tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:17:31 +0000A site for people who love dan.http://www.planetdan.net/blog/noreply@blogger.com (dan)Blogger1520125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-392035089419719099Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:18:00 +00002009-11-20T07:18:00.403-06:00I'm not the only one who falls, trips, stumbles or just generally embarrasses himself on a regular basis. Even adults and professionals can look stupid:Soccer players do it.Gymnasts do it.Even people in the middle east do it.But this one might be my favorite: Nice save, buddy.http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/11/animated-friday-awkward-and_20.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-2125881854030094552Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:34:00 +00002009-11-19T16:10:44.485-06:00I've been very busy at work lately, and combine that with the upcoming holidays and the BBOP stinking up the back of my closet(see below), I've been fairly distracted. Which is probably why I lost my Subway sandwich for a good 45 minutes today.I had used my lunch hour to pick up two ginormous armfuls of drycleaning and a low-fat Buffalo Chicken. I'm the kind of guy who needs to do everything in http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/11/case-of-missing-subway-sandwich.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-3647830707506771269Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:25:00 +00002009-11-19T15:32:58.427-06:00And two years later, Jeopardy finally caught up to the Internet today:What was really strange was that Alex said the name of the category with a Russian accent, and the contestants followed suit. I never imagined that cat to have a Russian accent. I thought it would be more American Yokel. Maybe Cockney British. But never Russian.http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/11/i-can-haz-ancient-internet-memes-on.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-2977788933738394484Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:59:00 +00002009-11-19T15:25:28.959-06:00So I've gotten myself into a little dilemma RE: The Big Box of Porn (BBOP) I Found in My Garbage. It's just sitting in the back of my closet collecting dust and I've started to worry about the hopefully-unlikely event of my untimely death due to some unforeseen accident or terrorist attack. It's just begging to be discovered by some unsuspecting innocent relative as they battle through their http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/11/my-dilemma.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-7962735817203500581Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:30:00 +00002009-11-06T10:01:40.775-06:00I 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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/11/trashmans-delight.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-4309463429748513060Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +00002009-11-04T21:27:58.732-06:00So 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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/11/vote-lombard.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-1006048183598508211Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:32:00 +00002009-11-01T18:04:29.576-06:00My 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 forhttp://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/11/final-destination-death-by.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-4685253897448167886Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:32:00 +00002009-11-01T18:02:02.124-06:00It'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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/happy-halloween.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-6961143221048051379Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:30:00 +00002009-11-01T18:03:53.470-06:00Last 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?http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/animated-friday-pets-two-parter-edition_30.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-6479986454110601821Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:55:00 +00002009-11-01T18:01:49.390-06:00Swing 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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/all-swine-flu-ed-out.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-1844361010989090537Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:26:00 +00002009-11-01T18:03:02.213-06:00I 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.http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/animated-friday-pets-two-parter-edition.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-146564714219448112Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:40:00 +00002009-11-01T18:01:37.730-06:00I 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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/csi-bs.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-5396521662988007406Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:41:00 +00002009-10-16T11:12:43.284-05:00Stacy 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 Michaelshttp://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/autographed.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-5890447838809154208Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:45:00 +00002009-10-11T17:56:50.110-05:00I 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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/stoked-juked.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-6645127516775011658Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:20:00 +00002009-10-08T10:33:29.004-05:00So 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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/back-to-normal.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-8647304627925844703Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:51:00 +00002009-10-08T10:14:37.804-05:00Right 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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/my-favorite-souvenir.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-4833315619373964198Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:59:00 +00002009-10-07T18:10:50.862-05:00I'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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/italy-2009.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-7549395771538257950Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:50:00 +00002009-10-07T14:09:26.982-05:00I'll take pictures of anything I damn-well please, thank you very much!Seriously? Who do they think they are?http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/who-do-these-venetians-think-they-are.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-8948518238323391731Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:14:00 +00002009-10-07T11:25:22.155-05:00We'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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/10/relics.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-311427417225187102Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:22:00 +00002009-09-28T09:41:11.396-05:00Some 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, http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/09/ah-stunnings-sights-of-tuscany.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-4132405004434950190Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:28:00 +00002009-09-24T01:15:57.517-05:00Venice 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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/09/low-clearance.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-5735549558487006894Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:31:00 +00002009-09-19T12:11:32.585-05:00I'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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/09/venezia.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-4770994882800385296Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:18:00 +00002009-09-18T12:18:00.173-05:00They 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!http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/09/animated-friday-burst-your-bubble.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-6426462327960091862Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:31:00 +00002009-09-17T13:31:00.441-05:00I 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 http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/09/great-inventions.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794189.post-5172705986309943315Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:56:00 +00002009-09-17T05:56:00.466-05:00Planetdan 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.http://www.planetdan.net/blog/2009/09/this-is-it.htmnoreply@blogger.com (dan)14