Bryant tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2008:/bryantsblog//4 2008-05-30T01:04:04Z ...I bend when I am bored. Movable Type 3.32 twitter tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2008:/bryantsblog//4.3828 2008-05-30T01:02:35Z 2008-05-30T01:04:04Z Anybody into twitter? http://www.twitter.com/bryantbone Anybody into twitter?


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]]> slipping through the mists of time tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2008:/bryantsblog//4.3827 2008-05-27T03:07:18Z 2008-05-27T03:36:45Z Wow, I feel like I haven't seen or heard from anyone in these parts forever. Probably because I haven't. Seeing Jeff S, however briefly, last weekend made me think I ought to get on here and check in on what everyone is up to these days. Like Joel, I graduated a couple of weeks ago, which was a surreal experience to say the least. Four years flew by too fast, and I'm not sure I'm quite ready to enter adulthood just yet. Post-graduation plans have been pretty set for the last few months. After accepting a position with the world's largest software company, I decided that Fargo, ND wasn't where I wanted to live, and ERP software wasn't what I wanted to work on. So, I backed out and transitioned from my role as an intern at Agile Sports into a full-time position. We do all sorts of cool stuff with software for NFL and college football teams, and are working to bring on some sweet partners. We also have an awesome start-up atmosphere (I'm full-timer #10 or 11) that makes everyday a joy. So, I'll be sticking around Lincoln for the time being, and have a badass place in the Haymarket (a block from work!). If anyone is ever in Lincoln and wants to hang out or needs a place to crash, I'll be here. I'm not sure what I'll be doing with this space in the near future. I'm putting together a list of post-graduation goals. One is to run as much as I did in high school (something I've neglected for the last four years). I've already gotten started, and am running far more than I drive every week. The second goal is to read some piece of legitimate for pleasure at least an hour a day. And really, I'd like to write more, but I'm not sure I have that much that's worth writing about. We'll see what happens. Wow, I feel like I haven't seen or heard from anyone in these parts forever. Probably because I haven't. Seeing Jeff S, however briefly, last weekend made me think I ought to get on here and check in on what everyone is up to these days.

Like Joel, I graduated a couple of weeks ago, which was a surreal experience to say the least. Four years flew by too fast, and I'm not sure I'm quite ready to enter adulthood just yet.

Post-graduation plans have been pretty set for the last few months. After accepting a position with the world's largest software company, I decided that Fargo, ND wasn't where I wanted to live, and ERP software wasn't what I wanted to work on. So, I backed out and transitioned from my role as an intern at Agile Sports into a full-time position. We do all sorts of cool stuff with software for NFL and college football teams, and are working to bring on some sweet partners. We also have an awesome start-up atmosphere (I'm full-timer #10 or 11) that makes everyday a joy.

So, I'll be sticking around Lincoln for the time being, and have a badass place in the Haymarket (a block from work!). If anyone is ever in Lincoln and wants to hang out or needs a place to crash, I'll be here.

I'm not sure what I'll be doing with this space in the near future. I'm putting together a list of post-graduation goals. One is to run as much as I did in high school (something I've neglected for the last four years). I've already gotten started, and am running far more than I drive every week. The second goal is to read some piece of legitimate for pleasure at least an hour a day. And really, I'd like to write more, but I'm not sure I have that much that's worth writing about.

We'll see what happens.

