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We'll start with some fun. Any angsty post can wait until tomorrow. Since I now work for Adams Golf, it makes reasonable sense that I should be playing Adams equipment. In the past, I've always bought (or been given for Christmas in earlier times) clubs piecemeal. I'd get a driver 2008, wedges, 2009, new irons 2011, etc. I've hit Mizuno irons for six years now, and loved both sets I've had.

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Thanks to the Super Bowl, and thanks to Florida, I can yet again delay any politically oriented posts. First, it's been a month today that I've been in Plano, and things have settled into place nicely. I am happily comforted by the fact that it looks very unlikely I'll start speaking with some sort of Texas twang. From what I gather, Plano is not exactly Lubbock. I hear my fair share of notable

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I had originally planned for this post to be politics oriented after Newt Gingrich won the SC primary. However, recent events have taken me off the panic button and I think I'll save that post for next week after Florida has cleared some things up. So, what's as important as national politics? Or probably more important? Burgers. In 'n Out Double Double Five Guys Two years ago a Five

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It seems like I'm blogging once a month. So I've asked myself, at that rate, is it worth still blogging? After all, Facebook timeline seems to know more about my life than I can remember myself. At this point, the answer is still yes. I enjoy having a non-FB space to ramble on and enjoy having a forum longer than 140 characters to ramble with. So the ongoing resolution will be to get on here and

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Wow, it's been over a month since I've posted. In the last month I've taken a vacation in Florida. I'll throw some pics up in a separate post. I've also got a job!!! That will definitely require its own post. I start on January 9th, in Plano, TX. I will be working for Adams Golf as a Design Engineer in their R&D division. **Flordia post is below

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Even though I'm posting this on the 4th of January, 2012, I'm cheating and making it a bit more calendar accurate. This past January (2011) I was fortunate enough to win a $1000 travel voucher for (long story short) a fantasy football contest. Long story longer, I picked a weekly lineup against the host, Paul Charchian , beat his lineup in a week when few people did, and thus one of my contest

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First, some still percolating developments on the job front. Staying cautiously excited, but more emphasis on excited. It would be a dream opportunity, should it pan out...again, hope to have more on that in the near future. Some links from the past couple weeks... The old home country is entering a new economic phase. Seems to be the case a lot of places. A tremendous profile on one of the

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Gophers & Flickertails Sioux They've played 284 games since the 1920s, and the Gophs have a narrow 142-128-14 edge. Sorry BC/BU. Sorry Michigan/Michigan St. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. The Gophers added a win to that ledger with a 2-0 victory tonight. Ranked #5 in the country, with the reigning National Player of the Month in goalie Kent Patterson (5 shutouts in his first 9 games

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Good luck to you, sir. *Courtesy LOTR

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Those words don't apply to any of the state football teams. Now St. Thomas? That's another matter. It's October the 19th, and as good a time as any for some late night nonsense. First, some links. This link and this link both send the clicker to an NPR user generated top-100 Science Fiction books of all time list. The graphic is the coolest part in my opinion, but the list was a pretty good one

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27-7 regular season, 7-1 playoffs. Well deserved championship

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No, it's not a leg lamp. Unfortunate. However, months ago back in May, I entered a Mizuno golf contest after getting my new set of irons. 2nd prize was a new Mizuno hybrid club. I immediately forgot all about the contest. Today, this showed up in the mail. Heck yeah!

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The last couple hours (and especially the last 10 minutes) were the most fun I've had watching baseball since...the Diamondbacks/Yankees series? Yanks/Sox in '04? Ever? Even counting the Twins, Game 163 in '09 was the most recent thing that beats what just happened here. Cardinals roll, Braves collapse from 8.5 up and that was just the undercard. Papelbon. Red Sox. Chris Davis. Orioles. Dan

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Mad Men lost out on all of its acting nominations (Jon Hamm, Lizzy Moss, John Slattery, Christina Hendricks), as well as the writing nomination for Matt Weiner. The show still has never received an acting Emmy, and with The Suitcase as a submission, I figured Hamm was a lock and Moss had a shot. Well, Kyle Chandler deservedly beat out Hamm so he's now 0-4. But he's still Jon Hamm, so it's

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I don't think Kate is a Minnesota fan Contagion gets a solid 3.5 stars out of 4.0 from me. The extra 1/2 is directly due to the numerous Minnesota connections (specifically Minneapolis) in the movie. Just great. The Lyn-Lake line on the bus? I live literally five blocks from that intersection. Freaky.

