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Sunday, September 28, 2014
All that flying out to Wisconsin this summer and back made me hungry for cheese. Pick up a block of it now and then. Truck it home. Make grilled cheese. It's all tasty but sometimes you need something more. Something like cheddar cheese popcorn. Not the white cheddar you find around here, but the bright orange stuff. The stuff of your childhood. The good stuff.


It's easy to get if you fly out through Chicago's O'hare. There are a few kiosks that sell the stuff. I picked up a few bags. This one time, as I transferred through O'hare, I decided to pick up a bag. I only found Garrett's, but I knew there was a Nuts On Clark there, so I searched around for it. It was around the corner. These two brands joined the other bag of popcorn I had brought back from Wisconsin. Right then and there I decided on a taste test.


First up is Seguin's cheddar cheese popcorn. This one was at a disadvantage as the bag had been opened for a couple of days, so it wasn't as fresh as the following two. This one also wasn't popped fresh that day. It was probably packaged a few weeks before I bought it. Of the three, it had the sharpest cheddar taste. It also had the most normal looking of popcorn with a brilliant orange color.


Garrett's cheddar cheese popcorn is a great contender. The popcorn are fluffy and more rounded. The cheese taste is smooth. It's color is a a mellower yellow-tinged orange.


Nuts on Clark's cheddar cheese popcorn is the best of the three. I recommend getting this on your trips through Chicago. It has the same mellow cheese taste as Garrett's, but the popped kernels are slightly bigger and fluffier. I saw that they use Monster Mushroom Popcorn to achieve that awesome size and shape. I'm not sure if Garrett's uses the same, but theirs is a smaller size.

You can't go wrong with any of these. If you can get Seguin's, then get it. If you want Garrett's then want it. I recommend Nuts On Clark's cheddar popcorn.

You should also try the Chicago mix -- cheddar and caramel corn. It's just as good.

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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Link of the Day [9.27.14]

Be afraid.

And if you need more info, don't duck duck go babadook! Boo!

http://www.youcantgetridofthebabadook.com

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Friday, September 26, 2014
Link of the Day [9.26.2014]

On my trips out to Wisconsin, I bring home a block of cheese or two. The first time was two years ago. I bought the cheese at the airport in Milwaukee. This year on the trips up I bought cheese at this store. At the airport in Green Bay, they shake me down thinking this cheese is a block of C4. In reality, this cheese is the bomb. Pardon me while I go make a grilled cheese sandwich with 7 year old sharp cheddar.

http://www.seguinscheese.com

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Thursday, September 25, 2014


This is how they troll Orioles fans at Cooperstown. The Amazing Mets? Pittsburgh Pirates? Really, Cooperstown, really?

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This is what you'll see at Cooperstown if you are an Orioles fan. Maybe one day, there will be more joining them. Maybe like in my lifetime.

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Monday, September 22, 2014
I went and tried to get more playoff tickets.

I thought it would be nice to invite anyone and everyone along for the second game of the ALDS. I got the chance this afternoon. As a season ticket holder, I had the chance to purchase another 2 tickets to any of the ALDS games.

I went 10 minutes into my scheduled time at 1400. I got a 2 tickets for Game 1. I selected seats for Game 2. No dice the first time. I tried a different section. No dice the second time. I worked my way down the list towards the cheaper and cheaper seats. No dice the third and fourth times.

Then I refreshed my shopping cart and tried again from the beginning.

Wait. There's no Game 2 available.

Darn.

Now, I have to figure out who to take the first game and who the take for the second game.

Who wants to go?

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014


It has been a long time since a wrote a post about baseball or the Orioles. I didn't have much to say lately or I didn't know what to say. I see that my last post was from the 2012 season. There was a few from 2013, but nothing really. What is there to say about last year? It wasn't this year!

Woohoo! Orioles won the American League East division! And I was there. I can not believe it. They did well.

This wasn't like 2012. It was no surprise. It was a methodical beatdown of the AL East. They started slow, but as the year heated up, so did the Birds. They played better and better. And here we are.

AL East Champs!

Let's go Orioles!

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Link of the Day [9.16.14]

Who the hell is U2? Why did their album just show up on my iPod? Do people still play rock music?

So you got free stuff from Apple, but you don't want it.

Well, here's how to remove it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6439?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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Monday, September 15, 2014
Link of the Day [9.15.14]

How can I not give you a link to a feature on Phil Hartman for NewsRadio Quote Month? It's for his work on SNL, but it can be applied to NewsRadio. RIP Mr. Hartman. I wish we had more years of you playing characters on the big and the small screens.

http://grantland.com/features/the-glue-understanding-the-comedy-of-phil-hartman-saturday-night-live-newsradio-the-simpsons/

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Sunday, September 14, 2014


Kutiman has made another mashup YouTube video. Like his others, this one is pretty awesome. It's amazing how this guy can mix things together. If you watch each individual YouTube video, you wouldn't know how to stitch it into another song. Kutiman does, and he works magic. I can't wait to hear the rest of these.

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Saturday, September 13, 2014
Link of the Day [9.13.14]

I saw this thing on the internet that was a preview of a graphic novel about spooky stories. I believe I saw it on AV Club. The thing is I saw that a while ago and lost track of what the graphic novel was about. I'm still sure I saw it at the AV Club, but I can't find it there.

You see I like spooky stories. I love ghost stories, haunted houses, getting the creeps, and goosebumps springing up on along the arm. If there's supernatural things about, I'm there. So a graphic novel with scares is right about my alley.

But I didn't know who wrote it, because I could not remember anything about that AV Club article. Was it even an AV Club article?

Yet, here we are I found it from a link at Slate.com. It's by an artist, Emily Carroll, and she's got plenty of ghastly graphic tales on her site. I want to check them out, then get the book.

http://emcarroll.com

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Thursday, September 11, 2014
Link of the Day [9.11.14]

I'm only interested in the Apple Watch for figuring out what novel user inputs a developer can do with it. I didn't really want one until I read this review. Woah. Maybe like the iPhone I'll wander into the Apple Store and pick one up. Which to choose?

http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/hodinkee-apple-watch-review

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
NewsRadio Quote Month is dead.

Long live NewsRadio Quote Month!

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