]]> 1-800-BETS-OFF tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3640 2007-06-02T19:27:57Z 2007-06-02T19:45:20Z Last night I checked out the Council Bluffs casino scene for the first time. Let me just say that the two casinos we went to were probably the saddest places I've ever seen. Most of the people there fit into two groups: old people who had lost the will to live and were willing to throw everything they had at a slot machine, and the NASCAR crowd who, by the number of mullets I saw, were still big Billy Ray Cyrus fans. Really freakin' depressing. Anyway, JT, DR, and AP and I hit the blackjack tables since it's the only game where you've got a fighting chance. We all fared pretty well (except for AP), and I even ended up making $35 (on the $30 I played). Lessons learned: go to the casinos infrequently, play with very little money and leave when you're on top. Last night I checked out the Council Bluffs casino scene for the first time. Let me just say that the two casinos we went to were probably the saddest places I've ever seen. Most of the people there fit into two groups: old people who had lost the will to live and were willing to throw everything they had at a slot machine, and the NASCAR crowd who, by the number of mullets I saw, were still big Billy Ray Cyrus fans. Really freakin' depressing. Anyway, JT, DR, and AP and I hit the blackjack tables since it's the only game where you've got a fighting chance. We all fared pretty well (except for AP), and I even ended up making $35 (on the $30 I played). Lessons learned: go to the casinos infrequently, play with very little money and leave when you're on top.

]]> finale roundup tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3633 2007-05-26T17:35:54Z 2007-05-26T17:54:49Z Ladies and gentlemen, it's that time of the year again...finale season! I only watch four shows regularly, and thus far, it's been a mixed bag. (SPOILERS BELOW) LOST After a mediocre third season and me getting ready to give up, the LOST writers went nuts with their two-hour season finale. The plan to attack the Others went surprisingly well and it looks like there is life after the island thanks to a flash-forward to the future. Jack's an alcoholic addicted to pain killers? How the hell did that happen? I was skeptical when I heard the show was renewed for a final three seasons, fortunately though, it looks like they may be able to return to season one glory. Heroes Seriously, I really want to like this show. Any show or movie where people have kick-ass superpowers, I'm down for. Unfortunately for this show, the writing has been mediocre and the acting awful. I've been willing to excuse it because there have been badass uses of superpowers thus far. In the last few episodes, however, the action has lulled for what appeared to be the ultimate battle between Sylar and Peter Petrelli. What do we get in the season finale? Nothing. No badass fight scenes, only more bad acting and Sylar being "killed" (no corpse, no death) and some ridiculous time travel back to ancient Japan? Lame. The Office Jim and Pam. Finally. 24 The current incarnation of the series is getting old. Characters and dialogue are tired ("You're going to have to trust me!"), and I still don't understand why everyone is always fighting Jack Bauer's decision-making. For the love of God, he's saved the world six times, let him do his thing. I'm hoping that a change of location and new cast around Kiefer Sutherland will breathe new life into the show. Ladies and gentlemen, it's that time of the year again...finale season! I only watch four shows regularly, and thus far, it's been a mixed bag. (SPOILERS BELOW)

LOST
After a mediocre third season and me getting ready to give up, the LOST writers went nuts with their two-hour season finale. The plan to attack the Others went surprisingly well and it looks like there is life after the island thanks to a flash-forward to the future. Jack's an alcoholic addicted to pain killers? How the hell did that happen? I was skeptical when I heard the show was renewed for a final three seasons, fortunately though, it looks like they may be able to return to season one glory.

Heroes
Seriously, I really want to like this show. Any show or movie where people have kick-ass superpowers, I'm down for. Unfortunately for this show, the writing has been mediocre and the acting awful. I've been willing to excuse it because there have been badass uses of superpowers thus far. In the last few episodes, however, the action has lulled for what appeared to be the ultimate battle between Sylar and Peter Petrelli. What do we get in the season finale? Nothing. No badass fight scenes, only more bad acting and Sylar being "killed" (no corpse, no death) and some ridiculous time travel back to ancient Japan? Lame.

The Office
Jim and Pam. Finally.

24
The current incarnation of the series is getting old. Characters and dialogue are tired ("You're going to have to trust me!"), and I still don't understand why everyone is always fighting Jack Bauer's decision-making. For the love of God, he's saved the world six times, let him do his thing. I'm hoping that a change of location and new cast around Kiefer Sutherland will breathe new life into the show.

