Landon Howell | landonhowell.com - the somewhat amusing musings of a Southerner in Seattle.

Failure to launch
posted on Feb 8 2010

Bless her heart.






The random links
posted on Feb 8 2010
  • Latvia sells deserted town for $3.1 million
  • Three Reasons Why the iPad WON’T Kill Amazon’s Kindle
  • Top Oddball Interview Questions Of 2009





  • Quote
    posted on Feb 8 2010

    …from last night’s Super Bowl, regarding the Saints.

    “You ever wait for something for so long that waiting for it becomes the something?” he said. “It’s like waiting 43 years to hear somebody say ‘I love you’ back.

    “And they do.”






    Happy Monday
    posted on Feb 7 2010

  • Cactus and Molly’s and Outback (with the smallest bloomin’ onion, ever - we asked for/received a new one.)
  • Found out that a friend of mine at video game company named a character after me. I”m sure the character is a minor one, and most likely the town blacksmith who always has a corny joke for you once a level is beaten. Game set to be released in early 2011.
  • Started season one of Weeds. Netflix via XBOX 360 is beyond awesome.
  • Finally able to play against someone I knew on Modern Warfare 2. Jody Gambrell joined me in a late night session with 10 other strangers whose language and jokes would make a Chris Rock blush.





  • My favorite Super Bowl commercials
    posted on Feb 7 2010

    The best part about Google’s ad, aside from the fact that it caused everyone in the room to stop and become completely immersed in it, is that we can all identity with it. Misspelling words, trip planning, tips of life. The casual nature by which we access information via Google that has a profound effect on our lives.

    It was one of the best commercials I’ve ever seen.






    Really random Southern Miss fact
    posted on Feb 7 2010

    Based on Yahoo’s Rivals.com rankings, the recruitment rankings in the Big East over the last three years would have been #2 in 2008, i#5 in 2009, and #4 in 2010. This comes without the benefits of recruiting into a BCS AQ conference.






    Go Saints
    posted on Feb 6 2010

    Just so we’re all clear, I’m cheering for the Saints… despite the unbelievably annoying phrase uttered by everyone within 3 hours of New Orleans.






    Oh. Hi. We’re the team who lost 11-1 last night.
    posted on Feb 5 2010

    I made to most incredible diving save (seriously, it made the crowd gasp; crowd = Chelsea, my teammates, and a few guys who had a game after us) last night. Too bad I used the full battery that fuels my superpowers on that one shot, leaving my powers drained for the 11 shots which easily found the back of the net.

    Notice that we’re only ~5 minutes into the game and we’re already down by 2. It was as if a grown man was playing an infant in foosball.






    Football fact to impress friends at your Super Bowl party
    posted on Feb 5 2010

    Despite the name “pig skin”, modern day footballs are not made of pigs. Rather, they are made of cow hide. The term pig skin refers to rugby/Aussie Rules Football (the game from which American football derived) whose balls were actually made pig skin.

    The NFL orders approximately 12,800 footballs per season.






    Happy Friday
    posted on Feb 5 2010






    QOTD
    posted on Feb 4 2010

    [OMG! A Question Of The Day! it's been so long! Exclamation point!]

    Question: What is the one food item you cannot live without?






    The random links
    posted on Feb 4 2010
  • Everything sucks and we’re all bitter
  • Is Genetically Modified Wood Worth the Risk? (I didn’t even know this existed.)
  • Abstinence-only programs might work, study says
  • How Apple kills hardware innovation





  • This is what I’ve become
    posted on Feb 4 2010

    Actually watching these videos to learn how to get better.

    I wanna be a winner.
    I wanna be a winner.






    O’Reilly vs. Stewart
    posted on Feb 4 2010

    I love and loathe so much about both of these guys, but it’s nice to see them one-on-one.

    Stewart was overly subservient, therefore his short quip at the end - while powerful - seems more like parting word after an argument with some guy at a bar.

    “Here’s what Fox has done, through their cyclonic perpetual emotional machine that is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: They have taken reasonable concerns about this president and this economy and turned it into full-fledged panic attack about the next coming of Chairman Mao.”






    Awesome.
    posted on Feb 4 2010

    Friend and blogger Laura Pickard, post-braces.






    The random links
    posted on Feb 3 2010
  • 101 Reasons To Love “Groundhog Day”
  • Scientologists in Haiti: A Firsthand Account
  • Web sites deal with digital assets after we die





  • Blah Blah Blah
    posted on Feb 3 2010

    People who are “so confused” about last night’s episode of LOST are tiring. The fact that we never truly know what’s going on in this show is what makes it special. Besides, if you were easily confused, you would have lost track of the storyline a long time ago.






    Photos from Haiti
    posted on Feb 2 2010

    Nashville-based photographer Jeremy Cowart is one of my favorites. He’s in Haiti photographing the devastation, as well as the survivors. Follow his twitter for photos from the scene.






    It is here.
    posted on Feb 2 2010

    Four years ago I visited John Byars’ house in Gardendale, Alabama to hangout with friends. They were watching this show called LOST. It was the episode right after they found the hatch and we are first introduced to Desmond.

    I was hooked.

    I drove straight home, downloaded every episode on iTunes, and watched them (minus sleep) for 2 days.

    LOST is the most entertaining and involving show I’ve ever watched. The fact that Sawyer is from Jasper only adds to the coolness.

    The end is near. Let’s hope the trip finishes well.






    Alright, this is driving me crazy
    posted on Feb 2 2010

    Corrie Adamson, the contestant from The Bachelor… how do I (we) know her.

    It’s been driving me crazy ever since I started watching Chelsea started watching while I listen to the cheesy lines work on my laptop.

    She’s originally from Florida, but she lives in Birmingham (at least, that’s what the Internet tells me).

    She looks like every other girl that attends Samford or Birmingham Southern and enters Miss Alabama pageants. That’s not a negative, it’s simply the types of girls my mother used to try to set me up with until I met the realist chick in college.

    Seriously, how do we know her?