See if you can spot the GE Building (shot from the side) in this video – I worked 1/2 a block from that building for more than a year:

Mindrelic – Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.

My top 12 podcasts (in no particular order):

1. Marc Maron’s WTF?

2. Adam Carolla

3. The 40 Year Old Boy (comedian Mike Schmidt)

4. Car Talk

5. Nerdist

6. Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me! (the NPR news quiz)

7. Waking from the American Dream (Kelly Carlin)

8. Judge John Hodgman

9. Comedy Death Ray

10. TBTL (microcelebrity Luke Burbank)

11. Jet Kingdom (first NY Jets podcast ever)

12. The Professional Left

And so many more: Kevin Smith’s Smodcast, Never Not Funny, NPR’s On the Media, Savage Love, Studio 360, RadioLab …

So what podcasts do you listen to – what am I missing?

George Carlin pretty much predicts the GOP’s attempts to end Medicare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpcd0woY2KY

So I ordered the Stinque water bottle (made in Switzerland!) and it’s here! And it’s quality gear! And what does it say?

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Just a small bit of a galaxy:

The only man more boring than Tim Pawlenty will not seek the highest office in the land:

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has decided not to run for president. He alerted followers of the news in an email sent out early — really early — Sunday morning, probably while he was drunk, or at least, feeling restless after Saturday Night Live. Daniels, an establishment Republican favorite, had built up a reputation as a “sane” Republican by not actively demonizing Muslims and talking about “the deficit” all the time, but he stripped Indiana funds for Planned Parenthood and continued to identify himself as a Republican in 2011, so how sane can he really be? Even so, someone should check on David Brooks and make sure he’s doing okay.

Mitch Daniels Won’t Be Running for President [Gawker]

Bill in Exile: