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RECENTLY (last 10)

• Mountain Biking in the Flatlands
• Cycling Ann Arbor – Ypsilanti
• Holey Toledough
• Bald Eagle at Findlay Reservoir
• Book Diversity
• July 4th Road Bike Ride
• Hilton Head Sunrise
• Maggie Daley, Murals, and Italian Fest
• Details on Starved Rock White Fence Hike on 7/26 at 10am
• Looking Back at Spacca Black Dog

WORK

• What Finance People Can Learn from NY Times Health Bloggers
• Thoughts on Valuing RIM by a Finance Professor at NYU Stern
• A Primer on Data Analytics from 37Signals
• Organizing My iPhone Home Screen for Business
• Reducing Distractions a Matter of Life and Death for Some
• Book Review: Linchpin by Seth Godin
• Who in Your Finance Department is a Collaboration Superstar?
• Information Overload, Complexity, and the Finance Department
• Google Apps: Almost Ready for Enterprise Finance Departments
• Getting a Grip on Flexible Workweeks for Finance Staffs
• The Effect of On-Site Champions on Successful Engagements
• On the Topic of Web Apps
• Build Great Spreadsheets Using the Unix Philosophy

PLAY/SCREEN

• Macfarland, USA
• The Fall – Season Two
• John Wick
• Babette’s Feast
• The Equalizer
• Wild
• Unbroken
• Drinking Buddies
• Mockingjay Part 1
• Arthur Newman
• Snowpiercer
• Draft Day
• Homeland – Season Three
• This is Where I Leave You
• Love Punch
• Luther – Season Three
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
• The Escape Artist
• Philomena
• Chef
• Mr. Selfridge – Season Two
• Bletchley Circle – Season Two
• Jobs
• Safety Not Guaranteed
• Divergent
• The Numbers Station
• Sherlock – Season Three
• Sherlock – Season Two
• 3 Days to Kill
• Vintage
• Sherlock – Season One
• Closed Circuit
• The Bletchley Circle
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• Parker
• Somm
• Catching Fire
• Homeland – Season Two
• Game of Thrones – Season One
• The Fall
• Resident Evil Afterlife
• Broadchurch
• The Butler
• Mr. Selfridge
• White House Down
• Fast and Furious 6
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• The Perfect Cappuccino
• CSI – Black Sabbath Episode
• Zero Dark Thirty
• 42
• House of Cards
• Downton Abbey – Season Three
• The Wire – Season Five
• Straight Outta LA
• Safe House
• Liberal Arts
• Homeland – Season One
• The Avengers
• Skyfall
• Jack Reacher
• Contraband
• Tig Notaro Live
• Downton Abbey – Season Two
• Flight
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• Castle – Season Five Premier
• The Grey
• The Wire – Season Four
• Everything Must Go
• The Dark Knight Rises
• American Ninja Warrior
• Jim Gaffigan Mr. Universe
• Luther – Season Two
• Magic and Bird
• Prometheus
• Luther – Season One
• Arrested Development – Season One
• Bleak House
• Dangerously Delicious
• The Hunger Games
• Downton Abbey
• Haywire
• The Wire – Season Three
• Black Swan
• Red Riding Hood
• The Descendants
• A Game of Shadows
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• Live at the Beacon Theatre
• Fair Game
• The Marinovich Project
• Page Eight
• Red
• Summer in Genoa
• Moneyball
• Prime Suspect – Pilot
• Conviction
• The Wire – Season Two
• Bridesmaids
• Killshot
• Ironman 2
• Game of Thrones – Episode Two
• Talking Funny
• The Town
• The Fab Five
• The Wire – Season One
• Inception
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
• Date Night
• The King’s Speech

PLAY/MUSIC

• Leave Me Midnight – My Gold Mask
• British Lion – Steve Harris
• Arrow – Heartless Bastards
• Searching for Sugar Man – Rodriguez
• Carry the Fire – Delta Rae
• Jailbreak – Thin Lizzy
• Bootleg Boogie – Michael Katon
• The Big Bach Set – Various Artists
• Tunnel Blanket – This Will Destroy You
• Bustin’ Up The Joint Live – Michael Katon
• Immigrant Song – Various Artists
• Rise of the Masters – Various Artists
• A Decade of Steely Dan – Steely Dan
• Heaven and Hell – Black Sabbath
• Running from a Gamble – Company of Thieves
• 21 – Adele
• Greatest Hits – The Guess Who
• Lasers – Lupe Fiasco
• Who’s Next – The Who
• Recovery – Eminem
• March Into the Sea EP and Untitled EP – Pelican
• The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
• Jar of Hearts (single) – Christina Perri
• Moment 4 Life (single) – Nicki Minaj & Drake
• Hometowns – The Rural Alberta Advantage

