2008

May

Tabbard inn patio.
May 17th
lfarm: A gift from my favorite Virginian (currently...
May 16th
greggish: mark in his spartan president suite. ...
May 16th
Wienermobile (via themarkpike) Stuck in traffic. Trying to...
May 15th
RADIOHEAD 2008/05/11
May 15th
Listen Listen
Prediction: Chester French is going to be huge. Harvard degrees. Great taste in covers...
May 14th
DC for the Summer
May 14th

Emeril Lagasse Casting Call

I just responded to a food network “green” casting call with the following:   Lactose...
May 14th
Radiohead in VA.
May 12th

Incorrect Guesses for my Neighbor's...

password 1234567890 goyankees yankeessuck rosebud obama08 mccain71 xoxogossipgirl jenny8675309  drud...
May 8th
Corcoran seniors exhibit
May 8th
Georgetown
May 5th
What’s the best way to convince your new neighbors to...
May 3rd
Doumar’s. Norfolk, VA. You turn your headlights on...
May 1st

Apr

Objects in the rearview mirror may appear more historically...
Apr 30th
Facebook, the magazine.
Apr 28th
Relaxing Lunch on the Lake in Williamsburg, VA.
Apr 25th
this is a great study album. also, who did the cover art? i...
Apr 25th
'Short Circuit's' Johnny 5 still alive
Apr 24th
Criminal Procedure. Studying for last exam of...
Apr 24th
august sander once inspired me to buy a photobooth and place...
Apr 22nd
Astroturfing: Ticketmaster's Facebook Page Is...
Apr 21st
Mark's Matzo Ball Soup Recipe
Apr 19th

Law School Rap Aliases (#4080)

Limited Liability Cool J
Apr 19th
Warch Watch
A Ha’s “Take On Me” meets iMovie.  Pretty good song too. Sounds like Awesome New...
Apr 18th
Studying for the next week. You can find me at my desk if...
Apr 18th

No Radio Show Today

I have exams next week, and therefore I’m a bit too busy studying today to put on Headphones...
Apr 17th
Frank Gehrys Matzah Brei - Bitten
Apr 17th

IM (Internal Monologue)

Mark0519: Pop quiz, hotshot. When do you know your birthday is getting close?
Mark: Did you just quote the movie "Speed"?
Mark0519: *WRONG* You know it's getting close when you buy perishable food that expires after your birthday.
Mark: *Mmm* Turkey.
Apr 17th
Doane Paper on Mark Pike’s Tumblelog
Apr 17th
Facebook launched a pretty fantastic new feature today...
Apr 16th
Rustic Reuse Cabin | materialicious Shipping containers can...
Apr 14th
Listen Listen
Who: the dodos What: “walking” When: springtime sauntering, study sessions, etc. Where:...
Apr 14th
your pope gets my avril
Apr 13th
Live Music Sunday Morning: My Buddy Greg is...
Apr 13th
Yanks vs. Red Sox and a Gourmet Meal.  (note the typo on my...
Apr 12th
Spiced Roasted Chickpeas Just saw this recipe from ffffood...
Apr 11th
No Art for Oil | The American Prospect
Apr 11th

Awesome Radiohead Remix

You might have heard that Radiohead is hosting a remix contest of their song “Nude” off...
Apr 11th
Barack Obama for America Muxtape 2008
Apr 11th
In case you missed it, here’s the set-list from the...
Apr 11th
The wren chapel. Beautiful spring afternoon
Apr 10th
Warch Watch
Oh, and this is a video of me in the studio rocking out last year (featuring a not-so-lucky exam...
Apr 10th

Headphones Are Stethoscopes (Last Show...

Tune in from 4-6 PM (east coast time) this afternoon to hear my last FM radio show of the...
Apr 10th
Incredibly Addictive Flash Video Game It’s kind of...
Apr 10th
iChat Effects Video Background = Very Fun I’m rocking...
Apr 10th
Behind Every Great Inventor, Many Others Whom History Forgot...
Apr 9th
The uppercase R is very practical. But I don’t like...
Apr 9th
“If Heathcliff were alive today, would he mention Cathy’s...”
— Essay About Questions for...
Apr 8th
Get Helvetica Off Our Money But, I like Helvetica. 
Apr 8th

In Which I Rick Roll My Entertainment...

