Jimmy Oh Jimmy...

For those who may have missed it, Jimmy Fallon's recent bit with "Neil Young" and Bruce Springsteen is quite a treat. It's especially funny if you've already seen this little music video from Willow Smith (Will Smith's daughter).



And of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this little gem from Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake  back in September (this was the only good link to this clip I could find anywhere on the internet and it didn't seem to be embeddable). If you haven't seen it yet, you really should. It's awesome.

I continue to be impressed by Jimmy Fallon. Seriously.

Almost forgot...

Playing ward basketball with shoes that are SLIGHTLY too big for my feet equals...
Yeah, you guessed it. These babies:

(Yes, that's BOTH of my feet.)
I'm so hardcore.

BTE

Remember Better Than Ezra? I haven't listened to them in a long time but felt like putting them on when I got home from playing basketball tonight. I forgot how good they are. I've spent the past hour or so listening to them while going about the apartment, getting ready for bed, writing this post, etc. and I have yet to hear a song I don't like. All such good stuff.

In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, or want to join me...here are a few samples of what I'm talking about — both old and new (who knew they were still making music). Awesome!

Okay, SRSLY

I need to do better at posting; even if it's short stuff. That said...

Tonight was a productive night. Holy cow. I got home from work at about 7ish I think, and then got a jump on making a few things in the kitchen while Leah was at her meeting and subsequent RS activity.

In total, I made cruncy chickpeas, black bean hummus, and huge batch of granola. Leah got home about 9 or so when I was intermittently stirring the granola whilst it browned in the oven. All of these things are yummy stuff we like having around the house for munching on, and I had decided last night that tonight I would put in a good push to try to make at least a few of them.

With Leah home, we (read as "she") finished off the kitchen tour by mixing up some muesli (similar to our granola but without the oil, honey, and oven part), and then turning the fresh basil and spinach we had purchased the other night into some homemade pesto sauce for the freezer.

Like I said, it was a good night.

Oh, and in case you were wondering about the whole, "I got home from work" phraseology I used up above: Yes, I got a job. :)

More to come on that subject later. For now, goodnight. I've got to be up early for work in the morning.

Updated Header (Comparison)

Ok...so I know it doesn't count as a real post. But with the help of Leah and Picasa I was able to find an image of my old header. (Did you know that every image you post on your blog is uploaded to a private Picasa Album? I sure didn't.)

Anyways, here's a side-by-side...errr....a "bottom-by-top"??? comparison...
(Correction, the wife pointed out in all her editorial glory that top and bottom are technically "sides" so we'll stick with side-by-side comparison).

Before:

(click to see full size version)

After:

(click to see full size version)

So what do you think? Better, right? I know I like the new one better.

Updated Header

I'm sure none of you noticed (especially considering the fact that I haven't posted in months), but I made several small changes to the blog.

Small change #1
I decided to widen the main area of the blog to accommodate wider videos.

I seem to recall my blog originally being wide enough to adequately embed youtube videos without incident, but I couldn't help but notice how the right side of the video in my last post was cut off. So Annoying!

Anyways, I know that you can make adjustments to the video before copying the embed code from youtube's site (and even afterwords by hand) but it seemed as though the standard options on youtube's site were all too wide for this particular video and making adjustments by hand later down the road for other videos just seemed unnecessary. I was feeling the need to take advantage of all that sidescreen real estate anyways, so...wider blog.

Small change #2
Widening of the main area of the blog meant I needed to update my header as well, otherwise the width of the header wouldn't match (and that would be even more annoying than the edge of embedded videos being cut off.)

Without a working version of Adobe CS on my computer, I decided to re-create my existing header (albeit with a wider aspect ratio) using the online image editor from Aviary. It took a little trial and error to get things right, but I like the end result more than the original. This time around I was able to incorporate more of the trees from the original image (thanks theheadroomaudio).

I'd post a comparison for everyone to see, but I think I may have already deleted the image for the old header. :)

Wild Things

This guy from the DC office of ad agency Arnold Worldwide has got some mad chalkboard skills.