Matt Stempeck

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  • Instant Guilt: Text ‘Diet1’ (34381)

    Text restaurant name and menu item to 34381 for instant nutritional stats. Who knew Dunkaccinos had 10 grams of fat??

    join the party in the cup everyone!

  • hullo hulu

    OK so in lieu of blank empty space, I’m going to feature a few online tools that are awesome and that you should use.

    First up (forgive me if this is terribly old news) is Hulu.

    I originally wrote Hulu off when it came out because I assumed the traditional media players behind it would mess it up, and I hated the name, which is a pretty forced attempt at sounding like a scrappy startup. But Hulu’s pretty amazing. The ads are short, although I do wonder why companies like Priceline intentionally show you the same terrible William Shatner ad 4 times in 22 minutes. The site includes Arrested Development and The Office Season 4, as well as some full length movies, like The Big Lebowski. Finally, the player is very usable, with prominent links to embed, go full-screen, or dim the rest of the screen.

    Better than tvlinks?

  • Opening Day Japan

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    Opening Day Japan

    6am EST

  • Taste of the Nation

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    Taste of the Nation

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  • Cristen’s dino cookies

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    Cristen’s dino cookies

    Have time-traveled to my belly

  • Ultimate swag

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    Ultimate swag

    250 snap bracelets emblazoned with the echoditto logo…heaven.

  • ‘special’ in Metron means ‘will take you one stop where you can wait another 20 minutes’

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    ‘special’ in Metron means ‘will take you one stop where you can wait another 20 minutes’

    Oh red line.

  • Christmas tree

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    Christmas tree

    -Matt

    Sent from my Helio Ocean

  • Crayola Plane

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    Crayola Plane

    Back from Denver with the sun behind us

  • Edible or poisonous?

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    Edible or poisonous?

    One is halloween candy, the other is dishwasher detergent. I’m not sure whether to blame the chemically consistency of the candy or the edible packaging of the soap.

  • I’m doing a triathlon.

    Somewhere in the back of my head, I’ve always wanted to run a triathlon.

    Only, it’s always been on that list of things that includes ‘write a book’ and ‘live in a treehouse’. Not that these are impossible things to do, just that the only way they’re ever actually going to happen is throw yourself into them with reckless abandon.

    So now, thanks to an amazing program called Team in Training and a ridiculously energetic girlfriend, it’s on.

    As it currently stands, I have an ankle that throbs with too much distance running, bad luck with bikes (stolen, twice), and I haven’t swam laps since the Meadowbrook Marlins 6-and-under team. I’ve also never raised more than $50 worth of door-to-door candy bar sales, and my dad has a severe weakness for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

    But by May 25th, 2008, I will be in fighting shape to complete (and maybe even compete in) an Olympic distance triathlon. I’ll be able to swim 1.5km, bike 40km, and then run 10km (about .9, 26, and 6 miles respectively). And I’ll have raised $4,200 in support of the Leukemia Society and research against blood cancers, specifically leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma.

    Much more to follow, but for now it’s bed time because I need to ignore the snow and go swim in the morning.

    You can check out my embarrassingly empty donation page complete with super-catchy URL at: http://www.active.com/donate/tntnca04/trimatthlon

    And the triathlon I’m training for: CapTexTri in Austin, Texas.

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