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Manhattan: 9/10/11 It's almost surreal to think that it's been 10 years since I walked back to 9th grade biology (from orchestra rehearsal) only to find the TV on and everyone watching these incomprehensible images on TV. I arrived after both towers had been struck, at something like 9:15 in the morning. As the orchestra room had no TV/radio, and practiced with all doors shut, the 30 or so of

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Three fantasy football teams, and at least I'll get to cheer for Percy. Even if the Vikings aren't going to be very good (I'll go optimistic and say 9-7) -- at least it will be a welcome change from this buzzkill of a Twins season.

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My own bulldog, Abby, approves

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Sigh. You're the best.

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#599 and #600 against Detroit tonight! The 600th homer also flew over the head of now former Twin, Delmon Young. Bye, Delmon.

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Pics when moved in, I'm predicting. In the meantime, August has finally given the state of Minnesota some legitimately nice weather. Troy Burne GC in Hudson, WI with Megan, Steph and the not-pictured Kellen. Great course.

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Many, many thoughts on the deal that was passed, where I imagine Washington goes from here, etc. I'm just too morose to post them. Well, that and I should probably keep this blog from getting outright political while I'm on a proactive job search. Happy August.

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The show that I bought a ticket for almost a year in advance and then was delayed a year due to Bono's back injury finally happened last night at TCF Bank Stadium. Three blocks north of my apartment. It was spectacular. Rocking out to U2 with almost 60,000 people for almost two-and-a-half hours, the last half of which became a driving rainstorm, made for an unforgettable night. The set list,

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U2's claw stage looks to be completed at TCF. Video of Bono & The Edge on Letterman earlier this week... Setlist from their Concert @ The Meadowlands earlier this week... The Setlist: Personal Favorites in bold "Even Better Than the Real Thing" "The Fly" "Mysterious Ways" "Until the End of the World" "I Will Follow" "Get On Your Boots" "Magnificent" "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking

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Get More: 30 Seconds To Mars, Music, More Music Videos A great cover of a great song.

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Deathly Hallows 2 marks the end of 14 years of Potter when accounting for the books and the movies, and 13 years for me personally when it comes to following the series. I've written quite a bit on the books and/or movies -- my Book 7 take is here and an additional take on the Half-Blood Prince movie is here. Regarding the last movie, I can simply say that I thought it was a fitting end to a

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I'm not the biggest soccer guy, although I played for a few years. Still, I will watch the World Cup for either gender, and imagine my surprise when I got back to Minneapolis and saw that this had happened. You figure that when you're down a goal and a player against Brazil, you're probably screwed. But not quite.

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Congrats to Pyeongchang on being awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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But not the University of Minnesota! My roommate, who is working day and night to finish his research, write, and then defend a thesis by mid-August is not especially happy with his development. The U is just too important. Some things are.

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Pitched the shutout   This is a 10-team offshoot of the Yahoo! Twitter-based fantasy football league. After a satisfactory 3rd/20 showing with the pigskin, the horsehide equivalent just got a whole lot better. Current record against TFD this year -- 27-0-1. I'd post his twitter handle, but there's no need to gloat.

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Twins tie a MLB record by opening their game vs. the Giants with eight straight hits. Madison Bumgarner pulled after one out, and charged with eight runs. That's a tidy 216.00 ERA for the game. 6.5 back in the central. I never should have doubted. I'm sorry, Twins. Single Double, Single, Double, Single, Double, Single, Double, Pavano mercy out.

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This past Sunday saw the finales of two different inaugural seasons of television, Game of Thrones and The Killing. Some thoughts on both... First, The Killing. Of the two, this is the bad news part of the equation to a fair degree. The Killing is/was a 13 episode murder mystery adapted from an original 20 episode Danish show, in much the same way the the British Office transformed into the

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So in this past week I've taken a couple days to celebrate my graduation with golf & general laziness, but recently it's been more of the job stuff. I'm hopeful on the golf front, but although my name has been noticed I don't quite have a foot in the door yet. In the meantime I've got my handicap index back down below 5.0 (currently at 4.8) so clearly my real priorities are being taken care of.

