A Dog Named Christmas
Moonlight & Mistletoe
Farewell, Mr. Kringle
[Note: If you like this, check out Christmas Every Day on the main page of the blog.]
Target does an insanely good job at advertising. Every commercial has this “Hey! We’re Walmart without the ‘Walmart’!” message hidden within a creative, engaging advertisement.
This ad just knocks it out of the park. The music (song title: Toy Jackpot) is fun and foot-tapping, and the storyline speaks to all ages.
Love it. Absolutely love it.
Our Thanksgiving dinner table.
Hey-o. So there was this snow storm. If you follow me on Twitter, I apologize for the insanely uneccesary barrage of ‘omg there’s snow-n-sliding cars, y’all’ posts. God only knows what my Facebook/Twitter will look like once I have a kid.
The only thing I love more than this commercial is the fact that Hershey’s continues to run it every year, recognizing that schmucks like me remember this commercial playing over and over as a child.
As silly as it may sound, the season hasn’t begun until I’ve seen this commercial.
Ever since we started gong out on Halloween in Seattle we’ve always made an effort to “match”.
Our first three years we were TV characters, usually from whatever show had become our favorite in the months leading to Halloween.
This year we talked about mixing it up, and during a discussion of our favorite time of the year (hellooooooo) A Christmas Story came up.
Like many of you, A Christmas Story is my favorite Christmas movie of all time. Being Ralphie in his bunny suit and dressing Chelsea up as the “Major Award” leg lamp seemed logical (video).
By the way, that’s an actual lamp shade with actual working lights inside. Kudos, wifey.
2009: Eric & Tami Taylor, Friday Night Lights
2008: Joan Holloway and Don Draper Pete Campbell, Mad Men
2007: Jim and Pam, The Office
These lists, while not surprising for the most part, made me laugh. Evidently the way to unify America is through cooking and home decor.
I couldn’t help but laugh even haerder when I realized that I visit 5 of the 9 Liberal sites each day, yet only 3 of the 11 Conservative sites. This, liberals, is the definition of open minded. (Never tell me I don’t make a concerted effort to understand your often confusing and self-conflicting views.)
Liberal
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DailyKos.com
New York Magazine
Economist
RollingStone.com
Talking Points Memo
RachaelRay.com
HuffingtonPost.com
NPR.org
MarthaStewart.com
Conservative
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RushLimbaugh.com
Breitbart.com
FinancialTimes.com
GlennBeck.com
Military.com
Politico.com
CBSSports.com
FoxNews.com
BBC.com
RachaelRay.com
MarthaStewart.com
Like the Blazers? Like Conference USA? Of course you do! Especially if you’re a Birmingham resident whose tax dollars are paying for 5,000 football tickets to UAB each year.
The city of Birmingham is investing in the city by purchasing football tickets. Every year they buy 5,000 UAB football tickets and 1,000 Miles Collage football tickets. Birmingham City Council member Johnathan Austin says it’s to keep the teams coming to Legion Field.
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The mayor gets around 850 season tickets, the council gets around 350 season tickets and the rest get divided among city departments.
Article, via HBR & CNN: Why Hackers Love 8-Character Passwords
With processors getting speedier and password-hacking software freely available on the web, the 8-letter password may soon be obsolete. Georgia Tech researchers used graphics cards to crack 8-character passwords in two hours; divining 12-character passwords, by contrast, would have taken more than 17,000 years. The researchers say any password shorter than a dozen characters could soon be vulnerable.
If you’re reading this post from home, it means you have power. Only a “bojo” would try to access the internet without power.
But do you have… Longhorn power?
No? Would you like some? If you live in Texas, now you can.
Via AdAge:
The passion of college sports fans to buy almost anything with their favorite school’s emblem attached to it will certainly be tested with a new partnership in which the University of Texas and Texas A&M will both be selling … energy.
Yes, energy. Branded energy.
Crimson Tide fans would love this idea. Too bad most of them don’t have electricity. (I kid!)
As nerdery as this is, I’m tempted to break the bank and build a full scale model of Downtown Jasper. (Frisco not included).
We’re heading to Montana for 3 days over the 4th of July holidays. Destination: Glacier National Park by way of Whitefish, Montana.
If any of you have ever visited and have any suggestions as to things to do, hit me up. I’ve driven through Montana, post-car breakdown, during my move to Seattle though I wasn’t able to see anything that wasn’t right outside my window.
As of now our agenda is as follows:
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July 3: Going-to-the-Sun Road
July 4: The Great Northern Brewing Company, downtown Whitefish, nighttime fireworks
July 5: half-day of fly fishing
I really really really want to see a moose.
