Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Oct 17, 2011, 11:54 pm
My friend Patty makes an appearance on Channel 4, talking about on-line lotharios: Online Dating Scammers Damn, first Lynne, and now Patty.  Everyone around me is hitting the airwaves.  Me?  All I ever say is "No comment, motherfu**er."  That usually keeps me out of the public eye.
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Oct 17, 2011, 12:42 am
Contest 'Hatched' to Help Detroit Entrepreneurs: MyFoxDETROIT.com
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Aug 18, 2011, 12:35 am
August 15 The minister is speakingand all gathered are hangingon his words of comfort. I, on the other hand, am more concerned withthe insects-grasshoppers, crickets, bees, and others-all singing of life. It seems to methey are singing a songpraising the one we all are gathered to honor,even as we m...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Aug 15, 2011, 10:31 am
Today is both a sad day and a day of celebration.  I am at Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin, to conduct my wife's memorial service and the interment of her cremains at a gravesite adjacent to her mother's burial place.  Lots of in-laws from this area will be in attendance, together with my delightful sis...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Jul 23, 2011, 1:04 pm
I just received my invitation to Google+ and after poking around it a bit, I am intrigued.  Not sold on it replacing Facebook just yet, but I have great faith in Google as a web innovator.  Anyhoo, if any of my readers want an invitation to join the service, leave me a comment on this post and I w...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Jul 7, 2011, 11:32 pm
I had planned on smoking a whole chicken for our Fourth of July dinner, but my brother-in-law Mark generously suggested we grill some pork tenderloins and brats he had purchased and we did that instead.  Actually, I used the smoker that I was gifted by my good friends Lynne and Mike for the pork, a...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Jul 7, 2011, 1:04 am
I've been trying to eat lunch at Slows Bar B Q in Detroit on Wednesdays of late.  Not only is the food delicious, the staff is so friendly and accommodating that I feel at home.  It is one of the shining lights of Detroit, along with Michael Symon's Roast at the revitalized Book Cadillac Hot...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - May 4, 2011, 9:51 pm
My wife recently passed away, and my friends have been solicitous in regards to my needs during this period of mourning.  So it wasn’t really a surprise when one of our oldest friends asked me to meet her at the Detroit Institute of Arts to see an exhibition that was closing last Sunday.  We mad...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - May 4, 2011, 4:51 pm
There is not much better in the world of web surfing than being able to read the writings of an author on a weekly basis, especially when the content is so wonderfully humorous.  Witness Drew Magary of Deadspin in the most recent Funbag installment: Jim: All day long, from the commute on the train ...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Apr 7, 2011, 8:33 pm
Hospital #1Feet movingHead twitchingThe feeling:                HelplessProne in a                 hospital bed-nonsense spewing from                 the bed remoteBlood flows                but to what purpose? Swaddled in white blankets Â...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Mar 9, 2011, 12:13 am
Part of the reason I put together my projections database and the resulting spreadsheet is to create this Tiered Cheat Sheet for use during fantasy baseball drafts.  The first version of the Cheat Sheet is now ready for download from several locations, namely: Google Docs Offfice Live Buckaroo's Ba...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Mar 7, 2011, 11:36 pm
My projections spreadsheet is up and ready for downloading.  It's huge (3.1 MB), so I had to save it to Office Live here.  I also saved it to Google Docs here.  My suggestion is to go to one of the links, and download the actual spreadsheet, then open it in Excel.  I created it in Excel 2007, bu...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Mar 7, 2011, 11:01 am
You can see my auction values spreadsheet here or here. Or if the embedding works, you can look at it below.  Office Live is acting kinda wonky lately, so you are prolly better off clicking one of the links above.  Viddy well, my droogies.
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Feb 4, 2011, 4:00 pm
Mickey Mantle Click on the link above if you are not easily offended, or if you do not worship Mickey Mantle as a person of great character.  It's a great example of Mick's humor, and does the history of the Yankee franchise proud.
