tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37941892009-11-06T15:12:14.303-06:00A site for people who love dan.danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478337564003479640noreply@blogger.comBlogger1516125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-79627358172035005812009-11-05T21:30:00.003-06:002009-11-06T10:01:40.775-06:00

I went to toss out some garbage the other day, and sitting right on top of a week's worth of trash was this big box of old-school pornography videos:I immediately assumed that the old coot across the alley was using my trash bin to get rid of his pornography stash without tipping off his old lady. Or maybe someone else in the neighborhood was finally making the upgrade to DVD. Regardless, I had

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So I voted yesterday, of course. We got a new voting method in Minneapolis which lets you rank your top three preferences for each position in order of preference. Which is a good thing, because our choices for Mayor this year were too interesting to be able to pick just one:Guess who my third choice was?VOTE LOMBARD, 2009!This isn't the first time I've posted a picture of our voting ballot. We

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My house tried to kill me today.I'm not a handyman. Nor am I a good homeowner. I don't know what I'm doing, I have no idea how to work tools or fix faucets, and I'm awkward and clumsy to boot. Somehow I manage to keep the place together and just short of ramshackle, but it's a constant battle. Especially when it comes to the Fall yardwork.Today was gutter cleaning day.I've neglected this task for

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It's not that I haven't been posting. It's that my hosting company wasn't letting me publish to my website. I hadn't had anything interesting to say lately, so it didn't bother me all that much, but I got it all sorted out today, and just in time to say Happy Halloween!Unfortunately I'm old and tired and boring and I don't do that dress up stuff anymore. I did carve a pumpkin, though:It was

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Last week was all about cute pets. But sometimes cute isn't as entertaining as mean is. So here are some mean pets.KangaroosRamsMonkeysMean pets are mean. Why do they gotta be so mean?

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Swing Flu is so last week. Stop giving me the death tolls, Local News. It didn't work with Bird Flu, and it ain't gonna work with Swine Flu neither. There are much more interesting ways that people are dying out there. Give me something brand new and even more horrible to be scared about already!But for real, I have nothing interesting to post about and I thought that pic of poor little Piglet

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I have a friend who is getting ready to buy a new puppy. Puppies are cute. I like puppies. I like cute pets. Here are some cute pets:KittiesPuppiesDon't Know What the Eff This Is But It's Cute(Apparently is something called a Loris? I dunno.)To balance out the cute, next week's animated Friday will be all about not cute pets.

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I love shows like any of the bajillion incarnations of Law & Order or CSI because they require little attention or thought and if you miss ten in a row it won't make a lick of difference. But as anyone who has watched an episode of either of these shows with me can tell you, I can't stand how they misrepresent technology and computers. Cuz I'm a computer nerd. And computer nerds are fickle.I

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Stacy and I went to see Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black at the the Pantages Theater tonight. It was a super funny show, and I was able to laugh whole-heartedly during the entire event, even through the thick stench emanating from the smelly-haired slacksters sitting in front of us. (FYI: Slackster™ is my newly-coined term for a slacker mixed with a hipster).After watching the two Michaels

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I know it's been a while since I gushed about The Decemberists, but Stacy and I went to their concert last night and it pretty much ruled all up in our faces and stuff.Lead singer Colin Meloy even performed a brand new song which I thought was awfully nice, although I'm pretty sure that Stacy and I are the only Decemberists fans that read my blog, so none of you will really care all that much to

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So enough of all this fancy art, religious relic, and exotic travel stuff. Now that I'm back home it's time to bring planetdan back down to where it belongs: the gutter. How about we start with an unintentionally vulgar logo?In case you can't see it, or in case you like vivid details, you can click here to reveal an interactive illustrated explanation. WARNING: the content at that link is

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Right along the Grand Canal in Venice is Peggy Guggenheim's house, which since her death in 1979 has been turned into a museum. Peggy was an eccentric heiress who collected modern art and hung out with hip artists and wild celebrities. I imagine her house to be like Studio 54, only decades earlier and with less cocaine.On the trip we visited to the museum and I thought it was slightly