PLAY/FOOD

• Greenbush Brewing
• Longman and Eagle
• Crosby’s Kitchen
• Da Lobsta
• Saigon Sisters
• Notes on the Plate Meal
• Lucila’s Homemade
• DeLux Redux – Appetizer
• Farm Lunch Tour At O’o Farms
• Upcountry Breakfast At Grandma’s Coffee Shop
• Coffee At O’o Farm
• Maui Day Four In Food
• Maui Day Three In Food
• Maui Day Two in Food
• Maui Day One In Food
• Marion Street Cheese Market
• Butcher and The Burger
• DeLux
• Epic Burger
• Paradise Pup
• M Burger
• Edzo’s
• Table 52
• Owen & Engine
• Fumare Meats
• Revolution Brewing
• Aripo’s
• Doughnut Vault
• Billy Goat – Navy Pier
• Hannah’s Bretzel
• Oak Park Farmer’s Market Donuts
• Roots
• Last Post in Food
• Franks ‘N’ Dawgs
• Coming Off Life Support
• On Life Support
• Homemade Pizza Party
• The Burrito Bracket
• Hecky’s Chicago
• Jupiter Outpost
• A Fine Chicago Burger Blog
• Milk and Honey Cafe
• Margie’s Candies
• Homemade Mussels with Pernod
• Some Serious Reviews of Chicago Bars
• Swim Lemon Coconut Muffins
• Wow Bao
• The Kerryman
• Soldier Field
• Trattoria 225
• Wishbone
• A Great Food Columnist You May Not Know About
• Pegasus
• Tamales
• Fiddlehead Cafe
• Village Links of Glen Ellyn
• D’Amato’s Bakery
• Amelia’s
• Homemade Bouillabaisse
• Goldyburgers
• Jerry’s Sandwiches
• Vinnie’s Subs Roast Beef
• Meier’s Tavern
• Carmichael’s Steak House
• Coalfire Pizza
• Hilldale Golf Club
• Scoozi
• Home Depot Chicago Red Hots
• Uncle Julio’s Hacienda
• Artopolis Baklava
• Bari Foods Prosciutto
• Artopolis Artopita
• Vinnie’s Subs Tuna
• Calling all Restaurants In-n-Out Burger
• D’Agostino’s River West
• Potbelly
• Homemade Meal of the Month Mise En Place
• Swim Cafe Chocolate Coconut Muffin
• I’m Getting a lot of Heat
• Calling all Restaurants Chili Dog
• McDonald’s Cinnamon Melts
• Habana Libre
• Vinnie’s Subs Special
• Tavish
• Mon Ami Gabi
• Suzette’s Creperie
• Enoteca Roma
• Vinnie’s Subs Prosciutto
• Pequod’s Pizza
• McDonald’s Breakfast 1
• Calling All Restaurants – Grilled Grouper
• Great Newsweek Article About Food
• Tango Sur
• Sapore di Napoli
• Homemade Meal of the Month Dessert
• Homemade Meal of the Month Risotto Cake
• Homemade Meal of the Month Cheese Plate
• Pockets
• Lunar Brewing
• Pizza Metro Pizza
• Pizza Metro Cappuccino
• BomBon Cafe Tres Leches
• Hackney’s
• The Bar on Buena
• Homemade Meal of the Month
• The C-P Matrix
• Goodwin’s
• Cullen’s
• Piece
• Grace O’Malley’s
• BomBon Cafe Toluca