Professor: In this case, the RIAA would seed famous songs from the 70's and 80's to catch the file-sharers red-handed. For example, they added "Hotel California" and, umm, I'm forgetting the song from the 80's...
Me: Was it Rick Astley?
Professor: No...
Me: I'm pretty sure it was "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Professor: What?
Me: *sings* Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you.
Class: *laughter* [possibly with me. possibly at me.]
Apr 8th

Easy Tortilla Soup

Recipe emailed to me by my mom. It was really delicious.  (Serves 8 easily) 1 bottle (34ounce)...
Apr 7th

How Do You Avoid Craigslist Scams?

I am about to throw down a security deposit on a sublet in DC, but I have no way of knowing if it is...
Apr 6th
Speed Limit Seagull (via themarkpike) Hampton Roads Bridge...
Apr 4th
Method of exercising a cat - Google Patents We’re...
Apr 4th
DGENETICS was my roommate in college (before his head...
Apr 4th
Secret Life of Machines: Watch a Quirky...
Apr 4th

Headphones Are Stethoscopes (04.03.08)

After a successful first week of broadcasting Web 2.0 on my FM radio program, I tried it again this...
Apr 4th
STREAMING LIVE FM RADIO SHOW Tune in now. Hit me with...
Apr 3rd
Headphones Are Stethoscopes In case you missed last...
Apr 3rd
Five-P Pasta Pleases Palate As seen in...
Apr 3rd
Mark Jenkins: Storker Project Guerilla art at my old bus...
Apr 2nd
I made you a mix tape Dear Sam Brown, Your visual puns make...
Apr 1st

Mar

A Journey to Baseball’s Alternate Universe -...
Mar 30th
sashafrerejones.muxtape.com
Mar 30th
I met Jonathan Safran Foer.After he gave a talk on...
Mar 30th
Vintage Microphones: true industrial design
Mar 28th

Headphones Are Stethoscopes

“Headphones Are Stethoscopes” is the name of my weekly show on WCWM 90.9FM, the local...
Mar 28th
LISTEN LIVE to WCWM I’m on the radio from...
Mar 27th
A Perfect Spring Afternoon Lunch Break Screen Grab. BLT...
Mar 27th
Valient Thorr Frontman to Donate Kidney,...
Mar 27th
Mountain Goats Press Kit 08
Mar 27th
THUMB LOLLIPOP - Google Patents I just looked this up for a...
Mar 26th
TheMarkPike’s Muxtape I have a soft spot for...
Mar 26th
Best Subletter in the History of Subletting
Mar 23rd
Listen Listen
The new Girl Talk album was rumored to have leaked last week. Apparently, the rumor was false, but...
Mar 23rd
Cheeseless Pizza Night!
Mar 22nd
“I have begun ranking inanimate objects. Salt is an 8 seed...”
— Me
Mar 21st
Baseball Cards! Annual Fantasy Baseball Draft… We...
Mar 20th

styling: themarkpike

sarazucker is a great stylist. i think she should start a web-based stylist business for busy young...
Mar 20th
Warch Watch
DEY KNOW. I cannot stop watching this video. My favorite part is the person sitting in the room in...
Mar 19th
Mad Men.Season 1. I just finished it and I can’t wait...
Mar 19th
“I AM GOING TO RENT THIS SONG TO MYSELF AND LIVE IN IT.”
— Sasha Frere-Jones: Online...
Mar 19th
A Brief Review of Tasty Restaurants I Visited During My Trip...
Mar 16th
lfarm: Erin - Mark - Lauren - Amir - Vinnie - Amir
Mar 14th

Tumblr Metup (Past Tense)

Having flown all the way to NYC from Colonial Williamsburg, I definitely won the award for...
Mar 14th

Dana Perino (Rocks My Podium + Rocks the...

Ladies + Gentlemen: I cordially invite YOU to experience the supreme AWESOMENESS that is the DIVA...
Mar 13th

In Which I Make a Cameo on a Nature...

Based on my experience driving cross-country on ethanol, I was contacted by Nature.com to have a...
Mar 13th

Ping Pong

Yes. I am in NYC for the weekend and will take on all challengers at Fat Cat tonight.  adrianlai: ...
Mar 13th
Sunrise at PHF. Flying to LGA.
Mar 13th
WALE- The Mixtape About Nothing Very excited about this...
Mar 12th

Tumblr Meet-up ROLLCALL!

Flying in from Williamsburg, VIRGINIA (not just for the meet-up, but it’s quite convenient)....
Mar 12th
American Robotic (via Tubes.) Again, Tubes is the greatest...
Mar 12th

Remote Desktop Sharing Is An Awesome...

