Archive for December, 2009
Top 9 tweets of 2009
Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by Brett.
The Chinese calendar has it wrong. 2009 has been the year of the tweet. I estimate that I’ve read over 108,000 tweets this year. I’ve favorited the best ones along the way and culled that list down to my top 9 tweets of 2009. Some are funny. Some are pure art. Telling a joke, a story, [...]
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Here’s to you
Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by Brett.
Here’s to wrestling matches on the floor
Here’s to football games in Tuscaloosa
Here’s to Braves games on the couch
Here’s to Wilson Dam little league
Here’s to cotton fields and arrowhead hunts
Here’s to Yoo-hoo, bottle only
Here’s to not wanting to be mentioned in your sermons
Here’s to that time you apologized for that thing you said
Here’s to integrity…
And your [...]
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Let’s run 13.1 miles together…
Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by Brett.
Took a big step in 2009 by running the Country Music Half Marathon which happened last April in Nashville, TN. Let me qualify this by saying that I am no super-athlete. I was an average basketball and football player in high school and a slightly less mediocre intramural athlete in college. After gaining 30 pounds [...]
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Counting down my top 10 most memorable moments of the decade
Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by Brett.
My boss Chris has been counting down on Twitter his top moments from the last decade. I thought this was cool, so I’m sniping his idea. Keep in mind this isn’t a list of my best or most significant moments, just the ones that are still jumping around in my memory.
2000 – At 12:33 pm [...]
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TRAPPSTR.com Movie Review: Avatar
Posted on 19. Dec, 2009 by Brett.
(No spoiler alert needed here. If you haven’t seen the movie, it’s okay. Read on.)
Ok, let me get my critiques out of the way first.
The storyline is a little cliche. High tech brutes overrunning indigenous natives isn’t exactly a new concept.
One scene of bad dialogue at the beginning as project leader explains Unobtanium.
Liberal themes run [...]
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But the fun wore off…
Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Brett.
It started with a Nintendo. It seemed like everyone but us had one. Then that fateful rainy day finally came when mom drove me and my two older brothers to Huntsville, and we returned with that two-tone grey plastic box of fun. We played the heck out of that 8-bit Super Mario game. We bought [...]
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What’s your plan for 2010?
Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Brett.
It’s December. You’ve got 11 months to look back and reflect on…
What one word would you use to describe this past year for you?
What goals did you set in 2009?
What goals did you accomplish in 2009?
What did you learn about yourself in 2009?
What/who held you back in 2009?
Maybe 2009 was a great year for you. [...]
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A diehard Alabama fan explains the Tebow legacy…
Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Brett.
Let me be clear: I’m tired of hearing about Tim Tebow.
I’m tired of the jumping around on the sideline. I’m tired of “the speech.” I’m tired of the eye black. I’m tired of the media’s gushing over his every move. I’m tired of the jump pass and all the rushing touchdowns. Quarterbacks are supposed to [...]
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Top 10 songs of the decade
Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Brett.
The other day I tweeted, “Agree or Disagree? ‘Drops of Jupiter’ by Train is one of the top 10 songs of the last decade.“ I might as well have asked “Would you like the Taliban to babysit your child?” The responses weren’t exactly positive. All of ZERO people agreed with me. Haha…
But I’m a sucker [...]
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