]]> southtown girls tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3632 2007-05-25T00:27:47Z 2007-05-25T00:38:41Z The Hold Steady played Sokol Underground last Sunday. Go see this band if they're anywhere close, just incredible. Most people at the show were giving the band rave reviews out loud, and while some of it may have been the PBR talking, as one of the few sober people at the show, I can attest to their excellence. Craig Finn's happiness infected the crowd, Tad Kubler melted faces with well-placed, delicious guitar solos and Franz Nicolay rocked out with his waxed mustache. Memorial Day weekend coming up, and as a salaried employee, I'm enjoying my first of two paid holidays this summer. The Hold Steady played Sokol Underground last Sunday. Go see this band if they're anywhere close, just incredible. Most people at the show were giving the band rave reviews out loud, and while some of it may have been the PBR talking, as one of the few sober people at the show, I can attest to their excellence. Craig Finn's happiness infected the crowd, Tad Kubler melted faces with well-placed, delicious guitar solos and Franz Nicolay rocked out with his waxed mustache.

Memorial Day weekend coming up, and as a salaried employee, I'm enjoying my first of two paid holidays this summer.

]]> tb tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3628 2007-05-17T23:15:48Z 2007-05-17T23:16:50Z You know what's awesome? Being back in Omaha, where there are more Taco Bells within 3 miles of my house than in the entire city of Lincoln. You know what's awesome? Being back in Omaha, where there are more Taco Bells within 3 miles of my house than in the entire city of Lincoln.

]]> and the living is easy tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3625 2007-05-15T17:07:31Z 2007-05-15T17:41:28Z Finals wrapped up last Wednesday, and less than 12 hours later, I was laying on a beach with Lena in southern California. A perfect ending to the semester. While in L.A. Lena and I also were able to check out a Fall Out Boy show at a 200-capacity hole-in-the-wall club which was, needless to say, awesome. And thanks to James Stevenson's hospitality and tour guiding, I was able to drag Lena around to a number of L.A./Hollywood locations for the standard tourist sightseeing. Upon returning from L.A., I headed out to North Carolina for a visit to the TIAA-CREF campus with a few fellow J.D. Edwards students. Immediately after North Carolina, I met up with Lena in Chicago for a Cubs game and other miscellaneous Windy City activities. I'm now back in Omaha for the foreseeable future, and until work starts next Monday, I plan on being a complete and total pile. Finals wrapped up last Wednesday, and less than 12 hours later, I was laying on a beach with Lena in southern California. A perfect ending to the semester. While in L.A. Lena and I also were able to check out a Fall Out Boy show at a 200-capacity hole-in-the-wall club which was, needless to say, awesome. And thanks to James Stevenson's hospitality and tour guiding, I was able to drag Lena around to a number of L.A./Hollywood locations for the standard tourist sightseeing.

Upon returning from L.A., I headed out to North Carolina for a visit to the TIAA-CREF campus with a few fellow J.D. Edwards students. Immediately after North Carolina, I met up with Lena in Chicago for a Cubs game and other miscellaneous Windy City activities.

I'm now back in Omaha for the foreseeable future, and until work starts next Monday, I plan on being a complete and total pile.

]]> crossroads tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3589 2007-03-25T17:22:09Z 2007-03-25T21:37:05Z When I travel at airports, it seems more times than not, I run into someone I know. I ran into Rick MacInnes on the way to Miami, and while in Chicago during a layover between Miami and Omaha, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Josh Leuck, who was also on his way back to Omaha, just starting his Spring Break. When it was time for me to board, we said our farewells, I boarded the plane and started back into the Wired magazine I picked up in the airport newsstand. About 4 or 5 pages in I looked up and saw Kyle Woodward walking down the aisle. Crazy! A necessary mocking of SkyMall's entire collection of merchandise ensued. Next Saturday, Eric Clapton is playing in Omaha and I couldn't be more pumped. I'm debating whether or not to pick up tickets for the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago in July. I've got a free flight or two saved up and if it's anything like the 2004 event, it would be insanely good. When I travel at airports, it seems more times than not, I run into someone I know. I ran into Rick MacInnes on the way to Miami, and while in Chicago during a layover between Miami and Omaha, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Josh Leuck, who was also on his way back to Omaha, just starting his Spring Break. When it was time for me to board, we said our farewells, I boarded the plane and started back into the Wired magazine I picked up in the airport newsstand. About 4 or 5 pages in I looked up and saw Kyle Woodward walking down the aisle. Crazy! A necessary mocking of SkyMall's entire collection of merchandise ensued.

