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600 Songs from 1990-1999

Some genius made a mix of 600 songs that were released between 1990 and 1999 and blended them perfectly. I never would have though to put Mariah Carey over the I'm Just a Girl riff, or mixing Beck and...

1990s, 90s, music, music-videos

Leaving 1Password

Recently, 1Password announced early access to version 8 of their new Mac App. Things did not go well from there. You see, the problem with the new 1Password app for many Mac users is they switched to...

1password, accel, agile-bits, technology

Weezer - OK Human

Weezer has been an interesting band to watch over the years. I was a fan of their hits in the 90s and have followed their radio career casually ever since. In the last few years, they've released a fe...

music, ok-human, weezer

Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time

Christmas has come and gone. It was a bit strange this year as on my mom's side we didn't exchange gifts and just got together to catch up and play games and have dinner. It was really fun. I definite...

christmas, family, life

The Cardinals vs the Browns

75 years ago this year Major League Baseball saw the first, and only, all St. Louis World Series when the National League Cardinals played the American League Browns. The National Baseball Hall of Fam...

baseball, browns, cardinals, sports

Happy Anniversary Saved by the Bell

30 years ago today the television show Saved by the Bell aired its first episode [1. This does not include the original show Saved by the Bell was spun off from, Good Morning Miss Bliss, which aired i...

saved-by-the-bell, television, tv

Welcome to St. Louis, Stanley

I still can't believe that the St. Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup. This was a day I never thought I'd see. I thought the Blues were doomed to another 50 years of championship drought a la the Cubs or...

hockey, sports, st-louis, st-louis-blues, stanley-cup

The Twilight Zone

When I was a kid one of my favorite times of the year was New Years Day because the annual tradition of a The Twilight Zonemarathon. TTZ is my favorite television show of all time. When it was announc...

cbs, cbs-all-access, jordan-peele, the-twilight-zone, tv

Conan25: The Remotes

Conan O'Brien is in the process of bringing his entire catalog of interviews, stand-up performances, sketches, and remote segments online. Over a year ago Team Coco announced that they were going to p...

conan, conan-obrien, team-coco, tv

The Cave of the Jaguar God

I love discoveries like these. It amazes me every time we discover something new about past civilizations. Archaeologists recently discovered more than 150 Maya artifacts in a series of caves Mexico’s...

balamku, history, maya, the-cave-of-the-jaguar-god

Subscription Fatigue

Over the past few years we’ve entered into the world of subscription services for entertainment, among other things. It started out with a few, but media companies have found the benefits of having th...

amazon-prime, apple-music, hbo, hulu, movies, netflix, podcasts-2, stitcher-premium, subscriptions, tv, youtubetv

Add iCloud to the Dock in macOS

Recently I’ve been wanting a way to launch iCloud directly from the Dock on my work Mac and couldn’t figure out a way to do this. I know it’s not difficult to launch finder and navigate to iCloud, esp...

apple, icloud, macos, technology

The Catcher Was a Spy

Baseball season is just around the corner so it seems fitting to talk about baseball. More specifically, a mediocre baseball player that was known as the "brainiest guy in baseball." A guy that gradua...

baseball, history, moe-berg, paul-rudd, world-war-ii

Alphabet Evolution

I don't know how I missed this last year, especially since this is right up my alley, but Matt Baker at UsefulCharts published a chart on the evolution of the alphabet. Several times per week, if not...

alphabet, history

The Angel of Vine

I listen to a lot of podcasts. Too many, actually. It seems like I pick up a new podcast 2-3 times a month, and I rarely drop them. It has gotten to the point where I spend more time listening to podc...

alan-tudyk, alfred-molina, camilla-liddington, constance-zimmer, joe-manganiello, mike-colter, podcast, podcasts-2, the-angel-of-vine

Weezer - Teal Album

Weezer surprised fans today with a new album, Teal Album. This is not like any of their previous albums though. This is an album of all cover songs, 10 in total. The album is anchored by the cover of...

cover-songs, music, teal-album, weezer

2019 Resolution

I've never really been a New Year's Resolution type of person, but that may change in 2019. I've been a bit bored with my websites recently and I've had the real urge to tinker around. I haven't had t...

blogging, general, new-years-resolution

Conan Without Borders

I was looking for something to watch on Netflix over the weekend and found a show from Conan O'Brien entitled Conan Without Borders. I've been a fan of Conan for years. He quickly became my favorite l...

conan-obrien, conan-without-borders, tv

Tech N9ne on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert

One of my favorite artists over the past 10+ years has been Kansas City rapper Tech N9ne. I was first introduced to him in High School by my friend Leon. Since then I've been following his career clos...

music, npr, tech-n9ne

Lost Episode of Saved by the Bell

The other day I was browsing YouTube and a suggested video that came up dubbed itself a lot episode of Saved by the Bell. What? An episode of SBTB that I have not seen? How could this be? So, I watche...

saved-by-the-bell, television, tv