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Master's Defense: Passed.  Yes.

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It'll be nice to finally get it done! Go Mavs.

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I'd like to give praise where it's due, and that's to Mr. Jim Thome. You hit two home runs, #592 and #593 of your career, in your first game back of the DL. You have done many great things since becoming a Twin, including all the home runs and hitting me a foul ball, which you later signed. I'm proud to wear your jersey to games, and I will happily celebrate a half-dozen or so years from now when

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Grad School is done, with one major caveat. (Master's Defense in 2-3 weeks). My last final was yesterday, for my Fluid Mechanics course. It went well. Very similar to the sample finals I had reviewed, so no surprises. My other class was final-less, so that's done with as well. My TA responsibilities ended today, when I helped proctor for a 3 hour statics test. I think I'd just as soon take it as

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One more final in my college career, and I have four days ahead full of nothing but time. Might as well try to get some points.

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Apparently this happened about a week ago. I'd be curious to know the exact timing, because that sounds like my birthday. Crazy. Hard to believe it's been almost 10 years since September 11th.

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Walked the graduate school (Masters/Doctorate) line yesterday, then sat through a very, very long process of hooding the doctoral candidates. Thankfully the boredom was mitigated by Mr. Houle who was also walking the commencement line. We were also forced to sit through fortunate to be able to hear Sen. Klobuchar and former MN Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher speak at the ceremony. Sen.

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Happy Easter! I'm rather indulgent when it comes to my birthday, since as long as I'm West of China, I get to celebrate it for "two" days. The reason is that I was born early in the morning in Seoul, which is 14 hours ahead of central time here in the US. Thus by the Earth's rotation, I turn my next age at about 2:00 in the afternoon on 4/24. Of course, I use this as a good excuse to eat more

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It's Easter this Sunday, as well as my annual 2-day Birthday this 24th and 25th (thanks, time zones). Option one is lounging around Minneapolis, going to the Twins game on Saturday, going out after the game, and having my parents come down on Sunday to take me out to br(lunch). Option two is driving back to Brainerd tomorrow afternoon, playing golf Saturday at Eagle's Landing with half a dozen

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4-10.

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Twins home opener was last Friday. Seven innings of snooze-worthy baseball, and a very nice eighth inning rally to cap a 2-1 victory over the A's. Mauer drove in the winning run, Nathan got his first Target Field save. It's been the highlight of an otherwise downer 3-6 start. It was a beautiful day at game time The Masters ran this past Thursday through Sunday. It was won by an up-and-coming

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The X-Files, DMB, ATM surcharges (?!?!?!), and HTML Frames? Ahhhhh the mid-90s internet.

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Six games today, and the Twins open their schedule tomorrow at Toronto. Marisa Miller is excited that baseball is finally here!

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It's been near two weeks since the last blog post, although several NCAA updates served as filler.The catalyst is my new Twins Jersey that arrived today, just in time for opening day and home opener next Friday. It's a Thome #25 Jersey, and it's based off their dark blue and red batting practice jerseys. I liked the coloring, and it's pretty unique as far as Twins jerseys go, so I'll be happy to

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Updated after Sweet 16 Day 1 Look at all that lovely red. It's a pretty cut and dry scenario now. If Kansas takes the title I have a chance at first place (depending on the score of the game). If Kansas doesn't take the title, I can't finish better than third or fourth. Go Kansas. Updated after Day 4 (Round 2) The dream of going 7-1 or 8-0 sure didn't last long. Washington opened the day by

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Sad night. More later, when I'm less depressed. Okay, not that much more. Six years of attending Gopher hockey games have come to a close. Overall, I saw 69 games, and the team went 37-21-11 with me in attendance. The first two years were 95% exhilarating and 5% terrible disappointment. The third year was a roller coaster of reasonable success. The 4th, 5th, and 6th years were mostly

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My first new putter in almost a decade. Time for the birdie conversion percentage to bump up. C'MON SNOW, MELT.