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I'm finally back from Italy.I took a TON of pictures. Of course, I'm usually the only one with a camera on my trips, so if I want pictures of me then I gotta take them myself.Me in the Sistine Chapel:Me by the School of Athens (aka "That painting from the cover of that Guns 'n' Roses album"):Me taking advantage of a rare empty art niche:Also, have you ever wondered what the FLOOR of the Sistine

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I'll take pictures of anything I damn-well please, thank you very much!Seriously? Who do they think they are?

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We've been touring a LOT of churches and cathedrals across the Italian countryside. I can really only see so many altars, baptisteries, frescoes, and marble bishops before they all sorta blend together into one ginormous monster church in my mind. Of course, I've taken pictures of all of them to help keep my memory straight.But no matter which church or cathedral we enter, there is always one

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Some people think that bicycling across a foreign land and over rough terrain can be considered a "vacation". I must be one of the most out of shape people on the planet, because I've been utterly exhausted touring museums and churches from the cushions of a luxury coach, but these bikers take their stuff seriously, and all from the uncomfortable, chafing torture of a bike seat. Take this man,

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Venice is pretty awesome. I was half expecting a tourist trap with stinky canals, but it's nothing like that at all. It has tourists, yes, and tourist traps to be sure, but there are also great stuff and amazing sceneries around every corner. And riding boats along the canals is insane. Those drivers have no fear whatsoever, and apparently have no concern for high tide and low clearance at great

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I'm celebrating my blog's birthiversary in Venice.It's pretty, just like in the movies.I'm pretty, just like in the movies.We battled the crowd to see something that they kept telling me was called "The Bridge of Size" and when we finally reached it, I took a big long look and thought, "Well, that ain't so large. What's the big deal?"The Tiny Bridge in QuestionAnd so I asked "Why do they call it

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They can't all be about people falling down. Sometime you gotta sneak some learnin' into your edutainment.Slo-Mo Demo: BB through a BubbleSlo-Mo Demo: Bullet Into a WallSlo-Mo Demo: Lightning CrashesWho needs face plants and car accidents? Learnin' is fun!

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I was working at home with the TV on mute the other day when I glanced up from my laptop and saw this:I immediately rewound the Tivo and turned up the volume. Apparently there is a local news program called Twin Cities Live that has all the production values of... well... a local news program, and they were featuring some would-be inventors who were pitching their ideas to some well-known

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Planetdan is 7 years old today, and that just happens to coincide with my 1,500th post. It's time to celebrate.Huh.So that was anticlimactic.

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Any good mental health professional will tell you that the healthy thing to do on birthdays and anniversaries is to stop and reflect, to take stock in yourself, and to get rid of any baggage so that you can make a clean start. So on this day, only one day before my blog's birthday and my 1,500th post, I'm cleaning out the files, scrubbing out the hard drive, and posting a ton of random crap

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This is it. My blog's birthday week. Yo, shorty, it's your birthday.Ain't nothing like an outdated musical reference to kick off a birthday week. Although I'm afraid I might be wearing the wrong color shirt in that animated GIF. Is 50 a blood or a crip? Did I just start a turf war?Posts Remaining Until 1,5002Days Remaining Until7th Blogiversary2

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This weekend was the James Page Blubber Run, which for those of you who don't know is a 5k race that winds through downtown Minneapolis and encourages runners to stop and chug a beer at the halfway point. The event organizers also encourage participants to wear costumes, but in my opinion, running five kilometers is torture enough even without the chafing heat of a rubber mask or the added weight

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Just a few things I didn't realize could be so dangerous.HosesMechanical BullsSodaYour paranoia is warranted. Everything is out to get you.Posts Remaining Until 1,5004Days Remaining Until7th Blogiversary5

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