Next Saturday, Eric Clapton is playing in Omaha and I couldn't be more pumped. I'm debating whether or not to pick up tickets for the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago in July. I've got a free flight or two saved up and if it's anything like the 2004 event, it would be insanely good.

]]> faint cont'd tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3584 2007-03-18T22:12:17Z 2007-03-19T05:33:45Z I know I said I'd post some pictures from the Faint show, but they didn't turn out too great (I blame the cheap digital camera and the non-stop dancing). One is below and the rest are on Facebook. Pitchfork's are awesome and can be found here. Set list: Twin Peaks Theme Intro Drop Kick the Punks Call Call Centipedes How Could I Forget? I Disappear Take Me To The Hospital Geeks Were Right Posed to Death Let the Poison Spill Wet From Birth Worked Up So Sexual Get Seduced Paranoiattack Glass Danse Fish in a Womb Desperate Guys Agenda Suicide I know I said I'd post some pictures from the Faint show, but they didn't turn out too great (I blame the cheap digital camera and the non-stop dancing). One is below and the rest are on Facebook. Pitchfork's are awesome and can be found here.

Set list:
Twin Peaks Theme Intro
Drop Kick the Punks
Call Call
Centipedes
How Could I Forget?
I Disappear
Take Me To The Hospital
Geeks Were Right
Posed to Death
Let the Poison Spill
Wet From Birth
Worked Up So Sexual
Get Seduced
Paranoiattack
Glass Danse
Fish in a Womb
Desperate Guys
Agenda Suicide

]]> st. patrick's day tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3583 2007-03-17T16:37:57Z 2007-03-18T02:46:01Z What better way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than a hilarious news report about leprechauns? Update: Leprechaun Story Background and an awesome leprechaun rap. What better way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than a hilarious news report about leprechauns?

Update: Leprechaun Story Background and an awesome leprechaun rap.

]]> how could i forget? tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3582 2007-03-12T07:08:02Z 2007-03-12T12:49:34Z This past weekend 1% Productions opened up a brand new venue, the Waiting Room Lounge. The last two nights, they've played a couple of shows to get the venue warmed up, but tonight's show, an invitation only event (tickets provided by a Mr. Brandon Bone), got the venue started off right. Flowers Forever got the sound system going, and soon after the Faint brought the 250 person capacity venue to its knees. With a solid mix of material from their last 3 albums, I can say with ease that the concert tonight was the best one I've ever been to. It was a unique experience in that I got to see one of my favorite bands in the most intimate venue they've played in at least the last 5 or 6 years, and probably their last in Omaha on the Saddle Creek record label. So yeah, that's the reason I've had the mega-Faint playlist for the last few days. I've got a picture of the sweet handmade ticket below, and after I get back from Miami on Friday, I should have a few more pictures from the show posted. This past weekend 1% Productions opened up a brand new venue, the Waiting Room Lounge. The last two nights, they've played a couple of shows to get the venue warmed up, but tonight's show, an invitation only event (tickets provided by a Mr. Brandon Bone), got the venue started off right. Flowers Forever got the sound system going, and soon after the Faint brought the 250 person capacity venue to its knees. With a solid mix of material from their last 3 albums, I can say with ease that the concert tonight was the best one I've ever been to. It was a unique experience in that I got to see one of my favorite bands in the most intimate venue they've played in at least the last 5 or 6 years, and probably their last in Omaha on the Saddle Creek record label.