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Posted to the Gopher Hockey blog by Strib beat writer Roman Augustowicz. Also posted here. Roman's blog isn't published in the paper, but even so it was pretty cool for him to want to reprint the email I sent him in response to some comments regarding student attendance at Gopher Hockey games. Article reposted below. Click = bigger font.

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I'm just waiting for Godot Spring

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Update: Look everyone, Nate Silver from the NYT stole agrees with my Oscar choices!  So last week I posted this drivel about how Spring was coming. Three days later, this was the new scenario. The 15" of snow that dropped on Minneapolis made this the second snowiest winter recorded through 2/19, and the 11th snowiest when counting the entire winter. Basically, we're guaranteed to have a top

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It's hit 50 degrees the last couple days here in Minneapolis. Fort Meyers is filling up with Twins. The snow is melting, Target Field is being cleared, and even a weekend cool down can't stop the momentum. To celebrate all these welcome developments and to commemorate hitting 10,000+ Youtube views (somehow more than 15,000 behind my older Johan Santana video...I credit Venezuela for the

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You ruined it. Jerk.

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Stream-of-Consciousness thoughts when watching Watson the Computer play Jeopardy... Day 1 Thoughts... Servers take up a whole room. 15 TB of RAM. Okay. That's a lot. Dominates early. Got every question it answer correct, including a daily double. One question it was too slow and would have gotten wrong -- Harry Potter question. Needs to have a confidence past some threshold before it buzzes.

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Well, Natalie did quite a good job I saw Black Swan today. The overriding thought in my mind as I exited the theater was 'what the heck did I just watch?' What a strange unique strange and unique film. There were some recognizable themes. The parent who tries to live vicariously through her child and becomes domineering to the extreme. The artist (or athlete) who lets dedication morph into

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Two Thumbs Up Also hoping to finally see Black Swan today. If I do, I'll post some thoughts later tonight.

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Bronco league All-Star game. I remember I went total Denard Span. Two singles to right in 3 ABs. What a motley crue crew Who can I name... Back row: Tony Hennen, Kevin Imgrund, Unknown (Korey Horn?), Spencer Sundberg, Unknown, Tyler Hassle, Unknown x3 Front row: Derrick Maske, Jeremy Pitt, Me, Tom, Unknown, Adam Hahnert (sp) I think this must've been the summer of 1999.  Good times.

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Thoughts later tonight. I liked it very much. I am slowly but surely making my way through the Best Picture nominees. I have never really done such a thing before, but I find as I grow more and more interested in both television and film, some things are worthwhile. For instance, making my way through The Wire has proven to be an entertaining but daunting task. I long for the undergraduate days

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Thome's autograph on the game ball Thome hit to me. Success. This year I had a free ticket to Twins Fest thanks the ticket package I bought this past summer. Twins Fest is a yearly celebration of all things Twins, generally held at the dome, and the centerpiece of the three-day event is the many autograph booths available for fans. (Proceeds go to the Twins Community Fund). I had previously

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It seems every year there are maybe a dozen movies that come out and I plan to see them and.........don't.  I have no excuse.  It's a lack of initiative.  Laziness. Recently, I finally have seen two.  The first was this past Monday, when I saw True Grit.  Dub has already reviewed this more articulately than I could hope to, but I second many of this thoughts.  I thought the acting was superb,

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Idol's most famous alum Something to file under the 'holy crap I'm old' banner (and yes, at 23 I know that banner is ridiculous).  There are contestants getting through that were six or seven when the show debuted.  J-Lo was still about a year away from wearing this to the 2003 Grammys.  Steven Tyler was, well, probably pretty much the same, and Randy Jackson had an extra 100 or so pounds that

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The one time since the Pats/Rams January 2002 Super Bowl that I cheer for the Patriots, they lose. I really needed my Patriots not to go one and done.  On a side note, Aaron Rodgers is good.

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OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH YYYYYEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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In honor... ...of The Social Network hitting DVD/Blu-ray today, here are some other things I'm looking forward to... The Chicago Code debuts on 2/7... ...and with Lie to Me in limbo, I will give this a shot.  I also still want to watch Breaking Bad but I haven't been able to continue after seeing (and liking) the first four episodes.  Sort of ditto for HBO's The Wire, which I received as a

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In retrospect, I'm glad I had this baseball signed at Twins Fest a few years ago. It's a pretty cool keepsake. HOF 2011!