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Jan 28, 2011, 11:00 am
I was talking with my wife the other day about the various hats I wear and the groups I belong to these days.  She joking brought up a designation I had developed when we were in our senior year at U of M-The BCA.  The acronym refers to the "Brahmin Class of America." If you are interested, the Wi...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Jan 11, 2011, 12:02 pm
I just posted this on one of my Facebook friend's pages in response to this posting: “As I look out the window, I see a very beautiful planet that seems very inviting and peaceful. Unfortunately, it is not.  These days, we are constantly reminded of the unspeakable acts of violence and damage we...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Jan 7, 2011, 6:49 pm
I usually only post Drew Magary's work from Deadspin here, but this is far too exceptionally wonderful to pass up the opportunity to make more widely known.  Yeah, I know, from this blog, more widely known is a misnomer, but grant me my delusions. The Greatest Letter Ever Printed on NFL Team Letter...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Jan 6, 2011, 10:15 pm
No need for explanations, just watch and enjoy.  Oh, and make sure you check out the original 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time in my post from December 30th of last year.
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Dec 30, 2010, 11:07 pm
I am participating in a slow mock draft for the Fantasy Sports Warrior site.  This is a 16 team baseball draft, which consists of 22 rounds.  Typical 5x5 stats, that is to say, HR, R, RBI, AVG, SB & W, S, ERA, WHIP, K.  We will draft 13 offensive players (C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, CI, MI, OF, OF, OF, OF...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Dec 30, 2010, 9:52 pm
All we've been given to explain the collapse of the roof at the Metrodome is that one video taken by security cameras, that gave no clue as to the real cause.  Until now.  Thanks to the generous Walter Cherepinsky of Walter Football I am proud to present the truth to all my readers: How did the...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Dec 30, 2010, 2:51 pm
There are a number of these collections on YouTube.  Just do a search for hh1edits and revel in the glory.  Here's the latest I've found:
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Dec 30, 2010, 2:32 pm
Also from the wonderful Walter Football site, take a gander at the image for Dane Sanzenbacher on his Wikipedia page.  Beauty, eh?
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Dec 10, 2010, 12:21 pm
Live TV is filled with a lot of inane talking heads, especially on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC.  But then you get a brilliant bit of unintended humor like this: A tip o' the cap to Midwest Sports Fans for alerting me to this gem.
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Nov 29, 2010, 3:56 pm
Not too sure about the posting rules here, but I am assuming I have a bit more freedom than on Facebook.  Here's Funny or Die's video montage: You Look Like Shit Megamix - watch more funny videos I have to admit, this struck a particular cord with me this weekend, after getting hit by a viru...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Nov 16, 2010, 11:56 pm
Made by slave children overseas...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Nov 16, 2010, 11:10 pm
I recommend this highly.  Thanks to my good friend Andrea LaMont for the heads up. I especially like Human Growth Harrison at the 1:10 mark.  "I played for Bill Belichick. He's a moody (mofo).    He hates Eric Mangini almost as much as he hates losing.  So when he loses to Eric Mangini, ...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Nov 3, 2010, 9:26 am
From NBC's PFT, quoting the imminently quotable Chad Ochocinco: "If anyone else out there feels that Rex Grossman gives the Washington Redskins a better chance than Donovan McNabb to win a game with two minutes left on the clock," Ochocinco said, "they need to slap they selves."All this because Mike...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Oct 13, 2010, 5:51 pm
I am pretty sure I've praised Drew Magary of Deadspin and Kissing Suzy Kolber before, especially his work on tearing apart dissecting Peter King's MMQB piece for SI.  This description of pain, however, deserves its own posting: Pain is a terribly lonely, isolating thing. It's like depression, only ...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Oct 7, 2010, 11:18 am