So yeah, that's the reason I've had the mega-Faint playlist for the last few days. I've got a picture of the sweet handmade ticket below, and after I get back from Miami on Friday, I should have a few more pictures from the show posted.

]]> no need to call tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3576 2007-03-07T16:56:25Z 2007-03-07T17:01:19Z After a bit of tinkering, I finally got the RSS feed working so that my entries are viewable on Facebook. Previously, it was only displaying the first few sentences of the entry. New music is up, too. Of course you'll have to visit http://www.bonetastic.com/ or http://www.wandyteeth.com/bryantsblog/ to get to that. One more test and one presentation until the greatest and most needed spring break of my college career begins... After a bit of tinkering, I finally got the RSS feed working so that my entries are viewable on Facebook. Previously, it was only displaying the first few sentences of the entry.

New music is up, too. Of course you'll have to visit http://www.bonetastic.com/ or http://www.wandyteeth.com/bryantsblog/ to get to that.

One more test and one presentation until the greatest and most needed spring break of my college career begins...

]]> what the silence will scream tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3575 2007-03-06T04:15:45Z 2007-03-06T05:27:11Z Hey, sorry for the half-assed last entry. I was really lazy on the snow day. Anyway, I've got new tunes up...old school FOB and new Anberlin are definitely the highlights. Anberlin should be in town pretty soon, and I hear they put on a decent live show. I've been really digging Brad Neely's cartoons on the web. The Professor Brother's Bible History #1 is good, as are the first couple of Babycakes episodes. Check 'em out if you've got a few minutes. In other music news I saw the Spill Canvas last Friday...they're live show is ten times better than their albums. Also, the music sidebar will become a list of the Faint favorites in the next few days, for reasons I'll elaborate on soon. Hey, sorry for the half-assed last entry. I was really lazy on the snow day. Anyway, I've got new tunes up...old school FOB and new Anberlin are definitely the highlights. Anberlin should be in town pretty soon, and I hear they put on a decent live show.

I've been really digging Brad Neely's cartoons on the web. The Professor Brother's Bible History #1 is good, as are the first couple of Babycakes episodes. Check 'em out if you've got a few minutes.

In other music news I saw the Spill Canvas last Friday...they're live show is ten times better than their albums. Also, the music sidebar will become a list of the Faint favorites in the next few days, for reasons I'll elaborate on soon.

]]> curi-uri-ous tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3570 2007-03-01T14:55:57Z 2007-03-01T16:03:04Z I guess we have a snow day at UNL today. That makes for three in the last two years...I'm lovin' it. New songs are up, too. Off for some snow day fun! I guess we have a snow day at UNL today. That makes for three in the last two years...I'm lovin' it.

New songs are up, too. Off for some snow day fun!

]]> i still remember tag:www.wandyteeth.com,2007:/bryantsblog//4.3564 2007-02-17T23:57:49Z 2007-02-18T18:12:19Z Has anyone else not at UNL taken Keller Plan class before? Where all you do is take tests? Anyway, I just wrapped up in less than a month a 16 exam political science class, making my 18 hour semester turn right back into a standard 15 hour one. I was at one point pretty impressed with myself and then heard that a couple of friends had finished it in less than two weeks. I'm headed to Chicago for a leadership conference, for the business fraternity I'm in, Delta Sigma Pi. It's the first of at minimum, 3 trips to the Windy City this year. I'm pumped. This Thursday is the series finale of the O.C. Tears might flow. Has anyone else not at UNL taken Keller Plan class before? Where all you do is take tests? Anyway, I just wrapped up in less than a month a 16 exam political science class, making my 18 hour semester turn right back into a standard 15 hour one. I was at one point pretty impressed with myself and then heard that a couple of friends had finished it in less than two weeks.

I'm headed to Chicago for a leadership conference, for the business fraternity I'm in, Delta Sigma Pi. It's the first of at minimum, 3 trips to the Windy City this year. I'm pumped.

This Thursday is the series finale of the O.C. Tears might flow.

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