Museum.
It looks powerful. Here’s the [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 28th of July 2010 at 07:43:33 AM
Notice the above… pretty cool postcard huh? Well it wasn’t just a measly postcard. No, it was much much more… See what it was below the fold:
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Floyd | Wednesday, 28th of July 2010 at 07:38:11 AM
I haven’t seen it yet, but I have heard the soundtrack (thanks brother!)… Interesting nonetheless!
h/t: BoingBoing
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Outlaw13 | Monday, 26th of July 2010 at 06:40:36 PM
And Mom, each Hot Wheels set comes with a special discipline feature that allows you to take a piece of un-used track to whip your kids butt!
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Outlaw13 | Sunday, 25th of July 2010 at 04:34:32 PM
As has been discussed on this channel before Cat S#!t One is based on a Japanese anime presentation, here’s the trailer…
Cat Shit One trailer – [Idol Anime]Uploaded by arpsa. – Watch feature films and entire TV shows.
You can watch episode 1 in it’s entirety HERE, it’s subtitled in English and has animated violence. For [...]
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Mike | Saturday, 24th of July 2010 at 11:49:30 AM
That’s how this website translates, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
It’s amusing for a while. You can watch the translations as they occur, from English to a random language and back. It seems that Chinese really cannot be translated by a machine. When a piece of text completely derails, it’s usually because it hit the [...]
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Eric | Friday, 23rd of July 2010 at 01:00:00 PM
AND HAPPY BIRFUSDAY TO ERQ LaSALLE AS WELL …
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Floyd | Friday, 23rd of July 2010 at 06:07:24 AM
The Vatican is allowing the publication of 100 of its most interesting documents from its Secret Archives. From The Christian Science Monitor:
“We were amazed by the access we were given and the speed with which the whole project was completed,” says Paul Van den Heuvel, the head of the Belgian publishing house undertaking the [...]
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