Archive for March, 2006

Is this an April Fool’s Day joke or not?

Friday, March 31st, 2006

According to GoNintendo, a Bob (”Happy Trees”) Ross video game is in the works!

This has been going around the internet all day today and while it’s very close to April Fool’s Day, now BobRoss.com comes out saying that it is in fact true!

I don’t see the folks at BobRoss.com to be [...]

Status Report For Week Ending 2006-03-31

Friday, March 31st, 2006

I’m slowly but surely getting out from behind the woodwork…

Favorite links for the week: - I already posted it this week, but the discussions going on over at GapersBlock for the most overrated and underrated restaurants in Chicago are full of so much info - PSAs from “The Office” - Video of me from Christmas morning [...]

Roll your own SUV ad

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Now this is just awesome… Chevrolet put together a pretty snazzy website that allows you to pretend that you are “The Apprentice” and put together your own commercial for their new Tahoe.

What happens when you give free reign and a very easy way to create a negative ad against SUVs? Find out here… [...]

Over/Under in Chicago

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Gapers Block has two great conversation topics going about the most Overrated and Underrated restaurants in the Chicago-area. Great reading for the local (or anyone travelling here)…

Whoa! MSN has some strange search results!

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

I normally use Google for all my searching, but for some reason I decided to fire up MSN today… Who knew they picked up so much stuff that I “try to keep hidden” on the internet?

Check out these search results for yours truly! :)

Overhyped Ingredients/Food Trends

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Chipotle-whatever Sun-Dried Tomatoes Wasabi-Flavored-whatever

If I never see anything else made or labeled with the above three things, I’ll be very happy…

Status Report For Week Ending 2006-03-26

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Yeah, it’s been one of those weeks (and I know that weeks don’t technically end on a Sunday)… Oh well.

I just wanted to tell my loving audience that I haven’t forgotten about you all. Sometimes, I let work and my social life get in the way of this weblog. I really want [...]

Five years and a week old

Monday, March 27th, 2006

If you haven’t noticed, it’s been a little crazy in my life these days. What’s that? You haven’t noticed?

Anyways, I should point out that in all of the craziness that was last week, I failed to point out that marusin.com has been a weblog since March 21, 2001. That’s five years!* [...]

Status Report For Week Ending 2006-03-17

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Sorry there was no status report for last week. Things were a bit hectic and to tell you the truth, not much really was going on. With that apology behind me, here’s what’s been going on this week…

Favorite links for the week: - I hate to say it, but there really wasn’t anything good that is [...]

I hate crowds and heat, but…

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

the Lollapalooza lineup looks incredible this year. Do I brave it?

Bands in bold are ones I would go out of my way to see…

Red Hot Chili Peppers Kanye West Manu Chao Wilco Death Cab For Cutie The Raconteurs The Flaming Lips Ween Queens of the Stone Age The Shins Common Matisyahu Ryan Adams Umphrey’s McGee Sonic Youth Thievery Corporation Sleater-Kinney Nickel Creek Blues Traveler Broken Social Scene The New Pornographers Iron & Wine Poi Dog Pondering Coheed [...]