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Posted on January 27th, 2009Tweet0

David Bergman's Inauguration Photograph.

David Bergman uploaded this photo a few days ago and it's nothing short of amazing...if you were anywhere within the Beltway during President Obama's speech, you can probably find yourself.

He writes:

"My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes."

Posted on January 27th, 2009Tweet0

The Ox Rocks.

Happy New Year! Don't be fooled by the Ox that we got...

In celebration of Chinese New Year, I decided to make myself a delicious traditional Chinese meal:

Ah yeeees, Orange Chicken and Pot Stickers (that's pretty half-Asian in itself). Please take note:

1. Enough food for the entire population of the Liaoning province.

2. The sweet blue glass goblet. The metal dragon with red eyes on the front makes it holiday-appropriate.

3. The four sets of chopsticks constituting the lesser-known "Chinese Formal Table Setting." Unlike in Western cultures (where you start with the outermost utensils and work your way in with each course), proper CFTS manners call for using one pair of chopsticks from the left side of the plate for each BITE. The diner rotates through the different pairs systematically until the meal is finished. The pair on the right side of the plate are only to be used in the event of an emergency (i.e., the diner manages to drop the other six chopsticks while eating; a pencil-break tournament breaks out; someone's hair needs putting up; or, there's nothing else worth stealing on the table).

4. The absence of red envelopes. More than a billion Chinese relatives in the world and no love for this guy?

Anyhow - I hope you enjoy many a Chinese New Year (or Chinese Buffet) to come.

Zaijian!

Posted on January 21st, 2009Tweet0

NOTHING LIKE YEAR-END-LISTS SEVERAL WEEKS INTO THE NEW YEAR!

Most Listened-to Albums of 2008
Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt

Much Listened-to Albums of 2008
Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
Santogold - Santogold
M.I.A. - Kala
The Game - LAX

Most Listened-to Songs of 2008 Not Appearing On Any Of The Above Albums
Electric Feel - MGMT
Strawberry Swing - Coldplay
Brooklyn Girls - Charles Hamilton
Chopped 'N' Skrewed - T-Pain f/Ludacris
I Can't Believe It - T-Pain f/Lil Wayne

Three Favorite Songs Heard on Sirius Radio's "90s on 9" Station on December 29, 2008
Regulate - Warren G and Nate Dogg
Die Without You - PM Dawn
Champagne Supernova - Oasis

Albums That I Thought Would Be On The First List But Didn't Quite Make The "Albums I Listened-to More Than Twice" List
808s and Heartbreak - Kanye West
Brass Knuckles - Nelly

Albums I Probably Should Have Liked (And Listened To) More (And Resolve To Do Just That)
Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
The Roots - Rising Down
Young Jeezy - The Recession

Best Mix For A Party Not Created By Me
Mick Boogie & Terry Urban's Recap Mix

The Only People Allowed to Use Autotune in 2009 (And Thusly Should Use It Always)
T-Wayne
All contestants appearing on American Idol
A randomly assigned member of the Presidential Cabinet

Most Watched Things on Television in 2008
Friday Night Lights
Fringe
Manny Ramirez At-Bats
Kristen Wiig on SNL
Jim Rome is Burning (preferably only when he talks about things he hates)

Three Greatest Games of 2008
Tech over Georgia, 45-42, on 11/29/08
Giants over Patriots in the Superbowl, 17-14, on 2/3/08
Dodgers over Cubs in Game 3 of the NLDS, 3-1, on 10/4/08

My Three Favorite Sections in The Outliers
The One About Asians and Their Rice Paddies
The One About The 75 Richest People In History
The One About Southerners and Their "Culture Of Honor"

Three Most Awesome Mathematical Operations of 2008
Multiplication
Division
Spelling (shhhh - we can't deny the awesomeness of spelling)

The Three Best Shoe Silhouettes of 2008
Bapesta 88 Mid
Nike Zoom Lebron VI
Vans Rudeez

Guys Who Really Need A Throat Lozenge in 2009
Young Jeezy
Jack Bauer
The Old Guy With The Gran Torino

Excited About New Music In 2009 Because Of
Wale
Charles Hamilton
T-Wayne
Blueprint 3/Detox/Relapse/D'Angelo/Outkast/other rumored epic record by x, x�being some sort of living hip hop legend
The Fray
Matt & Kim
(also can't wait to see what J to the M has cookin' in the lab...)