Frederick says: ok it's done, enjoy your Slingbox!
Frederick says: Is there anything else that I can assist you with?
Mark Pike says: In the future, if this issue comes up again, is there a list of instructions I can send to my parents back home to fix it... or is it just better to contact support like this?
Frederick says: it would be better, yes.
Mark Pike says: Thanks, Frederick. I will now go watch that television show of a monkey snowboarding. I appreciate your help.
Frederick says: thanks for contacting Sling Media have a nice day.
Mar 8th
Warch Watch
Boys Gone WILD 3 (via ) Look out for me around :54 seconds into it… This was filmed for a...
Mar 8th

tumblr Meetup 2: Electric Boogaloo

I will hopefully be coming in from Williamsburg… VIRGINIA!!! That’s right, I am hoping...
Mar 7th
Side of Palmist Building
Mar 7th
Blue ridges
Mar 4th
Foamhenge! Closed for repairs.
Mar 3rd
Breakfast at bare farm cabin
Mar 3rd
Leaving DC. Heading to shenandoah for a few days
Mar 3rd
Lake trout. No lake. No trout.
Mar 3rd
Jeremy Blake at the Corcoran. Awesome exhibit. Sodium Fox...
Mar 3rd
Tabard inn. Mmm, donuts
Mar 2nd
Can Can Brasserie (via...
Mar 1st
I helped fight a fire last night.
Mar 1st

Feb

Tanks but no tanks I bet this shoots water balloons, and...
Feb 29th
The Perry Bible Fellowship Coincidentally, I need to get my...
Feb 29th
Listen Listen
I just streamed this off somebody else’s Tumblr onto my radio show (WCWM 90.9 FM)!!! Post more...
Feb 28th
DJ Megapickles Live Radio!!! Reblog or send me a message if...
Feb 28th
Being rejected from video chat stings a lot more than...
Feb 28th
“The composer Michael Giacchino’s score for “Lost” echoes...”
— Sasha Frere-Jones: Online...
Feb 28th
Spring Break Suggestions? I have next week off from law...
Feb 28th
Bacon bits - Wikipedia, the free...
Feb 26th

e-crushin

Aww, I am e-flattered and e-blushing. Thanks for the e-ndorsement. If you’re new to my Tumblr,...
Feb 26th
none of this makes sense dear exploding dog, i will totally...
Feb 26th
CAP Trade: How Hillary's think tank went for...
Feb 26th
Greg Oden Endorses Obama... is hilarious
Feb 26th
Recent satellite picture of the Lower Ninth...
Feb 26th
Flickr: The bento boxes Pool
Feb 25th
The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office...
Feb 25th
Barack Obama For President 2008 T-Shirts
Feb 23rd
CampusProgress.org | Those Wily Tax-Evaders
Feb 23rd
“It’s nearly 2 a.m. when the bus finally pulls into...”
— Will Ferrell goes cruising |...
Feb 22nd
Warch Watch
Lessig ‘08 - Change Congress. I Love Lessig. When I decided to apply to law school, it was...
Feb 20th
“I’m from Virginia, where we get our Mark Bittman on /...”
— toohotfortnr: wave of...
Feb 20th
via www.telegeography.com Underwater Internet. A Series of...
Feb 20th
1970’s Inter-Species Alien Disco Space Romance (via...
Feb 19th
Sunset. Va Beach
Feb 18th
LOST: A theory on time travel
Feb 18th
“Dunk contest judges = superdelegates”
— 2008 All-Star Live Blog: Slam...
Feb 17th
Spudnuts in Charlottesville, VA. Potato donuts!
Feb 16th
Hampton Coliseum (via themarkpike)
Feb 15th
“Taking a page from Hollywood science fiction, the Pentagon...”
— US to Try to Shoot Down Spy...
Feb 15th
Happy Valentine’s Day Mixtape Headphones Are...
Feb 15th
RNC: Valentine’s Day Cards You have to hand it to...
Feb 14th
Warch Watch
Nuclear
Feb 14th
Voters Flood Virginia Polls… Another piece I wrote for...
Feb 13th

Some of My W&M Facebook Friends'...

Clearly, mine is the nickle/Nichol pun. Here’s background.  jalexc: … is pissed about...
Feb 13th
Primary colors. Newport News, Virginia
Feb 12th
Warch Watch
Barack Obama in Virginia Beach, VA (via )
Feb 12th
Casulo: An Entire Apartment’s Furniture in One Small...
Feb 12th