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Daddy-to-be

Forrest Whitaker is everywhere.

About Me

I'm happy with things. I shower daily. I love my wife. I want kids. I value my friends dearly. I enjoy a good scotch now and then. I love baseball.

My Interests

Children, music, theatre, literature, baseball, hurling, soccer, rugby, football, poker, hockey, cooking, Judaism

I'd like to meet:

The Mythbusters crew, Barack Obama (we have actually exchanged emails), my great-grandpa Bert, and Ford Prefect.

Music:

Sigur Ros, Flogging Molly, Kenna, The Redwalls, Foo Fighters, The Junior Varsity, God Lives Underwater, Jurassic 5, Lyrics Born, Nirvana, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, Radiohead, Magnetic Fields, Stereolab, Shafto Funkenstein's Pimp Militia & Sounds of the '70s Supa-Symphony, and many others

Movies:

40 Year-Old Virgin, Anchorman, Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail, Shawshank Redemption, Clockwork Orange, The Life Aquatic, Amelie, Brokeback Mountain, and a lot of documentaries

Television:

MythBusters, The Mighty Boosh, Scrubs, The Office, Project Runway, Good Eats, Iron Chef, Monday Night Football, Fox Soccer Channel

Heroes:

My mom, Gandhi

My Blog

"Good gracious, they’re moving AGAIN?!"

Due to an infestation of rats and some recurrent problems with the 115 year-old plumbing in our current building, our property management company has offered to transfer our lease to one of their othe...
Posted by Daddy-to-be on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:03:00 PST

i can haz guvernance?

Ladies & Gents - May I direct your attention to a thread recently posted on fark.com which I find stunningly hilarious:LOLPREZIDENTZ!!!1!There are a LOT of pictures, so if you're on a slow connect...
Posted by Daddy-to-be on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:43:00 PST

I'm going to change my name...

Which of these should it be?Slab BulkheadFridge LargemeatPunt SpeedchunkButch DeadliftBold BigflankSplint ChesthairFlint IronstagBolt VanderhugeThick McRunfastBlast HardcheeseBuff DrinklotsTrunk Slamc...
Posted by Daddy-to-be on Sun, 13 May 2007 07:31:00 PST

Also...

I miss my grandma.http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/02/20/obits/ 123670.txt
Posted by Daddy-to-be on Wed, 09 May 2007 11:23:00 PST

New things

1) New pics, check 'em.  I took some old ones off, too.2) New song, and I suggest you check out Mute Math if you don't already know 'em3) New outlook on life, dammit.  I guess that means tha...
Posted by Daddy-to-be on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:40:00 PST

Meme-tastic (taken from Maia and Paul)

1. The phone rings. Who do you want it to be? Jo.  If she's with me, then Troy. 2. When shopping at the grocery store, do you return your cart? Yes 3. If you had to kiss the last person you kis...
Posted by Daddy-to-be on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:59:00 PST

Kurt Vonnegut dead at age 84

Goodbye to a great man
Posted by Daddy-to-be on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:56:00 PST

Awesome things I've/we've done in the last two days

1) We baked fucking badass cookies2) I realized that my boss has a lot of respect for me3) I'm finally accepting and indulging my love of particle and theoretical physics4) We watched "Brokeback Mount...
Posted by Daddy-to-be on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:19:00 PST

More stuff

1) I'm feeling a lot better.  Compared to normal I still feel like crap, but compared to the last two days I feel amazing.  Ah, relativity.2) My old high school's boys' basketball team was r...
Posted by Daddy-to-be on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:28:00 PST

Various things

1) I'm sick.  Apparently a whole lot of other people are too (including Johanna, who's just getting over what I'm in the middle of now).  My head feels like someone's blowing up a balloon on...
Posted by Daddy-to-be on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:20:00 PST