Posted on January 20th, 2009Tweet0

THE BI-ANNUAL VISIT TO WILLIE'S WEE-NEE WAGON

There are many gems in the Golden Isles, but nothing compares to the experience and cuisine of the one and only Willie's Wee-Nee Wagon. Pink's, Oki-Dog, Carney's, Wiener's Circle, Nathan's Famous, and whatever other bougie hot dog joint you've heard of's got NOTHIN' on Willie's.

Lee and I hit the Wagon up on January 4th. It very well may be the best meal I have all year.

As you can see below, the menu offers a variety of tasty items. I used to roll with the Slaw Dog or the BBQ Dog (which seems to have disappeared), but I decided to rock a Bull Dog (ate it!) and a staple of my post-marching-band-practice meals, the world's greatest Pork Chop Sandwich. Holy moly.

Fries or peppers are an option for sides, both simply wrapped in paper. A must is the sweet tea - brewed so sweet it makes ice cream taste sour by comparison (my mom used to make us dump half the tea out of the cup and fill it back up with water so that the sugar wouldn't instantly deteriorate our teeth).

I had to roll by the old high school stadium...had to get my personal Clear Eyes, Full Hearts on...

Indeed.

The sign of greatness on Altama Avenue.

The spot.

Menu.

Menus. �And challenges.

Best hotdog I've ever had. The cheese and cole slaw (and tomato and onion and pickles and relish and ketchup and mustard) make it magical.

Willie's Pork Chop Sandwich: The true treat of Glynn County.

Posted on January 20th, 2009Tweet0

9-4.

Georgia Tech 3, LSU 38.

I feel it my duty to acknowledge that this happened. I thought that letting weeks pass before posting would calm the pain, but no such luck. I am fully aware of the details of this game, as I regretfully was in attendance. Actually, scratch that - no regrets - I was able to see my boys and celebrate New Year's Eve the way I always dreamed: by consuming 5 Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in a 3-quarter period at a bowl game.

So - Tech's year ends differently than we thought and hoped. ("We are who we thought we were?") The good news is that all signs point to a better team next year - Paul Johnson has restored the excitement in midtown.

The best part about attending the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, however, came after the game. That's when we found the Georgia High School Association football helmet display. When Lee and I turned the corner and saw all those shiny domes on the wall, we went NUTSO.

First things first: Locate the Brunswick High School helmet.
Second: Freak out, force other friends who are anxious to leave stadium to take photos of you pointing to helmet.
Third: Belt out the BHS fight song in the Georgia Dome concourse.
Fourth: Start chanting "Beat Lowndes!", referencing the losses to Lowndes County High School in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Fifth: Engage in a verbal debate with an innocent Lowndes alum who happened to walk by during Step 4.

(that verbal debate went something like this:
Lee and Scotty, the BHS alums: "...we will stand and fight for victory...now and evermore! Beat Lowndes! Beat Lowndes! Beat Lowndes!"
Innocent Lowndes Alum: Whayt y'all say?
LASTBHSA: Beat Lowndes.
ILA: Beat Lowndes?! Whayerre yawl from?
LASTBHSA: We from DA WICK!
ILA: The Weeyuck? Whayerre's thayt?
LASTBHSA: DA WICK!
ILA: Pscht, I ain never heardathayt.
LASTBHSA: Ahem, we're from Brunswick.
ILA: OH! Y'all frum Brunsweeyuck? Thayt's cauws yawl SUCK!)

And that was the last thing I remember from 2008.

Pre-kickoff at the Chick-Fil-A Bowl, notice the high spirits.

The aforementioned high point of entering the Georgia Dome.

Getting all pep rally with it (FFF went to Brookwood, so he just yelled animal and/or siren sounds while we sang).

The aforementioned Lowndes alum who got schooled.

Happy New Year. In his defense, the French New Year happened some 6 hours before, so it was a long day. Picture was taken at a bar in downtown Atlanta sometime before 1:00 AM on 1/1/09.

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