Walter Cherepinsky of the wonderful fantasy sports site, Walter Football, has some interesting observations with a football focus buried away in his week 5 picks report.  I will reproduce them for you, but I also suggest you bookmark his site if you are at all interested in football, fantasy or NFL...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Sep 14, 2010, 11:33 am
Anyone who has read this blog for a while knows I play fantasy sports.  The degree of my involvement has grown over the years from my first auto-drafted Yahoo league to now, where I am in 27 fantasy football leagues this season.  Even if I had Calvin Johnson on all my teams (I have him on a signif...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Sep 12, 2010, 4:19 pm
It was my birthday, and my long time bartender and good friend Barbara had given me a birthday card.  It had a picture of a squirrel with an enormous scrotum on the cover, and made a joke about nuts inside.  She had included a handwritten note, which I thought was extremely touching.  I set it as...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Aug 26, 2010, 1:13 am
Snowy Biscuit and I were sitting at the copper topped bar.  I had been explaining the differences in the meat they used for their burgers at 3B, including buffalo meat, and I asked if she had ever tried buffalo mozzarella.  "How is that possible?  Aren't all buffalo men?" she asked, absolutely se...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Aug 6, 2010, 11:13 am
I want to assure any of my readers that I realize rape is wrong.  Even so, this news report from Alabama makes me wonder why the local Detroit news stations cannot produce anything that even comes close to this wonderful piece of on-the-spot reporting. There are plenty of remixes showing up ...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - May 5, 2010, 12:47 pm
Recently discovered, I truly enjoy the irreverent posts on What Would Tyler Durden Do?, especially this partial quote from the post on Lindsay Lohan and her deposition: "You could go to a civil war graveyard, bring someone back to life and even they would know more about what happened that night th...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Apr 27, 2010, 10:09 am
4/1/80 The Lost Art of Dislocation I had heard her approaching but instead of turning and greeting her, I continued doing what I'd been doing for the past ten minutes. "What the hell are you doing?" Sheila asked. I put the quarter in the slot, turned the handle and watched the arro...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Apr 26, 2010, 5:01 pm
Elizabeth (Lily) Bollinger on champagne: "I drink it when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and I drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it, unless I'm thirsty."
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Apr 20, 2010, 5:43 pm
Via Monique Marvez: "Love hard. Forgive harder. And get as happy as you can, as fast as you can." Great advice.  Funny lady, too.
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Mar 21, 2010, 9:24 pm
Decisions There is a sense of satisfaction when events work out without much effort on your part to let things develop naturally.  The refusal to abruptly react to an unexpected disturbance, but rather simply stepping back, observing calmly what has and is transpiring, and only deftly guiding circu...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Mar 21, 2010, 9:23 pm
There are a number of dinners/lunches/breakfasts one can cook without having to look at a cookbook.  Here is my list: 1.  Spaghetti and meatball (or sausage, shrimp, etc.) 2.  Chicken saltimbucca 3.  Ribs 4.  Grilled Salmon 5.  Grilled Tuna steak 6.  Macar...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Mar 21, 2010, 9:21 pm
Here is a list of my all-time favorite movies.  Streets of Fire Repo Man The Man Who Would Be King The Sin of Harold Diddlebock Caddyshack Rio Lobo Kelly's Heroes Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimens...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Mar 15, 2010, 11:39 am
I've put together an auction value spreadsheet which incorporates my values for hitters and pitchers, too.  Since auctions are gaining in popularity with ESPN, Yahoo and CBS all offering the option, I thought it wise to offer some sort of guide post for the fantasy world. I also managed to gr...
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Mar 14, 2010, 8:57 am
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Ivar A. posted an article on Planet 10 Meanderings - Oct 16, 2009, 9:31 am
This has been floating around the internet in one form or another for as long as I've been online.  My aunt and uncle sent me this version, and since I haven't been posting much of late, I thought I'd just toss it out there. 101 Ways To Annoy People 1. Sing the Batman theme incessantly. ...
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