Something Shiny

And here I thought I wouldn’t have anything fun to post on this festive Friday. This is… this is brilliant. It’s like a time machine to Christmas-past in some friend’s half-assed finished basement. Be sure to check out the TV Guide in the upper right hand corner for the listings.

Click the pic or here for the BetaMaXmas experience.

Behold, stuff:

• Ice bars arriving at Chambers and Grand Superior Lodge – Minneapolis / St. Paul Restaurants and Dining – The Hot Dish Ice bars to open in Minneapolis and Two harbors soon. Well, ok, that's what the title of the post says, no mention of Chambers in the article though. They did have one last year, so it's fair to assume they'll bring it back again.
• R2-D2 and C-3P0 swimsuits While these may be the droids you're looking for, they probably still don't want to argue plot incongruities between episodes with you.
• Santa’s calling (from his Google Voice number)
• no. 145 – @wyverngirl69
• Apple Selling Refurbished iPads For $429 [Dealzmodo] By the time you read this, it will most likely be too late

Be sure to stop back tomorrow for more stuff (aka webpourri, aka junk).

Behold, stuff:

• Intoxicating Gifts for the Elegant Imbiber [Giftguide2010] "What do you mean? I've always used a cane. Very dense of you not to have noticed until now and very cruel of you to suggest I'd fabricate my infirmity."
• Hunter with cancer bags 'biggest buck he's ever shot' from recliner The kind of guy who shoots animals from a recliner is the kind of guy I don't feel too bad about getting cancer.
• Brunch at Pizza Luce in Hopkins I don't agree with Heavy Table's "meh" review, but it's good to see the Hopkins Pizza Luce breakfast/brunch get some press. I've been very happy with each of the four breakfast-y items I've tried there.
• Netflix Will Add More Content From ABC for Members to Watch Instantly

Be sure to stop back tomorrow for more stuff (aka webpourri, aka junk).

For fans of Surly Brewing beers or home brewing, or both, this video from Brewing TV featuring Surly Brewing is for you.

Note, on the episode page on the Brewing TV site, they link to the Northern Brewing clone kit for Surly’s Furious. You may also want to check out Midwest Supplies Ferocious IPA which was formulated with input from the gang at Surly in extract or all grain recipes.

I decided that my tweets don’t need their own blog posts so I killed the real(-ish) time tweet posts to the blog. Going forward there will be a journal style post on Sunday nights that will have the weeks worth of tweets.

Blog posts will still be generating tweets though for anyone who may be getting their updates that way as opposed to the RSS feed or just dropping by the site from time to time.

Yes, that means no more Foursquare posts in the blog. And there was much rejoicing.

I’m at Purple Sandpiper (8405 Lyndale Ave, 84th St., Bloomington). http://4sq.com/ajJFwz

I’m at Life Time Fitness – Bloomington (5250 W 84th St, at Normandale Blvd, Bloomington). http://4sq.com/5oPgY9

Greg Kinnear is in a lot of roles whr U’re supposed 2 feel bad 4 him but I nevr feel as bad 4 him as I do 4 me while watching a Greg K flick

I’m at Vincent, A Restaurant (1100 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis). http://4sq.com/5QSpCE

I predict by the end of the day I’ll be nearly as burnt-out on Android “news” as I am on Apple “news.”

I’m at Caribou Coffee (8208 Highway 7, Aquila Ave S, St Louis Park) w/ 2 others. http://4sq.com/bVTpC5

Ah, oil changes. (@ Morrie’s Minnetonka Mazda) http://4sq.com/93WuaW

Big plans for tonight, $3 bottle of wine and a $1 package of chicken nuggets. Basically an adult happy meal.

Now if Little Cesar’s would just time warp back to the pizza-pizza days…