I was a little afraid she might find it "silly" or "trivial" or "childish," but I shouldn't have worried about a woman who, after all, married me.
But we can't compete with this guy...
Saturday, January 2, 2010
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A User's Guide to the Infinite Art Tournement
The Infinite Rice Army
Alleviating hunger through the taking of quizzes since March 21.
30,200 grains earmarked!
The Brackets!
Active First Round Pairings
- Gaudier-Brzeska v. Gauguin
- Gaddi v. Gainsborough
- Froment v. Gabo
- Friedrich v. Frink
- Play-In SubTournament: Phase 1, Flight 10
- Frankenthaler v. Freud
- Fragonard v. Francis
- Foujita v. Fouquet
- Flavin v. Fontina
- Fautrier v. Feininger
- Play-In SubTournament: Phase 1, Flight 9 -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Fabritius v. Fantin-Latour
- Etty v. Van Eyck -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Ernst v. Estes -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Ensor v. Epstein -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Eakins v. Elsheimer -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
Active Second Round Pairings
Active Third Round Pairings
Active Fourth Round Matches
Left Bracket, Round 2
- Elimination: Albers v. Alma-Tadema
- Antonello da Messina v. Archipenko
- Claude Lorraine v. Clouet
- Christo v. Chagall
- Tie-Break: Bellows v. Bourgeois
- Tie-Break: Bingham v. Botero
- Champaigne v. De Chirico
- Böcklin v. Buren
- P. Blake v. Boltanski
- Catlin v. Carrà
- Caro v. Catena
- Canova v. Burra
- Calder v. Canaletto
- Jan Bruegel v. Bronzino
- Bomberg v. Boccioni
Left Bracket, Round 3
The Hypothetical Hypermarathon
- Michael5000's Running Avatar has left Portland and is running generally east, out into the great big world.
- May 19th -- Passing through The Dalles, Oregon.
- May 12 -- The Avatar passes back into Oregon at Hood River and continues eastward on the Mark Hatfield Trail.
- April 28 -- Passing by Beacon rock in the beautiful Columbia Gorge.
- April 23 -- Standing on the corner in downtown Camas, Washington.
- April 17 -- THE AVATAR IS HOME!!!
The Humanly Prowess -- since August 2009
- May 19 -- 8.26 is a best-ever mileage for the 19th. I'm also at 14 consecutive Sundays, 1 short of the record, as well as 14 consecutive Saturdays.
- April 27 -- A nice 9.06 mile run passes us over the best-April-ever mark and gives me an record of 11 consecutive running Saturdays.
- April 25 -- By the by, I've currently tied the records for most consecutive Saturdays and most consecutive Wednesdays run. But who's counting.
- April 20 -- 9.62 miles is a surprise all-time record for the 20th of the month!
- April 14 -- 5.53 miles is an all-time record for a run resulting in hospital treatment for dog bite injuries!
- April 6 -- 10.1 miles is the first ever double-digit run for April.
Our Mission Statement
190 or Bust
- May 16 -- Weigh-in for work weight-loss contest: 208
- May 3 -- 208
- March 10 -- 205.4
- Feb 24 -- 206.0 -- but clearly we've got a little problem to work on here.
- Feb 23 -- 207.6 -- Uh-oh...
- January 5 -- 204.4. Oops!
- July 1 - 200
- June 24 -- 200
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10 comments:
We saw this at the Lego Store and I love it. If it makes you feel better, my 38-year-old brother buys Legos regularly and has a collection of Toy Story toys.
Frank Lloyd Wright, yes?
Yes
And check out these lego books on Ed Hutchin's site:
www.artistbooks.com
That is a good gift! It is so cool that they've tapped into another market. I wonder what else Lego has out there. Oh no, I feel a 20 minute web search coming on.
@Dr. Kenneth
We who lived with his inspirations on the campus of Florida Southern called him "Frank Lloyd Wrong." Visit and you will find out why.....
I would agree that the video poster is even geekier than you are, Michael.
I think a better gift would have been to get a Lego kit for the FLW house, plus one for the Taj Mahal, and then Lego kits for several other major architectural landmarks, and take them all out of the boxes and shake them up together in a big bag. Much more scope for creativity there.
@Elizabeth
Tee hee! but..
this is already what happens if a small boy is given the Legos he desires. (Our son is 26, still has all of the advanced sets....) oy!
@Elizabeth: We have a fairly massive Lego collection, bought mostly all at once at a yard sale down the way at less than a tenth of its street value. It is more or less exactly what you describe.
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