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And stuff like this is Reason One that I need a new laptop.

filed under , 5 June 2009, 01:09; byline — Matt Blind

Computer crash frakked my data for last weeks charts. Again, I find myself apologizing. On the one hand, that’s bad — I hate missing a week. I was running something like 80%, but now not only is my average going to go down, I look unprofessional.

Well… I am unprofessional; this blog runs on the Three B’s — books, balls, and beer — and I’m fine with that. I have pretentions, and I’d love to do this more-than-part-time but the beer is likely a deal-breaker for anyone who’d entertain hiring me as a blogger, no matter how well I can write while [mildly] inebriated. [too many is always too many — and Don’t Drink and Drive, kids: do your serious drinking at home]

Anyway, as a make-up exam I’ll try to scrape together something special for the rankings-fans this weekend (that teaser has been up for two weeks now; ‘spose I could actually back up that threat)

…but on the other hand, a short vacation from the grind may be a good thing, and I’ve got the ball rolling on a different feature, so let’s go with that for a couple of days.



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- Soviet concept art vintage 1967, ganked from Dark Roasted Blend
- Excerpt of a souvenir card from the 1929 round-the-world flight of the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, ganked from Oldbeacon.com (via Metafilter)
- Goodyear Rocket Airship concept, posted in a 1958 Popular Mechanics article; ganked from online archives of the rec.aviation.military usenet group, found via GIS.
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