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Oct24

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Mastering the Golf Ball Snow Globe

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It took about an hour, but I mastered the Golf Ball Snow Globe. And that’s a big deal to me because this could have been a colossal time-waster. So I wanted to make quick work of it. I was told it could take days, months even – to master the Golf Globe. Because if you’re too aggressive, you won’t get the ball to sit on the tee.

Brainless exercise? Perhaps. But an exercise nonetheless.

It teaches you patience. Something I need more of. So here is the proof.

The only hint I have for you is to rest the globe on a hard surface, wait until the bubble stops moving and with one quick motion, flick the whole globe toward you and back and set down. The ball will jump up. And if you’re lucky, you’ve become a master.

Congrats. Now onto something else less important.
Feb14

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Lets ‘run some dirt’

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These are examples of bottles I'd dig up when I was a kid

When I was a kid, I used the family ‘camcorder’ (as they were called) to tape movies of Lego characters playing out a scene across movie sets I built with plywood, cardboard, flowing rivers with garden hoses and anything else I could think up. When I’d dig dirt for the sets, I happened to find an old dump site from the early 1900s.

One summer I spent my summer vacation extracting old glass medicine bottles, porcelain doll heads, smashed up plates, steel designs from cook stoves and snuff jars. It was pretty exciting pulling these treasures from the ground. So you can understand how excited I became when I found Discovery’s “Gold Rush: Alaska” series. I was in love.

It’s a great show. A bunch of down-on-their-luck Oregonians head to Alaska to find gold. That’s it. But nothing goes well. The show is about all the problems they face while they build their ‘wash plan’ to find the gold in the Alaska soil.

The crew from Gold Rush: Alaska

The characters couldn’t be any better even if they were cast from actors. Todd is the boss. He’s got over $200G sunken into the plan. His dad Jack is the wise one who utters some of the best lines from the show. Harness is the brains of the operation who can fix anything – and the other guys round out a pretty solid and interesting crew.

If you haven’t seen an episode, do yourself a favor and check it out. The season finale is on Friday. Will they find the mother load? I sure hope they do – they’ve been through hell and back.

And I’d like to see Season 2!
Nov9

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Conan’s back!

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I don’t watch much TV, but I had to catch Conan in his new slot on TBS. It was great. He had Seth Rogan and Jack White from the White Stripes on the show. He opened with a video outlining his failures attempting to work for places like Burger King. It was a classic dose of self-pity that Conan has grown to be known for.

It was also good to see he dominated the ratings last night. Conan averaged 4.2 million overall viewers to Late Night with David Letterman’s 3.4 million and Leno’s 3.3 million. He’s titled his show “Conan”, a strategic move he says that will make it harder for the network to find a replacement for him.

I had the chance to interview Conan in Phoenix last year, and to this day, it stands as my favorite interview I’ve ever done.

It was a good start for the new “Conan” show, but I’m cautiously optimistic. I’m hoping he does well. But when he debuted as host of “The Tonight Show” his audience plunged 50 percent in a week — in part because so many curious people who don’t regularly watch late-night TV checked it out the first night. We’ll see what happens.