This comes from Season 34 Episode 21 (originally aired on May 9, 2009).

Lifters vs. Plasticville.

As Justin Timberlake is one of the best hosts of Saturday Night Live in recent memory, I figured I’d find all the “Ville” sketches he has done and put ‘em up.

This comes from Season 29 Episode 2 (originally aired on October 11, 2003).

Benny’s versus Omletteville.

Anyone know where to find a pair of those gloves?

So You Think You Can Dance has returned for season #8. The auditions are always good watching.

Tonight they featured an entertainer named Ieshia Moss.

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As per usual, I update this site in spurts and without much regularity. With the same amount of randomness as my updates, here are some things that have intrigued me lately.

The Parking Lot at my office

The company I work for has been in the same building for 10+ years. In that time, zero maintenance has been done to the parking lot. Stripes were finally painted about 4 years ago. While stripes are helpful, the potholes are getting ridiculous.

I hope these ducks are paying rent.

Gargoyle Carving in Webster Groves

If traffic on I-270 sucks in the afternoons, which is about 35% of the time, I’ll take the scenic route home. Doing so takes me past 35 South Rock Hill Road, Webster Groves, Missouri 63119.

While this house has a nice curved roof line, a few months back a new feature appeared. I am normally not a fan of lawn art, but this is just freaking awesome.

Front View

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I’m a big fan of Microsoft OneNote.

OneNote is the holder of random bits of information that would otherwise be strewn about my bookmarks, saved files or thrown away and forgotten. It is SO handy. In a lot of ways, it has become the dumping grounds of my life. If I were a college student, OneNote would be my favorite application.

I’m also a big fan of Dropbox.

Dropbox keeps me sane by allowing me to have one set of data spread across multiple computers. It backs up, it versions and is just awesome.

Put OneNote and Dropbox together and you have a match made in heaven.

Well, almost.
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I’ve started watching Pawn Stars recently. A good show that illustrates the crap you have is worth only as much as someone will pay for it.

While this show features a lot of odd stuff, a gentleman wanting to sell his drag racer and trailer featured a phrase that I never thought I would hear on TV.

Sir, you may think your trailer and drag racer are worth $30,000, but I can assure you, the Mark Williams rear-end is worth way more than a measly $10K.

Dear Internet:

Thank you for your help in selecting a color for my roof. I know that voter turn-out was light, but the results were close (9 to 8), but the favorite, Thunderstorm Grey pulled out a win.

Before

After

Now as to why it took a year to post the results? Well, while a new roof is installed, I was not at all impressed with the contractor who did the work and it has taken quite a while to get all the issues resolved.

If you are local to St. Louis and want to know who to avoid, contact me and I’ll let you know who did it.

This was going to be a post about Albert Pujols and his stalled contract negotiations. I was going to give a compelling and well thought out argument that the Cardinals will be just fine without him.

But then the Cardinals suffered a massive loss with the season (plus) ending injury to the Horse of the Rotation, Adam Wainwright, so I scrapped that post and started over.
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If you care to follow the ol’ Marktastic Site on Twitter, do it here:

@MarktasticSite

I have no clue as to what will be posted there as of now, but follow now for what I’m sure will be even less updates than you get through this master piece.

So this site is published on WordPress.

Generally, I love WordPress. It is a terrific publishing engine that has all but rendered my desire to create websites from scratch moot. I’d just like to address one thing I’d love tweaked.

But I have run into this issue enough though lately that I figured I’d share it. And really, #3 below is what motivated this post as I lost what was almost a complete item when I tried to add a picture.

For instance create a new post or page and try any of the following:

1. Change Publishing Options. You can’t change the status, visibility or time of your post. Clicking the Edit button does nothing.
2. Adding Tags & Categories. It doesn’t allow it
3. Adding a picture. If you try to click on the add picture (or any other media for that matter), your browser will load the upload tool, but it will do so in the same window you were working on. If you have drafted any content before clicking the add media button, kiss it goodbye.

How do you fix all this weirdness? Quite simple, save a draft. This should be addressed by my own frequent advice to Save Early and Save Often, but I have butted up against these issues too many times lately.

It would be terrific if after typing in a new post for 3 minutes or so that a draft is automatically saved. (I picked 3 minutes as that is what I am used to in Outlook.)

I can understand why this feature is not included as for a lot of folks it would result in quite a few orphaned drafts and clutter up the works in that respect. But man would it be handy.