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Michael Vick: Disclaimer -- I do not condone anyone treating dogs poorly...even my own Korean people Well, the man above is the most responsible for capping off a hell of a fantasy football season.  I won my main league - details on all leagues can be found here.  1st place in that league comes with a $275 payout, which is $225 above my initial entry fee.  My team, after trading (Fitzgerald...

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Don't mess with the bear.

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From ESPN's article: The city of Philadelphia is set to host the NFL's first Tuesday night game in 64 years, and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (D) couldn't be more upset about it. "It goes against everything that football is all about," Rendell said Monday on radio station 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia. Rendell was rankled by the league's decision to move the Philadelphia Eagles' home

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Fairness in blogging act -- Vikings lost 40-14.  That said, it was still a really cool game to attend, and not just literally.  Snow confetti flew through the air, chants of 'Let's go Joe' rang through the night, it was pretty great.  Plus, it might well have been #4's last ever game.  If so, I saw his last TD (to Percy), last INT (off a tipped ball) and last sack (a pile driving, crusher of a

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--- Update Frickin' awesome.  My new driver headcover!

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I attended my first MNF game tonight and witnessed a 40-14 thumping by the Bears over the reeling Vikings. More later, pics, vids, thoughts on the experience, which was great even with the score. Gnight.

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I figured I'd portray him in a more true-to-life fashion.  I mean, anyone can get a baseball picture. I can absolutely get my hair like that come opening day.

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Top Fourteen Largest Snowfalls for Twin Cities 1. 28.4 inches: 1991 Oct 31 - Nov 3 (Halloween Blizzard) 2. 21.1 inches: 1985 November 29 - December 1 3. 20.0 inches: 1982 January 22 - 23 4. 17.4 inches: 1982 January 20 - 21 5. 17.1 inches: 2010 December 10 - 11 6. 16.8 inches: 1940 November 11 - 12 (Armistice Day) 7. 16.7 inches: 1985 March 3 - 4 7. 16.7 inches: 1940 March 11 - 14 (tie) 9.

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17" dropped in Minneapolis today, according to KARE 11. The highest snowfall day since the infamous famous Halloween Blizzard of 1991, when trekking to all of three neighboring houses yielded a veritable mountain of candy.

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This is legislation that I would wholeheartedly support. *Enable snark mode* There are many different figures, depending on source, font size, margin width, and I'm sure many other ridiculous standards, but the constant is that when you hear someone say that the American tax code is __,___ pages long, we're not talking about some novel, even a Tolstoy version.  We're talking about five figures

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Okay.  I don't know if anyone out there also has experienced this, but it really annoys me. First off, I consider myself an A- sleeper, at worst.  Planes, cars, different time zones, whatever -- nine times out of 10 I can fall asleep and just as importantly stay asleep.  This is key on a ground floor apartment.  Generally I consider this a talent, and I'm thankful to have it.  However, a key

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I'll say this, the guy's name lends itself to good chants.  Athletic Director Joel Maturi makes his second head coaching hire for the football team, signing former Northern Illinois HC Jerry Kill to a five year contract.  Kill and NIU actually beat the Gophers this past year, en route to a 10-3 season. The guy is not high profile at all.  He's no Mike Leach, he's no Scott Linehan.  I'll

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Until two days ago, I had no idea Cyber Monday was even a thing.  Literally none.  So imagine my surprise when a Golfsmith email shows up in my inbox, and on the front page is an advertisement with the wedges I had been planning to buy on sale -- $60 off on the three of them.  Since I had been planning to buy a new set of wedges before the year ends, getting $60 was quite the nice surprise. 50

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Twins win the rights to negotiate with Japanese middle infielder Tsuyoshi Nishioka.  A couple bullet points... He won the Japanese batting title last year, hitting .346 and posting 206 hits, making him the first player since Ichiro to get 200 in a season. He's a middle infielder, probably better suited to 2B than SS.  Hopefully this means we keep Hardy, who is a productive player when healthy. 