PLAY/BOOKS

• Book Diversity
• Valdez is Coming
• Burning Angel
• They Came to Bagdhad
• A Mind to Murder
• The History of the Human Body
• The Man in the High Castle
• Cover Her Face
• Bike Snob
• The Art of Fielding
• The Art of Racing in the Rain
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Guards
• The Gun Seller
• True Grit
• Loving Frank
• Redshirts
• Last Stand at Saber River
• Opening Day
• Kinsey and Me
• Unbeatable
• Master and Commander
• Food Rules
• Flying Finish
• White Butterfly
• Absolute Friends
• Chancy
• W is for Wasted
• SS-GB
• Jericho’s Fall
• Gunsights
• Appetite For Self-Destruction
• The Sun Also Rises
• Pronto
• Read 137 Books in One Year
• Hondo
• And Then There Were None
• The Way Some People Die
• Charity
• Hope
• Faith
• Spy Sinker
• The Lean Startup
• Sweetness
• Wise Mind Open Mind
• A Red Death
• Spy Line
• Dixie City Jam
• Spy Hook
• Lord Jim
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• A Dance with Dragons
• London Match
• The Sisters Brothers
• A Drive Into the Gap
• Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
• Father’s Day
• A Feast for Crows
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves
• Devil In A Blue Dress
• The Drowning Pool
• Brave Dragons
• Mexico Set
• The Ox-Bow Incident
• A Storm of Swords
• A Murder of Quality
• Guitar Zero
• God, Country, Notre Dame
• The Whiskey Rebels
• West by West
• Born to Run
• Call for the Dead
• In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
• Berlin Game
• Drinking from the Fire Hose
• V is for Vengeance
• A Visit from the Goon Squad
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
• The Little Book of Valuation
• A Clash Of Kings
• The Moving Target
• U is for Undertow
• The Sportswriter
• The Ringer
• The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac
• Athabasca
• Little Heathens
• Maximum Bob
• Scorecasting
• A Game of Thrones
• The Green Ripper
• Positioning
• Harvest
• The Name is Archer
• Assassination Vacation
• Just Kids
• Up Periscope
• The 48 Laws of Power
• A Stained White Radiance
• Our Kind of Traitor
• Courage
• The Gun
• The Wave
• The Strain
• The Emperor of Ocean Park
• Daniels’ Running Formula
• The Black Swan
• Black Ops
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
• The Downhill Lie
• Starvation Lake
• The Lightning Thief
• Tourist Season
• Generosity: An Enhancement
• Where Men Win Glory
• T is for Trespass
• San Francisco Panorama
• The Girl Who Played With Fire
• The Chicago Way
• Linchpin
• Dune
• Rework
• Life of Pi
• Open
• S is for Silence
• Powerhouse Five
• Called Out of Darkness
• A Morning for Flamingos
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• The 50th Law
• The Name of the Rose
• Fallen Angels
• The Shooters
• Designing With Web Standards
• World Without End
• Uncommon
• Maximum City
• The Hoopster
• The Company of Strangers
• R is for Ricochet
• Create Your Own Economy
• The Hard Way
• More Than Just Race
• 7 Steps to Midnight
• Netherland
• Getting Things Done
• Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
• The Secret Adversary
• The Conscience of a Liberal
• Once a Runner: A Novel
• Breaking the Slump
• The Given Day
• Guerilla Marketing
• Black Cherry Blues
• The Paperboy
• Q is for Quarry
• A Whole New Mind
• Manhunt
• A Spectacle of Corruption
• John Adams
• Little Gold Book of Yes Attitude
• The Audacity of Hope
• The Hunters
• Mastery
• One Shot
• P is for Peril
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma
• Stuff White People Like
• The Last Colony
• Little Red Book of Sales Answers
• Articles of War
• Match Made in Heaven
• The Essential Drucker
• Second Wind
• Field Tested Books
• Native Tongue
• Then We Came to the End
• The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
• 3 Nights in August
• The Ruins
• The Long Goodbye
• Woe is I
• The Shape Shifter
• Heaven’s Prisoners
• The Pillars of the Earth
• Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
• The Coast of Chicago
• First, Break all the Rules
• The Hostage
• Back to Earth
• Of Paradise and Power
• O is for Outlaw
• The River of Doubt
• The Blade Itself
• Grounds for Golf
• Hawke
• Takedown
• Snow
• Persepolis 2
• National Pastime
• The Ghost Brigades
• The Road
• The 4-Hour Workweek
• A Death in Belmont
• A Hike for Mike
• Purple Cow
• The Kite Runner
• The Pearl
• The Enemy
• The Neon Rain
• On Writing Well
• Little Black Book of Connections
• Persepolis
• Deathwatch
• Where Angels Fear to Tread
• N is for Noose
• The Blind Side
• Citizen Vince
• Truman
• Made to Stick
• Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
• M is for Malice
• The Ambler Warning
• The Americanization of Ben Franklin
• By Order of the President
• Old Man’s War
• The Art of the Start
• For One More Day
• The Rest of the Iceberg
• Skinny Dip
• Skeleton Man
• The Last Coach
• 1776
• Unplayable Lie
• Devil in the White City
• Six Disciplines for Excellence
• The Power and the Glory
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• L is for Lawless
• Coach
• Neuromancer
• American Pastoral
• Open
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• Washington Square
• Guns, Germs, and Steel
• Persuader
• The Devil’s Teeth
• Execution
• The Elements of Style
• Train
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place
• The Little Red Book of Selling
• A Conspiracy of Paper
• Blink
• Big Russ and Me

