so many trons

Moving Day

nate-tron — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:25:20 +0000

Categories: Rambling

Attention nerds; this incredible depository of brain dumps is moving to Tumblr. This means very little for those of you who visit, because (A) www.natesullivan.com is still going to take you to the new-ish looking full screen vanity project it currently does, and (B) clicking on “Posts” will still display a bunch of gobbledegook about [...]

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this cuts at my very identity

nate-tron — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:27:56 +0000

Categories: Hilarity

Tags: blogs, brendan kelly, Nerdery, rollerblading

Brendan Kelly on blogs : A blog is like rollerblading. No matter how many stairs you jump down, no matter how many flips you do, no matter how death-defying a stunt you pull off on your rollerblades, you’re still rollerblading and therefore you’re kind of a pud. So true… but it’s okay, as long as [...]

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space jam II

nate-tron — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:57:08 +0000

Categories: Celtics/NBA, Rambling, The World

Tags: aliens, Celtics/NBA, cinnabon, competitive weaving, dmv, practice, the bizarre, tournaments

Let me give you a completely ridiculous, totally implausible scenario. While you’re sitting in line at the DMV, or in some other scenario with a fairly representative cross-section of society, aliens abduct you and everyone else in the room/mall/town/whatever. The aliens have been watching the NBA playoffs, and they are now totally infatuated with basketball, [...]

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football cops

nate-tron — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:23:56 +0000

Categories: Cable, Hilarity, Media, Patriots/NFL, Sports

Tags: Hilarity, mannings, Patriots, youtube, zoolander

Peyton Manning is obviously a quasi-nemesis to me as a Patriots fan, but that doesn’t mean I can’t salute the guy for embracing his dorkhood and channeling it into things that amuse me. Fine work, gentlemen. As funny as this commercial is on its own (it’d probably be enjoyable even if the Mannings weren’t famous [...]

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quote of the day

nate-tron — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:00:31 +0000

Categories: Media, Online, Politics, The World

Tags: elections, midwest, Politics, presidents, voters

Matt Taibbi is always going to produce far more aggressive, combative, and yes, oftentimes much funnier rhetoric than I probably ever will on politics. But even taking that into account, I think there’s a very compelling point within what Andrew Sullivan calls “his usual bravado” : “Michele Bachmann has found the flaw in the American [...]

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most stereotypical new york times article ever

nate-tron — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:26:24 +0000

Categories: Media, Online, Print, The World

Tags: college, get a job grouch, get a job you hippy, get off my lawn, kids, new york, New York Times, rich people, you probably pay their ez pass too don't you

It’s got a little bit of everything, but most importantly, it successfully portrays something totally ridiculous that only rich people do as a normal, increasingly popular trend in American life. “FOR some parents, an engraved pen set just won’t cut it as a graduation present. It seems so insubstantial, so unoriginal. Anyway, the kid will [...]

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baffled

nate-tron — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:57:37 +0000

Categories: Media, Online, Politics, The World

Tags: baffled, language, mccain, Media, old people, Politics, this used to be all orange groves, word choice

I don’t mean to imply that journalists/editors should have to get their stories & headlines “approved” by sources or anything, but doesn’t it seem like with some words, you should really have to check? Take this example. Maybe McCain said “baffled” at some point in the interview. “I am baffled by this controversy.” I can [...]

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weather report

nate-tron — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:13:14 +0000

Categories: Bike, The World

Tags: Bike, commuting, profanity, rain, weather

Okay, come on. This is bullshit.

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ideas

nate-tron — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:39:03 +0000

Categories: Government, Politics, The World

Tags: Congress, ideas, laws, presidents, ron paul, the onion, tugboats

Ron Paul on being old and running for President: Paul,75, rejected the idea that he’s too old to be president. “It’s the ideas that count,” he says. “I endorse young ideas.” I wrote a post about this that was kind of interesting, but after re-reading it, it doesn’t apply nearly as well to this quote [...]

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this is what would happen

nate-tron — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:18:19 +0000

Categories: Celtics/NBA, Sports

Tags: dunk, durant, nba, video, youtubery

… if an NBA player joined your rec league. To be fair, Kevin Durant isn’t some random NBA player — he’s one of the very best. But still, look how tiny and slow everything looks when he makes his move. It’s like he’s playing SlamBall, but he’s the only guy who gets to use the [...]

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