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8 Boxes

January 23, 2009

Recently, I moved to a house in Uptown, just half a block out of the four-square block area called LynLake. I am two blocks from Pizza Lucé, half a block from an amazing-looking coffee shop (such charm can be seen from outside!), maybe four blocks from the VFW/Herkimer/everything else at the intersection of Lyndale and Lake, and a few more blocks away from Calhoun Square. Not to mention all my friends who live within four or five blocks.

Yeah, it’s all great. But the moving process has revealed a truth about me: I love books and movies. (Music too, but you’ll see why that was not physically demonstrated in the move.) When I packed up my books and DVDs, they took up eight boxes. And not small boxes. Look:

boxes

Sure, some boxes are smaller than others, but that’s an ass-ton of boxes. And books are heavy.

I am excited to unpack these boxes and organize my books and DVDs. I may let you know how it goes.

I find this all very interesting. You may not. But I don’t care, because this is my internet.

Some Movie Statistics

January 2, 2009

I picked five movies and brought them to my room to watch while I sit in bed feeling sorry for myself with this head cold. I couldn’t decide which one I wanted to watch, so I decided I would Google each of them (each title in quotes) and the one with the most results would be the winner. I was surprised at the results:

  1. The Big Lebowski: about 1,820,000
  2. Good Night and Good Luck: about 1,400,000
  3. Wayne’s World: about 994,000
  4. Blazing Saddles: about 913,000
  5. Star Trek First Contact: about 295,000

I’m convinced the only reason Wayne’s World beat Blazing Saddles is beacuse it necessarily includes results for both Wayne’s World and Wayne’s World 2.

But, the internet does not lie, folks. The Big Lebowski it is. Probably followed by Good Night and Good Luck.