Enjoy some miracle lyrical capabilities:

I tried to do a quick and dirty resize to get rid of the video… it’s just stillframes from the movie.  Hope it doesn’t prove to be annoying.

Jay-Z / Rihanna / E.S. Posthumus
Run This Town / Posthumus Zone
“Run This Town” on Blueprint 3 / Roc Nation

I will buy this song when it becomes available. Featured 20 minutes before Superbowl XLIV.

To quote MisterSnig from Youtube, “If there’s one thing I like, it’s rap over an orchestral beat.”

Fun Fact: E.S. Posthumus does the theme song for the NFL on CBS. The song is called The Posthumus Zone.

Director Neill Blomkamp gives his thoughts on the existence of alien life. Really interesting stuff, check it out.

I haven’t posted in quite some time about the small garden I planted about a two months ago, so I thought I’d throw up an update.

Things are going pretty well.  My first set of lettuce looks pretty mature, and I’m thinking about harvesting quite a bit of it for some salads tomorrow.  Ditto with the spinach.  I’m not quite sure what to do with the chard, since there’s not really enough to cook, but maybe I’ll throw some into the salad and see how that tastes.

I’ve also started a couple plants for spring/summer inside.  I have a basil plant and a jalapeno plant that are starting very nicely.

Some things I’ve learned:

• I should have planted a whole square at once.  When you’re thinking about how much you’ll have at harvest time, 4 lettuce plants sounds like a lot but it’s really not that much.
• Leafy plants need some extra nitrogen along the way.  I noticed that some of my growth was going a little slow.  Jackie got me a great gardening book for my birthday, and it recommended fish emulsion, which is an organic fertilizer.  My growth has picked up significantly after applying some.
• Loose-leaf lettuce sounds nice, but will never yield as much as head-type lettuce.  I think I will go for some romaine varieties next season.

My compost is also moving along pretty nicely.  The bin is about 2/3 full at this point, and I can actually feel a little bit of heat emanating from the bin when I turn it.  I think sometime around mid-summer I’ll have a full bin of rich black gold.

I’m still pretty excited about my crazy ambition for the summer: corn.  Will it be my bane, or my sweet victory?

We’ll see.

Good call, Eric.

I get choked up every time I watch it … although that isn’t too difficult.

Hilarious.

I still hate the Oscars, but fuck yeah.

I’d like to share one of my favorite clips from The Office. Enjoy.

[h/t] Heath

This was classic Obama, and it’s really amazing and fresh.

Please take the time to watch it, or read it.

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I found this pretty easy, but I am a junkie.

What’s depressing though is what Jonathon Chait points out:

Relevant fact: only 26% of Americans know that it takes 60 Senators to break a filibuster. Perhaps that’s why President Obama went out of his way to point it out in last night’s speech.

Ugh.

Beej and myself (Choof in there somewhere …) representing Juice.