Bkdunn.com Top Posts of 2010

Posted on: 18 January 2011 /
Categories: Self, Self Promotion

Here were the ten most popular posts on bkdunn.com in the year 2010, which thereby richly deserve recognition. I’m omitting the counting numbers because it makes the whole blog seem pathetic. Do-It-Yourself TV Stand and/or Entertainment Center Part 1: Plans and Stuff to By – It’s a crappy entertainment center, but that title is such

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IMDB Top 100 Movies and Me

Posted on: 17 January 2011 /
Categories: Entertainment, Movies

About 3.5 years ago, I sort of reviewed the American Film Institute’s Top 100 Movies of All Time or whatever, which, I was later informed, constituted a crime against humanity. Such power. With that in mind, I’ve kind of been thinking I ought to do the same thing with the IMDB list since, you know,

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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (-Style House): Kitchen Update

Posted on: 16 January 2011 /
Categories: Home Renovation

You know, I was thinking that I didn’t want to be talking about all the many, *many* major things I’d done in the house on the blog for concern that professors from school might be haunting this space. It seems silly in retrospect. I haven’t done a whole lot of work since school started, but

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Causes of Death, 2001

Posted on: 16 November 2010 /
Categories: Fascism, Humanity

I’m re-posting this (originally compiled this list in ’04 or so). Seems ever-useful. These are the number of deaths in 2001 by cause and IIRC there were some other causes in the 10-14 range that got omitted because they started getting redundant and/or uninteresting (there are many types of cancer). Lung cancer: 157,400 Car accidents:

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Bye, Dave

Posted on: 10 November 2010 /
Categories: Self, Sports

I always feared this day would come. Edgar’s Double, 1995 That’s not just 50 seconds of baseball radio announcing, that’s vindication for everyone who lived in the Northwest from 1977 to 1994 and followed the local baseball team despite its historic ineptitude. Dave Niehaus was the man who made people think that following a bunch

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Book Report: The Making of a Hardrock Miner

Posted on: 8 November 2010 /
Categories: Reading

My two current writing projects that I’ll never complete are: Writing the last great World War 2 novel. Writing the first great asteroid mining novel. I needed some vernacular to move ahead with #2, and I found this book (The Making of a Hardrock Miner by Stephen Voynick) on Amazon. It’s very good. It’s a first-person

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My Life, 1998-2010, As Seen through My Amazon Purchases

Posted on: 29 October 2010 /
Categories: Personal History, Self

More show, less tell: 1998 The Mac Is Not a Typewriter, Robin Williams Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis Ball Four, Jim Bouton 1999 Stats Minor League Handbook 2000, Bill James Stats Major League Handbook 2000, Bill James Best American Short Stories 1999, Amy Tan (ed.) A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin Scream, Dracula, Scream, Rocket

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Pittsburgh, Four Months In

Posted on: 15 October 2010 /
Categories: Self

Bullet points foster understanding. Regarding Pittsburgh: This place is very unpretentious. There are weird bubbles here, though. People who live around campus have no idea what life is like here in blue-collar caucasianville. It usually rains for about 15 minutes a day here. It rains very hard for those 15 minutes. It’s also sunny for

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Ohiopyle State Park

Posted on: 12 October 2010 /
Categories: Hiking, Travel

What adventure! It’s a state park, it’s in “southwestern Pennsylvania”, not real far from Uniontown, real close to Falling Water and some other Frank Lloyd Wright house I’d never heard of — which would basically be all of them other than “Falling Water”, which I’ve only heard of because it’s in all the Pittsburgh tourism

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Keystone Lake, Pennsylvania (Fishing Sort Of)

Posted on: 11 October 2010 /
Categories: Travel

This was a few weeks ago. Decided I should go fishing. Decided that, no matter what, I wasn’t going to rent a boat or buy live bait or lures that I didn’t already own. Decided I didn’t want to drive very far and that the lake should be small. I guess I needed criteria. Drove

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