The816

"It took me until my 40s to realize it: There’s no destination. There’s no getting anywhere. There’s just the going. The key to life is to make the going really fun. Because people that are like, “If I just get to this, then boom!” And then they get there and there’s this dawning of an afterwards. Whereas I’m just always in the going. And it’s not a frantic going like, “I gotta keep going or I’m gonna go nuts!” I can not do anything for weeks or months if I need to and just sit and read books or watch movies. I’m just as fine consuming and absorbing new art as I am trying to make it. But it’s all in the going."

— Patton Oswalt

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This is why we can’t have nice couches.

GPOYDABT

(Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Driving a Boat Thursday)

(This will be difficult to repeat every week.)

Alternative Themes for This Year’s TEDxKC Conference

Midwest iPad Owners Meetup
The One Guy in the Back Will Laugh Loudly to Let You Know He Really Understands That Joke
The People Speaking Today Have Done More With Their Lives Than You Ever Will, You Sad Sack of Crap
The Night Barnes & Noble was Severely Short-Staffed
Communiversity: Group Nodding and Muttered Verbal Approval

Where Brands of Beer Are Most Likely to be Found as Litter

Keystone Light - Trailer parks, state fairgrounds, survivalist compounds
Bud Light Lime - The Gulf of Mexico
Stella Artois - Liberal arts colleges, unemployed BFA graduate’s apartments
Pabst Blue Ribbon - Music festivals, newly gentrified urban neighborhoods
Michelob Ultra - Health club parking lots, yoga studios
Coors Light - Colorado highway ditches

Least Popular Glade Plugins

Essence of Newark
Locker Room Mist
Limburger Breeze
Coffee Breath
Paper Mill Valley
Expired Medication Medley

Generational Differences

Saw “Clerks” in a theater. / Saw “Clerks” playing on a TV at a 90s theme party.
Purchased “Nevermind” on cassette. / Has no idea Dave Grohl was in a band before Foo Fighters.
“Killed the music industry” by home taping. / “Killed the music industry” by downloading.
Played with a band in the garage. / Played with GarageBand.
Could still tell you the 10-digit phone numbers of their five closest friends. / Has never dialed a phone.
Has parents who remember the Vietnam war / Has parents who remember Seinfeld.
Owned at least a dozen flannel shirts / Owns a dozen American Apparel v-neck t-shirts.