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I've scheduled this post to run in the early morning.  When I'm awake, I'll likely post some spoiler-free thoughts.  I enjoyed The Social Network quite a bit, so this has the makings of a two-movie streak. My thoughts on... Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire Essentially spoiler-free.  Almost totally if you've read the

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For more funnies, click here

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Season's over.  Stay home Sidney.  Get healthy Percy.  Stay safe, Brett. Happy I was there at the last relevant stretch of goodness last week against Arizona. Losing 27-13 to the freaking Bears -- the most fraudulent 6-3 team in the history of the league -- is embarrassing.  Just awful. 

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Lord knows I don't post much about our scrappy Timberwolves on the blog, but this deserves a mention. Kevin Love dropped a 31 point, 31 rebound line tonight against the Knicks, leading the Wolves to a 112-103 victory.  The victory actually gives them a streak of two (following a previous win against the Kings) and their newfound success comes on the heels of pushing the Lakers to the wire in Los

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I still think he should go. Even so, wow.  This little piece of cardstock let me see quite the crazy game today. It's appropriate that Harvin is on the ticket, because again he looked like the best playmaker on a field that included Larry Fitzgerald and Adrian Peterson (both of whom acquitted themselves very well today). Harvin had one unfortunate mistake on a kickoff return, but caught nine

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The fact that I don't watch Breaking Bad is likely a grievous mistake on my part.  I love Mad Men, I very much enjoyed the first (and probably only...sad face) season of Rubicon, and the extra long pilot for AMC's new series, The Walking Dead, was pretty fantastic.  I'm not a huge zombie fan in particular.  I do consider The X-Files as my favorite scripted show, so there is that, but I was

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Chip makes it an even 60.  65, here we come! It's like a term limit, but way, waaaaaaay, more satisfying.  I may now stop voting absentee.  My quest is done, and far from being futile, it ended years ahead of schedule.

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We'll be nice and not hit you over your fiendish, harpy head with it. You know, speaker, maybe you should've actually listened to some of the American public, instead of taking your little stroll across the capital, giving all of us a gigantic F U.   Well, F U back.   I'd gloat, but Speaker Congressman Boehner told me not to. Screw it.  That's no fun.  This is at least better than getting my

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Some things just make sense. Keep cheering for your White Sox, Mr. President.

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So naturally, here is the Vikings post. I'm very glad I didn't waste keyboard effort and type this Sunday night, because whoa boy, stuff happened yesterday.  The Vikes are 2-5, reeling, rudderless, and our prodigal son come home to roost is now on the waiver wire, after openly pining for his second set of adopted parents in a makeshift postgame job interview. When it comes to the non-Randy

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What I believe, at least as a generality, in its most pithy form, from Scott Rasmussen. Voters don't want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves.The column, which is driving at a different premise than one might deduce from my endorsement of its headline, also has this tidbit:   Based on our polling, 51% now see

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Lotsa zombies.  The 90 minute (minus commercials) pilot tonight was quite good.  I will tune in again next week. No energy to write another Vikings post-mortem. 

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Watching Favre limp off the podium as he finished his press conference was just sad.  Forget 41, he looked about 55. Well, what to say here?  The Vikings have now lost by 5 to the Saints, 4 to the Dolphins, 9 to the Jets (2 before the last defensive score) and 4 to the Packers.  In EVERY game there was a legitimate chance to win, and in the latter three the Vikings literally had the ball with

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Thanks to Joe Posnanski's blog, which can be found in the sidebar at right, I have discovered the joy of putting tabbed pages on top of the blog.  Currently I have the blog's home page tabbed, as well as '10 lists of 10' which is currently being filled in.  Two other tabs have been created, although as of yet I'm not entirely sure what I want to put there.  I was thinking one idea would be to

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Mad Men.  The end of season four aired this evening, and while not the absolutely mind-blowing heist spectacle that was the Season 3 finale, it did contain a plausible story scenario on the business side, and at least two major shockers** on the Don's-life side. **Sp-p-p-SPOILERS**  How shocking these were depends on how much speculating one has done/read.  Don's proposal to Megan was

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As of typing, three of the 33 trapped miners have been rescued, all three apparently in decent health. How great is this?  2000 feet down, trapped for 69 days.  I can't even imagine.  Tremendous job by Chile and all the rescue workers.

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