GOLF

• Village Links of Glen Ellyn
• Bonita Bay 2014
• The Glen Club
• Black Wolf Run River Course
• Hilldale
• Countryside Traditional
• Winnetka
• Schaumburg Tournament Baer
• Sunset Valley
• Harborside Port
• Countryside Traditional
• Links at Carillon Blue/Red
• Blackhawk Trace
• Bridges of Poplar Creek
• Chicago Golf Trip 2012
• Schaumburg
• Winnetka
• Bonita Bay Trip 2012
• Countryside Prairie
• Village Links
• Harborside Port
• Indian Boundary
• Hickory Hills
• Chicago Public Golf List
• AirTran Flight Magazine Talks About Bloomington, Illinois Golf
• Relating Tom Bendelow To Our Current Golf Lives
• Golf and Pizza are Very Similar
• Huge Bunker at Harborside Starboard Can Be Seen From Space

ASIDES

• [aside] Note About Forthcoming Content
• [aside] The Coffee Corridor of Chicago
• [aside] Banana, Date, Peanut Butter Smoothie
• [aside] Mexico 2013
• [aside] London 2013
• [aside] Denver Food May 2013
• [aside] Indy Trip
• [aside] Maui Trip Review
• [aside] This Coverage Of Tigergate Makes Me Feel Embarrassed For My Sport
• [aside] Five Dead Giveaways Of An Inexperienced Sports Fan
• [aside] People Specializing In DEFENSE Just Seem To Be More Creative And Innovative
• [aside] Notes on March 2013 Wired Magazine
• [aside] That Justin Timberlake Song Came On And I Didn’t Turn The Channel
• [aside] When I Was Kid, Watching Sports Was A Weekend Thing
• [aside] After Watching the Daytona 500 Pre-Show, I’m Thankful I Didn’t Watch the Super Bowl Pre-Show
• [aside] My Nomination for “Song I Most Want to be Longer”

PHOTOS

• Mountain Biking in the Flatlands
• Cycling Ann Arbor – Ypsilanti
• Holey Toledough
• Bald Eagle at Findlay Reservoir
• July 4th Road Bike Ride
• Hilton Head Sunrise
• Marquette vs Georgetown
• Bears vs Buccaneers
• GORUCK Challenge 1146
• Lez Zeppelin
• The Willcox, Maybe the Coolest Hotel I’ve Ever Stayed In
• Frontera in T3 is Becoming a Tradition
• Two Weeks, Two Small Daypacks
• Cubs vs Padres
• Kaiser Tiger
• Eating in Washington D.C.
• Reno Chicago – Hammer
• Bulls vs Spurs
• Go to French Market Chicago and get the Pastrami from Fumare Meats
• Charlie Parker’s – Best Restaurant Ever In A Quonset Hut
• Eataly – Two Plus Hours, Three Seatings, Great Food
• Just A Girl Looking For Some Coffee During Chiberia2014
• Blackhawks vs Stars
• Bears vs Lions
• Buccaneers vs Saints
• Rays vs Red Sox
• Bears vs Browns – Preseason
• Maddie’s Best Facial Feature
• Elly’s Pancake House Mundelein
• Shrimp and Grits from Little Goat
• St. Louis Cardinals vs Texas Rangers
• Glen Hansard at Pritzker Pavillion
• Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at The University of Chicago
• The Burger Against Which All Others Should be Judged
• Ham and Cheddar Scone from Big Shoulders
• Coffee Obsession As Mid-Life Crisis
• Sidewalk Chalk
• More Awesome Food From DeLux
• Light Crowd As The Northwest Surfing Ends At Honolua Bay
• Solid Maui Guidebook
• Lazy Waves Rolling In During Kapalua Sunset
• Nice Wave On Honolua Bay
• Lahaina Nature
• Second Half of the Bernard Samson Tri-Trilogy
• B1G Tournament Session Two at United Center
• B1G Tournament Session One at United Center
• Northwestern Versus Ohio State at Welsh-Ryan Arena
• I’m the dumbass

LINKS

• The Best Article About Toast You’ll Read This Year (psst…it’s really about people)
• If you forget the plot of books you love, read this!
• Interview with My Gold Mask on Chirp Radio
• Official Kenyon College Link for the David Foster Wallace Graduation Speech
• Spend Nine Minutes Listening to this Condensed Graduation Speech by David Foster Wallace
• Prepare to be Mesmerized by the Process of Making Tabasco Sauce
• Kind of Funny Stuff from Seinfeld on Coffee
• Coffee (and Booze) in the Creative Process
• One Of My Favorite Authors Wrote A Revealing, Honest Article In GQ About His Addiction
• I So Want To Become A Coffee Nerd
• I Really Enjoyed This Adrian Dantley Update by Deadspin
• How I Felt Flipping Between Hockey And Basketball Last Sunday
• One of the First Bloggers Describes the Value of Writing Stuff Down
• Four Guys, Google Docs, and the Sports Story of the Century
• Food Writer from The Guardian Sorts Through Brit Love for American Comfort Food